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Robertson, J. Lee, B. 1922 (Fa 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, J. Lee, B. 1922 (Fa 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 535. Interview with J. Lee Robertson conducted by Kenneth Hines and Gil Calhoun in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Robertson reminisces about the U.S. Army during World war II and his long association with Western Kentucky University.
Klimowicz, Teresa D. (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Klimowicz, Teresa D. (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives 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.
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 11. Interviews conducted by Luanne Carol (Aylesworth) Glynn with Marvel (Welborn) Mohon, Lewisburg, Kentucky concerning Thanksgiving customs, with much attention paid to Marvel’s life, especially her family.
Beeler, Andrew J., Jr. (Sc 2362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beeler, Andrew J., Jr. (Sc 2362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 2362. "Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Her Interpretation of LIfe" by Andrew J. Beeler, Jr., a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, University of Louisiville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1940.
Bere, Jenny Rose, D. 1987 (Sc 2371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bere, Jenny Rose, D. 1987 (Sc 2371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2371. "Cale Young Rice[:] A Study of His Life and Work" by Jenny Rose Bere, "a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts," University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1939.
Reaves, Gary R. (Sc 2389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reaves, Gary R. (Sc 2389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2389. "The Significance of Time in the Novels of Robert Penn Warren," a thesis presented "in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree," Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, 1963.
Chaney, Thomas Peyton (Sc 2395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chaney, Thomas Peyton (Sc 2395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2395. "An Analysis of the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren for Oral Interpretation," a thesis presented "in partial fulfillment of the requirements [for the] degree of Master of Arts," Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 1966.
Lair, John, 1894-1985 (Sc 2380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lair, John, 1894-1985 (Sc 2380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2380. Letter, 16 January 1954, from John Lair, Renfro Valley, Kentucky, to S. M. Gowder in Powder Springs, Georgia, regarding the inability to fulfill his request for the 13 December 1953 broadcast of the Renfro Valley Sunday Morning Gathering radio program.
Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Sc 2352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Sc 2352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2352. Paper on Will Rogers, written by Dan Ray Stone for his senior thesis, Bowling Green High School, Bolwing Green, Kentucky, class of 1940. A pen and ink sketch of Rogers by Stone can be accessed by clicking on "Additional File" below.
Nahm, Max Brunswick, 1864-1958 (Mss 329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nahm, Max Brunswick, 1864-1958 (Mss 329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 329. Correspondence of Max B. Nahm relating mainly to his involvement with the Mammoth Cave National Park Association and the Kentucky National Park Commission in the establishment of Mammoth Cave National Park, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Includes some Association and Commission minutes. Also includes some of Nahm's speeches, writings, personal photographs, and material relating to the Nahm family.
Settle-Dewitt Family Papers (Mss 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Settle-Dewitt Family Papers (Mss 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of Folders 2 and 3 relating to genealogy (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 332. Includes correspondence, genealogical materials; wills, deeds and other legal documents of the Settle and DeWitt families; and the memoir of Marcus Bearden DeWitt, a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and a Civil War chaplain (Click on "Additional Files" below). Also of interest is information related to the Settle rifle makers of Barren County, Kentucky.
Interview With Opal Cline Crabb Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Opal Cline Crabb Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Opal Cline Crabb conducted by Joe Adams for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Crabb discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in McLean County, Kentucky, education, her teaching experience in a one-room school, food preservation at home including hog butchering and meat processing, the introduction of radios and televisions, the Green River and steamboats.
Burt, John D., B. 1955 (Mss 325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burt, John D., B. 1955 (Mss 325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 325. Proof copy of a book titled "Democracy and Poetry: Robert Penn Warren and the Fate of Inwardness." (365 p.) This manuscript was adapted and later published as "Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism."
Plemmons, Florence Williams, B. 1936 (Sc 2286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Plemmons, Florence Williams, B. 1936 (Sc 2286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2286. Thesis: "Janice Holt Giles: A Bio-Bibliography with Evaluations of the Kentucky Frontier Books as Historical Fiction," written by Florence Williams Plemmons in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Science degree from the University of Tennessee.
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 317. Professional correspondence, short stories, book and story manuscripts, author's notes, reviews, and primary and secondary research materials relating to the literary career of Emanie Louise Nahm Philips, a Bowling Green native. Includes some photographs, notices and reviews relating to her work as an artist, family biographical material, and personal correspondence.
Hart County, Kentucky - Prescriptions (Sc 2279), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hart County, Kentucky - Prescriptions (Sc 2279), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2279. Prescriptions written primarily by physicians practicing in Hart County, Kentucky and surrounding counties. Some are written on the physician's own form while others are written on the form of a local druggist or drugstore.
Belcher, Scott Minor (Fa 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Belcher, Scott Minor (Fa 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 195. Interview done by Scott Belcher with Bill Thompson,BreckinridgeCounty, Kentucky, in which Thompson reminisces about his youth. Includes transcription and cassette tape.
