Biographical Note
Stith Thompson, 1885-1976, was an American folklorist and the compiler of the Motif-Index of Folk Literature (published 1935, revised 1957). He was a professor of English and Folklore at Indiana University and was instrumental, along with his colleague Richard Dorson, in Folkore becoming an academic department at Indiana University.
Thompson was born in Bloomfield, Kentucky. He attended Butler University in Indianapolis before receiving his BA from the University of Wisconsin in 1909. He received his master's in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1912 and his doctorate from Harvard. He joined the IU faculty in 1921.
Beginning in 1942, Thompson organized summer Folklore Institutes at Indiana University which lasted beyond his retirement from tenure in 1955. In 1962, a permanent Institute of Folklore was established at Bloomington with Richard Dorson as administrator.
Scope and Content Note
Collection consists of the papers of Stith Thompson, 1885-1976, including correspondence; writings by Thompson; biographical and autobiographical materials such as travel files and diaries; materials relating to professional societies and conferences to which he belonged and attended; and family genealogies on which he worked over the years.
Manuscripts index in the Lilly Library includes entries at the item level.
Arrangement/Organization
Collection is organized in seven series: I. Correspondence, II. Writings, III. Biographical Materials, IV. Societies and Conferences, V. Genealogies, VI. Printed Materials, and VII Additions.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions:
This collection is open for research.
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Indexed Terms
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Persons
- Beauchamp family.
- Lincoln family.
- McCloskey family.
- Mitchell family.
- Pipes family.
- Shipley family.
- Thompson family.
- Thompson, Stith, 1885- --Correspondence.
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Corporate Bodies
- Indiana University
- Indiana University. Folklore Institute
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Subjects
- Folklore
- Folklorists --Correspondence.
- Indiana University
- Indiana University -- Faculty
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
[Item], Thompson, S. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Acquisition Information
Gift. 1972, 1977, 2003.
Collection Inventory
Series:
Correspondence , 1913-1972
Scope and Contents: The Correspondence series is arranged chronologically as well as alphabetically.
box 1
Chronological , 1913-1972
box 2
Albrect, William, , 1957-1963
box 2
Allen, Robert E. B., , 1943-1944
box 2
Altrocchi, Rudolph, , 1919-1939
box 2
Amades, Sr. Joan, , 1953-1959
box 2
Anderson, Walter, , 1929-1962
box 2
Andersson, Otto, , 1950-1968
box 2
Arlt, Gustave A., , 1935-1941
box 2
Aronco, Gianfranco d', , 1950-1968
box 2
Balys, Joans, , 1946-1956
box 2
Barua, B. K., , 1948-1953
box 2
Baughman, Ernest W., , 1948-1968
box 2
Bayard, Samuel P., , 1948-1957
box 2
Beatty, Arthur, , 1911-1947
box 2
Beckwith, Martha, , 1928-1955
box 2
Berze Nagy, Janos, , 1961
box 2
Boberg, Inger, , 1945-1960
box 2
Bodker, Laurits, , 1946-1960
box 2
Boggs, Ralph S., , 1927-1955
box 2
Boratav, Pertev N., , 1948-1952
box 2
Botkin, B. A., , 1929-1938
box 2
Bowen, Ray P., , 1921-1941
box 2
Brewer, J. Mason, , 1936-1949
box 2
Brewster, Paul G., , 1935-1951
box 2
Briggs, Katharine, , 1959
box 2
Brown, A. C. L., , 1917-1945
box 2
Campbell, Ake, , 1936-1950
box 2
Campbell, John Lorne, , 1947-1968
box 2
Campbell, Marie Alice, , 1952-1968
box 2
Carter, H. H., , 1924-1940
box 2
Cascudo, Luis da Camara, , 1942-1956
box 2
Chase, Richard, , 1938-1945
box 2
Christiansen, Reidar Th., , 1927-1958
box 2
Clarke, Kenneth, , 1956-1965
box 2
Claudel, Alice, , 1942-1959
box 2
Coffin, Tristram, , 1930-1953
box 2
Cortazar, Augusto Raúl, , 1941-1968
box 2
Creighton, Helen, , 1937-1959
box 2
Cross, Tom Peete, , 1934-1952
box 2
Crowell, Robert L., , 1944-1948
box 2
Davidson, Levette, , 1938-1954
box 2
Davis, Harold, , 1939-1945
box 2
Dawkins, Richard M., , 1947-1954
box 2
Delarue, Paul, , 1945-1957
box 2
Dobie, J. Frank, , 1951-1954
