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Collection Overview
| Size | About 75 items (0.5 linear feet) |
| Abstract | Peter Braasch (1972- ) grew up in Durham, N.C. In 1994, he conducted fieldwork for his senior thesis at Yale University about the history of the commercial shrimping industry in coastal North Carolina. 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N.C. Manuscript material includes logs of those interviews, a copy of Braasch's senior thesis, his research notes, unpublished reports of a sociological study of shrimp fishers sponsored by East Carolina University, and other support materials. |
| Creator | Braasch, Peter, 1972- . |
| Language | English. |
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Subject Headings
The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
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Biographical Information
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.
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Scope and Content
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.
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Series 1. Research Material about Commercial Shrimping, 1943-1994.
Arrangement: by type of material.
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Subseries 1.1. Senior Thesis and Research Notes, 1994.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Braasch's senior thesis "Bug Hunting the Way to the New South: the History of Shrimping in North Carolina," along with notes he took while researching primary and secondary sources on the North Carolina commercial shrimping industry.
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Subseries 1.2. Support Materials, 1943-1991.
Arrangement: chronological.
Support materials used by Braasch in his research, including three unpublished reports about shrimp fisheries from a fieldwork project sponsored by the Sociology Department at East Carolina University.
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Series 2. Audio Interviews about Commercial Shrimping, 1994.
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Subseries 2.1. Audio Cassette Recordings, 1994.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Interviews by Braasch with seventeen shrimp fishermen in May and June 1994. The interviews include biographical information and discussion of the history of the shrimping industry along coastal North Carolina and issues that concern commercial fishers.
Note that original tapes are on micro-cassette.
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Subseries 2.2. Logs of Audio Interviews, 1994.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Tape logs of Braasch's audio interviews (filed separately in the SFC Field Notes vertical files).
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Items Separated
Items separated include sound recordings (FS 4841-4867) and notes about the sound recordings (SFC Field Notes vertical files).
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