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Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 352. Material related to Cecil Murray Elrod, chiefly about his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-21. Includes notes on planes and guns discussed during training, aviators flight log books, and other military papers. Also includes information about reunions of the Valley High School (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Class of 1943.
Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2402. Letters of Louis Arnold Rich, a U. S. Army private from Tompkinsville, Kentucky, written to his wife and in-laws during his military training and while hospitalized for a long illness that resulted in his death on 3 August 1944. He writes of his medical condition and mentions other soldiers from home. Includes letters from his wife, Martha, to her parents and grandmother discussing his medical treatment. Also includes an unidentified soldier’s letter and a child’s letter to her father.
Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 49. Correspondence of the Green family, Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky, including business papers and account books, and correspondence for several generations of the Robert Wilmot Scott family, originally of Frankfort, Kentucky.
Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 345. Correspondence, legal documents, and sundry material related to the Meador, Richards, and Johnson families chiefly of Simpson County and Logan County, Kentucky. Also includes documents and correspondence from the King and Garrett families of Robertson and Sumner County, Tennessee. The attached 1842 letters are from R. M. Latimer to Caroline Garrett reporting the death and burial of her brother, George King, in Cuba; and to Caroline Garrett from another brother, John, discussing tensions with Mexico.
Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 281. Chiefly personal and professional correspondence, speeches, journal articles, reminiscences, and news clippings of noted educator Chester Coleman Travelstead. Of particular interest are the materials related to his 1955 dismissal from the University of South Carolina owing to his support of racial integration. Also includes correspondence and diaries of his mother Nelle (Gooch) Travelstead, long-time Western Kentucky University faculty member.
Tolle, Donald James, 1918-1993 (Sc 2344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle, Donald James, 1918-1993 (Sc 2344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Typescripted World War II diary of Donald James Tolle, kept 1942-1945 while serving in England, Italy and North Africa with the Army Air Corps, 47th Bombardment Group (Light). Includes diary annotations made in 1988, materials from a 1979 reunion of the Bombardment Group, biographical data on Tolle, his obituary, and a colleague's remarks at his memorial service.
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 330. Letters written to parents, friends, faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University by students during their service in Word War II. Includes some press releases, newspaper articles and photos. Also includes a history and travel log of the USS Stevens.
Warren County, Kentucky - World War Ii Servicemen (Mss 326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - World War Ii Servicemen (Mss 326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 326. Data and newspaper clippings on U.S. military personnel from Warren County, collected during their service in World War II. The seventy pages of names includes women and African Americans.
Swann Family - Ration Books, 1943 (Sc 2320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Swann Family - Ration Books, 1943 (Sc 2320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2230. World War II ration books (4; covers only) belonging to various members of the Swann family of Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York. Also includes some brief biographical notes about the family.
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Mss 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Mss 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 323. Chiefly letters to Gabrielle Robertson, History Department faculty member, Western Kentucky University, 1916 to 1960. Of particular interest are those letters from former students serving in the military during World War II. Also includes genealogical materials and family photographs.
Pearson, Murl Douglas, 1920-1970 (Sc 2285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearson, Murl Douglas, 1920-1970 (Sc 2285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2285. Letters sent from Murl D. Pearson to his parents, Dewey and Cora Pearson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he relates information about his service in the U.S. Army in World War II. Pearson was working at a desk job in England during the course of these letters.
Sutton, Thomas W. (Sc 2319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sutton, Thomas W. (Sc 2319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2319. "A Letter on a Record" from World War II in which Thomas W. Sutton, Camp Crowder, Missouri, records an oral letter on a phonograph record to Eva Mae Stone, Washington, D.C. The record has a U.S.O. logo and the paper enclosure has a military theme. A typescript of the letter is included.
Newman, Robert Mason, 1910-1988 & Frances Earlene (Holton) Newman, B. 1918 (Sc 2278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Newman, Robert Mason, 1910-1988 & Frances Earlene (Holton) Newman, B. 1918 (Sc 2278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2278. Miscellaneous papers, chiefly items related to Robert Mason Newman's retirement from the U.S. Naval Reserves and pre-marriage letters written to Frances Earlene Holton from her friends.
Brashear, Kathleen, 1895-1986 (Sc 2260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brashear, Kathleen, 1895-1986 (Sc 2260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2260. Card, with picture of his home, sent by T.C. Cherry to teacher Kathleen Brashear, prior to the outbreak of World War II. Also, related correspondence and biographical material about Brashear.
Toomey, Lawrence Otto, 1903-1992 (Sc 2212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Toomey, Lawrence Otto, 1903-1992 (Sc 2212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2212. Lawrence Otto Toomey's memoir titled "Duty in the Medical Corps Reserves, May 11, 1942-January 30, 1966," dealing chiefly with his service in the Pacific during World War II. Also includes a copy of his obituary.
Wku Veterans History Project (Mss 278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wku Veterans History Project (Mss 278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 278. Biographical data sheets and video interviews with U.S. war veterans in western Kentucky as part of the Veterans History Project, created by Congress in 2000. Dr. Gary L. Villereal, regional project coordinator.
Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 (Sc 2173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 (Sc 2173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2173. Materials related to Clifton Wallace Lampkin, the mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1953-1959. Includes correspondence, award certificates and appreciations of his philanthropy, a photograph, and a resolution passed on his death by American National Bank and Trust Company. Also includes letters from two post-World War II refugees thanking him for aid packages.
Avery, James Russell, B. 1921 (Sc 2128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Avery, James Russell, B. 1921 (Sc 2128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2128. "My Story," the autobiography of James Russell Avery, a Hardin County native, prepared as a project of WKU gerontology student Shaylin Gimborys. Includes illustrations and genealogical information on the Avery family.
Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2148. Letters (2) written to George A Brown, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee, from two friends serving overseas during World War II; one was in Germany and the other was in the Pacific.