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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 1313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 1313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1313. Letter written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., to clergyman H.F. McChesney, Bowling Green, Kentucky, commenting on the newly enacted Social Security Act and asking for data about his community's needs.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


The Coping Strategies Of Highly Identified Sport Fans: The Importance Of Team Success On Tendencies To Utilize Proactive Pessimism, Frederick G. Grieve, Daniel L. Wann Nov 2007

The Coping Strategies Of Highly Identified Sport Fans: The Importance Of Team Success On Tendencies To Utilize Proactive Pessimism, Frederick G. Grieve, Daniel L. Wann

Psychology Faculty Publications

The authors investigated the use of proactive pessimism among college basketball fans. Rather than assess evaluations of an upcoming season as with previous work on proactive pessimism among fans, Grieve and Wann examined evaluations of a specific game.


Boone, George Street, 1918-2004 (Sc 1530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Boone, George Street, 1918-2004 (Sc 1530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1530. Letter, 18 September 1987, from George Street Boone, an attorney In Elkton, Kentucky, to Senator Wendell H. Ford, Washington, D.C., discussing the candidacy of Robert H. Bork, Jr. as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.


Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 98. Project entitled "Basket Making in the Mammoth Cave Area." Interviews with basket makers concerning the history, process, marketing and distribution, social attitudes, historical patterns and aesthetics of basket making. Only transcriptions of the interviews were donated. Interviews were conducted by WKU students in Lynwood Montell's Folk Art and Technology class, Fall 1977; also includes one 1974 interview.


U.S. Army Air Forces, World War Ii, Pacific Ocean Area, Special Services Division - Scrapbook (Sc 1529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

U.S. Army Air Forces, World War Ii, Pacific Ocean Area, Special Services Division - Scrapbook (Sc 1529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1529. Scrapbook (bound volume; unpaged) related to AAFPAO Special Services Division's activities in 1944-1945, chiefly concerning sports. Contains limited information about entertainers.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Landmark Report (Vol. 27, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections Nov 2007

Landmark Report (Vol. 27, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.


Vanmeter, Wilburn S., 1920-1996 (Sc 1528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Vanmeter, Wilburn S., 1920-1996 (Sc 1528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1528. Letters from Wilburn S. Vanmeter, while serving in World War II, to his mother Emma Vanmeter in Bee Spring, Kentucky, and his brother, Junior Vanmeter of Annetta, Kentucky. Also includes several typed reminiscences (6 p.) of Vanmeter's World War II experience.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Dunbar, Elijah, 1821-1911 (Sc 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Dunbar, Elijah, 1821-1911 (Sc 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1335. Letter written by Elijah Dunbar from Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brother in Canton, Massachusetts. Evidently he and an associate were traveling piano salesmen. Dunbar vividly describes the terrible road conditions between Bowling Green and Elkton, Kentucky.


Jewell, George Raleigh, 1898-1993 (Sc 1519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Jewell, George Raleigh, 1898-1993 (Sc 1519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1519. Correspondence between George Raleigh Jewell, Louisville, Kentucky, and George Franklin Dasher. Jewell was a student at Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky, when Dasher was president. The letters reminisce about the school and its alumni, and address various contemporary Baptist educational issues.


Larmon, Henry, 1809-1882 (Mss 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Larmon, Henry, 1809-1882 (Mss 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 183. Collection consists chiefly of financial records related to Henry Larmon of Warren County, Kentucky. Many of the items relate to timber purchases, land transactions, and purchases of sundry household goods. Larmon owned a saw and grist mill on Trammel Creek in southern Warren County.


Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 - Letters To (Sc 1330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 - Letters To (Sc 1330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1330. Letters (translated), 1958, of appreciation written to Bowling Green, Kentucky mayor Clifton W. Lampkin by two German women, thanking him for care packages received through the German Red Cross. Also newspaper clippings, 1959, 1989, regarding Lampkin's death and a trust established by his widow.


Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1522. Farm ledger kept by S. Barker and Daniel Wilcoxson Middleton of Warren County, Kentucky. The farm was located approximately five miles east of Bowling Green on the Louisville Road (Highway 31-W). Records expenses and wages for farm laborers.


Marks, Mary E. (Sc 1523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Marks, Mary E. (Sc 1523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1523. Dissertation (126 p.; illus.; maps) by Mary E. Marks titled "The Rock Asphalt Industry of Western Kentucky" written for the Department of Geography at the University of Chicago and submitted in December 1931. Discusses several important asphalt rock mining operations in the south central section of Kentucky.


Wade, Charles Gilbert, Iii, B. 1986 (Sc 1524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Wade, Charles Gilbert, Iii, B. 1986 (Sc 1524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1524. Letters (18) written by Charles G. Wade, III to his parents, Charles G. Wade, Jr. and Judy Wade of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The letters discuss the younger Wade's U.S. Marine Corps basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Walnut Street Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky - History, 1949-1965 (Sc 1521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Walnut Street Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky - History, 1949-1965 (Sc 1521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1521. Manuscript copy with corrections of "The History of Walnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky", 1949-1965. This was intended to be an addition to an earlier history of the church written by Bradley Thomas Kimbrough, Sr. in 1949.


Douglas, Albert Ray, 1916-2009 (Mss 185), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Douglas, Albert Ray, 1916-2009 (Mss 185), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 185. Correspondence, clippings, programs, and directories collected by Douglas and his wife, Grace Fields Douglas, related to the Bowling Green High School classes of 1934 and 1935 and their respective 50th reunions in 1984 and 1985. Also included is a 1928 autograph album kept by Mr. Douglas.


Rhea, Thomas Stockdale, 1871-1946 (Sc 1520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Rhea, Thomas Stockdale, 1871-1946 (Sc 1520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1520. Letter from "Headquarters of Thomas S. Rhea for Governor" in Bardstown, Kentucky, to constituents in Nelson County addressing the issue of what sales taxes had done for that particular county.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Holland, Daniel Edward, 1918-2009 (Sc 1518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Holland, Daniel Edward, 1918-2009 (Sc 1518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1518. Short note from Ed Holland, a cartoonist born in Guthrie, Kentucky, to a collector named Barton. The note, sent on Chicago Tribune stationery, explains Holland's tardiness in sending a requested cartoon.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Ua35/11 Arête October 2007, Honors College Oct 2007

Ua35/11 Arête October 2007, Honors College

Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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


Moore, Charles Minor, 1859-1940 (Sc 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Moore, Charles Minor, 1859-1940 (Sc 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1387. Reminiscences of C. Minor Moore, who came to Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1879 or 1880 to work for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He describes the town and lists many railroad employees.


Sixty-First U.S. Colored Infantry (Sc 1515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Sixty-First U.S. Colored Infantry (Sc 1515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1515. Partial account book (pp. 13-20, 170-184, 187-262) containing General Orders and Special Orders for the 61st U.S. Colored Infantry and the 2nd West Tennessee Infantry of African Descent. Also includes a letter written by Nellie Evans (Nov. 1865) to her cousin Jeff.