COLLECTION

Utah State University undergraduate student fieldwork collection

Identifier
USU_FOLK COLL 8: USU (local)

Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division

Date
1979 - 2016 (Inclusive dates)

Summary

Folklore projects collected by Utah State University students in fulfillment of graded credit requirements for coursework in undergraduate folklore classes (1979 to present).

Scope and Content Note

The Utah State University Undergraduate Student Fieldwork Collection consists of approximately 1,200 projects collected by Utah State University students in fulfillment of graded credit requirements for an upper division undergraduate folklore course. Most items include title page, table of contents, cover essay, and several items (examples) of folklore which include: informant, context, text (the folklore item), texture (stylistic notation), and collector data. Collector and informant release forms accompany most of the collections from 1986 forward

The projects examine a wide variety of topics ranging from specific genres (like jokes, legends, beliefs, folksongs) to area interests (such as regional, occupational, family folklore). The finding aid includes: item number, title, description (number of items or interviews, media/images, and release form informaiton), student name, content description. Items are numbered by the year the student submitted the project to their instructor and the individual number of the item. For example, FOLK COLL 8a: USU 97-02, references the second item accessioned in 1997. The items are stored in archival boxes. The materials do NOT circulate. Guide to folklore collecting assignments

Administrative/Biographical History Element

The Utah State University Undergraduate Student Fieldwork Collection consists of USU student folklore projects from 1979 to the present. The collection continues to grow

System of Arrangement

Each fieldwork collection is arranged chronologically. Collections include:

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions

Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, box number and folder number. The materials do not circulate and are available in USU's Special Collections and Archives. Patrons must sign and comply with the USU Special Collections and Archives Use Agreement and Reproduction Order form as well as any restrictions placed by the collector or informant(s)

Conditions Governing Access

Copyright

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright

Permission to publish material from the Utah State University undergraduate student fieldwork collection must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The Utah State University Undergraduate Student Fieldwork Collection is comprised of focused folklore projects created by USU students enrolled in upper division undergraduate folklore courses from 1979 to the present. The projects were deposited in the Fife Folklore Archives by the course instructors, including Professors Lisa Gabbert, Patricia Gardner, Lynne McNeill, Jan Roush, Steve Siporin, Jeannie Thomas, Barre Toelken, and William A. Wilson and instructors Michael Christensen, Barbara [Garrett] Walker, and Randy Williams. The collection was created in 1979 by Barbara [Garrett] Walker

General Note

Originally processed by Barbara [Garrett Walker] Lloyd and updated over the years by Fife Folklore Archives staff. Most recently updated by Ana Hildago, Fall 2011; Heidi Williams, Spring 2015; Chit Moe, Fall 2016; Finding aid created by Charity Lund and Randy Williams, February 2006; updated by Randy Williams, June 2012

Finding Aid URL
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv86462

Extent
54 (linear feet, 111 boxes)

Language
English. (Languages)

Other Subject Headings
Folklore (Local)
Folklore--West (U.S.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Folklore--Utah (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Folklore archives--Utah (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
West (U.S.)--Folklore (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Utah--Folklore (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))

Preferred Citation
Undergraduate Student Fieldwork collection, 1979-2016. (FOLK COLL 8: USU, box, no.). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department