box 2
Dorson, Richard, , 1944-1966
box 2
DuPouy, Walter, , 1947-1953
box 2
Dundes, Alan, , 1964-1965
box 3
Eberhard, Wolfram, , 1949-1961
box 3
Eliason, Norman E., , 1937-1945
box 3
Ellis, Milton, , 1917-1942
box 3
Elwin, Verrier, , 1949-1959
box 3
Emeneau, Murray B., , 1939-1961
box 3
Emrich, Duncan, , 1946-1951
box 3
Erixon, Sigurd, , 1937-1959
box 3
Eskeröd, Albert, , 1953-1954
box 3
Espinosa, Aurelio, , 1933-1959
box 3
Fansler, Dean S., , 1930-1952
box 3
Fenton, William N., , 1960-1963
box 3
Fife, Austin, , 1942-1958
box 3
Flowers, Helen L., , 1948-1955
box 3
Frick, Constance, , 1939-1943
box 3
Friederich, Werner P., , 1945-1958
box 3
Fulbright Act , 1948-1953
box 3
Gardner, Emelyn E., , 1934-1942
box 3
Gassner, John, , 1941-1953
box 3
Gaster, Theodor H., , 1946-1953
box 3
Gayton, Ann H., , 1935-1950
box 3
Gerould, Gordon H., , 1935-1947
box 3
Gillmor, Frances, , 1943-1967
box 3
Goodwyn, Frank, , 1943-1951
box 3
Gorrell, Robert M., , 1948-1958
box 3
Grafenauer, Ivan, , 1958-1959
box 3
Graham, D. C., , 1951-1961
box 3
Grebanier, Bernard D. N., , 1938-1942
box 3
Greenway, John, , 1953-1957
box 3
Greever, Garland, , 1916-1936
box 3
Haavio, Martii, , 1950-1957
box 3
Halpert, Herbert, , 1939-1955
box 3
Hammerich, L. L., , 1949-1958
box 3
Hand, Wayland D., , 1941-1971
box 3
Harris, Robert E. G., , 1926-1959
box 3
Hassell, J. W., Jr., , 1941-1961
box 3
Haywood, Charles, , 1948-1952
box 3
Heilfurth, Gerhard, , 1970
box 3
Henssen, Gottfried, , 1938-1946
box 3
Herskovits, Melville J., , 1935-1945
box 3
Herzog, George, , 1935-1955
box 3
Hinton, James, , 1923-1925
box 3
Howe, Will D., , 1928-1946
box 3
Hustvedt, Sigurd B., , 1928-1936
box 3
Ikeda, Hiroko, , 1950-1967
box 3
Irwin, Constance H.,
General: (see Frick, Constance)
box 3
Jackson, George Pullen, , 1945-1947
box 3
Jackson, Kenneth, , 1938-1946
box 3
Jacobs, Melville, , 1961-1962
box 3
Jagendorf, Moritz, , 1949-1953
box 3
Jakobson, Roman and Svatava, , 1948-1950
box 3
James, Thelma, , 1929-1953
box 3
Jansen, William H., , 1941-1959
box 3
Jente, Richard, , 1931-1946
box 3
Johnson, Aili K., , 1946-1958
box 3
Jones, Louis C., , 1943-1954
box 4
Kamen-Kaye, Dorothy, , 1949-1954
box 4
Karpeles, Maud, , 1950-1956
box 4
Keller, John E., , 1946-1963
box 4
Kiefer, Emma E., , 1937-1938
box 4
Kirkland, Edwin C., , 1933-1958
box 4
Kirtley, Bacil, , 1953-1959
box 4
Klipple, May A., , 1934-1955
box 4
Knopf, Alfred A., , 1953-1956
box 4
Köngäs, E. K., , 1958-1961
box 4
Krader, Barbara, , 1950-1968
box 4
Kroeber, A. L., , 1941-1959
box 4
Krohn, Väinö, , 1925-1937
box 4
Lacourciére, Luc, , 1946-1958
box 4
Laird, Charlton G., , 1943-1956
box 4
Lange, Francisco Curt, , 1948-1953
box 4
Laytano, Dante de, , 1944-1958
box 4
Leach, MacEdward, , 1943-1962
box 4
Lessa, William, , 1952-1963
box 4
Levin, Isidor, , 1965-1967
box 4
Lewis, Elaine, , 1934-1946
box 4
Leyen, Friedrich von der, , 1952
box 4
Liljeblad, Sven, , 1936-1971
box 4
Lillard, Richard, , 1947-1958
box 4
Lindgren, E. J., , 1937-1958
box 4
Liscano, Juan, , 1947-1948
box 4
Liungman, Waldemar, , 1951-1954
box 4
Lo Nigro, Sebastian, , 1957-1959
box 4
Loorits, Oskar, , 1945-1953
box 4
Lord, Albert B., , 1950-1954
box 4
Luomala, Katharine, , 1936-1959
box 4
McDermott, John Francis, , 1953-1957
box 4
McIntosh, Angus, , 1949-1956
box 4
McKay, J. G., , 1936-1940
box 4
McKinlay, Arthur, , 1937-1953
box 4
Malone, Kempe, , 1932-1933
box 4
Marie Ursule, Sister, , 1949-1950
box 4
Marjerrison, Mary, , 1927-1935
box 4
Marshall, Alexander H., , 1943-1953
box 4
Maticetov, Milko, , 1959-1961
box 4
Maurer, David W., , 1939-1945
box 4
Mayer, Fannie Hagin, , 1952-1955
box 4
Megas, Georgios, , 1957-1971
box 4
Melo, Verisimmo de, , 1948-1955
box 4
Mendoza, Virginia de, , 1941-1955
box 4
Meyer, Robert T., , 1945-1954
box 4
Meyncke, Gretchen D., , 1938
box 4
Millican, C. E., , 1926-1938
box 4
Mitcham, Mildred, , 1947-1953
box 4
Mitchell, Ruth, , 1944-1960
box 4
Moder, Frances, , 1925-1926
box 4
Montgomery, Margaret, , 1935-1953
box 4
Morris, Alton C., , 1936-1946
box 4
Musick, Ruth Ann, , 1945-1967
box 4
Newman, Soledad, , 1959-1961
General: (see also Perez)
box 4
Niles, John Jacob, , 1939-1948
box 4
Nipp, Francis S., , 1939-1943
box 4
Nostrand, Howard L., , 1965
