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The Dorothy Howard Collection - Finding Aid: By Topic
Dorothy Howard Collection: Finding Aid by topic
Biography of Dorothy Howard
Finding Aid: By Box/Folder
Finding Aid by topic
- Works
- Professional Recognition
- Local History
- Genealogy/Family History
- Research
- Correspondence
- Audiotapes
- Videotape
- Photographs
- Scrapbook
- Books Donated by Dorothy Howard
Works
Books:
Dorothy’s World: Childhood in Sabine Bottom, 1902-1910. Prentice-Hall, 1977.
Original manuscript: Boxes H and I
Editor’s manuscript: Box J
Prologue; original manuscript-photocopy:
Box K
Illustrative materials: Box I
First edition, first printing: GR55.H69 A33
Correspondence: Box K
Reviews: Box K
Pedro of Tonalá.
Original manuscript: Box O
Proofs and galley: Box O
Notes and research: Box P
Correspondence: Box Q.1
Photographs and illustrative materials: Box Q.2
First edition: F1210.H69 1989
"Broken Bow." Unpublished novel. Manuscript. [Restricted use.] Box M
"Odyssey of a Country Schoolteacher."
Unpublished autobiography. Manuscript.
Box N
Dissertation:
"Folk Jingles of American Children: A Collection and Study of Rhymes Used by Children Today." Diss. New York University, 1938.
Articles:
"Kite with Rainbow Tail." The Clearing House (April 1936). Reprint. Box L.1
"Songs of Innocence." With Morris Bishop. The New Yorker (13 Nov. 1937). Photocopies. Box L.1
"The Bell Always Rang." The Elementary English Review (Nov. 1940). Photocopy. Box L.1
"The Rhythms of Ball-Bouncing and Ball-Bouncing Rhymes." Journal of American Folklore (April1949).
Reprints. Box L.1
"Folklore in the Schools." New York Folklore Quarterly (Summer 1950). Photocopies. Box L.1
"Folklore of Australian Children." Journal of Education (Melbourne) (March 1955). Reprint. Box L.1
"The Game of Knucklebones in Australia." Western Folklore (Jan. 1958). Reprints. Box L.1
"Australian Hoppy (Hopscotch)." Western Folklore (July 1958). Reprint and photocopy. Box L.1
"Ball Bouncing Customs and Rhymes in Australia." Midwest Folklore (Summer 1959). Reprint. Box L.1
"Autograph Album Customs in Australia." Southern Folklore Quarterly (June 1959). Reprints. Box L.1
"The Toodlembuck—An Australian Children’s Gambling Device and Game." Journal of American Folklore (Jan. 1960). Reprints. Box L.1
"Counting-Out Customs of Australian Children." New York Folklore (Summer 1960). Reprints. Box L.1
"Marble Games of Australian Children." Folklore (Sept. 1960). Reprints. Box L.1
"String Games of Australian Children." Folklore (June 1961). Reprint. Box L.1
"Introduction." The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Dover, 1964). Box L.1
"Folklore of Australian Children." Keystone Folklore Quarterly (Fall 1965). Reprints. Box L.1
"Rope-Skipping Games: Language, Beliefs, and Customs." Maryland English Journal (Fall 1969). Reprints. Box L.1
"Work and Play in Pleasant Valley." Soundings: Traditions in Maryland Life. 1984. Box L.1
Poetry:
"New Jersey Poets of Today." The Lantern. Ed. by C.B. McAllister. Set to music by Elmo Russ. Performed by Louise Caselotti, contralto, and Elmo Russ, piano. Steinway Concert Hall, 14 May 1936. Photocopy of program. Box L.3
"Entreaty."
Harrison, Henry, ed. Texas Poets: an Anthology of Verse by 83 Contemporary Poets. New York: Henry Harrison, 1936. Photocopies. Box L.3
"Alien."
"Entreaty."
"The Bridge is Long."
"Mist World."
"Multiple."
"Tangent."
Mansfield, Margery, ed. American Women Poets 1937. New York: Henry Harrison, 1937. Photocopies. Box L.3
"Convocation."
