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Lesieur, John Bryan "Jack," B. 1986 (Mss 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lesieur, John Bryan "Jack," B. 1986 (Mss 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and selected scanned files (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 707. Documentation for an archaeological study, conducted by John Bryan LeSieur, of Kyrock, a planned industrial community in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Includes interviews, photographs, and an interpretive narrative.
Sledge, William Leonard, B. 1948 - Collector (Sc 3514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sledge, William Leonard, B. 1948 - Collector (Sc 3514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for SC 3514. Script and photographs from two womanless wedding shows held in the Alvaton School gymnasium in Alvaton, Warren County, Kentucky in the 1960s. The images are stored in the WKU Photo Archives.
Lost City Incorporated - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 3225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lost City Incorporated - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 3225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3225. Waivers of notice of the first meeting of incorporators and subscribers, and of the board of directors, of Lost City Incorporated, an archaeological tourist site in Logan County, Kentucky. Includes a letter on company letterhead from one director to another thanking him for family Christmas gifts.
Clarke, Kenneth Wendell, B. 1917 (Mss 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clarke, Kenneth Wendell, B. 1917 (Mss 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 635. Manuscripts, notes, publisher’s correspondence, and photographs relating to the scholarly work of WKU English and folklore professor Kenneth W. Clarke, principally "Bud Long: The Birth of a Kentucky Folk Legend" and "The Harvest and the Reapers."
Maffenbeier, John, 1905-1978 (Sc 3199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Maffenbeier, John, 1905-1978 (Sc 3199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3199. Correspondence of John Maffenbeier, Newark, New Jersey, relating to collecting and selling Native American artifacts. Some of the correspondence is related to Lost City, an archaeological tourist site in Logan County, Kentucky.
Gillan, Robert Lee, 1916-2009 (Sc 3183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gillan, Robert Lee, 1916-2009 (Sc 3183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3183. Letter, 7 August 2006, of Robert Lee Gillan, Thorntown, Indiana, to Martha Harrison. He refers to his interest in genealogy and relates anecdotes about “Aunt Nancy,” an African American woman and caregiver to local families in Barren County, Kentucky. He includes particulars of some of her household advice, folk medicinal treatments and beliefs. He notes that she is buried in Lyons (Lyon) Cemetery.
Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Mss 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Mss 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 531. Correspondence, research, historical and archaeological reports, contracts, budgets and other documents relating to the 1970s excavation and restoration of Fort Williams, a Civil War fortification at Glasgow, Kentucky.
Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2864. Correspondence, promotional material and planning notes for a quilt registry in Logan County, Kentucky, sponsored by the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society and a subsequent exhibit at the Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University.
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 2857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 2857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2857. Typescripts and a few photocopies of a printed newspaper column titled “Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore” written by WKU English professor Gordon Wilson, Sr. This grouping includes columns that were not incorporated into the bound volumes of his work found in the Kentucky Library Research Collections (GR110 .K4 W542)
Kentucky Folklore Record (Mss 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklore Record (Mss 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 501. Correspondence, manuscripts, and subscription and financial records relating to the content, editing, publication and management of the Kentucky Folklore Record, a quarterly journal of the Kentucky Folklore Society.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Slaughtering Of Animals (Sc 1113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Slaughtering Of Animals (Sc 1113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1113. Document comprising the timeline of hog and cattle slaughtering by members of the Shaker Society at South Union, Logan County, Kentucky from 1 December 1814 to 16 December 1891, compiled from Shaker journals and other original sources. Entries often indicate the number of animals butchered, their weight, and the purpose of the butchering.
Leeds, Steven, B. 1968 (Sc 864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Leeds, Steven, B. 1968 (Sc 864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 864. Letter, 24 May 1996, written by Steven Leeds, Lantana, Florida, to Kentucky Library and Museum, Bowling Green, Kentucky, detailing the finding of Indian burial sites in Bracken County, Kentucky, and giving other data about the burial sites. May be viewed by administrative permission only.
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 445. Correspondence, published and unpublished writing, and research of Alexander Gordon Wilson, faculty member in the English department of Western Kentucky University from 1915-1959. Includes genealogical and autobiographical material as well as extensive research data and writing on the ornithology of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky, on folklore and linguistics, and on the ornithology and folkways of the Mammoth Cave region of Edmonson County, Kentucky.
Williams, Camilla Reynolds, 1923-2005 (Sc 790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Williams, Camilla Reynolds, 1923-2005 (Sc 790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 790. Photocopies of story written by Camilla Reynolds Williams entitled, “Ma Motley’s Robbery Tale,” 1863?, which supposedly occurred in Warren County, Kentucky. She won second place in the 1971 Kentucky Woman’s Club Folklore Contest for this entry. Also Hays family genealogical chart prepared by Joseph S. Hays.
Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 527. Photocopies of manuscript entitled “Destiny,” which concerns Alfred Hall Bemis’ five years of residency in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and a brochure used by Bemis to advertise his lecture on the life, philosophy and background of the hill people of Kentucky.
Galloway, Ewing, 1881-1953 (Sc 2502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Galloway, Ewing, 1881-1953 (Sc 2502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2502. Correspondence of Ewing Galloway, a native of Henderson, Kentucky and the owner of a photography agency in New York City, with Mary Marks, a geography professor at Western Kentucky University, related to a gift of photographs made to the Kentucky Library & Museum at WKU. Also includes clippings, chiefly related to Galloway’s return to Henderson, Kentucky and the gift to WKU.
Daughters Of The American Revolution - Samuel Davies Chapter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Daughters Of The American Revolution - Samuel Davies Chapter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 363. Records of the Samuel Davies Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes membership applications and data, minutes, yearbooks and financial records.
Young Men's Christian Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Young Men's Christian Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 371. Constitution and by-laws, histories, subscriber list, news clippings, photos, and sundry printed promotional pieces used in the campaign to erect a Y.M.C.A. building in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This material was found in a tin box in the cornerstone of the building when it was razed in 1985.
Mercer, Fannie (Guy), 1855-1940 - Collector (Sc 176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mercer, Fannie (Guy), 1855-1940 - Collector (Sc 176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 176. Printed invitation, 15 June 1932, to Miss Sarah Leat for a July 4th ball at B. Vance's Hotel, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and newspaper clipping, 1929, concerning the invitation. Also holographic copy of lyrics of "Old Folks at Home."
Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 360. Minutes and yearbooks of the Severance Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Trout, Allan Mitchell, 1903-1972 (Mss 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trout, Allan Mitchell, 1903-1972 (Mss 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 346. Correspondence and writings relating to the career of Allan Mitchell Trout, political reporter and columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Includes letters from readers, written mostly on the occasion of his retirement, collections of Trout's "Greetings" columns, speeches and articles, historical memorabilia, correspondence relating to the Allan M. Trout Collection at Western Kentucky University, and messages of sympathy to his wife after Trout's death.
Ellis, James Tandy, 1868-1942 (Sc 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ellis, James Tandy, 1868-1942 (Sc 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 110. Letters, 1897-1939 (16 items), written to James Tandy Ellis, poet, humorist, columnist, and lecturer of Ghent, Kentucky. Also includes Ellis' poems and writings, 1891 (5); printed items; clippings; commissions as Assistant Adjutant and Adjutant General of Kentucky; and miscellaneous items.
Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Sc 1721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Sc 1721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1721. Correspondence related to the archaeological excavation of Civil War fortification, Fort Williams, in Glasgow, Kentucky. Also, report of archaeologist Jack M. Schock, news clipping, and photos.