NORTHEAST ARCHIVES OF FOLKLORE AND ORAL HISTORY
AT THE MAINE FOLKLIFE CENTER
In 1958, Edward “Sandy” Ives founded the Northeast Folklore Society and began publishing Northeast Folklore. He soon found he needed a repository for the material from both student fieldwork and from his own. Thus, he founded the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History (NAFOH). In the late 1970s, Ives began to get involved with the field of public folklore. Ives organized the Maine Folklife Center in 1992, combining the Northeast Folklore Society, NAFOH, and public programming into one unit. In 1996, the Center hired an archivist who set up the computer database system and archival procedures that we follow today. In 2011, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress purchased the original collection held by NAFOH in exchange for funding to digitize the collection.
Collections
Web
umaine.edu/folklife/archives/digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/folklife/

Email
Address
5773 South Stevens HallUniversity of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5773
Phone number: 001-207-581-1844