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Joiner, Sandra (Sc 2089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2089. Scholarly papers (3) written by Sandra Joiner about Kentucky author, Janice Holt Giles. One paper is untitled; the others are titled; "Janice Holt Giles: Woman of Contradictions" and "The Concept of 'Place' in the Fiction of Janice Holt Giles." Also includes two photographs of conference attendees.

Young Family (Sc 2068), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2068. Receipt for hauling tobacco to the New Orleans market, 1817; retail licenses granted to Young & Co., Placer County, California, 1854; lists of taxable property in Barren County, Kentucky, 1861 and 1864; tax receipt, Barren County, 1876.

Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2073. Book taken from Iraqi soldier during Operation Desert Storm; written in Arabic with some photos attached.

Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 2076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2076. Typescript (15 pp.) titled, "Unfinished Autobiography of John Rowan Written in 1841 at Federal Hill, Ky." The text is mainly concerned with his family's emigration to Kentucky from Pennsylvania by boat down the Ohio River.

Clark Family (Sc 2079), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2079. Postcards sent to Mr. and Mrs. Ivo Clark and Mrs. Harriet Mathis in Owensboro, Kentucky. The postcards are photo and novelty cards; one postcard shows the Little Sisters of the Poor Convent in Evansville, Indiana.

Giles, Janice Holt, 1909-1979 (Sc 2090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2090. Photocopies of news clippings and photographs related to Kentucky authors, Janice Holt Giles and Henry Giles. Manuscript note from Pansy Phillips to Pat Hodges; photos taken on a barge related to research for Mrs. Giles's book 'Run Me a River' (1964); and photocopies of Mr. and Mrs. Giles's wills, 1970 & 1985.

Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2074. Book found on battleground during Operation Desert Storm; written in Arabic and bearing the emblem of Iraq.

Mckenney, John Oscar, 1879-1946 (Sc 2122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2122. Three notebooks of John Oscar McKenney, a Beaver Dam, Kentucky physician. The books contain notes on physiology and on the characteristics, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses and diseases.

Woodridge, James & Nancy (Sc 2084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2084. Transcript of an interview conducted by Wilford Fridy, a English Department faculty member at Western Kentucky University, with James and Nancy Woolridge, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The interview revolves around the Woolridge's familial connections to characters in Robert Penn Warren's stories in his book "Circus in the Attic."

Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 (Sc 2066), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2066. Paper by Patricia Hodges to fulfill a requirement for a library science course at Western Kentucky University: "Preliminary Procedures Involved in the Compilation of a Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Kentucky Library."

Ua12/2/1 Looking Ahead, Wku Student Affairs

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Special basketball section of the College Heights Herald. Articles:

• Men’s Basketball Regular Season Schedule
• Women’s Basketball Regular Season Schedule
• Lintner, Jonathan. Ken McDonald With the Toppers for the Long Haul
• Greenwell, Zach. Lady Toppers Using Disappointing Finish as Motivation
• Harten, David. Steffphon Pettigrew
• Lintner, Jonathan. Chemistry One of Toppers’ Greatest Assets
• Lintner, Jonathan. A.J. Slaughter
• Greenwell, Zach. Dominique Duck
• Lintner, Jonathan. Tops Say They’re Ready to Live Up to the Hype
• Greenwell, Zach. Arnika Brown
• Harten, David. Nonconference Slate Will Define Toppers’ Season
• Harten, David. Anthony Sally
• Greenwell, Zach. Kenzie Rich
• Basketball by the Numbers

Stephan, Geraldine, 1912-2003 (Sc 2087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2087. Outline for a paper: "Social and Economic Problems of Bowling Green" written by Geraldine Stephan. Her only topic was transportation, and she discusses the railroad, bus, steamboat, and trucking lines that serviced Bowling Green, Kentucky as well as upcoming postal airline service. She notes the amount of fuel sold and the number of service stations located within the city in 1929.

Janice Holt Giles Symposium, May 17-18, 1991 (Sc 2067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2067. Miscellaneous items from the Janice Holt Giles Symposium held 17-18 May 1991 at Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky. Includes a cassette tape containing remarks by Giles's daughter Libby Hancock and songs sung by Wig Robinson at the Caldwell Chapel Church, Knifley, Kentucky where Giles and her husband are buried.

Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 - Letters To (Sc 2065), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2065. Letters from various Kentucky politicians to Patricia and Paul Hodges, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to policies concerning same-sex marriage and immigration.

Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Sc 2069), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2069. Correspondence with Kentucky's senators related to advertising of alcoholic beverages on television; application for a retail beer license.

Pounds, Dwight Ray, B. 1935 (Sc 2072), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection SC 2072. “The 1991 Fire[:] First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky,” by Dwight R. Pounds. The writer reflects on his reaction to the fire and to other burned or damaged churches.

