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Floyd Collection (Mss 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Floyd Collection (Mss 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 689. Field books, 1851-1929, containing Warren County, Kentucky surveying notes recorded by John B. Floyd as well as some Warren County land records related to the Floyd family. Educational material from Jesse A. Floyd, Jr. relating to his teaching career in Warren County. A travel journal kept by Hubert and Alleyne Robinson during their trip to the western United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Timmons, James Aloysia, 1836-1902 (Sc 3434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Timmons, James Aloysia, 1836-1902 (Sc 3434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3434. Letter, 18 March 1869, of James A. Timmons, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to A. T. Stewart. The struggling schoolmaster implores Stewart, a wealthy New York merchant and fellow native of Ireland, to help him save his home from judicial sale and support his vocation “instructing the poor Irish children of this place.” He anticipated repaying Stewart in three years out of the tuition from his American students and what little the Irish students can pay. He enclosed the notice of Commissioner’s sale of his house pursuant to a judgment obtained by creditor Robert …
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.
Ennis, William Franklin, Sr., 1856-1939 (Mss 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ennis, William Franklin, Sr., 1856-1939 (Mss 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 614. Journals with short entries about daily happenings and listings of farm expenses for William F. Ennis, a farmer, quarry owner, and businessman from Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes some poetry, weather information, and data about an unnamed individual conducting a school.
Bridgeport School - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3031), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bridgeport School - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3031), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3031. Information about the Bridgeport School in southern Warren County, Kentucky, which was sold in 1928. Information includes census totals from 1909 to 1918, general physical condition, image of school in 1909, deeds.
Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Mss 580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Mss 580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 580. Two account books of Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky showing charges to students for books and supplies. One book includes general farm accounts of the college’s proprietor, William F. Whitesides of Simpson County.
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.
Warren Seminary - Warren County, Kentucky (Lg 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren Seminary - Warren County, Kentucky (Lg 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 384. Copy of a land grant, 1816 December 27, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to The Trustees of the Warren Seminary, 75 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Bowling Green Seminary - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Lg 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Seminary - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Lg 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 383. Original land grant, 1816 October 30, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to The Trustees of the Bowling Green Seminary, 100 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Darden, Addie A., 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Darden, Addie A., 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1283. Graduation speech delivered at Cedar Bluff Female College in Woodburn, Kentucky by salutatorian Addie Darden on 7 June 1877. Includes an essay read in Latin.
Cox, Floyd W., 1925-1981 (Sc 1086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cox, Floyd W., 1925-1981 (Sc 1086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1086. School paper, “My First Punishment in School” written by Floyd W. Cox for an English class in 1942. He relates the punishment he received as a seven-year old student at the one-room Oakwood Mills school in Warren County, Kentucky.
Briggs, Analee, 1905-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Briggs, Analee, 1905-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1046. Letter, 9 September 1952, to Analee Briggs, a teacher at Rich Pond School, Warren County, Kentucky, from her former student, Wilma Mae Green, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. Green praises Miss Briggs’ positive influence on her and offers to send any needed items to her former school.
Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2695. Invitations to the 1886, 1887 and 1888 commencement exercises of Cedar Bluff College, a school for young ladies in Woodburn, Kentucky. The members of the graduating classes are listed, and the 1888 invitation includes the program for the event.
Grimes, Oliver, 1884-1960 (Sc 924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grimes, Oliver, 1884-1960 (Sc 924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 924. Letter written by Oliver Grimes, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 27 October 1925, to Jesse Stewart, Elkins, West Virginia, relating to his candidacy in an upcoming election for the Warren County Board of Education. Grimes was general manager of the Warren County Strawberry Growers’ Association; the letter is written on the organization’s letterhead. Includes biographical information about Stewart and the obituaries of Grimes and his opponent for the Board of Education seat, W. P. White.
Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, 1852-1943 (Sc 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, 1852-1943 (Sc 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 999. Recollections of Elizabeth Gaines about her life in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky. She discusses residents, schools, and businesses. Gaines includes a detailed account of Civil War incidents in Bowling Green that she recalls from her childhood.
Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of diploma (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 656. Mistress of Science diploma conferred upon Mollie B. Robinson by Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky. Mollie was the niece of the college's president, William F. Whitesides.
Ground, Frankie, 1930-2020 (Sc 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ground, Frankie, 1930-2020 (Sc 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 822. Three autograph albums of Frankie Ground, Warren County, Kentucky, containing signatures of classmates, teachers, friends, and family from Three Forks Schools, 1941-1944 (two separate albums), and North Warren High School, 1949.
Hall's Chapel School District - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hall's Chapel School District - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below)for Manuscripts Small Collection 64. A subscribers' list giving amount of money pledged to pay to John W. Sharrer to teach a three-months school at Hall's Chapel, Warren County, Kentucky.
Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 166. Project titled “African American education in south central Kentucky, 1920-1960.” Interviews with twenty-nine African Americans regarding their experiences as students and teachers in fourteen Kentucky counties.
Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 430. Teacher’s certificate for Joseph T. Cherry, Warren County, Kentucky, issued for first class, first grade. Renewed 8 October 1880.
Whitesides, William Franklin, 1827-1905 (Sc 541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitesides, William Franklin, 1827-1905 (Sc 541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 541. Letter, 17 August 1871, to C.H. Courts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from William F. Whitesides, president of Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky, asking for a loan, and express receipt from Adams Express Company for the desired loan.
Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 543. Agreement to teach school in Warren County for the 1836-1937 term including the subscribers’ list; also two papers, 1840, pertaining to bill owed Henry Hines by the John McFadin estate for the tuition of one student for one year.
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.
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.
Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 281. Chiefly personal and professional correspondence, speeches, journal articles, reminiscences, and news clippings of noted educator Chester Coleman Travelstead. Of particular interest are the materials related to his 1955 dismissal from the University of South Carolina owing to his support of racial integration. Also includes correspondence and diaries of his mother Nelle (Gooch) Travelstead, long-time Western Kentucky University faculty member.
Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Fidning aid only for Manuscripts Collection 231. Information about Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes material about the community's history, people, churches, schools, and events. Collection contains the original Board of Trustees minutes for Smiths Grove College, 1884-1901.
Warren County, Kentucky - Public Schools (Mss 311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Public Schools (Mss 311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 311. Information collected about schools in Warren County, Kentucky from 1909 to 1928, including photos, physical description of school houses, school populations, school expenses, etc. The school census books (1932 and 1934) contain information about the student population only. Also includes photographs (negatives and proof sheets) that were included with the superintendent's record books, 1909-1928.
Riverside, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 1693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Riverside, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 1693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 1693. Enrollment and attendance book kept by teacher Mollie Sherry for the July-December, 1912 term at Riverside School in Warren County, Kentucky.
Cardwell, Edna Ray, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 1920), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cardwell, Edna Ray, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 1920), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu