Papers, 1928-1975.

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Papers, 1928-1975.

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Correspondence, reviews and publicity, and research notes, relating to the Funk & Wagnalls dictionary, proverbs, superstitions, and nautical and Celtic folklore; together with mss. and research notes for publications The Soup Stone (1954), The Beginning (1956), The Rainbow Book of American Folk Tales and Legends (1958), Noodles, Nitwits, and Numbskulls (1961), God Had a Dog (1961), The Luck Book (1964), How the People Sang the Mountains Up (1967), Riddle Me, Riddle Me Ree (1970), Whistle In the Graveyard (1974), and unpublished works Four Corners and So Long As It Makes a Story: Old Irish Tales Retold. Includes microfilm copy of research notes and bibliographic cards compiled in the preparation and indexing of the Funk & Wagnalls dictionary. Correspondents include Marius Barbeau, Ben Botkin, R.D. Jameson, Erminie Voegelin, Funk & Wagnalls, and Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers.

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Jameson, R. D. (Raymond De Loy), 1896-1959

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Leach, Maria, 1958-

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Folklorist and editor of Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend (1949-1950); b. 1892; d. 1977. From the description of Papers, 1928-1975. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28416917 ...

Funk & Wagnalls Company.

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Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969

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Charles Marius Barbeau was a Canadian anthropologist and an American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund and a Wenner-Gren Foundation grantee. From the description of Checklist of American Indian antiquities found in European institutions ..., ca. 1950. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122439988 From the description of Calendar of Indian captivities and allied documents, [1953-1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465713 Charles Mariu...

Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975

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Benjamin A. Botkin was born in 1901 in Boston, Mass. He began Harvard at age 15, graduating magna cum laude at 19, and earned a MA in English literature from Columbia. He then taught english at the University of Oklahoma before studying with folklore scholar Louise Pound at the University of Nebraska where he received a Ph.D. in 1931. In 1937, Botkin accepted a position as the national folklore editor for the Federal Writers' Project. He also served as the co-founder and chairman of the WPA Join...

Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988

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American anthropologist, ethnohistorian, and folklorist; founder of the American Society for Ethnohistory, editor of Ethnohistory (1954-1964), and director of the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Research Project at Indiana University (1956-1969). Wheeler-Voegelin's fieldwork and research during the 1930's and 1940's focused on the Ojibwa, Shawnee, and Tubatulabal Indians. At Indiana University, the research project she directed created research reports and other materials to pro...

Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers.

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