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Austin E. and Alta S. Fife papers, 1844-1996

Overview of the Collection

Title
Austin E. and Alta S. Fife papers
Dates
1844-1996 (inclusive)
Quantity
16 boxes, (6 linear feet)
Collection Number
UUS_COLL MSS 281
Summary
The papers of Austin E. and Alta S. Fife cover primarily the personal lives and correspondence of this prolific husband and wife research team who were the founders of the Fife Folklore Collection at Utah State University.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to public research.

Languages
English.
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
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Biographical Note

Austin Edwin Fife was born on December 18, 1909, in Lincoln, Idaho to Robert Harris and Mary Elizabeth Stocks Fife. When he was seven years old, his father moved the family to Logan, Utah, and Austin graduated from high school and LDS seminary in Logan. In 1928 he entered the Utah State Agricultural College, now Utah State University. He interrupted his studies to serve a mission for the LDS Church in France from 1929 to 1932, where he developed a love for the French language and French literature.

Upon his return, he continued studying at USAC for a further two years and in 1932, he met Alta Stevens from Bountiful, Utah. Alta was the daughter of George Henry and Clara Whitby Stevens. She was born on March 16, 1912, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1919, her family moved to Bountiful, Utah. After she graduated from high school, she worked as a secretary and bookkeeper in Salt Lake. In 1932, she enrolled at USAC. However, in 1934, Austin received a fellowship to study at Stanford and he moved to Palo Alto, California where he completed his bachelors in French. On March 27, 1934, Austin and Alta married in Palo Alto. Alta quit school and worked to support the couple. They remained there while Austin completed his master of arts degree in Romance languages, which he obtained in 1935. They briefly moved to Massachusetts where Austin obtained an MA in Romance philology from Harvard University in 1937 and Alta worked as bookkeeper for the Harvard Psychological Clinic.

In 1937, Austin and Alta returned to Palo Alto and Austin obtained a PhD in Romance languages from Stanford University in 1939. His thesis, "The Concept of the Sacredness of Bees, Honey, and Wax in Christian Popular Tradition," showed his burgeoning interest in popular traditions and folklore. This was due in large part due to his work as a graduate student with Aurelio Espinoza, a prominent Spanish folklorist. It was also in 1939, that Alta and Austin began to study the folklore traditions of their own background, the Mormon community of Utah and Idaho. While both had by this time become inactive in the LDS Church, they were nevertheless interested in the culture which the LDS had developed in the Intermountain West. Austin early wrote articles saying that the LDS were a distinct and autonomous culture deserving of study and rich with folklore and traditions. Austin began teaching French at Santa Monica City College in California, where he taught until 1942. In their free time, they drove to southern Utah to collect folklore from the LDS communities. This first venture was to collect stories about the Three Nephites that figure so prominently in LDS lore. This research was published in 1941.

In 1942, Austin entered active duty with the United States Air Force. During World War II, Austin served primarily as a historian for his battalion and even published articles covering the history of their campaigns during the war. From March 1944 to November 1945, Austin served overseas in the Philippines. Alta, meanwhile, moved in with her parents in Bountiful along with her first child, Carolyn, who had been born in 1941. Alta continued to collect LDS folklore while Austin served and Austin began collecting folksongs and stories from soldiers in the Philippines.

Upon Austin's return in 1945, he began teaching at the Occidental College in Los Angeles. In 1947, their second daughter Marian was born. Austin taught at Occidental College until 1958, interrupting his service for three years to serve in the Air Force during the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. In 1953, he retired from active duty in the Air Force with the rank of lieutenant colonel. During these years at Occidental College, Alta and Austin used every opportunity to gather LDS folklore in Utah. Driving a mobile home, they traveled all over Utah and Idaho gathering folk music and folktales from anyone who would talk to them. They even followed the Mormon Trail from Vermont to Utah bringing their children along and gathering stories from the locals about the LDS.

