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started >> publications >> folklife sourcebookFolklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United StatesArchives: Texas Through WyomingGo to: TEXASARCHIVES OF THE BIG BEND Box C-149 ESTABLISHED: 1976 TELEPHONE: (915) 837-8127 ACCESS: walk-in. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, copying facilities available on campus, card catalogs, ms. collection inventories, computerized subject searching, audio and video playback equip- ment available in the archives and in the Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 60 broadsides and posters, 150 pieces of ephemera, 420 maps, 400 published 78rpm discs, 25 tape recordings, 588 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 6,000 photo prints, 8,000 photo negatives, 20 videotapes, 120 16mm films, 15,000 reference books and journals, 195 oral history tapes. KEY COLLECTIONS: Clifford B. Casey collection, 1882-1981; E. E. Townsend collection, 1844-1972; Harry Warren Papers, 1935-1982; Robert Cartledge collection, 1890-1972; Peter Koch collection, 1907-1982; rare book collection; focus on Trans-Pecos area of Texas, including Brewster, Jeff Davis, and Presidio counties; establishment of Big Bend National Park; Mexican bandit raids on border territories; early settlement of the Trans-Pecos region; ranching in Trans-Pecos region. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Guide to Manuscrlpt Collections. PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOLKLORE ARCHIVE SSB 3.106 ESTABLISHED: 1966 TELEPHONE: (512) 471-1288 ACCESS: contact director for appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, sound room, partial catalogs. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes tape recordings, ms. sheets, slides, videotapes. KEY COLLECTIONS: Texas folklore; Mexican-American folklore; Afro-American folklore; Texas-Czech folklore; Caldwell County folklore and social history; folk puppetry. NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES Box 5188, North Texas Station ESTABLISHED: 1975 TELEPHONE: (817) 565-2766 ACCESS: walk-in. RESEARCH FACILITIES: catalogs, indexes, copying facilities, audio and video playback equipment. SERVICES: archival training available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 100 pieces of ephemera, 15 maps, 5 unpublished tape recordings, 4,000 ms. cards, 20 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 30 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: George Hendricks collection; Oral History Association collection; emphasis on Texas folklore. PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. The University of Texas - Pan American ESTABLISHED: 1977 TELEPHONE: (512) 381-3551 ACCESS: call or write for appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: copying, audio, and video facilities available. SERVICES: archival training provided to students. SIZE AND FORMAT: folk beliefs (9,600 items), folktales (2,100 items), anecdotes, proverbs, riddles, recipes, and nickname collections available on-line, as part of a collection of more than 30,000 items. KEY COLLECTIONS: Mexican-American folklore; computerized belief collection. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Glazer, Mark. Flour from Another Sack, 1982; available from the archive at $9.00 a copy. --------. A Dictionary of Mexican-American Folklore. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), 1987. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO FOLKLORE ARCHIVE University of Texas at El Paso ESTABLISHED: 1975 TELEPHONE: (915) 747-5731 ACCESS: open to serious researchers. RESEARCH FACILITIES: indexes. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes about 70 unpublished tape recordings, 100 photo prints, 500 slides, 8 motion pictures, 800 research papers, professor's personal library provides reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: student research papers; emphasis on Mexican- American folklore. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: numerous publications based on archives; contact archive for further information. ARCHIVE OF TURKISH ORAL NARRATIVE 301 and 307 University Library ESTABLISHED: 1971 TELEPHONE: (806) 742-1922 ACCESS: open to the public; write to curator or director for appointment; usual hours: Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.. RESEARCH FACILITIES: all usual library facilities available. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: 850 7-inch master reels of field-collected Turkish oral narratives (in Turkish with accompanying cassette duplicates for clients' use); 25 7-inch master reels of supplementary materials: folk music, customs, beliefs, and other non-narrative information; 45 quarto volumes of English translations of 1450 taped narratives; 5 basic indexes to holdings; 1200 volumes of standard folktale research tools; audiovisual materials; art albums; relevant journals; documented catalogue of first thousand tales translated; posters; artifacts. KEY COLLECTIONS: Turkish oral narrative; historical and cultural materials that illuminate the context in which the narratives originated. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: 36 books and 52 articles have been published on the contents of the archive; list available. PRINTED INFORMATION: available. INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES LIBRARY 801 S. Bowie Street or Box 1226 ESTABLISHED: 1968 TELEPHONE: (512) 226-7651 ACCESS: advance appointments desirable due to limited workspace, but not necessary. RESEARCH FACILITIES: computer database of photographs, card catalog, index to vertical files, access to microfilm and microfiche readers, filmstrip projector, photocopying facilities. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 20 file cabinets of ephemera, 75 maps, 260,000 photo prints, 2,000,000 photo negatives, 30,000 slides, 20 videotapes, 6,000 reference books and journals, 500 oral histories. KEY COLLECTIONS: Texas historical and ethnic photographs, including San Antonio Light newspaper collection, the San Antonio Express-News newspaper collection, and the Zintgraff collection. PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. UTAHSPECIAL COLLECTIONS Southern Utah State College Library ESTABLISHED: 1962 TELEPHONE: (801) 586-7945 ACCESS: walk in and fill out application, or get patron card from library. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, card catalog, computer index, registers to collections, audio playback equipment, copying facilities. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes tape recordings, 300 maps, 270 linear ft. of ms. sheets, many photo prints and negatives, several videotapes, reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: Paiute collection; Palmer Western History Collection; historical photograph collection; Seymour collection; strengths in Southern Utah history, Southern Paiute Indians. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Register to the Palmer Western History Collection. Registers to the Oral History, Document and Map Collections PRINTED INFORMATION: available. Utah State University Libraries ESTABLISHED: ca. 1974 TELEPHONE: (435) 797-3439 ACCESS: contact by mail or phone; walk-in; Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., excluding holidays. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, listening room, viewing room, finding aids, photocopying facilities, audio and video playback equipment. SERVICES: reference assistance provided. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes over 3,400 volumes on folklore and related topics, 1,000 student fieldwork projects, 25 linear feet of genre ms. sheets, 100+ fieldwork tapes, 78rpm field recordings (restricted use), 8 linear feet of commercial recordings, hundreds of fieldwork slides, thousands of index cards on cowboy/western folksong and ballad references. KEY COLLECTIONS: Fife Book collection, Fife American and Mormon collections, Don Yoder collection, Wayland D. Hand Memorial collection, L.J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Library, The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey, the archival records of the American Folklore Society, some bound journals. BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY FOLKLORE ARCHIVE Department of English ESTABLISHED: 1969 TELEPHONE: (801) 378-3053 ACCESS: obtain written permission from director of archive RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, copying facilities, audio and video playback equipment. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes tape recordings, ms. cards, 1,000 linear ft. of ms. sheets, numerous slides, a few videotapes, standard reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: Mormon and Western folklore, all genres; strong on narrative. CHASE HOME MUSEUM OF UTAH FOLK ART/ UTAH FOLKLIFE ARCHIVE Folk Arts Program ESTABLISHED: 1977 TELEPHONE: (801) 533-5760 ACCESS: open by appointment RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, photocopy machines, audio and visual equipment. SIZE AND FORMAT: 900 tape recordings,; 10,000 photo negatives; 10,000 slides; 50 videotapes; 500 reference books; 500 journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: focus on folk art, folklore, and folklife of Utah and the Mormon cultural region with documentation of music, dance, crafts, foodways, community celebrations, and material culture. University Folklore Archive and ESTABLISHED: 1970 TELEPHONE: (801) 581-8864 ACCESS: walk-in; some collections require 24-hour notice. Suggest writing for specific information. