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Cooper, Thomas Poe, 1881-1958 (Sc 2488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2011

Cooper, Thomas Poe, 1881-1958 (Sc 2488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2488. Letter from Thomas Cooper, Dean and Director, Agricultural Extension Division, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, University of Kentucky, to Emma L. Barnes, Carlisle, Kentucky. He confirms her appointment to the University’s Agricultural Extension Division as an Assistant Home Demonstration Agent in Nicholas County at an annual salary of $2,700.


Hines-Park Foods, Inc. - Ithaca, New York (Sc 2460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2011

Hines-Park Foods, Inc. - Ithaca, New York (Sc 2460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2460. Two files containing documentation relating to registrations 629,236 and 623,168 of the trademark “Duncan Hines” by Hines-Park Foods, Inc. of Ithaca, New York. Includes certificates of trademark registration dated 13 March and 19 June 1956, correspondence and records of U.S. registrations. Also includes a Duncan Hines buttermilk pancake mix box.


Mabry, John, Sr., 1764-1845 (Sc 652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2011

Mabry, John, Sr., 1764-1845 (Sc 652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 652. Journal (40 pages) kept by John Mabry, Sr., Trigg County, Kentucky, which contains records of the Mabry, Mitchell, and Smith families, farming activities, land transactions, death, his will, and associated data.


Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Union Of The American Society Of Equity (Mss 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2011

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Union Of The American Society Of Equity (Mss 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 270. Minute books, account books and organizational papers of the Muhlenberg Union of the American Society of Equity, a farmers collective bargaining organization. Also includes constitution and by-laws, stationery, and other printed ephemera associated with the organization. The Muhlenberg Union was organized on 28 July 1905.


We Can Grow It: Reporting On Women In Agriculture In India, Belize And The U.S., Colleen Stewart May 2011

We Can Grow It: Reporting On Women In Agriculture In India, Belize And The U.S., Colleen Stewart

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Women produce more than half of the world’s food, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization. This aligns with the Chinese proverb– “Women Hold up Half the Sky.” As the role of women in agriculture increases in the developed and developing world, female economic activity in agriculture serves as a beacon for poverty reduction, increased food security, and environmental sustainability. In the United States, there has been a 30-percent increase in the number of female-run farms in the U.S. since 2002 and women, now the largest “minority” group in agriculture in the U.S., operate approximately 300,000 farms throughout the …


Once On The Dark Continent, Katrina Alexandria Bidwell May 2011

Once On The Dark Continent, Katrina Alexandria Bidwell

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Set in the fictional village of Buguta in post-genocide Rwanda, Once on the Dark Continent follows the experiences of a young doctor working for the Doctors Without Borders Program. Dr. Erica Davis unwittingly finds herself in a country where the past has continued to repeat itself a decade after a devastating civil war, unbeknownst to most of the outside world. Their history isn’t the only thing plaguing the villagers like a parasite: Erica’s careful attention to the patients at the Buguta clinic leads her to diagnose them with toxoplasmosis, a revelation that has the potential to begin solving the myriad …


Macy, Jethro (Sc 223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2011

Macy, Jethro (Sc 223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 223. Copy of portion of a diary kept by Macy from 8 November 1847 to 2 November 1848 chiefly while residing with the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky. He engaged in carpentry work and tending cattle before moving to Newburgh, Indiana, 25 July 1848. Includes 1961 letter related to the diary.


Trevathan, Ben Lomond, 1894-1967 (Sc 2445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Trevathan, Ben Lomond, 1894-1967 (Sc 2445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2445. Letter of Ben Lomond Trevathan, cashier of the Bank of Marshall County, Benton, Kentucky, to members of the Dark Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association. The letter refers to the bank’s financing of a proposed warehouse and its lending practices to growers, and solicits growers’ patronage.


Topscholar®, Creating Opportunities [Brochure], Connie Foster, Jennifer Wilson Apr 2011

Topscholar®, Creating Opportunities [Brochure], Connie Foster, Jennifer Wilson

TopSCHOLAR® Presentations and Reports

No abstract provided.


41st Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University Mar 2011

41st Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University

Student Research Conference Select Presentations

No abstract provided.


Topscholar® Creating Opportunities [2011 Brochure], Connie Foster, Jennifer Wilson Mar 2011

Topscholar® Creating Opportunities [2011 Brochure], Connie Foster, Jennifer Wilson

TopSCHOLAR® Presentations and Reports

No abstract provided.


Milligan, R. A., B. 1849 (Sc 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Milligan, R. A., B. 1849 (Sc 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 137. Diary kept by R. A. Milligan, superintendent of the East family farm of the Shaker Society at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. The diary records acreage cultivated, crop yields, planting and harvesting times, and general farm work. Includes some weather observations.