In 1958, Austin received a position at Parson's College in Iowa where he taught for one year. At the same time Austin served as a language specialist for the United States Office of Education. In 1960, he received an offer to return to his alma mater, Utah State University, and become the head of the Department of Languages, a position he retained until 1971. They returned to Logan and soon began their work on folklife in Utah. The 1960s also became the greatest period of publishing for the couple. While they had published two books and numerous articles in the 1950s, most prominently Saints of Sage and Saddle: Folklore among the Mormons (1956) and a translation, done by Austin, of The Borzoi Book of French Folktales (1956), during the 1960s and early 1970s, Austin and Alta wrote or edited five well received books: Songs of the Cowboys (1966), Ballads of the Great West (1969), Lore of Faith and Folly (1971), and Bill Bailey Came Home (1973). Alta and Austin wrote these books together, and while Alta was often the main writer, it is virtually impossible to separate the work of this prolific wife and husband team.

While Austin taught mainly French and French literature while at college, his research continued to broaden into many areas of folklore and folklife. In 1950, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in France, in 1958 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study cowboy songs, and in 1970 they jointly received the National Endowment for the Arts Senior Scholar Award. Austin also served on many committees and on the boards of many organizations over his years as a scholar. From 1947 to 1971, he was an editor for Journal of Western Folklore. He was president of the Modern Language Association of Southern California from 1956 to 1957. He served on the Committee on Folksong for the Modern Language Association of America, besides being a fellow the American Folklore Society. In 1959, and from 1967 to 1969, he served as vice president of the American Folklore Society, and from 1967 to 1968, he was president of the Folklore Society of Utah. He was also on the advisory board of the Utah Heritage Foundation, and a fellow of the Utah State Historical Society.

In 1966, Alta and Austin began donating some of their materials they had gathered over the years to Utah State University. These donations were the origin of the Fife Americana and Fife Mormon collections. In 1972, the USU Libraries established the Fife Library of Western Folklore, later renamed the Fife Folklore Archives.

In 1971, Austin stepped down from being department head, but continued teaching. It was that same year that he finally began teaching the subject which had so preoccupied his research for so many years when he taught the first folklore class at Utah State University. In 1975, he retired from teaching but not from his research. He continued to publish and even produced one more book, a translation of the Manuel de Folklore Français (1985). He likewise worked during this time to establish a museum called Man and His Bread, to be a part of the Jensen Historical Farm, now called the American West Heritage Center. Together, he and Alta continued the work of collating and organizing the Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University. On February 7, 1986, Austin Fife succumbed to Parkinson's Disease which had afflicted him for many years. After his death, Alta continued organizing their research. In 1986 she received the Utah Governor's "Service to Folk Arts" Award. She also edited and published a collection of Austin's most important essays on Western Folklore called Exploring Western Americana In 1991 she was honored for her many years of service to folk traditions by the Utah State University's Women's Center. Throughout her life Alta had been plagued by many different illnesses, and on December 8, 1996, she passed away at her home in Logan, Utah.

Source:

Biographical Data of Alta S. Fife. The Papers of Austin E. and Alta S. Fife. Mss Coll 281, Box 1, Fd 15. Special Collections and Archives, Utah State University Merrill Library: Logan, Utah.

Curricula Vitae and Data of Austin Fife. The Papers of Austin E. and Alta S. Fife. Mss Coll 281, Box 1, Fd 3. Special Collections and Archives, Utah State University Merrill Library: Logan, Utah.

Fife, James Milton. "Memoirs of Austin Fife." The Papers of Austin E. and Alta S. Fife. Mss Coll 281, Box 1, Fd 21. Special Collections and Archives, Utah State University Merrill Library: Logan, Utah.

Hand, Wayland D. "Austin E. Fife: An Appreciation." in Folklore of Mountain and Plain. Privately Published (1972), 1-6.

Toelken, Barre. "Alta S. Fife: 1912 – 1996." Unpublished Essay. 1996.