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, files. Photocopying available at 25 cents per page. SERVICES: Folklore/Folklife research assistance available by pre-arrangement. SIZE AND FORMAT: The Manuscript Division of Marriott Library collects material having to do with Utah, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), and the West. Under these broad categories, the division collects in folklore/folklife and eleven other areas. The holdings contain over 12,000 linear ft. of material. Formats include correspondence, diaries, oral histories, drawings, photographs, and sound recordings. KEY COLLECTIONS: Student Collection of Focused Projects, 1947 to the present; Utah Humanities Foundation collection of folklore and songs, including the phonograph recording of the Austin and Alta Fife folksong Collection; the Doris Duke Native American Oral History audio collection which includes 1495 interviews with Native Americans talking about their culture and traditions, many in native languages; the Institute of the American West Papers; the Jan H. Brunvand Papers; the Lester Hubbard Collection; the Hector Lee Collection; Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: General catalog of the collection now in preparation. PRINTED INFORMATION: annual reports; guides to the collections of architectural, photo, political, performing arts, broadcasting, oral history and the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project. VERMONTARCHIVES OF FOLKLORE AND ORAL HISTORY Bailey/Howe Library ESTABLISHED: 1980 TELEPHONE: (802) 656-2138 ACCESS: walk-in. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, files, copying facilities, audio equipment, copy stand. Photocopying at 10 cents per page. SERVICES: reference assistance; practicum in archival training. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 198 taped oral history interviews; 250 undergraduate papers and projects on folklore topics. The Folklore and Oral History collection is part of the Wilbur Collection of Vermontiana, which also includes books, serials, manuscripts, photographs, broadsides and maps. KEY COLLECTIONS: folklore materials are categorized under the headings Folksay, Folklife, Folkways, and Folk Narrative. Vermont Maple Sugaring Lore; Vermont Landscape Artists. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Folklore and Oral History Catalog, 1981. Graffangnino, J. Kevin. "Sources for Vermont Historians: The Manuscript Holdings of the Wilber Collection, " Vermont History 48:3 (Summer 1980). University of Vermont Libraries Folklore and Oral History Catalog. (Burlington: Center for Research on Vermont, University of Vermont), 1991. PRINTED INFORMATION: guides to manuscript and photograph collections available. HELEN
HARTNESS FLANDERS BALLAD COLLECTION Middlebury College ESTABLISHED: 1941 TELEPHONE: (802) 388-3711, ext. 5653 ACCESS: write or call curator for appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, index to field recordings, catalog of book collection, tape players, photocopying available. SERVICES: assistance by curator. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 550 broadsides, 1,000 78rpm field recordings, 200 LP field recordings, 130 field tape recordings, 250 cylinder field recordings, 75 photo prints, 30 photo negatives, few slides, 1 motion picture, 40 journals (titles), 3,000 volume monograph collection. KEY COLLECTIONS: field recordings of Anglo-American songs in New England, 1930-59; fiddle music of Vermont, 1940-50 and 1969 to present; American religious and popular song traditions (including French-Canadian and Russian-American). Also houses The Champlain Valley Festival Collection; Chelsea House Folklore Center Collection and copies of collections by Phillips Barry, Eloise Linscott and otherss. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: An Index to the Field Recordings in the Flanders Ballad Collection. edited by Jennifer Post (Quinn), 1983; $15.00. The Gamaliel Painter House ESTABLISHED: 1988 TELEPHONE: (802) 388-4964 ACCESS: collection is open to the public by appointment; completion of registration form and brief interview required. Telephone reference service is also provided. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, photocopy machine, files, audio and visual equipment; online catalog/index. SERVICES: reference service, telephone reference, photocopies of transcripts, audiotape duplication, and consulting on preservation, indexing and computer use for folklife/oral history research. Use of archive and reference service is free. Other services charged at cost. SIZE AND FORMAT: 1,000 audiotaped interviews; 715 acid-free copies of transcripts of interviews, of which 309 are available in electronic form; 5,000 color slides; 48 videocassettes of raw video footage; 10 published videocassettes on oral history and Vermont traditional culture; 100 files in pamphlet file on folklife and education, available for use at the Center. KEY COLLECTIONS: taped interviews and photographs by Jane C. Beck from 1976 to the present; taped interviews by Gregory L. Sharrow, 1987 to the present. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: among many are: Beck, Jane C. Always a Season: Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont, (Vermont Council on The Arts), 1982. -----. The General Store in Vermont: An Oral History. (Middlebury, VT: Vermont Folklife Center), 1988. Goldberg, Linda S. Here on this Hill: Conversations with Vermont Neighbors. (Middlebury, VT: The Vermont Folklife Center), 1991. Sharrow, Gregory L. Many Cultures, One People: A Multicultural Handbook for Vermont Teachers (Middlebury, VT: Vermont Folklife Center) at press. Audio tapes also available VIRGINIAKEVIN BARRY PERDUE ARCHIVE OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE Mailing address: Department of Anthropology B001 Brooks Hall ESTABLISHED: 1971, given present name in 1980. TELEPHONE: (804) 924-6823 ACCESS: call or write for appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, listening room, catalogs. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 300 78rpm and 250 LP discs, some aluminum discs, cylinders, 750 tape recordings, substantial collection of ms. sheets, 4,000 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: A. K. Davis collection; Dr. Ruth McNeil ms. ballad and folksong collection; Charles L. Perdue, Jr. Rappahannock-Culpepper field collection; the Edwin Winter Papers including field notes and ms. material associated with research in Africa; copies of the Virginia Writers' Project materials; archive is strong in Virginia Anglo- and Afro- American music and culture. VIRGINIA FOLKLORE SOCIETY ARCHIVE and THE WPA FOLKLORE AND FOLKSONG COLLECTIONS Manuscripts Division TELEPHONE: (804) 924-3025 ACCESS: walk in, register, and present ID. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, university photocopying services (not same day service). SERVICES: available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 50 boxes of ms. sheets (specific to folklore scholarship), 219 recordings (VFS Archives), 35 recordings (WPA collection). KEY COLLECTIONS: Archives of the Virginia Folklore Society; Arthur Kyle Davis Papers; WPA (Virginia Writers' Project) collection. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Perdue, Charles, Thomas Barden, and Robert Phillips. An Annotated Listing of Folklore Collected by Workers of the Virginia Writers' Project. NORTHERN VIRGINIA FOLKLIFE ARCHIVE Dr. Margaret R. Yocom ESTABLISHED: 1977 TELEPHONE: (703) 993-1172 ACCESS: contact director. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, files, copying facilities, audio and video playback equipment. SERVICES: archival training available to students for individual study course credit. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 1,500 ms. sheets. KEY COLLECTIONS: Southern materials, especially northern Virginia, and North Carolina, Georgia, and West Virginia; family folklore and suburban folklore. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Yocom, Margaret. "Regionalism, Negative Definitions, and the Suburbs: Folklife in Northern Virginia," Folklore and Folklife in Virginia, 3 (1984). PRINTED INFORMATION: available. BLUE RIDGE HERITAGE ARCHIVE Blue Ridge Institute ESTABLISHED: 1976 TELEPHONE: (703) 365-4415 ACCESS: contact Blue Ridge Institute for appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, copying facilities, audio- visual equipment. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 50 78rpm, 50 45 rpm, and 350 LP discs, 1,000 unpublished tapes, 38 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 1,650 photo prints, 5,000 photo negatives, 2,000 slides, 62 videotapes, 20 reference books and journals, 89 historical books. KEY COLLECTIONS: Elmer Smith Collection of Shenandoah Valley Dialect and Beliefs; Fred Williams Collection of Old-Time and Bluegrass Music; Earl Palmer Photograph Collection of Appalachian Traditions; German-American dialect; black and white traditional music from Virginia; Appalachian documentary photographs; Prewar commercial blues, country and gospel recordings by Virginia musicians. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Nine LP/cassette recordings on the BRI Records label. PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost. ABBY ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER FOLK ART CENTER 307 South England Street ESTABLISHED: 1957 TELEPHONE: (804) 220-7670 ACCESS: write or telephone for appointment to visit library. RESEARCH FACILITIES: research files and copying facilities. SIZE AND FORMAT: statistics not available, but collection includes cards, photos, slides; estimate that research and reference materials are in excess of 80,000 items. KEY COLLECTIONS: American paintings, sculpture, weathervanes, needlework pictures, textiles, furniture, utilitarian objects, pottery, shop signs, prints, and toys. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTION: American Folk Portraits. Paintings and Drawings from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, 1981. American Folk Paintings from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, 1987. WASHINGTONSEATTLE FOLKLORE SOCIETY ARCHIVE Seattle Folklore Society TELEPHONE: (206) 782-0505 ACCESS: procedure has not been established; preliminary archive work is still underway. RESEARCH FACILITIES: catalog of musical tape collection available; no public access to research facilities as of spring 1985. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 400 pieces of ephemera, 200 unpublished LP discs, 1,000 unpublished tape recordings, 200 photo prints, 400 negatives, 80 videotapes, 1 motion picture and several kinescopes, 50 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: recordings of the annual Northwest Regional Folklife Festival, 1979-84; strengths in Pacific Northwest regional music (bluegrass, folk, fiddle, old-time, country) and southeastern United States (blues, gospel, country); an assortment of concerts and musical events produced by the folklore society, including folk and traditional music of a variety of ethnic and cultural groups. