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Folklore -- Texas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 318 Collections and/or Records:

Kay Council Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SWWC-043
Abstract

The papers of journalist and folk arts researcher Kay Council.

Dates: 1987-1989

Cow People, captions, introduction, mailing list, note, 1964

 File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...
Dates: 1964

“Cowboy Songs” and “A Cowboy For to Be, or The Story of the Kansas City Kid,” drafts, correspondence, 1924-1929

 File — Box 11, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...
Dates: 1924-1929

Dictaphone equipment, undated

 File — Box 7, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series:

This series contains Hudson's files on J. Frank Dobie which include clippings and articles by and about Dobie, files of Dobie's autobiographical notes, clippings on Dobie's death in 1964 and a file on Dobie's widow Bertha.

Dates: undated

Dobie Christmas messages, 1941-1957

 File — Box 7, Folder: 10
Series Description From the Series:

This series contains Hudson's files on J. Frank Dobie which include clippings and articles by and about Dobie, files of Dobie's autobiographical notes, clippings on Dobie's death in 1964 and a file on Dobie's widow Bertha.

Dates: 1941-1957

Dobie family bible, undated

 File — Box 13, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries within this group of records, Family, contains a family photo album of mostly 19th century photographs of the Dobie and Byler families. Also included are the family bible from which Dobie's father read nightly and two of Dobie's own bibles given to him as gifts: one in 1905 from W. H. Butler and the other from his family in 1908.The next set of files, entitled Graduate Education, contains class notes, the Masters thesis, theater programs and newspaper...
Dates: undated

J. Frank Dobie Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SWWC-019
Abstract The collection is divided into five series: Works, Personal, Bertha McKee Dobie and Edgar Kincaid Papers, Artifacts, and Newspaper Clippings. The series contain drafts of Dobie's posthumous books, research material, drafts of newspaper columns, magazine articles, lectures, transcriptions of radio broadcasts, correspondence, photographs of family and friends, property deeds, income tax records, personal items (pipes, clothes, a favorite chair), wills, and clippings about Dobie as well as...
Dates: 1898-1988; Majority of material found within 1914-1964

Dobie's Death, 1964-1988

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries within this group of records, Family, contains a family photo album of mostly 19th century photographs of the Dobie and Byler families. Also included are the family bible from which Dobie's father read nightly and two of Dobie's own bibles given to him as gifts: one in 1905 from W. H. Butler and the other from his family in 1908.The next set of files, entitled Graduate Education, contains class notes, the Masters thesis, theater programs and newspaper...
Dates: 1964-1988

Dogs, Paisano, correspondence, notes, transcriptions of articles, 1959-1960, undated

 File — Box 7, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...
Dates: 1959-1960, undated

Drafts of articles, 1964

 File — Box 11, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...
Dates: 1964

Drafts of articles and unfinished pieces, undated

 File — Box 11, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...
Dates: undated

Drafts of speeches on various topics, 1945, 1952-1954, undated

 File — Box 12, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...
Dates: 1945, 1952-1954, undated

Duplicates of research materials on various topics, undated

 File — Box 9, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries, Books, contains drafts, galleys, research notes and clippings, photographs, correspondence, captions, typescripts and a record album of Dobie's books. Also included are files on posthumous books compiled by Dobie's wife Bertha. The second subseries is entitled Research Material. The research files include correspondence, bibliographical notes, articles, clippings, pictures, and quotes on the Southwestern themes Dobie explored. Subjects covered are animals,...
Dates: undated

Edgar Kincaid family records, includes a chapter of The Bird Watcher’s America entitled "Golden-Cheeks of the Edward's Plateau" by Edgar Bryan Kincaid, Jr. (1965) and an inventory of books donated to Texas A & M University Libraries, undated, 1965, undated

 File — Box 25, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: This series contains family letters to Bertha. The bulk of the correspondence is from her mother and mentions Dobie, his work, and his trips to Mexico. The letters also discuss Bertha's family, health and gardening. Included too are Bertha's gardening columns, and various sundry clippings, pamphlets and articles that she collected about Dobie and other matters of interest to her. Edgar Kincaid's family records and photographs of Kincaid at a book signing for The...
Dates: 1965, undated

Essay entitled “The Senses and Description", undated

 File — Box 14, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries within this group of records, Family, contains a family photo album of mostly 19th century photographs of the Dobie and Byler families. Also included are the family bible from which Dobie's father read nightly and two of Dobie's own bibles given to him as gifts: one in 1905 from W. H. Butler and the other from his family in 1908.The next set of files, entitled Graduate Education, contains class notes, the Masters thesis, theater programs and newspaper...
Dates: undated

Extra copies of Andy Adams correspondence (1901-1925)

 File — Box 5, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1913-1978, undated

Family, 1898, 1905, 1908, undated

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series: The first subseries within this group of records, Family, contains a family photo album of mostly 19th century photographs of the Dobie and Byler families. Also included are the family bible from which Dobie's father read nightly and two of Dobie's own bibles given to him as gifts: one in 1905 from W. H. Butler and the other from his family in 1908.The next set of files, entitled Graduate Education, contains class notes, the Masters thesis, theater programs and newspaper...
Dates: 1898, 1905, 1908, undated

Family letters, 1926-1927

 File — Box 23, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: This series contains family letters to Bertha. The bulk of the correspondence is from her mother and mentions Dobie, his work, and his trips to Mexico. The letters also discuss Bertha's family, health and gardening. Included too are Bertha's gardening columns, and various sundry clippings, pamphlets and articles that she collected about Dobie and other matters of interest to her. Edgar Kincaid's family records and photographs of Kincaid at a book signing for The...
Dates: 1926-1927

Family letters, 1928

 File — Box 23, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: This series contains family letters to Bertha. The bulk of the correspondence is from her mother and mentions Dobie, his work, and his trips to Mexico. The letters also discuss Bertha's family, health and gardening. Included too are Bertha's gardening columns, and various sundry clippings, pamphlets and articles that she collected about Dobie and other matters of interest to her. Edgar Kincaid's family records and photographs of Kincaid at a book signing for The...
Dates: 1928

Family letters, 1927-1928

 File — Box 23, Folder: 7
Series Description From the Series: This series contains family letters to Bertha. The bulk of the correspondence is from her mother and mentions Dobie, his work, and his trips to Mexico. The letters also discuss Bertha's family, health and gardening. Included too are Bertha's gardening columns, and various sundry clippings, pamphlets and articles that she collected about Dobie and other matters of interest to her. Edgar Kincaid's family records and photographs of Kincaid at a book signing for The...
Dates: 1927-1928