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Content Description

The papers of Austin E. and Alta S. Fife cover primarily the personal lives and correspondence of this prolific husband and wife research team who were the founders of the Fife Folklore Collection at Utah State University. Prior to her death, Alta Fife had organized much of her correspondence and personal papers as well as those of her husband. She also indicated in a note attached to the donated materials that much of the correspondence had been destroyed. However, what remains has been organized, as far as was possible, along the lines that Mrs. Fife proposed.

Box 1 is primarily personal, family, and genealogical information from both sides of her family. Oversize sheets used for genealogy are in Box 3. Box 2 contains Mrs. Fife's datebooks as well as journals kept by Austin Fife while in France in the 1960s. In addition to oversize genealogical data, Box 3 contains the journals Austin Fife kept during his LDS mission to France, written in both French and English, from 1929 to 1931. Boxes 4 and 5 contain correspondence between Alta and Austin, mostly during World War II while Austin was stationed overseas. It is important to note that during Austin's time in the Philippines, Alta and Austin numbered every letter they sent to each other to both ensure that every letter made it, and also to make referencing one another's letters easier. These numbers are noted on the folder descriptions. Boxes 6 through 11 contain all remaining correspondence grouped alphabetically. Mrs. Fife grouped her correspondence thematically so that all correspondence concerning one article are filed together and alphabetized by the primary reference. Thus, correspondence from various people may be found under one heading, and an individual or institution which has a separate folder, such as the Folklore Society of Utah, may be represented in other folders. Correspondence which had no clear reference to a larger issue, or which consisted of only one or two letters are filed under "A" Miscellaneous, "B" Miscellaneous, etc.

Box 12 contains the collected reviews of the Fifes' many books as well as a book given to Alta by Austin with an inscription in French to Alta on the title page. Box 13 contains items relating to the Man and His Bread museum Austin sought to establish in Logan, as well as newspaper clippings, articles, and advertisements relating to the Fifes and their work. Box 14, like boxes 6 through 11, contains correspondence, but this correspondence is focused solely on the Fifes' attempts to get permission to publish various musicians' and scholars' work, as well as permission granted by the Fifes to publish their work. This box likewise contains some miscellaneous items, such as collected articles by a friend, and an essay by D. Bufford which Alta helped to research.

Box 15 contains the papers relating to the establishment of the Fife Folklore Archives as well as research files used by Austin Fife to contains articles and essays useful to him in his work. The final box, Box 16, contains information regarding various committees on which Austin served, an index of every article written by Austin Fife, lectures given by Austin over the years, poetry written and translated by him, as well as many of his class notes and syllabi from his many years of teaching.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Austin E. and Alta S. Fife papers must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives department head.

Preferred Citation

Austin E. and Alta S. Fife papers, 1910-1996. (COLL MSS 281) Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Austin and Alta Fife donated materials to Utah State University over many years beginning in 1966. Subsequent donations have come from their daughter, Marian Fife Rash after the death of Alta Fife in 1996, but mostly in 1997 and 1998. It is these last two donations from Marian that comprise the bulk of this collection.

