Scope and Content
Sound recordings, correspondence, indexes, manuscripts, research notes, music transcriptions, photographs and photographic negatives, newspaper clippings, student papers, ephemera and other materials primarily representing the documentation and analysis of the folklore of regions of New York; New Jersey, particularly the New Jersey Pinelands region; Kentucky; Pennsylvania; Indiana; and Alaska by folklorist Herbert Halpert from the 1930s to 1950s. Includes publications edited by Herbert Halpert issued by the National Service Bureau of the WPA Federal Theater Project in New York City. Topics of Halpert's research included folk songs, folk belief, tales, legends, customs, and folklife. Includes photographs of interviewees and landscapes from the 1930s.