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Series 3: Other Ribbon project participants, 1984-1989 (continued)
Video programs featuring the "Ribbon around the Pentagon" ceremony
Item-ID: AFC 2018/007: MV001 Ribbon 'Round the Pentagon, 1984
1 videocassette (120 min.)
Produced by Barb Britain
First recording on MV001. See also second recording.
Item-ID: AFC 2018/007: MV001 The Peace Ribbon, 1986
1 videocassette (120 min.)
Produced by David Sabbath
Second recording on MV001. See also first recording.
Video program featuring other quilting activism projects
Item-ID: AFC 2018/007: MV004 A Stitch for Time: The Boise Peace Quilt Project, 1987
1 videocassette (120 min.)
Produced by Nigel Noble
Second recording on MV004. See also first and third recordings.
Copies of study data collected by Gabriella Miller and Carol Cockrell, 1985
8 folders
Designed by Gabriella Miller and Carol Cockrell
Each folder contains the compiled responses to one question from a questionnaire created by Texas Woman's University researchers Gabriella Miller and Carol Cockrell. The researchers had the questionnaire printed in a 1985 issue of Ribbon Newsletter, and participants joined the study by returning their responses in the mail. Participants are anonymized as numbers 1-805.
BOX-FOLDER 1/12 Question 1
BOX-FOLDER 1/13 Question 9
BOX-FOLDER 1/14 Question 10
BOX-FOLDER 1/15 Question 12
BOX-FOLDER 1/16 Question 13
BOX-FOLDER 1/17 Question 14
BOX-FOLDER 1/18 Question 17
Statements and photos submitted to Lark Books
A selection of 35mm slides and submission forms sent to the publisher Lark Books by Ribbon panel makers, for inclusion in the book The Ribbon: A Celebration of Life (1985).
BOX-FOLDER 1/19 Forms submitted to Lark Books, circa January to May 17, 1985
1 folder
Written by Eileen R. Gavel, Martha Obenshain, Ethelyn G. Ormondroyd, Nancy Perry, Jane J. Smith, and anonymous
Item-ID: AFC 2018/007: PH047
BOX 6
Photos of panels and events submitted to Lark books, May 8, 1984 to May 1985
5 color transparencies (35mm slides)
Photographs attributed to Ethelyn G. Ormondroyd, Nancy Perry, Jane J. Smith, and anonymous
Item-ID: AFC 2018/007: PH048
BOX 6
Photo of panels and events submitted to Lark books / Eileen R. Gavel,, developed May 1985
1 color transparency (35mm slide)
Photographed by Jim Provine
Series 4: Research materials, 1985-1995
Original output from Linda Pershing's research. This series includes photographs originally collected from other sources but curated by Linda Pershing for her teaching lectures. Includes copies of Linda Pershing's scholarly publications on the Ribbon project. Also includes one cleaning microcassette.
Teaching materials
Item-ID: AFC 2018/007: PH049
BOX 6
"Excellent slides for presentations," circa August 1985 to 1989
12 color transparencies (35mm slides)
Item-ID: AFC 2018/007: PH050
BOX 6
"Ribbon slides for class talks," circa August 1985 to 1989
36 color transparencies (35mm slides)
Publications
BOX 1 Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore, edited by Susan Tower Hollis, Linda Pershing, M. Jane Young, 1993
1 monograph, signed by Linda Pershing
© University of Illinois Press
BOX 1 Sew to Speak: The Fabric Art of Mary Milne, by Linda Pershing, 1995
1 monograph, signed by Linda Pershing
© University Press of Mississippi
Miscellaneous research materials
BOX 1 Cleaning microcassette
1 cleaning microcassette
Series 5: Donation notes, 2018
Notes written by Linda Pershing at the time of the collection's donation to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The notes were interspersed with materials as labels. The information from the notes has been incorporated into this finding aid.
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 Linda Pershing's donation notes, circa May 14, 2018

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