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Folklore

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85050104

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

John Smartt Coley manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0342
Abstract

Uncorrected manuscript of Coley's translation of Le Roman de Thebes, published in 1986 as part of the Garland Library of Medieval Literature.

Dates: before 1986

Margaret Gillis Figh papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0513
Abstract

This collection consists mainly of folklore and tales contributed by students in Figh's folklore and English classes at Huntingdon College, plus miscellaneous contributions from family and friends.

Dates: 1940-1975

Mary Johnson Blackburn Poetry Book, after 1924

 File — Box 4265.003: [Barcode: 1006233188], Case: 1
Scope and Contents This file contains a 134-page looseleaf volume of typed works by Georgia folklorist and poet Mary Johnson Blackburn called How Fairies Are Made and Other Verse for the Youngest to the Oldest. The book includes 117 poems that are primarily about childhood, as well as numerous hand-drawn illustrations by Blackburn. The first page of the looseleaf volume contains an address label that reads: "Mary Johnson Blackburn (Mrs. Robt.) 972 Virginia Ave. N.E....
Dates: after 1924

Virginia J. Hanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0018
Abstract

Contains a memory book documenting the senior year of Virginia J. Hanson, a 1912 graduate of Birmingham High School. Also contains research notes, correspondence and manuscripts related to Hanson's thesis, "Alabama in Legend and Lore."

Dates: 1912-1937