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Fortnightly Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fortnightly Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 432. Minutes, membership lists, yearbooks, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous records of the Fortnightly Club, a men’s literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Sharp, W. T. (Sc 2627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sharp, W. T. (Sc 2627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2627. Letter of W. T. Sharp, Foster (Bracken County) Kentucky, to an unidentifed young lady. In the company of her sister, Mrs. Tegard, she had recently visited the store of H. S. Pribble & Company, where Sharp worked, and he asks permission to correspond with her.
Sumpter, William Cullin, 1862-1958 (Sc 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter, William Cullin, 1862-1958 (Sc 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 748. Membership book of Aeolian Lodge Number 51 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Bowling Green, Kentucky, retained by William Cullin Sumpter. Information includes name, residence, occupation, and age of each applicant.
Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers (Mss 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers (Mss 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and images (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 66. Original, bound folio hotel registers and bound typescript copies of the same for the Mammoth Cave Hotel, located near the famed subterranean tourist attraction in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Entries include the name and hometown of the visitor as well as the date. One wag signed in as Abraham Lincoln on 30 May 1863.
Donan, John Gillaspy, 1826-1905 (Sc 740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Donan, John Gillaspy, 1826-1905 (Sc 740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 740. Mexican War letter of John Gillaspy Donan, Barren County, Kentucky, to his brother, Fountain, 29 December 1847 from Jalapa regarding conditions in Mexico, morale, yellow fever, etc. Also Mustering-Out List of Co. K, 4th Regiment Kentucky Foot Volunteers, and Mason’s Diploma, 13 October 1847.
Cornette, Elmer (Sc 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cornette, Elmer (Sc 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 491. Typed copy of biographical sketches of Albert and Charles Wing of Greenville, Kentucky, written by Elmer Cornette, and a letter to Elizabeth Coombs of the Kentucky Library.
United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 481. Charter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Bowling Green Chapter No.194 with a list of the charter members and signed by Katie Cabell Currie, President, and Mrs. John P. Hickman, Secretary.
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 157. This collection includes cassette tapes of interviews with eight women used as research for Jimmy D. Browning’s paper “A Tie That Binds: Contemporary Funeral Foodways In A Rural, Central Kentucky Community.” Two copies of the paper are also included in the collection.
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 155. This collection includes cassette tapes containing interviews with six homosexual men used as research for Jimmy D. Browning’s paper “Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are: A Collection of the Coming-Out Narratives of Six Gay Men.” A copy of the paper is also included in the collection.
Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Legal papers setting the execution date of Jim Buckner, African American, Marion County, Kentucky, as 9 June 1911, and stay of execution by Acting Governor William Hopkinson Cox until 8 July 1911, because of the incompletion of the installation of the electrocution apparatus. Henry Thomas Hagerman, warden of Kentucky Penitentiary, Eddyville, attested to Buckner’s death.
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.
Thornberry, Martine (Calhoun), 1905-1972 (Sc 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thornberry, Martine (Calhoun), 1905-1972 (Sc 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and representative scans of over 200 items (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 609. Papers relating to Martine (Calhoun) Thornberry’s position as postmaster at Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky; papers relating to the duties as postmaster and to keeping the position when a change in political parties occurred in 1954. Also some references to her work as a teacher on Indian reservations, 1927-1938, 1947-1950, and as the first woman from Kentucky to become a Marine officer, 1943-1945, 1954.
Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 395. Minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other records of the LARTHS Club, a literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1925.
Helm, Carrie (Fa 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Carrie (Fa 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 66. “Woodburn: A Memory Just Beneath the Surface”, an interpretive paper and interviews executed by Carrie Helm for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in 1989.
Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 393. Minutes, correspondence, programs, historical sketches, and miscellaneous material of the Ladies Literary Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Dalton, Callie Lou (Fa 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dalton, Callie Lou (Fa 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 62. “Survival is the Name of the Game or Is It?: The Role of the United Auto Workers in Bowling Green, KY,” an interpretive paper and interviews executed for an urban history class at Western Kentucky University in 1989. Includes a copy of the general agreement between General Motors and the U.A.W., and training materials.
Jenkins, Greg (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, Greg (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 33. [Prison ministry] Interviews conducted with Overt Ray Rich by Greg Jenkins about his work with prison ministries for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky Univeristy. Contains index, tape summary, transcirpts, comments.
Kentucky Wic Participants’ Knowledge, Attitudes, And Beliefs Regarding Grains, Dustin Tyler Reed
Kentucky Wic Participants’ Knowledge, Attitudes, And Beliefs Regarding Grains, Dustin Tyler Reed
Theses and Dissertations--Nutrition and Food Systems
Obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and poor dietary habits are major healthcare problems in the United States. These issues are especially prevalent in the state of Kentucky and among at-risk populations such as Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants. Studies have found that whole grains play a role in weight maintenance, protection against type 2 diabetes, and lowering cholesterol. Interventions aimed at improving WIC participant dietary behavior and intake has been successful as well. This study assessed Kentucky WIC participants’ knowledge of the benefits of consuming grains, attitudes and beliefs regarding food purchasing and grains, and identified grains consumed in a …