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Barnett, Alexander, Sr., 1745-1819 (Sc 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barnett, Alexander, Sr., 1745-1819 (Sc 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 138. Response and counterproposal of Alexander Barnett, Sr., to an 1816 Ohio County, Kentucky Court subpoena to explain his objection to the establishment of a road through his land. Includes typescript of a 1934 newspaper article about a commemorative marker at Barnett's Station in Ohio County.
Wronski, Genevieve Elissa, B. 1980 (Fa 556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wronski, Genevieve Elissa, B. 1980 (Fa 556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 556. Ethnography project focused on three tattoo artists and their art in Glasgow, Kentucky. Focuses on skills, training, procedures, machinery, aesthetics, and artist inspiration. Also provides a brief history of tattooing. Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Threlkeld, Matthew Kohl, B. 1985 (Fa 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Threlkeld, Matthew Kohl, B. 1985 (Fa 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text paper (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 552. Ethnography project focused on Prince’s Hookah Lounge in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The cultural and social aspects of a hookah lounge are explored, with particular focus on its importance to Saudi Arabian students at Western Kentucky University. Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 554. Project consists of an ehtnographic study conducted by Luke Fisher with Tom Blumenberg, an artist who creates solid wood and segmented wooden bowls in Hiseville, Kentucky. This project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 547. Paper titled: "Bowling Lingo," written by Lucas Samuel Fisher about the folk speech of bowlers, gathered in Glasgow, Kentucky, and nationally through an online bowling forum. This project was a requirement for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Buttram, Nora Agnes (Crump), B. 1944 (Fa 539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buttram, Nora Agnes (Crump), B. 1944 (Fa 539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 539. Paper: "How Pig Store Goft Its Name" in which Nora Buttram relays how a community general store in Edmonson County, Kentucky received its name. The brief paper is based on an interview with William Barbee of Smiths Grove, Kentucky.
Trout, Allan Mitchell, 1903-1972 (Mss 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trout, Allan Mitchell, 1903-1972 (Mss 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 346. Correspondence and writings relating to the career of Allan Mitchell Trout, political reporter and columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Includes letters from readers, written mostly on the occasion of his retirement, collections of Trout's "Greetings" columns, speeches and articles, historical memorabilia, correspondence relating to the Allan M. Trout Collection at Western Kentucky University, and messages of sympathy to his wife after Trout's death.
Warren County Citizens For Managed Growth (Mss 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County Citizens For Managed Growth (Mss 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 355. By-laws, minutes, newsletters, correspondence and other material related to WCCMG, an organization founded to deter development of the Kentucky Trimodal Transpark, located near the rural community of Oakland in Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes information about Oakland, Kentucky. A bibliography of newspaper articles about the Kentucky Trimodal Transpark is included. To access the bibliography click on "Additional File" below.
Reed, Ashlee Catara, B. 1986 (Fa 548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Ashlee Catara, B. 1986 (Fa 548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text papers (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 548. Contains three papers: “Permanent Wave Machine,” “The Hot Comb” about African American hairstyling, and “The Telephone Switchboard,” about an early switchboard on display in Barren County, Kentucky. Includes color illustrations. This project was a requirement for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Ua3/1/3 President's Office-Cherry - Scrapbooks, Wku Archives
Ua3/1/3 President's Office-Cherry - Scrapbooks, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, articles and publications of interest to WKU President Henry Cherry. These include education religion, state and national politics, prohibition and Western Kentucky University.