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Kentucky Folklore Society (Sc 353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 353. Manuscript minute book of the Kentucky branch of the American Folklore Society, 1912?-1953; loose sheets of reports of various meetings and financial reports, letters, etc., 1917-1957.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• McKay, Michael. Massive Temporary Transition – Downing University Center
• Harrison, Taylor. Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility Not Wanting to Move During Renovations – Downing University Center
• Choate, Connor. A Thousand Words – Gamers Guild
• Young, Amanda. Four Greek Groups Sanctioned for Hazing Last Fall – Kappa Delta, Kappa Alpha Order, Alpha Phi Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon
• Harrison, Taylor. Downing University Center Renovations to Affect Garrett Offices
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Admission Standards
• WKU Needs to Raise the Bar – Admission Standards
• Harrison, Taylor. Student Government Association’s Kendrick …

Minute Books - Sunday Schools (Sc 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 350. Book of the recording secretaries for Salem Baptist Sunday School, 1856-1857, and for Lebanon Baptist Sunday School, 1859-1862, both of Butler County, Kentucky.

Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 352. Agreement to teach school, 1829; Civil War letter written from camp near Corinth, Mississippi, 1862; manuscript book which contains record of John F. Hines’ estate of which Hay was administrator, 1859 – noted is commissioner’s fee for selling slave, 1861, and writings of Rebecca Hay Gray on various subjects—spiritualism, religion, friendship, etc., and recipes, 1876-1881.

Morehead House Hotel - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 390. Hotel registers (9) from the final years of the Morehead House Hotel, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Morehead House was one of the city's oldest and longest running hostelries.

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 - Relating To (Sc 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 255. Photocopies of a notarized statement and two letters concerning the site where the Thomas Lincoln family crossed the Ohio River in 1816 from Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, to Indiana. Also, information related to plans to survey the Lincoln Trail.

Buckner Family Papers (Sc 257), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 257. Letter, 17 November 1847, written by Simon B. Buckner, Mexico, to his cousin Mary E. Leedom, Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, relating some of his activities while serving in the Mexican War; his 1878 condolence letter to his cousin in Elizabethtown; letter, 1914, written by Delia (Claiborne) Buckner, Buckner’s second wife, acknowledging expression of sympathy received after his death; six funeral announcements, 1842-1862, chiefly of the Leedom family; two photographs of Buckner and one of his daughter, Lily.

Bowdon, Travis, 1773-1862 (Sc 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 256. Document by which a thirteen-year-old African-American enslaved girl was deeded by Travis Bowdon, Graves County, Kentucky, to his granddaughter, Julian Jones and her husband, Robert. Signature of John Anderson, first clerk of Graves County, is on the deed.

Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 258. Letter written by Franz Joseph Strahm, music department faculty member, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mrs. Joe Bryant Helm, Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky, declining an opportunity to play the piano in Louisville owing to his ill health.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• McKay, Michael. Garrett Charges Then Waives Drink Refill Fee – Dining Services
• Justice, Maciena. Pieces of the Past – Jack LeSieur
• Koch, Cameron. University of Pikeville Move Could Affect WKU Budget
• Justice, Maciena. N is for Nurse – Jessica May
• Rutledge, Chris. Buffalo Rodeo Dreams of Making It Big While Young – Bands
• McKay, Michael. New Program from Information Technology Offers Support for Mobile Devices
• Hubbard, Linsey Solving Parking Woes Should Be a Priority
• Williams, Joanna. Looking Into the Stereotypes
• Stephens, Brad. Florida International University a Big Game for …

Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 260. Three letters of Joseph I. Younglove, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brothers, David and James, and sister, Jane, New York state, relating news of his drugstore, of his upcoming marriage to Sarah Morehead, and the effect of the Civil War on conditions in Bowling Green; a candy order for the drugstore, 1847; and a certificate attesting to his business integrity, presented by the Merchants Protective Association.

Bullitt County, Kentucky (Sc 259), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 259. Photocopy of a post note issued by the Bank of Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky, to J. Gore, 1819, for $5.00; photocopy of ledger pages detailing the salt made and sold by John Graham, 1 January 1824 to 1 January 1825, at the furnaces of Joseph A. Brooks, Bullitt County.

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Fa 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 55. “Those Old Calliopes,” a paper and interview by Dianne Watkins executed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes recording of calliopes and other related materials.

