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Western Kentucky University

2009

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Fitz-Hugh Family (Sc 2093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Fitz-Hugh Family (Sc 2093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2093. Correspondence and sundry notes related to the teaching careers of Thomas E. and Lillian fitz-Hugh, Covington, Kentucky. Also includes family correspondence related to settlement of the John Fitzhugh estate and the sale of his Logan County, Kentucky farm.

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Simpson County, Kentucky - Teachers Register (Sc 2030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Simpson County, Kentucky - Teachers Register (Sc 2030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2030. Pages from a ledger listing Simpson County, Kentucky school districts by number, the names of school trustees and teachers, and some information on school fund expenditures.

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Riverside, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 1693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2009

Riverside, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 1693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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St. Columba Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2009

St. Columba Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1982. Register of students of St. Columba Academy, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and its successor, St. Joseph's School. Register covers 1887-1890, 1898-1906, 1910-1936. Includes photocopy of grade record of Georgia Johnson.

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Witten, Tempie Jane (Bell), 1901-1985 (Mss 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Witten, Tempie Jane (Bell), 1901-1985 (Mss 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 261. Correspondence, chiefly genealogical related; family files; research materials about Grayson County, Kentucky schools, churches, businesses, history, and personalities. Also includes items related to Witten's long career as a teacher in Grayson County schools.

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Bell, Charles R., 1891-1976 (Sc 1951), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Bell, Charles R., 1891-1976 (Sc 1951), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1951. Correspondence related to the selection of Kelly Thompson as president of Western Kentucky State College (now WKU) in 1955.

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Burns, William Franklin, 1909-1981 (Sc 1944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2009

Burns, William Franklin, 1909-1981 (Sc 1944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1944. Letters of Burns, Rogers, Arkansas, to O. O. Pillans, director of admissions at the Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Jefferson County, Kentucky, related to the admission of his son Robert J. Burns. Includes instructions to new students at the 1948-1949 session.

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Third District Education Association, 1903-1973 (Sc 1937), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2009

Third District Education Association, 1903-1973 (Sc 1937), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1937. Programs, publications and news clippings related to the Third District Education Association, a subordinate organization of the Kentucky Education Association.

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Cardwell, Edna Ray, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 1920), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2009

Cardwell, Edna Ray, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 1920), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

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Hines, George Lehman, 1851-1943 (Sc 1904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2009

Hines, George Lehman, 1851-1943 (Sc 1904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1904. Correspondence, teacher's certificates from the Shelby County, Tennessee public schools, and other materials related to Hines's work and family.

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Swigert, Anne Howe, 1825-1845 - Letter To (Sc 1892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Swigert, Anne Howe, 1825-1845 - Letter To (Sc 1892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1892. Letter, 22 September 1840, from "Nannie," Paris, Kentucky, to her classmate Anne Swigert, telling of her vacation, her reading materials, and general gossip about her classmates.

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Marshall, Nancy Carol (Richey), B. 1959 (Sc 1653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Marshall, Nancy Carol (Richey), B. 1959 (Sc 1653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1653. Paper titled: "The Higher Road" about the life of long-time Western Kentucky University music professor Nelle Gooch Travelstead. The paper was written by Nancy Marshall for a history class at Western Kentucky University.

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Bevier-Cleaton High School, 1931 (Sc 1802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Bevier-Cleaton High School, 1931 (Sc 1802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1802. School stationery with 1931 class list, Bevier-Cleaton High School, Cleaton, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

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Martin, Anna Katherine (Flege), 1902-1976 (Sc 1841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Martin, Anna Katherine (Flege), 1902-1976 (Sc 1841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1841. Diary kept from 1 January 1923 to 14 August 1923 by Anna Katherine Flege, Grant County, Kentucky. She relates details of her life as a teacher in the one-room Round Top School. She also comments about the weather, her family and home life, and her participation in community social and religious activities.

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Irvine, M. Loula (Sc 1739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Irvine, M. Loula (Sc 1739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1739. Teacher's grade book kept by M. Loula Irvine from September 1889 to January 1890 for an unidentified Kentucky school. Also includes some notes on elocution.

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Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 84. Teacher's certificate of Miss Jane Hunt issued by the Common School Commissioner, Butler County, Kentucky.

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