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Schottenfeld, Judith Dian (Fa 1309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1309. Student folk studies project titled “Construction of the White Oak Basket, ”which includes an interview with Walter Logsdon about the traditional basket making process in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Project includes sheets with a brief description of each traditional practice, tool, and photo.

Waldrop, Melanie (Fa 1310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1310. Student folk studies project titled “Basketmaking for Walter Logsdon: ‘A Way of Life,’” which includes two interviews with Walter Logsdon about the traditional basket making process in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Project includes sheets with a brief description of each traditional practice, tool, and photo.

Fekety, Steve (Fa 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1311. Student folk studies project titled “Basket Making,” about the traditional basket making process in Wax, Grayson County, Kentucky. Project includes sheets with a brief description of each traditional practice, illustration, material, tool, and/or photo.

Sadewasser, Judith K. "Judi" (Fa 1308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1308. Student folk studies project titled “The Folkways of Walter D. Logsdon: Basketmaker,” which includes an interview with Walter Logsdon about the traditional basket making process in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Project includes interview transcriptions along with sheets with a brief description of each traditional practice, tool, and photo.

Heritage, Tradition, And Craft In Quiltmaking (Fa 1131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1131. Collection contains Interviews, photographs, and informant data sheets relating to Sandy Staebell's project with quiltmakers in Allen County and Monroe County, Kentucky and Macon County, Tennessee for the 2017-2018 Osby Lee Hire and Lillian K. Garrison Hire Memorial Lecture Series.

Cederquist, Nancy (Fa 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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FFinding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 378. Multiple interviews with Mrs. James Hall conducted by Nancy Cederquist on 22 February 1985, 1 April 1985, and 22 April 1985. Hall, a resident of Bowling Green, discusses her passion for quilting, her preferred patterns, fabric care, and her experiences with a local quilting group.

Ua12/2/2 2015 Talisman: Resurgence, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

2015 Talisman yearbook.

• Osborne Sam. Into the Woods – Big To-Do Music & Arts Festival
• Spalding, Shelley. The Outliers – Greeks
• Badjie, Haddy. The Right to Live – Racism
• Gibson, Helen. Net Worth – Soccer
• Greer, John. Sustaining Seasons – Sustainability
• Wegert, Sally. Bloom – Eva Ross
• Cislo, Everett. Harvest – Hemp
• Kolb, William. Preserve – John All
• Voorhees, Jessica. Making Strides – Track & Field
• Greer, John. The Science Guy – Bill Nye
• Cole, Tanner. Lip Service – Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Belknap, Abby. Race to the Senate
• Gibson, Helen. Game of Loans – Student Financial Aid
• Belknap, Abby. …

Cloyd, Mary (Sc 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 31. Loom weaving drafts for Nine Snowballs and Pea Patch designs. On the back a notation from Washington County, Tennessee states: “This is the Cass and Butler drafts.”

Hopkin, Rachel Claire (Fa 581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding Aid only for Folklife Archives Project 581. Illustrated paper by Rachel Hopkin titled “A Reel in a Bottle: The Bottle Art of Chris Wood.” This illustrated project provides insight into the art of creating bottle art, or bottle whimsies. Folk artist Chris Wood’s path from observer to artist is detailed and includes his interpretations of the work of several historical and modern artisans within the genre. The project was submitted for the 2011 Folklife Archives Award competition at Western Kentucky University.

Chappell, Katherine (Fa 582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding Aid only for Folklife Archives Project 582. Illustrated paper by Katherine Chappell titled “Fine, Folk, or Functional? The Art of Mark Whitley.” This illustrated project provides insight into the art of furniture making and the distinctions between the artistic formation of furniture and mass production. The project details the journey of one craftsman, Mark Whitley of Warren County, Kentucky, from one who makes furniture, into an artist whose work is practical, functional, and enduring. The project was submitted for the 2011 Folklife Archives Award competition at Western Kentucky University.

