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Floyd Collection (Mss 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Floyd Collection (Mss 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Buffalo Club Of Northern Kentucky (Sc 3473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buffalo Club Of Northern Kentucky (Sc 3473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3473. Directories of male teachers in northern Kentucky for 1937 and 1941-1942, made for the use of teachers with compliments of the Northern Kentucky Buffalo Club. Data on teachers includes name, position, school, and home address.
Timmons, James Aloysia, 1836-1902 (Sc 3434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Timmons, James Aloysia, 1836-1902 (Sc 3434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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 …
Ray, Joseph Malchus, 1907-1991 (Sc 3329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ray, Joseph Malchus, 1907-1991 (Sc 3329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text scan of memoirs and photographs and digital files of interviews (Click on "Additional Files" below to access) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3329. Memoirs, sundry papers, and oral histories of Joseph Malchus Ray, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, who went on to teach at universities in Texas, Alabama and Maryland. He ended his career as president of the University of Texas at El Paso in 1968, but stayed on afterwards as the H.Y. Benedict Professor of Political Science at UTEP. The memoirs discuss in detail his professional and personal life and the values that shaped …
Capwell, Franklin Wall, 1823-1889 (Sc 3232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Capwell, Franklin Wall, 1823-1889 (Sc 3232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3232. Letter, 10 January 1845, of teacher Franklin W. Capwell to his parents in Wyoming County, New York. Writing from Mortonsville, Kentucky, he describes the circumstances of his decision to teach at a seminary there, listing his subjects and fees. He finds Southern women unsuitable for their lack of education, but declares that their wealth makes them good marriage prospects for other Northern men. He also comments on the reliance on slaves for ordinary labor, the defense of slavery by ministers, and the fear of slave …
Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Schools - Relating To (Sc 3188), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Schools - Relating To (Sc 3188), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3188. Abstract of a federally funded program proposal submitted by Bowling Green (Kentucky) City Schools for the year 1971 titled “Increasing teacher effectiveness in dealing with student behavior.” The program aimed to train teachers at Bowling Green Junior and Senior High Schools in techniques for better understanding the problems of African-American and disadvantaged students and to aid students in developing more positive behavior.
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.
Huenefeld, Earl Warren, B. 1921 And Alvis Marie (Dunaway) Huenefeld, 1922-1994 (Mss 606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Huenefeld, Earl Warren, B. 1921 And Alvis Marie (Dunaway) Huenefeld, 1922-1994 (Mss 606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 606. Courtship letters of E. Warren Huenefeld, Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and his fiancé and eventual wife, Alvis Marie Dunaway, while she was teaching school in Madison County and Pulaski County, Kentucky. Includes some elementary music teaching Material and a pencil sketch of Alvis Huenefeld.
Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 609. Correspondence, photographs, travel materials, genealogy, and other personal papers of Beulah R. Winchel, a Breckinridge County, Kentucky, native and a teacher and librarian who served in Japan, Germany and France with the U.S. Army Special Services and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools.
Smith, Mary Woodrow (Wilson), 1913-2005 (Sc 2991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Mary Woodrow (Wilson), 1913-2005 (Sc 2991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2991. “Random Meanderings: The Rural School Years,” Mary W. Smith’s reminiscence of teaching in the rural schools of Butler County, Kentucky. Includes the author’s obituary.
Edwards, Jerome Cyrus, 1854-1931 (Sc 2986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Bennett, Edith Lillian, 1931-2013 - Collector (Sc 2906), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bennett, Edith Lillian, 1931-2013 - Collector (Sc 2906), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2906. Chiefly letters written by Locke family of Indiana to Sally Barnett of Ohio County, Kentucky. Although they address her as "sister" and "aunt," no relation is apparent. They discuss religious (Methodist) and family matters. Also includes a letter from Samuel Landstreet to H. Stevens and Charlotte Belt in which Landstreet expresses his feelings about emancipation. Finally, an appeasement agreement made between a prominent group of Baptist leaders in 1892, apparently in Louisville.
Shelton Family Papers (Mss 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shelton Family Papers (Mss 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Union County, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2888), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Union County, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2888), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2888. Portion of a letter, 25 December 1865, written from Morganfield, Kentucky, by a Presbyterian clergyman to his father. After a two-year lapse in communication, he updates his father on his teaching duties at a male academy and his preaching at two churches. He also mourns social ills such as crime and intemperance, and contrasts the irreligion of the North with the growth of evangelical churches in the South.
