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Neal, Harry Clay, 1899-1977 (Sc 3611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Harry Clay, 1899-1977 (Sc 3611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3611. Diary of Harry C. Neal, of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He writes of working at his uncle Taylor Neal's store in Auburn, Kentucky, his family, his school attendance and leisure activities, and his employment in Detroit Michigan. He also refers to his marriage and the birth of his daughter. Includes an annotated and illustrated typescript of the diary prepared by a descendant.
Ua1c11/115 J. Lewie Harman Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/115 J. Lewie Harman Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Artificial collection of photographs related to J. Lewie Harman, president of the Bowling Green Business University. Images removed from various scrapbooks he created.
Ua37/32 Faculty Personal Papers J. Lewie Harman, Wku Archives
Ua37/32 Faculty Personal Papers J. Lewie Harman, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Personal papers of J. Lewie Harman, president of the Bowling Green Business University.
Ua99/6/1 Bowling Green Business University Student Affairs Student Organizations, Wku Archives
Ua99/6/1 Bowling Green Business University Student Affairs Student Organizations, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by student organizations.
Ua37/42 Faculty Personal Papers Nina Hammer, Wku Archives
Ua37/42 Faculty Personal Papers Nina Hammer, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Personal papers of Nina Hammer, Bowling Green Business University Registrar 1938-1963; WKU Registrar 1963-1969.
Ua1c11/98 Nina Hammer Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/98 Nina Hammer Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs of and by Nina Hammer.
Ua1c11/96 W.C. Brownfield Photograph Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/96 W.C. Brownfield Photograph Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs of and by W.C. Brownfield.
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 590. Personal and professional papers of Christian County, Kentucky teacher and administrator Erleen (Joiner) Rogers, and novels, poems, skits, epigrams and witticisms written by her father, Robert Tinnon Joiner. Includes a collection of Joiner’s writings titled Nonsense and Wisdom From Flat Lick, Rogers’ family history titled Seven Generations in and From Flat Lick, other family data, and photographs.
Goodman, Julian, 1922-2012 (Mss 489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Goodman, Julian, 1922-2012 (Mss 489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 489. Correspondence, press releases and speeches of Julian Goodman related to his work as a news journalist and later as president of television network NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation). A number of the speeches relate to, or comment on, Goodman’s negative opinion of the “Fairness Doctrine.”
Lanier Collection (Mss 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lanier Collection (Mss 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of post-World War II pen pal letters and selected images from ciphering book of Collins Lanier from Manuscripts Collection 488. Collection consists chiefly of letters written to Deanna June (Linville) Lanier by friends and her family, particularly her mother Lena (Harris) Linville. Includes some interesting pen pal letters with a German child, 1948 to 1950. Includes genealogical material about the Lanier and Linville families. Also includes early Warren County, Kentucky material from brothers, Byrd Lanier and Collins Lanier, including a little correspondence, bills and notes, receipts, and property records.
Mills, Barbara Ann (Tucker), 1931-2020 (Sc 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Carson, Charles Clifton, 1918-2004 (Sc 900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carson, Charles Clifton, 1918-2004 (Sc 900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 900. Letter, 1 December 1970, written by Charles C. Carson, United States Consul General in Seville, Spain, to Beulah C. Ellis, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He recalls his boarding school days at Mrs. Ellis’, talks about his work, comments on American drug smugglers, and mentions family matters. Also related news article and clipping, greeting card and photograph.
Brownfield, Warner Carl, 1883-1968 (Sc 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brownfield, Warner Carl, 1883-1968 (Sc 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 532. Brownfield’s artistic penmanship techniques are displayed in a 1909 resolution of the Kentucky State Medical Association, a 1918 Bowling Green, Kentucky, DAR chapter invitation to William Howard Taft, a 1924 certificate from the Littleford School,Cincinnati, Ohio, and an undated letter to a friend. Brownfield was head of the Penmanship Department, Bowling Green Business University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 383. Transcripts, notes, and cassette tapes for interviews conducted by Dr. Wilford Fridy with individuals who knew or knew about John Wesley Venable, Jr., the person on whom Robert Penn Warren based the character Bolton Lovehart in his novella "Circus in the Attic." Interviews mention other people and places that Warren knew in Todd County, Kentucky. Also includes tapes of Robert Penn Warren giving a speech, reading some of his work, and an interview with Warren.
Ua94/5/5 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Bowling Green Business University Rex Toothman, Wku Archives
Ua94/5/5 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Bowling Green Business University Rex Toothman, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Scrapbooks and correspondence created by Rex Toothman during his time at Bowling Green Business University and while in the Navy.
