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American Material Culture

2010

Bowling Green

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Geiger, Alison Anne (Fa 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Geiger, Alison Anne (Fa 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 14. Interviews conducted by Alison Geiger with Grace (Meador) Galloway about her quilting. Includes step-by-step instructions, with photographs, demonstrating the construction of a cathedral window quilt block. Grace's life is also discussed, including raising her family on a farm in Warren County.


Klimowicz, Teresa D. (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Klimowicz, Teresa D. (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 13. Interviews conducted by Teresa D. Klimowicz with Esther (Magers) Isbell, a native of Barren Coutny, Kentucky. Special attention is focused on her biblical themed quilts. Isbell also discusses her various occupations and participation in community affairs while living in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2206. Correspondence relating to the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, a Bowling Green, Kentucky dressmaking firm. Includes letters from customers and a measurement questionnaire. A letter by an unidentified writer recommends the wages paid by Mrs. Taylor. Includes transcriptions of the letters made by Western Kentucky University student Theresa L. Jureka for her 1983 thesis on Taylor, and one unrelated letter from a father to his son.