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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Aton, Paul Douglas, 1948-1968 (Mss 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Aton, Paul Douglas, 1948-1968 (Mss 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scanned letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 82. Vietnam War letters written by Paul Douglas Aton to his father, Loyd Aton, of Franklin, Kentucky, documenting his training at Fort Campbell, Fort Gordon, and Fort Sill and his war experiences, November 9, 1967 to July 20 1968. Includes family's notification of his death and burial information.
Ridington, Amber Flower, B. 1969 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ridington, Amber Flower, B. 1969 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 200. Transcriptions and cassette tapes (14) of interviews that Amber Ridington, Western Kentucky University student, had with Joe Marshall, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and other individuals who were knowledgeable about the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a music and recreational venue in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Spencer, John Henderson, 1826-1897 (Mss 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spencer, John Henderson, 1826-1897 (Mss 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 120. Incomplete biography of John Henderson Spencer for the years, 1826-1876. Spencer, a native of Allen County, Kentucky, was a Baptist minister and author. Includes a tribute to Spencer on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, 1946.
Breit, Jill Renee, B. 1964 (Sc 1402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Breit, Jill Renee, B. 1964 (Sc 1402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1402. Paper written by WKU student Jill R. Breit about architect James Maurice Ingram and his influence in the Bowling Green, Kentucky architectural realm, chiefly during the 1930s and 1940s. Also includes photos and a cassette tape interview with Dr. Fred & Jan Stickle of Bowling Green who live in an Ingram designed home.
We Shared In Its History: 1123 State Street, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
We Shared In Its History: 1123 State Street, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
SCL Faculty and Staff Publications
Author writes of her personal experiences growing up in an historic house in downtown Bowling Green, Ky. Built in 1844, this house served as a private residence, an overnight guest house, the headquarters for Johnnie Massey Clay, President of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church's Women's Missionary Society, and apartments for senior adults, small families and young professionals. Over the years, what was originally a two room over two room Greek-revival townhouse built in the popular Flemish bond brick pattern had at least four additions and was renovated for creative reuses.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans of selected items, and name index (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 154. Shaker materials related to Jesse McCombs and James Johnson including slavery documents, guardianship documents, legal papers, land papers, grist and fulling mill papers, wills, agreements and receipts.
Shelton, Martha Beth, 1915-2001 (Sc 1375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shelton, Martha Beth, 1915-2001 (Sc 1375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1375. Paper written by student Martha B. Shelton of Greenville, Kentucky, giving the history of the town by recording the various owners of Greenville's houses and buildings.
Aspley Family (Sc 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Aspley Family (Sc 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1377. World War II letters, 1942-1943 (5), written stateside and from Europe by Aspley brothers Robert Charles ("Charlie") and William Neil ("Billy") to parents and friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly discussing everyday camp life. Charlie writes one letter from a German prisoner of war camp. Includes obituaries, newspaper clippings, etc.
Todd County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 1372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Todd County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 1372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1372. Letters, 1887-1923, written to Sherrod and Williams family members, Todd County, Kentucky, mainly containing family news. The 1913 letter focuses on tobacco selling and Night Riders' activities in Henderson County, Kentucky.
Guthrie Family (Mss 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Guthrie Family (Mss 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 96. Autograph books of two female and one male member of the Guthrie and related families of Cumberland County, Kentucky. Includes some family data.
Githens, William Harrison, 1826-1904 (Sc 1364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Githens, William Harrison, 1826-1904 (Sc 1364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan, and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1364. Letter, 22 February 1862, written by U.S. Army surgeon William H. Githens, Birds Point, Missouri, to his wife describing conditions, especially in Cairo, Illinois, and mentioning the activity at Forts Holt and Payne across the river in Kentucky. He includes a sketch of these fortifications.
Tucker, Mildred Carpenter, 1894-1994 (Mss 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tucker, Mildred Carpenter, 1894-1994 (Mss 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 145. Materials removed from a scrapbook kept by Tucker, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, while a student at Hamilton College in Lexington, Kentucky, for the 1915-1916 school year. Includes notes about the college, printed items, photos, mementos, etc. Also includes related data.
Voice Of The People (Fa 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Voice Of The People (Fa 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of student papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 83. The Voice of the People: An Understanding of Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A Western Kentucky University Folk Studies project directed by Dr. Lynwood Montell, involving 9 students and 26 informants. Several of the interview transcriptions are available by downloading (Click "Download" button on the right) the finding aid and clicking on the hyperlinks in the text.
Helm-Lucas Family Papers (Mss 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm-Lucas Family Papers (Mss 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 146. Chiefly family and courtship correspondence between James Helm, Butler County, Kentucky, and Virginia Lucas, Warren County, Kentucky. Their 1879 marriage rites were the first ones to be performed in Mammoth Cave. Includes associated items.