Faytullayeva, Shamira A. (Fa 584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding Aid only for Folklife Archives Project 584. Illustrated paper by Shamira A. Faytullayeva titled “A Great Tailor in My Family.” This illustrated project describes the economic benefits of the tailoring skills of a Russian emigrant, Samisiya Faytullayeva. Samisiya’s mother taught her to sew when she was a child, and the skill has provided an income for her family in the years since her husband’s death and their subsequent immigration to the United States. This project was submitted for the 2011 Folklife Archives Award competition at Western Kentucky University.

Kentucky Heritage Applique Society (Mss 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 386. Administrative papers, minutes, correspondence, contest and workshop material, and publications of the Kentucky Heritage Applique Society, an auxiliary group of the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society.

Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2546. Laura Elizabeth Richardson’s notebook containing holographic notes about the history of quilting. Notebook includes hand executed quilt pattern images in ink, poems, definitions of quilting terms, and textile descriptions. Includes notes about the provenance of Richardson’s quilt collectionand her furniture.

Brittain, Lanny Ray (Fa 88), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 88. [The Folk Art of Quilting.] Collection contains typescripts, photographs and an interview with Ida Lee Crase concerning her quilting. In addition to the photographs, cassette tape and typescripts, the collection also contains an example of Mrs. Crase’s hand stitched quilt piece. Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Galloway, Ewing, 1881-1953 (Sc 2502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2502. Correspondence of Ewing Galloway, a native of Henderson, Kentucky and the owner of a photography agency in New York City, with Mary Marks, a geography professor at Western Kentucky University, related to a gift of photographs made to the Kentucky Library & Museum at WKU. Also includes clippings, chiefly related to Galloway’s return to Henderson, Kentucky and the gift to WKU.

Richards, Alta Beatrice (Lightfoot), 1900-1989 (Mss 381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 381. Materials chiefly related to Allen County-native Alta Beatrice Richards’s interest in weaving, developed while working at Berea College. Includes correspondence with other weavers, weaving patterns, and weaving techniques. Also, information concerning noted Kentucky weaving authority Lou Tate of the Little Loomhouse, Louisville, Kentucky.

Staebell, Sandra L., B. 1958 (Fa 572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 572. Compact disc of Sandra L. Staebell’s December 2011 interview with June McGuyer, discussing Elizabeth Richardson (McGuyer’s mother), her interest in quilting, and her collecting related to quilts and quilting.

Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 554. Project consists of an ehtnographic study conducted by Luke Fisher with Tom Blumenberg, an artist who creates solid wood and segmented wooden bowls in Hiseville, Kentucky. This project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Jones, Latasha, B. 1985 (Fa 540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (Click on "Additional File" below) for Folklife Archives Project 540. Project in which Latasha Jones records information about a "Reaper" tattoo that her cousin, Christopher Lee Bragg, had tattooed on his left side. She discusses the views of her family about tattoos and/or marking the body and her personal desire to get a tattoo. This project was a requirement for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes an illustration of the "Reaper" tattoo.

Remember Me When I Am Gone - Exhibition (Fa 530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 530. Materials related to the quilt exhibition, "Remember Me When I Gone," held at the Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University in 1995. Includes interviews with quiltmakers about their friendship and memory quilts.

Powell, Janet Sharli (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 17. Collection consists of interviews with Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis and Johnnie Mae (Elkins) White, Bowling Green, Kentucky, conducted by Janet Sharli Powell about quilting. Includes sample Mexican Star quilt block. Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Callis, Susan (Fa 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 293. Paper: "An Index to Quilt Patterns in Western Kentucky University Archives" written by Susan Callis for a Western Kentucky University English class.

Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 98. Project entitled "Basket Making in the Mammoth Cave Area." Interviews with basket makers concerning the history, process, marketing and distribution, social attitudes, historical patterns and aesthetics of basket making. Only transcriptions of the interviews were donated. Interviews were conducted by WKU students in Lynwood Montell's Folk Art and Technology class, Fall 1977; also includes one 1974 interview.