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

    Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

    Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

    Restrictions on Access

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

    Additional Physical Form Available

    A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
    • 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.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 1720591 

    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.