New York, United States, New York City
· 9 pages
Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FORM A Circumstances of Intervicw STATE New York NAME OF WORKER Wayne Walden ADDRESS 51 Bank St. New York City DATE October 24, 1938 SUBJECT CONVERSATION IN A PARK UNION SQUARE 1. Date and time of interview October 19, 1938 2. Place of interview Union Square, New York City 3. Name and address of informant FOLKLORE NEW YORK Gus, Slim, Noisy, Bronx Looey, Redeye, Mack, Ben and others who were neighter so articulate nor convincing. 4. Name and address of…
United States, New Mexico
· 1936-08-03
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Fallon, Tom, Raines, L.
Pioneer 594 words Raines, L. WETHERELL,'S DEATH Aug. 3, 1936 "This story was published once. I don't know what the name of the magazine was that curried it but I know it was not a true account. I was there when it happened and I also attended court afterward. The story as I tell it is true to the last detail and you can write it as I tell it." This is the introduction that Tom Fallon gave me to this story. He was reared on the of the cattle and old cowboy of the mountain and has taken an…
United States, Las Vegas, New Mexico
· 1938-10-27
· 5 pages
Recorded by: [Lynn?], [Bright?], Gallegos, Mrs. Guadalupe
Bright Lynn Las Vegas, New Mimics Dates October 27, 1936 007 29- 8 Words: 1,620 Subjects Mrs. Guadalupe Gallegos Source of Information: Aire, Guadalupa Gallegos. THZ SIOG&APHI OF GOADoLUPS LOPITA GALLI:00S In the face of Guadalupe Lupita Gallegos is written the story of a long and inter:Dating life a life that has had nor* than its share of heartache:: and happiness. It is a kind, intelligent face and devout. She aresses in unrelievad black. On her head is worn a tight -fitting cap with…
New Mexico, United States
· 1936-10-26
· 2 pages
Recorded by: [Ra Sdale?], Katherine, Jones, Sam
tt. 1-113 -rine 10/L3Pd NOV 2 1936 Is -z t nIit fi. 3 11, _ r r f nac..,tnr a: L.. t b :Ld on O aunday 00 fri,„ "o, •1 wit U. -ri -i-e got hi:. tr,oLL i• .i(3.7! .11 1.0 S o ju.O Liar ••4n, and fot us tl a Mi.. ..r •bie tLio. I her w -fa it r r. •.,y ---'.u.1 Lir j rano '.0. e..r iro 11,A, 8ttnds, soliu of us h0 3 ...At the locided tdow..1 thof uro ccnstructir:, a 01•:;...ind nein itt deviltr;„ c•PL..1 et 1.! .to, atIV r. dr".,..eisu ore fei1I.hrety tad t •t too la 1)rott.," short tire. Tao…
United States, New Mexico
· 1938-11-25
· 1 page
Recorded by: [?], Katherine, Blake, Albery
4atherine .(tig-,; le 11/25/.:)ki c1-2 ,ords. DEC 7 1936 PLACE. R ardRT Bask in the 'good old days' they played tricks on one another the 'balm na peoAe do todLy: When Sunday came, people for Ansa around would go to some one home and a traveling preacher would two to this home and preach, both morning an4 evening services. Ibile at these servisee many tricks were played-i.one in particular happened when Reverend George Gage was preaching: One Sunday night he and one of the cowhands from a…
New Mexico, United States
· 1 page
tik r ym ei rArirait- Ice -di t0403$ ,ISFS 111011t) irlak Add ,iott .1o7 flab' oc),mempot to tramp VDU. hage4 ticura uric= a oost ow* tv.• mem taa "MOJA Alta a, tW'OffretiOni"W"•0/0 aiutin oiler LAM_M. t rtirr(ifear Olt thou WSJ 004 tarlt V*;) Oat? .0 '444111t -44 11..14 It,tqrea if Ao :v..1 a bass aid rod* St, *vim *rib lacanci, 61,11it. A tttAi 4gt. tatad WW1 kirlA X,) -LStrai. L u24it a 43 ity In Imat nide ee thou ritlasiald tsis Ipad lotakiag Nftd efteld tryse it orr aiWt tel. ilko imb07.…
