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Folk Collections The Fife Folklore Archives houses book, fieldwork, manuscript, image (mostly slide), and sound collections. Many of the collections continue to have materials added and are so noted. All collections are cataloged in Utah State University Libraries' online catalog. You can search the Archives' registers on the Special Collection & Archives search engine. As well, all the Archives' collection registers are hyperlinked below. Book collections do not have registers.
Folk Collection 1 - Books from the original gift of Austin and Alta Fife, which were used in establishing the Folklore Archives. Folk Collection 2 - A compilation of the published works of Austin and Alta Fife. Folk Collection 3 - Started as part of the Archives’ early acquisitions, this collection contains general folklore books, folklore theses, and related volumes. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 4 - The Austin and Alta Fife Fieldwork Collection. Folk Collection 4a - The Austin and Alta Fife Record Collection consists of commercial folk records collected by the Fife's from 1940 through the early 1980s. The records are cataloged in USU's on-line catalog. The Fife’s original inventory number is also on each disc and includes Fife C + number (Fife C20), with C indicating commercial recording. The collection includes acetate duplicates of commercial recordings by Austin Fife for his research library. Folk Collection 5 - Folklore sound recordings (records, cassette tapes, compact discs). This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 6 - Hector Lee Fieldwork Recording Collection. Folk Collection 7 - Brigham Young University Student Fieldwork Collection. Folk Collection 8 - Utah State University Student Fieldwork Collections, includes FIELDWORK: graduate student oral history collections (1981 and 1983), USU: undergraduate student collections, GRAD: graduate student collections, and FFC: Fife Conference student collections. Collecting projects are submitted regularly by students in upper division and graduate folklore courses. USU and GRAD collections continue to have materials added. Folk Collection 8a - Utah State University Folklore Genre Collection is comprised of individually collected items of folklore by students in folklore classes. The collection is arranged by genre and topic and includes 10 groups. An index to the genre collection is available. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 8b - The Fife Folklore Archives Student Media Collection consists of folklore collected by USU folklore students on cassette tape, microcassette, and VCR tape. Most media submissions (2000 forward) accompanied genre collections (FOLK COLL 8a); however, as most media submissions are connected to more than one genre item, they are housed separately from the transcript. The collection is organized by date. Folk Collection 9 - The Olive Burt Collection. These books were purchased by USU Libraries for the Fife Folklore Archives. Folk Collection 10 - The Dr. Rachael D. Yocom and Gertrude Shurr Collection. These volumes were a gift to the Folklore Archives. Folk Collection 11 - The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Book Collection. This is a growing collection of books on cowboy poetry and related topics. Assembled originally through a grant from the L.J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, this collection continues to build through gifts and library purchases. Each winter this library travels to Elko, Nevada, for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Folk Collection 11a - Cowboy Poetry and Western Music Cassette Collection. Folk Collection 11b - Cowboy and Western Song Folio and Sheet Music Collection. Folk Collection 11c - Cowboy Poetry and Western Music Disc (Record) Collection. Folk Collection 11d - Cowboy Poetry and Western Music VCR Collection. Folk Collection 11e - Cowboy Poetry and Western Music Compact Disc and DVD Collection. Folk Collection 11f - Western States Cowboy Poetry Collection is a fieldwork collection that grew out of a concerted effort by western state folklorists in the early 1980s to collect, document, and present cowboy poetry and out of this work came the first Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV, in 1985. Folk Collection 11g - The National Cowboy Poetry Collection, includes programs, schedules, posters and other items from the NCPG. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 11h - Cowboy Poetry Poster Collection. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 12 - The Don Yoder Collection. Made possible through special funding from the Friends of Utah State University Libraries, this collection was purchased for the Fife Archives and is a compilation of materials that were part of Professor Yoder's personal research library. Arranged topically, it contains many books on folklore and related topics. Folk Collection 13 - The Wayland D. Hand Memorial Collection. This collection is continually growing through Library funding. Arranged by general categories (belief, custom, Native American, regional, etc.), this collection primarily contains current works in folklore and related topics. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 14 - The Folklore Journals Collection. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 15 - Newsletters on folklore and related topics. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 16 - The John I. White Book Collection. Over 200 books and pamphlets on cowboy and western folksongs and ballads, donated by the J.I. White family. USU Special Collections & Archives also houses the John I. White Papers in the manuscript collection. Folk Collection 16a - The John I. White Song Folio and Sheet Music Collection, donated by the White family. Folk Collection 16b - The John I. White Sound Disc (Record) Collection, donated by the White family. Folk Collection 16c - The John I. White Sound Cassette Collection, donated by the White family. Folk Collection 16d - The John I. White Sound Compact Disc Collection, donated by the White family. Folk Collection 17 - The Jay Anderson Foodways Collection donated by folklorist Jay Anderson. The collection includes historic cookbooks. Folk Collection 17a - Foodways Collection includes books on foodways purchased by USU Libraries. This collection continues to have materials added. Folk Collection 17b - The Jay Anderson Foodways Research Collection.
Folk Collection 18 - The
Folk Collection 19 - The G. Malcolm Laws Ballad Collection. Formerly the private research library of ballad
scholar G. Malcolm Laws, this collection was purchased by the USU Library.
Folk Collection 20 - The Barre Toelken Native American Collection. This is a collection of books and
pamphlets used in Professor Toelken's research.
Folk Collection 21 - The Grouse Creek (Utah) Cultural Survey Collection. The Grouse Creek Collection is a joint
fieldwork project of the Utah State Historical Society,
the American Folklife Center, the National ParkService, the
Folk Arts Program of the
Utah Arts Council, the Western
Folklife Center, and Utah State University, conducted in the Grouse Creek region (northwestern Utah). The
materials--audio tapes, slides, interviews, transcriptions, maps, etc.--were collected by professional field
researchers and are housed in the Fife Folklore Archives.
