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American Material Culture

2009

Kentucky

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Scraps To Quilts (Exhibition) (Fa 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Scraps To Quilts (Exhibition) (Fa 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Materials collected by Western Kentucky University folk studies students for an exhibition titled "Scraps to Kentucky Quilts." Includes meeting minutes, publicity material, label information, data sheets for submitted quilts, negatives and proof sheets, and interviews with quiltmakers.


Mcfarland, Jonnie, B. 1873 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcfarland, Jonnie, B. 1873 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2120. Autograph album of Jonnie McFarland, Bristow, Kentucky. Includes part of a menu from J. A. Rabold, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text paper (click on Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2103. Paper: "A New Look at the History of Soldier's Retreat" produced by Lawrence L. Barr for an adult education class at Senior House, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky. Soldier's Retreat was built around 1789 in Jefferson County, Kentucky.


Lowe, Annie Bell (Hall), 1907-2006 (Fa 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2009

Lowe, Annie Bell (Hall), 1907-2006 (Fa 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 456. Interview with Annie Bell (Hall) Lowe concerning quilting conducted by Michelle Ann Lowe Ross.


Page, Paula (Fa 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2009

Page, Paula (Fa 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 428. Interview conducted by Paula Page with Mrs. Ethel Stewart for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Hughes, Debra (Fa 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Hughes, Debra (Fa 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 403. Interviews conducted by Debra Hughes with Neta Hughes, Arthur D. Hughes, Leiah Drake and Joe D. Patton, Sr. related to one-room and rural schools. For transcripts of four interviews with one-room school teachers click on the "Additional Files" below.


White, Vernon, 1915-2008 (Mss 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

White, Vernon, 1915-2008 (Mss 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 255. Correspondence, research notes, slides, and photographs related to Vernon White's interests: covered bridges, hominy holes, archaeology, and grave covers, chiefly in Kentucky. Also includes drafts of his books and information about the White family of White Mills, Hardin County, Kentucky as well as information about White's participation in World War II. To view a selection of illustrative material from the White Collection go to this website: http://www.wku.edu/library/dlsc/vernonwhite.php


Jureka, Theresa And Bob Wallace (Fa 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Jureka, Theresa And Bob Wallace (Fa 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 405. Transcription of interviews conducted by Theresa Jureka and Bob Wallace related to Bowling Green, Kentucky's Main Street. Also, a Main Street timeline, 1886-1959.


Hundley, Nancy Clay (Fa 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Hundley, Nancy Clay (Fa 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 401. Interview conducted by Nancy Clay Hundley with Randall and Jennie Mae Grider concerning the tradtion of homecoming float building at Tompkinsville High School in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky.


Harris, Catherine Hill, B. 1964 (Fa 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Harris, Catherine Hill, B. 1964 (Fa 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 395. Interviews (8) with people who had lived at Hobson House (also known as Riverview at Hobson Grove) or who had helped in the restoration and/or administration of the property as a house museum. Hobson House is a historic property in Bowling Green, Kentucky, completed by Atwood Gaines Hobson in 1872.


Hollingsworth, Teresa L. (Fa 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Hollingsworth, Teresa L. (Fa 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 402. Miscellaneous jokes, beliefs, and marriage customs collected by Teresa L. Hollingsworth for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Denton, Richard (Fa 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Denton, Richard (Fa 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 384. Project entitled "Virginia Petty: Woodcarver from Oakland, Kentucky," with an interview conducted by Richard Denton with Petty.


Burnett, Laura Jo (Fa 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Burnett, Laura Jo (Fa 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 382. Interview with textile artist Lysbeth Wallace, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, conducted by Laura Jo Burnett.