Guide to the Barre Toelken image collection,
1954-2002

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Overview of the Collection

Creator: Toelken, Barre
Title: Barre Toelken image collection
Dates: 1954-2002 ( inclusive )
Quantity: 1.5 linear feet
Collection Number: USU_FOLK COLL 35a
Summary: Photographs and slides collected or taken by Barre Toelken from 1954 to 2002, including pictures of cemeteries, Native American customs (mostly Navajo), folk art, vernacular architecture, and customs of Austria, Germany, Japan, United States, and topical images.
Repository: Utah State University. Merrill-Cazier Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Fife Folklore Archives

Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-2663
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu

Languages: Collection materials are in English. 
Sponsor: Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008

Biographical Note

Barre Toelken (director of Utah State University's Folklore Program, 1985-2002) conducted fieldwork throughout his active folklore career from 1954 to the present. Much of that fieldwork was documented through images: slides and photographs.

Content Description

The materials in the Collection, 1954 to 2002, include images on cemeteries, Native American (mostly Navajo) customs, Areas: Austria, Germany, Japan, Unities States, and topical images. The metadata for most the items in this collection are in an in-house Access database. [See Folklore Curator for access to database.]

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Access :  Restrictions

Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, series number, sub-series number, if applicable, box number and folder number (or image number).

Restrictions on Use :  Copyright

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Permission to publish material from the Barre Toelken image collection must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation :  

Barre Toelken image collection, 1954-2002. (FOLK COLL 35a). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

Administrative Information

Arrangement :

Collection organized in 6 series.

  • Cemeteries (gravemarkers & decorations)
  • Native American (people, customs, folk art, architecture)
  • Austria and Germany (customs, folk art, architecture)
  • Japan (customs, architecture, folk art, and images from book Ghosts and the Japanese )
  • United States (Logger folklore, Vernacular Architecture, Calendrical Customs: Decorations)
  • Topical/Motifs
Acquisition Information :  

In the fall 2005, the materials in this collection were donated by Professor Barre Toelken to the Fife Folklore Archives .

Processing Note :  

In the fall 2005, Randy Williams worked with Barre Toelken to organize the collection and add metadata into an in-house Access database, resulting in some of Box 1. In the Spring Semester 2006 (January through May), graduate intern Dusty Decker Wiser worked with Barre Toelken to continue organizing this collection and adding to the metadata database, resulting in Boxes 1-8. Finding aid created by Randy Williams, May 2006; updated Randy Williams, March 2012.


Detailed Description of the Collection

Cemeteries (gravemarkers & decorations), 1972-2001
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box
1 Cemeteries (gravemarkers & decorations)
1972-1997.
2 Cemeteries (gravemarkers & decorations)
1999.
3 Cemeteries (gravemarkers & decorations)
2000-2001.

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Native American (people, customs, folk art, architecture), 1954-2001
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Austria and Germany (customs, folk art, architecture), 1972-2002.
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Japan (customs, architecture, folk art, and images from book Ghosts and the Japanese ), 1980-1997.
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United States (Logger folklore, Vernacular Architecture, Calendrical Customs: Decorations), 1958-1999.
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Topical/Motifs (Wood, Fasnacht (Lent), Barns, Churches with Mouse Motif, Spukstein (spitting stone), Yodelers, Austrian Architecture, True Aggie Event (USU), The Old Land (houses in Germany), Ranch Gates, Mail Boxes, Water), 1955-2000.
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Subjects

    • Subject Terms :
    • Folk art--Photographs.
    • Folklore--Photographs.
    • Manners and customs--Photographs.
    • Navajo Indians--Social life and customs--Photographs.
    • Vernacular architecture--Photographs.

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