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Trafton, Paula Burt (Fa 1214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trafton, Paula Burt (Fa 1214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1214. National Register of Historic Places nomination form for Taylor Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Completed by Paula Burt Trafton, the application includes history, classification, maps, photographs, and other documentation regarding the church.
Warren, Kaye (Fa 1150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Kaye (Fa 1150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1150. Student folk studies project titled “From Slavery to Freedom for the Negro Race in Logan County [Kentucky]” which includes survey sheets with a brief description of African American life in Logan County, Kentucky. Sheets may include interviews, written records, photographs, informant’s name, age, and address.
Parramore And The Interstate 4: A World Torn Asunder (1880-1980), Yuri K. Gama
Parramore And The Interstate 4: A World Torn Asunder (1880-1980), Yuri K. Gama
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
The present project centers on how the African American community of Parramore in Orlando, Florida, became a low-income neighborhood. Based on a timeline from 1880 to 1980 and the construction of the Interstate 4, this thesis investigates Parramore’s decline grounded in the effects of urban sprawl and racial oppression. Among the effects that contributed to the neighborhood's decline in the postwar era were the closing of black schools and the migration of black residents to other places after the 1960s; the disruption of the neighborhood with the construction of highways and public housing; and the lack of investment in new …
Ua1b1/7 Wku Ceremonies, Dedications, Groundbreakings, Wku Archives
Ua1b1/7 Wku Ceremonies, Dedications, Groundbreakings, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records regarding special ceremonies, dedications, groundbreakings not already housed in a particular office.
Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 570. Paper: [Examination of a Speech Titled "Shake Rag Revisited"] written by Lynne Marrs Hammer Ferguson for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. The speech was delivered on 21 October 2004 by Herbert Oldham at the dedication of a historical marker in the neighborhood.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 1, Jean-Paul Benowitz, John Lowry Ruth, Paula T. Hradkowsky, Monica Mutzbauer
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 1, Jean-Paul Benowitz, John Lowry Ruth, Paula T. Hradkowsky, Monica Mutzbauer
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• The Mennonites of Pennsylvania: A House Divided
• "Not Only Tradition, but Truth": Legend and Myth Fragments Among Pennsylvania Mennonites
• Mennonite Women and Centuries of Change in America
• "It is Painful to Say Goodbye": A Mennonite Family in Europe and America
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 3, Susan L. F. Isaacs, Donald Roan, Debora Kodish, Lois Fernandez, Karen Buchholz, Susan Fellman Jacob, Ron Schlegel, Mindy Brandt
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 3, Susan L. F. Isaacs, Donald Roan, Debora Kodish, Lois Fernandez, Karen Buchholz, Susan Fellman Jacob, Ron Schlegel, Mindy Brandt
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Folklife at the Margins: Cultural Conservation for the Schuylkill Heritage Corridor
• The Goschenhoppen Historians: Preserving and Celebrating Pennsylvania German Folk Culture
• The African American Festival of Odunde: Twenty Years on South Street
• Joanna Furnace: Then and Now
• Port Clinton: A Peek Into the Past
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 2, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., Robert Troy Boyer, Amos Long Jr., Christine M. Mueseler, Catherine Anne Jacobs, Hugo A. Freund
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 2, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., Robert Troy Boyer, Amos Long Jr., Christine M. Mueseler, Catherine Anne Jacobs, Hugo A. Freund
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Occupational Folklife
• A Fine-Tooth Comb: Atlee Crouse Carries on a Family Tradition
• "Lime and Manure": Agricultural Practices Among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Alcoa, New Kensington: "It was More Than a Job - It was a Way of Life"
• Women's Work: Textile Manufacturing in the Lackawanna Valley
• Working the Seams: African American Professional Performers Moving Between White Public Culture and African American Private Culture
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 1, Charles L. Blockson, Roland C. Barksdale-Hall, Jerrilyn Mcgregory, Terry G. Jordan
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 1, Charles L. Blockson, Roland C. Barksdale-Hall, Jerrilyn Mcgregory, Terry G. Jordan
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• "A Missing Link": The History of African Americans in Pennsylvania
• The Twin City Elks Lodge: A Unifying Force in Farrell's African American Community
• The Greening of Philadelphia
• The "Saddlebag" House Type and Pennsylvania Extended
Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - H Topics, Lowell Harrison
Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - H Topics, Lowell Harrison
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed are for 108 topics beginning with H ranging from Hail Storm to Hundred Club.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 1, Monroe H. Fabian, William T. Parsons, Robert F. Ulle, Karl J. R. Arndt, Barbara Reimensnyder
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 1, Monroe H. Fabian, William T. Parsons, Robert F. Ulle, Karl J. R. Arndt, Barbara Reimensnyder
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Sulfur Inlay in Pennsylvania German Furniture
• "Orders What's to be Done at the Plantation": The Isaac Norris Farm Accounts, 1713-1734
• Blacks in Berks County, Pennsylvania: The Almshouse Records
• Teach, Preach, or Weave Stockings? The Trilemma of a Pennsylvania Scholar
• Annotated Bibliography of Pennsylvania Folk Medicine
• Pictures in the Home: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 49
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 2, Marshall Joseph Becker, Robert F. Ulle, Victor C. Dieffenbach
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 2, Marshall Joseph Becker, Robert F. Ulle, Victor C. Dieffenbach
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Shingle-Making: An Aspect of Early American Carpentry
• Popular Black Music in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia
• Powwowing among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Time in Traditional Culture - The Year Cycle: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 42
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal Commission, Wku President's Office
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal Commission, Wku President's Office
WKU Archives Records
Documents housed in Folder 24 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding the Urban Renewal Commission. Includes correspondence and lists of property purchased.
