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Coke Family Papers (Mss 737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coke Family Papers (Mss 737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 737. Correspondence and papers of the Coke family of Logan County, Kentucky and related families, principally the Guthrie and McCutchen families. Includes materials on the historic family homestead, McCutchen Meadows, near Auburn, Kentucky. Also includes J. Guthrie Coke's letters to his wife Carrie, January-February 1914, written in the form of journals describing his experiences as a state legislator in Frankfort, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Wilk, Joseph Peter, 1926-1994 (Mss 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilk, Joseph Peter, 1926-1994 (Mss 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 728. Printed matter, photographs, and correspondence relating to a small number of commissions executed by Bowling Green, Kentucky architect Joseph P. Wilk. Also includes some biographical data.
Bryant, Hal Farnsworth, 1888-1975 (Mss 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant, Hal Farnsworth, 1888-1975 (Mss 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 716. News items and features written for syndication by Bryant and his partner James M. Ross, both of the Lexington (Kentucky) Leader; correspondence and papers relating to Bryant’s subsequent career as a statistician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Shaker Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shaker Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that relate primarily to the United Believers in the Second Coming of Christ, commonly known as the Shakers. Most of the collections relate to the Shaker society at South Union in Logan County, Kentucky, but materials relating to other societies are also included.
Cress, Mary Jane "Kit" (Firth), 1920-2010 (Sc 3491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cress, Mary Jane "Kit" (Firth), 1920-2010 (Sc 3491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3491. Alphabetical list of African Americans residing at the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. Includes name and, where available, years referencing their residence, emancipation, departure or death. The list was compiled by Kit Cress as part of her research for the article “Black Shakers at South Union, Kentucky” in The Kentucky Review 12, no. 1 (Fall 1993): 79-95.
Griffin, Lowell M. (Mss 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Griffin, Lowell M. (Mss 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 669. Civil War related material, chiefly recorded audio presentations to the Louisville Civil War Round Table of which Lowell Griffin was a member. Also includes some news clippings about the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln as well as transcripts of several presentations on Civil War topics.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2045. Interview with Deedy Hall conducted by Sheryl D. Reed in November 1991 in which Hall discusses Shakers in general, her work with the Shaker Museum at Auburn, Kentucky and her life-long relationship with Mary Julia Neal.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2044), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2044), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Cassette Tape 2044. Interview with Mary Julia Neal conducted by Sheryl D. Reed on 28 April 1992 in which Neal discusses her work at the Kentucky Building at WKU and her Shaker research and publications.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2046. Interview with Mary Julia Neal conducted by Sheryl D. Reed on 5 November 1991 in which Neal discusses her family and early life in Auburn, Kentucky, her education, and her early teaching career
Strickler, Sally Ann (Mcleod) Koenig, 1933-2016 (Mss 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strickler, Sally Ann (Mcleod) Koenig, 1933-2016 (Mss 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 643. Research materials collected by Sally Ann Strickler related to the Shaker community at South Union, Kentucky. This material deals chiefly with women’s roles in the society. Also includes information about the U.S. flag and Strickler’s dissertation on library services in Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accredited institutions.
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."
Mclean, Eli, 1793-1870 And John Mclean, 1796-1862 (Sc 3192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mclean, Eli, 1793-1870 And John Mclean, 1796-1862 (Sc 3192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3192. Papers of Eli and John McLean, members of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky: a bill to Eli for medicinal supplies; an order to Eli for carpet; a letter to John asking forbearance on payment of a note due; and a letter to Eli regarding the purchase of a sow.
Whyte, Samuel G., 1774-1833 - Letter To (Sc 3191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whyte, Samuel G., 1774-1833 - Letter To (Sc 3191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3191. Letters to Samuel G. Whyte, a member of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, from James A. Pearce, Louisville, Kentucky. Pearce discusses debts due to Whyte and urges Whyte to satisfy debts he owes to Pearce. He also refers to having his brother-in-law William Clark, an estate legatee, sign a deed of release for lands sold to Whyte.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 600. Typescript of the South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Necropolis, a compilation of deaths at the colony from 1810-1918. The deceased’s name, place and date of birth, date of death and age at death are provided. An index of men's and women's names is included.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 599. Shaker Record D, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. The journal has been typescripted from the original, held at the Shaker Museum at South Union. Click on "Additional Files" below for an index of names.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 598. Shaker Record B, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. The journal has been typescripted from the original, held at the Shaker Museum at South Union. Click on "Additional Files" below for an index of names.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 597. Shaker Record A, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. Includes a record of the missionary trip to Kentucky from the east, and the 1830 constitution and covenant of the South Union colony. An index of names and a full-text scan of John Rankin's autobiography has been added to this record (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 64. Ledger volume containing fulling mill records, (1814-1815), accounts (1843-1844), and journal (1909-1911) of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 62. Diary of Shaker eldress Nancy E. Moore, and a journal, probably kept by Shaker eldress Lucy Shannon. The diary and journal record life in the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, with Moore’s diary focused on the Civil War years 1863-1864.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 63. Business records, deeds, notes, receipts, surveys, agreements, bill of complaint, etc., 1800-85; account books, 1843-89; journals, 1865-1916; agreement book of probationary members, 1858-1904; and manuscript hymnals, 1844-86 (6) of the Shaker Society of South Union, Kentucky. Journals include censuses of members. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of deaths at South Union "from the beginning to the present date January 1st, 1879," with addenda to 1892; a name index to Shaker Record C; and a name index of probationary members signing Articles of Agreement.
South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3059. Letter, 1 September 2016, to friends of the South Union Shaker Village, South Union, Kentucky, soliciting funds for the purchase of two acres of land and a building, known as the 1854 Wash House or Sisters Shop, for preservation and interpretation by the Village. An enclosure provides a history of the Wash House and includes photographs.
Doll, Howard D. And Anne (Parker) Doll (Mss 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Doll, Howard D. And Anne (Parker) Doll (Mss 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 573. Correspondence and papers of of the Pool, Keel and Beauchamp families of Metcalfe (formerly Barren) County, Kentucky. Includes papers of related families: Mitchell, Clark, Rogers, Cook, Shirley Yates, and others. Civil War letters include a letter from James F. Keel (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescript) describing activity at Nashville, Tennessee in July 1862.
Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 554. Personal and professional correspondence of Auburn, Kentucky native and New York banker Harold H. Helm. Includes biographical materials, speeches, miscellaneous papers and photographs.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 552. Personal and professional correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian. Includes ancestral and family correspondence and papers, photographs, and genealogical research on the Helm, Carson, Porter, Blakey and related families.
Shakers (Sc 2938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers (Sc 2938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2938. Compilation of manuscript and printed Shaker hymns, and instructions for dances to accompany hymns. Some of the hymns were transcribed by Roger Hall.
Milliken, Rena Edna, 1909-1998 (Mss 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Milliken, Rena Edna, 1909-1998 (Mss 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Sears Family Papers (Mss 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sears Family Papers (Mss 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 518. Full text of Sears family documents can be accessed by clicking "Additional Files" below. Shaker manuscript hymnal commenced by Polly Ann Smith in 1848; copy book of Shaker Chauncey E. Sears, 1840-1870, which includes occasional original poems and essays by Sears as well as short examples of popular and historical authors; an 1829 letter from Rufus Bishop that extols the moral virtues of the Shakers; historical and genealogical information about the Sears family.
Kentucky Folklore Record (Mss 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklore Record (Mss 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Miller, Russell Hale, 1905-1968 (Mss 498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Russell Hale, 1905-1968 (Mss 498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 498 and full text of "Shakertown Revisited" (click on "Additional File" below). Working copies of scripts for two plays, “This Fair Land” and “Shakertown” by Russell Miller, a faculty member of WKU’s Department of Speech and Theater. Also includes working copies of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Herbert Kanzell and “The Boor” by Anton Chekhov, two plays that were staged by Miller.
Dulaney, Woodford, 1799-1878 (Sc 2827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dulaney, Woodford, 1799-1878 (Sc 2827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2827. Letter, 29 April 1848, postmarked Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Woodford Dulaney to his nephew Robert L. Dulaney, in Marshall, Illinois. He discusses business affairs, including land sales and leases, refers to disputes over the estates of two of Robert’s uncles, relates family news, and comments on worship services by the Shaker community in which they “jump higher & quicker than ever.” He also expresses an intention to watch the Shakers “cut capers” in a local ten-acre field they have cleared.