Goose Island Ramblers Documentation Project Collection, 1990-1991

Collection Inventory and Description

Container Title
Series: I: MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS. Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives Division. Goose Island Ramblers Oral History Interviews, Music, and Photographs. PH 5070.
Box   1
Folder   1
Bruce Bollerud
Note: Inventory of photographs/ scrapbook content; tape log cover sheet and tape index
Box   1
Folder   2
Bruce Bollerud
Note: Copies of photographs, newspaper clippings; handwritten autobiography, 1988; releases
Box   1
Folder   3
George Gilbertsen
Note: Inventory of photographs/ scrapbook content; copies of photographs, letters, newspaper clippings
Box   1
Folder   4
George Gilbertsen
Note: Tape log cover sheet and tape index; 45-page essay on Goose Island Ramblers; releases; copy of handwritten notes
Box   1
Folder   5
Wendy Whitford
Note: Inventory of pictures and clippings from Whitford; copies of photographs, flyers
Box   1
Folder   6
Wendy Whitford
Note: Tape log cover sheet and tape index; type "Introduction to Old Oscar's Cannon Ball"; list of old songs; releases
Series: II: SOUND RECORDINGS. Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives Division. Goose Island Ramblers Oral History Interviews, Music, and Photographs. Audio 1234A.
1234A/1-4
Gilbertsen, George interview, 1990 June 27
1234A/5-10
Whitford, K. Wendy interview, 1990 July 12
1234A/11-14
Bollerud, Bruce interview, 1990 July 16
1234A/15
Down Home Dairyland radio shows
Note: Goose Island Ramblers and Wendy Whitford featured.
1234A/16
Songs and tunes recorded, studio session, 1990 July 19
1234A/17-18
Studio session, 1991 July 24
1234A/19
Midwest Ramblin' (commercial release), 1990
Series: III: SOUND RECORDINGS. UW-Madison Folklore Program. Goose Island Ramblers Documentation Project Collection.
Copies of interviews with Gilbertsen, Whitford, and Bollerud (1234A/1-15 listed under Audio 1234A in Series II)
Physical Description: 14 90-minute audiocassettes 
Series: IV: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives Division. Goose Island Ramblers Oral History Interviews, Music, and Photographs. PH 5070.
Photographs of the Ramblers together as well as with other performers

Some of these images are available online; search for "Goose Island Ramblers."