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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Peter Braasch Collection #20103, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Peter Braasch of Durham, N.C., in July 1996 (Acc. 98603).

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• Braasch, Peter, 1972-
• Brunswick County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Brunswick County (N.C.)--History.
• Brunswick County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Carteret County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Carteret County (N.C.)--History.
• Carteret County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fisheries--North Carolina--History.
• Fishers--North Carolina--Interviews.
• North Carolina--Industries--History--20th century.
• Shrimp fisheries--North Carolina.

Peter Braasch (1972- ) grew up in Durham, N.C. He attended C. E. Jordan High School and then went on to Yale University, 1990-1994, where he pursued a double major in history and environmental studies. In 1994, Braasch conducted fieldwork for his senior thesis about the history of the commercial shrimping industry in coastal North Carolina. During the previous two summers, Braasch had worked for the Coastal Federation, a non-profit environmental group based in Newport, N.C. Through this work and time spent in the region while growing up, Braasch became familiar with issues involving the North Carolina shrimping industry. After this study, Braasch moved to the Washington, D.C., area, and continued environmental work for a time with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Restore America's Estuaries, a national federation. In 2000, he was working for a business research management firm.

The collection includes audio tapes and research materials for Peter Braasch's senior thesis on the commercial shrimping industry on the North Carolina coast, "Bug Hunting the Way to the New South: the History of Commercial Shrimping in North Carolina." The bulk of the collection is audio interviews conducted by Braasch with seventeen fishermen from Carteret County, N.C., and Brunswick County, N.C. Manuscript material includes logs of those interviews, a copy of Braasch's senior thesis, his research notes, unpublished reports of a sociological study of shrimp fishers sponsored by East Carolina University, and other support materials.

Microcassettes (FS-4841-4867)