Related Materials

  • Austin and Alta Fife photograph collection P0141
  • Fife Mormon Collection (Coll Mss 211)
  • Fife Americana Collection (Coll Mss 212)
  • Austin and Alta Fife book collection (FOLK COLL 1)
  • published works of Austin and Alta Fife (FOLK COLL 2)
  • Fife Mormon collection FOLK COLL 4 no.1
  • Fife American CollectionFOLK COLL 4 no.2
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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Funeral Services of Austin Fife
    Dates: 1986
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Curricula Vitae and bibliography of AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Accolades to AEF at his retirement
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Certificate of Service for WWII
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Army and Air Force Certificates for WWII and Korean War
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Transcripts, from Stanford University
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Junior College Teaching Certificate
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: BA, MA PhD Diplomas from Stanford
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Diplomas from Harvard University (MA), and International Correspondence School
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: High School/Seminary diplomas of AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: Baptismal and Blessing certificates of AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Honors from Folklore and Historical Societies to AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Honors and Awards, others sources, to AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  • Description: Honors and Biographical data of ASF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 14
  • Description: Utah Historical Quarterly (1986) with memorial to AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 15
  • Description: Stevens Family Reunion, with genealogical information and family remembrances
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 16
  • Description: Memories of my Family, by ASF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 17
  • Description: Memoirs of Horton Telford
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 18
  • Description: Lore and Reminiscences of Robert H. Fife.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 19
  • Description: Memories of Austin Fife by J. Milton Fife
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 20
  • Description: Last Will and Testaments of AEF and ASF, Trust Deed
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 21
  • Description: Patriarchal Blessing of ASF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 22
  • Description: Datebook (ASF)
    Dates: 1989
    Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: Datebook (ASF)
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: Datebook (ASF)
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Datebook (ASF)
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: Datebook (ASF)
    Dates: 1995
    Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  • Description: Datebook (ASF)
    Dates: 1996
    Container: Box 2, Folder 6
  • Description: Journal listing local cuisine, from 1969 European trip
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 2, Folder 7
  • Description: Journal of European trip (in French)
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 2, Folder 8
  • Description: Missionary Journal I (AEF) (in French and English)
    Dates: 1929 June 9 - 1930 December 31
    Container: Box 3, Folder 1
  • Description: Missionary Journal II (AEF) (in French and English)
    Dates: 1931 January 1 - 1931 August 13
    Container: Box 3, Folder 2
  • Description: Missionary Journal III (AEF) (in French and English)

    Note also that pages have been ripped out

    Dates: 1931 August 15 - 1931 September 6
    Container: Box 3, Folder 3
  • Description: Ordination certificate of AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 3, Folder 4
  • Description: Family history: Mary Morgan Whitby
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 3, Folder 5
  • Description: Family history: Clara Whitby Stevens
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 3, Folder 6
  • Description: Family history: Angus G. Stevens
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 3, Folder 7
  • Description: Family history: Ellen Julian Barrett and Thomas Barrett Whitby
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 3, Folder 8
  • Description: Family history: Freestone family
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 3, Folder 9
  • Description: Family history: Stevens family genealogy
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 3, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1933 February - June
    Container: Box 4, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1933 August - September
    Container: Box 4, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1933 October
    Container: Box 4, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1933 November
    Container: Box 4, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1933 December
    Container: Box 4, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1934 January
    Container: Box 4, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1934 February
    Container: Box 4, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1934 March
    Container: Box 4, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1934 April
    Container: Box 4, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1934 May - June
    Container: Box 4, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1944 March - April
    Container: Box 4, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1944 May
    Container: Box 4, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1944 June
    Container: Box 4, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1944 July
    Container: Box 4, Folder 14
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1944 August
    Container: Box 4, Folder 15
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1944 September
    Container: Box 4, Folder 16
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1944 October
    Container: Box 4, Folder 17
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1944 November
    Container: Box 4, Folder 18
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1944 December
    Container: Box 4, Folder 19
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1945 January
    Container: Box 4, Folder 20
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1945 February
    Container: Box 4, Folder 21
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1945 March
    Container: Box 4, Folder 22
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1945 April
    Container: Box 4, Folder 23
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1945 May
    Container: Box 4, Folder 24
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1945 June
    Container: Box 4, Folder 25
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1945 July
    Container: Box 4, Folder 26
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1945 August
    Container: Box 4, Folder 27
  • Description: Correspondence: Alta S. Fife to Austin E. Fife
    Dates: 1945 September
    Container: Box 4, Folder 28
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1932 December - 1934 June
    Container: Box 5, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1942, September and October
    Container: Box 5, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife, Calendar with dates of letters sent
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 5, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1944 April
    Container: Box 5, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1944 May
    Container: Box 5, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1944 June
    Container: Box 5, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1944 July
    Container: Box 5, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1944 August
    Container: Box 5, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1944 September
    Container: Box 5, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1944 October
    Container: Box 5, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1944 November
    Container: Box 5, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1944 December
    Container: Box 5, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 January
    Container: Box 5, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 February
    Container: Box 5, Folder 14
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 March
    Container: Box 5, Folder 15
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 April
    Container: Box 5, Folder 16
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 May
    Container: Box 5, Folder 17
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 June
    Container: Box 5, Folder 18
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 July
    Container: Box 5, Folder 19
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 August
    Container: Box 5, Folder 20
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 September
    Container: Box 5, Folder 21
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife
    Dates: 1945 October - November
    Container: Box 5, Folder 22
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife, correspondence from World War II
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 5, Folder 23
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife, Correspondence
    Dates: 1971-1983
    Container: Box 5, Folder 24
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife, cards
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 5, Folder 25
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife, Austin Fife to Carolyn Fife
    Dates: 1944
    Container: Box 5, Folder 26
  • Description: Correspondence: Austin E. Fife to Alta S. Fife, Austin FIfe to Carolyn Fife
    Dates: 1945
    Container: Box 5, Folder 27
  • Description: Correspondence: A miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence: Air Force
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence: American Folklore Society
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence: American West Publishing Company, concerning Ballads of the Old West
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence: B miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence: Bailey, Rhea and Bill
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence: Brunvand, Jan
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence: Butt, Aline and David
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence: C miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence: Cheney, Thomas
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence: Clarkston Potter, Inc., Publisher
    Dates: 1965-1967
    Container: Box 6, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence: Clarkston Potter, Inc., Publisher
    Dates: 1968-1969
    Container: Box 6, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence: Clarkston Potter, Inc., Publisher
    Dates: 1970-1979
    Container: Box 6, Folder 14
  • Description: Correspondence: Clarkston Potter, Inc., Publisher, correspondence concerning royalties after death of AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 15
  • Description: Correspondence: Collier, Connie and Rex
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence: Columbia Research Group
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence: Columbia Records
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence: Crown Publishing, Inc
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence: Cykler, Edmund
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence: D-E miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence: F miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence: Fife family
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence: Fife, Austin; letters received on his 63rd birthday
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence: Fife, Reed and Dorothy
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence: Folklore Society of Utah
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence: Fowkes, Edith
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence: G miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence: Gillmor, Frances
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 14
  • Description: Correspondence: Goldstein, Kenneth
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 15
  • Description: Correspondence: Greenway, John
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 16
  • Description: Correspondence: Guggenheim Grant correspondence
    Dates: 1958 - 1966
    Container: Box 7, Folder 17
  • Description: Correspondence: H miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence: Hand, Wayland
    Dates: 1969-1977
    Container: Box 8, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence: Hand, Wayland
    Dates: 1978-1988
    Container: Box 8, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence: Hendren, Stella
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence: Howmedica, correspondence RE suit over knee surgery

    (see also Box 9, Fd 10, Olson and Hogan)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence: I miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence: Indiana University Press
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence: J miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence: K miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence: Kepinski, Tom and Yvonne
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence: L miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence: Lee, Hector
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence: Library of Congress
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence: Logan City (Utah)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence: M miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence: McCune, Ellis and Hilda
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence: Medicare
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence: N miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence: Oak Publications
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence: Oliver, Harold
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence: Olson and Hogan Attorneys at Law, correspondence concerning suit over knee surgery

    (see also Box 8, Fd 5, Howmedica)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence: P miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence: Parsons College
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence: R miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence: Reed, George