Geary, Genevieve (Baxter), 1924-2007 (Sc 1125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Geary, Genevieve (Baxter), 1924-2007 (Sc 1125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1125. Nine-page reminiscence written by Genevieve Geary, of Muhlenberg County, titled, “School Teaching in the 1940s in One- and Two-Room Schools with Emergency Certificate”.
Briggs, Analee, 1905-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Briggs, Analee, 1905-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Smith, Travis Edwin, B. 1898 (Sc 2734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Travis Edwin, B. 1898 (Sc 2734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2734. Three documents related to the history of education in Kentucky which were prepared by Travis Edwin Smith for his doctoral dissertation. One document concentrates on teacher education, one on education law in Kentucky, and the last document is an overview titled “Education in Kentucky.” The documents concentrate on sources to be used in the dissertation.
Penn, Anna Ruth (Sc 1013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Penn, Anna Ruth (Sc 1013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1013. Receipt signed by school teacher (Anna) Ruth Penn, Gracy, Kentucky, and given to M.S. Hopson, a member of the School Board of Trustees, for payment. She requested payment of $4.50 for three months’ tuition. Penn was the mother of noted author, Robert Penn Warren. Also associated data.
Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Wells, George M., Sr., 1887-1956 (Sc 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wells, George M., Sr., 1887-1956 (Sc 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 994. Teacher’s certificates issued to George M. Wells by Metcalfe County, Kentucky, for two years in 1907, and one issued by Monroe County, Kentucky, for four years in 1909; Wells’ grade card from Loyola University Medical School, 1914-1915; and obituaries of Wells (2).
Murrell, Mary, 1891-1921 (Sc 871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Murrell, Mary, 1891-1921 (Sc 871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 871. Correspondence (53) and postcards (23), 1915-1916, written chiefly to “Esther,” Woodburn, Kentucky by “Mary,” Bowling Green, Kentucky, about local and family news, and which reflect a lesbian relationship. Includes a letter to Esther and "Lassie" from Mary and some letters written to Esther from Lassie.
Whitmer, Dudley Robert, 1899-1993 (Sc 916), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitmer, Dudley Robert, 1899-1993 (Sc 916), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 916. Record book, 1917-1918, of attendance and grades kept by Muhlenberg County elementary school teacher Dudley Whitmer. Includes monthly and term summaries.
Cook, Elbert Eugene Iii, B. 1959 & Rebecca J. (Cook) Foust - Collectors (Sc 2654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cook, Elbert Eugene Iii, B. 1959 & Rebecca J. (Cook) Foust - Collectors (Sc 2654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and illustration of stock certificate (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2654. Two Kentucky teaching certificates issued to Elbert Cook [Sr.] in 1914 & 1919; letter appointing Cook a rural mail carrier, 1920; stock certificate indicating that Cook had purchased three shares in the Bowling Green Savings and Building Association, 1932; certificate awarding a Postmastership to Maggie Elizabeth Cook at Trammel, Kentucky, 1946; and several photographs.
Caldwell, R. E. (Sc 807), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Caldwell, R. E. (Sc 807), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 807. Contract, 2 July 1894, between R. E. Caldwell and trustees John A. Caldwell and M. M. Jones to teach school in Graves County, Kentucky.
Stansbury, Edgar Bryant, 1906-2009 (Mss 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stansbury, Edgar Bryant, 1906-2009 (Mss 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 438. World War II diary kept by Edgar Bryant Stansbury, 1942, as well as articles by Stansbury, his thesis about industrial arts in Kentucky high schools, a scrapbook about his sports participation at Western Kentucky University, and several other items related to his experiences in World War II.
Blewett, Benjamin Turner, 1820-1911 (Sc 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blewett, Benjamin Turner, 1820-1911 (Sc 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 747. Letter, 18 April 1857, from Benjamin Turner Blewett, president of Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, to mathematics professor D. W. Hoyt, Brighton, Massachusetts, recruiting him for that position and describing the school and the town. Includes an illustrated school brochure.
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.
Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 (Sc 580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 (Sc 580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collectin 580. Letter to John G. Woods, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Cordell Hull, concerning Southern Normal School and Business College of Bowling Green, which Hull attended in 1886-1887.
Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.