- Downing, Dero
- Largen, Harry
- Memo to Kelly Thompson from Dero Downing outlining paperwork needed to add properties to the Jonesville Renewal Project with exhibits:
- Exhibit 1: letter from Arch Daniels to Kelly Thompson
- Exhibit 2: letter from Kelly Thompson to Charles Cherches
- Exhibit 3: letter from Charles Cherches to Kelly Thompson
- Exhibit 4: list of WKU purchases along Russellville Road prior to Jonesville Project. List is in lot number order and lists date purchased, grantee, property description …
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office
WKU Archives Records
Documents housed in Folder 21 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding urban renewal in Jonesville. Includes correspondence, project budgets, planning map and agreements.
- Agreement between Bowling Green Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency & WKU, 4/16/1965
- Bates, Georgia
- Downing, Dero
- Kentucky. Dept. of Finance
- Jonesville
- Lawson, Owen
- Milliken & Milliken
- Resolution That the Commission Council Amend the Jonesville Urban Renewal Loan & Grant Contract to Include an Additional $25,000.00 Non Cash Credit, nd
- Taylor, J.H.
- Thompson, Kelly
- Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office
WKU Archives Records
Documents housed in Folder 22 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding urban renewal in Jonesville. The documents are undated and include agreements, budgets and a list of properties.
- Agreement between Bowling Green and the Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency, nd
- Bowling Green. City Council
- Estimate of Federal Grant Requirements
- Jonesville
- List of Jonesville property by Lot Number, listing owner, 1st, 2nd & 3rd appraisal, HHFA amount
- Thompson, Kelly
- Urban Renewal Plan, nd
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office
WKU Archives Records
Documents housed in Folder 23 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding urban renewal in Jonesville. This file is comprised entirely of newspaper clippings:
- Almost $2 Million in Federal Funds Set for Renewal Work, PCDN, 7/18/1962
- Bowling Green’s Loop District, PCDN, 7/18/1962
- Chances of Early Okay for Project Improved, PCDN, 7/21/1963
- Disquieting Assault on Urban Renewal, np, 3/30/1964
- Duncan, Tom. Two Votes Advance Renewal Planning, LCJ, 3/17/1964
- Duncan, Tom. Western to Expand in 33-Acre Tract, LCJ, 3/17/1964
- Extension of Adams Street Hits Snag, np, 11/12/1963
- Hearing Set on Western’s Development Plans, np, 2/14/1964
- Jonesville Project Established, np, 3/17/1964
- Okay Part …
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 43, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 43, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:
- Book Marks
- Hilltopics
- Looking Backward
- Social Activities Calendar
- Alumni News
- Sports Slants
- Faculty Facts
- Horoscope
- Religious News
- Intramural Corner
- Bowling
- Musically
This issue contains articles:
- Nursing Program Scheduled
- Jonesville Annexing Announced
- Ballet Society Will Appear in Van Meter
- Western Offers Educational TV to Elementary Students
- Christine DeVries, Gary Kelley Reign at 1964 Sweetheart Ball
- Sandra Stuart, Bob Adams Direct Herald
- Cordell Hull Portrait Given to College
- Westerners Apply to Grad School
- Faculty Research Program Assists Five Instructors
- Drama Festival Scheduled on Hill February 29
- Top Toppers …
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office
Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office
WKU Archives Records
Documents housed in Folder 20 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding urban renewal in Jonesville. Documents include correspondence, agreements, campus development plan, draft ordinances and a list of property purchased by Western Kentucky University.
- Addendum to Agreement between Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency and Bowling Green, 1/15/1964
- Agreement between Bowling Green Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency and WKU, 11/4/1964
- Campus Development Plan
- Downing, Dero
- Jonesville
- Kentucky. Dept. of Finance
- List of owners
- Ordinance Approving the Development Program or Plan of Western Kentucky State College
- Taylor Heads Group Opposing Urban Renewal, PCDN, 2/27/1964
- Taylor, J.H.
- Thompson, Kelly
- U.S. …