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ARCHIVES School of Music ESTABLISHED: 1962 TELEPHONE: (206) 543-0974 ACCESS: walk-in, but prior contact for appointment is appreciated; all material available for listening, some restrictions on tape copying and transcription. RESEARCH FACILITIES: catalog, listening room, recording and playback equipment. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 500 commercial 78rpm discs, 6,000 unpublished tape recordings, 50 photo prints, 100 photo negatives, 50 slides, 150 videotapes, 300 musical instruments. KEY COLLECTIONS: Robert Garfias field recordings from Korea, Burma, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines, etc.; several collections of Northwest Coast Indian music; the Joe Heaney collection of songs and stories he performed; strengths include East Asia, South Asia (including Tibet, Nepal, Afghanistan, Central Asia), Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Central America. University of Washington Libraries ESTABLISHED: late l9th century ACCESS: walk-in. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading rooms, catalogs, finding aids and copying facilities. SERVICES: reference assistance available. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes photographs, ephemera and published material. KEY COLLECTIONS: Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest; Viola E. Garfield albums on totem art; Clark Kinsey logging photographs; The Klondike Nugget, American owned and operated newspaper in Yukon Territory, 1893-1903; regional ethnic groups, e.g. Scandinavian-Americans, Japanese-Americans. PRINTED INFORMATION: order form for microfiche sets of collections available at no cost. Bjoring, Bob and Susan Cunningham. Explorers and Travellers' Journals Documenting Early Contacts with Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, 1741-1900. available for $5.00 MANUSCRIPTS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES DIVISION University of Washington Libraries, FM-25 ESTABLISHED: 1958 TELEPHONE: (206) 543-1879 ACCESS: contact in advance of visit preferred. Some restrictions exist on access to certain collections and copying. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading rooms, finding aids, photocopying service, playback equipment. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 78rpm and LP discs, tape and cylinder recordings (all unpublished), and slides. KEY COLLECTIONS: Erna Gunther; Melville Jacobs; Howard Weiss; Dorothy Weintz; Jay Ellis Ransom; May M. Edel; Viola Garfield; Allan Van Hoecke; emphasis on Northwest, especially western Washington; Native American ethnographic and ethnomusical; Jewish ethnomusical holdings; the pioneer period. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Seaburg, William R. Guide to Pacihc Northwest Native American Materials in the Melville Jacobs Collection and in the Other Archival Collections in the University of Washington Libraries. PRINTED INFORMATION: above publication ($5.00 each) and the Comprehensive Guide to the Manuscripts Collection and to the Personal Papers in the University Archives ($7.00) can be ordered from Library Publications Officer, University of Washington Libraries, FM-25, Seattle, WA 98195. GORDON EKVALL TRACIE MUSIC LIBRARY Nordic Heritage Museum ESTABLISHED: February 1995 TELEPHONE: (206) 363-0975 [Skandia Music Foundation] ACCESS: Open Saturdays, 12:00-4:00 p.m., no appointment necessary; or by appointment with the Skandia Music Foundation; free admission. RESEARCH FACILITIES: SERVICES: SIZE & FORMAT: Hundreds of records, audio tapes, original field recordings, books and other documentation of Nordic folk music and dance; collected during the 1940s through 1980s by Gordon Tracie. KEY COLLECTIONS: 500 tapes recorded in Dalarna province, Sweden, during the 1950s. PRINTED INFORMATIONS: PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTION: WEST VlRGINIAWEST VIRGINIA AND REGIONAL HISTORY COLLECTION Colson Hall ESTABLISHED: 1933 TELEPHONE: (304) 293-3536 ACCESS: walk-in. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, microfilm room, computer catalogs, copying facilities, files, catalogs, audio and video equipment. SERVICES: reference assistance available; collection is part of a university program in archives management on the master's level. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 500 broadsides, 50,000 pieces of ephemera, 1,000 maps, 700 LP discs, 650 unpublished discs, 2,000 tapes, 10,000 ms. cards, 12,000 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 90,000 photo prints, 700 motion pictures, 30,000 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: folklore collections include John Harrington Cox, Louis W. Chappell, Patrick W. Gainer, Carey Woofter, and Thomas S. Brown archives, all primarily regional music; strengths in traditional music of central Appalachia; oral history of coal and lumber industry; worker lifestyles. