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Gordon, Griffith Lewis - Collector (Sc 2786), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gordon, Griffith Lewis - Collector (Sc 2786), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2786. Examples of musical scores executed by students in a class titled "A Short Course in Vocal Harmony" held at Western Kentucky University and led by Professor Griffith Lewis Gordon. Critical remarks by Mr. Gordon accompany each student's work.
Bunning, Mary (Sc 1167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bunning, Mary (Sc 1167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1167. Thank you note from Mary Bunning, Southgate, Kentucky, to Earlene Chelf, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Bunning expresses delight for tour of the Kentucky Building at WKU, that Chelf hosted. Notecard is print of one of Mary’s paintings.
Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 1160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 1160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1160. Clippings from various Kentucky newspapers resulting from a Kentucky Building press release requesting donation of Persian Gulf War letters.
Moore, Carlos Wright, 1884-1951 (Mss 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Carlos Wright, 1884-1951 (Mss 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 156. Family and business papers of Warren County, Kentucky farmer Carlos W. Moore and school teacher Mae White, who became his wife. Topics include courtship, farming and school teaching.
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 159. Family correspondence, greeting cards, handicrafts, and newspaper clippings of Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also items from various family members.
Graham, Robert Duke, 1900-1984 (Mss 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Graham, Robert Duke, 1900-1984 (Mss 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 473. Correspondence and scrapbooks of Robert D. Graham, Democratic mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1960-1963 and 1968-1971. The materials mostly document his public career, but some personal papers, including those of his wife Edith, are included.
Carmichael Family Papers (Mss 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carmichael Family Papers (Mss 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 467. Correspondence, legal papers, and miscellaneous material from several related families: Standrod, Campbell, and Carmichael. Includes a claim made after the Civil War for compensation for an enslaved man who joined the Union Army (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Jackson, Sheila Lavern (Harris), B. 1955 - Relating To (Sc 1110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Sheila Lavern (Harris), B. 1955 - Relating To (Sc 1110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1110. Materials generated by and for the Sheila Harris Fund, to benefit Harris, a native of Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky. A Western Kentucky University graduate and aspiring opera singer, she had benefactors who made it possible for her to graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1982. Includes programs of some of her recitals and a photograph.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Sc 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Sc 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1112. Transcript of an interview with Mary Julia Neal, Bowling Green, Kentucky, conducted by Gina Claywell. Claywell was interested chiefly in Neal’s experiences as a student at Bethel College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and as a teacher at Western Kentucky University in the 1930s and 1940s.
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Carter, Tim Lee, 1910-1987 (Mss 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Tim Lee, 1910-1987 (Mss 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 80. Correspondence, photographs, audiotapes, film, clippings, general office files, and records of legislative proceedings relating to the political career of Tim Lee Carter, U.S. Representative (Republican) for Kentucky's Fifth Congressional District, 1965-1981.
Pace Family Papers (Mss 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pace Family Papers (Mss 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 458. Pace family documents (chiefly related to land transactions) including deeds, land grants, mortgages; as well as Bible records for the Pace and related families (click on "Additional Files" below for scans), and probate records. A significant portion of the collection documents the garden club activities of Lillian (Tynes) Pace and her efforts to have the Viceroy butterfly designated as the Kentucky state butterfly.
Fox Family Papers, 1918-1986 (Mss 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fox Family Papers, 1918-1986 (Mss 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 459. Chiefly military personnel records of Arthur Smith Fox, Hopkins County, Kentucky. Also includes information related to Mr. Fox’s father-in-law, William Bugg Kerr, and brief genealogical information about the Bowman Coffelt, and Hope families.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 904. Visitors’ recollections of where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination. These recollections were recorded in connection with an exhibit in the Kentucky Library commemorating the 30th anniversary of Kennedy’s death.
Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 902), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 902), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 902. Letter written by Jesse Hilton Stuart, Greenup, Kentucky, to Elizabeth Cossey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, thanking her for her letter and stating that he has no materials to send her for a classroom display. Also envelope.