New Mexico, United States
· 1936-11-09
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Clark, Henry
:MEW oN,. 47k 11/U/36 ..1 -LO ,s• Go.1.14; b L. rt fr n ‘.n.i -1.2oir way ,aa p -rents decided to stop in New re.:-ico Jrl P;1,1e Yaqui Joe and his ife nown t ion ry as -ant -a r t Atnna ruarr,eu g) to ..tX1C0 lkanrys i)t..ronts told them that they could t..koy loft -ant, :aarti alma tuoL .onry (a4;os 4) .7ith ;ate,- •fter croaaiu, the Rio Or _n.de they Alt a :Taunt, of Mex- icana an! Indiana going ta the interior of t*t-..ci!o fcr rt_hogany. A i Jo- detAded to r:s.) with the,,i, so aenry, 4…
New Mexico, United States, Carlsbad
· 1936-11-25
· 1 page
Recorded by: Bretz. [Mr.?], Ragsdeal, Katherine
Katherina itagedaal 11/25/36 al -255 wards 1, nec L' r PlOttpli STORY ‘Li 7 kenry Clark, an old timer Wang in Carlsbad, is known and has the ammo of being the owimdlost" man, in New Mexico —he has always been "that way." On. day, while on his way halm an old rancher named *Pap" Zones saw a sea on horse back coming toward him. The horse was running very fast, but as the ridar drew nearer, the pave was satewhat slowed,. Pap"saw it was henry so he called out "Say Henry, get off your horse and…
New Mexico, United States, Questa
· 1936-07-25
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Garcia, Frank V., Raines, Lester
Subjects RAM Lin IN ORSTA S-240 Folk -maps Smbmitted Sys New Vexice Normal University Dr. Lester Raines Informants Frank V. Garcia Original Copy, Not rewritten. Wordage, 600 Dates July 25, l6 Approved* Ina Siser Cassidy, State Director Folk...ways Garcia; Raines 7/206 c1-800 EARLY AFP.: IN VESTA By frank V. Garcia I can still see grandmother sitting in her chair at the fireplace, her wrinkled face *lining in its fitful light, as she told me stories of her early li2e. I settled myself more…
United States, New Mexico
· 1936-08-31
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Garcia, Sarah, Raines, Lester
Subject: THY NATUnS 8-240 Yolk -Ways Submitted By: New Mexico Normal University Dr. Lester Raines Informant: Sarah Okrcia Oririnal Copy, Not Rewritten. Wordage: 260 Date: August 31, 1936. Apnroved: Ina Siser Cassidy, State Director. 8 -240 -Folk -Ways Garcia; Raines 8/31/36 c1-260 THE NAVAJOS My great-grandfather's house was a low adobe structure with a wide veranda on three sides of the inner court and a still broader one across the entire front, which faced the south. These verandas,…
United States, Silver City, New Mexico
· 1937-06-16
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Totty, Totty, Mrs. Frances
Mrs. Frances Totty Silver City, L. L 4( wmEmmimmimmim 'ads. 790 r JUN 1 6 107 Grant Co. in'49 I first passed through this country with my father, Uncle Bob and John Shackleford, who afterward died on Duck Creek in the summer of '49. The ctravan was mostly southern- ers. We outfitted in Weston An, and came up the Platte and to Denver, a city they only in name and the:4°n to Santa re, where a part of our original party left us. We came out as far as Santa -lee without any mishap and with only…
United States, Silver City, New Mexico
· 1937-07-13
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Totty, Mrs. W. C.
