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Agnew, William Walter, 1903-1990 (Sc 1646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Agnew, William Walter, 1903-1990 (Sc 1646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1646. "Delayed Issue" of The Quill, published for the 1980 reunion of the 1918-1924 classes of Barrett Manual Training High School in Henderson, Kentucky. It is comprised of short autobiographies of the graduates.


Bryan, Fannie Morton, 1870-1965 (Mss 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Bryan, Fannie Morton, 1870-1965 (Mss 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 83. Diaries, 1889-1895, correspondence, 1885-1955, photographs, and related items of Fannie Morton Bryan, a Russellville debutante and school teacher. Includes Logan Female College records, 1860-1869, and Russellville Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1863-1889.


Hoofnel, Nellie Keown, 1876-1949 (Sc 1600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Hoofnel, Nellie Keown, 1876-1949 (Sc 1600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 1600. Paper by Nellie Keown Hoofnel entitled "Rules and Regulations of Old Transylvania University," dated 10 August 1935.


Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Sc 1454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Sc 1454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1454. Report of Thomas C. Cherry, Bowling Green, Kentucky's Superintendent of Public Schools, on teacher Margaret Calvert. She is rated on eighteen professional and personal attributes.


Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 1556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 1556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1556. Correspondence between Thomas Awbrey, Fordsville, Kentucky, and President Lyndon B. Johnson relating to Awbrey's completion of an adult education class where he learned to read at age 71. Includes a newspaper clipping about Awbrey and information from the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas.


Settle, Margery Lucille, 1899-1980 (Mss 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Settle, Margery Lucille, 1899-1980 (Mss 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 7. Letters written by various armed forces personnel during World War I (7 items), World War II (77), and police duty afterward (6). The letters were written to Margery Lucille Settle, a secondary teacher and administrator in the McLean County and Daviess County, Kentucky school systems.


Rotary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Rotary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1547. Report, dated 14 November 2007, that documents payments made on behalf of the Bowling Green Rotary Club to community members in Kasigau, Kenya, so they could attend school. Includes receipts and thank you letters from students.


Allmond Collection (Mss 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Allmond Collection (Mss 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 12. Genealogical material collected by Allen E. Allmond, Louisville, Kentucky, pertaining to the Allmond and Meade families. Letters, photostats, maps, newspaper clippings and notebook. Also includes information about the Louisville Commercial Club.


Humphreys, John Alsop Yarborough, 1802-1873 (Sc 1319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Humphreys, John Alsop Yarborough, 1802-1873 (Sc 1319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1319. Subscribers' names for John A. Y. Humphreys, Bardstown, Kentucky, to teach a proposed school for twelve months beginning December 1, 1831. Also lists the subjects to be taught.


Kerr, William Bugg, 1894-1993 (Sc 1317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Kerr, William Bugg, 1894-1993 (Sc 1317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1317. William Bugg Kerr, a Bowling Green, Kentucky educator, businessman and farmer, records his philosophy and his reminiscences, for his family, in his paper titled "The High Road."


Porter, Donald And Janice A. (Insko) Porter (Mss 173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2007

Porter, Donald And Janice A. (Insko) Porter (Mss 173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding Aid only for Manuscript Collection 173. Correspondence between Donald Porter and Janice Insko, his future wife, during and just after the Korean War, while Don was serving in a medical support division in Germany and she was a student at Western. Letters concern military life abroad and the everyday life of a student at Western Kentucky State College.


Hawkins, Percival B., 1817-1893 (Sc 1481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2007

Hawkins, Percival B., 1817-1893 (Sc 1481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1481. Receipt, 1860, for tuition paid by Joseph D. Duncan for his two daughters (Drucilla A. Duncan and Eliza Cornelia Duncan) to attend school at Percival B. Hawkins's school in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Dulaney Family (Sc 1466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2007

Dulaney Family (Sc 1466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1466. Letter, December 1855, written from Annie E. Dulaney to her brother, William L. Dulaney, in which she discusses her schoolwork and the approaching Christmas holiday. Also included (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan) is a sketch (1909) of Hiram W. Dulaney's service in the 9th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A) during the Civil War.


Orr, S. H. (Sc 1463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2007

Orr, S. H. (Sc 1463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1463. Handwritten report card for Orr prepared by a teacher, J.O. Edwards, in Grayson County, Texas. The report deals with conduct and attendance rather than academic subjects. The original text is surrounded by five hand drawn leaves which have been filled with quotations.


Bowling, James B., 1795-1878 (Sc 1438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2005

Bowling, James B., 1795-1878 (Sc 1438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1438. Letter written by James B. Bowling of Logan County, Kentucky, to his son Robert, who was attending school in Danville, Kentucky. He outlines how his son should strive to be successful personally as well as a contributor to society.


Downing, Dero Goodman, 1921-2011 (Sc 1373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2003

Downing, Dero Goodman, 1921-2011 (Sc 1373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1373. Letters written by Dero G. Downing as a Western Kentucky University student, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1942, and as a Navy officer, 1944-1945, to his parents, Horse Cave, Kentucky and Dunbar, West Virginia. Discusses events as a member of the WKU basketball team that played in the NCAA tournament. Includes some news of his naval life.


Tucker, Mildred Carpenter, 1894-1994 (Mss 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2003

Tucker, Mildred Carpenter, 1894-1994 (Mss 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 145. Materials removed from a scrapbook kept by Tucker, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, while a student at Hamilton College in Lexington, Kentucky, for the 1915-1916 school year. Includes notes about the college, printed items, photos, mementos, etc. Also includes related data.


Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2003

Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 128. Correspondence, papers, financial records, minutes, essays written by children, etc., of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, Warren County, Kentucky, which was part of an international religious organization.


Richardson, Harry Blair, Sr., 1915-2002 - Letters To (Sc 1368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Richardson, Harry Blair, Sr., 1915-2002 - Letters To (Sc 1368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1368. Letters, 1930, written to Missouri native Harry Richardson concerning the initiation rites of the high school fraternity Phi Lambda Epsilon.


Oakley, Bethel Beulah, 1903-1995 (Sc 1338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Oakley, Bethel Beulah, 1903-1995 (Sc 1338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1338. Business papers, letters (including some written by her elementary students), printed materials, etc., of Bethel B. Oakley, originally from Hopkins County, Kentucky. She taught in Webster County and Owensboro, Kentucky, and at Oakland City College, Oakland City, Indiana.


Teachers And Teaching - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Teachers And Teaching - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1356. Teacher's class book kept by Frances Hart, for the 1924-1925 school year, evidently as a Hartford [Kentucky] High School faculty member. The book lists classes taught as well as students' names.


Middleton, Annie, D. 1888 (Sc 1320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2001

Middleton, Annie, D. 1888 (Sc 1320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1320. Autograph book kept by Annie Middleton, Louisville, Kentucky, while attending the Baltimore Conservatory of Music. Also includes family data.


Givan Family (Sc 1363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2001

Givan Family (Sc 1363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1363. Hardin County, Kentucky teachers' certificates issued to Sanford Givan, 1877, and to Mrs. Pallie Givan, 188?


Lewis County, Kentucky - Teachers And Teaching (Sc 1315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1994

Lewis County, Kentucky - Teachers And Teaching (Sc 1315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1315. Teacher's register (63 p.) kept by various teachers in Lewis County, Kentucky. Lists students, their ages, and other data, including information about facilities. Also loose leaf sheet with similar information found in book.


Guy, Sandra E. (Sc 1429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 1992

Guy, Sandra E. (Sc 1429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Small Collection 1429. Paper written by WKU student Sandra E. Guy for a history class, based on memories of her mother Genevieve Baxter Geary. She recalls her early teaching career in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, in the 1940s.


Warren College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1974

Warren College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1406. Minutes and business papers pertaining to Warren College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Louisville Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized the college for males. It was in operation from 1859 to 1879, and then was sold to Ogden College. An index accompanies the papers as well as associated data.