Number of
Accessions: 655 Dates when interviews were conducted: 1957-1975 Time period covered: various Principal collectors: various Finding Aides: outlines and abstracts Access Restrictions: copyright retained by collectors and/or
their heirs
Description: This is a series of approximately 655 accessions
consisting of undergraduate projects, papers, and recorded
interviews conducted for folklore courses taught by Edward D.
“Sandy” Ives at the University of Maine from 1957 to 1975. The first
437 of these accessions are arranged in alphabetical order;
subsequent additions are arranged chronologically. The early
collections are largely miscellaneous gatherings of individual
items--jokes, tall tales, ghost stories, traditional medicine,
popular beliefs and superstitions, legends, local character yarns,
etc. and only occasionally include tape recordings. Later accessions
reflect the trend in the field of folklore to emphasize context over
items gathered for their own sake. Thus they are more apt to consist
of life histories with an emphasis on life styles and occupations
and to include tape recordings.
