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Folk Cultural Photograph Exhibit, 1970-1971 (Fa 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 477. Photographs taken by Paul Schuhmann, Paul Hightower, and William Green for an exhibit titled "Folk Cultural Photography Exhibit" held in the College of Education building at Western Kentucky University and the product of a folk studies class taught by Lynwood Montell.

Gibbs, Marissa (Fa 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 478.  Taped interviews conducted by Marissa Gibbs about the "Giles Cabin" built by Henry Giles and Janice Holt Giles near Kinfley, Adair County, Kentucky.  Also includes a paper about the house.  This project was completed as part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Morgan, John, B. 1944 (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 476. Fieldwork--including oral interviews, videotapes, and secondary information--compiled by John Morgan primarily pertaining to dark-fire tobacco barns in Calloway County, Kentucky and North Carolina. Also includes interviews relating to tugboats, basket making, and ghost stories and supernatural tales from western Kentucky.

Rubo, Aileen (Fa 490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 490. Taped interviews conducted by Aileen Rubo about one-room school houses in Adair County, Kentucky. Includes transcirptions, photographs, and typescripts. To see transcripts of three interviews from this collection, click on the "Additional Files" below.

Waggener, Tom (Fa 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 491. Taped interviews conducted by Tom Waggener about the "Giles House." Includes transcriptions, photographs, and typescripts.

Providence Knob Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 305. Minute books of Providence Knob Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings 1875, 1904-1907, 1919-1997, Sunday school reports, financial reports, and membership lists.

Powell, Janet Sharli (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 17.  Collection consists of interviews with Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis and Johnnie Mae (Elkins) White, Bowling Green, Kentucky, conducted by Janet Sharli Powell about quilting.  Includes sample Mexican Star quilt block.  Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 30, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Wilson, Laurel. Faculty, Staff to Get Raises
• Wilson, Laurel. Balancing Act: Students Manage Work, Classes – Brittany Feroze, Student Financial Aid
• Harris, Shakia. Diversity Plan to Be Reworked – Kentucky Plan for Equal Opportunities
• Duvall, Tessa. Boiler Promotes Cleaner Energy – Facilities Management, Sustainability
• Curtis, Tanner. A Thousand Words – Junkyard Gypsies, Kellie Steen, Kim Simpson
• Alleyne, Zirconia. Capitol Arts Center Hosts Cajun Band – Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Cultural Enhancement Series
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Higher Admission Standards
• Getting In: Higher Admission Standards Will …

Speake Family Collection (Sc 2178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2178. Correspondence among members of the Speake family residing in Virginia and Kentucky. The early letters reveal concerns related to the correlation of family health issues with God's sovereignty. Later letters indicate an attempt to re-establish communication between the two branches of the family and clarify relationships.

Warren County, Kentucky - Deed (Sc 2175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2175. Commissioner's deed, 1 April 1921, related to the disposition of the land of T. B. Lawrence, Sr.

Landers, Theodore R., 1903-1922 (Sc 2174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2174. Bowling Green, Kentucky native Theodore R. Landers's honorable discharge from the U.S. Army 5 August 1921.

Geralds, Bettie Mae (Miller), 1897-1992 (Sc 2182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files") of letters written to Bettie Mae Geralds in Louisville, Kentucky, from family members and friends in Kentucky as well as in Omaha, Nebraska, and Bloomington and Evansville, Indiana. Topics include family news, fruit and vegetable canning, and difficulties finding work. Geralds’ son writes of his prosecution at Fort Knox for an offense committed while on military duty. Includes a 1967 letter from a Navy serviceman in Texas.

Lowther, Edgar M., 1916-1973 (Sc 2179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2179. By-laws for Local Union No. 862, Madisonville, Kentucky, of the United Mine Workers (n.d.); copy of an agreement between the Western Kentucky Coal Operators' Association and UMW members, 1939; copies of Lowther's pay receipts, 1943-1950, from the Williams Coal Mine in Christian County and Hopkins County, Kentucky.

Little Barren United Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 451. Minute book of Little Barren United Baptist Church, Barren County, Kentucky. Includes articles of faith, rules of decorum, minutes of meetings and membership lists.

