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Spurlock, John Howard, 1939-2023 (Sc 3680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spurlock, John Howard, 1939-2023 (Sc 3680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3680. Notes of an interview, 6 December 1986, by WKU professor John H. Spurlock with James Stuart, the brother of author Jesse Stuart. They discuss Jesse Stuart’s columns for the Greenup (Ky.) News and his editorship of the Greenup County Citizen; local and school board politics; and a physical attack on Jesse Stuart following his criticism of the local member of Congress.
Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 733. Journal, 1878-1880, of Mattie (Spangler) Gentry, Covington, Kentucky, chronicling her attendance at Lexington’s Hamilton Female College and at boarding school in Orléans, France; also her journal, 1889-1898, recording her life as a music teacher and her courtship and marriage. Includes photographs and a letter to Mattie in France from the president of Hamilton College (Click on "Additional Files" for typescript).
Bryan Family Letters (Sc 3583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryan Family Letters (Sc 3583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3583. Letters of the Bryan and associated families of Montgomery County, Tennessee. Most are written to Tennessee “Tennie” Bryan and come from friends, relatives, and ardent male admirers. Two correspondents write during their Civil War Confederate service (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts) and a cousin, Fannie Parkhurst, writes from Vermont. Fannie also writes to her cousin Byron in Illinois about local news and her studies, school teaching, social activities and abhorrence of intemperance; she gossips about local courtships and mentions Byron’s brother Sherman, who she would marry after Byron’s death in Union …
Farnsworth, Louise Elizabeth, 1900-2002 (Sc 3579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farnsworth, Louise Elizabeth, 1900-2002 (Sc 3579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3579. Taped interview, 17 January 1996, of Louise Farnsworth. The longtime schoolteacher and Bowling Green, Kentucky native reminisces about her life and about her recent 96th birthday celebration.
Isbell Family Papers (Sc 3570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Isbell Family Papers (Sc 3570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3570. Papers relating to the Isbell family of Warren County Kentucky: 1785 military land warrant to Thomas Isbell; various deeds, notes, receipts, bonds and accounts relating mainly to Temple Isbell; muster notice, 1815; agreements, 1812 and 1815, of Temple Isbell to teach a subscription school; 1843 letter of D. E. Isbell, Gasconade County, Missouri, with family news; and family records from the Bible of John K. Isbell.
Grider, Dorothy, 1915-2012 (Mss 709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grider, Dorothy, 1915-2012 (Mss 709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 709. Correspondence, papers, sketches, drawings, mockups and other artwork documenting the career of Bowling Green, Kentucky native Dorothy Grider, an artist and illustrator of greeting and playing cards, filmstrips, advertisements for magazines, and numerous activity, coloring and story books for children.
Hamilton Family Collection (Mss 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamilton Family Collection (Mss 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 698. Correspondence of the family of Eleazer and Emily (Perry) Hamilton of Middle Tennessee, and related families in Texas and Mississippi.
Charlotte Stephens
Women's history in Arkansas
Black and white print photograph of Charlotte Stephens, the first African American teacher in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Potter Orphan Home And School - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Potter Orphan Home And School - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3531. Three grade books, one inscribed by teacher Charles Thomas Gentry, from Potter Orphan Home and School, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes photocopies of related pages from the school’s June 1963 bulletin.
Patterson, Roland, 1872-1935 (Sc 3524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patterson, Roland, 1872-1935 (Sc 3524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3524. Letter to his parents, 22 July 1899, from Roland Patterson, teaching school and boarding with the Gerald family in Jennie, Barren County, Kentucky. His contemplative letter, written while sitting up with the family’s young son who is recovering from malaria, describes the family, his quiet surroundings, and opening his school.
The Impact Of Marriage On African American Educators In Bexar County, 1880-1950, Jordan Lejeune
The Impact Of Marriage On African American Educators In Bexar County, 1880-1950, Jordan Lejeune
Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020
As a society, we are still having discussions about whether or not women “can have it all.” We have not moved past gendered expectations for men and women. Mollie Carey Brown, Fanny Ellis Starnes, and Lady Henrietta Boyd were Black educators in the San Antonio public school system in the late nineteenth century who have incredible stories that may feel familiar to some women today. Mollie Carey Brown and Fanny Ellis Starnes both got married and ended their careers. Henrietta Boyd never got married, and remained a teacher until retirement. All three of these women had to fight gender expectations …
Teachers And Teaching (Sc 3477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Teachers And Teaching (Sc 3477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3477. Letter, postmarked 31 October 1933, from "S. I." to her friend "Annie Laurie." Both women have connections to Bowling Green, Kentucky, but "S.I." is currently teaching in a one-room schoolhouse at a location she references as Sassafras Bushes." She laments her routine existence, the trials of teaching 28 students with dispositions "from bland to ferocious" and "intelligence from imbecility to genius," and their "brilliant answers" on a recent test. She refers to some of her and Annie's mutual friends and expresses her intention to attend "Western" …
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Letters To (Sc 3406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Letters To (Sc 3406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collections 3406. Letters of recommendation for Simpson County, Kentucky teacher Frances Richards (later a WKU faculty member), and associated letters regarding teaching positions. Includes teachers certificates and certificate examination grades for Frances’s sister Mary Ellen Richards. One correspondent, A. H. Hill, writes with familiarity to his “cousins” Frances and Mary Ellen.
