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Series 1: Herbert Halpert's
fieldwork
(continued) |
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Subseries 4: New
Jersey
(continued) |
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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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BOX-FOLDER 17/1 |
New Hampshire
folktales, 1945
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BOX-FOLDER 17/2 |
South Carolina
folktales, 1947
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BOX-FOLDER 17/3 |
Ohio folktales, 1947
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BOX-FOLDER 17/4 |
Carlinville
(Illinois) folklore, May 1959
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From Warren S. Walker |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/5 |
Folklore of sports
(Illinois manuscript), undated
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BOX-FOLDER 17/6 |
Arkansas folklore,
Fall
1960
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BOX-FOLDER 17/7 |
Folktales and songs,
1951, 1996
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From Mrs. Charles G. Woodbury, Washington, D.C. |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/8 |
Songs and stories,
1961
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From Mrs. Charles G. Woodbury, Washington, D.C. |
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Subseries 8: Photographic
materials
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The photographic materials are listed in approximately the order in which
they are housed within each folder. This series was processed by Carl
Fleischhauer. Photo titles/captions were developed by Carl Fleischhauer
and Marcia Segal, based on available information. Three photos are
historic in nature, and believed to have been provided to Halpert by the
informants. All others are the result of Halpert's own fieldwork. |
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BOX-FOLDER 77/11 |
Photographs provided
by informants and their families |
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Charles
Grant |
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1 photograph : print (from a copy
negative), black and white ; 7 in. x 5 in. |
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Samuel
Giberson |
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1 photograph : print (from a copy
negative), black and white ; 8 in. x 5 in. |
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