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Historic Houses - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3127. Pencil sketch of the Warren County, Kentucky, home of Nathaniel and Mary Lucas, executed by an English visitor in the winter of 1883.

Thomas, Mary (Sc 896), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 896. Original drawings (2) of wildflowers by Mary Thomas of Ursuline Academy, Louisville, Kentucky. Also photocopies of related data, 1966 (13).

Mcguire, Robert (Sc 784), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 784. Original artwork for pp. 20-21 of The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby, by Crystal Hubbard, with illustrations by Robert McGuire (New York: Lee & Low Books, Inc., 2008). The book was awarded WKU Libraries’ Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award in 2010.

Hubbard, Elbert Green, 1856-1915 (Sc 646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 646. Sketch done by Elbert Green Hubbard, a writer, that has a note on it addressed to J.L. Harman and signed by Hubbard.

Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 382. Correspondence, account books, receipts, sermons, drawings, and diaries of the Venable family of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, chiefly John Wesley Venable, Sr. and his wife Fannie and son John, Jr. Of particular interest is an 1839-1839 travel journal kept by John, Sr. while in Florida. Also includes John, Sr.’s sermons and sermon preparation material as well as thirty-nine small diaries documenting his career as an Episcopal priest in Versailles and Hopkinsville. Includes one of John, Sr.’s art sketch books.

Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 356. Correspondence, photographs, sketches and drawings, writings, journals and clippings of or relating to Ivan Wilson, an artist and faculty member in the Art Department at Western Kentucky University from 1920 to 1958. Includes some materials related to other artists.

Ua68/17/4 Caricature Of Russell Miller, Mason Ploch

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Caricature of Russell Miller by Mason Ploch during production of Bye Bye Birdie. Ploch signed his work on the back:

Dr. Miller,

Thought you might like to have the "artist's proof." "Break a leg" on "Birdie," I know it will be great!

Mace

Ua68/17/2 Taming Of The Shrew Set Design, Wku Theatre & Dance

WKU Archives Records

Set design drawings and paintings for production of the Taming of the Shrew.

Ua1c7/313 Kentucky County Map, Orion Covington, Wku College Heights Foundation

WKU Archives Records

Drawing of Kentucky County Map with inscription: The foundation has made 5002 distinct student loans from 1923-1937 (inclusive) amounting to $178,749.96. Each dot represents an average loan of $35.00+. See accompanying map for distribution by counties.

Includes insets: The Kentucky Building A few items included in the Kentucky Museum The Pioneer Log Cabin Rare books abound in the Kentucky Library An inviting spot in the colonial gardens. The College Heights Book Store.

Drawn by Orion K. Covington, 215 Woodford Street, Bowling Green, KY.