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Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 38, Numbers 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 38, Numbers 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter
This issue contains a topical Index to articles in the Longhunter 2001-2012 and a history of the Little Muddy church in Butler County, KY
Traces Volume 44, Number 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 44, Number 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Leap Year: Chance, Chase, Or Curse?, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
Leap Year: Chance, Chase, Or Curse?, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
SCL Faculty and Staff Publications
Based on a popularized legend in which St. Patrick granted to St. Bridget the right for all single women to propose marriage during leap years, the custom has produced ephemera as evidence of stereotypical old maids and bachelors and created vinegar valentines, ball invitations, dance cards, sheet music and calling cards. Between 1904 and 1916, at least 54 publishing houses created Leap Year postcards illustrated by more than 17 of the most talented artists of the day. Despite possible good intentions, the majority of the ephemera stereotypes single women as so desperate to marry that even unsuitable spouses, including alcoholics, …
Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 2016-2017, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 2016-2017, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog
The Kentucky Humanities Council is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities committed to providing programs and services that facilitate an understanding and appreciation of Kentucky’s cultural heritage and future. The Council’s program catalog features scholars from across the Commonwealth who make presentations on a myriad of humanities topics. Later, costumed actors, who delivered dramatic monologues about Kentucky’s famous, infamous, and composite personalities, were added. The catalog has gone by various titles over the years: Kentucky Humanities Resource Center, Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, Whole Humanities Catalog, and Humanities Catalog. This …
South Union Messenger (Winter 2016), Kentucky Library Research Collections
South Union Messenger (Winter 2016), Kentucky Library Research Collections
South Union Messenger
No abstract provided.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
The Student Researcher 2016 (Title Page, Preface, Table Of Contents), Selena Sanderfer Faculty Advisor
The Student Researcher 2016 (Title Page, Preface, Table Of Contents), Selena Sanderfer Faculty Advisor
The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication
No abstract provided.
Ua1c11/79 Rotc Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/79 Rotc Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs removed from ROTC scrapbooks.
Ua1c11/77 Gamma Sigma Sigma Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/77 Gamma Sigma Sigma Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs removed from Gamma Sigma Sigma scrapbooks.
Gemini 15 Memories, Merry Herbert
Gemini 15 Memories, Merry Herbert
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Merry Herbert's answers to WKU Gemini jazz band questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.
Ua1f Wku Greek & Service Organizations Bibliography, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Greek & Service Organizations Bibliography, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Records
Bibliography of sources related to discipline, honor, Greek and service fraternities and sororities at WKU.
Gemini 15 Memories, Pam Thurman
Gemini 15 Memories, Pam Thurman
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Pam (Livingston) Thurman's answers to WKU Gemini jazz band questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.
Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Pollard
Gemini 14 Memories, Nancy Pollard
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Nancy (Baker) Pollard's answers to WKU Gemini jazz bands questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.
Gemini 14 Memories, Karen Matchus
Gemini 14 Memories, Karen Matchus
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Karen (Warren) Matchus' answers to WKU Gemini jazz band questionnaire. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.
Ua1c11/78 Rebelettes Photograph Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/78 Rebelettes Photograph Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs removed from Rebellette scrapbooks.
Ua1c11/80 Wku Photo Album, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/80 Wku Photo Album, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
WKU photograph album, available online at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/4210
Ua19/16/1 2016-17 Wku Track & Field Cross Country Record Book, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/1 2016-17 Wku Track & Field Cross Country Record Book, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Archives Records
WKU track and field media guide for 2016-17 season.
Duff And Green Families (Sc 2964), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duff And Green Families (Sc 2964), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2964. Letters of the Duff and Green families of Warren and Barren counties in Kentucky. An 1863 letter to Fielding Duff warns of the illness of his son John. Mary Jane Green receives letters, 1889-1896, from her granddaughter and daughter; the latter complains about her health and her responsibilities for a Bowling Green toll gate. Includes genealogical data on both families.
Freedom Rides (Sc 2966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Freedom Rides (Sc 2966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2966. “Official Application for Freedom Riders,” a parody application for civil rights activists intending to protest segregation in Southern interstate bus terminals, to be submitted to George Rockwell, Hell Raiders, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, asks for data such as “Address” (“Place where body can be sent”); “Do you bleed easily?”; “State how you prefer to defend yourself” (Fisticuffs, Hand Grenade, etc.); and “State your wish for the following” (Rope neck size, bullet caliber, coffin color, etc.)
