"In the late 1940's, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Don Yoder and J. William Frey envisioned a Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center as a way of collecting and preserving documents, artifacts and records of oral history pertaining to the people called Pennsylvania Dutch - those who migrated from Germany in the 18th and early 19th centuries, first to eastern Pennsylvania and from there north to Canada, south to Virginia and North Carolina and west with the ever-expanding frontier.
Using as a base Franklin and Marshall College, where they all taught, they began collecting anything they could. In 1949, they felt the need to share their findings; so a weekly newspaper, Pennsylvania Dutchman was born. In 1952, it became a semi-monthly and began to look more like a magazine, and in 1954, it became a full-fledged quarterly magazine. For volumes it was called The Dutchman and finally, with volume 9 in 1958, its name was changed to Pennsylvania Folklife to reflect its wider representation." [from Judith E. Fryer's introduction to the 25 Year Index to Pennsylvania Folklife]
The issues in this collection (volumes 6-8) represent the transition period from the newspaper based at Franklin and Marshall College (click the link on the left of this page to visit their digitized newspaper collection) to the later magazine based at Ursinus College. In these magazines one will find a wide variety of topics including folk medicine, folk art, religious practice, architecture, holiday customs, genealogy, language, music, food and more. The contents are copyrighted by the Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center and are presented here for educational purposes only ; they are not to be reproduced or redistributed for commercial gain.
Please note that the Summer 1955 issue was erroneously published as "Volume 6, No. 5". The next issue was published as "Volume 7, No. 2". No issue was published as "Volume 7, No. 1."
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The Pennsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 4
Earl F. Robacker, Joseph T. Kingston, Edna Eby Heller, Vincent R. Tortora, Evelyn Benson, Thomas R. Brendle, Claude Unger, Friedrich Krebs, and Don Yoder
● "Such Fancy Boxes, Yet"
● Dried Corn
● Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking is Corny
● The Amish at Play
● Colonial Button Mold
● Illness and Cure of Domestic Animals Among the Pennsylvania Dutch
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers -
The Pennsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 3
Earl F. Robacker, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Jim Butterfield, Don Yoder, Harry Stauffer, Edna Eby Heller, Olive G. Zehner, Fritz Braun, Friedrich Krebs, and Victor C. Dieffenbach
● The Dutch Touch in Iron
● The Pennsylvania Dutch Village
● Five June Days
● On an Amish Farm
● Traveling Pennsylvanians
● The Trail of the Stone Arched Bridges in Berks County
● Displaced Dutchmen Crave Shoo-flies
● Florence Starr Taylor
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● Zinzendorf and Moravian Research
● Sheep in Dutchland -
The Pennsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 2
Earl F. Robacker, Henry J. Kauffman, Walter E. Boyer, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Olive G. Zehner, Don Yoder, Elsie Gehris Cresswell, Edna Eby Heller, and Hugo Froehlich
● Pennsylvania Redware
● Philadelphia Butter
● Adam und Eva im Paradies
● The Pretzel Before the Civil War
● Amish Sculpture
● Spirituals from the Pennsylvania Dutch Country
● Aunt Sybilla
● A Dutch Feast
● "Team" Mennonites
● Pioneers from Staudernheim
● Dialect Folksay -
The Pennsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 1
Henry J. Kauffman, Edna Eby Heller, Andrew S. Berky, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Earl F. Robacker, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Herbert H. Beck, Thomas R. Brendle, Claude Unger, Olive G. Zehner, Don Yoder, Esther Moser, Helen Moser, and Friedrich Krebs
● The Summer House
● Drinks in Dutchland
● Yesteryear in Dutchland
● Moshey and Bellyguts
● Rise of Interest in Dutch Antiques
● Diaper Lore
● Lititz
● Witchcraft in Cow and Horse
