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Summary Information
Badger State Folklore Society Records 1946-1956
- Badger State Folklore Society
Mss 174
1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of the Badger State Folklore Society, an organization designed to encourage the collection, preservation, and publication of Wisconsin folklore. Included are correspondence, folk tales, and a subject file. The correspondence documents the Society's initial organization and internal operation; discussions about the intended scope and focus of the group; efforts to solicit membership; the problems the Society faced in publishing Badger Folklore; and its attempts to popularize folklore by organizing ethnic exhibits and sponsoring speakers, folk plays, and folk dancing. The folktales are composed of essays on various ethnic customs, local legends, place names, and cemetery inscriptions not only in Wisconsin but throughout the United States. English
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