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Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Campus Ghost Walks Records, 1911-2008, bulk 2001-2008

A Guide to the Records at the Indiana University Archives

Finding aid prepared by Jesse Fivecoate.
Electronic finding aid encoded by Jeannine Roe.

Summary Information

Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives

Creator
Indiana University, Bloomington. Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.

Title
Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Campus Ghost Walks Records, 1911-2008,  bulk 2001-2008

Collection No.
C620

Extent
1 cubic foot (3 boxes)

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
This collection consists of maps, audio recordings, news reports, advertisements, committee notes, photographs, and story transcripts for the campus ghost walks organized by the Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. The ghost walks are annual tours that feature ghost legends tied to well-known places on campus and the Bloomington, Indiana, area.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.

Administrative History

The Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology jointly administers the Folklore Institute and Ethnomusicology Institute and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in both fields. The Folklore Institute at Indiana University began as an eight-week program in the summer of 1942 under the directorship of Professor Stith Thompson. During the program, residential and visiting faculty taught courses on a number of topics, including field collecting and recording, the folk tale and similar forms, folk music and songs, and Native American folklore.

The Folklore Institute grew into a stable research branch of Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences in 1949 and received departmental status with an independent faculty in 1963. In 1977, the Folklore Institute was named an affiliated institute of the newly designated Department of Folklore.

While ethnomusicology programming began at Indiana University as early as 1948, the field first gained official status at the university through the introduction of the Ethnomusicology Program under the Department of Folklore in 1982. In 2000, the Ethnomusicology Institute was established. That same year, the administrative structure governing folklore and ethnomusicology was reorganized, and the Department of Folklore officially became the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, with the Folklore Institute and Ethnomusicology institute as units within the department.

Since 2001, the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology has coordinated annual, ghost-themed campus tours known as “ghost walks.” These tours take place during the Halloween season and feature legends tied to well-known campus and Bloomington spaces. Students, staff, and faculty from the department act as organizers, storytellers, and performers for the walks. Past faculty and staff participants include Ruth Aten, Linda Degh, and John Johnson.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into two series: Administrative files and Ghost legends.

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of maps, audio recordings, news reports, advertisements, committee notes, photographs, and story transcripts for the campus ghost walks hosted by the Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.

The Administrative Files series (1951-2008) includes materials relating to the coordination of the annual event such as committee notes, correspondence, walking guides, and publicity material, and event photographs. This series also includes a scrapbook documenting the walks from 2002-2005.

The Ghost legends series (1911-2004) contains the collected legends drawn from the Folklore Institute archives that were used to create the content of the walks. Local ghost legends center on campus spaces as well as local Bloomington establishments such as the Porticos Restaurant. Examples of campus ghost legends include those of the Health Center, Well House, the sorority Zeta Beta Tau, and Eigenmann Hall.

Related Material

Additional records such as newsletters, annual reports, bulletins, and publications may be accessed in the Archives of Institutional Memory .

Archived web sites for this Department may be included in Archive-It.

Related photographs may be available in the University Archives Photographs Database .

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
2011/002
Usage Restrictions
Copyrights for records originating with Indiana University administrative units, departments, and other offices are held by the Trustees of Indiana University. For more information, please contact the Indiana University Archives staff.

The Indiana University Archives respects the intellectual property rights of others and does not claim any copyrights for non-university records, materials in the public domain, or materials for which we do not hold a Deed of Gift. Responsibility for the determination of the copyright status of these materials rests with those persons wishing to reuse the materials. Researchers are responsible for securing permission from copyright owners and any other rights holders for any reuse of these materials that extends beyond fair use or other statutory limitations.

Digital reproductions of archival materials from the Indiana University Archives are made available for noncommercial educational and research purposes only. If you are the copyright holder for any of the digitized materials and have questions about its inclusion on our site, please contact the Indiana University Archivist.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Campus Ghost Walks records, Collection C620, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Provenance
Records were transferred to the IU Archives in 2011 by John McDowell, Chair of the Folklore department.
Processing Information
Processed by Jesse Fivecoate.

Completed in 2016

Container List


Series: Box 1 Administrative files, 1951-2008 

Campus Ghost Walk – general files, 2001-2002  

(2 folders)


Music for ghost walks, undated  

(6 CDs and 1 floppy disc)


Correspondence, e-mails, 2001-2004 

Flyers and posters, 2002-2008 

How to Haunt a House, Dan Witkowski, 1995 

Indiana Daily Student – collected material

General, 1984-2005 

Bronze markers, 1951 

Baby elephant, 1951 

List of stories/participants, 2001-2004 

Non-IU ghost stories by students in folk courses, 2001 

Organization Committee, undated 

Box 2 Photos, 2002-2005 

Publicity, 2001-2006 

Scrapbook, 2002-2005 (See Box 3 Oversized)  

Walking guides, undated 

Series: Box 2 Ghost legends, 1911-2004 

Arboretum, 2003 

Auditorium, Theatre and Drama, 2004 

Ballantine Hall, 2003 

Briscoe, 2001-2004 

Career Center, 2003 

Cemeteries, 1951, 1990, 1996 

Delta Tau Delta, 1976 

Doctor/Frat House, 1984, 1990 

Eigenmann Hall, 1976-2004 

Folk/Ethno 504 N. Fess, 1984-2001 

Goodbody, 1990 

Health Center, 1989 

IM Union, 2001-2004 

Kappa Delta Rho, 1990-2004 

Maxwell House, 2001 

McNutt/ Hatchet Man, 2001 

Miscellaneous Stories, 1984-2004 

Owen Hall, 2001 

Pi Beta Phi, 2003 

The Pond, 2003 

Poplars Ghosts, 2001 

Porticos, 1990, undated 

Read Hall, 1976-2003 

Sigma Phi Epsilon, 2002 

Teter, 1989-2004 

Well House, 1995 

Women in Black, 1911 

Zeta Beta Tau, 2004 

Box 3 Oversized

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