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Administrative Files
The Administrative Files series consists of one box, with the folders labeled according to the genres/categories of papers that were written. These files contain "Accession Forms" for the American Culture Folklore Archives, and were filled out by hand for each report in the collection. They contain an assigned accession number (one number per report), the genre and sub-genre categories the report files under, as well as any keywords, presumably student-assigned, that relate to the report. The form also has a checklist for each type of material that was submitted along with the report (a list of informants, discs, audio cassettes, etc.), which may or may not have remained with the collection. The second page of the accession form asks for certain metadata from the student, such as the page length for certain documents, the condition of the accession, location, and number of informants. The forms in this series correspond with the first accession of reports that came as part of this collection. Not all reports in the collection may have an accession form or be recorded in the administrative files.
These files also contain the information on the release status for the collection reports. In some cases the collector and author of the reports has assigned some release limitations and in other cases the informants/interviewees have assigned release limitations (typically that their names not be used).
Biographical/ Personal
The Biographical/ Personal series spans .25 linear feet, and includes material such as articles written about Lippitt and his work at various stages of his career, biographical sketches, transcripts of interviews with Lippitt (including one with he and Eva Schindler-Rainman), curriculum vitae, and a complete bibliography of Lippitt's publications compiled by Lippitt in 1986. This series also contains one folder of photographs of Lippitt at various times in his life, including one of Lippitt in 1932, several taken at the time of his retirement, and many taken at various workshops or programs during the following years. This series also contains one folder of correspondence with family and colleagues. Additional correspondence relating to particular organizations, workshops, or publications is located throughout the collection.
Negatives
The Negatives series, glass and film negatives, comprises the vast majority of the collection and are arranged into four subseries: Numerical; Team Portraits; Miscellaneous; and Football Team Portraits, 1896-1942.
The Numerical subseries of the Negatives series is stored in the first three boxes. The portraits in this subseries have been indexed by the subject's name. There are three indexes: athletes and coaches, faculty and administrators, and a third index for those individuals who do not fit into the first two categories.
Team Portraits include lengthy runs of the football, baseball, basketball, golf, gymnastics, track, and wrestling teams for the years 1948-1969. Only football team portraits are extensive before World War II. However, as these early football team portraits from 1896-1942 are outsize glass negatives, they are stored separately in the Football Team Portraits, 1896-1942 subseries in Boxes 5 to 7.
The Miscellaneous Negatives subseries consists of two negative boxes, containing approximately eighty negatives of miscellaneous unindexed portraits. All portraits in this subseries are from the 1950s and 1960s.