box 4
Noyes, Russell, , 1929-1950
box 4
O'Duilearga, Séamus, , 1935-1959
box 4
Olivares, Figueroa R., , 1948-1952
box 4
Orrick, Allan H., , 1958-1966
box 4
Ortutay, Gyula, , 1945-1947
box 4
O'Suilleabhain, Sean, , 1937-1964
box 4
Owens, Alice Bess, , 1939-1942
box 4
Pasquali, P. S., , 1937-1939
box 4
Patton, Edwina, , 1934-1938
box 4
Pawlowska, Harriet, , 1941-1946
box 4
Payne, Fernandus, , 1937-1945
box 4
Payne, L. W., , 1923-1929
box 4
Pearce, T. M., , 1944-1958
box 4
Penzer, N. M., , 1930-1952
box 4
Pereira Salas, Eugenio, , 1945-1951
box 4
Pfaender, Lucile, , 1932-1935
box 4
Pinckney, Sarah, , 1948-1953
box 4
Pino Saavedra, Yolando, , 1947-1962
box 4
Pires de Lima, F., , 1959-1965
box 4
Pound, Louise, , 1926-1940
box 4
Rael, Juan B., , 1930-1957
box 4
Randolph, Vance, , 1952-1956
box 5
Reinhard, J. R., , 1930-1942
box 5
Richmond, Edson, , 1949-1957
box 5
Ridenour, Harry, , 1937-1957
box 5
Roberts, Elizabeth, , 1932-1956
box 5
Roberts, Leonard, , 1949-1955
box 5
Roberts, Warren, , 1948-1960
box 5
Robinson, F. N., , 1933-1955
box 5
Röhrich, Lutz, , 1956-1960
box 5
Rose, Harold, , 1934-1935
box 5
Rotunda, D. P., , 1936-1948
box 5
Ruben, Walter, , 1946-1947
box 5
Sanderson, S., , 1953-1956
box 5
Sapir, Edward, , 1929-1937
box 5
Sarton, George, , 1947-1950
box 5
Sayers, Frances Clarke, , 1937-1942
box 5
Schacht, P. L., , 1927-1940
box 5
Schlauch, Margaret, , 1932-1944
box 5
Schwartzbaum, Haim, , 1952-1958
box 5
Sebeok, T. A., , 1949-1954
box 5
Seeger, Charles, , 1946-1951
box 5
Sen, Gopi Nath, , 1949-1952
box 5
Simpson, Helen Hartikka, , 1950-1956
box 5
Spargo, John W., , 1927-1946
box 5
Spivey, Herman E., , 1948-1951
box 5
Stegemeier, Henri, , 1948-1951
box 5
Stutsman, Grace M., , 1951-1952
box 5
Swahn, D. J., , 1956-1958
box 5
Sydow, Wilhelm von, , 1929-1947
box 5
Sweeny, Margaret, , 1934-1948
box 5
Tanner, William M., , 1917-1918
box 5
Tatlock, J. S. P., , 1943
box 5
Taylor, Archer, , 1916-1970
Physical Description: (5 folders)
box 5
Thomas, Nora, , 1930-1935
box 5
Thompson, Harold W., , 1932-1954
box 5
Thompson, Kate A., , 1923-1941
box 5
Thompson, William L., , 1916-1951
box 5
Tillhagen, C. H., , 1946-1952
box 5
Toschi, Paolo, , 1950-1959
box 5
Tower, Roy A., , 1943-1953
box 5
Tyler, George, , 1932-1935
box 5
U. S. Information Agency , 1954-1955
box 5
Upadhyaya, H. S., , 1968-1969
box 5
Upadhyaya, K. D., , 1954-1966
box 5
Utley, Francis Lee, , 1939-1971
box 5
Valente, Phyllis P., , 1952-1955
box 5
Van Gennep, Arnold, , 1938
box 5
Varagnac, Andre, , 1947-1950
box 5
Vega, Carlos, , 1953-1958
box 5
Voegelin, Carl, , 1931-1955
box 5
Vries, Jane de, , 1927-1953
box 5
Wallace, Roy, , 1937-1942
box 5
Wallis, Wilaon, , 1943-1958
box 5
Wang, Arthur, , 1944-1952
box 5
Warren, Charles, , 1949-1950
box 5
Warren, Robert Penn, , 1950
box 5
Waterman, Richard A., , 1948-1950
box 5
Wells, Herman B, , 1938-1968
box 5
Weltfish, Gene, , 1937-1940
box 5
Wenner-Gren Foundation , 1954
box 5
Wesselksi, Albert, , 1931-1939
box 5
White, Newman I., , 1943-1948
box 5
Wikelund, Phil, , 1952-1955
box 5
Wildhaber, Robert, , 1957-1968
box 5
Wilson, George P., , 1944-1950
box 5
Wilson, Gordon, , 1929-1950
box 5
Winger, Bjorn, , 1928-1937
box 5
Winther, O. O., , 1945-1950
box 5
Work, James A., , 1951-1953
box 5
Wright, Louis B., , 1946-1958
box 5
Wycoco-Moore, R., , 1950-1957
box 5
Young, Clarence, , 1937-1941
box 5
Zucker, A. E., , 1938-1944
box 6
British Poets of the Nineteenth Century
General: Publicity and reviews
box 6
English Literature and its Backgrounds
General: Publicity and reviews
box 6
Folklorist's Progress
General: Text; publicity and reviews
General: See also Oversize for bound copy
box 6
The Folktale
General: Production materials; publicity and reviews
box 6
Four Symposia on Folklore
General: Publicity and reviews
box 6
Motif-Index of Folk-literature
General: Corrections; publicity and reviews
box 6
The New Handbook of English
General: Publicity and reviews
box 6
One Hundred Favorite Folktales
General: Publicity and reviews
box 6
Our Heritage of World Literature
General: Revision; production materials; publicity and reviews
box 6
The Pentamerone of Basile
General: Publicity and reviews
box 6
Regional American folklore , 1944-1950
