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Folklorists -- Texas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Dudley Dobie Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SWWC-110
Abstract The Dudley Dobie, Sr. collection spans from 1917 to 1980 and documents his life, career, and relationships as an antiquarian bookseller, writer, historian, and educator in Texas.  The bulk of the collection is correspondence between Dudley Dobie, Sr. and colleagues, friends, and family members - including J. Frank Dobie, Ruth Dodson, Henry DuPont, Walter Prescott Webb, and U.S Senator Ralph W. Yarborough.  This collection is also comprised of documents relating to Dudley’s bookselling...
Dates: 1917-1980

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

Jovita González Mireles Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SWWC-033
Abstract

Printed material, correspondence, financial and legal documentation, handwritten notes, books and other published material, photographs, artifacts, and sound recordings document the education, teaching careers, and personal and financial lives of Jovita González Mireles and Edmundo E. Mireles.

Dates: 1921-1993; Majority of material found within 1930-1975

Wilson Hudson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SWWC-117
Abstract

The Wilson Hudson Collection consists of his papers and includes off-prints, manuscripts and drafts, correspondence, photographs, newspapers, obituaries, and personal papers. There is also a substantial amount of material relating to the Texas Folklore Society.

Dates: 1936-1998

Joyce Gibson Roach Additions

 Collection
Identifier: UPWC-11127
Abstract

Materials from the literary career of Joyce Gibson Roach

Dates: 1965-2009

Joyce Gibson Roach Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SWWC-003
Abstract

The Joyce Gibson Roach papers date from 1961 to 1991 with the bulk of the material dating from 1970 to 1980. The collection contains the notes, clippings, interviews, articles, brochures, cassettes, and letters used by Roach in the writing of The Cowgirls and C. L. Sonnichsen: Folk Historian.

Dates: 1950-1991; Majority of material found in 1970-1980