Wit and humor
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas G. Burton-Ambrose N. Manning Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0025
Scope and Contents
The collection resulted from Dr. Burton’s and Mr. Manning’s interests in Appalachian folklore and related teaching, research, and service activities. A central component of the collection consists of reel-to-reel audio recordings, dub sheets, transcripts, and indices created as part of the professors' efforts to gather ballads, instrumental music, stories, superstitions and beliefs, folk remedies, and accounts of everyday life from individuals in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. ...
Dates:
1899 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1971
Edward D. Cross Scrapbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0511
Scope and Contents
The Edward D. Cross Collection consists of 85 scrapbooks compiled by the donor. The scrapbooks contain clippings from newspapers and popular magazines, photographs, stamps, correspondence, currency, obituaries, postcards, brochures, tickets, membership cards, licenses, formal announcements, and other printed ephemera. Some of the items pasted in the scrapbooks are undated, but the dated items are from the period 1901 to 1993. There are also some World War II-era German photographs and...
Dates:
1901-1994
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Edward D. Cross Scrapbooks