Yates, Otis Webster, 1888-1981 (Sc 3234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Yates, Otis Webster, 1888-1981 (Sc 3234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3234. Letter, 30 November 1922, to “Levy” from O. W. Yates, Dean of Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky. He describes his work teaching the Bible and Greek to ministerial students, his pastorate, and his house and family, and asks about seeing Levy when he visits North Carolina at Christmas.
Edmunds And Willis Family Papers (Mss 549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmunds And Willis Family Papers (Mss 549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 549. Almost exclusively correspondence of the Edmunds and Willis families of Barren County, Kentucky. The Willis family correspondence (the bulk of the collection) is almost exclusively amongst females, so housekeeping, sewing, fashion, family matters are discussed frequently. Frank Willis, the family patriarch, does discuss farming with his daughters. Many of the letters are addressed to his wife, Laura (Edmunds) Willis, and a majority of those are from her daughters.
Helm, Alban Foster, 1861-1936 (Sc 3012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Alban Foster, 1861-1936 (Sc 3012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3012. Diploma, 18 June 1884, of Alban F. Helm for completion of Teachers Course of Study, Seminary and Normal School, Morgantown, Kentucky; Teacher’s Certificate, 4 August 1888, of Alban F. Helm for common schools of Butler County, Kentucky.
Humble, John S., 1886-1945 (Sc 2932), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Humble, John S., 1886-1945 (Sc 2932), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2932. Teacher’s certificates and diplomas of John S. Humble of Simpson County, Kentucky; yearbook excerpts relating to Humble’s teaching in Tennessee and Texas; and local color stories written by Humble.
Shelton Family Papers (Mss 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shelton Family Papers (Mss 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 527. Letters and compositions written by Butler County, Kentucky native Curran Ralph Shelton, while a student at Glasgow Normal School. Also includes a diary in which he records family, church, and local community happenings in 1891. Also includes several small diaries kept by Curran’s wife John Annie during the Great Depression.
Langston, Luke Alvah Leigh, 1870-1965 (Mss 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Langston, Luke Alvah Leigh, 1870-1965 (Mss 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 479. Teacher’s registers with lists of pupils, accounts, and school regulations, kept by Luke A.L. Langston for various schools in Calloway County Kentucky, from 1890-1913.
Wiggins, Bobbie Reeves (Sc 2701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wiggins, Bobbie Reeves (Sc 2701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2701. Sample copy, with edits, of “The Legacy of Woodland School, Early 1900’s to 1963,” a history of Woodland School, Paducah, Kentucky by Bobbie Reeves Wiggins.
Teachers And Teaching - Powell County, Kentucky (Sc 927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Teachers And Teaching - Powell County, Kentucky (Sc 927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 927. Agreement of Fannie Hanks to teach school in Powell County, Kentucky for a six-month term beginning 5 July 1909. The contract lists the number of pupils and the responsibilities of the teacher.
Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 954. Teacher’s certificate issued for the period 1909-1911, to J.M. Hill, Hardin County, Kentucky. Included are grades he earned in various subjects.
Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 396. Correspondence to family, friends, and acquaintances of Tandie Lewis McIntire, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Collection contains educational material related to McIntire's career as a teacher in Edmonson County. Also includes tracts and pamphlets related to McIntire's involvement in religious organizations, particularly Baptist entities.
Settle, B. C. (Mrs.) (Sc 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Settle, B. C. (Mrs.) (Sc 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 265. Teacher’s composition book of Mrs. B. C. Settle, presumably of Warren County, Kentucky.
Baker, L. Alleyne, 1858-1916 (Sc 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baker, L. Alleyne, 1858-1916 (Sc 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 234. Two letters written to L. Alleyne Baker, a school teacher In Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky. An 1898 letter, from a cousin, contains family news; a 1907 letter pertains to educational matters. Also includes an undated essay by a female high school student entitled, “Woman’s Sphere.”
Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 165. Materials related to education and teaching career of Harry Edgar Thompson. Includes commencement invitation and program of Southern Normal School, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1888; letters of recommendation, 1888-1893; Kentucky and Texas teaching certificates, 1885-1891; clippings; photographs; and autobiographical note, 1958, of Thompson, later a chiropractor in McPherson, Kansas.
Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 84. Teacher's certificate of Miss Jane Hunt issued by the Common School Commissioner, Butler County, Kentucky.
A History Of The Events Leading To The Establishment Of The First State Normal School In America, Harold E. Ring
A History Of The Events Leading To The Establishment Of The First State Normal School In America, Harold E. Ring
All Master's Theses
During the decades of the 1820's and 1830's, educators in this country studied the European schools where the principles of Johann H. Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Friedrick Froebel (1782-1852), and Emanuel Fellenberg (1771-1844) had been put into practice with favorable results. The Prussian normal schools established by Frederick the Great were some of the best in the world. American educators came back with glowing reports of the progress Europeans were making in this direction. By 1838, due to the efforts of James Carter (1795-1849) and Horace Mann (179 6-1859), and because of the generosity of a Boston merchant, the Massachusetts legislature was …
Photo, Arithmetic Exhibit At Jonesboro
Photo, Arithmetic Exhibit At Jonesboro
Arkansas schools
This is a photograph of a teacher, Mrs. Georgia Dunlap, with students Pat Haulk and Ellen White, in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Teaching Certificate, Myrtle Campbell
Teaching Certificate, Myrtle Campbell
Arkansas schools
This is a three-year elementary teaching certificate for Myrtle Campbell, valid from 1948 to 1951.