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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items) |
Abstract | Stephen Matchak was a professor of geography at Salem State College in Salem, Mass. Matchak received his M.A. in 1978 from the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote his thesis, "The Wildfowl Decoy in North Carolina and Back Bay, Virginia." Matchak also published a related article in Arts in Earnest: North Carolina Folklife in 1989. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in 1982 from the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his dissertation "Folk Houses of the Northeast." The collection consists of documentation of waterfowl decoys from North Carolina and Back Bay, Va. Included are 343 photographic slides of images of waterfowl decoys, 74 photographic slides of related images, and a research card file. |
Creator | Matchak, Stephen. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
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Back to TopStephen Matchak was a professor of geography at Salem State College in Salem, Mass. Matchak received his M.A. in 1978 from the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote his thesis, "The Wildfowl Decoy in North Carolina and Back Bay, Virginia." Matchak also published a related article in Arts in Earnest: North Carolina Folklife in 1989. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in 1982 from the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his dissertation "Folk Houses of the Northeast."
Back to TopThe collection consists of documentation of waterfowl decoys from North Carolina and Back Bay, Va. Included are 343 photographic slides of images of waterfowl decoys, 74 photographic slides of related images, and a research card file.
Back to TopImage Box IB-20433/1 |
Stephen Matchak collection |