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Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 678. Correspondence, papers and photographs of the Tichenor family of McLean County, Kentucky, and related families, especially Cherry, Short, and Hutchison. Much relates to the home front during World War II during the Navy service of high school teacher Thomas Cherry Tichenor.

Baxter, Ruth Vivian, B. 1908? (Sc 3269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3269. My Him Book, an illustrated memory album designed by Elisa E. Edwards (published in 1924) and given to Ruth Vivian Baxter, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in 1930. Ruth names and records comments about her life "loves," including childhood friends, school crushes, movie stars, musicians, and her husband; notes on their wedding include a list of gifts.

Warren, Kaye (Fa 1150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1150. Student folk studies project titled “From Slavery to Freedom for the Negro Race in Logan County [Kentucky]” which includes survey sheets with a brief description of African American life in Logan County, Kentucky. Sheets may include interviews, written records, photographs, informant’s name, age, and address.

Richardson, Sarah Nell (Pickett), 1915-2000 (Sc 2903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2903. Wedding book, gift cards, and greeting card from the wedding of Sarah Nell Pickett to Harry Blair Richardson, Sr. on 30 April 1939, held in Joplin, Missouri. Book includes list of attendees.

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods. Includes a World War I scrapbook created for and about Mildred's brother John (Click on "Additional Files" below).

Dallas, William Robert, Sr., 1910-1997 (Mss 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 472. Correspondence, almost exclusively between William Robert Dallas, Sr., and his girlfriend, fiancé, and later wife Virginia “Ginny” Eileen Lindsay. Dallas was in the Army Air Corps and stationed in Louisville, Kentucky, while Ginny was living in her hometown of Ventnor, New Jersey, right outside Atlantic City. The letters are courtship related and are filled with plans for their wedding on 15 September 1945.

Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.

Mills, Barbara Ann (Tucker), 1931-2020 (Sc 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 921. Barbara Ann (Tucker) Mills writes of her life growing up in a home in Bowling Green, Kentucky that provided rooms and meals for students at Western Kentucky State Teachers College and Bowling Green Business University during the 1930s and 1940s. Her parents, known and “Ma Tucker” and “Pa Tucker,” operated boardinghouses located on College Street. Also includes two family photographs.

Stayton, George Cowden, 1847-1931 - Letters To (Sc 2538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2538. Letters (2) to George C. Stayton, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding business matters; also letters (3) from his sister Sarah Stayton, Scottsville, Kentucky, regarding the making of a dress and various weddings and courtships.

Ua68/13/4 Bowling Green, Vol. 6, No. 2, Kelly Thompson Chapter, Public Relations Student Society Of America

Student Organizations

Magazine produced by senior seminar class in public relations with the Kelly Thompson Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America and students in the WKU Department of Journalism.

Regular features include:

• Reflections
• Business
• Art
• Community Service
• Reminiscing
• Curiosities
• Entertainment

This issue includes articles:

• Schabel, Christine & Robert Cook. Beech Bend Then
• Combs, Susan. Making Plans to Last a Lifetime
• Dickerson, Cynthia. Latching on to Communities - Latch Key Children
• Jones, LaMont. Romanza Johnson: What's Next?

Wedding Superstitions, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Wedding superstitions,, myths and traditions are explored in the research paper.

Ua12/2/1 Spring Fashions, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special edition of the College Heights Herald regarding fashion.

• Kerrick, Sara. Hair Clips, Simple Chains Add Accent
• Sanders, Linda. Old Jeans, Remnants Provide Materials for Creative Fashions
• Ribar, Richard. Jeans, T-Shirts are Always In on the Hill
• Owen, Karen. Diets: Students Try to Get Winter Bodies in Summer Clothes
• Hepp, Jan. Eye-Catching, Comfortable Shoes Essential Part of Spring Wardrobe
• Spring and Perfume are in the Air
• Wildman, Judy. Gowns, Traditional or Contemporary, are Special Choices for Spring Brides
• Old Shirts Passe; Stylish Sleep Water Includes Teddy
• Sanders, Linda. Three-Piece Suit, “Create-A-Dress” Perfect for the Elegant Couple
• Mears, Teresa. There’s No …

Sports And Pastimes Of The Amish, Frank Diaco, William Di George

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed term paper completed at Franklin and Marshall College by Frank Diaco and William Di George, dating from circa 1949. Within, Diaco and Di George write on the pastimes, games and sports practiced within the Amish community as learned from Aaron Glicks of West Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania.

Vital Records Of Lebanon, Maine, To The Year 1892 - Volume Ii - Marriages, George Walter Chamberlain M.S.

Maine Collection

Vital Records of Lebanon, Maine, To the Year 1892 - Volume II - Marriages

George Walter Chamberlain, M.S., Editor; William Davis Patterson & Alfred Johnson, Committee on Publication.

Published Under Authority of the Maine Historical Society, 1922.

T.R. Marvin & Son, Printers, 152 Purchase Street, Boston, Mass.

"Lebanon Marriages To the Year 1892."