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Masters, John Post, D. 1973 (Sc 2126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Masters, John Post, D. 1973 (Sc 2126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2126. Typescript of a paper written by John Post Masters, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1964 and titled "The Start of Silent Moving Pictures in the United States."
Scraps To Quilts (Exhibition) (Fa 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scraps To Quilts (Exhibition) (Fa 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Materials collected by Western Kentucky University folk studies students for an exhibition titled "Scraps to Kentucky Quilts." Includes meeting minutes, publicity material, label information, data sheets for submitted quilts, negatives and proof sheets, and interviews with quiltmakers.
Mcfarland, Jonnie, 1873-1953 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcfarland, Jonnie, 1873-1953 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2120. Autograph album of Jonnie McFarland, Bristow, Kentucky. Includes part of a menu from J. A. Rabold, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Curle, Richard, 1883-1968 (Sc 2114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Curle, Richard, 1883-1968 (Sc 2114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2114. Letter, 30 September 1929, written by Richard Curle to "Katherine" in which he mentions their attendance at a party and her criticism of his novel.
Spears, Angela (Fa 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spears, Angela (Fa 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 344. Paper: "Folklore and Media Project on Folklore in Advertisements," written by Angela Spears for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Mccormick, Mary (Sloss), 1873-1904 (Sc 2118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccormick, Mary (Sloss), 1873-1904 (Sc 2118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2118. Letter written by Mary Sloss, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mary Stagner, a member of her wedding party, related to attire; newspaper announcement of 16 April 1889 wedding of Mary Sloss and Herschel McCormick.
Strange, Carrie, 1862-1940 (Sc 2110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strange, Carrie, 1862-1940 (Sc 2110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2110. Autograph albums (2) kept by Carrie Strange of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Several of those autographing the album took artistic and literate license with their work. Also includes a pen & ink drawing of a young woman, dated 1908.
Brown, Carol P. - Collector (Sc 2105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Carol P. - Collector (Sc 2105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and print (attached as an additional file) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2105. Collaborative set of three signed poems by Jim Wayne Miller and an Ivan Schieferdecker art print titled "Late Fall" (numbered 77/100 and signed), along with the typescript of another signed poem by Miller. Also includes a promotional piece for the set.
Kindred, Gayle (Fa 126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kindred, Gayle (Fa 126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 126. Paper: "Mail or artwork?" written by Gayle Kindred for a Folk Studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes a collection and description of stylized mail received by students at Western Kentucky University, 1985-1986.
Jasper, Cindy Rhea (Fa 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jasper, Cindy Rhea (Fa 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 129. Paper: "Folklore in the Mass Media" written by Cindy Rhea Jasper for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes examples of folk sayings, songs, games, proverbs, and traditional images in advertisements found in "Ladies Home Journal," February 1981 to February 1982. Includes photocopies of 56 magazine ads.
Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text paper (click on Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2103. Paper: "A New Look at the History of Soldier's Retreat" produced by Lawrence L. Barr for an adult education class at Senior House, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky. Soldier's Retreat was built around 1789 in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Bousman, Louise Tate, 1906-1979 (Sc 2102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bousman, Louise Tate, 1906-1979 (Sc 2102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2102. Draft weaving pattern for a "Snail Trail" coverlet originally included in a 1781 letter from a young soldier to his sweetheart in western Virginia (present day Kentucky). The pattern was a memento given at a 1977 weaving convention. Distributed by Bousman's Little Loomhouse, Louisville, Kentucky. Includes an inscription on the verso from Bousman.
Thompson, Mary Helen, 1875-1962 (Sc 2097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thompson, Mary Helen, 1875-1962 (Sc 2097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2097. Diary kept by Mary H. Thompson, a physician's daughter living near Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky, from February to November 1902. She writes of social events, home life, teaching school, church attendance, family and friends.
Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 2096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 2096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2096. Photocopied letters from Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice to Henry and Rebecca Watterson, 1903-1916 (13), chiefly including personal advice, discussions of literary topics, and social invitations. Also includes a brief note to Benjamin W. Huebsch, n.d., giving a positive review of a book titled 'Dragnet; and a letter to William Orton Tewson, n.d., in which Rice discusses literary criticism. Originals are held in the Library of Congress.
Starr, Tommy - Collector (Sc 2095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Starr, Tommy - Collector (Sc 2095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2095. Promotional material, tour information and cue sheets related to bands playing in the Bowling Green, Kentucky area.
Stuart, Jessica Jane, B. 1942 (Sc 1209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stuart, Jessica Jane, B. 1942 (Sc 1209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1209. Correspondence between Jessica Jane Stuart and Lawrence S. Thompson regarding a reprint of her story "A Man of Her Own Faith" for the Lost Cause Press. Includes a copy of the story, published in "Bluegrass Woman," Spring 1974. Stuart also writes of her doctoral studies and her difficulty finding a teaching position.
Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 2094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 2094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2094. Photocopied letters from Cale Young Rice to Henry Watterson, 1906-1917 (11), chiefly thank you notes and letters asking for the support of the 'Courier-Journal' for various causes; to Benjamin W. Huebsch, 1918 and response 1919 (2), about publishing some of his poems; and letter to William Orton Tewson, 1926 (1) in which he discusses literary criticism. Originals are held in the Library of Congress.
Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 - Photos (Sc 2092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 - Photos (Sc 2092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2092. Slides (and pictures made from the slides) of Janice Holt Giles and her husband, Henry E. Giles, friends, and interiors of their house in Knifley, Kentucky.
Clark Family (Sc 2079), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark Family (Sc 2079), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2079. Postcards sent to Mr. and Mrs. Ivo Clark and Mrs. Harriet Mathis in Owensboro, Kentucky. The postcards are photo and novelty cards; one postcard shows the Little Sisters of the Poor Convent in Evansville, Indiana.
Giles, Janice Holt, 1909-1979 (Sc 2090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Giles, Janice Holt, 1909-1979 (Sc 2090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2090. Photocopies of news clippings and photographs related to Kentucky authors, Janice Holt Giles and Henry Giles. Manuscript note from Pansy Phillips to Pat Hodges; photos taken on a barge related to research for Mrs. Giles's book 'Run Me a River' (1964); and photocopies of Mr. and Mrs. Giles's wills, 1970 & 1985.
Joiner, Sandra (Sc 2089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Joiner, Sandra (Sc 2089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2089. Scholarly papers (3) written by Sandra Joiner about Kentucky author, Janice Holt Giles. One paper is untitled; the others are titled; "Janice Holt Giles: Woman of Contradictions" and "The Concept of 'Place' in the Fiction of Janice Holt Giles." Also includes two photographs of conference attendees.
Janice Holt Giles Symposium, May 17-18, 1991 (Sc 2067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Janice Holt Giles Symposium, May 17-18, 1991 (Sc 2067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2067. Miscellaneous items from the Janice Holt Giles Symposium held 17-18 May 1991 at Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky. Includes a cassette tape containing remarks by Giles's daughter Libby Hancock and songs sung by Wig Robinson at the Caldwell Chapel Church, Knifley, Kentucky where Giles and her husband are buried.
Woodridge, James & Nancy (Sc 2084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woodridge, James & Nancy (Sc 2084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2084. Transcript of an interview conducted by Wilford Fridy, a English Department faculty member at Western Kentucky University, with James and Nancy Woolridge, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The interview revolves around the Woolridge's familial connections to characters in Robert Penn Warren's stories in his book "Circus in the Attic."
Warren, Rosanna, B. 1953 (Sc 2056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Rosanna, B. 1953 (Sc 2056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2056. Letter from Rosanna Warren, the daughter of Robert Penn Warren, to Dr. Henry Hardin, thanking him for his hospitality when she and her mother attended the Robert Penn Warren Symposium at Western Kentucky University on 26 April 1992. She expresses her hope to write a poem about the ticking clock in Hardin's home.
Janice Holt Giles Symposium, 17-18 May 1991 (Mss 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Janice Holt Giles Symposium, 17-18 May 1991 (Mss 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 283. Five videocassette recordings of the Janice Holt Giles Symposium presentations made on 17-18 May 1991. Also inlcudes, "Janice Holt Giles", a publication based on papers delivered at the Symposium.
Travelstead, Nelle (Gooch), 1888-1974 (Sc 2046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Travelstead, Nelle (Gooch), 1888-1974 (Sc 2046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2046. Undated Christmas poem written by Nelle Gooch Travelstead for her grandson Coleman Travelstead; explanatory letter 30 June 2008 from Coleman Travelstead to Jonathan Jeffrey.
Shaw, Mary Mosby (Sc 2041), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shaw, Mary Mosby (Sc 2041), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2041. Composition book of Mary Mosby Shaw, Glasgow, Kentucky, containing children's poems. An additional file contains one of the poems from the composition book titled "Old Santa's Wife."
Obenchain, Margery C., 1887-1923 (Sc 2039), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Obenchain, Margery C., 1887-1923 (Sc 2039), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 2039. Letter from Margery C. Obenchain, in Sulphur Springs, Missouri, to "Alice" in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She writes of recent social activities and travel, including a visit to the St. Louis World's Fair.
Interviews With Forrest Winston Coggan (Fa 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interviews With Forrest Winston Coggan (Fa 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcripts of four interviews (Click on "Additional Files" below) with Forrest Winston Coggan, dance educator and choreographer. The telephone interviews were conducted in 2006-2007 by Meredith Martin, a graduate student in Western Kentucky University's Folk Studies Department.
Martin, Meredith (Fa 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Meredith (Fa 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 454. Transcripts of four telephone interviews conducted with dance educator and choreographer Forrest W. Coggan by Meredith Martin, a graduate student in Western Kentucky University's Folk Studies Department.