Finding Aid for the Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt Papers, 1930-1950

Processed by Esther Vécsey; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division

Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu

URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/

Finding Aid for the Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt Papers, 1930-1950

Collection number: 859

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division

Los Angeles, CA

Contact Information

Manuscripts Division
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/

Processed by:: Esther Vécsey, January 1965
Encoded by:: Caroline Cubé
Online finding aid edited by:: Josh Fiala, July 2002

Descriptive Summary

Title: Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1930-1950

Collection number: 859

Creator: Hustvedt, Sigurd Bernhard, 1882-

Extent: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Abstract: Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt (1882-1954) was a professor in the English department at UCLA and helped to found the California Folklore Society in 1942. The collection consists of 2100 index cards related to one of Sigurd Hustvedt's books, A Melodic Index of Child's Ballad Tunes (1936) as well as bibliographical notes on popular ballad tunes and a beginning bibliography of Nobel Prize winners.

Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

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Restrictions on Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.

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Public Services Division
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt Papers (Collection 859). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Biography

Hustvedt was born in 1882; a native of Iowa, he graduated from Luther College; began graduate work at Universtiy of California at Berkeley in 1911, and in 1912 began studying at Harvard University, receiving his Ph.D in 1915; awarded the Parker Fellowship in Comparative Literature (1914-15) for ballad study in Britain and Scandinavia; returned to teach at the University of Illinois, but left to serve as captain in World War I; resumed teaching at the University of Minnesota, and in 1921 left to join the English department at the University of California's newly established Southern Branch; helped to found the California Folklore Society in 1942 and served as editor of its journal; wrote Ballad Criticism in Scandinavia and Great Britain During the Eighteenth Century (1916), Ballad Books and Ballad Men: Raids and Rescues in Britain, America and the Scandinavian North Since 1800 (1930), and A Melodic Index of Child's Ballad Tunes (1936); retired in 1949; he died on October 4, 1954.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of 2100 index cards related to the research of UCLA music professor Sigurd Hustvedt's, A Melodic Index of Child's Ballad Tunes (1936). Also contains bibliographical notes on popular ballad tunes, as well as a beginning bibliography of Nobel Prize winners.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Hustvedt, Sigurd Bernhard, 1882- --Archives.

Hustvedt, Sigurd Bernhard, 1882- -- Melodic Index of Child's Ballad Tunes.

University of California, Los Angeles--Dept. of Music--Faculty--Archival resources.

Container List

Papers, 1930-1950

Creator/Collector: Hustvedt, Sigurd Bernhard, 1882-1954, compiler

Physical Description: (2 boxes, approximately 2100 3 × 5 index cards)

Scope and Content Note

Musical indexes pertaining to Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads; bibliographical notes on popular ballad tunes; a beginning bibliography of Nobel Prize winners. Los Angeles, v.d.

Note

Professor Hustvedt taught at UCLA.

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