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New Matriarchs: Louisville, Kentucky Ii (Fa 1001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
New Matriarchs: Louisville, Kentucky Ii (Fa 1001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Digital audio interviews, transcripts of the same, photographs and digital photo files, and corollary material related to a project conducted by Laura Fleming Ospital titled "New Matriarchs: Louisville II" in 2014-2015. It details the lives of women from Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Mexico,and Uzbekistan. The digital interviews are stored in the WKU Sound Archives and the digital images are stored in The WKU Photo Archives.
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 590. Personal and professional papers of Christian County, Kentucky teacher and administrator Erleen (Joiner) Rogers, and novels, poems, skits, epigrams and witticisms written by her father, Robert Tinnon Joiner. Includes a collection of Joiner’s writings titled Nonsense and Wisdom From Flat Lick, Rogers’ family history titled Seven Generations in and From Flat Lick, other family data, and photographs.
Honeycutt, Roy Lee, Jr. (Sc 3066), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Honeycutt, Roy Lee, Jr. (Sc 3066), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 3066. “Response to ‘The Cover-up at Southern Seminary,’” a statement by Roy L. Honeycutt, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 22 April 1990. He offers a detailed defense of himself and the Seminary’s Board of Trustees against trustee Jerry Johnson’s criticism in a forthcoming article of his Biblical beliefs and commentary.
Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3057. Certificate no. 1653 dated 21 August 1890 for ten shares of stock in the Louisville Bridge Company, issued to J. S. Bell. The certificate is endorsed by Bell and bears a cancellation stamp of 4 April 1896. Includes an engraving of the bridge spanning the Ohio River and the canal at Louisville, Kentucky.
Beatty, Beverly D. (Fa 884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beatty, Beverly D. (Fa 884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 884. Paper titled: “Jewish Folklore.” Project includes survey sheets and note cards with brief descriptions of various religious and superstitious beliefs. Survey sheets and note cards include a brief description of each belief or saying and informant’s name.
Owens, Nellie, 1912-2007 (Sc 3051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Owens, Nellie, 1912-2007 (Sc 3051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3051. W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) sewing notebook of Nellie Owens, Louisville, Kentucky, containing fabric swatches and sewing samples.
Yancey, Clara Louise (Robertson) Keech), 1908-2004 (Mss 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Yancey, Clara Louise (Robertson) Keech), 1908-2004 (Mss 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 579. Correspondence, photographs, interviews and papers of Louisville, Kentucky native Clara Louise (Robertson) Keech Yancey. Includes papers and correspondence of her parents, Eugene and Clara Mae Robertson, brother James Thomas Robertson, husband William J. Keech, son William Robertson Keech, and family data.
Besten & Langen - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Besten & Langen - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3003. Letter to Camilla H. Gerard, Bowling Green Kentucky, from the Fur Storage Department of Besten & Langen, Louisville, Kentucky, advertising its storage and cleaning services for furs.
Durston, James Marion, 1920-2011 (Mss 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Durston, James Marion, 1920-2011 (Mss 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 571. Letters of James M. “Brandy” Durston, a Bowling Green, Kentucky chiropractor and later a resident of Southaven, Mississippi, with copious reminiscences of people and places in Bowling Green. Includes material relating primarily to Durston’s church in Memphis, Tennessee.
Sargent, George Henry, 1828-1917 (Mss 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sargent, George Henry, 1828-1917 (Mss 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of a portion of a diary (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 564. Diary kept by George Henry Sargent from 1 May 1851 to 10 January 1853. The Harvard student writes on a variety of subjects, including education, religion, historical events, travel, etc. Of particular interest is a three-month sojourn in 1852 with his sister, Lucy Baldwin (Sargent) Rupert in Louisville, Kentucky. While in Kentucky, he also visits Henderson and Mammoth Cave.