Larsh, Abraham (Sc 2965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Larsh, Abraham (Sc 2965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2965. Letter, 3 August 1828, from Abraham Larsh, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his cousin John Gardner, York County, Pennsylvania. He discusses the emboldening of opposition in Tennessee to Andrew Jackson, President John Quincy Adams’s rival, despite a recent assault by Jackson supporters. He also discusses the likelihood of Jackson’s alliance with former Vice President Aaron Burr in a plot to separate western states from the Union. While pleased with local crop yields and an expressed supporter of internal improvements, Larsh looks “with anxiety” to the completion of the railroad at the Ohio River, …
Bank Of The United States (Sc 2963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bank Of The United States (Sc 2963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2963. Deed, 11 May 1827, from the Bank of the United States to William Ray, Louisville, Kentucky, of a tract of land in Louisville. Signed by Nicholas Biddle, President of the Bank of the United States, in the presence of Joseph Watson, Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Harrod, James, 1746?-1792? - Relating To (Sc 2962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harrod, James, 1746?-1792? - Relating To (Sc 2962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2962. Inventory of the personal estate and slaves of the late James Harrod, Mercer County, Kentucky, as appraised on 5 February 1794; and accounts of the estate, 19 May 1798, showing payments and settlements by Anna Harrod, executrix.
Bath County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 2958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bath County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 2958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2958. Correspondence of two related Bath County, Kentucky families. A lonesome Sarah L. Boyd writes to her mother, Elizabeth A. “Lizzie” Rogers, from boarding school in Fleming County, Kentucky in 1865, where she discusses having her photograph taken, “hateful” schoolmates, and provisions from her family of clothing, whiskey and bitters. In the 1880s, Ida Lee Bell receives letters from cousins, friends and suitors with family news and local gossip. One of her letters voices disapproval of young men who drink when calling on ladies. The letters mention many family members by first name.
Elections And Election Campaigns - Gallatin County, Kentucky (Sc 2960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elections And Election Campaigns - Gallatin County, Kentucky (Sc 2960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2960. Certification of vote results in an election in Gallatin County, Kentucky on 3 November 1868 for electors for President and Vice President of the United States and for Member of Congress for Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District. Includes names and the number of votes received.
Sawyer, Charles W., 1887-1979 (Sc 2961), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sawyer, Charles W., 1887-1979 (Sc 2961), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2961. “Barkley,” a narrative by Charles Sawyer describing his experiences as a delegate-at-large from Ohio to the 1952 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and particularly his efforts to promote the nomination for President of then-Vice President Alben W. Barkley. He includes an anecdote about attending the 1956 convention as an observer.
Gnau, Ferdinand A., 1886-1971 (Sc 2959), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gnau, Ferdinand A., 1886-1971 (Sc 2959), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2959. Letter, 12 February 1926, of Ferdinand A. Gnau, 52nd District Representative in the Kentucky House of Representatives, to George E. Finch, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He outlines the steps he has taken to settle Finch’s claim for payment for time worked at Bowling Green and denied by the District Commercial Superintendent. The envelope identifies Finch as a Western Union telegraph operator.
Smyth, Alexander (Sc 2957), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smyth, Alexander (Sc 2957), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2957. Letter, 1 October 1869, written from Marion County, Kentucky by Alexander Smyth to his brother “Bob.” He discusses a rendezvous with his brother and “Bill” after he sells some livestock to pay for his travel.
Roberts, Samuel F. (Sc 2956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roberts, Samuel F. (Sc 2956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2956. Mortgage of a one-third interest in a steam sawmill in Lewis County, Kentucky, given by Samuel F. Roberts to Leonard B. Cox and James Bowman, his securities on a peace bond given to the Fleming County, Kentucky Circuit Court and his debtors on a promissory note for the legal services of L.M. Cox and L.B. Cox.
Bale, Edward Lewis, 1824-1884 (Sc 2955), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bale, Edward Lewis, 1824-1884 (Sc 2955), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2955. Letter, 7 February 1848, written from Green County, Kentucky by Edward Lewis Bale to Edward Lewis Bale, his cousin of the same name, in Petersburg, Illinois. Bale describes recent weather and flood damage, Including destruction of the Aetna Forge, quotes farm prices, and mentions the formation of Taylor County from a portion of Green County. He also discusses a lawsuit between several named heirs over farmland devised under a grandfather’s will, and inquires about the willingness of family members to sell their interests as part …
Felts Log House (Mss 551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Felts Log House (Mss 551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 551. Photos, transcripts, design plans, and education materials about the Felts Log House, a log structure originally built in Logan County, Kentucky, in the early nineteenth century and moved to the campus of Western Kentucky University in 1978. Contains a variety of worksheets for children, furnishing plans by WKU, and news clippings about the house. It also contains transcripts of interviews about the house from Felts descendants and Sam Watkins.