Showing posts with label MUNFLA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MUNFLA. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Old Salts (and Herself) - help ID these mystery photographs! #TBT

P10768 Man in winter

Do you recognize this person? Please help us put a name to these faces!

The Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place (MMaP) at Memorial University is putting the final touches on a website dedicated to the folksongs collected by MacEdward Leach between 1949 and 1951 across Newfoundland and in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. We need your help to identify the people in his photo collection!

Please contact Gale at leach@mun.ca (or comment below!) We'll update captions here if we find out more information.


P10773 Woman on porch

P10779 Unidentified men on boat



P10781 Sailor smoking pipe 

P10780 Men and Boys on the dock

Thursday, May 2, 2019

Nets, Fish, and Fences - help identify these mystery photographs! #TBT

P10707 Young woman along a fence. Nets drying, looks like a riddle (wriggle) fence to the left.

The Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place (MMaP) at Memorial University is putting the final touches on a website dedicated to the folksongs collected by MacEdward Leach between 1949 and 1951 across Newfoundland and in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. We need your help to identify the people in his photo collection!

Please contact Gale at leach@mun.ca or comment below. We'll update captions here if we find out more information.

P10756 Older couple ready for an evening out (or church?). Love that bowtie!

P10777 Sailor in doorway. Note fish drying above roof.


Thursday, April 25, 2019

Spinning and Stables - help identify these mystery photos #TBT

P10702 Woman #2 posing with spinning wheel

Do you recognize this person? Please help us put a name to these faces!

The Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place (MMaP) at Memorial University is putting the final touches on a website dedicated to the folksongs collected by MacEdward Leach between 1949 and 1951 across Newfoundland and in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. We need your help to identify the people in his photo collection!

Please contact Gale at leach@mun.ca or comment below. We'll update captions here if we find out more information.


P10732 Woman #1 posing with spinning wheel 

P10771 Preparing to ride horse drawn cart

P10772 Two women and a man posing with horse and cart 

Friday, November 13, 2015

Archvies Week 2015: MUN Folklore and Language Archive Tours


To celebrate Archives Week 2015, The Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA) will be offering free tours to the public.

Come check out our brand new cold storage vault!


Donated by over 11,000 contributors, MUNFLA has over 40,000 audio recordings, 20,000 photographs, 16,000 manuscripts, 4,000 commercial recordings, 2,000 printed documents and over 800 video recordings. These materials cover topics such as custom and belief, childlore, song, dance and foodways. We also house collections documenting folk cultures all over the world, through the research activities of Folklore students. 

Maybe not. But still...
Join us and take a tour of our collections, check out our brand new environmentally controlled vault, and learn more about MUNFLA and how archives work...and can work for you!

Time: Tuesday, Nov 17, 10am-4pm
Place: MUNFLA, ED4038, Education Building, Prince Philip Drive, St. John’s
Contact: Nicole Penney (709) 864-4586 / n.penney@mun.ca