lirs. N. C. Totty Box B77 Silver City, N. M. A Prospector's Experience "A man gets some queer ideas, in his head when he's out all alone in the mountians said John Sanderson, "half of them believe in ghosts, nine out of ten in signs_ and all of them in luck. My own experience'has changed my views in a good many particulars, and for one thing, it has made me a firm believer in special providences. It didn't come about gradually but through as marvelous escape from an awful death as I believe…
New Mexico, United States
· 1937-06-07
· 1 page
Recorded by: Johnson, Mrs. Tom
JUN 7 1937 4, The Kidnapping of A Ranchers Daughter When I cane here on 11pril 2, 1889 we came in a covered wagon, our first night, in Crant Co, e stopped first at Hudsors Hot Spril now called The next day we drifted to .4arm ot springs at that time the herie afe wealthy Lipanish Rancher. We stopped at his water hole for the night. The next 7prning my husband rom Johnson s was watering ti.e horses when we heard a large confusion. Tom said; "I'm g r- to the house to find out the trouble." On…
United States, New Mexico, Lovington
· 1936-05-25
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Mosley, Mrs. Benton
Mrs. Benton Mosley Lovington, N. Mex. 5-25-36. 350 IOGRAPHY May Price Mosley: Born in Midland, Texas, eldest daug- hter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Price, who at that time made their home on the Quinn raLch in Terry County,Texas. Mrs. Mosley was the child in that county for some time, and her mother often the only woman. The family first moved into what is now Lea County (N. Mex.) in 1896, moving to th3 old E Ranch, which was located some twenty miles northeast of where Lovington mow is; and…
Cleveland, New Mexico, United States
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Tafoye, Mrs. [?]
0ut orr fro the outer 40riU by hur blindness, hrs. Tnfoye, aged neurly 100, lives in her little attobe house Wise( fro.74 the hihwey near Oleveland, hew x. Alen the boys nnd girls went to her tor reminiscences her old foe liFhted. he yeers thet she wns hed been living in the past for se rm3--1 for 17A0u, 4ed to hsve en f,udiot- that ordinarily surge throuo:h her A.nd. Yes, my brother Jost, he was cptured by -IdIr4ls, hell tell you thnt7 'Yes, you, please do.' ",,e11, one day Jose wsf !)t “io…
United States, New York, New York City
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Naylor, William D.
..0iiiffere—rile Wm. D. Naylor Page 14 --Earl Bowman Mr. Naylor's Story of "The Dancdtg Turk egs (Unedited) "Whea a man's in the carnival business its a good deal like when he's playing the races; he s either in the mamma big or he s on his heels and washing his own shirts. There doesn't seem to be any half-and-half spot he can land in. He's either broke or flush; he either makes fit fast or don't make it at all. "But that don't mean that a real carnival man is ever on the town. he keeps a…
New York, New York City, United States
· 1936-06-13
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Byrd, Franl
1w4 AS Told To The V.riter By The SAYVILLE, LONG ISLAND. CHIEF OP 'POLICE; Major T. (Father) Divine has become almost a legendary figure in lower Lon Island where he first set up his cult headquarters. Many stories about his peculiar religious doings and subsequent tiffs with the law are told by native inhabitants. The following is only one of many. The writer has taken the liberty of changing names of persons and places. The changes as they appear in the story: itortikNomeimioa####MmOmvormo#…
New York, New York City, United States
· 1939-05-01
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Ellison, Ralph, Weinstock, Clerance
Allt, _COPY WITH THE mum COMMITTER Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE tled aftle-C-41 NEW YORK FORM A Circumstances of Interview STATE New York NAM OF WORKER Clerance Weinstock Ralph Ellison ADDRESS 110 King Street DATE May 1, 1939 SUBJECT My People Made The Truckin Business 1. Date and of _mterview 2. Place of interview Harlem Labor Center, 125 Street, N.Y.C. 3. Name and address of informant A heavy -set Negro man of light complexion. Appearently in his late forties. 4. Name…
United States, New York City, New York
· 1939-06-14
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Ellison, Ralph, Gurley, Leo
Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FORM A Circumstances of Interview STATE New York NAME OF WORKER Ralph Ellison ADDRESS 470 W. 160th Street, Manhattan DATE June 14th, 1939 SUBJECT Harlem FOLKLORE 19 4 NEW YORK 1. Date End time of interview 2. Place of interview Corner of 135th Street and Lenox Avenue 3. Name and address of informant Leo Gurley 4. Name and address of person, if any, who ut you in touch with informant. 5. Name and aderuss of p,rson, if any, accocpanin,-, you 6.…
New York, United States, New York City
· 1939-06-06
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Ellison, Ralph
(Lt Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FORMA Circumstances of Interview STATE New York NAME OF WORKER Ralph El] ison ADDRESS 470 W. 150th St. DATE June 7th, 1939 SUBJECT 1. Date and time of interview June 6th, 1939 FOLKLORE NEW YORK JUN 1 9 1939 2. Place of interview Colonial Park near 150th St., Man. 3. Name and address of informant 4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant. 5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you 6. Description of…