General: Correspondence, 1944-1950
box 6
Tales of North American Indians
General: Publicity and reviews
box 6
The Types of the Folktale (FFC 184) , 1959-1971
General: Revision; correspondence 1959-1971
box 6
Folklore
General: (New Catholic Encyclopedia)
box 6
Folktale Typology and the Pacific Area
box 6
Greeting to Indiana Folklore
box 6
Hypothetical Forms in Folktale Study
box 6
Mythology
General: (Grolier Society)
box 6
Mythology
General: (Oxford Encyclopedia)
box 6
La Organinazion Internacional de Investigaciones Folkloricas
box 6
Variety in American Folk Tradition
box 6
Colloquium on the folktale
box 6
English department in the twenties
box 6
Folklore of the Americas: An opportunity and a challenge
box 6
The modern study of the folktale
box 6
South American tour
General: (10 lectures)
box 6
Story-telling to story-writing
box 6
Varying strains of American folklore
box 6
Announcements , 1939-1969
Subseries:
Writings by Others
box 6
Studies in folklore in honor of distinguished service
General: Professor Stith Thompson
Publicity and Reviews
box 6
Publicity and reviews, miscellaneous
Series:
Biographical Materials
box 7
Vitae, research reports, bibliographies
box 7
Commencement programs
General: (Grad school--graduate; honorary degrees)
box 7
Memorial services programs
box 7
Appointment papers , (1912-1968)
box 7
Certificates and citations
box 7
70th birthday celebration
box 7
Articles about S. Thompson
box 7
Correspondence , 1913-1965
box 7
Scandinavia , 1951-1952
General: See also Oversize
box 7
Iceland, Denmark, Holland , 1955
box 7
South America , 1960-1961
box 7
Belgium, Holland, France, Italy , 1962
box 7
Friends of Stith Thompson
ovflat 21
Awards and portrait of Archer Taylor
Series:
Societies and Conferences
box 7
American Folklore Society
box 7
American Philosophical Society
box 7
Comissao Nacional de Folclore
box 7
Commission Internationale des Artes et Traditions Populaires (C.I.A.P.)
box 7
Instituto Nacional de Antropologia
box 7
International Society for Folk Narrative Research
box 8
MLA Committee on Folktales
box 8
New Mexico Folklore Society
box 8
Societe Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore
General: (Successor to C.I.A.P.)
box 8
All India folk-culture conference
box 8
American scientific congress
box 8
American-Yugoslav folklore seminar
box 8
Asian folklore conference
box 8
Commission Internationale des Artes et Traditions Populaires
box 8
Conference on the character and state of studies in folklore
box 8
Congress for science of folktales
box 8
Congress of the international comparative literature association
box 8
Congresso Brasileiro de folclore
box 8
Deutscher volkskunde-kongress
box 8
European conference on folklore
box 8
Folklore and fiction in the far west
box 8
International congress for European ethnology
box 8
International congress of anthropological and ethnological sciences
box 8
International congress of ethnography
box 8
International congress of folklore
box 8
International folk music conference
box 8
International Musicological Society
box 8
International Society for Folk Narrative Research
box 8
Internationales kongress der volkserzahlungsforschen
box 8
Kentucky Folklore Society
box 8
Minority groups in the far west--their music and folklore
box 8
Nebraska Folklore Society
box 8
Nordiske folkelivs -og folkeminneforskarmote
box 8
Pacific science conference
box 8
Societe Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore
box 8
Summer conference on Latin American folklore
box 8
Western folklore conference
box 8
World congress of Jewish studies
box 8
Subseries:
Folk Festivals
box 8
Folklore programs other than IU
box 9
folder 3
Beauchamps in England , before 1630
box 9
folder 4
Costin Beauchamp, his brothers and descendants.
box 9
folder 5
Edmund Beauchamp of Maryland and descendants to Costin
box 9
folder 6
for possible additions to Beauchamp genealogy
box 9
folder 9
Correspondence, n.d. , 1927-1971
box 9
folder 15
Some McCloskey family records
box 9
folder 16
Correspondence, n.d. , 1924-1970
box 9
folder 17-18
Notes and documents
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 9
folder 21
Correspondence , 1950-1971
box 9
folder 22
The Descendants of John Pipes, Jr.