Ua68/8/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters History Oral History Committee, Wku Archives
Ua68/8/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters History Oral History Committee, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by the Oral History Committee. Series includes oral history interview tapes and transcriptions.
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.
Ua94/5/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Bowling Green Business University Small Collections, Wku Archives
Ua94/5/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Bowling Green Business University Small Collections, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Small collections of Bowling Green Business University alumni personal papers.
Robertson, J. Lee, B. 1922 (Fa 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, J. Lee, B. 1922 (Fa 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 535. Interview with J. Lee Robertson conducted by Kenneth Hines and Gil Calhoun in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Robertson reminisces about the U.S. Army during World war II and his long association with Western Kentucky University.
Oates, William Alfred, 1878-1918 (Sc 2296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oates, William Alfred, 1878-1918 (Sc 2296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2296. Letters (44) from William Alfred Oates to his wife Alva Oates, written from Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Mississippi before and after their marriage. Oates writes of his affection for her, their future, her enrollment in school in Bowling Green, and his itinerary as a traveling salesman. Includes letters (21) to Alva Oates from friends and family after her husband's sudden death from peritonitis.
Jefferson, Belinda Coombs (Mcginley) - Collector (Mss 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jefferson, Belinda Coombs (Mcginley) - Collector (Mss 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts for two diaries from Manuscript Collection 244. Diary of Elizabeth Belle Coombs, 1904; diary of Pearl Coombs Moore, 1926-1927, while a student at Western Kentucky State Normal School; 1852-1853 Jefferson Medical College notes and thesis of Samuel W. Coombs; miscellaneous correspondence, receipts, and documents related to the Moore, Coombs, and Potter families of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Parker, William Jerry, 1932-2007 (Fa 429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parker, William Jerry, 1932-2007 (Fa 429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 429 entitled "Lunch with Top." Transcribed interviews conducted with Jo Tilden "Top" Orendorf, Bowling Green, Kentucky, by several of his friends. Includes an index.
Butler Family (Sc 1861), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Butler Family (Sc 1861), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1861. Correspondence amongst members of the Butler family, Warren County, Kentucky related to church, school, and social activities. Chiefly letters to Ernest Butler from his brother Ether.
Mcgehee, Wilburn Ross, 1900-1971 (Sc 1630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgehee, Wilburn Ross, 1900-1971 (Sc 1630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1630. Paper: "History of Education in Bowling Green," written by W. Ross McGehee.
Duncan, Matilda Jane "Mattie" (Backus), 1896-1986 (Sc 1585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan, Matilda Jane "Mattie" (Backus), 1896-1986 (Sc 1585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1585. Duncan's brief remembrances of people, businesses and educational institutions in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She made these comments while looking at a copy of "Do You Remember When?", a small pictorial history of Bowling Green, published in 1970.
Ua37/21 Faculty Personal Papers William Jenkins, Wku Archives
Ua37/21 Faculty Personal Papers William Jenkins, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Documents relating to the life and achievements of William Jenkins. The series contains biographical and professional data.
Ua1b2/1/3 Oral History, Paula Trafton, Mary Sample
Ua1b2/1/3 Oral History, Paula Trafton, Mary Sample
WKU Archives Records
Interview conducted by Paula Trafton with Mary Sample regarding her time as a student, College High teacher and executive secretary to Dero Downing from 1957 to 2005.
Ua99/7 Tour Of Bu-Related Sites & Hangouts, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel, Wku Archives, Wku Publications
Ua99/7 Tour Of Bu-Related Sites & Hangouts, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel, Wku Archives, Wku Publications
WKU Archives Records
Map of Bowling Green, Kentucky with inset of downtown area 15th to 2nd Street and Center to High Streets showing the location of various buildings for the period 1935 through 1963. These include restaurants, boarding houses, theatres and other establishments frequented by BU students. A list of establishments is provided along with the location and the establishment in that location in 2001.
Ua77/1 Those Fabulous Fifties, Wku Alumni Relations
Ua77/1 Those Fabulous Fifties, Wku Alumni Relations
WKU Archives Records
Alumni directory for the classes of 1950 through 1959 of WKU and the Bowling Green Business University. Contains segments on homecoming, athletics, arts and student life. Also included are selected graduate biographies.
Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - A Topics, Lowell Harrison
Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - A Topics, Lowell Harrison
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 170 topics beginning with A ranging from AAUP to Awards.