    Also correspondence concerning George Reed Collection at University of Utah

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 14
  • Description: Correspondence: S miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 15
  • Description: Correspondence: Schactler, Carolyn
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 16
  • Description: Correspondence: Smith, Joseph Fielding
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 17
  • Description: Correspondence: Smith, Peter; and Peter Smith Publisher, Inc
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 18
  • Description: Correspondence: Spencer Claron, attorney with Senior and Senior, correspondence concerning last will and testament of ASF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 19
  • Description: Correspondence: Stevens family
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 20
  • Description: Correspondence: Stone houses, correspondence concerning stone houses of American West
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 21
  • Description: Correspondence: T miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 22
  • Description: Correspondence: Toelken, Barre
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence: U miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence: UMI Press
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence: University of Georgia Press
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence: University of Illinois Press
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence: University of Utah
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence: University of Utah Press
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence: Utah Arts Council
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence: Utah State University, general
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence: Utah State University, contracts
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence: Utah State University, Folklore Department
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence: Utah State University, research
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 12
  • Description: Correspondence: Utah State University, RE: thefts from Fife Archives
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 13
  • Description: Correspondence: Veterans Administration, correspondence concerning benefits to ASF after death of AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence: Veterans Administration, retirement benefits
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence: Visual Educations Organization
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 3
  • Description: Correspondence: W miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 4
  • Description: Correspondence: White Family
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 5
  • Description: Correspondence: White, John I
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence: Widdowson, John
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence: Wilgus, D. K
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 8
  • Description: Correspondence: Wilson, William A
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 9
  • Description: Correspondence: Y miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 10
  • Description: Correspondence: Miscellaneous, unknown surnames
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 11
  • Description: Papers concerning royalties of AEF, with Clarkston Potter, Inc
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 1
  • Description: Reviews of Forms upon the Frontier
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 2
  • Description: Reviews of Folk Belief and Mormon Cultural Autonomy
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 3
  • Description: Reviews of Bolzoi Book of French Folktales
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 4
  • Description: Reviews of Heaven on Horseback
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 5
  • Description: Reviews of Cowboy and Western Songs
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 6
  • Description: Reviews of Ballads of the Old West
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 7
  • Description: Reviews of Saints of Sage and Saddle
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 8
  • Description: Reviews of Bill Bailey Came Home
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 9
  • Description: Reviews of Songs of the Cowboys
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 10
  • Description: Reviews of Exploring Western Americana
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 11
  • Description: Lettres de Madame de Sevigne
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 12
  • Description: Man and His Bread Museum master plan
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence and papers concerning displays for Museum
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13, Folder 2
  • Description: Master plan outline
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13, Folder 3
  • Description: Proposal for Man and His Bread Museum
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13, Folder 4
  • Description: 1978 Proposal for Farm and Museum
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13, Folder 5
  • Description: Advertisements for Cowboy and Western Songs
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13, Folder 6
  • Description: Catalogues advertising publications of AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13, Folder 7
  • Description: Publicity (newspaper clippings, memos, etc.) for AEF
    Dates: 1955-1969
    Container: Box 13, Folder 8
  • Description: Publicity (newspaper clippings, memos, etc.) for AEF
    Dates: 1970-1979
    Container: Box 13, Folder 9
  • Description: Publicity (newspaper clippings, memos, etc.) for AEF
    Dates: 1980-1989
    Container: Box 13, Folder 10
  • Description: Publicity (newspaper clippings, memos, etc.) for USU Folklore Program
    Dates: 1980-1989
    Container: Box 13, Folder 11
  • Description: Correspondence concerning permission for Exploring Western Americana
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence concerning permission for Cowboy and Western Songs
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence concerning permission for Songs of the Cowboy
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 3
  • Description: Undeliverable letters concerning permission
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 4
  • Description: Permission to publish poetry
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 5
  • Description: Cards detailing permission sought for New Anthology of Cowboy and Western Songs
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 6
  • Description: Correspondence concerning permission for New Anthology of Cowboys and Western Songs
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 7
  • Description: Correspondence concerning permission to quote AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 8
  • Description: Doc Campbell's Column
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 9
  • Description: Postcard album from France
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 10
  • Description: Lecture by David J. Bufford, "Beings without Bodies," aided by ASF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 11
  • Description: Funeral Service of D. Wynn Thorne
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 12
  • Description: Anthology of Folk Literature of Soldiers of the Pacific Theater, by AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 1
  • Description: Correspondence concerning retirement of AEF and establishment of Fife Folklore Collection
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 2
  • Description: Papers concerning the founding of the Fife Folklore Collection
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 3
  • Description: Interview with Alta Fife concerning the origins of the Fife Folklore Collection
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 4
  • Description: Essay on the origins of the Fife Folklore Collection
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 5
  • Description: Interview with Mary Washington concerning Bill Bailey Came Home
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 6
  • Description: Gifts to Utah State University to 1976
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 7
  • Description: Gifts to Utah State University from 1977 - 1979
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 8
  • Description: Gifts to Utah State University after 1980
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 9
  • Description: Donations to Utah State University in honor of AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 10
  • Description: List of books and articles by AEF in USU Archives
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 11
  • Description: Fife Folklore Conference at Utah State University
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 15, Folder 12
  • Description: Folklife of Cowboys, research file
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 13
  • Description: Utah Folk Arts Programs
    Dates: 1976
    Container: Box 15, Folder 14
  • Description: Western Houses, research file
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 15
  • Description: Folklore and Music, research file
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 16
  • Description: Miscellaneous articles on Folklore, research file
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 17
  • Description: Congressional Records, concerning folklore legislation
    Dates: 1844-1973
    Container: Box 15, Folder 18
  • Description: Colonial Folklore, research file
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 19
  • Description: Topical Songs, research file
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 20
  • Description: Colonial and Early American Folklore, research file
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 21
  • Description: Outlines for essay on the honey bee and mankind by AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 22
  • Description: Utah and Regional Folklore, research file
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 23
  • Description: Committees on which AEF served
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 1
  • Description: Bibliography of articles by AEF up to 1979
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 2
  • Description: Bibliography of articles in French
    Dates: 1950-1952
    Container: Box 16, Folder 3
  • Description: List of lectures given by AEF, to 1960
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 4
  • Description: List of lectures given by AEF
    Dates: 1960-1963
    Container: Box 16, Folder 5
  • Description: List of lectures given by AEF, after 1964
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 6
  • Description: Poetry, translated from Spanish by AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 7
  • Description: Poetry, translated from French by AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 8
  • Description: Poetry, written by AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 9
  • Description: Arizona Folklore Publications, containing references to the works of AEF
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 10
  • Description: Tests for Eng 124
    Dates: 1974
    Container: Box 16, Folder 11
  • Description: Syllabus and Notes for Eng 124
    Dates: 1974
    Container: Box 16, Folder 12
  • Description: Notes for lecture on possibility of a living folklife museum
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 13
  • Description: Syllabus of Hector Lee, listed as being from first class on folklore taught at Utah State University
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 14
  • Description: Notes for class lecture, Early American folklore, sea songs
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 15
  • Description: Book reviews by the Fifes
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 16, Folder 16
  • Description: Speech: a collection of Western ballads (to be read publicly)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 1
  • Description: Speech: birthmarks and psychic imprinting of babies in Utah folk medicine
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 2
  • Description: Speech/lecture: Holy Week in the Basque Country
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 17, Folder 3
  • Description: Speech: memorials to the 'Western' myth
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 17, Folder 4
  • Description: Speech: songs and legends upon the land
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 5
  • Description: Speech: stone houses of Northern Utah
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 6
  • Description: Badman ballads
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 7
  • Description: Family owned, horse-powered, irrigated, multiple produce farms of the Intermountain West
    Dates: 1979
    Container: Box 17, Folder 8
  • Description: Fencing the frontier
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 9
  • Description: Fences upon the frontier
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 10
  • Description: Gravestone imagery
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 11
  • Description: How the West was won
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 12
  • Description: Outdoor arts
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 13
  • Description: Quilts
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 14
  • Description: Songs and ballads of Western folklore
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 15
  • Description: The most beautiful book on Earth
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box 17, Folder 16
  • Description: Women in Western songs
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 17, Folder 17

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Subject Terms

  • Folklorists--Utah.
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