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Papers of a fisheries biologist, author and editor, federal official, and University of Washington professor.

Notebooks of R.H.C. Davis, British medieval historian, which contain handwritten research notes, sketches, photos and ephemera relating to medieval architectural and archaeological sites in the United Kingdom, Europe, North Africa and the Near East, taken throughout his entire career

The Colonel I. Palle papers consist of material generated during the course of the 1895 war in Madagascar. Material includes the field notes of Colonel I. Palle, maps, and correspondence. Subjects and persons mentioned in the documents include General Jacques Charles Rene Achille Duchesne, military field operations, material and food supply for the troops, and the military drive and advance to occupy Tananarive

Collection of papers and audiovisual materials representing the life work of ethnomusicologist Vida Chenoweth. Comprises manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, and films, mainly of her work with the Usarufa and numerous other people in Papua New Guinea, but culture groups from other places are also represented, including Vanuatu, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Kenya, Zaire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon, Senegal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Mali, Cameroon, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, and the United States. Includes work done by her students at Wheaton College and colleagues at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Includes recording logs, analysis, song transcriptions, song texts, theses, correspondence, Chenoweth's diaries (1980s), and field notes. Sound recordings include music and spoken word from various provinces in Papua New Guinea, such as Eastern and Western ...

The collection consists of color slides documenting several farmers' markets; sound cassettes of interviews with farmers and vendors at farmers' markets in Colorado Springs, with one videotape of a vendor; and interviews conducted at farms in or near Pueblo, Colorado City, Fort Collins, Security, Rye, Platteville, and Colorado Springs. Researchers interviewed Italian American family farmers, Mexican migrant workers, women farmers, and others on the subjects of farming, marketing, irrigation, water rights, and family histories. Manuscripts and ephemera in the collection include field notes, recording logs, photograph logs, and administrative files; plus a few recipes, a local seed catalog, a package of seeds, and labels for local food specialities

Collection of field recordings of more than 2500 items, principally Hispanic American music and American Indian music from the southwestern United States, with some recordings of fiddle tunes, cowboy songs, and other popular music. Also includes music from Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela. Recorded by John Donald Robb and others at many locations in New Mexico and elsewhere, 1942-1979. Hispanic folk music includes romances, cuandos, decimas, hymns, canciones, corridos, alabados, religious plays, relaciones, coplas, inditas, trovos, religious decimas, religious ceremonial dances including matachines, pascuolas; church services; folk drama including Los Pastores, poems, recitations, stories, interviews, instrumental music, social dance music, and square dance music. American Indian groups recorded include Arapahoe, Laguna, Navaho, Zuni, Jemez, Taos, Santa Ana, Chiricahua Apache, Mescalero Apache, Comanche, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Chochiti, Kiowa, ...