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Full-Text Articles in Life Sciences
Omer, Charles Henry, 1865-1937 (Mss 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Omer, Charles Henry, 1865-1937 (Mss 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 436. Personal journals of Charles Henry Omer of Union County, Kentucky. In this daily record Omer records information about his farming, family and church activities, the weather, as well as prices for food, timber and farm supplies.
Tevis, Henry Lloyd, 1820-1853 (Sc 2642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tevis, Henry Lloyd, 1820-1853 (Sc 2642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2642. Letter of Henry Lloyd Tevis, Fayette County, Kentucky, 11 January 1849, to Andrew Jackson Downing requesting a subscription to Downing’s magazine, The Horticulturist. Tevis praises the publication and its influence on his decision to move to a rural setting.
Mccoy, Thomas N. (Sc 2635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccoy, Thomas N. (Sc 2635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2635. Bound typescript of paper by Thomas N. McCoy, Catlettsburg, Kentucky entitled “Sadie F. Price, 1849-1903,” Kentucky Botanist,” including typescripts of correspondence with Price about botany, and a collection of new clippings concerning Price.
Lafferty, Maude (Ward), 1869-1962 (Sc 2616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lafferty, Maude (Ward), 1869-1962 (Sc 2616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2616. Typescript copies of "A Brief Sketch of Rafinesque and the Transylvania Botanic Garden" and the "Journal of Samuel Constantine Ranfiesque," by Maud (Ward) Lafferty, Lexington, Kentucky.
Coombs, Elizabeth Robertson, 1893-1988 (Sc 2633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs, Elizabeth Robertson, 1893-1988 (Sc 2633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2633. Original typescript of a Sarah "Sadie" Frances Price bibliography compiled by Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Tunks, Floyd Mckinley, 1896?-1959 (Sc 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tunks, Floyd Mckinley, 1896?-1959 (Sc 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 729. Livestock receipts (2) of Floyd McKinley Tunks, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, from Montgomery and Company, livestock dealers, Louisville, Kentucky, listing prices paid for cattle sold for Tunks.
Patrons Of Husbandry Lodge #1372 - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patrons Of Husbandry Lodge #1372 - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 712. Charter for the establishment of lodge #1372 of Patrons of Husbandry at Salome, Barren County, Kentucky.
Foreclosure And Other Essays, Derick Brandon Strode
Foreclosure And Other Essays, Derick Brandon Strode
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
My dad had early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I first knew something was wrong with him in 1995. He was 49 then, and I was just about to start the eighth grade. That’s the summer his company backed him into a corner and told him to quit or be fired. He had worked there 14 years. They said his behavior was changing, and they thought he was doing it on purpose. It took seven years to get an actual diagnosis. The doctors looked for everything. They just thought he was too young.
I’ve relied on materials found in my parents’ house …
Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 (Mss 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 (Mss 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 419. Letters and clippings removed from a scrapbook belonging to John T. Scopes or his wife and relating primarily to the 1925 Scopes trial, his subsequent notoriety, and later publicity and commemorations surrounding the controversy.
Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 162. This collection contains a paper entitled “Going Hog Wild in Logan County,” about William Warren Morton Sr. and his work in the swine industry. This paper was written by Samantha Pillar as a part of a class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1994. Several photocopied images are included in the paper.
Tolle Collection (Sc 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Collection (Sc 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 432. Papers regarding the Patrons of Husbandry, Siloam Grange, Number 1372, Barren County, Kentucky, 1874-1875. Papers include applications and recommendations for membership, chiefly signed or approved by William Daniel Tolle, J. J. Pursley, J. Nichols, and C. G. Ellis.
Boles, Charles Elam, 1887-1982 (Sc 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boles, Charles Elam, 1887-1982 (Sc 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 599. Journal of C.E. Boles containing a record of his farming activities during the summer of 1912 in Barren County, Kentucky. Also C. E. Boles’ account with S. H. Boles during the same time period is recorded.
Robert Kerr And Company - Great Britain (Sc 424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robert Kerr And Company - Great Britain (Sc 424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 424. Business letter from Robert Kerr and Company, Liverpool, England, written on a ledger sheet, and addressed to Harbert A. Powell, Henderson, Kentucky, regarding tobacco shipments. Also, statement of Powell’s account is given.
Tobacco (Sc 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tobacco (Sc 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 422. Printed circular letter from Campbell, McKee and Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, 4 January 1860, regarding tobacco, etc., on the New Orleans market; market circular, New Orleans, 26 May 1860; and circular letter from Pickett Tobacco Warehouse, Spratt, Bourn and Company, Louisville, Kentucky, December 1858, regarding an exhibition of tobacco for premiums.
42th Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University
42th Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University
Student Research Conference Select Presentations
No abstract provided.
J. H. Wilson Tobacco Company - Mayfield, Kentucky (Sc 2514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
J. H. Wilson Tobacco Company - Mayfield, Kentucky (Sc 2514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2514. Advertising circular of J. H. Wilson Tobacco Company, a mail order firm in Mayfield, Kentucky. Includes details of the company’s reopening under a new tobacco tax imposed by the Revenue Act of 1918, testimonials, price list, order form, and offer of a free book by J. H. Wilson.
Taylor, Amy Yvonne (Doyen) (Fa 73), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Amy Yvonne (Doyen) (Fa 73), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 73. Interviews with tobacco auctioneers conducted by Amy Taylor for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 53. “A History of the Logan County Tobacco Festival” Paper written about an annual festival celebrating tobacco culture held in Russellville, Kentucky. Paper was written for a history class at Western Kentucky University.
Craig, James Harvey, 1842-1929 (Sc 240), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Craig, James Harvey, 1842-1929 (Sc 240), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 240. Photocopy of autobiography written by James H. Craig, possibly in 1917. He was a native of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, although he was an Arkansas resident for several years. The autobiography contains much Craig family data. In addition, there is a photocopy of Craig's essay denouncing the evils of alcohol, possibly to be delivered as a speech
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Kitchens, Amy (Fa 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kitchens, Amy (Fa 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 35. [Warren County agriculture – past, present, future] Oral history project completed by Amy Kitchens with Kelcy Driskill about agriculture in Warren County, Kentucky, for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Contains indices, tape summaries and transcriptions.
Ua94/6/11 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Darwin Newton, Wku Archives
Ua94/6/11 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Darwin Newton, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Notebooks, notes and papers written by Darwin Newton during his time as a student at WKU.