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Series 1: Herbert Halpert's
fieldwork
(continued) |
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Subseries 4: New
Jersey
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BOX-FOLDER 9/1 |
New Jersey folklore:
narratives, informants, field notes, etc.,
undated
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Photocopied cover page |
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BOX-FOLDER 9/2 |
List of tales and
legends told by each informant, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 9/3 |
New Jersey maps and
time tables, 1936-1941
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Used by Herbert Halpert on his collecting trips. Two of the maps are
in delicate condition. |
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BOX-FOLDER 9/4 |
Interviews - New
Jersey informants, A-K (work set), 1938-1940
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BOX-FOLDER 9/5 |
Interviews - New
Jersey informants, K-Z (work set), 1938-1941
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BOX-FOLDER 9/6 |
New Jersey field
notes - informant information/contacts, etc., 1940,
undated
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Some pages are delicate |
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BOX-FOLDER 9/7 |
New Jersey field
notes, 1951
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BOX-FOLDER 9/8 |
New Jersey field work
- Child ballad finding list and questions, 1936 or
after
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BOX-FOLDER 9/9 |
New Jersey - field
notes, letters, texts, and miscellaneous notes, 1937-1939,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 9/10 |
New Jersey Pines -
research data (1/2), 1937-1941, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 9/11 |
New Jersey Pines -
research data (2/2), 1937-1941, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 9/12 |
New Jersey texts -
legends - Giberson and the devil (edited set), 1940-1942, 1946
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BOX-FOLDER 10/1 |
New Jersey texts -
legends - Munyhun - wizard of the Pines, 1940-1951,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 10/2 |
New Jersey texts -
legends - devils, witches, and spirits (computer version), 1940-1951,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 10/3 |
New Jersey texts -
strong man legends, 1940-1951, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 10/4 |
New Jersey texts -
tales - fools and simpletons, 1940-1942, 1946
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BOX-FOLDER 10/5 |
New Jersey texts -
tales - surprising answers and retorts, 1940-1951,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 10/6 |
New Jersey texts -
tales - tricksters and clever fellows, 1939-1941,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 10/7 |
New Jersey texts -
tales - frightened by the supernatural, 1940-1955,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 10/8 |
New Jersey
folklore/folklife collected from Stacy Bozarth, George Leek, and
Rodney Koster, 1951
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Miscellaneous folklore collected from Stacy Bozarth, George Leek, and
Rodney Koster. |
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BOX-FOLDER 10/9 |
New Jersey
superstitions from storytellers and singers (set 2), 1940-1941
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From storytellers and singers |
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BOX-FOLDER 10/10 |
New Jersey riddles
(set 2), 1940-1951, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 10/11 |
Charles Grant
interviews (1/2), 1938-1941
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BOX-FOLDER 10/12 |
Charles Grant
interviews (2/2), 1938-1941
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BOX-FOLDER 10/13 |
Charles Grant
interviews, 1946
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BOX-FOLDER 11/1 |
Charles Grant
interviews (photocopies) (1/2), 1938-1940
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According to a note written on the original folder, the originals
(typescipts) are in separate folders |
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BOX-FOLDER 11/2 |
Charles Grant
interviews (photocopies) (2/2), 1940-1942, 1946
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BOX-FOLDER 11/3 |
Folktale miscellany -
tales - Clinton, New Jersey, 1946
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Halpert notes on the original folder: "not from Pines." |
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BOX-FOLDER 11/4 |
Folk songs other than
New Jersey - Halpert collectanea - manuscripts and transcripts,
1937-1945
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BOX-FOLDER 11/5 |
Record title list -
New Jersey, 1937
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BOX-FOLDER 11/6 |
New Jersey record
lists, undated
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By record number; by categories and titles. Includes drafts of
letters to transcriber. |
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BOX-FOLDER 11/7 |
Title list of
recordings made by Herbert Halpert, 1938
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Areas covered include New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey |
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BOX-FOLDER 11/8 |
New Jersey local (or
localized) songs - list, circa 1930s-1940s
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Photocopy (dated 1995) of older documents |
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BOX-FOLDER 11/9 |
New Jersey - locally
made-up songs, 1940-1941, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 11/10 |
New Jersey field
research on local disaster songs, 1939-1940,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 11/11 |
New Jersey - songs
from children's lore, 1937-1939
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BOX-FOLDER 11/12 |
New Jersey songs -
Ivins Grant manuscripts, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 11/13 |
Folk songs referred
to in informant interviews - New Jersey,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 11/14 |
Background for New
Jersey local songs and murder ballads, etc.,
undated
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Transcripts by Herbert Halpert from contemporary printed material |
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BOX-FOLDER 11/15 |
New Jersey songs -
local and miscellaneous, April 1995
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Photocopied in April 1995 |
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BOX-FOLDER 11/16 |
New Jersey folksong
texts (set 2, binder 1 of 2), 1936-1938,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 12/1 |
New Jersey folksong
texts (set 2, binder 2 of 2), 1936-1938,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 12/2 |
New Jersey folksong
texts (set 3, binder 1 of 2), 1936-1938,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 12/3 |
New Jersey folksong
texts (set 3, binder 2 of 2), 1936-1938,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 12/4 |
New Jersey song
texts, 1937-1938, 1952, undated
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Handwritten on the original folder: "HH work file" |
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BOX-FOLDER 13/1 |
New Jersey song texts
- no recordings, 1937-1939, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 13/2 |
New Jersey song
texts, 1937
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BOX-FOLDER 13/3 |
New Jersey song
texts, 1938
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BOX-FOLDER 13/4 |
New Jersey song
