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Ellis Schuman collection on Mildred Dilling, Harpo Marx and Marie Ludwig, 1970-2005

Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 5

Identifier: MSS 7816 Series 2 Sub-Series 3

Scope and Contents

This subseries contains materials gathered by Ellis Schuman about Mildred Dilling, Harpo Marx and Marie Ludwig. Dates Range 1970-2005.

Dates: 1970-2005

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 7816, Ellis Schuman collection / Ellis Schuman collection on other harpists

Examinations and term papers

File — Box: 2, Folder: 5

Identifier: MSS 281

Dates: 1908-1953

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 281, Louise Pound folklore collection

Folklore--Adages

File — Box: 1, Folder: 2

Identifier: MSS 281

Scope and Contents

Contents: Snakes -- Precious stones -- Collection of miscellaneous adages -- Physical signs (hair, nose, sneeze, ear, mole, nails, feet) -- Marriage -- Insects and worms -- Fowls -- Cats -- Dogs -- White horses -- Amphibians -- Plant and tree lore -- Dreams -- Goodluck signs and charms and tail pieces -- Omen of death -- Bad luck -- Making a wish -- To ward off bad luck -- Witches -- Devil lore.

Dates: 1908-1953

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 281, Louise Pound folklore collection

Folklore--Collection of ballads

File — Box: 1, Folder: 3

Identifier: MSS 281

Scope and Contents Contents: Jack Riley (Songs of the sea) -- Will the Warrener (Humor and fun) -- Dinah (Tragedy and sorrow) -- The banks of the Sweet Dundee (Criminal and jailhouse songs) -- Wearing the willow (Humor and fun) -- Springfield Mountain (Humor and fun) -- The merry-hearted milkmen (Love) -- She had not rowed (Tragic love) -- Lord Lovel (Tragic love) -- The fair Imogene (Tragic love) -- Lord Thomas (Tragic love) -- Mistress Malone (Love) -- The mistletoe bough (Tragic love) -- The pretty milkmaid...

Dates: 1908-1953

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 281, Louise Pound folklore collection

Folklore--Cowboys and outlaws

File — Box: 1, Folder: 5

Identifier: MSS 281

Scope and Contents

Contents: Jesse James -- Texas Rangers -- The cowboy -- The dying cowboy -- Bury me not on the prairie -- The horse wrangler -- Sam Bass -- Comanche Bill -- I want to be a cowboy -- Breaking in a tenderfoot -- Fragment IV -- Home, home on the range -- A cowboy song -- Fragments -- Brennan on the moor.

Dates: 1908-1953

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 281, Louise Pound folklore collection

Folklore--Criminal and jailhouse songs

File — Box: 1, Folder: 6

Identifier: MSS 281

Scope and Contents

Contents: Seven long years -- Young Bendell -- Betty and the baby -- Charlie's town -- Charlestown -- The Boston burglar -- The rumseller or Old Jones -- The death of James A. Garfield -- Jack Williams -- Fuller and Warren -- Charles Guiteau or James A. Garfield -- The bamboo briars -- My father was a gambler -- Young McFee -- My name is John T. Williams -- Young widow -- Harry Clark or the Glennie Bank Robbery.

Dates: 1908-1953

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 281, Louise Pound folklore collection

Folklore--Death, sorrow and tragedy

File — Box: 1, Folder: 7

Identifier: MSS 281

Scope and Contents Contents: Three little babes -- The Jamestown Flood -- The Milwaukee Fire -- The blind child -- Bring back my wandering boy -- Poor babes in the woods -- Only a dream -- Tale of a winter's night -- Johnny Sands -- The baggage coach ahead -- It was a lady's daughter -- The dying girl -- Lilly Dale -- The gambler's wife -- Johnny Randall -- Tilly -- A package of old letters -- Bring my harp to me again -- Two little boys -- Let the dead and the beautiful rest -- Are we forgotten when we are...

Dates: 1908-1953

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 281, Louise Pound folklore collection

Folklore--Going West

File — Box: 1, Folder: 9

Identifier: MSS 281

Scope and Contents

Contents: Betsy from Pike -- The dreary Black Hills -- The little old sod shanty on the claim -- In the summer of Sixty -- Wait for the wagon -- Gypsey Davy -- Dakota land -- Cheyenne boys -- Starving to death on a govn't claim -- Joe Bowers -- Out West -- Jennie Wiley.

Dates: 1908-1953

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 281, Louise Pound folklore collection

Folklore--Home

File — Box: 1, Folder: 10

Identifier: MSS 281

Scope and Contents Contents: My mountain home -- The old arm chair -- Dreaming of home -- The old wooden rocker -- Grandfather's clock -- Since my mother's dead and gone -- The old kitchen floor -- The sheriff's sale -- Shadows on the wall -- Welcome beautiful Christmas Day -- The wandering refugee -- Mother come, here's a home in the wainting West -- The dear old fireside -- Old England -- Be kind to the loved ones at home -- The vacant chair -- Sing me a song of the South -- My own native land -- Some day...

Dates: 1908-1953

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 281, Louise Pound folklore collection

Folklore--Humor and fun

File — Box: 1, Folder: 11

Identifier: MSS 281

Scope and Contents Contents: She's the Queen of the Tonga Islands -- My bonnie lies over the ocean -- Sing a song of sixpence -- Girls get a home of your own -- The Never Even's Sang -- Bob Ingersoll -- The man that wouldn't hoe corn -- Little brown jug -- Skip to Maloo -- My brother -- I bought a wife the tenth of June -- Coo Coo -- Shew Li -- I went down town -- Old Rosin the beau -- Oh babe, my home is on the bayou -- Just kiss yourself goodby -- Nelly Bly -- Song and rhymes -- The squirrel is a handsome...

Dates: 1908-1953

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 281, Louise Pound folklore collection

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Ellis Schuman collection on Mildred Dilling, Harpo Marx and Marie Ludwig, 1970-2005

Examinations and term papers

Folklore--Adages

Folklore--Collection of ballads

Folklore--Cowboys and outlaws

Folklore--Criminal and jailhouse songs

Folklore--Death, sorrow and tragedy

Folklore--Going West

Folklore--Home

Folklore--Humor and fun

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