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Bibliography, Anthony Harkins Jan 2023

Bibliography, Anthony Harkins

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Anthony Harkins.


Charles H. Smith: A Direct-Line Ancestry, Since Colonial Times, Charles H. Smith Aug 2020

Charles H. Smith: A Direct-Line Ancestry, Since Colonial Times, Charles H. Smith

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

A direct-line ancestry of American forebears of Charles H. Smith (1950-), constructed by Dr. Smith through the aid of Ancestry.com and other sources.


An Ethnic Cultural Landscape: German Breweries And Social Institutions In Covington, Kentucky, 1860-1920, Andrew Jones Jan 2020

An Ethnic Cultural Landscape: German Breweries And Social Institutions In Covington, Kentucky, 1860-1920, Andrew Jones

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

A useful marker for recognizing the impact that ethnic groups make to the social and cultural characteristics of a city are the institutions and material landscapes created by those groups. In northern Kentucky, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, German immigrants and their descendants in the city of Covington established institutions such as breweries, saloons, social associations, and churches that became the heart of ethnic neighborhoods and shaped the form of the landscape. This research examines institutional and cultural landscape markers of German cultural identity in the city of Covington, Kentucky, from 1860 to 1920. Demographic and spatial data …


Female Cartographers: Historical Obstacles And Successes, Eva Llamas-Owens Jan 2020

Female Cartographers: Historical Obstacles And Successes, Eva Llamas-Owens

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

For much of history, women have lived in male-dominated societies, which has limited their participation in society. The field of cartography has been largely populated by men, but despite cultural obstacles, there are records of women significantly contributing over the past 1,000 years. Historically, women have faced coverture, stereotypes, lack of opportunities, and lack of recognition for their accomplishments. Their involvement in cartography is often a result of education or valuable experiences, availability of resources, a supportive community or mentor, hard work, and luck regardless of when and where they lived.

This research divides women before and after the turn …


Rennick, Robert M., 1932-2010 (Sc 3419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2019

Rennick, Robert M., 1932-2010 (Sc 3419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3419. Letters, March 1972, to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards and her sister Mary Ellen Richards, Franklin, Kentucky, from Robert M. Rennick of the University of Kentucky’s Prestonsburg Community College. Rennick outlines the objectives and methods of a national undertaking to survey all the place names of the United States and his work with a committee to ensure Kentucky’s participation. He requests their help in supervising the research and gathering of data from Simpson County. A second letter thanks Frances for her agreement to participate and asks for a meeting. Rennick’s book, …


Ua66/8/6 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Allied Organizations, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua66/8/6 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Allied Organizations, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about allied organizations associated with the Geography & Geology department, including the Council of Geography Teachers, Green River Grotto, and Kentucky Geographic Alliance.


Smith, H. (Sc 3200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Smith, H. (Sc 3200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3200. “Illustrations of Modern Geography,” a set of seven hand-drawn and colorized maps of various parts of the globe, stitched into a chapbook with marbled paper covers. The title page indicates that the maps were drawn by H. Smith for his father Mr. Smith atWoodland House, midsummer 1834.


Green, Frank Henry (Sc 3125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2017

Green, Frank Henry (Sc 3125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 3125. “Glacier National Park, Montana, United States of America (Part of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park): A Few Stories as Told by Frank Henry Green, Season Park Ranger at Avalanche Creek Campground.” The text is liberally illustrated with photos.


Davis, Benjamin T., 1870-1929 (Sc 2591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Davis, Benjamin T., 1870-1929 (Sc 2591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2591. Typescript copy of an address titled “The State Line,” delivered by Senator B.T. Davis, Hickman, Kentucky, before the Kentucky State Bar Association at Bowling Green, Kentucky. The address details information about the borders of Kentucky and the history of the borders and territories in America.


Chamberlain, John B. (Sc 2531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Chamberlain, John B. (Sc 2531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2531. Letter written from Kaler, Graves County, Kentucky, by John B. Chamberlain to his daughter. He gives a general description of Kaler and its environs, including its low-lying terrain, local businesses, and railroad access.


