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Mcdaniel, Paul William, 1916-2004 (Mss 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Mcdaniel, Paul William, 1916-2004 (Mss 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 515. Writings and awards of Paul William McDaniel, nuclear physicist and graduate of Western Kentucky University. Includes typescripts of lectures delivered at Queensland University, a journal he kept while serving in World War II, and a copy of his Arthur F. Fleming Award. Also includes many letters of congratulations to him and a copy of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.


Kelly, Arthur Lancaster, B. 1925 (Sc 2863), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Kelly, Arthur Lancaster, B. 1925 (Sc 2863), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2863. Collected materials relating to Washington County, Kentucky native Colonel Arthur L. Kelly and his book Battlefire! Combat Stories fromWorld War II (University Press of Kentucky, 1997). Includes copy of book jacket, correspondence, reviews, notices and information on Colonel Kelly and his military career and honors.


Perguson, Dee Carl, 1921-2010 (Sc 2861), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Perguson, Dee Carl, 1921-2010 (Sc 2861), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2861. Letters of Ohio County, Kentucky native Dee Carl Perguson, written to Marjorie Clagett, his French teacher at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, during his World War II military service and afterward. He writes observantly of military life while training in Ohio, Georgia and Pennsylvania, of his experiences while serving in North Africa and Italy, and of his reassignment to Florida after suffering an arm wound. He also describes local plant life to Clagett, an accomplished amateur botanist. After the war, he writes from England during his postgraduate study. Settled in Seattle, Washington, …


Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2864. Correspondence, promotional material and planning notes for a quilt registry in Logan County, Kentucky, sponsored by the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society and a subsequent exhibit at the Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University.


Claggett, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1900-2000 - Letters To (Sc 2862), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Claggett, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1900-2000 - Letters To (Sc 2862), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2862. Letters to WKU French teacher Marjorie Clagett from students serving with U.S. armed forces during World War II describing their experiences in North Africa, France, England and the Philippines. Future Army historian Jean E. Keith writes descriptively of an Equator-crossing ritual, of the Philippines after the Japanese occupation, and of China at the close of the war.


Northcott, Henry Clay, 1822-1918 (Mss 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Northcott, Henry Clay, 1822-1918 (Mss 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 519. Papers, primarily letters to Methodist minister Henry Clay Northcott and his daughter Annie Lou “Loulie” (Northcott) Carson. Includes a few items relating to Northcott’s wife Hannah Amanda (Lewis) Northcott and another daughter, Martha Catherine “Kate” (Northcott) Thomas.


Horse Cave, Kentucky - City Minutes (Mss 22 Box 1 Folder 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Horse Cave, Kentucky - City Minutes (Mss 22 Box 1 Folder 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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The minutes of the Caverna (later Horse Cave), Kentucky Board of Trustees from 1871 to 1892. Full text of the minutes, in 50-page increments, can be seen by clicking on "Additional Files" below. The community was known as Horse Cave, but changed its name to Caverna in 1869 and later changed its name back to Horse Cave in 1880. Stray material was scanned where it was found in the minute book; blank pages were not scanned. A short index was typescripted from the original minute book and is also included as an "Additional File." This minute book is part of …


Sears Family Papers (Mss 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Sears Family Papers (Mss 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 518. Full text of Sears family documents can be accessed by clicking "Additional Files" below. Shaker manuscript hymnal commenced by Polly Ann Smith in 1848; copy book of Shaker Chauncey E. Sears, 1840-1870, which includes occasional original poems and essays by Sears as well as short examples of popular and historical authors; an 1829 letter from Rufus Bishop that extols the moral virtues of the Shakers; historical and genealogical information about the Sears family.


Henderson, Wathen Board, 1877-1957 (Mss 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Henderson, Wathen Board, 1877-1957 (Mss 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 516. Typescripts of “‘Old Timer’s’ Timely Topics,” a column by Wathen B. Henderson that appeared in the Breckinridge (Kentucky) News. The columns chiefly look back on the people, families and history of Breckinridge County and include Henderson’s own reminiscences.


Laplant, Alvira (Sc 2860), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Laplant, Alvira (Sc 2860), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2860. A home furnishings project completed for a high school home economics class by Alvira LaPlant. Using “The Michigan” bungalow as a prototype, she includes pictures of selected furniture, fixtures, and decorative items for the home accompanied with prices, and floor plans.


Fridy, Wilford Eugene, B. 1934 (Mss 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Fridy, Wilford Eugene, B. 1934 (Mss 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 384. Correspondence, class materials, published and unpublished papers, and research material collected by Dr. Wilford E. Fridy in his study of Robert Penn Warren and his writings. Includes an untitled and unpublished novel by Robert Penn Warren, correspondence between Fridy and Warren, and photos of Warren and Guthrie, Kentucky, Warren’s hometown.


Miller, John A., Sr., 1840-1905 (Mss 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Miller, John A., Sr., 1840-1905 (Mss 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 514. Receipts, correspondence, bills of lading ledger, 1870-1874, and account book, 1864-1866, for Miller’s jewelry businesses in Alton, Illinois and Paducah, Kentucky. Miller later operated a jewelry store in Cairo, Illinois.


Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Mss 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Mss 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 512. Writings of Thomas Crittenden Cherry, a Bowling Green, Kentucky educator. Includes manuscript drafts of his books Kentucky, the Pioneer State of the West and The Story of Kentucky, other historical monographs, and correspondence relating to the publication and sales of Kentucky, the Pioneer State of the West. Also includes a 1912 reunion program for the Orphan Brigade (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).


Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - Relating To (Sc 2859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - Relating To (Sc 2859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2859. Correspondence, documents, and secondary sources collected by Price Kirkpatrick and related to the “real” birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Material speculates that Lincoln could have been born in Monroe or Cumberland counties in Kentucky.


Foster, Richard Wesley, 1879-1969 (Sc 2858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Foster, Richard Wesley, 1879-1969 (Sc 2858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2858. Letter, 2 February 1906, written by Wesley Foster, Shelbyville, Kentucky, to his mother Mrs. J. R. Foster, Matthews. Virginia, in which he expresses his disappointment in Mammoth Cave after a tour. Includes original envelope illustrated with an H.C. Ganter photograph of the Cave's "Olives Bower."


Francis Family (Sc 2856), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Francis Family (Sc 2856), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2856. Genealogy of the Francis Family by Charles W. Francis, 1928; and correspondence of various Francis family members in Connecticut.


Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 2857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 2857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2857. Typescripts and a few photocopies of a printed newspaper column titled “Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore” written by WKU English professor Gordon Wilson, Sr. This grouping includes columns that were not incorporated into the bound volumes of his work found in the Kentucky Library Research Collections (GR110 .K4 W542)


Chambers, John B., 1852-1930 (Sc 2855), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Chambers, John B., 1852-1930 (Sc 2855), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2855. Invitation to Miss Virgie Talbert, Nicholasville, Kentucky, asking her to attend a watermelon party.


Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 510. Correspondence, business records, account books, and miscellaneous personal papers of members of the Allen, Barner, Savage and Mallory families of Edmonson, Hart and Warren counties in Kentucky.


Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only Manuscripts Collection 505. Correspondence, business and estate papers, deeds and miscellaneous records of the Alexander, Fontaine, Lucas, Graham and associated families, principally of Henry County, Virginia; Cumberland, Metcalfe and Warren counties in Kentucky; and Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Includes letters of Martha (Lucas) Graham written from Bowling Green, Kentucky during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers, 1858-1860, 2008 (Mss 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers, 1858-1860, 2008 (Mss 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 509. Printouts of a database containing information from the Mammoth Cave Hotel registers owned by the Department of Library Special Collections at WKU (MSS 66); one is arranged chronologically and the other is arranged alphabetically by guest name. Compact disc containing the sorted information in a Microsoft Access database.


Martin Family Papers (Mss 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Martin Family Papers (Mss 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 511. Invitations sent to and correspondence of Emma Johnson (Irvan) Martin. Most of the social invitations pre-date her marriage to Joseph Marshall Martin in 1875. The correspondence deals chiefly with family matters. The collection also contains genealogical information about the Martin, Tibbs, Bard, and Willson families and photographs of the same.


Washer, Gladys Pernie, 1879-1975 (Sc 2854), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Washer, Gladys Pernie, 1879-1975 (Sc 2854), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2854. Reminiscence titled "Sketches of My Childhood To My Grandchildren" in which Gladys P. Washer talks about her childhood in the Three Forks area of Warren County, Kentucky. She discusses farming, recreation, education and schools, and social life and customs. Also includes a news clipping about her from 1965.


Kentucky Folklore Record (Mss 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Kentucky Folklore Record (Mss 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 501. Correspondence, manuscripts, and subscription and financial records relating to the content, editing, publication and management of the Kentucky Folklore Record, a quarterly journal of the Kentucky Folklore Society.


Funeral Ledgers - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Funeral Ledgers - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 508. Index of deaths (1 vol.) in the Ohio County, Kentucky region from 1914 to 1962 kept by an unnamed funeral home in Ohio County. Also four account books for the same unnamed funeral home, listing payer, itemized costs, and payment information for funerals from 1914 to 1939. The deceased’s name is rarely mentioned.


Deweese Family Papers (Mss 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Deweese Family Papers (Mss 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 504. Materials collected by Ray Paul DeWeese and Carolyn DeWeese, a brother and sister. Most of the collection is photocopied material of writings about the DeWeese family and Butler County, Kentucky history.


Bowman, Johnston & Company - New York, New York (Sc 2853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Bowman, Johnston & Company - New York, New York (Sc 2853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2853. Letter, 1 July 1840, of Bowman, Johnston & Company, New York, to P. W. Vaughan and Son, Greensburg, Kentucky commenting on the tobacco market; also letter, 20 November 1840 with particulars of a recent sale of 35 hogsheads of tobacco on account.


Mammoth Cave National Park Association - Land Acquisition (Mss 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Mammoth Cave National Park Association - Land Acquisition (Mss 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 503. Records related to the formation of the Mammoth Cave National Park Association and the acquisition of certain lands for Mammoth Cave National Park. Includes deeds, title abstracts, summaries of land acquisition, correspondence, and financial records. Click "Additional Files" below for an acreage map (Box 2, Folder 11).


Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of remembrances (Click on Additional Files), photographs, and oral history interviews for Manuscripts Collection 491. Materials collected during a commemorative project related to a campaign visit John F. Kennedy made to Bowling Green, Kentucky in October 1960 and to his November 1963 assassination. The core of the collection is a set of remembrances that were sent into the Department of Library Special Collections, WKU about both events. Other items include oral history interviews (8), photos (36), contemporary news clippings as well as clippings about the project, a scrapbook of post-assassination clippings, and assorted other ephemera …


Mt. Vernon United Baptist Church Of Christ - Butler County, Kentucky (Mss 507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Mt. Vernon United Baptist Church Of Christ - Butler County, Kentucky (Mss 507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 507. Minutes, financial reports, membership lists, articles of incorporation, deeds, etc. for Mt. Vernon United Baptist Church of Christ in Butler County, Kentucky, now Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church.