box 9
folder 24
Correspondence , 1933-1971
box 9
folder 25
Shipley and Mitchell families--miscellaneous notes
box 9
folder 25
Shipley, Mitchell, and Thompson families
box 9
folder 30
Thompson family
General: (James, John, Stephen, Stith, Virginia)
box 9
folder 32-33
John Thompson, b. 1775
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 9
folder 35
Stephen Thompson, d. 1836
box 9
folder 36
Correspondence , 1923-1972
box 9
folder 38
Faust, Noble, Lacy, and Ross families
box 9
folder 39
Misc. Washington, Co., and Nelson Co., Kentucky
Series:
Printed Materials , 1911-1969
box 10
folder 1
Pater's Theory of Style. California Occident 61, no. 4 : 40-48. , (December 1911)
box 10
folder 2
The Value of the Ideal of Social Reconstruction Set Forth in Tolstoy's What Shall We Do Then? The Truxton Beale Prize Essays on Tolstoy's 'What Shall We Do Then?' Berkeley: University of California Press, : 123-176. , 1912
General: (Inscribed: "To the folks at home. With love, Stith.")
box 10
folder 3
The Prehistoric Development of Satire. Publications of the Folk-lore Society of Texas No. 1 : 78-95. , (1916)
General: Edited by Thompson
box 10
folder 3
The Notebook System of Theme Correcting. The English Bulletin No. 4 : 17-22. , (December 1917)
General: (Part of University of Texas Bulletin no. 1767, Dec. 1, 1917)
box 10
folder 3
Sunday School Stories Among Savages. The Texas Review 3, no. 2 : 109-116. , (January 1918)
box 10
folder 4
European Tales among the North American Indians: A Study in the Migration of Folk-Tales. Colorado College Publication No. 34 , (April-May 1919)
box 10
folder 4
The Indian Legend of Hiawatha. Reprinted from The Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 37, no. 1 , (1922)
box 10
folder 4
The Best Books about the Ballad. The English Bulletin No. 10 (University of Texas Bulletin no. 2245, : 5-7). , December 1, 1922
box 10
folder 4
Review of Volksverhalen Uit Oost-Indië (Sprookjes en Fabels) by Jan de Vries. Journal of American Folklore : 79-81. , (1929)
General: (Personal copy)
box 10
folder 4
Program for the Premiere of Heloise and Abelard performed in Alumni Hall (Indiana University). , May 22, 1934, (January-March 1935)
General: Poem by Stith Thompson on verso of cover.
box 10
folder 4
Review of The Heart of the Skyloo by Ottis B. Sperlin. Indiana University Alumni Quarterly 22, no. 2 : 197. , (Spring 1935)
box 10
folder 5
Folktale Congress in Sweden. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 49, no. 191-192 , (January-June 1936)
box 10
folder 5
Personal Notes on a Folktale Congress. Indiana University Alumni Quarterly 23, no. 1 : 1-17. , (Winter 1936)
box 10
folder 5
Review of Three Lectures on Chinese Folklore by R. D. Jameson. , (March 1936)
box 10
folder 5
Review of The Sun God Moccasin Tales by Albert B. Reagan Indiana University Alumni Quarterly 23, no. 3 : 349-350. , (Summer 1936)
box 10
folder 5
Congress for the Study of the Folk-Tale at Lund. Reprinted from American Anthropologist 38, no. 4 : 687. , (October-December 1936)
box 10
folder 5
Review of Volkssagenforschung: Vorträge un Aufsätze by Friedrich Ranke. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 50, no. 195 , (January-March 1937)
box 10
folder 5
Review of Zuni Mythology by Ruth Benedict. Reprinted from American Anthropologist 39, no. 2 : 337-338. , (April-June 1937)
box 10
folder 6
American Folklore after Fifty Years. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 51, no. 199 : 1-9. , (January-March 1938)
box 10
folder 6
Folklore News. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 51, no. 199 : 95-99. , (January-March 1938)
box 10
folder 6
Folklore News. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 52, no. 203, pg. 117.
