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Hartz, Amelia Culley (Allen), B. 1950 (Fa 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2017

Hartz, Amelia Culley (Allen), B. 1950 (Fa 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1094. Student folk studies project titled: “Tales From Peacher Mill Road,” which includes survey sheets about the farms and residents of the Peacher Mill community in Montgomery County, Tennessee. Survey sheets may include a story, tradition, photo, name, and brief description.

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Mitschele, Jeff (Fa 892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Mitschele, Jeff (Fa 892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 892. Project titled: “[Ghost Stories]” Project includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of ghost stories. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and the motif index number.

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Campbellsville College - Campbellsville, Kentucky - Vernacular Architecture Survey (Fa 771), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Campbellsville College - Campbellsville, Kentucky - Vernacular Architecture Survey (Fa 771), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 771. Survey sheets containing photographs and descriptive narratives about barns, cribs, and cabins chiefly in central and western Kentucky, although some examples were included from as far away as Connecticut.

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Local Legacies Project (Fa 625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2013

Local Legacies Project (Fa 625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 625. The Local Legacies Project was created to celebrate the Library of Congress's bicenntennial. The project was proposed on a national scale to document distinctive cultural traditions located within each state. This collection includes Kentucky's submissions.

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 3, Susan L. F. Isaacs, Donald Roan, Debora Kodish, Lois Fernandez, Karen Buchholz, Susan Fellman Jacob, Ron Schlegel, Mindy Brandt Apr 1996

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 3, Susan L. F. Isaacs, Donald Roan, Debora Kodish, Lois Fernandez, Karen Buchholz, Susan Fellman Jacob, Ron Schlegel, Mindy Brandt

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Folklife at the Margins: Cultural Conservation for the Schuylkill Heritage Corridor
• The Goschenhoppen Historians: Preserving and Celebrating Pennsylvania German Folk Culture
• The African American Festival of Odunde: Twenty Years on South Street
• Joanna Furnace: Then and Now
• Port Clinton: A Peek Into the Past

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 3, Amos Long Jr., Marion Lois Huffines, Robert L. Leight, Charles R. Steitz Jr., Alvenia Schultz Graber Apr 1990

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 3, Amos Long Jr., Marion Lois Huffines, Robert L. Leight, Charles R. Steitz Jr., Alvenia Schultz Graber

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The General Store
• Pennsylvania German in Public Life
• Building a One-Room School: The Dynamics of School Board Decision-Making at the Turn of the 20th Century
• Washington Hood: 500th Graduate of the United States Military Academy
• Grandmother Schultz
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 2, Wendy Everham, Lee C. Hopple, Ervin Beck, Juliana Bova, Grover M. Detwiler, Robert P. Stevenson Jan 1990

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 2, Wendy Everham, Lee C. Hopple, Ervin Beck, Juliana Bova, Grover M. Detwiler, Robert P. Stevenson

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Recovery of the Feminine in an Early American Pietist Community: The Interpretive Challenge of the Theology of Conrad Beissel
• A Religious and Geographical History of the Shakers, 1747-1988
• Indiana Amish Family Records
• Eel for Christmas: An Italian Tradition
• Recollections of Ninety-Two Years
• Those Old-Time Children's Days
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 1, Robert D. Bethke, Earl F. Robacker, Daniel B. Reibel, Guy Tilghman Hollyday, William P. Stein Oct 1970

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 1, Robert D. Bethke, Earl F. Robacker, Daniel B. Reibel, Guy Tilghman Hollyday, William P. Stein

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Chapbook "Gallows-Literature" In Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania
• The Winding Road to Stick Spatter
• The Kunstfest at Old Economy
• The Ephrata Codex: Relationships Between Text and Illustration
• Report of the Living History Seminar, 1969
• Dairy Products: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 17
• Country School Photographs from Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 1, Vernon H. Nelson, Lothar Madeheim, Mildred Urick, John A. Hostetler, Beulah S. Hostetler, Mac E. Barrick, Arthur J. Lawton, Don Yoder Oct 1969

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 1, Vernon H. Nelson, Lothar Madeheim, Mildred Urick, John A. Hostetler, Beulah S. Hostetler, Mac E. Barrick, Arthur J. Lawton, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Moravian Settlements of Pennsylvania in 1757: The Nicholas Garrison Views
• The San Rocco Festival at Aliquippa, Pennsylvania: A Transplanted Tradition
• Amish Genealogy: A Progress Report
• Pulpit Humor in Central Pennsylvania
• The Pre-Metric Foot and its Use in Pennsylvania German Architecture
• Mennonite Contacts Across the Atlantic: The Van der Smissen Letter of 1838
• Bread, Baking, and the Bakeoven: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 13

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 4, Don Yoder, Earl F. Robacker, Alan G. Keyser, Robert C. Bucher, Richard Shaner, Alma B. Meade Jul 1962

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 4, Don Yoder, Earl F. Robacker, Alan G. Keyser, Robert C. Bucher, Richard Shaner, Alma B. Meade

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Pennsylvania's Plain Garb
• Ai, Ai, Ai, and a Bottle of Whatever
• Eagle Date Boards
• The Continental Log House
• Waffles and Wafers
• Folk Festival Program
• Witch Tales from Adams County
• Fianna the Dunkard

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora, Don Yoder, Robert C. Bucher, Paul R. Wieand, Amos Long Jr., Clarence Kulp Jr., Gary S. Dunbar, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Alan G. Keyser, Christ Geiger, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Richard Shaner Jul 1961

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora, Don Yoder, Robert C. Bucher, Paul R. Wieand, Amos Long Jr., Clarence Kulp Jr., Gary S. Dunbar, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Alan G. Keyser, Christ Geiger, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Richard Shaner

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Township Weavers of Pennsylvania
• Amish Funerals
• The Bush-Meeting Dutch
• Steep Roofs and Red Tiles
• Carpet Rag Parties
• Fences in Rural Pennsylvania
• Folk Festival Program
• A Study of the Dialect Terminology of the Plain Sects of Montgomery County, Pa.
• Henry Chapman Mercer, Pennsylvania Folklife Pioneer
• The "Glingelsock"
• Sauerkraut in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Collectanea

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Letter From Edmund B. Cairns To Alfred L. Shoemaker, October 15, 1958, Edmund B. Cairns Oct 1958

Letter From Edmund B. Cairns To Alfred L. Shoemaker, October 15, 1958, Edmund B. Cairns

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

In this typed letter to Alfred L. Shoemaker, Edmund B. Cairns highlights the lack of historical information regarding barns in Pennsylvania. He created a series of oil paintings with the intention to bring interest to Pennsylvania barns. Attached to the letter are five photographs of Cairns' work.

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