New Jersey Folk Festival records, 1974-2006.

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New Jersey Folk Festival records, 1974-2006.

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Records consisting of reports, correspondence, background documents, photographs and notes created by the New Jersey Folk Festival staff, including executive director Angus K. Gillespie. The records pertain to the festival as both an event and as a university class. The annual student coordinators' reports, which also served as term papers for a course at Rutgers University, provide the most detailed documentation of the festival. Reports are present for coordinators in the following areas: Art, Children's Area, Crafts, Food, General, Grants, Journal, Music and Publicity, among others (as the number and responsibilities of the coordinators changed over the years). The reports typically describe the timeline and activities in each particular area and, as such, were intended to serve as guides for the following year's coordinators. The reports vary in length, content and supporting documentation. Most years also feature a comprehensive report of all festival activities as submitted by a general coordinator. The photographs in the records primarily depict persons and groups considered for the festival (publicity shots), festival day images (of performances, demonstrations, exhibits, attendees, etc.) and the student coordinators (as a group). The photographs are almost all black-and-white; negatives are sometimes included. A quilt sharing event is documented in the files of the 1985 festival. Records of the 13 privately-owned quilts that were evaluated consist of questionnaires and color photographs (prints and negatives). The questionnaries, headed "American Textile Registry: Quilt Questionnaire," include separate forms for social history (filled out in advance by the quilt owners) and for technical information (filled out on-site by a consultant). The quilts documented almost all date from between 1840 and 1940, and many of them were created in states other than New Jersey.

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Festival held each April in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, on the Douglass Campus of Rutgers University; begun in 1975; staffed for over three decades by women undergraduates enrolled in a course offered by the American Studies Department of Douglass College; from 1976, sponsored New Jersey Folklore, an annual publication which was transferred to the (now defunct) New Jersey Folklore Society in 1985; on a rotating basis, has focused much of its content on the folk life of different...

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