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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Businesses (Sc 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Businesses (Sc 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 128. Pages cut from an account book or books which list various individuals and firms of Bowling Green, Kentucky, with accompanying index.


Thatcher, Maurice Hudson, 1870-1973 (Sc 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Thatcher, Maurice Hudson, 1870-1973 (Sc 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 162. Letters, Christmas greetings, and poems of Maurice Hudson Thatcher, U. S. Congressman and Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. Includes a letter with genealogical information, a chronological history of the Mammoth Cave National Park Association from 1924-1926, a short speech, birthday greetings from President Richard M. Nixon, and an obituary article on Thatcher.


Pedagogy Of Graphic Novels, Valarie L. Phelps Apr 2011

Pedagogy Of Graphic Novels, Valarie L. Phelps

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Graphic texts, or graphic novels, have spent many years on shelves with comic books about superheroes and adventurers. They officially gained notoriety in 1992 with Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and at this time, critics and scholars began to take notice. However, graphic novels have not been fully adapted by academia. Graphic novels have the ability to offer new levels of instruction and learning in upper-level classrooms.
The following is a study in the multitude of uses of graphic text in academia. Chapter 1 looks at the history of graphic text to understand the present and future of graphic novels. Chapter 2 …


Lamkin, Kathrine Porter (Russell), 1926-2009 - Collector (Mss 359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Lamkin, Kathrine Porter (Russell), 1926-2009 - Collector (Mss 359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and several full-text items (click on "Additional Files" below) from Manuscripts Collection 359. Genealogical research material collected by Kathrine Porter (Russell) Lamkin and her husband John "Jack" Tucker Lamkin about the Porter family. Includes a typescript and annotated copies of John M. Porter's 1872 history of the Porter family. Also includes information about auxiliary families including: Blacklock, Dobbins, Hein, Beard, Carson, Chapman and Helm.


Mcdonald, Dan Allyn, 1905-1974 - Collector (Mss 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Mcdonald, Dan Allyn, 1905-1974 - Collector (Mss 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 343. Correspondence, legal papers, financial records and sundry other documents related to Eugene Scott Brown and his father-in-law, Gilbert Marshall Mulligan, attorneys of Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky. Also includes stray Allen County court records, research notes related to the Civil War, and records about early telephone service in Allen County.


Scales In Fives, John M. Cipolla Apr 2011

Scales In Fives, John M. Cipolla

Music Faculty Publications & Performances

Completed "Scales in Fives." This is a scale exercise book for clarinetists in two volumes-beginner and advanced. Chromatic, all major, melodic and harmonic minor scales are written out in five note groupings with repeat signs and rehearsal numbers for easy access in rehearsals and lessons. This format of learning scales has proven successful in my teaching at WKU and I am currently looking for a publisher for these books. A sample page is available for download on this site.


Brown, Samuel, 1769-1830 (Sc 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Brown, Samuel, 1769-1830 (Sc 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 161. Letter from Samuel Brown, a professor at Transylvania University Medical School, Lexington, Kentucky, to Dr. Frederick Ridgeley, expressing his pleasure in the prospect of having Ridgeley's son in one of his classes. Includes newspaper clipping about Transylvania Medical School, 1819, and letters, 1936, pertaining to these items.


Ua41 University College Connection, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley Apr 2011

Ua41 University College Connection, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley

UC Publications

No abstract provided.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 44, Wku Student Affairs Apr 2011

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 44, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Ua68 Arts & Letters :The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, Sally Ray, Editor-In-Chief, David Lee, Dean Apr 2011

Ua68 Arts & Letters :The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, Sally Ray, Editor-In-Chief, David Lee, Dean

PCAL Publications

No abstract provided.


Traces Volume 39, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections Apr 2011

Traces Volume 39, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.


Topscholar®, Creating Opportunities [Brochure], Connie Foster, Jennifer Wilson Apr 2011

Topscholar®, Creating Opportunities [Brochure], Connie Foster, Jennifer Wilson

TopSCHOLAR® Presentations and Reports

No abstract provided.


Dunn, James L. (Sc 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Dunn, James L. (Sc 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 160. Miscellaneous receipts, primarily for taxes paid by James L. Dunn in Breckinridge (1893-1908), Grayson (1862-1887) and Ohio (1891) counties in Kentucky. Includes railroad tax receipts (1870-1881) and notice to J. D. Dunn regarding delinquent taxes in Breckinridge County (1918).


Herdman Collection (Sc 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Herdman Collection (Sc 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 124 and full text of Camilla Herdman's 1897 diary (Click on "Additional Files" below. Collection includes diary, 1897, kept by Camilla Herdman, proprietress of the Morehead House, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and unpublished essays, 1926, titled "Spotlights on Life" written by her son, Carl D. Herdman.