Anderson, Linda Allen (Fa 77), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Anderson, Linda Allen (Fa 77), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 77. “Stone Masons and Their Craft in the Bluegrass Area of Kentucky,” interpretive paper and interviews executed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in 1986. Collection includes photographs of stone cutting and stonework in the Bluegrass region.


Galloway, Ewing, 1881-1953 (Sc 2502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Galloway, Ewing, 1881-1953 (Sc 2502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2502. Correspondence of Ewing Galloway, a native of Henderson, Kentucky and the owner of a photography agency in New York City, with Mary Marks, a geography professor at Western Kentucky University, related to a gift of photographs made to the Kentucky Library & Museum at WKU. Also includes clippings, chiefly related to Galloway’s return to Henderson, Kentucky and the gift to WKU.


Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1880), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1880), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1880. Diary kept by Nancy Disher Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky of a sabbatical semester spent traveling and researching in southern Africa.


Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives Jan 2009

Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small collections of personal papers and oral histories relating to the Western Kentucky University.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs Aug 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


Ua99/7 Tour Of Bu-Related Sites & Hangouts, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel, Wku Archives, Wku Publications Jan 2001

Ua99/7 Tour Of Bu-Related Sites & Hangouts, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel, Wku Archives, Wku Publications

WKU Archives Records

Map of Bowling Green, Kentucky with inset of downtown area 15th to 2nd Street and Center to High Streets showing the location of various buildings for the period 1935 through 1963. These include restaurants, boarding houses, theatres and other establishments frequented by BU students. A list of establishments is provided along with the location and the establishment in that location in 2001.


Place, Disease And Mortality: Trimble County, Kentucky 1849-1894, Nancy Demaree May 2000

Place, Disease And Mortality: Trimble County, Kentucky 1849-1894, Nancy Demaree

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This researcher describes the characteristics of place...physical, cultural and human...of a small Kentucky county and looks at the incidence of disease and dying that occurred in that place in the last half of the nineteenth century. The impact of death on particular subsets of the general population was given a closer evaluation. Very young, females and the slave/Black communities were investigated individually. The overall site and situation of all aspects of Trimble County, Kentucky were viewed in an effort to support the notion that it is the manner in which man interacts with this environment that causes disease and death …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1983

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

  • Albin, Bettye. John Dryden's Criticism: The Neglected Link
  • Allen, Christopher. Martial Reflections: Ancient Cultures and Their War-Gods
  • Case, Laura. Climatic Preference
  • Deller, Kathy. Regression Analysis: The Effects of Advertising, Price, Income and Import Sales on American-Made Auto Sales
  • Downing, Elizabeth. Dorothy Leigh Sayers: Detective of Literary Theory in The Mind of the Maker
  • Elder, Janice. A Retrospective Study on Discharge Planning and Primiparas at Breckinridge Memorial
  • Flora, Joan. Narcissism and the Need for …


Ua12/2/1 November Magazine, Wku Student Affairs Nov 1979

Ua12/2/1 November Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special edition of the College Heights Herald includes articles:

  • Morris, Ken. Bugtussle & Beyond
  • Carpenter, Steve. Through the Eye’s Mind – George Wedding
  • Marguerita Beltran: The Final Frames
  • Judd, Alan. Jimmy Feix: Success Doesn’t Always Mean Winning Games


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1978

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

Papers representative of the variety of scholarly research conducted at WKU.

  • Adams, Kathy. The Appalachian Language
  • Barnett, Philip. A Study of Deviant Behavior of XYY Individuals in Regard to Environment and Genotype
  • Bell, Brooks. Loving, Loyal Linda Loman: An Interpretive Note
  • Danhauer, Janice. Motivating Workers Through Job Design
  • Davis, Barbara. The Transformation of a Man into a Man of Understanding in Murinbata Society
  • Davis, Diane. The Argot of the Homosexual
  • Jewell, Teresa. The Life Story of the Hero of World War I - Sergeant Alvin C. York
  • Lanham, Wayne. Das Knarrenschiff and a Ship of Fools: A Study in Influence …


