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Series 4: Student research - Indiana, 1940-1941 (continued)
Subseries 2: Classified belief slips
The order of groupings has been maintained from the order in which the materials were received.
BOX-FOLDER 23/1 Informants
BOX-FOLDER 23/2 Childlore
BOX-FOLDER 23/3 Dreams
BOX-FOLDER 23/4 Good luck charms
From the documentation: Signs and charms involving objects (talismans)
BOX-FOLDER 23/5 Household (good and bad luck)
From the documentation: Practically all taboos
BOX-FOLDER 23/6 Household (cooking, cleaning)
BOX-FOLDER 23/7 Animals, etc.
BOX-FOLDER 23/8 Fish and reptiles (snakes, frogs, toads, turtles)
BOX-FOLDER 23/9 Days and holidays (lucky and unlucky)
BOX-FOLDER 23/10 Superstition - good luck - dreams
BOX-FOLDER 23/11 Sailoring
BOX-FOLDER 23/12 Sports
BOX-FOLDER 23/13 Witchcraft
BOX-FOLDER 23/14 Supernatural
BOX-FOLDER 24/1 Funeral, death
BOX-FOLDER 24/2 Legends about people
BOX-FOLDER 24/3 Place names and naming stories
BOX-FOLDER 24/4 Omens and premonitions
BOX-FOLDER 24/5 Friendship
BOX-FOLDER 24/6 Weather, courtship, marriage, planting, wishing
BOX-FOLDER 24/7 Belief, cure
BOX-FOLDER 24/8 Personal posessions (good and bad luck)
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 Body - luck, other beliefs
BOX-FOLDER 24/10 Miscellaneous (good and bad luck)
BOX-FOLDER 24/11 Numbers (lucky and unlucky)
BOX-FOLDER 24/12 Predicting company
BOX-FOLDER 24/13 Death signs (1/2)
This section was published in "Death Beliefs from Indiana," by Violetta Maloney Halpert Midwest Folklore, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter, 1952), pp. 205-219.
BOX-FOLDER 24/14 Death signs (2/2)
See the note for Box-Folder 24/13.
BOX-FOLDER 25/1 Folk cures
This section was published in "Folk Cures from Indiana," by Violetta Halpert (Hoosier FolkloreVol. 9, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1950).
BOX-FOLDER 25/2 Courtship
BOX-FOLDER 25/3 Wedding
BOX-FOLDER 25/4 Indiana (1/4)
Part of Indiana collection A40-A41; items from other states and countries.
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Indiana (2/4)
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 Indiana (3/4)
BOX-FOLDER 25/7 Indiana (4/4)
Series 5: Student research - Kentucky
Some of the student papers are from classes taught by Violetta Halpert.
Subseries 1: Administrative documentation and publications
BOX-FOLDER 26/1 Murray State College - older collection documents, undated
Includes Halpert's guide to the collections from Murray State College (1948-1956), his description of the collections, and his inventory of the classified tales as he arranged them.
BOX-FOLDER 26/2 Published materials (offprints) using material from the Murray State College collection, 1949-1961
BOX-FOLDER 26/3 Murray State College - course lists of students, 1948-1956, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 26/4 First report from the Folklore Archive, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 26/5 Books abroad - received, Blackwell's, Oxford (1/3), 1948-1954
BOX-FOLDER 26/6 Books abroad - received, Blackwell's, Oxford (2/3), 1949-1955
BOX-FOLDER 26/7 Books abroad - received, Blackwell's, Oxford (3/3), 1952-1957
BOX-FOLDER 26/8 Grant books abroad - Edinburgh - received, 1946-1954
BOX-FOLDER 26/9 Note from Violetta Halpert regarding the Murray State College materials (2004 accrual), April 2004
This noted accompanied the 2004 accrual to the collection.
