FOLK COLLECTION 35a

Barre Toelken Image Collection

Date of Items:	1954-2000
Processed by:	Dusty Decker Wiser and Randy Williams
Register Prepared by:	Randy Williams, 17 May 2006
Linear Feet:	1.5

Historical Note

Barre Toelken (director of Utah State University's Folklore Program, 1985-2002) conducted fieldwork throughout his active folklore career from 1954 to the present. Much of that fieldwork was documented through images: slides and photographs.

Provenance

In the fall 2005, the materials in this collection were donated by Professor Barre Toelken to the Fife Folklore Archives . In the fall 2005, Randy Williams worked with Barre Toelken to organize the collection and add metadata into an in-house Access database, resulting in some of Box 1. In the Spring Semester 2006 (January through May), graduate intern Dusty Decker Wiser worked with Barre Toelken to continue organizing this collection and adding to the metadata database, resulting in Boxes 1-8.

Scope and Content

The materials in the Collection, 1954 to 2002, include images on cemeteries, Native American (mostly Navajo) customs, Areas: Austria, Germany, Japan, Unities States, and topical images. The metadata for most the items in this collection are in an in-house Access database. [See Folklore Curator for access to database.]

To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, box number. The materials do not circulate and are available in USU's Special Collections and Archives.

Register

BOX 1: Cemeteries (gravemarkers & decorations), 1972-1997

: 32 plastic sleeves of color slides, 204 slides. 1 plastic print sleeve, 1 print.

BOX 2: Cemeteries (gravemarkers & decorations), 1999

: 16 plastic sleeves of color slides, 455 slides. 2 plastic sleeves of transparencies, 26 images. 24 plastic sleeves of photographs, 117 photographs.

BOX 3: Cemeteries (gravemarkers & decorations), 2000-2001

: 14 plastic sleeves of color slides, 216 slides. 3 plastic sleeves of transparencies, 48 images. 15 plastic sleeves of photographs, 112 photographs.

BOX 4: Native American (people, customs, folk art, architecture), 1954-2001

: 5 plastic sleeves of color slides, slides. 21 plastic sleeves of photographs, 78 photographs.

BOX 5: Austria and Germany (customs, folk art, architecture), 1972-2002

: 16 plastic sleeves of color slides, 147 slides. 23 plastic sleeves of photographs, 92 photographs.

BOX 6: Japan (customs, architecture, folk art, and images from book Ghosts and the Japanese ) 1980-1997

: 10 plastic sleeves of color slides, 85 slides . 7 plastic sleeves of photographs, 36 photographs.

BOX 7: United States (Logger folklore, Vernacular Architecture, Calendrical Customs: Decorations) 1958-1999

: 12 plastic sleeves of color slides, 55 slides. 1 plastic sleeve of photographs, 3 photographs.

BOX 8: Topical/Motifs (Wood, Fasnacht (Lent), Barns, Churches with Mouse Motif, Spukstein (spitting stone), Yodelers, Austrian Architecture,

True Aggie Event (USU), The Old Land (houses in Germany), Ranch Gates, Mail Boxes, Water) 1955-2000

: 27 plastic sleeves of color slides, 463 slides.

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