Southwest FolkloreArchive folk drama collection, 1837-1970

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Southwest FolkloreArchive folk drama collection, 1837-1970

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This Collection contains Correspondence, Non-Hispanic Folk Dramas, and Mexican and Spanish Folk Dramas that were collected by Frances Gilmor on field trips to Mexico and the southwestern United States..

1.25 linear feet

University of Arizona Libraries, Library Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6634123

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Frances Gillmor

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Frances Gillmor (1903-1993), was the first Chair of the University of Arizona Folklore Committee, from 1945 to her retirement in 1972, and founded its archives. A novelist and a professor of English at the University of Arizona, she held an M.A. in English from the University (1931). Her studies in Mexican folklore and cultural anthropology subsequently led her to complete a Doctora en Letras at the Universidad Nacional Autònoma de México, awarded in 1957. Gillmor's dive...

Rael, Juan Bautista, 1900-1993

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The Collector Linguist and folklorist Juan Bautista Rael, highly regarded for his pioneering work in collecting and documenting the Hispano folk stories, plays, and religious traditions of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, was born on August 14, 1900, in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico. His bachelor's degree, from St. Mary's College in Oakland in 1923, led to a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1927. After dec...