Ratliff, Charles, Sr., 1854-1940 (Sc 2086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2086. Stud book kept by Charles Ratliff, Sr., Princeton, Kentucky, in which he records the breeding activities at his horse farm. Most of the entries are associated with these horses: Prince, Starlight, Davy Crockett and Spanish Chief. Includes photocopies of some genealogical material.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Lintner, Jonathan. Wood Selig: WKU Gold Mine for Future Coaches – Football
• Stewart, Colleen. Regional Campus Enrollment Growing – WKU Glasgow, WKU Elizabethtown/Radcliff/Fort Knox, WKU Owensboro
• Hicks, Billy. City’s TIF District Strugglers – Tax Increment Financing, Downtown Redevelopment
• Wilson, Laurel. Crew Recycles Tailgating Trash – Facilities Management
• Harris, Shakia. Student Government Association Strengthen Attendance Policy
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Football Coach Search
• Open Letter to Search Committee: Western Should Choose Wisely – Football
• Rice, Adam. Sports Program Needs Overhaul – Athletics
• Dooper, Jennifer. Friendship Valuable, Worth Remembering …

Redmon, Chester C. (Sc 2070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2070. Brief World War II V-mail messges from Redmon, serving in the India-Burma Theater to family in Louisville, Ketnucky. Includes Christmas and Mother's Day greetings as well as two photos.

Tackett, Kenneth Wayne, 1930-2016 (Sc 2083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2083. Correspondence related to an article about Shakers that appeared in the Western Kentucky University "Alumni" magazine. Kenneth W. Tackett was born at Shakertown at South Union, Kentucky, and later lived in the Centre House (Centre Family Dwelling).

Brown, Anna Murl (Fisher), 1911-1989 (Sc 2112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2112. Biographical and employment information related to Anna Murl (Fisher) Brown, a nurse and native of Ohio County, Kentucky. Includes an unsigned copy of a letter from Pat Nixon, thanking Brown for arranging a visit to a nursing school in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 219. This collection consists chiefly of correspondence of the Moore, Mulligan, Brown and Johns families, who are interrelated. The correspondence deals chiefly with family matters and events occurring in Trigg County, Kentucky and Allen County, Kentucky.

Taylor Family Papers (Sc 1929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1929. Correspondence, poems, song lyrics, recipes, accounts, clippings, and miscellaneous records relating to the Taylor family of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes letters of a Kentucky soldier writing of battle in east Tennessee during the Civil War, 1864 (Click on "Additional Files" for scans).

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Lintner, Jonathan. David Elson Fired, Will Finish Season – Football
• Ulber, Emily. Western Mails New Debit Cards – HigherOne, Scholarships, Student Financial Aid
• Barczak, Mary. Step It Up – Step Show, Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Phi Alpha
• Ulber, Emily. Council on Postsecondary Education Approves Budgets
• McLaughlin, Ariana. A Thousand Words – World’s Greatest Studio Tour & Art Sale
• Wilson, Laurel. Gary Ransdell: Project Funding Unlikely – Capital Plan, Construction, Thompson Science Complex, Energy Infrastructure, Center for Research & Development, Gordon Ford College of Business, WKU Owensboro
• Erskine, Anne. …

Strange, Leonetta Kay, B. 1952 (Sc 1471), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1471. Handwritten poem by Leonetta K. Strange titled "No Matter How Long."

Bell, Charles Rowan, 1891-1976 (Sc 2064), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2064. Letter, 18 December 1963, from William A. Stevens, Washington, D.C., to Bowling Green, Kentucky lawyer Charles R. Bell with comments on Congressman William H. Natcher and other mutual acquaintances. Also includes information about Bell’s law career.

Thomas, Mabel (Finney), 1897-1988 (Sc 2061), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2061. Typescripted diaries of Mabel Thomas relating to her travel in Africa, Europe, Scandinavia and Russia. Includes cards and letters to Thomas relating to travel by others in Africa, Alaska, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, Japan, and New England.

Moore, J. T. - Letters To (Sc 2063), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2063. Letters (2), 1880-1881, sent to J. T. Moore, Morgantown, Kentucky, related to financial matters and the opening of the Home Telephone Company in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1903.

Schiess, Nancy (Sc 2062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2062. Paper: "Influences On and Decision Factors of Women Entering World War II from Western Kentucky State Teachers College" written by Nancy Schiess for a Kentucky history course at Western Kentucky University.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Ulber, Emily. Western Cashes In on Class Change Fee
• Ulber, Emily. Online Classes Boost Western’s Enrollment – Division of Extended Learning & Outreach, Jennifer Brinkley
• Wilson, Laurel. University, City Close Gap with Downtown Development
• Ulber, Emily. Western Gets More Swine Flu Vaccines – Influenza, Health Services
• Harris, Shakia. Student Government Association Plans to Spend Entire Organization Aid Budget
• Waggoner, Tabitha. Fresh Food Worker Dies at 52 – Harold Alexander
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Homecoming
• Making Their Alma Mater Matter: Alumni Need to Voice Their Concerns at Homecoming …