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Western Kentucky University

2010

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Paxton, Creed Edgar, 1876-1958 (Sc 2284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Paxton, Creed Edgar, 1876-1958 (Sc 2284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2284. Letter, 1 February 1900, from Creed Paxton, Frankfort, Kentucky to his sister. At the time he was serving in the state militia during the contested election between William Goebel and William S. Taylor. His company was stationed in the Senate chambers of the state capitol building.

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Kesler, Jonathan G. (Fa 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2010

Kesler, Jonathan G. (Fa 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 201. Paper: "Day of Disaster: Brandenburg, Kentucky, and the Tornado of April 3, 1974," written by Western Kentucky University folk studies student Jonathan G. Kesler, about the tornado that wreaked death and destruction on Bradenburg, Meade County, Kentucky, on 3 April 1974.

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Belcher, Scott Minor (Fa 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2010

Belcher, Scott Minor (Fa 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 195. Interview done by Scott Belcher with Bill Thompson,BreckinridgeCounty, Kentucky, in which Thompson reminisces about his youth. Includes transcription and cassette tape.

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Main Street Oral History Project (Fa 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2010

Main Street Oral History Project (Fa 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 527. Collection consists of taped interviews (7) with individuals about their memories of what downtown Bowling Green, Kentucky was like when they were young.

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Helm, Cyrus Thomas, 1827-1868 (Sc 2271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2010

Helm, Cyrus Thomas, 1827-1868 (Sc 2271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2271. Account book for a dry goods operation, April 1849. The book includes records for Bowling Green, Kentucky's Police Court, 1859-1864.

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Chelf, Carl Philip, 1937-2011 (Sc 2256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2010

Chelf, Carl Philip, 1937-2011 (Sc 2256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2256. Transcription of an interview with Tim Lee Carter, former U.S. Representative of Kentucky's 5th Congressional district, by Dr. Carl P. Chelf, government professor at Western Kentucky University, 21 October 1982.

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Goode, Cecil Earnest, B. 1915 (Sc 2244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Goode, Cecil Earnest, B. 1915 (Sc 2244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2244. Reminiscences by Cecil Earnest Goode entitled "Recollections." He recalls his early life in Kentucky and Indiana, education at Purdue University, long career as a civil servant in Washington, D.C., work with the United Nations, and active retirement in his native Barren County, Kentucky.

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Glynn, Luanne (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Sc 2245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Glynn, Luanne (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Sc 2245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2245. Letter from Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary to President John F. Kennedy, to Luanne Aylesworth, Waite Park, Minnesota, in response to a letter from Aylesworth. Enclosed is a White House card with the president's reproduced signature. The envelope is postmarked 11:30 p.m. November 21, 1963, the day before the president's assassination.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water Works (Sc 2248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water Works (Sc 2248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2248. Report of engineer Pierce Butler to Bowling Green, Kentucky Mayor Gilson E. Townsend on condition of the city's water pumping station. The 1910 report includes exhibits (1906-1908) detailing a proposal to install a new pumping engine, specifications for the engine, and the subsequent contract dispute and settlement with the engine's supplier.

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Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2439. Correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous items of Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to public library work in Kentucky and bookmobiles.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Death Records, 1877-1913 (Mss 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Death Records, 1877-1913 (Mss 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and copy of a "Death Return" (click on Additional File below) for Manuscripts Collection 293. To view scanned copies of the records, click on the individual folders; they are links to the contents of that particular folder. Physician's death certificates and undertaker's certificates relating to permits for burials wihin the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information on the deceased's date and cause of death, age, race, marital status, place of birth, residence, and date and place of intended interment. May include other documentation when a death occurred outside Warren County, Kentucky.

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Brennan, Mary Zita, B. 1955 (Sc 2229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Brennan, Mary Zita, B. 1955 (Sc 2229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2229. Dissertation titled "Sense of Place: Reconstructing Community Through Archeology, Oral History, and GIS" written by Mary Zita Brennan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Arkansas. The work focuses on families along Moccasin and Indian Creeks in northwest Pope County, Arkansas. Appendices on compact disc. Tate Cromwell "Piney" Page was on the faculty of Western Kentucky University for many years.

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Burnette, Isaac, Sr., 1801-1865 (Sc 2239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Burnette, Isaac, Sr., 1801-1865 (Sc 2239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2239. Letter, 20 February 1835, from Isaac Burnett, Sr., a Trigg County, Kentucky physician, written from Frankfort, Kentucky to his wife Martha in Cadiz, Kentucky, while Burnett was serving in the General Assembly. He apologizes for an earlier, unkind letter and expresses his wish to see her and their children.

