Bowdoin College Folklore Papers
Scope and Contents
Students from Bowdoin college investigated topics and wrote papers related to the folklore and folklife of Maine communities, including beliefs of fishermen, cookery, farm life, Prohibition and rum-running, mill work, Bath Iron Works, lobstering, quilting, folk medicine, ghosts,lighthouse keeping, boat building, lumbering, ship building, carpentry, hunting, and storytelling.
Dates
- 1980
Conditions Governing Access
For digitized items free from access restrictions, we are working to upload this material (pdfs, mp3s, jpgs) for public access, but it is an ongoing project. If you don’t find what you are looking for here, contact Special Collections (um.library.spc@maine.edu).
Conditions Governing Use
Rights assessment remains the responsibility of the researcher. No known restrictions on material.
Extent
27 items
Language of Materials
English
Existence and Location of Originals
Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.
Collection Note
This series of twenty-six series consists of student papers done for a course in folklore offered at Bowdoin College during the fall semester 1980, taught by Nora Groce.
- Boatbuilding Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Community organizations -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cookery -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Farmers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fishing -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Folklore Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hunting -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Iron industry and trade -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lighthouse keepers -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lobster fishers -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lumbering Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Medicine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Shipbuilding Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Bowdoin College Folklore Papers
- Status
- Digital Objects Available
- Author
- Sarah Marden
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English.
Repository Details
Part of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207.581.1686