"Oil."
AAUP Bulletin (Spring 1966). Photocopy. Box L.3
"Mass Epitaph for Polyversity Presidents."
AAUP Bulletin (Sept. 1967). Photocopy. Box L.3
"Administration in Passive Voice."
Unpublished Poetry:
"Old House" Box L.3
Unpublished poetry also in Box N, Odyssey of a Country Schoolteacher
Reviews:
"Children in the Folklore Marketplace." Midwest Folklore (Winter 1953). Reprint. Box L.2
Brewster, Paul G. American Nonsinging Games. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1953. Journal of American Folklore (Jan. 1954). Reprint. Box L.2
"Folklore for Children." Journal of American Folklore (Oct.-Dec. 1958). Reprint. Box L.2
Sutton-Smith, Brian. The Games of New Zealand Children. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. Midwest Folklore 10.4 (1960). Reprint. Box L.2
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955. Midwest Folklore 7.2 (1957). Reprint. Box L.2
Professional Recognition
Review by Herbert Halpert of Folk Rhymes and Jingles of Maryland Children (1944). Midwest Folklore (Summer 1951). Content collected by Dr. Howard’s children’s literature class at Frostburg State College. Photocopy. Box V.2
Rev. of Folklore for Children and Young People (American Folklore Society 1952) by Eloise Ramsey and Dorothy Mills Howard. The Horn Book Magazine (Oct. 1952). Photocopy. Box V.2
Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1952.
Grider, Sylvia Ann. "The Study of Children’s Folklore." Western Folklore (July 1980). Photocopy. Box V.2
The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play. Newsletter (Spring 1981). Includes "TAASP Recognition and Award Presentation to Dorothy Howard" by Brian Sutton-Smith and "Reply by Dr. Howard." Box V.2
Factor, June. "A Forgotten Pioneer: Dorothy Howard." The Australian Children’s Folklore Newsletter (May 1983). Reprinted from The Educational Magazine (1980). Photocopy and photocopy of typescript. Box V.2
IECD, Melbourne College of Advanced Education. Invitation to the opening of the "Dorothy Howard Exhibition of Children’s Folklore," 6 July 1983. Photocopy and photographs. Box V.2
Factor, June and Gwenda Davey. "Remembering a Pioneer." The Australian Children’s Folklore Newsletter (Sept. 1983). Photocopy. Box V.2
Mergen, Bernard. Play and Playthings: A Reference Guide (Greenwood 1984). Photocopies. Box V.2
Mergen, Bernard. "The Player and the Play: Current Theories of Autobiography and Oral History and Their Implications for the Study of Children’s Play." Photocopies. Box V.2
"Dorothy Howard Speaking." The Australian Children’s Folklore Newsletter (May 1985). A taped address sent to the First National Folklore Conference, Melbourne (Nov. 1984). Photocopy. Box V.2
American Folklore Society. Newsletter (June 1985). Photocopy. Box V
Kailer, Pat. "Games Kids Play Are Adult's Allure." Albuquerque Journal (8 March 1977).
Local History
Van Zandt County, Texas Box G.1
Hopkins County, Texas Box G.2
Nevada, Texas Box G.3
Campbell County, Texas Box G.4
Hunt County, Texas Box G.5
Genealogy/Family History
The materials on genealogy and family history are too extensive and diverse to provide a complete listing here. They comprise manuscripts, monographs, articles, clippings, letters, documents, photographs, tombstone rubbings, and miscellanea. Below are listed the family names and some indication of relevant materials.
