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Ladies Art Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Ladies Art Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 762. Minute books of the Ladies Art Club, an African-American women’s club in Bowling Green, Kentucky, whose objectives included social and charitable activities and annual exhibits of sewing work.


Bowling Green Area Microcomputer User Group, Inc. - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2024

Bowling Green Area Microcomputer User Group, Inc. - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3719. Constitution and bylaws of the Bowling Green Area Microcomputer User Group, Inc., Bowling Green, Kentucky, as amended from 1990 to 2012. Includes a brochure for this non-profit computer help organization.


Calendar Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 757), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2023

Calendar Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 757), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 757. Minutes, 1889-1984, of the Calendar Club, a men’s literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes two programs commemorating the Club’s fiftieth and seventy-fifth anniversaries (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans).


Book Review Club - Fordsville, Kentucky (Sc 3638), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2022

Book Review Club - Fordsville, Kentucky (Sc 3638), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3638. Yearbooks, 1942/1943 1953/1954, of the Book Review Club, Fordsville, Kentucky, a woman’s literary club organized in 1938. The yearbooks include the club constitution, program notes, and membership lists.


John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2020

John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 1377. Research materials for a history of the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina, compiled by Dr. James M. Gifford.


Bowling Green Garden Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2020

Bowling Green Garden Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 706. Minutes, yearbooks, financial records and information about service projects, educational programming and fund raising efforts of the Bowling Green Garden Club.


Inter-Agency Council - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2020

Inter-Agency Council - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3540. Minutes and notices of meetings of the Inter-Agency Council, Bowling Green, Kentucky, formed in 1976 to “establish a forum for better communication among agencies, clubs, organizations, involved in service delivery.” Minuted are presentations by various service organizations about their work.


Lioness Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2020

Lioness Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 231. Minutes, financial records, yearbooks, historical information, correspondence and sundry other items related to the Lioness Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Bowling Green-Warren County Civic Council - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2020

Bowling Green-Warren County Civic Council - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3533. Minutes, correspondence, by-laws and sundry other documents related to the Bowling Green-Warren County Civic Council which was organized to create “a central committee for co-ordinating and promoting activities dedicated to community service.” Projects and programs undertaken by the organization are found in the minutes.


Chautauqua Literary And Scientific Circle - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2020

Chautauqua Literary And Scientific Circle - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 700. Minute books, yearbooks, and sundry other items from the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, a women’s literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 - Collector (Sc 3511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2020

Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 - Collector (Sc 3511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3511. Miscellaneous papers collected by Dan Ray Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky: constitution of the reactivated Senators’ Club, Inc., of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and cover letter (1948); notes on the Greer family of Barren County, Kentucky; a letter of thanks to Stone for yearbooks, written by WKU alumnus Clarence Glover (2002); and Bible records of the Taylor family of Warren County, Kentucky.


American Association Of University Women - Danville, Kentucky (Mss 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2019

American Association Of University Women - Danville, Kentucky (Mss 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 687. Records of the Danville branch of the American Association of University Women, including minutes, president’s reports, newsletters, historical information, programming materials and other miscellaneous items. Also includes more limited material about the state and regional divisions of the AAUW.


Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2019

Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 676. Letters, papers, photographs and scrapbooks of the Perry family, principally Gideon Babcock Perry, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Hopkinsville, Kentucky and his children, Reverend Henry G. Perry, Chicago, Illinois, and Emily B. Perry, Hopkinsville.


Globe Searchers Stamp And Coin Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2019

Globe Searchers Stamp And Coin Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3463. Minutes of the Globe-Searchers Stamp and Coin Club (formerly the Globe-Searchers Stamp Club), Bowling Green, Kentucky, a group of stamp and coin collectors. Includes a list of members for 1962-1963.


Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1983 (Sc 3357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2019

Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1983 (Sc 3357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3357. Letters and cards to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from author and alumna Anne Pence Davis, Wichita Falls, Texas. She writes of her enjoyment of a 1962 visit to WKU, and in 1976 recounts recent activities and asks Richards’ help in preparing a program on Kentucky poets for the Kentucky Club of Dallas. After the program, she writes to thank Richards, encloses the club invitation, and relates news about her inclusion in volume 3 of the anthology Kentucky in American Letters by Dorothy E. Townsend, and about her gardening.


Ayars, Rebecca Caudill, 1899-1985 (Sc 3348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2019

Ayars, Rebecca Caudill, 1899-1985 (Sc 3348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3348. Letter, 5 March 1958, of author Rebecca Caudill Ayars, Urbana, Illinois, to WKU faculty member Frances Richards. Owing to a previous engagement, she declines an invitation to WKU’s Leiper English Club dinner.


