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Covington, Dale (Sc 2034), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Covington, Dale (Sc 2034), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2034. Catalog for "Portrait of a Town: Cave City, Kentucky," a 2009 Kentucky Library & Museum exhibition featuring the photographs of William R. Reynolds, Jr. taken approximately 1908-1910. Includes images and descriptions of Cave City citizens (both white and African American), homes, churches, schools and businesses, as well as information about Reynolds, his family and home, early 20th century cameras and Kentucky photographers, and the development of Cave City.
Simpson County, Kentucky - Teachers Register (Sc 2030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Simpson County, Kentucky - Teachers Register (Sc 2030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2030. Pages from a ledger listing Simpson County, Kentucky school districts by number, the names of school trustees and teachers, and some information on school fund expenditures.
Ralph Bunche Community Center Oral History Project (Fa 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ralph Bunche Community Center Oral History Project (Fa 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 455. Interviews with ten African Americans who attended the Ralph Bunche School in Glasgow, Kentucky. Informants provide history and other information related to the importance of the school in Glasgow's African American community.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1805-1865 (Sc 2017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1805-1865 (Sc 2017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2017. Stray court records, including wills, deeds, peace warrants, teacher's contract, and other miscellaneous documents from Warren County, Kentucky. Chiefly concerning the Isbell family of said county.
Lawrence Family (Sc 1956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lawrence Family (Sc 1956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1956. Leather bound notebook, 1812-1819, letters and receipts of Lawrence family members in Kentucky, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri; includes genealogical information; also estate records for Levi Lawrence who died in Warren County, Kentucky in 1957.
Riverside, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 1693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Riverside, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 1693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 1693. Enrollment and attendance book kept by teacher Mollie Sherry for the July-December, 1912 term at Riverside School in Warren County, Kentucky.
St. Columba Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
St. Columba Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1982. Register of students of St. Columba Academy, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and its successor, St. Joseph's School. Register covers 1887-1890, 1898-1906, 1910-1936. Includes photocopy of grade record of Georgia Johnson.
Stickles, Arndt Mathis, 1872-1968 (Mss 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stickles, Arndt Mathis, 1872-1968 (Mss 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Correspondence, both personal and professional, as well as research material related to books and articles published by Stickles, a native of Indiana and a history professor at Western Kentucky University from 1908 to 1954. His most popular book was "Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight."
Marshall, Mabel Elizabeth, 1928-2014 (Sc 1962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Marshall, Mabel Elizabeth, 1928-2014 (Sc 1962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1962. Autograph album kept by Mabel Elizabeth Marshall while in the 5th grade at Greenwood School, Warren County, Kentucky.
Witten, Tempie Jane (Bell), 1901-1985 (Mss 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Witten, Tempie Jane (Bell), 1901-1985 (Mss 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 261. Correspondence, chiefly genealogical related; family files; research materials about Grayson County, Kentucky schools, churches, businesses, history, and personalities. Also includes items related to Witten's long career as a teacher in Grayson County schools.
Burns, William Franklin, 1909-1981 (Sc 1944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burns, William Franklin, 1909-1981 (Sc 1944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1944. Letters of Burns, Rogers, Arkansas, to O. O. Pillans, director of admissions at the Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Jefferson County, Kentucky, related to the admission of his son Robert J. Burns. Includes instructions to new students at the 1948-1949 session.
Briggs, Analee, 1905-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Briggs, Analee, 1905-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1924. Letter to Analee Briggs from Fay Bryant, New York City, 6 June 1945, relating her activities there; letter from Congressman William H. Natcher, Washington, D.C., 9 June 1969, expressing his sympathy on her loss of a family member.
Cardwell, Edna Ray, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 1920), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cardwell, Edna Ray, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 1920), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu
Sabin Collection (Mss 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sabin Collection (Mss 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 260. Letterbook containing correspondence of railroad engineer, Alpheus T. Sabin. Of particular note is information about railroad stations built in Louisville, Kentucky and Memphis, Tennessee. Also includes a store account book from Princeton, Kentucky, 1882-1885, and a small diary kept by Mrs. E.R. Sabin related to Princeton social life, 1890.
Gilbert, Helen Lynn, 1949-1981 (Sc 1889), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gilbert, Helen Lynn, 1949-1981 (Sc 1889), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1889. Paper: "Early Schools in Warren County [Kentucky]" written by Helen Lynn Gilbert.
Bevier-Cleaton High School, 1931 (Sc 1802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bevier-Cleaton High School, 1931 (Sc 1802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1802. School stationery with 1931 class list, Bevier-Cleaton High School, Cleaton, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
Dalton, Susan (Fa 424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dalton, Susan (Fa 424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 424. Interviews conducted by Susan Dalton with George Offitt, Sr., Gene W. Brown, Monya Vance Pryor, and Ann Scharklet related to race and integration in Sumner County, Tennessee.
Bradburn, Ethel (Huffines), 1889-1954 - Collector (Sc 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bradburn, Ethel (Huffines), 1889-1954 - Collector (Sc 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 98. A collection of papers of related families consisting mainly of tax receipts, 1791-1846, of Andrew Hodges; receipts, 1839-1875, and militia notices, 1847, chiefly for Andrew Kellis; will of Robert Reynolds, 1814, all of Warren County, Kentucky; and agreement and receipts to teach school in Simpson County, Kentucky, 1842, 1846. Also miscellaneous items and research notes.
Shaw, Henrietta Fannie, 1839-1917 - Letters To (Sc 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shaw, Henrietta Fannie, 1839-1917 - Letters To (Sc 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 112. Chiefly letters from girl friends of Henrietta Fannie Shaw, Logan County, Kentucky, 1863-1867, a slave bill of sale, 1863, and miscellaneous writings.
Cole, Jennie Bryant, 1872-1957 (Sc 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cole, Jennie Bryant, 1872-1957 (Sc 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 103. Letters (3), 1933-1951, to Mary Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and papers (4), 1933-1941, written by Cole and titled: Cedar Bluff College," "Oakland's First Baseball Team," "The Oakland Country," and "Some Name Places of Warren County, Kentucky."
Stowers-Shaw Family Papers (Sc 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stowers-Shaw Family Papers (Sc 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 96. Deeds for land in Daviess County, Kentucky, 1839, 1840; tax and tuition receipts, transfer of a patent, two letters, and miscellaneous papers of the Stowers and Shaw families.
Irvine, M. Loula (Sc 1739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Irvine, M. Loula (Sc 1739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1739. Teacher's grade book kept by M. Loula Irvine from September 1889 to January 1890 for an unidentified Kentucky school. Also includes some notes on elocution.