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The Bear Lake Monster	Item
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BYU Jokelore Collected at USU	Item
Camp Initiation Folklore	Item
Camp Songs	Item
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Camping Stories	Item
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Car Games	Item
Catherine Gwennie Matheson Miller and George Cottam Miller Sr	Item
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Child Abduction Stories	Item
Childhood Games of My College Friends	Item
Childhood Games of Newel Eliason	Item
Childhood Games Played in Blanding, Utah	Item
Children's Folklore	Item
Children's Folklore	Item
Children's Folklore: Rhymes, Songs, Games	Item
Children's Games	Item
Children's Games and Pastimes	Item
Christmas Tradition of the Peck Family	Item
Christmas Traditions	Item
Christmas Traditions: Swenson Family	Item
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Collection Assignment	Item
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A Collection of Folklore from the Family of Revell George	Item
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The "Colonel" Charles Edwin Loose	Item
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Comfort for the Discouraged Genealogist	Item
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Dating	Item
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Don't Ever Leave Your Companions or Else..	Item
Dormitory Pranks	Item
Dusting Off of the Feet	Item
Early Life in River Heights, Utah	Item
Encounters with the Law	Item
The End: An LDS Accounting of the Last Days	Item
Epitaphs of Box Elder County	Item
Ethnic Jokes	Item
Ethnic Jokes	Item
An Evening with Otto Fife	Item
Evil Encounters with Missionaries	Item
Faith Promoting Stories of the Franklin W. Miles and George P. Stock Families	Item
Family Folk	Item
Family Folklore	Item
Family Folklore	Item
Family Folklore	Item
Family Follies and Related Tales	Item
Family Habit Traditions	Item
Family Potpourri	Item
Family Songs	Item
Fast Food Horror Stories	Item
The First Homes of Bear River City	Item
Folk Belief from Egin, Idaho	Item
Folk Crafts in My Family	Item
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Folk Games	Item
Folk Games and Dance Songs	Item
Folk Legends	Item
Folk Legends and Songs	Item
Folk Medicine	Item
Folk Medicine	Item
Folk Medicine and Tradition	Item
Folk Medicines	Item
Folk Memories of the Yeager Children	Item
Folk Traditions	Item
Folklore	Item
Folklore	Item
Folklore	Item
Folklore at the Green Family Christmas Party	Item
Folklore of Children	Item
The Folklore of Clear Creek Summer Camp	Item
Folklore of Cottey Cottage	Item
Folklore of Grandpa and Grandma	Item
Folklore of J. Rulon Nelson Family	Item
The Folklore of One Missionary	Item
Folklore of Sweatshirts	Item
Folklore of the Dance World	Item
Folklore of the Silfies Family	Item
Folklore's "Twilight Zone" Stories of the Paranormal	Item
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Fraternity Songs	Item
Fraternity Traditions	Item
Frisco Folklore	Item
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The Games and Traditions of the Welch Family	Item
Games are for Everyone	Item
Games Played by Children	Item
The Generous Sage	Item
Gentle Glimpses of the Gentry by the Gentiles of the Escalante Valley	Item
Get Your Ax, We've Got A Gig	Item
Getting to Know Mr. Black	Item
The Gift of Water Witching	Item
Girl's Camp Stories	Item
Glory, Glory, What's it to Ya'?	Item
Gory Stories Ninth Graders Tell	Item
The Grandchildren Speak	Item
Growing Up Gentile	Item
Gunsmith Folklore	Item
Halloween	Item
Hand-Me-Downs	Item
Haunts of Bridgerland	Item
Herbal Medicine	Item
Hiccough (Hiccup) Cures	Item
Hiccup Cures	Item
Hilding Family Folklore	Item
The Historical Folklore of Honeyville, Utah	Item
History and Folklore of Washington, Utah	Item
History of Levi Jackman	Item
Holiday Customs	Item
Holiday Foodways of the Pennsylvania Dutch	Item
.The Hook	Item
How Do You Choose a Good Watermelon?	Item
Humorous Highlights of the Four Letter Word GOL*F	Item
Humorous Stories in LDS Meetings	Item
Hunting and Fishing Folklore	Item
Hunting and Fishing Lore	Item
Hunting Stories	Item
"I Drink To Cardinal Puff" and Other Drinking Games	Item
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Initiation Pranks Done to "Green" Mormon Missionaries	Item
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Interviews at Sunshine Terrace	Item
Japanese Ghost Stories	Item
Jokes Told by East Coast Elders	Item
Journalistic Lore	Item
Jump Rope Rhymes	Item
Jump Rope Rhymes	Item
Laments of Parents, Epitaphs of Children	Item
Language and Legends of Carbon County	Item
Las Vegas: City of Sin	Item