Belew:
Burial places and gravestones. Box B.2
Zachariah Thomas Belew, Civil War record. Box B.3
Craig:
Duke, Eleanor, and Dorothy Howard. Kissing Kin: History of the Craig-Nelson Family in Europe and America. Manuscript. [Restricted use.] Box B.2
Craig-Nelson family letters. Forty-seven letters, dated from 1858 to 1930. Manuscripts, photocopies, transcriptions. Box A.1
Craig-Nelson family photographs. Box A.2
Family history research by Eleanor Duke (Mississippi, Texas, Civil War). Box B
Research. Box B.5
Burial places and gravestones. Box B.2
Civil War records. Box B.3
Douglas:
Research. Box E.1
Gray:
Research, photographs, and documents. Box F
Biography of Nancy Leannah Nelson Gray. Box F.2
Burial places and gravestones. Box B.2
Greer:
Burial places and gravestones. Box B.2
Mills:
Family record of Leonidas Menno Mills and Lou Florence Gray, written by Dorothy Gray Mills Howard. Box F
Nelson:
Research. Boxes B, C, and D
Nisbet:
Research. Boxes C and D
Routh:
Research. Box E
Routh, Ross Holland. The Routh Family in America.
Turpin, Tom. The Joseph Routh Family: 1747-1979.
Willis:
Research. Box E
Research
Australia:
Fulbright post-doctoral research grant materials. Box R.1
Publicity. Box R
Correspondence. Box R
Mexico:
Correspondence with the Muñoz Maestro family of Tonalá, Jalisco. Box Q.1
Pedro of Tonalá. Research, photographs, and illustrative material. Boxes P and Q.2
USA--Maryland
"Work and Play in Pleasant Valley." Excerpt, photographs, and publicity. Box R
Correspondence
Correspondence to and from Dr. Howard is housed in the Howard Archives according to her arrangement. Both original letters and copies of responses may be included. The names and subjects identified below are meant as a broad guide for researchers. Additional letters are included under "Research."
Canada (1959-1960). Children's games; research project in British Columbia. Box S.1
England (1937-1988). Includes extensive correspondence with Iona and Peter Opie. Box S.2-3
Bess Lomax Hawes (1967-1969). Box S.4
Sylvia Grider (1986-1987). Includes copy of Dr. Grider's biographical essay on Dr. Howard for Notable Women in American Folklore. Box S.5
The New Yorker. Includes correspondence with Morris Bishop, and letters written in response to "Songs of Innocence," the New Yorker piece written by Bishop and Dr. Howard. Box S.6
Political Correspondence. Box S.8
Lone Oak, Texas. (1977-1979). Includes correspondence with Dr. Howard's first-grade classmates from Lone Oak, Texas.
University of North Texas. Box S.7
Dorothy's World. Box K
Pedro of Tonalá. Box Q.1
Audiotapes
Dorothy Howard recorded songs for her family, and provided copies of these tapes for the archives.
Songs for Nancy (1976). Box U
Dorothy Howard Recording (August 1978). Box U
Dorothy's Songs (December 1984). Box U
America Singing (May 1985). Box U
Kristen's Family Songs (1985). Box U
Birthday Songs for Andrew (1988). Box U
Birthday Songs for Jessica and Wesley (1988). Box U
Songs--Sabine Bottom. Box U
Dorothy Howard also taped reminiscences about her life as a student at North Texas State Teachers College, which would become the University of North Texas.
Campus Folklore at North Texas State Teachers College, 1923. Box T
A Texan in New York. Box T
Aunt Eddie's War. Box T
The War Years--North Texas State Teacher's College, World War I. Box T
Opening of the Dorothy Howard Children's Folklore Exhibition, IECD. (6 July 1983). Institute of Early Childhood Development, Melbourne College of Advanced Education. Box V.1
Videotape
Oral History Interview, 18 April 1989. UNT Archives
Photographs
Additional photographs are identified under appropriate headings.
Dorothy Gray Mills Howard. Boxes W and X.1
Wesley Howard and Jessica Laird Howard. Box U
Nancy Owen. Box U
First Grade, Lone Oak, Texas. Box X.2
Railroad Depot, Point, Texas. Box X.4
Craig-Nelson family. Box A.2
Pedro of Tonalá. Box Q.2
Scrapbook
Photographs, publicity, clippings, etc. Box W
Books Donated by Dorothy Howard
Antique Paper Dolls: the Edwardian Era. New York: Dover, 1975.
