Fife slide collection of Western U.S. vernacular architecture [electronic resource], 1940-1982.

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Fife, Austin E. Fife slide collection of Western U.S. vernacular architecture [electronic resource], 1940-1982.

Fife slide collection of Western U.S. vernacular architecture [electronic resource], 1940-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/698261542

Digitized photograph slides of western American vernacular architecture, art, and folklife, most in color; subject matter includes quilts, mailboxes, murals, aspen bark graffiti, fences and stiles, gravestones, haystacks and hay derricks, sheds, barns, outhouses, and houses of adobe, stone, logs, or finished lumber, plus festivals, among other examples of folklife and material culture, most photographed by folklorists Austin and Alta Fife, starting in the late 1940s and continuing to 1982. Some named individuals are also pictured, most notably the folklorists, Austin and Alta Fife, Wayland Hand, and Hector Lee. While most of the slides in this collection were taken by Austin E. Fife, others, especially Wayland D. Hand, contributed slides as well. Alta Fife wrote: "Since our first collecting ventures in the realm of the folklore of the Intermountain West, we have carried a camera and taken pictures of things, people, events. However it was not until we came to Utah to live in 1960, that we began to give folk life and material culture the interest it justifies, and to use the camera as the principal means for documenting our observation."

1 online resource (2661 photographic images) : digital, color.

Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library