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Folklore

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Faulkner Bryan Papers

 Collection — Box 1: Series Series 3
Identifier: AppMs-0104
Scope and Contents

The collection reflects Bryan's career as a composer, folklore collector, performer, and teacher. The microfilmed portion of the collection includes correspondence, biographical and financial papers, newspaper clippings, programs, teaching notes, folk music and folklore collections, professional publications, and composition scores and scripts.

Dates: 1892 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1955
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Charles Faulkner Bryan Papers

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
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Thomas G. Burton-Ambrose N. Manning Collection

"Granny Hackle" Typescript

 Collection — Box J (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-0779
Scope and Contents

The typescript is a photocopy of the folk tale "Granny Hackle" about a medicine woman in East Tennessee.

Dates: undated
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / "Granny Hackle" Typescript

Ambrose Manning Papers

 Collection — Other Boxes 1-2
Identifier: AppMs-0131
Arrangement

The papers are divided into two series: Series 1, Appalachian Consortium Files, 1970-1979 and Series 2, General Subject Files, 1955-1979.

Dates: 1955-1979
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Ambrose Manning Papers

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