Guide to Surveyed Folklore Collections
Organized by state and city, and in some cases also by repository, the following listing presents the Upper Midwestern folklore and public folklore project collections that CSUMC staff have reviewed and described since 2003 and/or entered into the National Folklife Archives Initiative database since 2013. Links to Collection Guides and repositories have been provided where available. Please note that the title for each collection may vary from the repository to the regional survey report to the collection guide to original grant proposals and agency final reports. The following titles have been adjusted to illuminate collection scope and contents more readily.
Symbols following each title indicate:
#1 Collection Guide online, prepared by CSUMC
#2 Collection description and link through repository
#3 Collection description in regional survey report
#4 Collection guide in progress
#5 Collection inventory prepared
#6 Collection description entered into National Folklife Archives Initiative (NFAI) database
ILLINOIS
Carbondale
1987-1988 Bits and Pieces: Southern Illinois Tradition in Rag Rugs #3 #5
Southern Illinois University Archives and Special Collections, Bonnie Krause Papers
1979-1980 Ethnic and Traditional Arts: A Statewide Perspective #3 #5
Southern Illinois University Archives and Special Collections, Bonnie Krause Papers
1979 Southern Illinois Folk Art Project Collection #3 #5
Southern Illinois University Archives and Special Collections
Charleston
1976-1994 East Central and Southeastern Illinois Folk Artist and Musician Surveys #1 #3 #6
Eastern Illinois University, Tarble Arts Center
Chicago
2003-2004 Beacon Street Gallery Folk Artist Directory Collection #3
1960-2004 Old Town School of Folk Music Collections #3
Galena
Galena History Museum; also Washington, DC, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Archive of Folk Culture
Re: quilting, horse farming, decoy carving, trapping
Macomb
Western Illinois University Archives and Special Collections, Gregory Hansen Collection, Madison, WI 2000-2003
Illinois Arts Council Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Collection #3
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures Collections
Washington, DC
1977-1981 Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection #2 #3
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Archive of Folk Culture
1986-1990 Illinois Arts Council Collection #3 #5
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Archive of Folk Culture
IOWA
Amana
1988-1998 Amana Arts Guild Collection #3 #5
Re: tinsmithing, zither playing, quilting, willow basket-weaving, gardening, cooking
Des Moines
Re: festivals of American and Iowa folklife, multi-state "Global Sounds" tours & folklife festivals, ethnic community tours, radio programs, ESL school program, teacher & community scholar training, folk arts, artists, Amana Colonies, Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program
1987-2003 Steven Ohrn Folk Arts Program Collection #3
Dubuque
1987 River Harvest Project #1 #3 #6
Re: commercial fishermen & fish market owners in Illinois, Iowa, & Wisconsin
Elk Horn
1986-1987 Danish American Traditional Artist Survey #3
Re: midwestern Danish-Americans, Tivoli Fest, blacksmithing, woodcarving
MICHIGAN
East Lansing
1975 Michigan Traditional Arts Program Research Collection #2 #3
1999 Michigan Barn Farmstead Survey #2
1985 Michigan Foodways #2
1985 Michigan Heritage Awards #2
1930s Michigan Maritime Traditions #2
1984 Michigan Quilt Project #2
1992 Michigan Stained Glass Census #2
1994-1996 Michigan/Wisconsin Borders Folklife Survey #1 #6
Re: fine & traditional arts infrastructure identification survey
Marquette
1980 Up North Films Collection #3
Re: Finnish-American Lives, Good Man in the Woods, Manoomin (Wild Rice): Ojibwe Spirit Food, Medicine Fiddle, Ojibwe Teaching, Tradition Bearers
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis
1987 Minnesota Fishing: The Lure and the Lore Project #3
Peggy Korsmo-Kennon
St Paul
1945-1990 Minnesota Folk Art Survey and Exhibition Research Files #2 #3
Madison, WI
1959-2003 Minnesota Folk Arts Program (Philip Nusbaum) Collection #3 #4 #6
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives and Record Management, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures Collections
1976-1994 Robert Andresen Collection #1 #3
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mills Music Library
Re: northern Minnesota & Wisconsin traditional music
MISSOURI
Columbia
1993-1997 Bootheel Project Records #2 #3 #5
1974-2002 Missouri Folk Arts Program Records #3 #5
1980-1985 Missouri Origins Project Collection #2 #3 #5
1979-1993 University of Missouri-Columbia Cultural Heritage Center Records #3 #5
Kansas City, KS
1987 "Our Girls Used to be Married to Boys Over There" Exhibit Collection #3
Re: folk arts in Sugar Creek (Kansas City, MO) & Strawberry Hill (Kansas City, KS) communities
Kansas City, MO
1995-2005 Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Collection #3
Television Station KCPT, Channel 19
Re: outsider artists
Springfield
2000 Jam Sessions in Southwest Missouri Collection #3
Re: traditional music in rural communities around Springfield
St. Louis
1980-2000 International Institute of St. Louis Culture and Community Collection #3 #5
Ann Rynearson
Re: Laotian weaving, needlework, dancing
West Plains
2003-2006 Ozark Traditional Artists Collection #3
Washington, DC
2000 Bob Holt Local Legacies Collection (Springfield & Ava) #3
Re: traditional fiddle music
1960-1980 Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts Collection (Ozarks) #3
Julia Olin, in future: Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Archive of Folk Culture
Re: Ozarks region traditional fiddle, banjo, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, & piano music; African-American shape note singing & blues; Frontier Folk Music Festival & Mississippi Valley Folk Festival
WISCONSIN
Cedarburg
Cedarburg Cultural Center #3 #5
Eau Claire
1998 Chippewa Valley Museum Folk Arts Survey
2000 Farm Life Field Documentation
1988 From Hand to Hand: Folk Arts of the Chippewa Vally Project Collection
1992 Hmong Folk Arts Documentation Collection
1993 Hmong in Eau Claire: Refugees from a Secret War Project Collection
1990 Paths of the People: The Ojibwe in the Chippewa Valley Project Collection
2000 Rural Life Documentation Initiative/Barn Sories Collection
1991 Wisconsin Quilt History Project Collection
Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mills Music Library; Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center History Center and Archives; Northern Wisconsin Heritage Connection, Ashland
1984-1986 German-American Music Project Collection #1
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mills Music Library
Re: polkabilly music
University of Wisconsin-Madison Folklore Program
1942-1979 Leonard Finseth Collection #1
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mills Music Library
Re: western Wisconsin Old-Time & Norwegian traditional music
1994-1995 Michigan-Wisconsin Border Project #1 #3
Re: fine & traditional arts infrastructure identification survey
1986-2000 New Glarus Swiss Festivals Collection #1
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives, University of Wisconsin-Madison Folklore Program
1976-1994 Robert Andresen Collection #1 #2 #3
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mills Music Library
Re: northern Wisconsin & Minnesota traditional music
1987-1995 Rosemaling in the Upper Midwest Collection #1
University of Wisconsin-Madison Folklore Program
Re: southwestern Wisconsin traditions: ethnic markets, fish foodways, food gathering & herbalism, Hmong herbalism & needlework, Italian-American gardening & foodways, religious grottos, rosemaling, stonework, storytelling
1996-1998 Wisconsin Folklife Festivals Collections #3 #4
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mills Music Library
1984-1996 Wisconsin Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Collection #1 #3
University of Wisconsin-Madison Folklore Program
Mauston
Re: Ho-Chunk traditional artistry
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