FOLK COLLECTION 8: FIELDWORK: USU Student Fieldwork Collection
| Date of Items: | 1981 to 1983 |
| Collection Processed by: | Originally processed by Barbara [Garrett] Walker, updated by Randy Williams |
| Register Prepared by: | Randy Williams; updated by Randy Williams, 22 December 2009 |
| Last Updated: | August 2005 |
| Linear Feet: | 2.5 |
| Restrictions: | Patrons must sign and comply with the USU Special Collections and Archives Use Agreement and Reproduction order form as well as any restrictions placed by the collector or informant(s). |
Please cite as:
collector
Special Collections and Archives, Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Historical Note
The USU Student Fieldwork Collection: FIELDWORK consists of 18 USU student fieldwork projects from William A. Wilson's Folklore Colloquium Course: 1981 and 1983. The collection is closed; items are not added.
Provenance
The USU Student Fieldwork Collection: FIELDWORK is comprised of fieldwork conducted by USU students enrolled in the Folklore courses taught by Professor William A. Wilson. The projects were deposited in the Fife Folklore Archives by the Professor Wilson.
Scope and Content
The Utah State University Student Fieldwork Collection: FIELDWORK consists of 18 projects collected by USU students in fulfillment of graded credit requirements for Folklore Colloquium course. Most items include assession sheet, release form, essay, journal, cassette-taped oral interview, tape transcription/log, and some contain photographs and/or slides. The projects are oral histories. Items are numbered by the year of the course (1981 or 1983) and an number for each student project. The items are stored in archival boxes. The materials do NOT circulate. Click for information on folklore collecting assignments for folklore classes, including examples.
Register
| Box 1 | 81-01 | Owens, Doris | INTERVIEW WITH: Elaine Thatcher
4 Cassette Tapes (Folk Music: Revival Music, Singing) Release Forms |
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| 81-02 | Blake, Nikki | INTERVIEW WITH: A. Michaels
4 Cassette Tapes (Oral History: A. Michaels: Adolescent Rebellion: Drug Culture; LDS Conversion) Release Forms Included: RESTRICTIONS |
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| 81-03 | Ballard, Clark | INTERVIEW WITH: Melvin R. Ballard, Sr.
3 Cassette Tapes, 1 Photograph (Oral History: M. R. Ballard, Sr.: Family ) Release Forms |
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| 81-04 | No Item | ||
| 81-05 | Abrams, James | Dad, Granddad and Me: Personal Experience and Family Narratives Told by Lloyd Walker
4 Cassette Tapes (Family Folklore: Southern Utah, Cock Fighting, LDS) Release Forms Included |
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| 81-06 | No Item | ||
| Box 2 | 81-07 | Olsen, Marie F. | The Hospice Movement: Interview with Carol Martinez
2 Cassette Tapes (Vocational Folklore: Hospice Program in Cache Valley, UT; Personal Narrative: Cancer) Release Forms Included |
| 81-08 | No Item | ||
| 81-09 | Thatcher, Elaine | Rosamond Hurst Melartin: Keeper of Tradition
6 Cassette Tapes; 24 Slides (Oral History: Rosamond H. Melartin; Teaching, Childhood--Blanding, UT; Music: Songs; Customs: Games; Material Culture: Textiles) Release Forms Included |
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| 81-10 | Cannon, Marty | Biography of Venetta King Gilgen
5 Cassette Tapes (Oral History: Venetta K. Gilgen: Childhood [early 1900s] and life in Cache Valley, UT) Release Forms Included |
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| Box 3 | 81-11 | Compton, John A. | INTERVIEW WITH: William A. Cunningham
4 Cassette Tapes (Custom: Hobby: Buckskinning; Rendezvous: 18th-19th Century Weaponry, Fur Trapper) Release Forms Included |
| 81-12 | Larsen, Gregory A. | Iver LaVon Larsen and The Homesteading of Pocatello Valley [ID]
4 Cassette Tapes; 10 Photographs (Oral History: Iver LaVon Larsen and Garnel E. Larsen) Release Forms Included |
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| 81-13 | Garrett, Barbara | INTERVIEW WITH: Valerie Evans Atkins
4 Cassette Tapes; 2 Photographs (Oral History: Valerie E. Atkins: Childhood in Blackfoot, ID; Mormonism) Release Forms Included |
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| 81-14 | Malan, Timothy B., D.D.S. | Biography of Newel E. Munk D.D.S.: A Sketch of his Professional Life
4 Cassette Tapes; 14 Slides (Occupational Folklore: Dentistry/Work Experiences in the Early 1900s) Release Forms Included |
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| Box 4 | 83-01 | Brubaker, Robert Mike | The Depression: An Era of Lost Innocence
4 Cassette Tapes (Oral History: Charles E. Brubaker: Childhood and School Days, Boise, ID; Depression Era: Selling Newspapers; Grandparents Ranch) No Release Forms |
| 83-02 | Plucinik, Bonnie G. | What Makes the Job Interesting is Success: The Story of J. Calvert Gridley, U.S. Postal Inspector
3 Cassette Tapes; 16 Photographs (Oral History: J. Calvert "Cal" Gridley: Occupational Folklore: U.S.P.S.) No Release Forms |
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| 83-03 | Suddreth, Diana | Gus Ekstrom: A Man for All Ages
4 Cassette Tapes (Oral History: Gosta Ekstrom; Depression-Era Chicago, IL; Swedish-American) No Release Forms |
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| 83-04 | Eastmond, Daniel V. | Karen Matsumoto Grah: The Japanese Identity
4 Cassette Tapes (Oral History: Karen M. Grah; Family Folklore: Japanese and Japanese-American; Racism) Release Forms Included |
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| Box 5 | 83-05 | Macfarlane-Johnson, Annette R. | Milo Dewey Gardner: A Celebration of the Ordinary Man
3 Cassette Tapes (Oral History: Milo Dewey Gardner: Childhood (born 1898) and life in the first 40 years of 20th Century: Deweyville, UT: Work: Farming, Cannery; Customs: Holiday and Pranks) Release Forms Included |
| 83-06 | Taylor, Matthew J. | INTERVIEW WITH: Reed Bullen
4 Cassette Tapes (Oral History: Reed Bullen: Family Life: Cache Valley, UT; Occupational Folklore: Utah State Senator, Radio Station Manager, Cable Company) No Release Forms |
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| 83-07 | Kathy Miller | INTERVIEW WITH: Catherine Rogers
3 Cassette Tapes (Oral History: Catherine Rogers: Resistance and Analysis of Culture in Cache Valley, UT; Return to and Celebration of Southern (US) Childhood) No Release Forms |