texts, 1939
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BOX-FOLDER 13/5 |
New Jersey folksong
texts from recordings (1/2), 1937
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BOX-FOLDER 13/6 |
New Jersey folksong
texts from recordings (2/3), 1937
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BOX-FOLDER 13/7 |
New Jersey folksong
texts from recordings (3/3), 1937
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BOX-FOLDER 13/8 |
New Jersey folksong
texts (1/3), 1937-1939
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No recordings for this group. |
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BOX-FOLDER 13/9 |
New Jersey folksong
texts (2/3), 1937-1939
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See the note for Box-Folder 13/8. |
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BOX-FOLDER 14/1 |
New Jersey folksong
texts (3/3), 1937-1939
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See the note for Box-Folder 13/8. |
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BOX-FOLDER 14/2 |
New Jersey folksong
texts from recordings (1/3), 1938-1939
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BOX-FOLDER 14/3 |
New Jersey folksong
texts from recordings (2/3), 1938-1939
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BOX-FOLDER 14/4 |
New Jersey folksong
texts from recordings (3/3), 1938-1939
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Subseries 5: New
York
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BOX-FOLDER 14/5 |
Frank Edwards -
Livingston Manor, New York - song texts, 1938-1939
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BOX-FOLDER 14/6 |
"Little George"
Edwards - New York song texts - second set, 1938-1940
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BOX-FOLDER 14/7 |
"Little George"
Edwards - New York song texts - third set, 1938-1940
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Includes an 8 in. x 10 in. black-and-white photo of George Edwards
(in the photo at left) and an unidentified man. |
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BOX-FOLDER 14/8 |
Jim Edwards - New
York - original manuscript, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 14/9 |
Jim Edwards - New
York song texts - second set, 1938
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BOX-FOLDER 15/1 |
Jim Edwards -
Livingston Manor, New York, 1938
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BOX-FOLDER 15/2 |
Reuben Edwards - New
York - song texts, 1938-1939
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BOX-FOLDER 15/3 |
Edwards family - New
York - field notes, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 15/4 |
Mrs. Elizabeth Misner
- New York, 1938,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 15/5 |
Martin Montonyea -
New York - song texts, 1938-1939,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 15/6 |
O'Dell (Lafe, Ralph,
Marcus, and Preston) - New York, 1938, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 15/7 |
Charles Seeley - New
York, 1938,
undated
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Includes 1 photographic print ; 8 in. x 10 in. |
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Photo depicts George Edwards (at left) and Charles Seeley. See
Box-Folder 78/6 for similar
images. |
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BOX-FOLDER 15/8 |
George Swartwout -
East Branch, New York, 1940
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BOX-FOLDER 15/9 |
Mrs. Minnie Ward -
New York, 1938-1939, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 15/10 |
George Wood - Walton,
New York, 1939
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BOX-FOLDER 15/11 |
New York - lists,
1941,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 15/12 |
New York trip notes,
1946
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BOX-FOLDER 15/13 |
New York interviews,
1941
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BOX-FOLDER 15/14 |
New York interviews
(set 2), 1938,
1941
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BOX-FOLDER 15/15 |
New York interviews
(set 3), 1938-1939
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BOX-FOLDER 15/16 |
New York interviews,
1946
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BOX-FOLDER 15/17 |
New York -
miscellaneous letters, notes, etc., 1937-1939, 1941, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 15/18 |
New York songs (sets
2 and 3), 1941
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BOX-FOLDER 15/19 |
Southern New York -
Ramapo, Sloatsburg, Tuxedo, 1938, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 15/20 |
New York City -
children's rhymes grouped by classification, 1918-1931,
undated
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Made by Halpert during the 1930s and used as his M.A. thesis at
Columbia. According to a note on the divider card preceding the
folder, this material is not the same set as that in which the
Federal Writers Project was involved. |
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BOX-FOLDER 16/1 |
New York City -
children's rhymes, 1939-1940, undated
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See the note for Box-Folder 15/20. |
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BOX-FOLDER 16/2 |
New York City -
children's games/rhymes, 1940
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See the note for Box-Folder 15/20.
The contents are described on the original folder as "Individual
collectors (unique set - no duplicates found." |
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BOX-FOLDER 16/3 |
Tall tales on the
East Branch, 1940-1941
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BOX-FOLDER 16/4 |
Boney Quillan - New
York's Tyll Eulenspiegel, 1940-1941
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BOX-FOLDER 16/5 |
Paul Bunyan Back
East, 1941, 1949,
1949
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Subseries 6: Southern
recording trip and hillbilly records
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BOX-FOLDER 16/6 |
Correspondence with
Mrs. Ruth Saunders (Austin Harmon's daughter), 1978
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Includes 1 photographic print (Kodak Land camera image) :
color ; approx. 4 in. x 4 in. |
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Photo of Austin Harmon was taken in December 1977 when he was 77
years old . |
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BOX-FOLDER 16/7 |
Southern recording
trip - information on contacts, informants, etc., 1939
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BOX-FOLDER 16/8 |
Virginia texts and
interviews, 1939
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Texts from the Emory Hamilton collection and information on singers
recorded by Herbert Halpert on the Southern recording trip |
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BOX-FOLDER 16/9 |
Hillbilly songs and
records, 1936-1938,
1950, 1962, 1950, 1962
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Drafts of two unpublished papers and correspondence (1937-38) with The American Scholar regarding a projected article |
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BOX-FOLDER 16/10 |
Hillbilly songs on
records - interviews with producers, circa 1936
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BOX-FOLDER 16/11 |
Hillbilly records
from commercial catalogs - lists, circa 1936
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Subseries 7: Folklore
from various locations
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BOX-FOLDER 16/12 |
Manchester, New
Hampshire - folktales and miscellaneous, 1945
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