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Letter From James H. Groff To Alfred L. Shoemaker, James H. Groff

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from James H. Groff addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dating from circa 1950. Within, Groff writes to detail some of his childhood memories involving Pennsylvania Dutch customs and superstitions.

Folklore Term Paper: Folk Cures For The Common Cold, Robert E. Ackerman

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten term paper completed at Franklin and Marshall College by Robert Ackerman, dating from circa 1950. Within, Ackerman describes several interviews conducted across Berks, Lancaster, and Somerset counties relating to folk cures for the common cold.

Childhood Recreations Of H. Wayne Gruber In His Boyhood Days, 1875-1885, H. Wayne Gruber

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed document entitled, "Recreations of H. Wayne Gruber in His Boyhood Days", by H. Wayne Gruber, dating from circa 1950. Within, Gruber details various activities he engaged in growing up, including farm chores and hoop rolling.

Charivari Notes, Raymond E. Hollenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed document entitled "Charivari", signed by Raymond E. Hollenbach, dating from circa 1950. Within, Hollenbach quotes from John Long's Voyages and Travels in the Years 1768-1788, describing the custom of making raucous noise outside the home of a newlywed couple.

Program For The Sixty-First Annual Meeting Of The American Folklore Society, December 28 And 29, 1949, American Folklore Society

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed program for the sixty-first Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, dated December 28, 1949. The pamphlet details the schedule for the upcoming conference, including a talk by Alfred L. Shoemaker on Franklin and Marshall College's Pennsylvania Dutch folklore program.

Letter To Alfred L. Shoemaker, December 15, 1949, Unknown

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from a descendent of Peter Derr addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated December 15, 1949. Within, the author provides information about folk cures, Harvest Home services and the tradition of "serenading" newlyweds with loud music.

Letter From Ira D. Landis To Alfred L. Shoemaker, October 29, 1949, Ira D. Landis

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Ira D. Landis addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated October 29, 1949. Within, Landis encloses his paper entitled, "The Dutch-Calcium Carbonate Compound", with hopes of it finding a home within Shoemaker's Dutchman newspaper.

Letter From Irwin J. Landis To J. William Frey, October 10, 1949, Irwin J. Landis

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Irwin J. Landis addressed to J. William Frey, dated October 10, 1949. Within, Landis writes to remark on his own Pennsylvanian-Dutch background and provides a contribution for an "all" story. Landis details an encounter at a Hollywood restaurant with a waitress from Pennsylvania.

Letter From G. C. Kershner To Alfred L. Shoemaker, September 15, 1949, George C. Kershner

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A hand-written letter from G. C. Kershner addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated September 15, 1949. Within, Kershner writes to provide a humorous story surrounding a husband and wife during the night of falling stars in 1833. He also includes some Pennsylvania Dutch riddles.

Letter From Helen Moser To Alfred L. Shoemaker, July 1, 1949, Helen Moser

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Helen Moser addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated July 1, 1949. Within, Moser provides a list of rhymes and riddles she remembers from her childhood, translated from Pennsylvania Dutch into English.

The Prehistoric Population And Architecture Of The Cebolleta Mesa Region, Central Western New Mexico, Alfred E. Dittert Jr.

Anthropology ETDs

During the summers of 1947 and 1948, investigations were conducted in the Cebolleta Mesa area, the center of which is located twenty miles south of Grants, New Mexico. A site survey and a series of excavations were conducted around Los Betios Canyon which lies near the southern boundary of the area.

As a result of the investigation, it was determined that the area was occupied by an Anasazi population during recent archaeological times. The sites and pottery reported appear to occupy a time span, in approximate figures, from 800 A.D. to 1400 A.D.

The occupation of the region studied includes …

Notes To Wishbone, Rudolf Hommel

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed document entitled, "Notes To Wishbone", by Rudolf Hommel, dating from circa June 1949. Within, Hommel writes of the various wishbone traditions he remembers and the practice of arm hooking in relation to eating almonds and filberts or drinking wine or beer.

Problems Arising From The Surface Occurrence Of Archaeological Material In Southeastern Chihuahua, Mexico, Garland J. Marrs

Anthropology ETDs

An examination of the topography represented on five different maps of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, demonstrated a remarkable degree of uniformity physiographic features in the northeastern part of the state. In the latter instance, at least, one point of agreement concerned the existence of a “Bolson de Mapimi.” While the existence of the feature appeared to be assured, its location varied with the different maps. Not only was the variation north and south, but also east and west, with some maps having the larger extent of the basin in Coahuila while others located the feature almost entirely in Chihuahua.

Letter From Luella Kern Engelhart To Alfred L. Shoemaker, May 27, 1949, Luella Kern Engelhart

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Luella Kern Engelhart addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated May 27, 1949. Within, Engelhart provides Pennsylvania Dutch dialect rhymes told to her by her father along with a recipe.

