Accession Number: 57
The Leonard Ward Roberts Collection
Papers and Sound Recordings 1949-1983
27.8 Linear Feet
44 Cassette Tapes
99 Reel Tapes
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview & Series Description
History
Series I - Biographical Information
Series II - Writings
Series III - Publications Edited by Leonard Roberts
Series IV - General Correspondence
Series V - Subject Files
Series VI - Ballad and Song Texts
Series VII - Student Folklore Collections
Series VIII - Games
Series IX - Regional Writers
Series X - Community Histories
Series XI - Folklore
Series XII - Folktales
Series XIII - Folksong Texts
Series XIV - Folkways
Series XV - Genealogy
Series XVI - Interviews
Series XVII - Indians
Series XVIII - Teaching Aids
Series XIX - Audio Tapes and Transcripts
Series XX - Card Files

This series include newspaper clippings and other print materials on such subjects as craftsmen, Appalachian Blacks, Daniel Boone, Big Sandy River region, geography, remedies, feuds, religion, people and places.

Box 12

1. Appalachian Volunteers 1966-1977
2. Appalachian Volunteers 1967
3. Baker, Sally
4. Daniel Boone - Paper by Henry Scalf 1969
5. COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors & Publishers)
6. Customs and Beliefs, Kentucky - American Dictionary Project
7. Feuds - Kentucky
8. Floods General - Kentucky
9. Floods 1957 - Kentucky
10. Floods 1957 - Kentucky
11. Floods 1957 - Kentucky
12. Floods 1957 - Kentucky
13. William M. Justice
14. Kentucky Arts Commission
15. Kentucky Folklore - Floyd County Times, James T. Adams
16. Kentucky Folklore - Floyd County Times, Henry P. Scalf
17. Kentucky Folklore - Floyd County Times, Gordon Wilson

Box 13

1. Kentucky Folklore - Floyd County Times, No Author
2. Kentucky Folklore - Jackson County Times, No Author
3. Kentucky Folklore - Paintsville Herald, No Author
4. Letcher County Kentucky
5. Manuscript - Anecdotes Re: Prestonsburg (n.d.—no name)(Probably from the writings of Norman Allen in
   The Floyd County Times)
6. Maps - Kentucky
7. MATEP - Mid-Appalachia Teacher Education Program
8. MATEP - Mid-Appalachia Teacher Education Program
9. MATEP - Mid-Appalachia Teacher Education Program
10. MATEP - Mid-Appalachia Teacher Education Program - Multicultural Component
11. Mines - Kentucky
12. Moonshining
13. National Folk Festival Association 1969-1970
14. National Folk Festival Association 1969-1970
15. Pikeville Junior College

Box 14

1. Pikeville College
2. Pikeville College
3. Pikeville College
4. Pikeville College - Mountain Heritage Resource Center Proposal
5. Pikeville College - Humanities
6. Pikeville College - Struggle with Coal Industry - Founders Day 1973
7. Pikeville Cultural Center Grant Proposal
8. Play Script - Untitled - Dramatization of Folk Tales
9. Politics and Resources - Kentucky
10. Prestonsburg Bus Tragedy 1958
11. Prestonsburg Bus Tragedy 1958
12. Red Fox - Second Hanging Television Program
13. Wright, "Devil" John
14. Writers - Kentucky

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