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Cumberland College Association - Princeton, Kentucky (Sc 2787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cumberland College Association - Princeton, Kentucky (Sc 2787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2787. Minutes for the Cumberland College Association, the governing board that operated Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky. The school was later moved to Lebanon, Tennessee.
Dotson, Allene Dooley (Sc 2780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dotson, Allene Dooley (Sc 2780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2780. Paper titled "History of the Bowling Green Female Academy" written by Allene Dooley Dotson for a history class at Western Kentucky University.
Cornell, Eddie Mae, 1902-2002 (Sc 1187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cornell, Eddie Mae, 1902-2002 (Sc 1187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1187. Grades received (mutilated item), evidently necessary to earn an eighth grade certificate, by Eddie Mae Cornell, Nelson County, Kentucky; and certificate issued to her by Nelson County after she successfully passed the examination as prescribed by the State Board of Education.
Bowling Green City Council Of Parents And Teachers - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green City Council Of Parents And Teachers - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1085. Paper describing the beginning and early years of the Parent-Teacher Association in Bowling Green, Kentucky schools.
Kimberlin, Nettie, 1877-1957 (Sc 1087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kimberlin, Nettie, 1877-1957 (Sc 1087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1087. Two cards of honor awarded to Nettie for good deportment and perfect lessons by the Texas School in Texas, (Washington County), Kentucky. Each card features a colorful pastoral scene on the back.
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Sc 1036), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Sc 1036), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1036. Notes of Howard E. Bailey, Western Kentucky University’s Dean of Student Affairs, taken during a 1998 interview with Frank Otha Moxley. Moxley relates his educational pursuits and career. Includes Bailey’s informational letter.
Smith, Travis Edwin, B. 1898 (Sc 2734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Travis Edwin, B. 1898 (Sc 2734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2734. Three documents related to the history of education in Kentucky which were prepared by Travis Edwin Smith for his doctoral dissertation. One document concentrates on teacher education, one on education law in Kentucky, and the last document is an overview titled “Education in Kentucky.” The documents concentrate on sources to be used in the dissertation.
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 2720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 2720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2720. Bound typescript of the Board of Trustees minutes from the Franklin Female College, Franklin, Kentucky. (155 p.)
Grimes, Oliver, 1884-1960 (Sc 924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grimes, Oliver, 1884-1960 (Sc 924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 924. Letter written by Oliver Grimes, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 27 October 1925, to Jesse Stewart, Elkins, West Virginia, relating to his candidacy in an upcoming election for the Warren County Board of Education. Grimes was general manager of the Warren County Strawberry Growers’ Association; the letter is written on the organization’s letterhead. Includes biographical information about Stewart and the obituaries of Grimes and his opponent for the Board of Education seat, W. P. White.
Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 972. Paper titled “African American Education in Kentucky: An Overview,” presented at the Kentucky Building, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in observance of Black History Month by history professor John Hardin.
Third District, Kentucky Branch Of The National Congress Of Parents And Teachers - Minutes (Sc 2687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Third District, Kentucky Branch Of The National Congress Of Parents And Teachers - Minutes (Sc 2687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts 2687. Minutes of the Third District, Kentucky Branch of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Minutes were kept in a notebook in chronological order.
Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of original and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 831. Letter, 24 May 1847, from Richard Mentor Johnson to Secretary of the Treasury Robert James Walker regarding the removal of Creek Indian students from Johnson’s school in White Sulphur, Scott County, Kentucky. Also included are notes relating to White Sulphur, Johnson, and Walker.
Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 804. Paper entitled “Early Schools of Bowling Green [Kentucky],” written by Lavinia R. Scott. Includes information about the Southern College of Kentucky, Mary Kendall Jones’ Female Seminary, Samuel Moore Gaines’ Presbyterian School for Young Ladies, and George Edgar’s Bowling Green Female College.
Pearce, John Ed., 1917-2006 (Sc 786), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearce, John Ed., 1917-2006 (Sc 786), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 786. Photocopy of Louisville Courier-Journal columnist John Ed Pearce’s speech given to the Chamber of
Commerce, Bowling Green, Kentucky on 7 January 1986. He discusses chiefly economic development and public education in Kentucky. Also letter of Pearce
concerning the copy of the speech.