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Delmarva Folklore Card Collection

3 cartons (3 linear feet)

(circa 1970s)

Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury, University, Salisbury, Maryland

Identifier FK00
Creator(s) Stewart, Polly
Acquisition

Accumulated along with Dr. Polly Stewart's folklife collection
Language(s) English
Use Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Nabb Research Center which extends beyond "fair use."
Preferred Citation "Item, collection title and identifier, box # and folder # (if applicable), Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland."
Attribution Finding aid written by Ian Post and Jenna Habermeyer
Related Materials

Polly Stewart papers (1964 – 2013)
Separated Materials See Nabb Center Staff
Abstract

This collection consists of several hundred handwritten index cards documenting folklore collected on Delmarva, likely in the 1970s. It includes jokes, death and funeral customs, ghost stories, home remedies, superstitions, and more.

Arrangement Statement

Alphabetical by folklore subject

Subject Terms

  • Topical Terms
    • Folklife
    • Folklife - Folklore

Inventory List

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Box 1

1/1 Autographs

1/2 Autographs

1/3 Animals & Animal Husbandry

1/4 Animals & Animal Husbandry

1/5 Birth, Infancy & Childhood

1/6 Boats & Travel

1/7 Death & Funeral Customs

1/8 Death & Funeral Customs

1/9 Death & Funeral Customs

1/10 Folklore

1/11 Folk Speech

1/12 Folk Speech

1/13 Games & Tongue Twisters

1/14 Ghosts, Witchcraft & Magic

1/15 Ghosts, Witchcraft & Magic

1/16 Home & Domestic Pursuits

1/17 Home & Domestic Pursuits

 

Box 2

2/1 Jokes

2/2 Jokes

2/3 Jokes

2/4 Jump Rope Rhymes

2/5 Love, Courtship & Marriage

2/6 Medicine

2/7 Medicine

2/8 Medicine

2/9 Medicine

2/10 Medicine

2/11 Medicine

2/12 Medicine

2/13 Medicine

2/14 Miscellaneous

2/15 Plants

 

Box 3

3/1 Proverbs

3/2 Proverbs

3/3 Proverbs

3/4 Rhymes

3/5 Rhymes

3/6 Riddles

3/7 Superstitions

3/8 Superstitions

3/9 Superstitions

3/10 Superstitions

3/11 Weather

3/12 Weather

 

Artifacts

See Nabb Center Staff

Attachments

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