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Edwards, Jerome Cyrus, 1854-1931 (Sc 2986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Edwards, Jerome Cyrus, 1854-1931 (Sc 2986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2986. Certificate, 26 October 1880, issued to Jerome C. Edwards, qualifying him to teach in the common schools of Barren, County, Kentucky; letter, 23 December 1921, to Jerome C. Edwards from his cousin Cyrus Edwards, Horse Cave, Kentucky, asking for data to complete a family history.


Parent Teacher Association - Austin Tracy Elementary School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Parent Teacher Association - Austin Tracy Elementary School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2985. Lists of presidents, officers and committees for the Austin Tracy Elementary School Parent Teacher Association. Includes summaries of programming for 1964-1966 and 1971-1972.


Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2585. Teacher’s register and gradebook of Nell Bohannon Carter, believed to be from a Smiths Grove, Kentucky or Barren County, Kentucky school. Includes absence note from the mother of a student.


Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2540. “Fifty Years in a One-Room School,” an account by Alfred Leland Crabb, Jr. of the teaching career of his grandfather James Wade Crabb in one-room schools, primarily in Butler and Warren counties in Kentucky. Includes data on the Crabb family, a copy of James W. Crabb’s Warren County teaching certificate, a list of Warren County schools, 1908-1919, and an early twentieth-century photo of Plum Springs Schoolhouse, Warren County. Also includes A. L. Crabb, Sr.’s account of a student’s last day at Plum Springs Schoolhouse.