box 10
folder 6
Folktale Collecting in Ireland. Southern Folklore Quarterly 2, no. 2 : 53-58. , (June 1938)
box 10
folder 6
The International Organization of Folklore. Reprinted from Southern Folklore Quarterly 2, no. 4 : 195-198. , (1938)
box 10
folder 6
Review of Manuel de Folklore Francais Contemporain by Arnold Van Gennep. Reprinted from Journal of American Folklore , (1939)
General: (2 copies)
box 10
folder 6
Folklore and Literature. Reprinted from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 55, no. 3 : 866-874. , (September 1940)
box 10
folder 6
Review of Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folklore Society by H. M. Belden (Ed.). Reprinted from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology 40, no. 4 , (October 1941)
box 10
folder 6
Folklore of the Americas: An Opportunity and a Challenge. Proceedings of the Eighth American Scientific Congress , (1941)
box 10
folder 6
Review of Svenska Sagor och Sägner by Kungl. Gaestav Adolfs Akademien. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 52, no. 204 , (1941)
box 10
folder 6
Some Recent Publications from Argentina. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 54 : 86. , (1941)
General: (2 copies)
box 10
folder 6
Review of European Balladry by William J. Entwistle. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore : 207-208. , (1941)
box 10
folder 6
The Miller's Tale. Reprinted from Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' Edited by W. F. Bryan & Germaine Dempster. University of Chicago Press, : 106-123. , 1941
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folder 6
Galley sheets of Shipley's Encyclopedia Folktale , Folklore , Mythology , Historical-Geographical Method , 1942
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folder 6
Review of The Dance of Death in Folksong by Henri Stegemeier. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore , (1943)
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folder 7
Women Students in War Time. The Eleusis of Chi Omega 47, no. 2 : 273-275. , (May 1945)
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folder 7
Folklore and Minnesota History. Reprinted from Minnesota History : 97-105. , (June 1945)
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folder 7
The Scholar in a New World. The Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta 69, no. 2 , (February 1946)
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and Tabor, Edward O. Paul Bunyan in 1910. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore : 134. , (April-June 1946)
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Review of Folktale, Fiction, and Saga in the Homeric Epics by Rhys Carpenter. Reprinted from Western Folklore :313-314. , (1948)
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folder 7
Folklore in South America. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore : 256-260. , (July-September 1948)
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folder 7
John Avery Lomax (1867-1948). Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore : 305-306. , (July-September 1948)
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folder 7
Folklore--Classification and then what? Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore : 423. , (October-December 1949)
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folder 7
The Future of Folklore Research in the United States. Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 93, no. 3 : 244-247. , (1949)
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folder 8
Review of A Harvest of World Folktales Edited by Milton Rugoff. Reprinted from Folklore and Folklorists : 181. , (April 1950)
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folder 8
Folklore Conferences at Indiana University. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore : 459. , (October-December 1950)
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folder 8
Story-writers and Story-tellers. Reprinted from Philologica: The Malone Anniversary Studies : 228-234. , (1950)
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folder 8
Folklore at Mid-century. Reprinted from Midwest Folklore : 5-12. , (1950)
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folder 8
Review of Ritual Magic by E. M. Butler. Clip sheet from Modern Language Quarterly 12, no. 3 : 361. , (September 1951)
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folder 8
Review of Thespis: Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East by Theodore H. Gaster. Reprinted from the American Journal of Archaelogy 55, no. 4 :412. , (October 1951)
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folder 8
Review of A Bibliography of North American Folklore and Folksong by Charles Haywood. Reprinted from American Anthropologist 53, no. 4 : 553-554. , (October-December 1951)
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folder 8
Review of Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain by Seumas MacManus. Reprinted from Western Folklore , (October 1951)
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folder 8
Review of English Riddles from Oral Tradition by Archer Taylor. Reprinted from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology 51, no. 2 : 242-244. , (April 1952)
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folder 8
Folktales and Legends Reprinted from The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore Vol. 1 , 1952
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folder 8
Folklore and Folk Festivals. Reprinted from Midwest Folklore 4, no. 1 (n.d.): 6-12.
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folder 8
Review of Poison-Damsels and other Essays in Folklore and Anthropology by N. M. Penzer. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 66, no. 261 : 275. , (July-September 1953)
box 10
folder 8
Advances in Folklore Studies. Reprinted from Kroeber, (ed.) Anthropology Today. University of Chicago Press, : 587-596. , 1953
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folder 8
The Beauchamp Family. Reprinted from The Filson Club History Quarterly 28, no. 2 : 1-39. , (April 1954)
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folder 8
Review of The Oldest Stories in the World by Theodor H. Gaster. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 67, no. 264 : 225-226. , (April-June 1954)
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folder 8
Review of American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway. A. H. R. (?) , (1954)
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folder 8
Review of Folktales from Korea by Zong In-Sob, Modern Greek Folktales by R. M. Dawkins, and African Folktales and Sculpture by Paul Radin and James Johnson Sweeney. Reprinted from Southern Folklore Quarterly 18, no. 3 : 194-197. , (September 1954)