Folk Collection 22 - The Utah State University Scholarly Press Folklore Collection. This collection is a
donation of all the folklore books published by USU Press. This collection continues to have materials added.
Folk Collection 23 - The Elliott Oring Book Collection contains books donated by folklorist Elliott Oring on a
wide range of folklore topics.
Folk Collection 24 - Andy Gibbons Quilt Collection. This collection, created by an initial donation by Andy Gibbons, contains books
and slides on quilting. This collection continues to have materials added.
Folk Collection 25 - The Wolfgang Mieder Proverb Collection contains books on proverbs donated by proverb scholar
Wolfgang Mieder, as well as purchased books on proverbs and proverb scholarship. This collection continues to
have materials added.
Folk Collection 26 - September 11, 2001: USU Student Documentary
Collection. On September 12, 2001, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress extended an invitation to
folklorists and others around the nation to document, by way of oral interviews, the tragic and historic events
which occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001. The goal was to initiate a nation-wide effort to record
the pressing and immediate responses of the general population during this national time of devastation, sorrow,
and uncertainty. Professor Jeannie B. Thomas, a folklore professor at Utah State University, instigated this
documentary project at USU in her fall 2001 semester class(es). This collection includes Professor Thomas's students'
oral interviews.
Folk Collection 27 - Teton Dam Disaster Collection. A collection of letters and interviews by individuals who
experienced the Teton Dam disaster of June 5, 1976, in southeastern Idaho.
Folk Collection 28 - The Folklore Society of Utah Collection. The official
papers of the Folklore Society of Utah, established in 1958. This collection continues to have materials added.
Folk Collection 29 - Living Traditions of the Bear River
Heritage Area Collection, including fieldwork conducted in 2001 in Box Elder, Cache, and Rich (Utah) Counties.
Folk Collection 30 - Sam Agins Book Collection donated by the Agins family. The collection consists of books on
American cowboy music and lifestyle.
Folk Collection 30a - Sam Agins Cassette Tape Collection donated by the
Agins family. The collection consists of interviews and cowboy and western music.
Folk Collection 30b - Sam Agins Commercial Record Collection
donated by the Agins family. The collection consists of cowboy and western music.
Folk Collection 30c - Sam Agins Commercial Video and Beta Collection
donated by the Agins family. The collection consists of interviews and cowboy and western music.
Folk Collection 30d - Sam Agins Commercial Reel-to-Reel Collection
donated by the Agins family. The collection consists of cowboy western music.
Folk Collection 31 -- Fife Folklore Conference Archive. The materials in
the FFC Collection detail all facets of the Fife Folklore Conference, hosted by Utah State University's Folklore Program
(1977 to present) and Fife Folklore Archives (1977-2001).
Folk Collection 32 -- Folklore in the News Collection. This collection
contains ephemeral items (many newspaper articles) that deal with Utah and surrounding area,
including folk customs, beliefs, folk groups, material culture, legends, etc.
Folk Collection 33 -- Italian-Americans in the West: Utah Section
Collection. Fieldwork for the Carbon County, Utah, section of the "Italian-American in the West," (IAW) project took place
during the summer and early fall of 1990. Fieldworkers Tom Carter, Phil Notarianni, and Steve Siporin conducted the
fieldwork. The Italian-American in the West" was a project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
The collection includes the final report by Steve Siporin and Siporin's contact sheets/logs and slides/logs.
Folk Collection 34 -- William A. Wilson Slide Collection. This collection
comprises the slides that Professor Wilson took during his tenure at Utah State University (1978-1985). The collection also
includes the work of other fieldworkers and students, who worked on the same projects of Wilson or turned in slides to
Professor Wilson (or Professor Toelken), but were not part of a traditional student fieldwork project.
Folk Collection 35 - The Barre Toelken Book Collection donated by Barre Toelken. This extensive book collection
consists of books on American, German, and Native American folklore.
Folk Collection 35a -- The Barre Toelken Image Collection donated by Barre
Toelken. This collection comprises Professor Toelken's fieldwork images, 1954-2002, which cover a range of folklore topics,
including cemeteries, Native American, German/Austrian, Japanese, USA, and special motifs.
Folk Collection 35b -- The Barre Toelken Sound Recording Collection donated by Barre
Toelken. This collection comprises Professor Toelken's fieldwork recordings.
Folk Collection 36 - The Wayland D. Hand Collection of Superstition and Popular Belief. This is an extensive
collection of categorized and cross-referenced beliefs, totaling 600 linear feet. The information was gathered from all
parts of the United States by Wayland D. Hand, his colleagues and students over a lifetime of research at the University of
California at Los Angeles. Each 3x5 card includes a belief but very little if any informant or contextual data.
The information was gathered from books, people, and ephemeral sources. The information is housed alphabetically in ten
card file cabinets. The Collection was donated to USU by UCLA. Because the collection is so huge (over one million cards
(entries), the collection can only be accessed in the Fife Room, Tanner Reading Room, Special Collections and Archives,
Merrill-Cazier Library.
Folk Collection 37 -- The Fife Folklore Archives Oral History Collection consists
of oral histories donated to the Archives by patrons. Each donation (collection) is named for the donor and all items in that
collection are housed in a separate archival box. The collection is organized by date and continues to grow.
Folk Collection 38 -- The Latino/Latina Voices Project. The LVP is part of Utah State University's Northern Utah Speaks; it includes 45 oral interviews with people from Cache Valley Utah's Latino/a population. The collection includes cassette tapes, audio CDs, interview transcripts and, if included, images of the interviewee.
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