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Lawson, Selby C. "Shad," 1890-1984 (Sc 3702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2023

Lawson, Selby C. "Shad," 1890-1984 (Sc 3702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3702. Transcript (possibly incomplete), apparently of a taped interview conducted on 15 September 1979 by Nancy Disher Baird with Selby “Shad” Lawson regarding his attendance at Ogden College, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Sumpter Family Collection (Mss 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2022

Sumpter Family Collection (Mss 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 735. Correspondence and papers of the family of Captain Charles Ward of Plymouth, New Hampshire, including descendants in the Sumpter family of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Wilk, Joseph Peter, 1926-1994 (Mss 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Wilk, Joseph Peter, 1926-1994 (Mss 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 728. Printed matter, photographs, and correspondence relating to a small number of commissions executed by Bowling Green, Kentucky architect Joseph P. Wilk. Also includes some biographical data.


Ua1c4/15 Ogden College Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c4/15 Ogden College Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Ogden College students.


Ua1c2/56 Ogden Hall Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c2/56 Ogden Hall Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Ogden Hall.


Ua1c3/2 Faculty/Staff Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c3/2 Faculty/Staff Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.


Ua1c4/1 Administrator Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c4/1 Administrator Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of administrative groups.


Ua1c4/2 Faculty/Staff Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c4/2 Faculty/Staff Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of faculty and staff groups and associations of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.


Ua1c4/5 Class Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c4/5 Class Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of class groups from Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.


Ua1c5/1 Baseball Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c5/1 Baseball Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of baseball players and games, includes College High and Ogden College baseball teams.


Ua1c3/1 Administrator Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c3/1 Administrator Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of administrators of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.


Strahm Family Collection (Mss 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2018

Strahm Family Collection (Mss 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 655. Data, clippings and information about the Strahm family and related families. Most of the material relates to Franz J. Strahm, WKU music director from 1910-1941, and his son Victor H. Strahm’s career in military service. Includes photographs of Franz, Victor, and other family members.


Ua1f Ogden Trustees Scholarship Award Winners, Wku Archives Jan 2017

Ua1f Ogden Trustees Scholarship Award Winners, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

List of Ogden Trustees scholarship award winners.


Ua1f Ogden-Robinson Oratorical Contest Winners, Wku Archives Jan 2017

Ua1f Ogden-Robinson Oratorical Contest Winners, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

List of winners of the Ogden-Robinson oratorical contests. These two oratorical contests originated in the Ogden College in 1885. The Robinson award is given to the winner of a contest for freshmen and sophomores. The Ogden Medal is given to the winner of the upperclassman contest. Since the merger of Ogden College and WKU the even is generally held on or near Ogden College Founders’ Day which is observed on the first Friday of April.


Ua1f Ogden Trustee Medal Winners, Wku Archives Jan 2017

Ua1f Ogden Trustee Medal Winners, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

List of Ogden Trustee medal winners, 1890-1927.


Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 552. Personal and professional correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian. Includes ancestral and family correspondence and papers, photographs, and genealogical research on the Helm, Carson, Porter, Blakey and related families.


Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 567. Correspondence, speeches and scrapbooks related to the life of Rodes Kirby Myers, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1939 to 1943. Includes clippings and speeches from political campaigns. Also includes three scrapbooks of clippings related to the trial of Henry Herman Denhardt for the murder of Verna Garr Taylor in 1936.


Clagett, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1900-2000 (Mss 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2014

Clagett, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1900-2000 (Mss 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 513. Correspondence and papers of Marjorie E. Clagett, a WKU faculty member who taught French from 1928-1964. Includes field notes and slides relating to her studies of flora in south central Kentucky, Great Britain and other habitats in the United States, and research materials relating to the history of the French in Kentucky. Includes correspondence, photographs and genealogical data of the Clagett, Northcott, Strange and associated families. Also includes notes (Click on "Additional Files" below) of a Northcott ancestor's encounter with Lost River Cave in Warren County during the Civil War.


Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2014

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods. Includes a World War I scrapbook created for and about Mildred's brother John (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Oates Realty Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2776), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Oates Realty Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2776), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2776. Organizational meeting minutes, directors’ minutes, and by-laws of the Cooperative Sales Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes typescripts of stock certificates issued to the incorporators, Alva Williams, M. B. Williams, and L. E. Ringo.


Carmichael Family Papers (Mss 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2013

Carmichael Family Papers (Mss 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 467. Correspondence, legal papers, and miscellaneous material from several related families: Standrod, Campbell, and Carmichael. Includes a claim made after the Civil War for compensation for an enslaved man who joined the Union Army (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Helm Family Papers (Sc 2697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Helm Family Papers (Sc 2697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2697. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Helm family of Bowling Green, Kentucky and Logan County, Kentucky. Includes family letters, 1938 financial information relating to the Morehead House Hotel, family reunion literature, a letter of praise to Walter A. Baker from U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and materials relating to the 1994 drowning death of Thomas Carson Helm.


Ua68/8/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters History Oral History Committee, Wku Archives Jan 2012

Ua68/8/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters History Oral History Committee, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by the Oral History Committee. Series includes oral history interview tapes and transcriptions.


Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Mss 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2011

Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Mss 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and bibliography (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 367. Correspondence, book and article manuscripts, and research material of Alfred Leland Crabb, a native of Warren County, Kentucky and later professor at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. The topics of the manuscripts include historical fiction related to Nashville and Bowling Green, biographies of prominent Nashvillians, and articles on all levels of education. Much of the unpublished material is fiction but draws from Crabb's Plum Springs school days and his student experiences at Western Kentucky University.


Ua94/2 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Ogden College, Wku Archives Dec 2010

Ua94/2 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Ogden College, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small collections of items donated by or about Ogden alumni.


Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2397. Correspondence primarily to Jane (Hines) Morningstar of Bowling Green, Kentucky, responding to her providing of historical and genealogical information. Includes a letter from Detrex Chemical Industries thanking her for her cooperation during a labor controversy.


Nahm, Max Brunswick, 1864-1958 (Mss 329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2010

Nahm, Max Brunswick, 1864-1958 (Mss 329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 329. Correspondence of Max B. Nahm relating mainly to his involvement with the Mammoth Cave National Park Association and the Kentucky National Park Commission in the establishment of Mammoth Cave National Park, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Includes some Association and Commission minutes. Also includes some of Nahm's speeches, writings, personal photographs, and material relating to the Nahm family.


Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Mss 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Mss 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 323. Chiefly letters to Gabrielle Robertson, History Department faculty member, Western Kentucky University, 1916 to 1960. Of particular interest are those letters from former students serving in the military during World War II. Also includes genealogical materials and family photographs.


Ua97/5 Ogden College Departments, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua97/5 Ogden College Departments, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and regarding the departments of Ogden College. Series contains brief records from the Athletic, English and Science departments.


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.