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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.
Vertrees, Peter, 1840-1926 (Sc 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vertrees, Peter, 1840-1926 (Sc 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1282. Autobiography of Peter Vertrees, an African-American native of Edmonson County, Kentucky, who served as a cook in the Confederate Army, 6th Kentucky Cavalry. Afterward, he was an educator and Baptist minister, chiefly in Sumner County, Tennessee. Includes associated biographical data, and the autobiography of his third wife Diora.
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.
Hughes, Debra (Fa 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hughes, Debra (Fa 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 403. Interviews conducted by Debra Hughes with Neta Hughes, Arthur D. Hughes, Leiah Drake and Joe D. Patton, Sr. related to one-room and rural schools. For transcripts of four interviews with one-room school teachers click on the "Additional Files" below.
Ua45/5 Registrar County Delegation Presidents Club, Wku Archives
Ua45/5 Registrar County Delegation Presidents Club, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Brief history of the County Delegation Presidents Club and lists of county club presidents and sponsors along with two instruction forms used by the sponsors and presidents in leading the groups. Bound county forms requesting information regarding former students: AN EARNEST REQUEST TO COUNTY DELEGATIONS. Please fill out the blank below giving information concerning the former student whose name appears on the blank. We shall greatly appreciate your assistance in securing this information, and, besides, you will confer a real favor upon the Western Normal in its efforts to correct its mailing list. Name Home postoffice State County Give below …