Subseries 2: American Folklore
Sub-subseries 1, Winter quarter 1948
BOX-FOLDER 27/1 Adams, Virgil
BOX-FOLDER 27/2 Asher, Dorothy
BOX-FOLDER 27/3 Barton, Lon Carter
BOX-FOLDER 27/4 Derrington, Horace (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 27/5 Derrington, Horace (2/2)
BOX-FOLDER 27/6 Hughes, Martha E.
BOX-FOLDER 27/7 Hurdle, Virginia Jo (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 27/8 Hurdle, Virginia Jo (2/2)
BOX-FOLDER 27/9 Jones, Juanita (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 27/10 Jones, Juanita (2/2)
BOX-FOLDER 28/1 Clarence Kennedy
BOX-FOLDER 28/2 Edith Knepper
BOX-FOLDER 28/3 Mary Clayton Long
BOX-FOLDER 28/4 Jack R. Longgrear
BOX-FOLDER 28/5 Lillian Lowry (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 28/6 Lillian Lowry (2/2)
BOX-FOLDER 28/7 Julia Frances May
BOX-FOLDER 29/1 Dove Anna McNabb (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 29/2 Dove Anna McNabb (2/2)
BOX-FOLDER 29/3 Frank L. Nance
BOX-FOLDER 29/4 Donald M. Prince
BOX-FOLDER 29/5 Marie Rowlette
BOX-FOLDER 29/6 Robert Shanklin (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 29/7 Robert Shanklin (2/2)
BOX-FOLDER 29/8 Martha B. Strayhorn
BOX-FOLDER 30/1 Nancy L. Taylor (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 30/2 Nancy L. Taylor (2/2)
BOX-FOLDER 30/3 Clarence D. Walker
Sub-subseries 2, Summer 1948
BOX-FOLDER 30/4 Juanita Canter
BOX-FOLDER 30/5 Mrs. Agnes S. Conner
BOX-FOLDER 30/6 Edna Copeland (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 30/7 Edna Copeland (2/2)
BOX-FOLDER 31/1 Nora E. Crosby
BOX-FOLDER 31/2 Aline Elliot
BOX-FOLDER 31/3 Ione D. Haw (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 31/4 Ione D. Haw (2/2)
bills of sale at the back of the folder
BOX-FOLDER 31/5 Addie Beth Holland
BOX-FOLDER 31/6 Sara B. Leonard
BOX-FOLDER 31/7 Alma Lee Pentecost
BOX-FOLDER 31/8 Mary Eliza Roberts
BOX-FOLDER 32/1 Lucie Swift
BOX-FOLDER 32/2 Miss Gene Warren
BOX-FOLDER 32/3 Marian Williamson
Sub-subseries 3, Fall 1948-1949
BOX-FOLDER 32/4 Jean Davis (1/3)
BOX-FOLDER 32/5 Jean Davis (2/3)
BOX-FOLDER 32/6 Jean Davis (3/3)
BOX-FOLDER 33/1 Jean Erwin
BOX-FOLDER 33/2 Ewing Jackson (1/4)
BOX-FOLDER 33/3 Ewing Jackson (2/4)
BOX-FOLDER 33/4 Ewing Jackson (3/4)
BOX-FOLDER 33/5 Ewing Jackson (4/4)
BOX-FOLDER 33/6 Thomas Barkely Jones
BOX-FOLDER 33/7 Herman R. McLean
BOX-FOLDER 34/1 Mary Louise Simons (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 34/2 Mary Louise Simons (2/2)
BOX-FOLDER 34/3 Charles S. Speed
Sub-subseries 4, Spring 1950
BOX-FOLDER 34/4 Gene Allen
BOX-FOLDER 34/5 Miss Jerry Beauchamp
BOX-FOLDER 34/6 Jane Dugger
BOX-FOLDER 35/1 Morris E. Futrell
BOX-FOLDER 35/2 Wayne Geurin (1/2)
BOX-FOLDER 35/3 Wayne Geurin (2/2)
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