GT880 .A4 1975
Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. PZ7.B276 Pek 1928
Bolton, Henry Carrington. The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. GR485 .B53 1888
Chambers, Robert. Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Edinburgh: W.R. Chambers, 1841. PR8580 .C4 1841
Chase, Richard, ed. Grandfather Tales. Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1948. J398.2 C4872g c.3
Chase, Richard, ed. The Jack Tales. Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953. J398.2 C4872j c.3
Clemons, Samuel L. 1601. N.p.: Earth Publishing Co., 1955.
PS1322 .S62 1955
de la Ramée, Louise. A Dog of Flanders. Chicago: John C. Winston, 1928.
PZ10.3.D375 Do24
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine. The Little Prince. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. PZ8.S14 Li 1943
Factor, June. Captain Cook Chased a Chook: Children's Folklore in Australia. Ringwood, Australia: Penguin, 1988. GR365 .F33 1988
Greenaway, Kate. Kate Greenaway’s Book of Games. London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1927. GV1203 .G7
Halliwell, James Orchard. The Nursery Rhymes of England. London: Reprinted for the Percy Society, 1842. PN6110.C4 H3 1842
Halliwell, James Orchard. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: a Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England. London: John Russell Smith, 1849.
GR487 .H2 1849
Harris, Joel Chandler. Nights with Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1883. PZ3.H242 N3 c. 2
Harrison, Henry. Texas Poets: An Anthology of Verse by 83 Contemporary Poets. New York: Henry Harrison, 1936. PS558.T4 H3
Howard, Dorothy. Dorothy’s World: Childhood in Sabine Bottom 1902-1910. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1977. GR55.H69 A33
Howard, Dorothy. Pedro of Tonalá. Roswell, NM: Hall-Pourbaugh Press, 1989. F1210 .H69 1989
Madden, George. Emmy Lou. New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1931.
PZ7.M33 Em 1931
Mills, W.S. History of Van Zandt County. Canton: n.p., 1950.
Newell, William Wells. Games and Songs of American Children. New York: Dover, 1963. GV1203 .N53 1963
The 1902 Edition of the Sears Roebuck Catalogue. New York: Crown Publishers, 1969. TS199 .S432 1969
Northall, G.F. English Folk-Rhymes: a Collection of Traditional Verses. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1892. GR141 .N5 1892
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth. London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1947. PZ8.3.O6 I
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. PZ8.3.O6 Ox c. 2
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955. PN6110.C4 O53 1955
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. The Singing Game. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. GV1215 .O65 1985
Ó Súilleabháin, Seán. A Handbook of Irish Folklore. N.p.: The Educational Company of Ireland, 1942. GR147 .O88 1942
Ramsey, Eloise. Folklore for Children and Young People. Philadelphia: The American Folklore Society, 1952. Z5981 .R3 c. 3
Routh, Ross Holland. The Routh Family in America. El Paso: n.p., 1976.
CS71 .R973 1976
Sales, Charles. The Specialist. London: Putnam & Co., Ltd., 1952.
PS3537.A4 S7 1930
Schroeder, Joseph J., ed. 1908 Catalogue No. 117 : the Great Price Maker. Chicago: Gun Digest Co.,1969. TS199 .S434 1969c
Sidney, Margaret. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. Racine: Whitman, 1955. PZ7.L913 Fi26 1955
Strutt, Joseph. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. London: Methuen & Co., 1903. GV75 .S9 1903
Tarpley, Fred. Place Names of Northeast Texas. Commerce, TX: East Texas State University, 1969. F384 .T3 c. 2
Thurber, James. The Great Quillow. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1944.
Turpin, Tom, Earl Roberts, and Anna Roberts. The Joseph Routh Family, 1747-1979. N.p. : n.p., 1979. CS71.R973 1979
White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web. New York: Harper & Row, 1952.
Willis, Douglas M. Two Centuries with a Willis Family and Their Kin. Dallas: n.p., 1963. CS71 .W55 1963
Young, Sheila. Lettie Lane Paper Dolls. New York: Dover, 1981.
GT595 .I4 1981