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Animals--Folklore

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Bowman Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0023
Scope and Contents

The collection contains business papers, primarily land dealings, and personal papers (letters and genealogies) of the Jacob Bowman family in Washington County, Tennessee. Family correspondence includes information relating to western migration to Texas and the Civil War.

Dates: 1820 - 1932; Majority of material found within 1854 - 1886
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Bowman Family Collection

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

Charles Gunter Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0069
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of recordings of interviews conducted by Gunter's students in connection with his courses on social geography. The interview subjects are primarily from East Tennessee and often discuss topics of regional interest such as music, farm life, coal mining, and foodways. The collection also includes dub sheets for the first eight tapes, partial transcripts of tapes 2, 5 and 6, and summaries of interviews.

Dates: 1974-1996
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Charles Gunter Oral History Collection

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