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Ua68/8/1 History Alumni Newsletter, Wku History Apr 2010

Ua68/8/1 History Alumni Newsletter, Wku History

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by the WKU History Department regarding activities in the department, students and alumni.

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Ewan, A. Early (Sc 2427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Ewan, A. Early (Sc 2427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2427. Letter from A. Early Ewan, Warren County, Kentucky county agriculture extension agent, to members of the Warren County Corn-Hog Production Control Association relating information about contracts to limit production of the commodities mentioned.

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Young, Edward Green, 1857-1948 (Mss 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Young, Edward Green, 1857-1948 (Mss 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 309. Materials related to Edward Green Young's service as a delegate from Warren County to the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1916 to 1920. Also family correspondence and items concerning his farming operations.

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American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (Sc 1986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (Sc 1986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1986. Advisory statement issued by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee to Arab Americans and Muslim Americans suggesting responses to threats or harassment in the event of a U.S. war with Iraq. Includes list of FBI field officers.

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Morgan, John, B. 1944 (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Morgan, John, B. 1944 (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 476. Fieldwork--including oral interviews, videotapes, and secondary information--compiled by John Morgan primarily pertaining to dark-fire tobacco barns in Calloway County, Kentucky and North Carolina. Also includes interviews relating to tugboats, basket making, and ghost stories and supernatural tales from western Kentucky.

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Keith, Jean E. (Sc 2165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Keith, Jean E. (Sc 2165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2165. Paper: "The Whig Party in Kentucky, 1847-1851: Whig Against Whig, North Against South, East Against West" written by Jean E. Keith while she was a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes an eight-page annotated bibliography.

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Logan County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Logan County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2176. Writ of fi. fa., 10 May 1804, from Clerk of the Circuit Court, Logan County, Kentucky to the Sheriff of Warren County, Kentucky directing execution against the estate of Gasper Butcher, Samuel Cox and Elkin Taylor to satisfy a judgment obtained by John and James M. Mahan.

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Logan County, Kentucky - Election Certificates (Sc 2177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Logan County, Kentucky - Election Certificates (Sc 2177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2177. Two election certificates from different precincts in Logan County, Kentucky, verifying tallied votes for election of state and local officials held on 9 May 1903. The totals are filled in and the certificates are signed by election officials.

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Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2131. Receipt book kept by George Mitchell, deputy clerk of the Warren County Court [Kentucky]; entries list amount paid to record deeds and to copy deeds, mortgages, and other documents. payments were also received by C.E. Blewett, clerk.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water-Sewer-Sanitation Commission (Sc 2135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water-Sewer-Sanitation Commission (Sc 2135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2135. Letter from Allen A. Ball, Commission engineer, to Mayor James H. Topmiller, and minutes of meeting between Commission and contractor to discuss citizen complaints over inconveniences caused by sewer expansion project.

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"The Urban Praetor's Tribunal" In Spaces Of Justice In The Roman World, Eric Kondratieff Jan 2010

"The Urban Praetor's Tribunal" In Spaces Of Justice In The Roman World, Eric Kondratieff

History Faculty Publications

"Book abstract: Despite the crucial role played by both law and architecture in Roman culture, the Romans never developed a type of building that was specifically and exclusively reserved for the administration of justice: courthouses did not exist in Roman antiquity. The present volume addresses this paradox by investigating the spatial settings of Roman judicial practices from a variety of perspectives. Scholars of law, topography, architecture, political history, and literature concur in putting Roman judicature back into its concrete physical context, exploring how the exercise of law interacted with the environment in which it took place, and how the spaces …

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Ua60/3/1 Applied Arts & Health Military Science Publications, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua60/3/1 Applied Arts & Health Military Science Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by the department of Military Science.

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Ua94/6/5 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Edgar Stansbury, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua94/6/5 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Edgar Stansbury, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Edgar Stansbury.

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Ua19/7 Women's Track & Cross Country, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua19/7 Women's Track & Cross Country, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by track and field coaches regarding awards.

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Ua19/10 Softball, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua19/10 Softball, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the softball coaches.

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Ua97/6 Ogden College Student Organizations, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua97/6 Ogden College Student Organizations, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and regarding classes and student organizations of Ogden College. Series includes records created by the Alumni Association, Class of 1925, Hi-Y Club, Last Man Club, Phi Beta Chi among others.

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Ua1c11/21 Edgar Stansbury Photo Collection, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua1c11/21 Edgar Stansbury Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photograph collection compiled by Edgar Stansbury during his time as a student, assistant coach and his military career.

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