Accession Number: 57
The Leonard Ward Roberts Collection
Papers and Sound Recordings 1949-1983
27.8 Linear Feet
44 Cassette Tapes
99 Reel Tapes
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview & Series Description
History
Series I - Biographical Information
Series II - Writings
Series III - Publications Edited by Leonard Roberts
Series IV - General Correspondence
Series V - Subject Files
Series VI - Ballad and Song Texts
Series VII - Student Folklore Collections
Series VIII - Games
Series IX - Regional Writers
Series X - Community Histories
Series XI - Folklore
Series XII - Folktales
Series XIII - Folksong Texts
Series XIV - Folkways
Series XV - Genealogy
Series XVI - Interviews
Series XVII - Indians
Series XVIII - Teaching Aids
Series XIX - Audio Tapes and Transcripts
Series XX - Card Files

This series includes Pike County, Kentucky genealogy material from the Mormon Archives and several student-compiled family genealogies.

Box 39 (cont.)

3. Folklore and Genealogy of Pike County
4. Genealogy - A-L
5. Genealogy - Combs-Hart
6. Genealogy - General
7. Genealogy - General
8. Genealogy - L-Z
9. Genealogy - Mormon Archives
10. Genealogy - Tackett

This series includes notes/transcripts of interviews completed by Roberts and his associates with a variety of community writers and historians.

Box 39 (cont.)

11. Addington, Luther
12. Bryant, Easter
13. French, Lawrence

Box 40

1. Savage, John
2. Stewart, Rev. Leonard
3. Wright, Jim
4. Wright, John "Devil"
5. Wright, Tilden
6. Wright, W.T.

This series includes articles, pamphlets and notes relating to native-American history and culture.

Box 40 (cont.)

7. Cherokees
8. Cherokee Book Notes
9. Indian - Art
10. Indian
11. Indians of North America
12. Pioneers
13. Pioneering, Indian Settlements
14. Pioneering, Indian Settlements
15. Pioneering, Indian Settlements
16. Pioneering, Indian Settlements

This series consists of course outlines, bibliographies, tests and other teaching aids relating to courses on folklore, mythology, games, and dance taught by Roberts.

Box 41

1. Bibliographies and Outlines
2. Bibliographies and Outlines
3. Bibliographies, Introductions, etc.
4. Bibliographies, Introductions, etc.
5. Bibliographies and Teaching Aids
6. Bibliographies and Tests
7. Course Outlines
8. Course Outline-Plays Games and Dances
9. Teaching Aids (General)
10. Folklore and Mythology
11. Reading Lists

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