Peterson, Susan (Fa 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 54. "The Witch of Railton, Barren County, Kentucky," a paper written for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Little, Roger A. (Fa 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 56. Paper: "Urban Legends," written by Roger A. Little for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 53. “A History of the Logan County Tobacco Festival” Paper written about an annual festival celebrating tobacco culture held in Russellville, Kentucky. Paper was written for a history class at Western Kentucky University.

Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 (Fa 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folkife Archives Project 59. Collection of questionnaires about Valentine's Day celebrations. Project completed by Patricia Ann Hodges for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Leslie, Preston Hopkins, 1819-1907 - Relating To (Sc 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 254. Photocopies of sketch written about Preston Hopkins Leslie in 1910, and a letter, 16 August 1969, written by Mary (Leslie) Ford, Helena, Montana, to Tim Cantrell, Henderson, Kentucky, related to Cantrell’s interest in writing a book about Preston Hopkins Leslie, Ford’s grandfather. Leslie was governor of Kentucky from 1871 to 1875, and governor of Montana from 1887 to 1889.

Jeffries & Myers (Sc 289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 289. Daybook, 1834-1840, of James Jeffries and Harvey Myers, leather dealers at Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky. Also includes a booket of notes due labeled, “Jeffries & Bush, Note Book, Nov. 4^th, 1837.”

Mcreynolds Store (Sc 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 290. Account book, 1883-1888, of a general store at Lewisburg, Logan County, Kentucky. Some pages have been used as a scrapbook and include clippings of poems and essays, and colored cards.

Fairleigh Family Papers (Sc 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 349. Class book, 1839-1844, of the Methodist Church, Brandenburg, Kentucky, containing membership list, 1843-44, and some notations of contributions. Also, it contains law and minutes of the Belles Lettres Society, 1849-1850, and of the Union Debating Society, October 1852. The book was kept by Thomas Fairleigh and other Fairleigh family members.

Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 385. Letters written chiefly by Herman Frederick Wilhelm Volkerding, of Louisville, Kentucky, to his wife Mary Elizabeth (Hauber) Volkerding while traveling as a salesman for the John T. Barbee distillers. Volkerding pines for home and describes the scenery, hotels, amusements and rail travel in the western United States.

Beech Grove, Kentucky - Records (Sc 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 348. Letters, legal papers, and receipts, 1902-1916 (52), of Beech Grove, McLean County, Kentucky; and journal containing the town’s ordinances, 1894-1901, minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1894-1901, accounts received and expended, and listing of road hands, 1895.

Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 346. Circular letter written by in behalf of Henry E. Youtsey who was imprisoned for his actions in the murder of Governor William Justus Goebel. Signatures on a petition were to be obtained with petition being returned to Mr. Donaldson, Newport, Kentucky.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Koch, Cameron. WKU Could Lose $5 Million in Funding – Budget
• McKay, Michael. Coca-Cola Outbids Pepsi for Campus Soda Rights
• Hayden, Natalie. WKU Changes Admission Requirements
• McKay, Michael. New Music Hall Open for Spring Semester
• Jenkins, Spencer. WKU Police Department Officer Saves Student from Choking – Desiree Moss, Danny Wilson
• Spees, Monica. Faculty Member Passionate About Coca-Cola Return – Betsy Pierce
• Harrison, Taylor. Student Government Association Continues Work on Safe Rides Program
• Harrison, Taylor. Student Government Association’s Goals for Spring Semester
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Budget
• Share the …

Southern Normal School And Business College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 253. Unsigned letter written 7 June 1885 on the stationery of the Southern Normal School and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Joe E. Rudolph, Hazelwood, Ballard County, Kentucky, relating students’ activities while the writer was enrolled in the college.

Bowling Green And Northern Railway Company (Sc 249), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 249. Warren County, Kentucky Court proceedings, January to March, 1889, concerning a proposed subscription for capital stock in the Bowling Green and Northern Railway Company. Includes the results of the vote by the legal voters of Warren County on the proposal.

Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 251. Correspondence of Mrs. Sachs, writer, and native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly with Mary T. Moore, librarian, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, related to a book on the history of Kentucky that Sachs was researching.

Campbell, Marie, 1907-2003 (Sc 252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 252. Correspondence of Marie Campbell, author and teacher, with Elizabeth Coombs, librarian, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning Miss Campbell’s writing and publishing efforts.

Crider, Stephen Bayes, B. 1940 (Mss 380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scanned letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 380. Letters of Stephen Bayes Crider, written mostly to his parents while Crider was serving with the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, Georgia; Baumholder, Germany; Fort Meade, Maryland; and in Vietnam.