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Ingham, Vicki, B. 1952 (Sc 1767), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Ingham, Vicki, B. 1952 (Sc 1767), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1767. Paper: "Design by Mail: The Construction of Ironwood in Bowling Green, Kentucky" written by Vicki Ingham as an independent study in the master's degree Art History program, University of Alabama.


Smith, Edward J. (Sc 1550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Smith, Edward J. (Sc 1550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1550. Graduate Western Kentucky University geography paper by Edward J. Smith in which he examines the history of the buildings in the 100 block of Main Street and the 800 block of Adams Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Gargoyles On Glatfelter Hall, Katherine D. Anthony Apr 2006

Gargoyles On Glatfelter Hall, Katherine D. Anthony

Hidden in Plain Sight Projects

When one walks around the campus of Gettysburg College, Glatfelter Hall towers above them, as one of the College’s most commanding edifices. One takes notice of the arched doorways, sunken windows, and the giant bell tower whose occupant chimes on the hour. What one may not notice are the eyes watching from the brownstone; faces and creatures at home in the stone, surveying your every move. Grotesques and gargoyles sit in the moldings, on the window sills and at the junction where roof and wall meet, hidden from the eye that does not have the compulsion to look. These architectural …


At Home In The City: Urban Domesticity In American Literature And Culture, 1850-1930, Elizabeth Klima Jan 2005

At Home In The City: Urban Domesticity In American Literature And Culture, 1850-1930, Elizabeth Klima

University of New Hampshire Press: Open Access Books

An interdisciplinary study of urban literature and domestic architecture in the United States from 1850-1930. With chapters on the hotel, Central Park, tenement houses, and apartment buildings, At Home in the City juxtaposes literary criticism with a history of the built environment to show the inception of American modernity. Works treated include: The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern, The Bostonians by Henry James, How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist urban utopias, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand.


Breit, Jill Renee, B. 1964 (Sc 1402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2004

Breit, Jill Renee, B. 1964 (Sc 1402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1402. Paper written by WKU student Jill R. Breit about architect James Maurice Ingram and his influence in the Bowling Green, Kentucky architectural realm, chiefly during the 1930s and 1940s. Also includes photos and a cassette tape interview with Dr. Fred & Jan Stickle of Bowling Green who live in an Ingram designed home.


Duckett, Edward Austin, 1920-2008 (Mss 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2003

Duckett, Edward Austin, 1920-2008 (Mss 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 119. Correspondence, project information, and small drawings of Edward Austin Duckett, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native and architect, who spent his professional career in Chicago, Illinois, working for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Also includes Duckett genealogy, a satirical booklet, and 1998 interviews (cassette tapes - 2) done with Duckett.


Cain, Frank D., Jr. (Mss 132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2001

Cain, Frank D., Jr. (Mss 132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 132. Correspondence, office files, project scrapbooks, and project files of Bowling Green, Kentucky architect, Frank D. Cain, Jr. The projects include schools, churches and homes in Bowling Green and the surrounding region.


Development And Preservation, George W. Geib Jan 1999

Development And Preservation, George W. Geib

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Details the history of two Marion County Courthouses.