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FINDING THE INVISIBLE:
Folklore in Sense of Place

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Overview | Facilitator's Framework | Exercise
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Images for the Museum of Place

The following images are all appropriate for the Museum of Place activity. Laminate the images you plan to use.

That Southern hospitality (when you're down in Dixie).
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)

Way down East among the shady maple trees.
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)

Aurora Borie Alice
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)

Holly Yumpin Yiminy
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)

Victorian house, Brunswick, Maine
Creative Americans

The Witches’ House, Maine
Creative Americans

Roosevelt's funeral procession with horse-drawn casket, Pennsylvania Ave.
Presidents and First Ladies

Gen. William Henry Harrison / lith. of Endicott.
Presidents and First Ladies

President Coolidge in cowboy outfit, standing in field with photographers; mountain in background
Presidents and First Ladies

Arlington National Cemetery. Southeast side of Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with sentry.
Washington As It Was

Christmas of 1930. Norma Horydczak on bicycle with Fritzie in front of Christmas tree II.
Washington As It Was

Gate, Cassinelli (Mill) Ranch
Buckaroos in Paradise

Corral Gate
Buckaroos in Paradise

Ox-Yoke Gate, Stock-Stewart Residence, Ninety-Six Ranch

Doing Fieldwork
Buckaroos in Paradise

Roping Ft. McDermitt Indian Reservation

Photos of ancestors over the mantle of Ted Farley's restored log cabin.
Tending the Commons

People cleaning and decorating graves at Pineview Cemetery on Memorial Day weekend.
Tending the Commons

Syble Pettry talks about leather britches (dried beans)
Tending the Commons

United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) local, housed in former church, in foreground. Note mine entrance with guard house and tipple in the distance.
Tending the Commons

Variety of landform complexes on a mountaintop removal site from the air.
Tending the Commons

Chapel, Vadito, near Penasco, New Mexico
America From the Great Depression to World War II

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Compton [i.e. Campton], Wolfe County, Ky.
America From the Great Depression to World War II

Delta County Fair, Colorado
America From the Great Depression to World War II

Round dance between squares at dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma
America From the Great Depression to World War II

General store interior. Moundville, Alabama.
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America From the Great Depression to World War II

Spanish-American women replastering an adobe house. This is done once a year. Chamisal, New Mexico.
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America From the Great Depression to World War II

Children of sharecroppers, Little Rock, Arkansas.
America From the Great Depression to World War II

Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas.
America From the Great Depression to World War II

New York, New York. 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. House fronts.
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Group of children posing under sign that reads "U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration Farm Workers Community"
Voices from the Dust Bowl

Unloading oyster luggers, Baltimore, Md..
in Touring Turn of the Century America

 

 
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