Laughter: The Best Medicine	Item
The Legend of "the Hook"	Item
The Legend of Redgie Child from Springville	Item
Legends, Folktales, and Customs of the Chinese People	Item
Legends About and Experiences with Kaye's Cross	Item
Legends and Folklore of the Geneva, Switzerland Mission Told by Brad Berg	Item
Legends for Success in the Mountains	Item
Legends from Bolivia	Item
Legends of Logan Canyon	Item
Legends of Lost Mines and Treasures	Item
Legends of the Ancestors of David Bowen	Item
Legends of the Naming of Towns in Southern Utah	Item
Leland Erastus Anderson: Growing Up in Ephraim	Item
Life on the Range	Item
Logan's Lyric Ghost Legends	Item
Lullabies, Children, and Adolescent Songs	Item
Manifestations Found in the Mission Field	Item
Medical Folklore	Item
Miraculous Healings	Item
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Misconceptions of Mormonism	Item
The Mission Training Center Folklore	Item
Missionary Experiences	Item
Missionary Folklore	Item
More Than Just a Blanket	Item
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Mormon Family Traditions and Practices	Item
.Mormon Healings	Item
Mormon Missionary Beliefs	Item
Mormon Missionary Folklore: Greenie Jokes and Pranks	Item
My Family Folklore	Item
My Family Folklore	Item
My Family's Holiday Customs	Item
My Family's Lore	Item
Names, Characters, and Characteristics of Hyrum, Utah	Item
Night Games: Games Played by Children in the Evening	Item
Occupational Ski-Lore	Item
Oil Field Folklore	Item
On Being Female: The Folklore of Female Mormon Missionaries	Item
Paratrooper Folklore	Item
The Past Lives Again	Item
Paternal Experiences	Item
Personal Folklore Collections of Greg Brown	Item
Personal Folklore of Glen Tobler	Item
Personal Folklore of Jenalee Butterfield and Dixie Anderson	Item
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The Personality of Quilting	Item
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Lore	Item
A Pictorial Guide to Epitaphs	Item
Pie Safes and Their Patterns	Item
Place Names in Star Valley, WY	Item
Polish Jokes	Item
Practical Jokes	Item
Pranks	Item
Pranks	Item
Pranks	Item
Pranks Played on Substitute Teachers	Item
Pregnancy and New Baby Lore	Item
Pregnancy Lore Among LDS Women	Item
Proverbial Comparisons	Item
Proverbial Insults	Item
Proverbs	Item
Public Prayers in the Mormon Church	Item
Regional Folklore	Item
Regional Folklore	Item
Report on Ballads	Item
Returned Missionary and Dating Folklore	Item
The River: Mein Insel Auf Unheimlich Vollmacht	Item
River Lore	Item
The Salesman – Taking Advantage	Item
Sauerkraut: A Providence Specialty	Item
"Say What?": Roommate Lore	Item
School Days, School Days	Item
Scott Jensen on Missionaries and Hunting	Item
Selected Tombstone Epitaphs of Beaver Dam and Wellsville Cemeteries	Item
Shaping the Meaning of Songs	Item
A Sister Missionary	Item
Skier's Folklore	Item
Snow Fairies	Item
Some Mormon Midwife Practices	Item
Songlore: Lullabies and Welsh Folksongs	Item
Songs for Every Occasion: A Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Songs (Gamma Kappa Chapter)	Item
Songs My Mother Sang in Grade School	Item
Songs of Youth	Item
Special Occasion Food Ways	Item
Spiritual and Religious or Supernatural	Item
Spiritual Memorates and Folklore of Pearl O. Fowler: A Gem In More Than Name	Item
Spooky Stories of Utah	Item
Spring City, Utah	Item
Stories, Sayings of Joseph Price	Item
Stories from Grace Demille Hirschi	Item
Stories from the Teton Flood Disaster	Item
Stories Told Around the Campfire at Bundy Reunions	Item
Stories Told Around the Campfire at the Bundy Reunion, Part II	Item
Street Games	Item
A Study of Aging Barns in Cache Valley	Item
Superstition Folklore	Item
Superstitions	Item
Superstitions	Item
Swiss Folklore	Item
Those Crazy California Hunters	Item
Three Nephite Stories	Item
Traditional Folktales and Culture	Item
Traditions Among Roman Catholic Families	Item
Train Up a Child: The Influence of Family Folklore	Item
Tueller Reunion	Item
Undating: Folklore of Adolescence	Item
Unforgettable and Alarming Accounts	Item
Unique Dates and Engagements	Item
Uranium Fever: How the Mines Got Their Names	Item
Vernon Buslore	Item
A View of the Women's Movement Through Folklore	Item
The Way They Were	Item
Weird Tales I've Told	Item
The Weirdest Two Years of My Life	Item
What Keeps Us Together: My Family's Traditions	Item
The White Lady	Item
"Who's There!": Personal and Family Experiences with the Paranormal	Item
A Worm's Guide to the Esoteric Language of the Oilfields	Item
The Wright Way: Stories of the Wright Family	Item
You've Got to Pay Your Dues	Item

Utah State University undergraduate student fieldwork collection

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