Papers of L. Marguerite Collier

A majority of items in the collection have been indexed and preservation photocopies have been made for many items. A list of all indexed items, and indexes for each series are found at the beginning of the collection. Copies of series and subseries indexes also appear in the first folder for the relevant series.

Researchers must use photocopies when they are available. User copies of fragile materials are stored for best access, either in the folder with the originals for series in which few items are copied, or at the beginning of the series or box for series in which all items have been copied.

Published Materials, 1884-1970, consists of published sheet music and music and folk dance books, including a bound volume of Colección de danzas y bailes regionales mexicanos; scripts of musical dramas and short plays; miscellaneous booklets, theater programs, and brochures; and magazine and newspaper clippings and articles.

Correspondence, 1936-1959, contains letters, cards, and postcards from Collier and her friends and associates in the education and music fields.

Posada Programs and News Notes, 1939-1958, contains mainly "Las Posadas" invitations from Carrillo School, Padua Hills News Notes, and programs from other musical productions.

Mexican Christmas Traditions includes poems, prayers, plays, guides, production outlines and notes, drawings, and music related to Mexican Christmas traditions and Las Posadas.

Dance Directions and Notes contains written directions for a variety of dance steps. Included is a copy of a 1938 thesis by Ruth Virginia O'Hara from the University of Southern California entitled A Study of the Dances of Early California, which presents drawings, diagrams, and instructions for many dances.

Miscellaneous Hand-Copied Music contains additional sheet music transcribed by Collier, and production notes.

Other Unpublished Material contains files on children's games, rhymes, and folklore prepared by Carrillo students; materials from the Mexican Folklore Club at Carrillo School; a bibliography of books and articles concerning Mexican folk music and dancing; and notes, drawings, cardboard paper-doll cut-outs, and address lists.

Photographs and Negatives includes 232 primarily undated black and white photographs of Posada processions and other folkloric presentations, preparations, awards, and events; two oversized enlargements of a Posada procession and a crowd outside a church transferred from the Barker Collection (MS 610) in 1996; four postcards; and four 4x5 negatives of a procession.

Miscellaneous Books and Journals contains four books on Mexico and the Southwest and six issues of the Anuario de la Sociedad Folklorica de Mexico. Twenty-three additional books have been transferred to the Special Collections book collection.

Transfers: In 1996, one duplicate and 26 uninventoried books on music, Mexican folklore, and folk dance were transferred from the Collier manuscript collection to the book collection at Special Collections. Among them are (Riveroll's Art Gallery, Mexico, 1947, #282 of a limited art edition of 500), and , designed by Yolanda Bartas, text by Dorothy Gladys Spicer (New York: The Hyperion Press, 1941). Three issues of and one issue of were transferred to other collections within Special Collections. A small number of books and periodicals already available through Special Collections and one book annotated by Collier, , remain with the Collier collection.

A 1977 letter from Larry Evers to Byrd Granger about the gift of the Collier materials was transferred from Correspondence to the Archive's control files.

The following items were transferred to the University of Arizona Library Special Collections in 1996, Listed alphabetically by author (when known) or title (anthologies, collections):

Brady, Agnes Marie. . Dallas: Banks Upshaw and Company, 1937. Spanish.

, Letra de Manuel Fernández Juncos. Música de Braulio Dueño Colón. New York: Silver Burdett Y Compañía, 1925. Original copyright 1901. Spanish.

, edited and translated by Aurora L. White. Santa Fe, 1940. Duplicate copy in MS 611.

Duggan, Anne Schley, Jeanette Schlottman, and Abbie Rutledge. . New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1948.

----. . New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1948.

----. . New York: A.S. Barnes and Company,1948.

----. . New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1948.

----. . New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1948.

, edited by Michael Herman. New York: A Folk Dance House Publication, 1953.

, collected and arranged by Michael Herman. New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1947.

Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Henry. "GOOD MORNING," After a Sleep of Twenty-five Years Old-fashioned Dancing is Being Revived. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. Dearborn, Michigan: The Dearborn Publishing Company, 1926.

Goodspeed, Bernice I. : a compilation of Mexican stories and legends. Illustrated by Carl Pappe. Mexico, D.F.: Editorial Cultura, 1937.

. Los Angeles, California: Aurelia Borquez de Whenthoff, 1915. Spanish.

Johnston, Edith. . Dallas: Banks Upshaw and Company, 1935.

. Los Angeles, California: Aurelia Borquez de Whenthoff, 1915. Spanish.

Lincoln, Jennette Emeline Carpenter.: May-Day Pastime and the May-Pole. New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1929.

Lloyd, A.L.. DANCES OF ARGENTINA. London: Max Parish, no date.

Marquez, Luis, Osorno Barona, and Armando Brehme, photographers. Mexico. Mexico, D.F.: Fischgrund Editions, no date.

, Los Angeles City School District. Division of Curriculum and Instruction Elementery Curriculum Section School Publication No. 251, 1934.

. Text and choreography by Prof. Luis Felipe Obregón; music, piano arrangement by Prof. Carlos Robledo González; illustrations by Raúl Villegas. Mexico: Roberto Riveroll, 1947.

Mooney, Gertrude X. . Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press, 1957.

Muñoz, Maria Luisa and Angeles Pastor. . The American Book Company, 1946. In Spanish and English.

Santa Ana, Higinio Vazquez. . Tomo I. Mexico: Botas Editions, 1940.

Schwendener, Norma and Averil Tibbels. . New York: A.S. Barnes and Company Incorporated, 1934.

, edited by Elijah Clarence Hills. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1927. Original copyright 1909. Spanish.

Spicer, Dorothy Gladys and Jolanda Bartas. . New York: The Hyperion Press, 1941.

Valdiosero, Ramon. . 12 Color Plates. Mexico, D.F.: Editorial Fischgrund, no date.

Journals:

Cummings, Byron. “Cuicuilco and the archaic culture of Mexico.” no. 4, 4:8 (Nov. 15, 1933).

Lockwood. Frank C. “With Padre Kino on the trail.” no. 5, 5:2 (Feb. 15, 1934).

Clarke, Eleanor P. “Designs on the Prehistoric pottery of Arizona.” no. 9, 6:4 (May 15, 1935).

Mitchell, Lynn Boal, trans. “A stage edition of the "Mostellaria" (Haunted House) of Titus Maccius Plautus.” no. 262 ( March 15, 1935).

This collection is part of the Southwest Folklore Center collection. The Southwest Folklore Center was founded in 1979 after the dissolution of the University of Arizona Folklore Committee and collected information about folk communities, arts, music, and other humanities-related materials. This collection was previously SWF 005. The materials were transferred to Special Collections in 2017.