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  • Location: Herman B Wells Library E760
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last updated: 6/8/2010

Folklore Special Collections

Tall corn in the Wabash bottoms. Grand Chain farm, Posey County. Early November (Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection - Indiana University Archives / Digital Library Program ).

Grand Chain farm, Posey County, IN. Early November.
(Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection - Indiana University Archives / Digital Library Program )


Henri Gaidoz Collection at Indiana University Libraries 
The pamphlet collection of the French folklorist Henri Gaidoz is available for use at the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries.  The emphasis of the collection is French folklore studies (the Celts in France; folk Catholicism; folk medicine; and oral genres) and comparative folklore studies (comparative religion; occult sciences).


Roud Folk Song and Broadside Indexes 
The Roud Folk Song Index and Broadside Index provide access to traditional English language songs published in books, journals, recordings, unpublished manuscript and tape collections, broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, parlor and music hall productions, and selected sheet music.

 

The Anansi Folk Tales Collection contains nearly 5,000 handwritten stories, each with a typed transcript, and variants of about 200 trickster tales.


 

last updated: 6/8/2010