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Mcelroy, Clarence Underwood, 1848-1928 (Mss 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcelroy, Clarence Underwood, 1848-1928 (Mss 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 157. Travel journals (2) kept by Bowling Green, Kentucky attorney Clarence Underwood McElroy during his trip to the Orient (1908-1909), starting at San Francisco. He describes the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Japan, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), etc. Includes passenger list of the S.S. Mongolia.
Panther Creek Baptist Church Of Jesus Christ - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Panther Creek Baptist Church Of Jesus Christ - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1408. Partial minute book of Panther Creek Baptist Church of Jesus Christ, Ohio County, Kentucky. The congregation was composed of both white and black members and names are listed. It was originally known as the Panther Creek and Yelvington Baptist Church. Photocopy and typescript section of original books.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Ohio And Mclean Counties, Kentucky (Sc 1409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Ohio And Mclean Counties, Kentucky (Sc 1409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1409. Register kept of Methodist Episcopal Church, South circuit that included Ohio County churches in Centertown, Ceralvo, Cromwell, Equality, Hopewell, McHenry, Point Pleasant, Providence, Rockport, and Taylor Town; and a McLean County church in Island. Mostly membership lists, but also includes names of ministers, baptisms, and marriages.
Walton, Mary Pearl (Patton), 1882-1964 - Collector (Sc 1446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Walton, Mary Pearl (Patton), 1882-1964 - Collector (Sc 1446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1446. Greenwood United Baptist Church of Christ Sunday School record book, 1891-1899, of Warren County, Kentucky. Pearl's husband, Charles Potter Walton was a Methodist minister. Also photographs of Pearl and Charles and associated data.
Jenkins, William M. (Sc 1398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, William M. (Sc 1398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1398. Civil War letters, 1861-1862, written by Union soldier William M. Jenkins, to his mother and sister describing the Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia. Also, 1871 letter to his wife in New York detailing his activities on a business trip.
Voice Of The People (Fa 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Voice Of The People (Fa 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of student papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 83. The Voice of the People: An Understanding of Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A Western Kentucky University Folk Studies project directed by Dr. Lynwood Montell, involving 9 students and 26 informants. Several of the interview transcriptions are available by downloading (Click "Download" button on the right) the finding aid and clicking on the hyperlinks in the text.
Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 128. Correspondence, papers, financial records, minutes, essays written by children, etc., of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, Warren County, Kentucky, which was part of an international religious organization.
Casselberry, Anita Beatrice, 1890-1970 (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Casselberry, Anita Beatrice, 1890-1970 (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1378. Journal, 1925, 79p., kept by Anita B. Casselberry, Cleveland, Ohio, while serving a few weeks as a public health nurse under the direction of Alice Lloyd in Knott County, Kentucky. Also associated letter, 1960-1965?, newspaper clippings, 1940-1941 (2), and photos, 1925 (2).
Mount Zion United Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mount Zion United Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 111. Minute books of Mount Zion United Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky, which originally was known as the Delafield First United Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1958-1989.
Lucas Collection (Mss 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lucas Collection (Mss 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 41. Journals, 1839, 1840-1843, 1854, (3); scrapbooks, ca. 1860s-1870s (3); Negro account book which lists purchases and sales of slaves, 1859; receipts, 1875-1897, concerning illness and funeral expenses, etc., of the Lucas family of Warren County, Kentucky.
Lewis-Starling Collection (Mss 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lewis-Starling Collection (Mss 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 38. Correspondence, Civil War military and personal papers, business papers, land records, scrapbooks, account books, clippings, and genealogical records of the Lewis and Starling families of Logan and Christian counties in Kentucky, and associated families.
Interview With Bill Cowan (Fa 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Bill Cowan (Fa 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Bill Cowan conducted by Shirley Draper on 24 February 1998. From folk studies student project concerning bush arbor religious meetings in Logan County, Kentucky.
Trigg County, Kentucky African American Oral History Project (Fa 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trigg County, Kentucky African American Oral History Project (Fa 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 196. Project by four WKU Folk Studies students in which they interviewed Trigg County, Kentucky African Americans about various aspects of their lives. Most of the individuals that were interviewed had a rural background and were born in the early 1900s. Interviews may be accessed by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.
Brown, Robert T., 1871-1939 (Sc 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Robert T., 1871-1939 (Sc 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1351. Ministerial record book kept by R. T. Brown, a Methodist minister, who resided mostly in Kentucky and West Virginia. Besides listing places where he preached, he also lists sermon titles, responses, weddings and funerals.
Swift, Timothy Joe (Sc 1428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Swift, Timothy Joe (Sc 1428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1428. Paper written by WKU student Timothy J. Swift for a history class, based on an interview with Lorene Cooke, Edmonson County, Kentucky. She mentions Mammoth Cave, Green River and aspects of family life.
Baxter, David Mark (Sc 1434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baxter, David Mark (Sc 1434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1434. Paper written by WKU student, David M. Baxter, for a history class, based on an interview with his grandmother Celia E. Baxter, Laurel County, Kentucky. She discusses everyday life as well as comments on the Depression of 1929.
Holloway, Catherine Lee (Sc 1432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Holloway, Catherine Lee (Sc 1432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Small Collection 1432. Paper written by WKU student Catherine L. Holloway for a history class, based on an interview with Elizabeth Holloway, Logan County, Kentucky. She chiefly tells about growing up in Logan County in the 1930s and 1940s.
Interview With Sherman Moffitt Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Sherman Moffitt Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an oral interview done with Sherman Moffitt related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s and his subsequent career as a minister.
Interview With Virginia Pannell About Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Virginia Pannell About Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an oral interview with Virginia Pannell about her life and times conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "Do You Remember When, 1900-1949." In the interview Pannell discusses her life in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She talks about teachers and teaching, schools, education, politics, health care, World War I, World War II, Influenza, radios, B. Mathis, coal mines and mining, strikes, telephones, vigilantism, Prohibition, rationing and religion.
Carroll, Ricky L. (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carroll, Ricky L. (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 197. Interviews and transcripts with ninety-three year old Acie Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs (Edmonson County), Kentucky, about his life experiences. Includes photographs. WKU student Ricky Carroll, did the project for a Folk Studies course.
Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Acie Carroll conducted by Ricky L. Carroll on 16 February 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky and his life experiences.
Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Acie Carroll conducted by Ricky L. Carroll on 7 February 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky and his life experiences.
Interview With Acie Carroll, D. 1989 (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Acie Carroll, D. 1989 (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Acie Carroll conducted by Ricky L. Carroll on 2 February 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky and his life experiences.
Remarkable Occurrences Lately Discovered Among The People Called Shakers;: Of A Treasonous And Barbarous Nature, Or Shakerism Developed, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Remarkable Occurrences Lately Discovered Among The People Called Shakers;: Of A Treasonous And Barbarous Nature, Or Shakerism Developed, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Research Collections
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