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Cuthbert, John A. West Virginia Folk Music, 1982. Forbes, Harold. West Virginia History, 1981. Hess, James. Guide to Manuscripts in the West Virginia Collection, 1974. PRINTED INFORMATION: above publications are available; prices on request. WISCONSINETHNIC HERITAGE SOUND ARCHIVE AND RESOURCE CENTER Dexter Library ESTABLISHED: 1979 ACCESS: contact librarian, who will advise archive supervisor of your interest. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, files, copying facilities (fee per copy) nearby, audio-visual equipment nearby. SIZE AND FORMAT: some disc recordings, 200 tape recordings, 50 photo prints, 1,500 slides, 100 reference books and journals. KEY COLLECTIONS: copies of Frances Densmore's Ojibwe materials and Stratman-Thomas materials; tapes of ethnic music, folklore interviews; focus on Lake Superior region, predominantly Finnish, Croation, Polish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Ojibwe materials. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: annual reports. PRINTED INFORMATION: available; some at no cost. OLD WADE HOUSE STAGECOACH INN AND WESLEY JUNG CARRIAGE MUSEUM STATE HISTORIC SITE Box 34 ESTABLISHED: 1953 TELEPHONE: (414) 526-3271> ACCESS: write or call for appointment. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, photocopy machine, catalogs, and files. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 50 maps, 50 quilts and coverlets, 20 tape recordings, 1000 photo prints, 1000 photo negatives, 3000 slides, 15 videotapes on ethnic architecture and local history, 500 carriage catalogs, artifacts, and various ephemera. KEY COLLECTIONS: carriages; stage coach inns; Yankee town building. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Old Wade House Master Plan and Research Summary. STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN 816 State Street ESTABLISHED: 1846 TELEPHONE: (608) 264-6586 ACCESS: open to public. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, playback facilities, photocopying. SERVICES: reference assistance available; archivist directs program in archival training in University of Wisconsin School of Library and Information Studies and supervises student interns. SIZE AND FORMAT: includes broadsides, huge collection of ephemera, including student posters from the 1960s, 25,000 sheet maps and atlases, large collection of unpublished tape recordings, 39,000 cu. ft. of ms. sheets, approximately 1.5 million historical images and local television news film; 1,300 reels of motion pictures, reference books and journals, including special guide to mass communication, theater, and film lists. KEY COLLECTIONS: Cyrus McCormick family and industrial records; Draper collection of trans-Appalachian West; ethnic settler materials, especially German and Scandinavian;labor and socialism; mass communications; social action movements; motion pictures and theatre; genealogy. COLLECTIONS PROGRAM THE WISCONSIN FOLK MUSEUM 100 South 2nd Street ESTABLISHED: January, 1992 TELEPHONE: (608) 437-4742 ACCESS: currently limited to staff use. Contact museum for future availability. RESEARCH FACILITIES: photocopy machines, files. SIZE AND FORMAT: accessioned: 400 museum artifacts and paper artifacts; 100 pieces miscellanea, several hundred artist and subject files; 120 photo prints; 2000 slides; 300 audio tape recordings; and 150 books in reference library. Not yet accessioned: photo negatives, video tapes and discs. KEY COLLECTIONS: collections focus on folklife of Wisconsin and the upper Midwest region; includes traditional music, Rosemaling and regional woodcarvings. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Martin, Philip, Rosemaling in the Upper Midwest, 1989 Leary, James P. In Tune with Tradition, 1991 Swissconsin, My Homeland (cassette recording) Ach Ya!, 1990, (LP recording) Garthwaite, Chester, Threshing Days: The Paintings of Lavern Kammerude, 1990. PRINTED INFORMATION: call for catalog, 1-800-736-9189. WYOMINGWYOMING FOLK ART ARCHIVE P.O. Box 4036 ESTABLISHED: 1987 TELEPHONE: (307) 766-3910 ACCESS: staff is limited, so a phone call or letter in advance is requested. RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, photocopy machines, files, audio and visual equipment. Material is being catalogued on computer. SERVICES: archivist available SIZE AND FORMAT: contains approximately 5,000 slides, 500 black-and-white prints and negatives with contact sheets; 100 cassette tapes, 50 reel-to-reel tapes, 8 linear feet of ms. sheets and field notes, 6 videotapes, 50 books and manuscripts related to Wyoming culture. KEY COLLECTIONS: Old-Time fiddle music of Wyoming, collected by Paul Tyler, 1987; Wyoming folk songs collected by Tom Bay, 1915-40; Records of regional folk arts surveys carried out in many parts of Wyoming, 1985-present. PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Lonesome Homesteader: Old-Time Fiddling in Wyoming, published by Wyoming Arts Foundation, 1988. The Hoolihan, Wyoming Folk Arts Newsletter, 1987-91.
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