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Ua1c3/2 Faculty/Staff Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.

Ua1c4/1 Administrator Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of administrative groups.

Ua1c4/2 Faculty/Staff Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of faculty and staff groups and associations of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.

Ua1c4/5 Class Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of class groups from Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.

Ua1c4/7 Student Groups & Association Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of student groups and associations not otherwise listed.

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.

Ua99/5 Bowling Green Business University Departments, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the departments of Bowling Green Business University.

Ua1c3/1 Administrator Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of administrators of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.

Ua1c4/17 Bowling Green Business University Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Bowling Green Business University students.

Ua99/8 Bowling Green Business University Memorabilia, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Memorabilia has been donated by and collected from various sources. Many of the earliest artifacts have come into the WKU Archives with no surviving documentation. This record group has not been completely described, and will be added to as more artifacts and items make their way into the WKU Archives. Most of the items in the collection are for exhibit purposes only. Images may be requested from the WKU archivist. Items may be pulled for researchers by prior appointment.

If you have items that may be of interest to the WKU Archives, please contact us at archives@wku.edu. Large three-dimensional objects …

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.

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

Manuscript Collection 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.

Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Mss 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection 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

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small collections of Bowling Green Business University alumni personal papers.

Robertson, J. Lee, B. 1922 (Fa 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives 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.

Ua1a University Archives Reference Books, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Reference books, non-WKU publications and recordings related to the history of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions. Some of these items are available in the Harrison-Baird Reading Room.

Ua1c7 Departmental Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images showing everyday activities of university departments.

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

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.

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

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.

Ua37/21 Nina Hammer Interview, William Jenkins

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Transcript of oral history conducted by William Jenkins with Nina Hammer regarding her time as a student and Registrar at the Bowling Green Business University.

Ua37 A Factbook Of Western Kentucky University, O. J. Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

A factbook compiled by O.J. Wilson regarding the pre-history of WKU and the history of the university from 1907 through 1967. It includes chapters:

• Genealogical Background
• The Presidents
• Academic Expansion at Western
• The Physical Plant
• Traditions at WKU
• Intercollegiate Athletics at Western
• Sixty Years of Vital Statistics
• Chronology of Historical Events
• Western's Faculty & Staff

An appendix is listed, but was not included with the factbook.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the razing of the Bowling Green Business University.

Ua99/3 Commencement Program, Bgbu Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Commencement program listing graduates of the Bowling Green Business College Class of 1963.

Ua99/3 Commencement Program, Bgbu Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Commencement program listing Bowling Green Business University graduates in the Class of 1962.

Ua37/42 The General Journal, No. 4, Bgbu Veterans Club

WKU Archives Records

Fourth issue of the General Journal newspaper created by the Bowling Green Business University Veterans Club for veterans.

Ua37/21 Scrapbook, William Jenkins

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by William Jenkins commemorating his student days at Bowling Green Business University. Included are photographs, yearbook pages and commencement programs.

Ua1c4/5/376 Bowling Green Business University Student Body Photo, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Student body photograph taken in front of the Towers. There is some distortion in the photo through the scanning process.

The Development Of Education In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Lula Dickey Vance

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In recent years several articles have been written concerning education in Bowling Green, Kentucky, but the writer has been unable to discover an article that has treated the development of education from the time Bowling Green was established until now. It is the motive of this study to trace the development of education from the time Bowling Green was established until the present time.

Information for this thesis has been obtained from various sources, but the greater part of it has been secured through personal interviews, unpublished manuscripts, scrapbooks and histories.