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Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Gough, William Henry, 1826-1910 (Sc 275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gough, William Henry, 1826-1910 (Sc 275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 275. Record book of William H. Gough, the first sheriff of Meade County, Kentucky, containing notes of court cases and jury lists. Includes notes and diary entries relating to his activities at Mount Merino Seminary in Breckinridge County, and lists of students, 1841-1842.
Cooper, Williamson Lee, Jr., 1889-1972 (Sc 2522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cooper, Williamson Lee, Jr., 1889-1972 (Sc 2522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collectin 2522. Letter of W. L. Cooper, Jr., superintendent of Stuart Robinson School, Blackey, Kentucky, to friends of the school. He reports on a fire that destroyed the administration building and asks for donations to support rebuilding.
Robbins, Josephus Ewing, 1854-1931 (Sc 329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robbins, Josephus Ewing, 1854-1931 (Sc 329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 329. Letter, 22 May 1930, to Mrs. Gabe Payne, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, from Josephus E. Robbins of Mayfield, Kentucky, relating the history of West Kentucky College.
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.
Education (Sc 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Education (Sc 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 267. Teachers’ certificates, 1874-1875 (3), issued to Amanda L. and C. S. Arnold for the first and second grades in the Kentucky counties of Henry and Oldham; and school essays written by Wanda Lee Arnold at Eminence College, 1871 (1), and by Bell Mason (1) and Essica Maye Ransdell(1).
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.
Auburn Seminary - Auburn, Kentucky (Sc 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Auburn Seminary - Auburn, Kentucky (Sc 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 314. Shares of stock, 1885 (2); letters concerning Auburn Seminary, Auburn, Kentucky, 1900-1968 (3); teacher’s contract, 1907; 1956 histories of seminary (2); and letters and article about the Auburn Seminary Alumni Association, 1963-1966 (3).
Obenchain, William Alexander, 1841-1916 - Letters To (Sc 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Obenchain, William Alexander, 1841-1916 - Letters To (Sc 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 309. Letters (3) to William A. Obenchain, president of Ogden College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from George J. Ramsey (1892), the Navy League of the United States (1903), and the American Protective Tariff League (1903), regarding publications.
John P. Morton And Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
John P. Morton And Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 310. Schoolbook orders and remittances sent to the John P. Morton Company, Louisville, Kentucky, by George M. Edgar, Franklin Female College, Franklin, Kentucky, and by W. F. Easterling from Russellville and Greensburg, Kentucky.
Gary, Flora (Sc 376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gary, Flora (Sc 376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 376. Teacher’s registers (2) for school terms, 1903 July 20 to 1903 December 14 and 1905 November 20 to 1905 December 4, taught by Miss Gary in Ohio County, Kentucky, evidently in the communities of Select and Arnold.
Interview Conducted By Joseph Carl Ruff With Herbert Alexander Oldham (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview Conducted By Joseph Carl Ruff With Herbert Alexander Oldham (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview conducted by Joseph Carl Ruff with Herbert Alexander Oldham on 15 May 1993 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. They discuss African American education in Bowling Green, Kentucky, integration, and segregation. They also discuss Oldham's education at St. Augustine College in Raleigh, North Carolina, his teaching career and education administration positions in Bowling Green, his family background, and his experiences as an African American youth in Bowling Green.
Nicholls, Margaret Gates, 1868-1941 (Sc 2511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nicholls, Margaret Gates, 1868-1941 (Sc 2511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2511. Notes of an address to teachers, remarking on the poor conditions in school buildings. The author is unknown; the notes were found in an envelope addressed to Margaret Nicholls, Calhoun, Kentucky.
Weaver, Bill L. (Mss 389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weaver, Bill L. (Mss 389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 389. Correspondence between Bill L. Weaver, a graduate of Western Kentucky University and former history instructor, and WKU history professor Lowell H. Harrison. Most of the correspondence took place during Weaver’s tenure as an administrator at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine.
Rochester Graded Common School - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rochester Graded Common School - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 292. Minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Rochester Graded Common School, Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky, 1915-1934, at which time the Rochester district was combined with the Butler County school system. Includes miscellaneous items pertaining to the school and the merger.
Southern Normal School And Business College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Southern Normal School And Business College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 253. Unsigned letter written 7 June 1885 on the stationery of the Southern Normal School and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Joe E. Rudolph, Hazelwood, Ballard County, Kentucky, relating students’ activities while the writer was enrolled in the college.