Fleenor, Kenneth Raymond, 1929-2010 (Mss 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fleenor, Kenneth Raymond, 1929-2010 (Mss 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans of prisoner of war letters, and photo (For scans and photo click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 444. Correspondence and documentation related to the military career of Kenneth Raymond Fleenor, a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, whose plane was shot down near Hanoi, Vietnam in 1967. A prisoner of war (POW) for over five years, Fleenor served part of that time at the “Hanoi Hilton.” Collection contains letters written while a POW and subsequent documentation about his POW experience. Also includes photos of celebratory events held after his release in March 1973 and miscellaneous material …
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 445. Correspondence, published and unpublished writing, and research of Alexander Gordon Wilson, faculty member in the English department of Western Kentucky University from 1915-1959. Includes genealogical and autobiographical material as well as extensive research data and writing on the ornithology of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky, on folklore and linguistics, and on the ornithology and folkways of the Mammoth Cave region of Edmonson County, Kentucky.
Pack, Larry J., 1932-2023 (Sc 2670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pack, Larry J., 1932-2023 (Sc 2670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2670. Biographical data relating to Larry J. Pack, a native of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes birth and military certificates, diplomas, an oral history interview about Pack’s military service, and photos of Pack while in the Army and in his dental office. Also includes genealogical data, primarily in .ftw files on a USB flash drive.
Oral History Project - History Department - Western Kentucky University (Mss 411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oral History Project - History Department - Western Kentucky University (Mss 411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 411. Interviews with Kentuckians conducted by students in American and Kentucky history classes at Western Kentucky University. Typical subjects discussed include childhood, rural life, the Great Depression, civil rights, military service, education and work. Most interviews include a summary paper, transcript (complete or partial) and audiocassette.
Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History
Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History
WKU Archives Records
Invitation to first WKU Association for the Study of African American Life & History event entitled Whips & Chains.
Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project (Sc 912), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project (Sc 912), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 912. The Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project was part of a national project, coordinated in Warren County by Jonathan Jeffrey. Included are correspondence; completed questionnaires about Warren County sculptures; less detailed listing of other sculptures in state; news release; and newspaper article.
Ua3/1/2/2 President's Office-Cherry Correspondence - Special, Wku Archives
Ua3/1/2/2 President's Office-Cherry Correspondence - Special, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Special correspondence regarding Western Kentucky University. This series runs concurrently with the General Correspondence and there is no indication of what makes it special. Of special note is correspondence regarding the Student Army Training Corps, World War I veterans and construction of Cherry Hall. Incoming letters are mainly addressed to Henry Hardin Cherry. Responses are made by Cherry and occasionally by faculty and staff. The president's secretary Mattie McLean is the author of some of the letters signed by Cherry.
New Negroes On Campus: St. Clair Drake And The Culture Of Education, Reform, And Rebellion At Hampton Institute, Andrew Rosa
New Negroes On Campus: St. Clair Drake And The Culture Of Education, Reform, And Rebellion At Hampton Institute, Andrew Rosa
History Faculty Publications
On March 15, 1925, Walter Scott Copeland, owner and editor of the Newport News Daily Press, charged that Hampton Institute was teaching and practicing “social equality between the white and negro races . . . The niggers in that institution,” he wrote, “were being taught that there ought not to be any distinction between themselves and white people.” His observation came from his wife, who was distraught after having seen a performance of the Denishawn Dancers while seated next to a black women in Hampton’s Ogden Hall only two weeks before.4 Based in Los Angeles and New York, the …
Ua37/30/1 Faculty Personal Papers Lowell Harrison Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives, Sam Bruer, Bess Mchone
Ua37/30/1 Faculty Personal Papers Lowell Harrison Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives, Sam Bruer, Bess Mchone
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Correspondence and subject files created by Lowell Harrison.