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Perguson, Dee Carl, Jr., 1921-2010 (Mss 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perguson, Dee Carl, Jr., 1921-2010 (Mss 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 8. Correspondence and diaries of Deel Carl Perguson, Jr., Horse Branch (Ohio County), Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington. Of interest are his letters written while serving in World War II in the United States, North Africa, and Italy, and his later memoirs of this period. Also of interest are diaries of his years as a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, 1939-1943. The collection also includes his recollections of growing up in Horse Branch in the 1920s and 1930s.
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 375. Correspondence, photographs, diaries, and personal and professional writing of Virginia Wood Davis, a Smiths Grove, Kentucky native and a reporter and editor, 1943-1985, for newspapers in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and McCreary County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data as well as correspondence and miscellaneous papers of her family, especially her mother, Virginia Wood (Cox) Davis.
Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra - Basketball Season Preview, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra - Basketball Season Preview, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Topper Extra magazine, includes articles:
- Claybourn, Cole. This Season’s Toppers a Young Defensive-minded Team – Basketball
- Claybourn, Cole. Upperclassmen Ready to Teach Newcomers
- Preseason Sun Belt Conference Men’s Basketball Poll
- Preseason Sun Belt Conference Women’s Basketball Poll
- Stephens, Brad. Mary Cowles Hopes Young, Old Take WKU Back to NCAA Tournament
- Stephens, Brad. LaTiera Owens Becoming Vocal Leader for Lady Toppers
- Stephens, Brad. Micah Jones, Jalynn McClain Link with WKU Women
Walker, Josephine, 1864-1944 (Sc 2484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Walker, Josephine, 1864-1944 (Sc 2484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2484. Diary kept by 19 year-old Josephine Walker, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky from 5 October 1883 to 1 December 1884. She faithfully comments on the weather and records her domestic activities, her overnight visits with relatives and friends, and her church and school attendance. She also writes of community events such as a hanging and the county fair.
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2480. Brief notes of an interview conducted by Nanch Disher Baird on 11 December 1975 with Dr. Zacharia Keele (Z.K.) Jones, an African American physician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Jones mentions his family, early life, education and influences. He also names other African American phyicians who practiced in Bowling Green.
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2480. Brief notes of an interview conducted by Nancy Disher Baird on 11 December 1975 with Dr. Zacharia Keele Jones, an African American physician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Jones mentions his family, early life, education and influences. He also names other African American physicians who practiced in Bowling Green.
Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 570. Paper: [Examination of a Speech Titled "Shake Rag Revisited"] written by Lynne Marrs Hammer Ferguson for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. The speech was delivered on 21 October 2004 by Herbert Oldham at the dedication of a historical marker in the neighborhood.
Onyekwuluje, Anne B. (Sc 2473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Onyekwuluje, Anne B. (Sc 2473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2473. Interviews conducted by Anne B. Onyekwuluje with seven individuals about the life and influence of Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers, the first woman elected to the Kentucky state Senate in 1963. They discuss their political relationships with Powers and her influence in politics and the Civil Rights movement.
Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring athletics. Articles:
- Claybourn, Cole. Enough About the Logistics; Let’s Just Play Football
- Stephens, Brad. Fired Up Toppers Look for Milestone Win Over Kentucky in Nashville – Football
- Stephens, Brad. Bobby Rainey Looking to Improve on Record-Setting Season
- Players to Watch – Kawaun Jakes, Wes Jeffries, Quanterus Smith, Tyree Robinson
- Stephens, Brad. Willie Taggart’s First Recruits Now Looking to Lead WKU – Football
- Carson, Kurt. Students Making Plans for WKU – University of Kentucky – Football
- Lanter, Austin. Strong Start A Dream Come True for Freshman Leslie Chinn – Soccer
- Stephens, Brad. Defensive …
Mckenzie, George Anna (Duncan), B. 1935 (Sc 2442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckenzie, George Anna (Duncan), B. 1935 (Sc 2442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2442. Reminiscences of George Anna (Duncan) McKenzie from her early childhood in Bowling Green, Kentucky to 2010. Includes information about her parents and husband and her work in catering and fashion merchandising. Eventually she and her husband returned to Bowling Green and restored an old family home and operated it as a bed and breakfast.
Stark Family Papers (Sc 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stark Family Papers (Sc 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 166. Letter from Elizabeth Stark Alvis, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Alfred Leland Crabb, Nashville, Tennessee, with biographical information on her father, John W. Stark, and his descendants. Includes biographical and genealogical material on the Stark family of Allen County, Kentucky and Pike County, Missouri.
Holstein, Otto, 1883-1934 (Sc 2433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Holstein, Otto, 1883-1934 (Sc 2433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2433. Memorandum, 1 September 1917, to Brigade Commander of 1st Brigade, Kentucky Infantry from Otto Holstein, Captain, Signal Corps, and Provost Marshall of Lexington, Kentucky, reporting on an altercation between military police officers and African Americans. Includes a newspaper clipping about the incident.
Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and selected full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 58. Correspondence, diaries, papers, and genealogical materials of Joseph Rogers Underwood, U.S. Senator from Bowling Green, Kentucky, his wife Elizabeth Cox Underwood, his brother Warner Lewis Underwood, and his son, John Cox Underwood.
Mckenna, George (Sc 2430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckenna, George (Sc 2430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2430. Letters to George McKenna, of Brooklyn, New York, written while he was serving with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and in Vietnam. Friends write of their college, military, work and social lives. McKenna’s mother provides family news. Includes two of McKenna’s letters to a friend and to a young woman he met while on leave in Australia.
Cotter, Joseph Seaman, 1861-1949 (Sc 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cotter, Joseph Seaman, 1861-1949 (Sc 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 378. Letter, from Joseph S. Cotter, Louisville, Kentucky, to James Tandy Ellis, a fellow poet, which relates an incident of Cotter’s early life.
Patterson, J. (Sc 2415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patterson, J. (Sc 2415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2415. Letter from J. Patterson, Louisville, Kentucky. Patterson writes of her children, her hopes to move to Covington or Newport, Kentucky, asks about Terrell's family, and complains of the number, poverty and ignorance of free blacks in Louisville.
Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 136. Papers of the Payne family of Warren County, Kentucky, including letter from Civil War prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois; letter describing the death of Halley Payne; 1874 letter from a Glasgow teacher referring to unrest among African Americans; promissory note; remedies for piles and rheumatism; and a letter detailing with the prevention and treatment of cholera.
Bell Family - Correspondence (Sc 97), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bell Family - Correspondence (Sc 97), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 97. Letters, 1831-1871, mostly incoming from relatives and friends, written chiefly to Caleb N. Bell, Methodist minister of Todd County, Kentucky. The letters contain mainly family news and religious comments. Also biographical information.
Reed, Ashlee Catara, B. 1986 (Fa 548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Ashlee Catara, B. 1986 (Fa 548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA 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.
Ua12/2/12 Kappa Alpha Psi, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/12 Kappa Alpha Psi, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Kappa Alpha Psi at Western Kentucky University. Includes charter, bylaws, correspondence and membership lists.
Ua12/2/13 Alpha Phi Alpha, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/13 Alpha Phi Alpha, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Alpha Phi Alpha at Western Kentucky University.