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Forms upon the frontier : folklife and folk arts in the United States / Edited by Austin and Alta Fife and Henry H. Glassie

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Fife, Austin E., editor.
Fife, Alta (Alta Stevens), 1912-1996, editor.
Glassie, Henry, 1941- editor.
Series:
Monograph series (Utah State University) ; v. 16, no. 2.
Utah State University. Monograph series, v. 16, no. 2.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Folklore--United States.
Folklore.
Folk art--United States.
Folk art.
United States.
United States--Social life and customs.
Frontier and pioneer life in art.
Manners and customs.
Genre:
Folklore.
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7530)
Physical Description:
vii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Logan : Utah State University Press, 1969
Contents:
Introduction / Henry H. Glassie
Folklife and folk arts in the United States: Exhibit / Austin E. Fife
Architecture
The impact of the Georgian Form on American Folk Housing (abstract) / Henry H. Glassie
Building in Brick in Colonial North America: The patterned brick houses of West New Jersey (abstract) / Roger T. Trindell
Dutch barns and barracks in New Jersey (abstract) / Peter O. Wacker
The Waggoner log house near Paragon, Indiana (abstract) / Warren E. Roberts
Architectural values of early frontier log structures / Phillip W. Sultz
Arts and Crafts
Sectarian costume research in the United States / Don Yoder
Cheever Meaders: North Georgia potter (abstract) / Ralph Rinzler
A progress report on the pictorial documentation of early Utah gravestones (abstract) / Maury Haseltine
Aspen tree doodlings in the Wasatch Mountains: a preliminary survey of traditional tree cravings / Jan Harold Brunvand and John C. Abramson
Medicine and Recipes
Folk medican magic and symbolism in the West / Wayland D. Hand
Mariah Huntsman Leavitt: Midwife of the Desert Frontier / Juanita Brooks
Uses of native plants in early Mormon country (abstract) / Berniece A. Anderson
Folk Life, Customs, and Ethnic Groups
American folk customs of courtship and marriage: the bedroom / Frances Tally
Opportunities for folklife study in Northwest Mexico (abstract) / James S. Griffith
Defining the American folk legend (abstract) / Richard M. Dorson
The Socio-cultural life of the lower Rio Grande Valley to 1859 (abstract) / James L. Evans
Kansas and the Lindsborg Swedes (abstract) / William E. Koch
Cache Valley Horses (abstract) / Claire Noall
Notes about the authors
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
Rare Book Collection Schimmel 7530 : Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
HSP GR105.F67 : The Balch Institute Library and Archives
OCLC:
35265

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