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Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1983 (Sc 3357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2019

Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1983 (Sc 3357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3357. Letters and cards to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from author and alumna Anne Pence Davis, Wichita Falls, Texas. She writes of her enjoyment of a 1962 visit to WKU, and in 1976 recounts recent activities and asks Richards’ help in preparing a program on Kentucky poets for the Kentucky Club of Dallas. After the program, she writes to thank Richards, encloses the club invitation, and relates news about her inclusion in volume 3 of the anthology Kentucky in American Letters by Dorothy E. Townsend, and about her gardening.


Ayars, Rebecca Caudill, 1899-1985 (Sc 3348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2019

Ayars, Rebecca Caudill, 1899-1985 (Sc 3348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3348. Letter, 5 March 1958, of author Rebecca Caudill Ayars, Urbana, Illinois, to WKU faculty member Frances Richards. Owing to a previous engagement, she declines an invitation to WKU’s Leiper English Club dinner.


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.


Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 395. Minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other records of the LARTHS Club, a literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1925.


Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 393. Minutes, correspondence, programs, historical sketches, and miscellaneous material of the Ladies Literary Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


That Other Club, 1966-2010 (Sc 2222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

That Other Club, 1966-2010 (Sc 2222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2222. Minutes, brief history by James D. Harris, Jr., and sundry correspondence related to That Other Club, a men's literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1966. Minutes are brief and generally include those in attendance and the program topic.


Altrusa International - Bowling Green (Mss 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Altrusa International - Bowling Green (Mss 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 702. Chiefly financial reports, minutes, yearbooks, newsletters, and correspondence of the Altrusa International Club in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1954 until dissolution in 2004.


Hardinsburg Magazine Club - Breckinridge County, Kentucky (Mss 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Hardinsburg Magazine Club - Breckinridge County, Kentucky (Mss 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 216. Chiefly minutes, bound and loose, of the Hardinsburg Magazine Club, Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky. Also includes correspondence, program information, news clippings, and a few yearbooks.


Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 1539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 1539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1539. Note from Corinne C. McCormack, Bowling Green, Kentucky, thanking Lida Calvert Obenchain (pen name "Eliza Calvert Hall") for the donation of her book, "A Book of Hand Woven Coverlets" to the Woman's Library, and Obenchain's reply.


Obenchain, Josephine (Stephenson), 1864-1953 (Sc 1536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Obenchain, Josephine (Stephenson), 1864-1953 (Sc 1536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1536. Whimsical paper written in dialect by Josephine Obenchain titled "History of the Kentucky Club of Dallas, Inc."


Robertson, Clara Louise, 1908-2004 (Mss 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2001

Robertson, Clara Louise, 1908-2004 (Mss 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 87. Diary kept by Clara Louise Robertson of Louisville, Kentucky, detailing schools, church and club activities and amusements. Vivid description of a 1921 Washington, D.C. family vacation. Associated letter, 1991. A copy of Robertson "Little Colonel’s Good Times Book" diary is included as an "Additional File" below. Click on it to see the diary in its entirety.


1901 Ruby Yearbook, John Alexander, William Samuel Keiter, Ursinus College Junior Class Jan 1901

1901 Ruby Yearbook, John Alexander, William Samuel Keiter, Ursinus College Junior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1901 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.