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folder 9
The Indian Legends since 'Hiawatha.' Michigan History 39, no. 4 : 462-463. , (December 1955)
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folder 9
Sigurd B. Hustvedt, 1882-1954. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore :200. , (1955)
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folder 9
Myths and Folktales. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore : 482-488. , (1955)
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folder 9
Recollections of an Itinerant Folklorist. Address to the Texas Folklore Society , May 20, 1956
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folder 9
Review of The Micmac Indians of Eastern Canada by Wilson D. Wallis and Ruth Sawtell Wallis. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 69, no. 274 : 398. , (October-December 1956)
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folder 9
Can Religion Surmount Folklore? The Christian Unitarian Register 136, no. 1 : 10. , (January-February 1957)
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folder 9
The Study of Primitive Storytelling: Its Present Status and Future Directions. Reprinted from Folk-Liv , (1957-1958)
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folder 9
Comparative Problems in Oral Literature. Reprinted from the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature No. 7, Chapel Hill, North Carolina , 1958
box 10
folder 9
Prepared Comments for the Journal of American Folklore 72, no. 285 : 232. , (July-September 1959)
box 10
folder 10
Review of Legend Builders of the West by Arthur M. Young. Galley sheet from the Classical Journal 55, no. 4 : 192. , (January 1960)
box 10
folder 10
The Historian and the Genealogist. The Filson Club History Quarterly 34, no. 2 : 160-165. , (April 1960)
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folder 10
Review of The Anatomy of Puck: An Examination of Fairy Beliefs among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors by Katharine M. Briggs. Reprinted from Shakespeare Quarterly 11, no. 3 : 367. , (Summer 1960)
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folder 10
1930: A National Survey of Freshman English. College English 22, no. 2 : 78-80. , (November 1960)
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folder 10
The Significance of Near Eastern Folklore. Reprinted from Biblical and Jewish Folklore , (1960)
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folder 10
Fifty Years of Folktale Indexing. Reprinted from Humaniora: Essays in Literature, Folklore, Bibliography : 49-57. , (1960)
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folder 11
Review of Cuentos Folkloricos de la Argentina. Journal of American Folklore 74, no. 292 : 173-174. , (April-June 1961)
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folder 11
Folklore Trends in Scandinavia. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore : 313-320. , (1961)
box 10
folder 11
Review of German Folktales Collected and edited by the Grimm Brothers. Reprinted from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology : 116. , (January 1962)
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folder 11
Correspondence Journal of American Folklore 76, no. 300 : 182. , (April-June 1963)
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folder 11
Review of Volksmärchen und Volkssage: Zwei Grunelformen Erzählender Dichtung by Von Max Lüthi. Reprinted from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology 62, no. 4 : 889-890. , (October 1963)
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folder 11
Review of Dancas do Norte e do Sul by Zärde Maciel de Castro. Reprinted from Western Folklore 23, no. 1 : 59. , (January 1964)
box 10
folder 11
American Folk Tradition. The Review (Indiana University Bulletin) 6, no. 2 : 1-15. , (February 1964)
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folder 11
Review of Die Volkserzählung: Märchen, Sage, Legende, Schwash. by Von Leopold Schmidt. Reprinted from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology 63, no. 3:595-596. , (July 1964)
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folder 11
The Challenge of Folklore. Reprinted from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 79, no. 4, part 1 : 357-365. , (September 1964)
box 10
folder 12
Folktale Typology and the Pacific Area. Reprint from Folklore Studies in Honor of Arthur Palmer Hudson. Chapel Hill, : 11-18. , 1965
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folder 12
Obituary of J. Frank Dobie, 1888-1964. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore , (1965)
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folder 12
A Humanist's Creed. Unitarian Universalist Church Sermon Series , (February 1966)
box 10
folder 12
American Folk Tradition. In Folklore ed. by Charles D. Blaney. Indiana Council of Teachers of English , 1966
box 10
folder 12
An Office Boy Remembers 1902. The Indiana University Bookman No. 8 : 7-9. , (March 1967)
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folder 12
Review of Das Märchen. Sein ort in der Geistigen Entwicklung by Von Hedwig von Beit. Reprinted from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology 66, no. 1 : 107-108. , (January 1967)
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folder 13
On MacEdward Leach, 1892-1967. Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore 81, no. 320:119. , (April-June 1968)
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folder 13
Personal (photo) copy of Reminiscences of an Octogenerian Folklorist by Hari S. Upadhyaya. Reprinted from Asian Folklore Studies 27, no. 2 , (1968)
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folder 13
Review of Formen der 'Volkspoesie' by Von Hermann Bausinger. Reprinted from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology 68, no. 2 : 373. , (March 1969)
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folder 14
Analogues and Borrowings in North and South American Indian Tales. Languages and Cultures of Western North America: Essays in Honor of Sven S. Liljeblad Idaho: Idaho State University Press, : 277-288. , 1970
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folder 14
Unfinished Business: The Folktale. Reprinted from Medieval Literature and Folklore : 213-221. , (1970)
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Foreword. Indiana Folklore 4, no. 1 : 1-2. , (1971)
Subseries:
Foreign Publications , (1934-1969)
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Handwörterbuch des deutschen Märchens , 1934
General: (2 copies)
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Fassung (Variante). Handwörterbuch des deutschen Märchens (n.d.)
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folder 16
Gegenspieler. Handwörterbuch des deutschen Märchens (n.d.)