Russell, James A. (Sc 351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Russell, James A. (Sc 351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 351. Book containing loan payment accounts, personal accounts, etc., kept by James A. Russell, Elkton, Kentucky, 1837-1838. Also contains the laws and minutes of the Union Club, a polemic society, 1836-1837, and of the Debating Society, 1839, both of Elkton.
Auburn High School Board Of Managers (Sc 286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Auburn High School Board Of Managers (Sc 286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 286. Minutes of the meetings of the Auburn High School Board of Managers, Logan County Kentucky, 1874-1884. Includes list of tuition paid, lease, 1883 school board election results, and miscellaneous loose items.
Furman, Lucy Salome, 1869-1958 (Sc 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Furman, Lucy Salome, 1869-1958 (Sc 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 564. Chiefly letters, 1914-1938, written by Lucy Furman, author and educator, who taught and worked at Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, Knott County, Kentucky. Twenty-one of the letters, to Julia Neal, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, are collected in a separate subfolder. Miss Neal wrote her 1933 master’s thesis on Miss Furman. Also includes other letters and printed materials used in Miss Neal’s thesis.
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.”
Cloud, Emma Lily (Barnes), B. 1929 (Sc 2490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cloud, Emma Lily (Barnes), B. 1929 (Sc 2490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2490. School autograph books (2), correspondence, and substitute teacher reports of Emma (Barnes) Cloud of Ohio County, Kentucky. Includes a letter and Christmas card from her future husband, Allen C. Cloud, written during his Air Force service.
Kentucky American Legion School Masters' Club (Sc 2469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky American Legion School Masters' Club (Sc 2469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1469. Constitution and bylaws of the Kentucky American Legion School Masters' Club, an organization formed to advance the goals of education and open to Legionnaires with teaching experience.
Hampton, Jeanette, 1913-2007 - Letters To (Sc 2467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hampton, Jeanette, 1913-2007 - Letters To (Sc 2467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2467. Three letters to Jeanette Hampton, Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky. The first letter, February 1933, informs her that she has been approved as teacher of the Ellis school. Two 1935 letters from friends Minnie and Thala discuss schools, parties, quilting, and visits.
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.
Dickey, Robert W., B. 1933 (Sc 2449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickey, Robert W., B. 1933 (Sc 2449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2449. Letter, dated 30 January 1963, from attorney Marshall Funk to Robert W. Dickey related to an school integration lawsuit in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes the political platform and biographical information for Raymond McClard's 1973 state Senate race.
Young, Berenice, B. 1866? (Sc 172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Young, Berenice, B. 1866? (Sc 172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 172. Letters, 1889-1893, of Berenice Young to Jennie McKenney, Maquon, Illinois. She writes of her activities and their mutual friends, including former classmates at Glasgow Normal School, Glasgow, Kentucky. She also writes of her visit to a clairvoyant and teaching in Texas and Mississippi. Includes 1966 letters of McKenney's niece with biographical information.
Thwing, Frederick F., 1858-1931 (Sc 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thwing, Frederick F., 1858-1931 (Sc 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 225. Diary, 1912, of Thwing, professor of mathematics and member of the Athletic Board of Manual Training High School, Louisville, and later at Male High School, Louisville. He comments about the weather and his activities at home, church, and school, as well as about the night class he is teaching at the Y.M.C.A. Includes a copy of his obituary and other biographical information.
Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 167. Civil War disability exemption certifiate of Felix Crady, LaRue County, Kentucky, 1864; Simpson County, Kentucky deed, 1868; statement of Nazareth College, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1868; and an agreement concerning construction of the foundation for Franklin Fremale College, Franklin, Kentucky.
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 501. Certificates of proficiency from the Franklin Female College, 1874 (4), of Maud McCutchen and autograph album of Maud Blair which she had while a student at the college, 1886-1888.
Browne Family - Account Book, 1872-1948 (Sc 211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browne Family - Account Book, 1872-1948 (Sc 211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 211. Account book that lists expenditures for Edmonia, Susie, and James Harvey Browne of Bardstown, 1872-1884; also, for Mary Marshall and Susie Beauchamp, 1882-1884. Book includes the will of Sue Browne Elliott, recipes, and a tuition receipt from the Bardstown Female Academy, 1873. A 1948 letter relates to the Browne family.