Second Letter From Luella Kern Engelhart To Alfred L. Shoemaker, May 27, 1949, Luella Kern Engelhart

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Luella K. Engelhart addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated May 27, 1949. Within, Engelhart praises Shoemaker's work with the Pennsylvania Dutchman periodical and recounts her experiences with pow-wowing and superstitions.

Western Apache Subsistence Economy, Winfred Buskirk

Anthropology ETDs

The central problem of this thesis is an examination of the factors which influence and, in the past, have shaped the subsistence economy of the Western Apache. Anthropology has always been interested in questions of cultural relationships and contrasts and the process by which the relationships and contrasts are established. This tribe is peculiarly strategic for such a study because of its mixed subsistence pattern, based upon agriculture as well as upon hunting and the gathering of wild food plants. Some groups of Western Apache rely primarily upon agriculture, while others depend more heavily upon hunting and gathering for their …

Letter From Viola Kohl Mohn To Alfred L. Shoemaker, May 23, 1949, Viola K. Mohn

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Viola K. Mohn addressed to Alfred L Shoemaker, dated May 23, 1949. Within, Mohn details a few superstitions surrounding cows and whooping cough, explaining variations on the theme of buttered bread as a folk remedy.

Letter From Rose Labrasca To Alfred L. Shoemaker, May 23, 1949, Rose Labrasca

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Rose Labrasca addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated May 23, 1949. Within, Labrasca inquires if Shoemaker knows anyone who is well-versed in lifting spells or jinxes.

Letter From Arthur K. Klingaman To Alfred L. Shoemaker, May 19, 1949, Arthur K. Klingaman

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Arthur K. Klingaman addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated May 19, 1949. Within, Klingaman details some information he obtained from his father surrounding the placement of bedrooms and the practice of "bundling" within the Pennsylvania Dutch community.

Letter From Daisie Wagner To Alfred L. Shoemaker, March 11, 1949, Daisie Wagner

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Daisie Wagner addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated March 11, 1949. Within, Wagner discusses her family's almanac and the figure of a man surrounded by the Zodiac signs that perplexed her as a child, along with providing an almanac rhyme in Pennsylvania-Dutch.

Letter From Elsie M. Smith To Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 24, 1949, Elsie M. Smith

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Elsie M. Smith addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 24, 1949. Within, Smith provides a list of beliefs, superstitions and old sayings that her grandmother used to talk about, including many related to weather, luck, animals, sewing and witchcraft.

Letter From Mrs. E. M. Siegel To Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 11, 1949, E. M. Siegel

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Mrs. E. M. Siegel addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 11, 1949. Siegel provides her family recipe for milk custard pie and inquires about a latticed apple butter pie.

Letter From Miriam E. Bixler To Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 11, 1949, Miriam E. Bixler

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Miriam E. Bixler addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 11, 1949. Bixler provides a recipe for "moshey pie," which is made with molasses, flour and bits of leftover dough. She also notes reminiscences of her father, an undertaker, regarding food customs at funerals.

Letter From H. Wayne Gruber To Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 4, 1949, H. Wayne Gruber

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from H. Wayne Gruber addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 4, 1949. Within, Gruber inquires about a potential interest in some Pennsylvania Dutch verses he composed regarding his childhood.

Letter From H. Wayne Gruber To Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 4, 1949, H. Wayne Gruber

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

In a typed letter to Alfred L. Shoemaker, H. Wayne Gruber lists two humorous stories: one about a preacher's best sermon and the other about a lying farm boy. Following Gruber lists four pieces of advice, which he titles: "Alte Weiver Clawwe."

Letter From Colsin R. Shelly To Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 3, 1949, Colsin R. Shelly

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Colsin R. Shelly, Principal of Lafayette School, to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 3, 1949. In the letter Shelly details stories of barring out the schoolmaster on Shrove Tuesday and traditions associated with Ash Wednesday.

Letter From Mr. And Mrs. Harvey Rothenberger To Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 1, 1949, Harvey Rothenberger

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Rothenberger addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 1, 1949. Within, the Rothenbergers detail a number of old sayings and rhymes associated with different herbs and teas, along with some of their uses in folk remedies.

Letter From H. Wayne Gruber To Alfred L. Shoemaker, January 11, 1949, H. Wayne Gruber

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from H. Wayne Gruber addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated January 11, 1949. Within, Gruber provides information on the variety of garden vegetables he remembers being grown in his mother's garden.

Sports And Pastimes Of The Amish, Frank Diaco, William Di George

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed term paper completed at Franklin and Marshall College by Frank Diaco and William Di George, dating from circa 1949. Within, Diaco and Di George write on the pastimes, games and sports practiced within the Amish community as learned from Aaron Glicks of West Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania.

Sibyl 1949, Otterbein University

Otterbein University Yearbooks

No abstract provided.