Green River Union Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan ("Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 545. Minute book (some pages missing) of Green River Union Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes membership and pastors lists and church conference minutes 1879-1894. Also includes list of homecoming attendees 1958-1966, solicitation of contributions for upkeep, historical information and clippings.

Klapheke, Dorothy Davis, 1921-1992 (Sc 2170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2170. Materials relating mainly to the career of Dorothy Klapheke, a Western Kentucky University graduate, as a middle school teacher in Stamford, Connecticut. Includes poetry, a performance assessment, retirement mementoes, reminiscences, photos, and an obituary.

Zimmerman, Heidi (Sc 2171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2171. Biographical sketch of James Proctor Knott, Kentucky lawyer, politician, and governor, based on the original documents housed in the Knott family manuscript collection, Kentucky Library & Museum, Western Kentucky University.

Franklin Church Of Christ - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 743. Membership roll of Franklin Church of Christ, Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes some information on church officers and miscellaneous finances.

Baird, Nell Thompson (Bate), 1901-1988 (Sc 2181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2181. Postcard, 1947, to Nell (Mrs. Henry H.) Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from the Panama Canal Zone, picturing a native village and describing a trip to the interior.

Mt. Vernon Church - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 724. Minute book of Mt. Vernon Church, Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes articles of faith, rules of decorum, minutes of meetings, and membership lists.

Drakes Creek Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 613. Minute book of Drakes Creek Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes constitution, rules of decorum, minutes of meetings, and membership lists. Also includes two 1895 letters of recommendation.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 29, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Claybourn, Cole. WKU Signs Sun Belt Conference’s Top Class – Football
• Harris, Shakia. Reshaping the Classroom – Admissions
• Duvall, Tessa. Remaking South Campus – University College
• Kriz, Lindsay. Events Push Study Abroad Opportunities
• Wade, Katherine. Student Rides in Fast Lane – Chad Willis, Beech Bend Raceway
• Wilson, Laurel. State’s High Schools to Implement Higher Academic Standards
• House Bill Could Raise Dropout Age – Legislation, High School
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Exercise – Big Red
• Faculty Discount – Health Insurance, Exercise
• Hicks, Billy. Bowling Green to Get New …

Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 228. Minute book of Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Ohio County, Kentucky. Includes articles of faith, minutes of meetings, and registers of elders, deacons, members, baptisms and marriages.

Keith, Jean E. (Sc 2165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2165. Paper: "The Whig Party in Kentucky, 1847-1851: Whig Against Whig, North Against South, East Against West" written by Jean E. Keith while she was a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes an eight-page annotated bibliography.

Green River Baptist Church - Hart County, Kentucky (Sc 929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 929. Minute book of Green River Baptist Church, Hart County, Kentucky. Includes articles of faith, rules of decorum, minutes of meetings, and membership lists.

Logan County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2176. Writ of fi. fa., 10 May 1804, from Clerk of the Circuit Court, Logan County, Kentucky to the Sheriff of Warren County, Kentucky directing execution against the estate of Gasper Butcher, Samuel Cox and Elkin Taylor to satisfy a judgment obtained by John and James M. Mahan.

Smiths Grove Presbyterian Church - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 304. Minute books of Smiths Grove Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings (1857-1974) and registers of deacons, elders, members, baptisms, marriages and deaths. Also includes a special 1924 edition of the "Smiths Grove Times."

South, Lillian Harreld, 1879-1966 (Sc 2180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2180. Application to secure historical highway marker for Bowling Green, Kentucky native Lillian H. South, a female physician with a distinguished career as State Bacteriologist with the Kentucky State Board of Health. Includes application and supporting material.

Logan County, Kentucky - Election Certificates (Sc 2177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2177. Two election certificates from different precincts in Logan County, Kentucky, verifying tallied votes for election of state and local officials held on 9 May 1903. The totals are filled in and the certificates are signed by election officials.

Kirby, Jacob Quince, Sr., B. 1875 (Sc 2169), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2169. Letter from Jacob Quince Kirby, Sr., a former city clerk, to Mary (Taylor) Moore, describing his efforts to transfer old records of the City of Bowling Green to the Kentucky Library. Includes some incidents of Kirby family history.