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Strahm Family Collection (Mss 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strahm Family Collection (Mss 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 655. Data, clippings and information about the Strahm family and related families. Most of the material relates to Franz J. Strahm, WKU music director from 1910-1941, and his son Victor H. Strahm’s career in military service. Includes photographs of Franz, Victor, and other family members.
Bowles Family Collection (Mss 653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowles Family Collection (Mss 653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 653. Correspondence of the Bowles family of Barren and Warren counties in Kentucky, chiefly letters to Eleanor Bowles during her youth and as a nursing student in Baltimore, Maryland. Includes unidentified photographs, perhaps of ancestors.
Chambliss, Landon Baird "Hank," 1921-1994 (Sc 3295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chambliss, Landon Baird "Hank," 1921-1994 (Sc 3295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3295. Poems by Baird “Hank” Chambliss, Cave City, Kentucky, collected under the title “Yesterday’s” [sic]. Chiefly based on aspects of the lives of Chambliss, his family and of young people he knew, the poems also feature romantic, genealogical and nostalgic themes. Includes an alphabetical list of titles. This collection is in digital format only in TopSCHOLAR.
Watson, Nancy Anne, 1924-2013 (Sc 3294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watson, Nancy Anne, 1924-2013 (Sc 3294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3294. Letters, 9 and 15 June 1945, of Nancy Anne Watson, Louisville, Kentucky, to future husband A. Park Shaw, Jr. during his military service. She encloses her poem about the upcoming Kentucky Derby, and writes of her related social activities and wagers on the races. Her comments about a dinner with meat, and of using old clothes and cosmetics, allude to wartime shortages.
Stewart Family Letters (Sc 3263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stewart Family Letters (Sc 3263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3263. Letters to Charles T. Stewart, written by his mother in Cerulean, Kentucky and his wife in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, during his military service in World War II. His mother acknowledges receipt of his letter and a "wolf head souvenir," while his wife reports on life at home. She answers his question about members of another Stewart family and refers to Charles's recent comment about having children.
Jackson, Carlton Luther, 1933-2014 (Mss 581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Carlton Luther, 1933-2014 (Mss 581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 581. Research and manuscripts for books written by Western Kentucky University history professor Carlton Jackson. Includes some personal and professional correspondence, unpublished writing, and a partial memoir. Click on "Additional Files" below to see a listing of correspondents who provided information about the influenza pandemic of 1918. This correspondence is found in Boxes 13 and 14.
Miller, Carl Thomas, 1920-1997 (Sc 3201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Carl Thomas, 1920-1997 (Sc 3201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans of correspondence (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3201. Compact disc containing details of the life and World War II service of Carl T. Miller, a native of Breckinridge County, Kentucky, including the history of his Army unit, his letters (1941-1945), photographs, and images of his medals and other military honors. Also includes a 1995 interview of Miller on DVD discussing his World War II service, and associated newsreel clips.
Woosley, Naomi E. (Thurman), 1918-1980 (Sc 3181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woosley, Naomi E. (Thurman), 1918-1980 (Sc 3181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3181. Letter, 4 May 1948, to Dr. Bert Raldon Smith, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from former student Naomi Thurman Woosley. Writing from Munich, Germany, where her husband is a hospital chaplain, she describes a day spent in Rotterdam, Netherlands during a soccer match, and seeing Eleanor Roosevelt with Princess Juliana at The Hague. Remarking on animosity toward Germany, where her brother was a prisoner-of-war, she nevertheless regrets the hunger among the poor. She also describes her husband’s duties performing funerals for American soldiers and civilians. Includes 3 small …
Mcilvaine, William F., 1923-2019 (Sc 3172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcilvaine, William F., 1923-2019 (Sc 3172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3172. Letter, 18 February 1944, of William F. McIlvaine to Pauline Purdue, Bowling Green, Kentucky. From Camp Polk, Louisiana, he writes flirtatiously, teasing her about her girlfriends and of visiting Kentucky to see her and not the “pretty horses.” The letterhead from Camp Polk includes depictions of Armored Forces equipment and operations.