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Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 538. Correspondence between Mary T. Leiper, librarian, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Pearle
L. Hendley, Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky, related to Miss Hendley’s uncle, J.A. Hendley, founder of the Farmington Institute. Includes a photograph of J.A. Hendley.
Whitesides, William Franklin, 1827-1905 (Sc 541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitesides, William Franklin, 1827-1905 (Sc 541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 541. Letter, 17 August 1871, to C.H. Courts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from William F. Whitesides, president of Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky, asking for a loan, and express receipt from Adams Express Company for the desired loan.
Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 543. Agreement to teach school in Warren County for the 1836-1937 term including the subscribers’ list; also two papers, 1840, pertaining to bill owed Henry Hines by the John McFadin estate for the tuition of one student for one year.
Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2540. “Fifty Years in a One-Room School,” an account by Alfred Leland Crabb, Jr. of the teaching career of his grandfather James Wade Crabb in one-room schools, primarily in Butler and Warren counties in Kentucky. Includes data on the Crabb family, a copy of James W. Crabb’s Warren County teaching certificate, a list of Warren County schools, 1908-1919, and an early twentieth-century photo of Plum Springs Schoolhouse, Warren County. Also includes A. L. Crabb, Sr.’s account of a student’s last day at Plum Springs Schoolhouse.
Gough, William Henry, 1826-1910 (Sc 275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gough, William Henry, 1826-1910 (Sc 275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 275. Record book of William H. Gough, the first sheriff of Meade County, Kentucky, containing notes of court cases and jury lists. Includes notes and diary entries relating to his activities at Mount Merino Seminary in Breckinridge County, and lists of students, 1841-1842.
Cooper, Williamson Lee, Jr., 1889-1972 (Sc 2522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cooper, Williamson Lee, Jr., 1889-1972 (Sc 2522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collectin 2522. Letter of W. L. Cooper, Jr., superintendent of Stuart Robinson School, Blackey, Kentucky, to friends of the school. He reports on a fire that destroyed the administration building and asks for donations to support rebuilding.
Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 396. Correspondence to family, friends, and acquaintances of Tandie Lewis McIntire, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Collection contains educational material related to McIntire's career as a teacher in Edmonson County. Also includes tracts and pamphlets related to McIntire's involvement in religious organizations, particularly Baptist entities.
Auburn Seminary - Auburn, Kentucky (Sc 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Auburn Seminary - Auburn, Kentucky (Sc 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 314. Shares of stock, 1885 (2); letters concerning Auburn Seminary, Auburn, Kentucky, 1900-1968 (3); teacher’s contract, 1907; 1956 histories of seminary (2); and letters and article about the Auburn Seminary Alumni Association, 1963-1966 (3).
Gary, Flora (Sc 376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gary, Flora (Sc 376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 376. Teacher’s registers (2) for school terms, 1903 July 20 to 1903 December 14 and 1905 November 20 to 1905 December 4, taught by Miss Gary in Ohio County, Kentucky, evidently in the communities of Select and Arnold.
Nicholls, Margaret Gates, 1868-1941 (Sc 2511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nicholls, Margaret Gates, 1868-1941 (Sc 2511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2511. Notes of an address to teachers, remarking on the poor conditions in school buildings. The author is unknown; the notes were found in an envelope addressed to Margaret Nicholls, Calhoun, Kentucky.
Rochester Graded Common School - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rochester Graded Common School - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 292. Minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Rochester Graded Common School, Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky, 1915-1934, at which time the Rochester district was combined with the Butler County school system. Includes miscellaneous items pertaining to the school and the merger.
Auburn High School Board Of Managers (Sc 286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Auburn High School Board Of Managers (Sc 286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 286. Minutes of the meetings of the Auburn High School Board of Managers, Logan County Kentucky, 1874-1884. Includes list of tuition paid, lease, 1883 school board election results, and miscellaneous loose items.
Hampton, Jeanette, 1913-2007 - Letters To (Sc 2467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hampton, Jeanette, 1913-2007 - Letters To (Sc 2467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2467. Three letters to Jeanette Hampton, Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky. The first letter, February 1933, informs her that she has been approved as teacher of the Ellis school. Two 1935 letters from friends Minnie and Thala discuss schools, parties, quilting, and visits.
Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Mss 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Mss 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and bibliography (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 367. Correspondence, book and article manuscripts, and research material of Alfred Leland Crabb, a native of Warren County, Kentucky and later professor at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. The topics of the manuscripts include historical fiction related to Nashville and Bowling Green, biographies of prominent Nashvillians, and articles on all levels of education. Much of the unpublished material is fiction but draws from Crabb's Plum Springs school days and his student experiences at Western Kentucky University.
Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 167. Civil War disability exemption certifiate of Felix Crady, LaRue County, Kentucky, 1864; Simpson County, Kentucky deed, 1868; statement of Nazareth College, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1868; and an agreement concerning construction of the foundation for Franklin Fremale College, Franklin, Kentucky.
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 501. Certificates of proficiency from the Franklin Female College, 1874 (4), of Maud McCutchen and autograph album of Maud Blair which she had while a student at the college, 1886-1888.
Rust, Jacob Ward, 1819-1890 (Sc 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rust, Jacob Ward, 1819-1890 (Sc 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 163. Account book, 1874-1877, for students of Bethel Female College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky; undated list of Bethel Female College students; and letters, 1882, to Jacob Ward Rust, president of the college.
Mcdonald, Dan Allyn, 1905-1974 - Collector (Mss 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcdonald, Dan Allyn, 1905-1974 - Collector (Mss 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 343. Correspondence, legal papers, financial records and sundry other documents related to Eugene Scott Brown and his father-in-law, Gilbert Marshall Mulligan, attorneys of Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky. Also includes stray Allen County court records, research notes related to the Civil War, and records about early telephone service in Allen County.
Stewart, J. A. (Sc 2311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stewart, J. A. (Sc 2311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2311. Partial enrollment and grade book kept by teacher [J.A. Stewart] from October 1895 to February 1896. Item found in Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky.
Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Fidning aid only for Manuscripts Collection 231. Information about Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes material about the community's history, people, churches, schools, and events. Collection contains the original Board of Trustees minutes for Smiths Grove College, 1884-1901.
Cheek, Martha (Butt), 1892-1987 (Sc 2258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cheek, Martha (Butt), 1892-1987 (Sc 2258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2258. Postcard to Martha Cheek, Lexington, Kentucky, related to a 1948 luncheon of alumnae of Logan College, Russellville, Kentucky; typed compilation of Logan College alumnae, 1953.
Bowling Green High School - Reunions, 1960 (Sc 2150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green High School - Reunions, 1960 (Sc 2150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2150. Correspondence related to the 1960 reunion of the Bowling Green High School class of 1940. The letters were chiefly written to one of the organizing committee members, Frances (Robinson) Russell of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a list of class members.
Simpson County, Kentucky - Teachers Register (Sc 2030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Simpson County, Kentucky - Teachers Register (Sc 2030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2030. Pages from a ledger listing Simpson County, Kentucky school districts by number, the names of school trustees and teachers, and some information on school fund expenditures.
Ralph Bunche Community Center Oral History Project (Fa 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ralph Bunche Community Center Oral History Project (Fa 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 455. Interviews with ten African Americans who attended the Ralph Bunche School in Glasgow, Kentucky. Informants provide history and other information related to the importance of the school in Glasgow's African American community.
Riverside, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 1693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Riverside, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 1693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 1693. Enrollment and attendance book kept by teacher Mollie Sherry for the July-December, 1912 term at Riverside School in Warren County, Kentucky.
St. Columba Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
St. Columba Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1982. Register of students of St. Columba Academy, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and its successor, St. Joseph's School. Register covers 1887-1890, 1898-1906, 1910-1936. Includes photocopy of grade record of Georgia Johnson.
Witten, Tempie Jane (Bell), 1901-1985 (Mss 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Witten, Tempie Jane (Bell), 1901-1985 (Mss 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 261. Correspondence, chiefly genealogical related; family files; research materials about Grayson County, Kentucky schools, churches, businesses, history, and personalities. Also includes items related to Witten's long career as a teacher in Grayson County schools.
Burns, William Franklin, 1909-1981 (Sc 1944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burns, William Franklin, 1909-1981 (Sc 1944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1944. Letters of Burns, Rogers, Arkansas, to O. O. Pillans, director of admissions at the Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Jefferson County, Kentucky, related to the admission of his son Robert J. Burns. Includes instructions to new students at the 1948-1949 session.
Cardwell, Edna Ray, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 1920), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cardwell, Edna Ray, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 1920), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu
Bevier-Cleaton High School, 1931 (Sc 1802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bevier-Cleaton High School, 1931 (Sc 1802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1802. School stationery with 1931 class list, Bevier-Cleaton High School, Cleaton, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.