Pace, Pearl Eagle (Carter), 1896-1970 (Mss 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pace, Pearl Eagle (Carter), 1896-1970 (Mss 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 114. Correspondence, business papers, and speeches of Monroe County, Kentucky native Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace. Includes materials concerning Republican National Committee and Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; civic, religious, political and professional organizations in Kentucky and Washington, D.C. Also includes some Cumberland County, Kentucky records.
Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 143. Shaker journal, 1891-1893 (184p.) kept by James Carr, South Union, Kentucky, giving daily activities within the Shaker community. Includes hymnals, 1836-1856 (9), compiled by Shaker society members. A name index is available.
Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 68. Personal and business papers, 1905-1935 (293 items), of Herdman, an attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and assistant attorney general of Kentucky, 1936-1947, and legal papers, 1884-1934 (867), from his practice in Bowling Green which relate chiefly to civil and commercial matters in Warren County, Kentucky.
Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 128. Correspondence, papers, financial records, minutes, essays written by children, etc., of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, Warren County, Kentucky, which was part of an international religious organization.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Fa 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Fa 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 190. Paper written by Reed entitled, "The War at Home" (17 p.), based on interviews with various Bowling Green, Kentucky individuals about the effects of World War II on them and the home front. Also includes cassette tapes (4) and transcriptions (3).
Wilcher, Joda, 1905-1971 (Mss 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilcher, Joda, 1905-1971 (Mss 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 155. Chiefly business papers of Joda Wilcher, Bradfordsville, Kentucky, pertaining to his work as an agent that bought trees, especially walnut trees, for various lumber companies. Also a few family items, including his memorial book and other items relating to his funeral.
Casselberry, Anita Beatrice, 1890-1970 (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Casselberry, Anita Beatrice, 1890-1970 (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1378. Journal, 1925, 79p., kept by Anita B. Casselberry, Cleveland, Ohio, while serving a few weeks as a public health nurse under the direction of Alice Lloyd in Knott County, Kentucky. Includes newspaper clippings, 1940-1941, religious pamphlets, and photos, 1925. A letter from Casselberry also recounts the reaction to an N.R.A. (National Recovery Administration) sticker on her car as “the mark of the beast.”
Ua1d We Were One And Two Teammates, Vernon Hornback
Ua1d We Were One And Two Teammates, Vernon Hornback
WKU Administration Documents
Undated autobiographical sketch written by Ted Hornback. He includes his experiences as a Hilltopper basketball player under E. A. Diddle, work as coach at Elkhorn and experiences working as Diddle's as assistant coach.
Carraco, Arthur, 1873-1964 (Sc 1370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carraco, Arthur, 1873-1964 (Sc 1370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1370. Hospital fee statements received by Arthur Carraco, Carrollton, Kentucky, after treatment at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky.
Rogers, Odie Floyd, Jr. 1921-1957 (Sc 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rogers, Odie Floyd, Jr. 1921-1957 (Sc 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1386. World War II diary kept by Odie Floyd Rogers, Jr. (1921-1957) Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, who was a member of a flight crew that evidently was stationed in Sicily. They bombed chiefly Italian targets. Rogers completed 66 missions. Includes a 2001 letter with data on planes flown by Rogers.
Joseph A. Altsheler And The Great Ghost Forest Of Kentucky, Mervyn Nicholson
Joseph A. Altsheler And The Great Ghost Forest Of Kentucky, Mervyn Nicholson
The Kentucky Review
No abstract provided.
The Clavichord In The Bluegrass: Dolmetsch, Fudge, And Hammer, Joseph R. Jones
The Clavichord In The Bluegrass: Dolmetsch, Fudge, And Hammer, Joseph R. Jones
The Kentucky Review
No abstract provided.
Sudduth Goff, Artist: A Preliminary Record, James D. Birchfield
Sudduth Goff, Artist: A Preliminary Record, James D. Birchfield
The Kentucky Review
No abstract provided.
Rowan Family (Mss 69), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rowan Family (Mss 69), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of oversized items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 69. Correspondence, business and legal papers, clippings, etc., of John Rowan, Sr., 1773-1843, lawyer, judge, U.S. Representative and Senator, and owner of Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky; and of John Rowan, Jr., 1807-1855, master of Federal Hill and U.S. charge d'affaires to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1848-1850. Federal Hill is more commonly referred to today as "My Old Kentucky Home."
Steele, Ira (Sc 1352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steele, Ira (Sc 1352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan, and typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1352. Letter, 16 February 1862, written by Union soldier Ira Steele, stationed at Camp Glenbrook, Kentucky, to his brother Oliver Steele. He mentions the Green River; bridge burning; Bowling Green; the sending of some items to New Haven, Nelson County, Kentucky; and describes camp life.
Slavery - Bill Of Sale (Sc 1353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slavery - Bill Of Sale (Sc 1353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1353. Bill of sale, Butler County, Kentucky, for an enslaved man, "Joe," sold to William Carson by Robert Thompson and Seth Carson.