C.D.G. Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2018

C.D.G. Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3214. Minutes of the C.D.G. (Children Desiring God) Club, Bowling Green, Kentucky, composed of women members of the First Baptist Church. Includes meeting minutes, members lists, and financial data.


Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 636. Correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian, relating principally to her work for the Presbyterian Church. Also includes materials documenting her service on the Inter-Racial Commission of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Smith, Beulah Ethel (Morgan), 1894-1987 (Mss 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Smith, Beulah Ethel (Morgan), 1894-1987 (Mss 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 631. Correspondence and papers of Beulah (Morgan) Smith, Bowling Green, Kentucky, documenting her family, genealogy, and activities in clubs and the community, especially her leadership of the Bowling Green-Warren County Tuberculosis Association, her involvement with the Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Society Southern Dames of America, and the Kentucky Mothers Association of the American Mothers Committee, Inc., which selected her as Kentucky Mother of the Year in 1963. Includes a proposal to locate a tuberculosis sanatorium in Warren County (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).


Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2017

Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 602. Correspondence, research notes, book manuscripts, promotional material, and editorials related to Hugh O. Potter’s career as a radio broadcaster and his interests in Kentucky history, specifically Owensboro and Daviess County, and Abraham Lincoln. Includes one box of original legal documents (1783-1953) related to the Massie family of Daviess County.


Bowling Green Woman's Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2017

Bowling Green Woman's Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 601. Minutes, membership lists, publications, press books, event programs, and other records of the Bowling Green Woman’s Club, a civic organization in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes some materials relating to its affiliation with the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs.


Warren County Home Economists In Home And Community - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2016

Warren County Home Economists In Home And Community - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 582. Yearbooks, annual meeting information and sundry items related to the Warren County Home Economists in Home and Community organization started in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1955.


Bowling Green Country Club, Inc. - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Bowling Green Country Club, Inc. - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2983. Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the Bowling Green, Country Club, Inc., together with notice of members meeting and proxy for voting thereon, 1953; by-laws and membership rules, 1958; rules governing club guests, n.d.


Girls Club Of Bowling Green - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2933), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2015

Girls Club Of Bowling Green - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2933), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2933. Clippings from the Park City Daily News (Bowling Green, Kentucky) and Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) relating to the history and activities of the Girls Club of Bowling Green. Includes a letter of Elaine (Eakles) Goad outlining her involvement with the Club as a member and Director, and a clipping describing her wedding held at the Club.


Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2015

Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 543. Minutes, yearbooks, administrative papers and program information relating to the Current Events Club, a ladies literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that was founded in 1902.


Denhardt, Henry Herman, 1876-1937 (Mss 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

Denhardt, Henry Herman, 1876-1937 (Mss 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 533. Correspondence, military orders, and instructional materials relating to Henry Herman Denhardt’s World War I service as a field artillery officer and postwar training as an officer in the Kentucky National Guard. Includes a few personal and political items relating to Denhardt’s campaign for Governor of Kentucky.


Milliken, Rena Edna, 1909-1998 (Mss 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Milliken, Rena Edna, 1909-1998 (Mss 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 529. Chiefly transcriptions of oral history interviews conducted by Rena Edna Milliken with Logan County, Kentucky residents about local history and genealogy. Also includes speeches and newspaper articles about local history topics and genealogy by Milliken and two Daughters of the American Revolution scrapbooks about the same topics.


Ua12/2/38 Congress Debating Club, Wku Archives Jan 2015

Ua12/2/38 Congress Debating Club, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Congress Debating Club including minute books, programs, club constitution, and more.


Duncan, Kate Northcott (Clagett), 1892-1983 (Mss 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2014

Duncan, Kate Northcott (Clagett), 1892-1983 (Mss 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 520. Correspondence, diaries, genealogical research, and Browning Club programs of Bowling Green, Kentucky native Kate (Clagett) Duncan. Includes her writings on the history of Bowling Green’s Presbyterian Church and some correspondence and papers of her husband, Carroll Allen Duncan.


Clagett, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1900-2000 (Mss 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2014

Clagett, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1900-2000 (Mss 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 513. Correspondence and papers of Marjorie E. Clagett, a WKU faculty member who taught French from 1928-1964. Includes field notes and slides relating to her studies of flora in south central Kentucky, Great Britain and other habitats in the United States, and research materials relating to the history of the French in Kentucky. Includes correspondence, photographs and genealogical data of the Clagett, Northcott, Strange and associated families. Also includes notes (Click on "Additional Files" below) of a Northcott ancestor's encounter with Lost River Cave in Warren County during the Civil War.