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Masters, John Post, D. 1973 (Sc 2126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2126. Typescript of a paper written by John Post Masters, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1964 and titled "The Start of Silent Moving Pictures in the United States."

Scraps To Quilts (Exhibition) (Fa 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Materials collected by Western Kentucky University folk studies students for an exhibition titled "Scraps to Kentucky Quilts." Includes meeting minutes, publicity material, label information, data sheets for submitted quilts, negatives and proof sheets, and interviews with quiltmakers.

Mcfarland, Jonnie, B. 1873 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2120. Autograph album of Jonnie McFarland, Bristow, Kentucky. Includes part of a menu from J. A. Rabold, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Spears, Angela (Fa 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 344. Paper: "Folklore and Media Project on Folklore in Advertisements," written by Angela Spears for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Mccormick, Mary (Sloss), 1873-1904 (Sc 2118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2118. Letter written by Mary Sloss, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mary Stagner, a member of her wedding party, related to attire; newspaper announcement of 16 April 1889 wedding of Mary Sloss and Herschel McCormick.

Kindred, Gayle (Fa 126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 126. Paper: "Mail or artwork?" written by Gayle Kindred for a Folk Studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes a collection and description of stylized mail received by students at Western Kentucky University, 1985-1986.

Jasper, Cindy Rhea (Fa 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 129. Paper: "Folklore in the Mass Media" written by Cindy Rhea Jasper for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes examples of folk sayings, songs, games, proverbs, and traditional images in advertisements found in "Ladies Home Journal," February 1981 to February 1982. Includes photocopies of 56 magazine ads.

Strange, Carrie, 1862-1940 (Sc 2110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2110. Autograph albums (2) kept by Carrie Strange of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Several of those autographing the album took artistic and literate license with their work. Also includes a pen & ink drawing of a young woman, dated 1908.

Brown, Carol P. - Collector (Sc 2105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and print (attached as an additional file) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2105. Collaborative set of three signed poems by Jim Wayne Miller and an Ivan Schieferdecker art print titled "Late Fall" (numbered 77/100 and signed), along with the typescript of another signed poem by Miller. Also includes a promotional piece for the set.

Thompson, Mary H., B. 1875 (Sc 2097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2097. Diary kept by Mary H. Thompson, a physician's daughter living near Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky, from February to November 1902. She writes of social events, home life, teaching school, church attendance, family and friends.

Tattoos: A Marked History, Audrey Porcella

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Self-Advocacy Of Women In Sexualized Labor, 1880-1980s, Kim Marie Matthews

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this study is to centralize, into women's history, the marginalized historical voices of women activists working in sexualized labor (and/or those using sexualized economic strategies). This thesis situates the work of Josie Washburn, a former madam who turned self advocate in 1907, squarely within the Progressive Era debate on prostitution, By centralizing women's voices of sexualized lahor, it provides a means to track the long-term evolution of the intersections between women's sexualized labor choices, traditional labor choices, self-advocacy, popular media, and social/political movements on behalf of women. This study asserts that a majority Progressive Era working women …

Starr, Tommy - Collector (Sc 2095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2095. Promotional material, tour information and cue sheets related to bands playing in the Bowling Green, Kentucky area.

Clark Family (Sc 2079), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and accompanying illustration from 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. An image of the Convent can be found as an additional file.

Walking Box Ranch Custodianship Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending October 10, 2009, Margaret N. Rees

Walking Box Ranch

• UNLV provides stewardship of Walking Box Ranch (WBR) by providing a caretaker who oversees the property, facilitating use of the property by researchers and educators, developing a use and research policy for the property, and coordinating these activities with BLM and in accordance with TNC restrictions.
• UNLV currently addresses security issues for the property through the presence of the caretaker and three Metro Officers who reside on the property in two recreational vehicles, in rotation.
• UNLV is developing a Premises-use Process, which will define how UNLV receives and submits requests to conduct work on the 40-acre headquarters site to BLM. …

Travelstead, Nelle (Gooch), 1888-1974 (Sc 2046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2046. Undated Christmas poem written by Nelle Gooch Travelstead for her grandson Coleman Travelstead; explanatory letter 30 June 2008 from Coleman Travelstead to Jonathan Jeffrey.

Macon State Showcases 'Lost' Literature

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reviews the literature exhibit "Lost" at the Macon State College's library in Georgia.

Shaw, Mary Mosby (Sc 2041), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2041. Composition book of Mary Mosby Shaw, Glasgow, Kentucky, containing children's poems. An additional file contains one of the poems from the composition book titled "Old Santa's Wife."

Interviews With Forrest Winston Coggan (Fa 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcripts of four interviews with Forrest Winston Coggan, dance educator and choreographer. The telephone interviews were done by Meredith Martin, a graudate student in Western Kentucky University's Folk Studies Department. All four interviews are attached to this TopSCHOLAR record.

Martin, Meredith (Fa 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 454. Four telephone interviews conducted with dance educator and choreographer Forrest W. Coggan by Meredith Martin, a graduate student in Wetern Kentucky University's Folk Studies Department. Transcripts of these interviews are available on TopSCHOLAR.

Obenchain, Margery C., 1887-1923 (Sc 2039), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 2039. Letter from Margery C. Obenchain, in Sulphur Springs, Missouri, to "Alice" in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She writes of recent social activities and travel, including a visit to the St. Louis World's Fair.

Archbold, Annie (Fa 203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 203. Photographs, negatives, and proofsheets from various folklife projects coordinated by Annie Archbold while she was a folk studies faculty member at Western Kentucky University.

Parker, Kailen E. (Fa 465), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 465. DVD: "Tattoos" made by Kailen E. Parker for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Puglia, David (Fa 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 467. Paper: "Banjo Bill Green: A Writer, a Performer, a Musician" written by David Puglia for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Gonzalez, Erik (Fa 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 466. Paper: "Parody in the Digital Age" written by Erik Gonzalez for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Fuller, Don (Fa 464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 464. Paper: "The Gathering" written by Don Fuller for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Wolcott, Lucye, 1879-1928 (Sc 1977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1977. Letter from Lucye Wolcott, South Carrollton, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky to a Mr. Atchison, describing her activities after his recent visit, including attendance at a watermelon feast.

Marshall, Mabel Elizabeth, 1928-2014 (Sc 1962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1962. Autograph album kept by Mabel Elizabeth Marshall while in the 5th grade at Greenwood School, Warren County, Kentucky.

The Dilemma Of The Italian American Male, Marc Dipaolo

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

“The Dilemma of the Italian American Male.”

Originally published in Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity. Ed: Elwood Watson. McFarland, 2009

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Walking Box Ranch Custodianship Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending July 10, 2009, Margaret N. Rees

Walking Box Ranch

• UNLV provides stewardship of Walking Box Ranch (WBR) by providing a caretaker who oversees the property, facilitating use of the property by researchers and educators, developing a use and research policy for the property, and coordinating these activities with BLM in accordance with TNC restrictions.
• UNLV currently addresses security issues for the property through the presence of the caretaker and two Metro Officers who stay on the property in rotation.
• UNLV and two METRO officers with CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) visited the ranch and discussed crime prevention strategies that can be incorporated in planning and design of museum …