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Fox, John William, Jr., 1862-1919 (Sc 2600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Fox, John William, Jr., 1862-1919 (Sc 2600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2600. Bound volume of letters chiefly from John W. Fox, Jr., New York City, to Micajah Fible, Louisville, Kentucky. Fox writes of topics including his career in journalism and mutual friends.


Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 710. Manuscript book of 30 poems written by Dr. Lewis H. Averitt physician of Caledonia, Trigg County, Kentucky, between 1840-1872. Several of the poems are about the Whig Party in Kentucky, 1842-1843.


Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 60. Correspondence of Thomas V. Ferrell, teacher and businessman, and of his wife, Winnie (58 items), and of their daughter Thelma (94 items), of Somerset, Kentucky; Ferrell family legal papers (7 items); notes of Thelma, who worked for the Somerset Journal for years; and miscellaneous receipts, clippings, etc.


Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 410. Materials relating to Duncan Hines and the marketing of the “Duncan Hines” brand of food products. Includes obituary notices for Duncan Hines, ice cream franchise agreement, stock certificate books for related companies, and a study on marketing the brand to consumers, especially women.


Kentucky Heritage Applique Society (Mss 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Kentucky Heritage Applique Society (Mss 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 386. Administrative papers, minutes, correspondence, contest and workshop material, and publications of the Kentucky Heritage Applique Society, an auxiliary group of the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society.


Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth And The Rise Of Popular Premillennialism In The 1970s, Cortney S. Basham Aug 2012

Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth And The Rise Of Popular Premillennialism In The 1970s, Cortney S. Basham

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

How people think about the end of the world greatly affects how they live in the present. This thesis examines how popular American thought about “the end of the world” has been greatly affected by Hal Lindsey’s 1970 popular prophecy book The Late, Great Planet Earth. LGPE sold more copies than any other non-fiction book in the 1970s and greatly aided the mainstreaming of “end-times” ideas like the Antichrist, nuclear holocaust, the Rapture, and various other concepts connected with popular end-times thought. These ideas stem from a specific strain of late-nineteenth century Biblical interpretation known as dispensational premillennialism, which …


Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 484. An autographed letter to Mr. Blodgett stating that he never saves his manuscripts, 6 March 1917, and a poem entitled “Silence,” 1 November.


Dalton, Callie Lou, B. 1965 (Fa 576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Dalton, Callie Lou, B. 1965 (Fa 576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 576. "The Handmade Paper Doll: A Study in Tradition," a paper written by Callie Lou Dalton for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 157. This collection includes cassette tapes of interviews with eight women used as research for Jimmy D. Browning’s paper “A Tie That Binds: Contemporary Funeral Foodways In A Rural, Central Kentucky Community.” Two copies of the paper are also included in the collection.


Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 463. Photocopy of letter written by Robert Penn Warren, from France, to Addie Hochstrasser, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling her request for an inscription of his to place in a copy of his biography of Theodore Dreiser.


Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 162. This collection contains a paper entitled “Going Hog Wild in Logan County,” about William Warren Morton Sr. and his work in the swine industry. This paper was written by Samantha Pillar as a part of a class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1994. Several photocopied images are included in the paper.


Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 161. This collection contains a master’s thesis entitled “Hillbilly Music and Early Live Radio Programming In Bowling Green and Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon,” written by James Nelson in January 1994 for the department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Western Kentucky University. Also included is a cassette tape of old-time music from south central Kentucky entitled “Railroad Through the Smoky Mountains,” by Jim Bowles, as well as an obituary for Jonell F. Simunick.


Jackson, Michelle Margie (Fa 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Jackson, Michelle Margie (Fa 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 159. This collection contains a paper entitled “Moonshining,” written by Michelle Jackson as a part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in the spring of 1994. Also included is a cassette tape of an interview with Jerry Rhoton, sheriff of Clay County, Tennessee, as well as his informant data sheet and four photos of him.


Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 449. Letter written by David Morton, Amherst, Massachusetts, replying to an admirer, Mr. Goodrum. Morton was an author originally of Elkton, Kentucky.


Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files) below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 442. Letters from James Lane Allen, Atlantic City, New Jersey, summer 1906, and New York City, 30 September 1906, to cousin Helen inquiring as to the illness of her father, his uncle John, and expressing sorrow at his death.


Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2546. Laura Elizabeth Richardson’s notebook containing holographic notes about the history of quilting. Notebook includes hand executed quilt pattern images in ink, poems, definitions of quilting terms, and textile descriptions. Includes notes about the provenance of Richardson’s quilt collection and her furniture.


Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 2547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 2547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2547. Printed letter of condolence from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, 3 April 1942, written to Mrs. Matthew J. Carney on the death of her husband.


Troubetskoy, Amelie (Rives), 1863-1945 (Sc 574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Troubetskoy, Amelie (Rives), 1863-1945 (Sc 574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 574. Holographic letter to the editor of Harpers Magazine which concerns letter of acceptance for Amélie (Rives) Troubetskoy’s story, “Her Christmas Caddy” and revisions made under the direction of Mr. Alden.


Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 550. Letter, 19 March 1949, to Marjorie Clagett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from poet David Morton, Deerfield, Massachusetts, concerning his visit to Western Kentucky State College, Bowling Green. Also, a printed copy of one of his poems as requested. Morton was originally from Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky.


Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 578. Photocopies of a letter written by Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, author, from Dallas, Texas, to Otto Rothert, author, Louisville, Kentucky, which contains literary and family information; an article written by Mrs. Obenchain and published in McCall’s Magazine; and some biographical notes.


Wilcox, Ella (Wheeler), 1850-1919 (Sc 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Wilcox, Ella (Wheeler), 1850-1919 (Sc 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 577. Letter written by Mrs. Ella (Wheeler) Wilcox, a poet, to Mr. Bery?, replying to his inquiry about her writings. Also, holographic copy of one of her poems is included.


Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914 (Sc 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914 (Sc 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 531. Letter from poet Madison Julius Cawein, Louisville, Kentucky, to Fred H. Day, Boston, Massachusetts, a publisher, relative to several of Cawein’s books of poetry and to a book by novelist and poet Alice Brown.


Banks, Nancy (Huston), 1850-1934 (Sc 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Banks, Nancy (Huston), 1850-1934 (Sc 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 516. Letter, 8 June 1902, from Nancy Banks, Morganfield, Kentucky, to Mr. Parker, inquiring as to whether he had received a copy of her book "Oldfield" which she sent him because of his assistance to her in the writing of it.


Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 459. Letter from Cale Young Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to Stuart McKenzie, of Florida, in which Rice discusses some of his own writings. Also printed book reviews (3).


Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 44. Typed copies of personal and legal papers, 1791-1840 (43) of Charles Meriwether, a pioneer doctor of Christian County, Kentucky; family letters of Caroline Gordon Tate, author and educator, 1938-1947 (18); and family letters of newspaper columnist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (“Dorothy Dix”), 1930-1949 (13).


Philips, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 - Relating To (Sc 2533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Philips, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 - Relating To (Sc 2533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2533. Typewritten remarks, author unknown, about Emanie Nahm’s 1924 novel, Talk. The reviewer speculates on the people and places in Nahm’s home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky on which the novel may have been based, and refers to a reported visit to Nahm in Bowling Green by the author Rebecca West.


Eclectic Book Club (Mss 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Eclectic Book Club (Mss 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 407. Minute book, yearbooks, and financial data of the Eclectic Book Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Barefoot, Jeffrey Allen (Fa 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Barefoot, Jeffrey Allen (Fa 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 78. “The Middle Bridge Ghost” interpretive paper and videotaped interviews executed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Gipson, Kenneth Todd (Fa 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Gipson, Kenneth Todd (Fa 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 80. “Occupational Folklore of Monument Makers.” Interviews with Carroll Monument Company employees regarding their occupation and related stories. Includes one summary and one transcript.


Bolton, Joseph Edward, 1961-1990 (Mss 404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Bolton, Joseph Edward, 1961-1990 (Mss 404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scans of selected folders (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 404. Collected loose poems of Joseph E. Bolton, a native of Cadiz, Kentucky and a Western Kentucky University graduate. Bolton published two books of poetry in his lifetime. A posthumous collection, The Last Nostalgia, was edited by Don Justice and published in 1999. The bulk of the collection relates to Justice’s research notes and correspondence regarding publication of The Last Nostalgia.