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Mary Elba C. De Baca- informant.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Chistes and Spanish riddles., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-20 14
Scope and Contents Riddles and jokes.
Dates: 1936-1940

Chistes. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-20 13
Scope and Contents Spanish jokes.
Dates: 1936-1940

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-6 11
Scope and Contents A farm boy wants to spend his yet-to-be earned milk money to buy a horse.
Dates: 1936-1940

El Gangozo. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-7 6
Scope and Contents The lazy eccentric son of an old woman marries a princess and finds a magic wand.
Dates: 1936-1940

El Padrino (The best man). Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-52 13
Scope and Contents Verse in Spanish and English. (Feb. 17. 1939)
Dates: 1936-1940

Folk beliefs. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-2 3
Scope and Content From the Collection: Collection consists of typed documents produced by employees of the W.P.A. and its subdivision the Federal Writer's Project in New Mexico. Most of the collection is made up of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with New Mexicans, and folklore and stories about New Mexico and Hispanic culture in particular.
Dates: 1936-1940

Folk poems. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-7 41
Scope and Contents Verses for children.
Dates: 1936-1940

Folk poems. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-20 43
Scope and Contents Three love verses and six nonsense Verses.
Dates: 1936-1940

Folk riddles. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-5-17 5
Scope and Contents Riddles i Spanish and English.
Dates: 1936-1940

Four verses. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-20 42a
Scope and Contents Nonsense verses (4 pages).
Dates: 1936-1940

God helps those who help themselves. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-7 43
Scope and Contents Inspite of his profanity, the Lord helps out a peasant in trouble.
Dates: 1936-1940

La cruzesita (The little cross). Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-6 1
Scope and Contents A story of a Negro who promises to build a chapel for a cross if the cross will make him rich.
Dates: 1936-1940

La Nina. (The child). Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-7 11
Scope and Contents A bossy bride decides she no longer wants to command.
Dates: 1936-1940

La Tia Gabriela. (Aunt Gabriela). Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-6 14
Scope and Contents A young man returns a favor to a kind old woman who had helped him when he was a child.
Dates: 1936-1940

Las Brujas. (The witches). Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-7 44
Scope and Contents A description of witchcraft in a New Mexico village.
Dates: 1936-1940

Las Tres Negroes. (The Three Negroes). Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-6 2
Scope and Contents Humorous tale of three Negroes trying to learn Spanish.
Dates: 1936-1940

Song. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-20 16
Scope and Contents Folk song.
Dates: 1936-1940

Spanish folk customs. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-2 5
Scope and Content From the Collection: Collection consists of typed documents produced by employees of the W.P.A. and its subdivision the Federal Writer's Project in New Mexico. Most of the collection is made up of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with New Mexicans, and folklore and stories about New Mexico and Hispanic culture in particular.
Dates: 1936-1940

The Little Red Ant. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-6 4
Scope and Contents An ant helps a young shepherdess get rid of a wolf.
Dates: 1936-1940

The man who fooled a village. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-7 5
Scope and Contents A lazy Spaniard perpetuates a hoax to make money.
Dates: 1936-1940

The man who owed everybody. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-7 3
Scope and Contents Through trickery, the man who owed everybody became wealthy.
Dates: 1936-1940

The Rabbit and the Toad. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-6 5
Scope and Contents Folk tale of a rabbit and a toad.
Dates: 1936-1940

Three bags of money. Bright Lynn, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-5-6 12
Scope and Contents A clever women manages to keep the money she found.
Dates: 1936-1940