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Purpose and Importance of an Index of Types and Motifs. Folk-Liv No. 1 : 103-108. , (1938)
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Por qué Estudiamos el Folklore? Conferencia 11, no. 6-9 : 84-93. , (June-December 1947)
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Desarrollos Recientes de los Estudios Folklóricos en los Estados Unidos. Revista Venezolana de Folklore 1, no. 2 : 3-12. , (July-December 1947)
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folder 17
El Cuento Folklorico. Separata de la Revista de la Universidad de Buenos Aires 1, no. 2 : 235-272. , (1947)
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La Mitologia. Folklore Americas 11, no. 1 : 1-15. , (June 1951)
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folder 18
The Star Husband Tale. Etrait de Laos II : 7-10. , (1952)
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folder 18
La Leyenda. Folklore Americas 12, no. 1 : 3-11. , (June 1952)
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folder 18
The Star Husband Tale. Studia Septentrionalia 4 : 93-163. , (1953)
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folder 18
Advances in Folklore Studies. Il Tesaur 5, no. 4-6 , (July-December 1953)
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folder 19
Narrative Motif-analysis as a Folklore Method. FF Communications 64, no. 161 : 4-9. , (1955)
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folder 19
Review of Folklore de las Americas by Felix Coluccio. Erasmus 9, no. 1-2 : 43. , (1956)
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folder 19
Overdruk uit Volk skunde ? , 1959
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folder 19
Report on the Revision of the Types of the Folktale. Internationaler Kongreß der Volkserzählungsforscher in Kiel und Kopenhagen. : 428-431. , (1959)
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folder 19
El Metodo de Clasificar y Archivar los Cuentos Folkloricos. Congresso Internacional de Folklore , (1960)
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folder 20
Colloquium on the Folktale. Actas do Congresso Internacional de Etnografia , (1963)
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folder 20
Review of Thompson's work: The Types of the Folktale by J. Van Haver. Leuvense Bijdragen , (1965)
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folder 20
As Metas do Folclore. Separata da Revista Brasileira de Folclore 5, no. 11 : 33-48. , (January-April 1965)
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folder 20
De Wekroep van de Volkskunde. Volkskunde No. 1 : 1-19. , (1966)
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folder 21
Icelandic Parallels among the Northeastern Algonquians: A Reconsideration. Offprint of Nordica et Anglica : 133-139. , (1967)
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folder 21
Planes Preliminares para un Servicio de Folklore en Venezuela. Archivos Venezolanos de Folklore No. 8 , (1967)
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folder 21
Hypothetical Forms in Folktale Study. Volksüberlieferung : 369-372. , (1968)
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folder 21
Story-telling to Story-writing. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association : 433-442. , (1969)
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folder 21
Ting, Nai-Tung. Introducing the Second Revised Edition of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson's 'The Types of the Folktale.' Reprinted from the Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 7, no. 2 , (August 1969)
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Congreso Internacional de Ethnografia, Portugal , July 10-16, 1963
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Unidentified poster in Hebrew
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Stith Thompson lecture at SUNY-Buffalo , Feb. 27, 1969
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Stith Thompson lecture in Colombia, SA , Feb. 13, 1961
Box 15
Scrapbook containing clippings , ca. 1904
box 11
folder 1
Biographical - funeral service program for Stith; photo of 1890 school house and family tombstone, biographies, photograph and information about bust.
box 11
folder 3
Louise to daughters (mostly) , 1933-1935
Physical Description: (photocopies)
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folder 4-6
Stith to Louiseand , 1917, 1918, 1931
Physical Description: (photocopies)
box 11
folder 7-9
Louise to Stith , 1916-1919
Physical Description: (photocopies)
box 11
folder 10
Family , 1917-1920
Physical Description: (photocopies)
box 11
folder 11
Misc. letters to Stith , 1951, 1971-1975
box 11
folder 12
Sympathy cards and letters upon Louise's death , 1974
box 11
folder 13
Sympathy cards and letters upon Stith's death , 1976
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folder 14
Six photographs. Includes several of Stith as young man
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folder 14
Writings.
Scope and Contents: Arranged in chronological order.
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folder 15
The Stith Thompsons on a Folklore Expedition in Europe , 1937
Physical Description: diary by Louise Thompson
box 11
folder 16
South American Journey , 1947
box 11
folder 17-18
A Half Year in Scandinavia by Louise Thompson. , June 1951-Feb. 1952
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 11
folder 19
Iceland, Denmark, Holland: by Stith and Louise Thompson , 1955
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folder 20
Folklorist's Progress by Stith Thompson , 1956
box 11
folder 21
Doing Europe on a Guggenheim , 1956-1957
Physical Description: diary by Louise Thompson
box 11
folder 22
Further Adventures in Europe of the Stith Thompsons , Summer 1959
box 12
folder 1
South America Revisited by the Stith Thompsons , 1960-1961
Physical Description: diary by Louise Thompson
box 12
folder 2
Holland, Belgium, France, Italy by Louise Thompson , 1962
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folder 3
Greece by Louise Thompson , 1964
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folder 4
Second Wind, A Sequel After Ten Years to Folklorist's Progress , April 1966
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folder 5
Six weeks in Europe by Louise Thompson , 1967
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folder 6
Miscellaneous writings.
Scope and Contents: Includes: A Humanist's creed, by Stith Thompson
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folder 6
Guestbooks and scrapbooks
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folder 7
1918
Physical Description: Wedding guestbook
box 12
folder 8-11
1935-1976
Physical Description: scrapbook of clippings, programs, etc. for Stith (disassembled)
box 12
folder 12
1946
Physical Description: scrapbook of Folklore Institute
box 12
folder 13-18
1968
Physical Description: 50th Wedding anniversary, includes scrapbook (disassembled), guestbook, cards and letters, clippings, photographs, book of poems by Sue Letsinger
box 12
folder 19
1974
Physical Description: funeral service guestbook for Louise
box 12
folder 20
1975
Physical Description: scrapbook commemorating Stith's 90th birthday (disassembled)
box 12
folder 22
Postcards (blank), mostly of other countries
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folder 24
Travel brochures, menus, etc.
Box 14
Scrapbook commemorating Stith's 80th birthday , 1965
Box 15
Clippings from foreign newspapers about folklore , 1943-1959
Box 16
Scrapbook of certificates and citations , 1935-1970
Box 13
Scrapbook thanking Stith Thompson, from delegates of the Midcentury Folklore Conference, Bloomington, IN , July 22-Aug. 5, 1950
Box 13
Stith Thompson Memorial Resolution
Box 13
Correspondence, , 1950, 1975, 1984
Box 13
Correspondence on Centenary , 1984-1985
Box 13
Meeting programs , 1950, 1954
Box 13
Encyclopedia Britannica, Folk Literature correspondence and excerpts , 1969