Hatfield-Gaines Family, 1834-1981 (Mss 2275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hatfield-Gaines Family, 1834-1981 (Mss 2275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2275. Chiefy receipts, deeds, wills, and other legal and financial documents of the Hatfield and Gaines families of Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes some Civil War-era correspondence of the Hatfield family.
Alvis, Elizabeth Duncan (Stark), 1876-1959 (Mss 320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Alvis, Elizabeth Duncan (Stark), 1876-1959 (Mss 320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 320. Correspondence, genealogical notes, scrapbook, and photos chiefly related to the Stark family of Allen County and Warren County, Kentucky, especially Confederate veteran John William Stark. Includes a narrative of John William Stark's Civil War service written by his daughter, and World War I discharge certificate of Richard C. Stark (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Garrison, Samuel W., 1762-1833 (Sc 1216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Garrison, Samuel W., 1762-1833 (Sc 1216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1216. Booklet (20 p.) kept by Samuel W. Garrison, Allen County, Kentucky, which includes family genealogical records, a poem titled "The Choice, etc." as well as a note of advice to his children. Also includes some biographical information assembled by the Archivist related to the Garrison family.
Cain, Bevie Waughn, 1844-1883 (Sc 2251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cain, Bevie Waughn, 1844-1883 (Sc 2251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2251. Letters (31) from Cain to James M. Davis, written mostly during the Civil War from her home and school in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and from Illinois. A strong Confederate sympathizer, Cain responds to Davis’s support of the Union, criticizes President Abraham Lincoln, and opines freely on love, courtship and marriage. She also writes of mutual friends, family, and social and religious activities. Includes 3 additional letters to Davis from his father, sister, and a friend who writes of an opportunity to manage a store. Also includes …
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Poetry, [1862] (Sc 2264), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Poetry, [1862] (Sc 2264), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2264. Thirteen poems relating to the Civil War, some to be sung to popular tunes of the era, copied on lined ledger paper. Some of the poems praise the Union forces in the Kentucky battles of Mill Springs and Perryville; others relate to Lincoln's 1860 election and to Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan.
Campbell, Arthur L. (Sc 2254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Campbell, Arthur L. (Sc 2254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2254. Correspondence between Arthur L. Campbell and H.L. Mencken related to Campbell's newspaper column "How's Your English Today" and his requests for permission to quote Mencken in his column. Mencken's last two letters were written by his secretary owing to his poor health.
African Americans In The Upper Cumberland Region (Fa 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
African Americans In The Upper Cumberland Region (Fa 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 510. Collection features interviews with and about African Americans in the upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee. The project was part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University taught by Lynwwod Montell.
Hickey, Frankie (Fa 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hickey, Frankie (Fa 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Foklife Archives Project 511. This collection contains a tape recorded interview conducted by Frankie Hickey with Ida Ellington Williams. It also contains short written life stories for Williams and several other African Americans from southcentral Kentucky and middle Tennessee.
Smith, C. Jason - Compiler (Sc 2242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, C. Jason - Compiler (Sc 2242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2242. "Concordance to Robert Penn Warren's 'All the King's Men'" (based on the first edition). Also includes associated letter.
African American Heritage In Bowling Green And Warren County, Kentucky (Fa 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
African American Heritage In Bowling Green And Warren County, Kentucky (Fa 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 509. This collection contains tape recorded interviews conducted by Maxine Ray and Theresa Lee. the interviews deal with the heritage of African Americans in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky. This project was sponsored by a grant from the Kentucky Oral History Commission.
Sachs, Emanie (Nahm), 1893-1981 (Sc 2241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sachs, Emanie (Nahm), 1893-1981 (Sc 2241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2241. Letters of Emanie Nahm Sachs, written from New York City and Bowling Green, Kentucky, to John Wilson Townsend, Lexington, Kentucky. Sachs discusses research for her (never published) history of Kentucky and comments on Kentucky authors. Includes Sachs's newspaper advertisement soliciting information for her history. Also includes a letter from Townsend's widow regarding donation of the letters.
Doyon, Anne Marie P. (Mss 300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Doyon, Anne Marie P. (Mss 300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 300. "Kentucky's Traditional Courthouses: Preservation in the Heart of the Community," a Master's project written by Ann Marie P. Doyon for the Department of Historic Preservation, College of Design, University of Kentucky.
Brennan, Mary Zita, B. 1955 (Sc 2229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brennan, Mary Zita, B. 1955 (Sc 2229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2229. Dissertation titled "Sense of Place: Reconstructing Community Through Archeology, Oral History, and GIS" written by Mary Zita Brennan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Arkansas. The work focuses on families along Moccasin and Indian Creeks in northwest Pope County, Arkansas. Appendices on compact disc. Tate Cromwell "Piney" Page was on the faculty of Western Kentucky University for many years.