Sloss Family Papers (Sc 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Sloss Family Papers (Sc 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 159. Deed of division among heirs of Thomas L. Sloss involving lands in Simpson County and Warren County, Kentucky, 1845; writ of execution to Logan County, Kentucky sheriff, 1868; power of attorney regarding administration of estate of Edward E. Sloss.


Holder, R. D. - Collector (Sc 124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Holder, R. D. - Collector (Sc 124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 124. Letters, 1864, written by John P. Hill, Civil War prisoner at Rock Island, Illinois, to his uncle, John Meadows, Tompkinsville, Kentucky, concerning his imprisonment, and his miscellaneous family letters, 1861.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 43, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2011

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 43, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Mckenna, George (Sc 2430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Mckenna, George (Sc 2430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection 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.


Forgy, James Newton, Sr., 1825-1923 (Sc 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Forgy, James Newton, Sr., 1825-1923 (Sc 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 123. Business papers, 1852-1919 (103 items), mainly receipts and chiefly of James Newton Forgy, Sr., a blacksmith of Butler County, Kentucky; a few family letters, primarily from his son, Thomas Jefferson Forgy, a Church of Christ minister of Texas, 1881-1899 (5); and Forgy biographical material.


Holcomb Family Papers (Sc 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Holcomb Family Papers (Sc 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 122. Receipts, promissory notes and other business papers, 1825-1867, of the Holcomb family, Caswell County, North Carolina and Butler County, Kentucky. Also notice for sale of slaves and items about slave trade in North Carolina, 1841-1845.


Walker Family Papers (Sc 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Walker Family Papers (Sc 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 158. Papers relating to U. S. Representative David Walker (1763-1820) of Logan County, Kentucky, including partial text of speeches, ca. 1804-1809 (3); 1816 broadside regarding his candidacy for Congress; plat of land on Drakes Creek in Allen County, Kentucky; and excerpts from published biographical sketches. Also includes wills of John, James and Lucy Hawkins, 1778-1835; Walker genealogy chart; published biographical sketches of Walker family members; and correspondence with Walker’s descendant concerning the papers, 1942-1953.


41st Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University Mar 2011

41st Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University

Student Research Conference Select Presentations

No abstract provided.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 42, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2011

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 42, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Hays, L. M. (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Hays, L. M. (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 120. Slave bill of sale, 1822, and incoming letters, 1852, 1854 (2), of the Allen family of Warren County and Edmonson County, Kentucky; and letter and receipts, 1829, 1845 (3), of the Mallory family of Warren County, Kentucky.


Fennell-Disher Collection (Mss 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Fennell-Disher Collection (Mss 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 362.  Letters of Mary Whitlock (Fennell) Disher, a teacher from Harrison County, Kentucky, and Isaac Clinton Disher, an engineer from Mason County, Kentucky, written in the 1930s during their courtship and marriage.  Includes typescripts with family data, photos and other illustrative information.  Also includes miscellaneous Fennell family correspondence.


Hardcastle, Paul (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Hardcastle, Paul (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 119. Listing of notes owed to estate of Robert Craddock, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1837, and survey for Mordecai Cole for 1 1/2 acres of land in Warren County, Kentucky, 1905.


Slinker Family Papers (Sc 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Slinker Family Papers (Sc 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 157. Papers relating mainly to the Slinker family of Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Includes Metcalfe County deeds, 1868-1905 (8) and survey, 1871; tax receipt, 1870; and mortgage of livestock, 1875. Also includes Hart County survey, 1821; request for deposition, 1819; minutes of trial testimony, 1880; three letters, 1881-1903; and an undated declaration against aliens and Catholics.


Cuppy, John W. (Sc 1080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Cuppy, John W. (Sc 1080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1080. Letter, 19 December 1862, from John W. Cuppy, serving in Bowling Green with an Illinois regiment, to Dr. Samuel Wiley in Earlville, Illinois. Cuppy writes of his illness and describes conditions in Bowling Green, particularly respecting hospitals and patients. He also comments on Confederate sympathies in the city and troop readiness for an attack. Includes a summary of another letter by Cuppy to Wiley dated 19 September 1862 describing his regiment’s activities near Louisville.


Siddens Family Collection (Sc 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Siddens Family Collection (Sc 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 156. Allen County, Kentucky tax receipts, 1872-1925 (26), chiefly of the Siddens and Long families; Bowling Green, Kentucky tax receipts, 1910, 1919 (2); Cumberland & Ohio Railroad tax receipts, 1878, 1880 (3); and receipt for coffin, 1899.