Folklore: Masters no. 4A

Varying Oregon Folklore Studies interviews with numerous forms A through D attached which include the circumstances for the interviews, personal history of the informants, text of the interviews, and extra comments.

Interview collections include the informer and their designated reporter in the order presented:

Ella Burt, by Manly M. Bannister. March 13, 1939, six, pages. Interview taken at Burt's residence in Portland, Oregon. Involving a compilation of miscellaneous folkways of Southern Oregon by Ella Burt and her experiences being raised there. Informer had been born and raised in Oregon around 1859. Details of the informant are brief as the interview was cut short. What had been included was stories surrounding early education practices, and community dances or gatherings.

Sarah L. Byrd, by Sara B. Wrenn. March 3, 1939, nine pages. Place of interview at Byrd's residence in Portland, Oregon. With a focus of the information about pioneer life in California and Oregon country. Stories include Byrd's experiences as pioneer travelling from her birthplace in Iowa in 1848, with the wagon train being led by it's captain, Joe Watt. Places of note in the interview are Astoria, Oregon City, Clatsop Plains, and the Columbia river. Other subjects broached was early education practices, Oregon trail, survival, community gatherings, and homesteading,

Frank E. Coulter, by Sara B. Wrenn. March 27, 1939, eleven pages. Interview taken at Coulter's workshop in Portland, Oregon. With a focus of the interview on Violin making and local politics. Including the informants thoughts and practices on the evolution of music and instruments taken place in the early 1900s.

Frances Cornell, by Sara B. Wrenn. January 24, 1939, twelve pages. Interview taken at Coulter's residence in Salem, Oregon. Subjects include the early days in the Willamette Valley. Included is a transcribed copy of personal papers, "Uncle Jimmy Bates" a newspaper article reminiscing on the life of a pioneer. With mentions of a poem titled "The Cowboy Caller."

Etta D. Crawford, by William C. Haight. January 4, 1939, eleven pages.

Dan Cummings, by Manly M. Bannister. March 30, 1939, seven pages. Mrs. J.N. Doane, by Manly M. Bannister. February 24, 1939, seven pages. C.T. Dickinson, by Sara B. Wrenn. December 14, 1938, seven pages. Ernest P. Elliott, by Sara B. Wrenn. January 12, 1939, six pages. George Estes, by Andrew C. Sherbert. November, 28, 1938, twenty-nine pages. Walter Fry, by Arthur Dorn. May 29, 1941, fifteen pages. Mrs. Ford, by William C. Haight. March 10, 1939, twelve pages. Chas. H. Fuller, by Manly M. Bannister. February 14, 1939, twelve pages. Ida Graves, by Sara B. Wrenn. May 12, 1939, nine pages. Kitty Gray, by Manly M. Bannister. January 6, 1939, nine pages. William Huntley Hamptom, by Walker Winslow. December 9, 1938, eleven pages. Mrs. Charles Haims, by Sara B. Wrenn. November 7, 1939, seven pages. Alden B. Graham, by Chas. L. Emerson. February 21, 1941, eleven pages. Captain W.H. Hembree, by Andrew C. Sherbert. April 28, 1938, nine pages. Carl Hentz, by William C. Haight. January 23, 1939, eleven pages. Mrs. Clyde B. Huntley, by Sara B. Wrenn. February 13, 1939, nine pages. Partial copy only including 'Form C'. A.J. Howell, by Sara B. Wrenn. March 13, 1939, ten pages.