● Dorothy Kalbach
● Plain Dutch and Gay Dutch
● Dialect Folksay
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● About the Authors
● What's New in Dutchland -
The Dutchman Vol. 7, No. 4
Earl F. Robacker, Alfred L. Shoemaker, David L. Hunsberger, Ruth M. Home, Frances Lichten, Preston A. Barba, Elmer C. Stauffer, Don Yoder, Friedrich Krebs, and Olive G. Zehner
● Pennsylvania Gaudyware
● Pennsylvania Dutch Canada
● Giant Cider Press
● Pennsylvania Dutch Needlework
● The Pennsylvania German in Fiction
● Conewago Chapel
● Love Feasts
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick -
The Dutchman Vol. 7, No. 3
Earl F. Robacker, Evelyn Benson, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Henry J. Kauffman, John A. Hostetler, Olive G. Zehner, Don Yoder, and Friedrich Krebs
● Major and Minor in Fractur
● Gilbert and Mason - Pennsylvania Wood Engravers
● Barring Out the Schoolmaster
● The Himmelreich Collection
● A Mennonite Encyclopedia
● Pennsylvania Crafts Event
● Europe Calling
● Book Note
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick -
The Dutchman Vol. 7, No. 2
Earl F. Robacker, Elizabeth Adams Hurwitz, Henry J. Kauffman, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, and Olive G. Zehner
● Basketry, a Pennsylvania Dutch Art
● Decorative Elements in the Domestic Architecture of Eastern Pennsylvania
● Literature on Log Architecture
● Pennsylvania Tour of Europe
● Matters Genealogical
● Feeding Them by the Hundred
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick -
The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 5
Earl F. Robacker, Olive G. Zehner, Cornelius Weygandt, Henry J. Kauffman, Albert I. Drachman, Arthur D. Graeff, and Edna Eby Heller
● Antiques for Fancy and for Fun
● Dutch by the Ton
● Beasts in Dutchland
● Church Architecture in Lancaster County
● Tracking the Elusive Distelfink
● Renascence of History
● Dutch Cheeses
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick -
The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 4
Earl F. Robacker, Olive G. Zehner, Henry J. Kauffman, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Albert I. Drachman, Earl J. Heydinger, Edna Eby Heller, Friedrich Krebs, and Don Yoder
● Painted Tin or "Tole"
● Embroideries and Cutouts
● Moravian Architecture in Bethlehem
● Scratch-Carved Easter Eggs
● The Conestoga Horse
● The Reading Boat
● Lititz Specialties
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick -
The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 3
Earl F. Robacker, Edna Eby Heller, Olive G. Zehner, Richard S. Montgomery, Henry J. Kauffman, D. W. Thompson, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Friedrich Krebs, and Don Yoder
● Art in Christmas Cookies
● "Cookies, Just for Nice"
● The Trump Collection
● Ohio Fractur
● Houses of the Oley Valley
● The Riddle of the Two Front Doors
● The Oldest American Printing Press
● Belsnickel Lore
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick -
The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 2
Earl F. Robacker, Edna Eby Heller, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Cornelius Weygandt, William J. Phillips, J. William Stair, Olive G. Zehner, Friedrich Krebs, and Henry J. Kauffman
● Spatterware
● "That's a Lot of Boloney"
● A Dutch Touch
● Birds in Dutchland
● Cornelius Weygandt Day
● Brick-end Barns
● Hardly Bigger Than a Peanut
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
● Sycamores in Dutchland
● The Zehn-uhr Schtick -
The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 1
Alfred L. Shoemaker, Earl F. Robacker, Edna Eby Heller, Frances Lichten, Israel B. Earley, Olive G. Zehner, Martha Ross Swope, Henry J. Kauffman, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, John Lowry Ruth, and Friedrich Krebs
● Editorial
● Somerset County Decorated Barns
● Butter Molds
● Restaurants, too, Go Dutch
● The Hostetter Fractur Collection
● Bindnagle's Church
● The Harry S. High Folk Art Collection
● Lebanon Valley Date Stones
● Of Bells and Bell Towers
● John Durang, the First Native American Dancer
● Stoffel Rilbps' Epistle
● The First Singing of Our National Anthem
● Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers
