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Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2649. Subscription lists, receipts and other financial records related to the operation of Smiths Grove College in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. Includes a debate outline demanding equal rights for women (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).
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.
Allen County, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen County, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 600. Advertisements of school sessions of Allen Male and Female College, Scottsville, Kentucky, 1888, and Literary and Business School, Stony Point School House, Allen County, 1891. Faculty, rates of tuition, subjects, etc., are listed.
Southern College Of Kentucky - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Southern College Of Kentucky - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 780. Letter, 8 September 1825, of Henry Grider and A. W. Graham, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Governor Joseph Desha, requesting his assistance in funding the Southern College of Kentucky, which had been operating for three years in Bowling Green. Also included are photocopies of a (Bowling Green) Times-Journal article, 21 July 1937, concerning the educational history of Bowling Green and a 1969 paper by Ward C. Sumpter titled “Early Schools and Colleges of Warren County.”
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.
Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 431. Sundry items from Lillian Iona Tynes’s childhood and adolescence in Russellville, Kentucky, including greeting and holiday cards, correspondence, diaries, report cards, programs from school functions, news clippings, church programs, and more.
Sandidge, Hattie Mcmillan (Williams), 1876-1942 (Sc 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sandidge, Hattie Mcmillan (Williams), 1876-1942 (Sc 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 742. Typescript of 1941 letter written by Hattie McMillan (Williams) Sandidge, Burkesville, Kentucky, to school friend Bessie McMillan (whose father, J. P. McMillan, was president of Alexander College in Burkesville), reminiscing and relating information about Burkesville and mutual friends.
Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 488. Photocopy of paper entitled “Reminiscences of the Life and Teachings of Mary Kendall Jones while a Resident of this City,” written by a former student, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sometime during the period 1883-1887.
Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 538. Correspondence between Mary T. Leiper, librarian, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Pearle
L. Hendley, Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky, related to Miss Hendley’s uncle, J.A. Hendley, founder of the Farmington Institute. Includes a photograph of J.A. Hendley.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.