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Strahm Family Collection (Mss 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strahm Family Collection (Mss 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 655. Data, clippings and information about the Strahm family and related families. Most of the material relates to Franz J. Strahm, WKU music director from 1910-1941, and his son Victor H. Strahm’s career in military service. Includes photographs of Franz, Victor, and other family members.
Jackson, Carlton Luther, 1933-2014 (Mss 581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Carlton Luther, 1933-2014 (Mss 581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 581. Research and manuscripts for books written by Western Kentucky University history professor Carlton Jackson. Includes some personal and professional correspondence, unpublished writing, and a partial memoir. Click on "Additional Files" below to see a listing of correspondents who provided information about the influenza pandemic of 1918. This correspondence is found in Boxes 13 and 14.
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 (Sc 3227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 (Sc 3227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3227. “Warren County War Dead: World War I,” by Ray Buckberry, Jr., a compilation containing data on Warren County, Kentucky soldiers who died in World War I. Includes data on overseas cemeteries and visits by Gold Star mothers and wives of the dead.
Carley Family Papers (Sc 3223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carley Family Papers (Sc 3223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3223. Letters and papers of George Carley of Georgetown, Kentucky and family (mainly daughters, a granddaughter, and nieces). Relatives in Ontario, Canada and in Pennsylvania report family news and mourn the soldiers of World War I; a daughter writes from Arkansas of taxes and the economy, her stepson writes of medical studies during the influenza pandemic, and her brother-in-law writes of oil and investments. George’s papers include solicitations from makers of fencing and farm supplies.
Also includes children’s letters and poems.