A Statistical & Cartographic Analysis Of The Size-Distribution Of Retail Grocery Stores In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Luke Hall May 1975

A Statistical & Cartographic Analysis Of The Size-Distribution Of Retail Grocery Stores In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Luke Hall

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate the spatial distribution of retail grocery stores in Bowling Green, Kentucky using the formal element of store size as a controlling theme. This purpose was behaviorally accomplished through a cartographic analysis of the city wide arrangement and a statistical analysis measuring the degree and intensity of selected variables. A survey of pertinent literature was undertaken to discover locational trends and to uncover sixteen specific variables suggested to provide association with grocery store distribution. One general and six specific hypotheses were presented! all were rejected. The cartographic displays did, however, yield promising similarities …


Logging In The Upper Cumberland River Valley: A Folk Industry, Steven Schulman May 1973

Logging In The Upper Cumberland River Valley: A Folk Industry, Steven Schulman

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to examine the logging industry found along, the upper Cumberland River from the 1870s to the 1930s. Because the industry was very much a part of the economic lifeblood of the people of the region, the study will focus upon the loggers and raftsmen who worked with the timber. Any attempt to describe the lumber business alone would be futile due to the nature of the industry. It is impossible to separate the logging industry of the Cumberland from the general folk life of the area, because of the involvement of the people in …


Geographical Analysis Of The State-Administered Roads In Kentucky, 1920 To 1970, Sudesh Singla Dec 1972

Geographical Analysis Of The State-Administered Roads In Kentucky, 1920 To 1970, Sudesh Singla

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

There are several problems in the study of the growth and analysis of roads and highways. The first purpose of the study is to determine the stages of expansion in the State Highway System of Kentucky with respect to the density and the types of roads in Kentucky. A comparison has been made with other states of the nation with regards to percentage of roads paved and the total road mileage during the same stages.

The second purpose of the study is to determine the structure of growth, locational pattern of roads and major nodal points. The third purpose of …


Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 2 – The Sociology Of The Elderly, Wku Sociology Apr 1969

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 2 – The Sociology Of The Elderly, Wku Sociology

WKU Archives Records

Table of Contents:

  • Ahsan, S. Reza. The Ecological Distribution of the Elderly in the Florida Counties
  • Albrecht, Ruth E. Pre-Retirement Training in the United States
  • Beard, Belle Boone. Longevity & Fertility: A Study of Centenarians
  • Ellison, David L. Will to Live: A Link Between Social Structure & Health Among the Elderly
  • Gray, Robert M. & Josephine M. Kasteler. An Investigation of the Effects of the Involuntary Relocation on the Health of Older Persons
  • Guemple, D. Lee. Human Resource Management: The Dilemma of the Aging Eskimo
  • Harper, D. Wood Jr. & Joseph M. Garza. Ethnicity, Family Generational Structure & Intergenerational Solidarity …


Ua12/8 Traffic & Parking Program, Wku Police, Wilbur Smith & Associates Jan 1967

Ua12/8 Traffic & Parking Program, Wku Police, Wilbur Smith & Associates

WKU Archives Records

Chapters 4 thru 7 of a parking and traffic planning report by Wilbur Smith & Associates, includes data on enrollment, available parking spaces, maps and recommendations for future parking lots.

  • Chapter 4 - Future University Growth & Parking Considerations
  • Chapter 5 - Recommended Traffic & Parking Program
  • Chapter 6 - Economic Analysis of the Parking Program
  • Chapter 7 - Administrative & Policy Considerations


Ua3/3/1 General Area Map - Jonesville Project Area - Scheme 1, Scruggs & Hammond Jan 1963

Ua3/3/1 General Area Map - Jonesville Project Area - Scheme 1, Scruggs & Hammond

WKU Archives Records

General Area Map, Jonesville Project Area, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Scheme I, scale 1" = 800" by Scruggs & Hammond of Lexington, Kentucky, nd, 1 sheet, 11 1/2" x 12". The map is oriented looking northward. The boundaries are the L&N railroad on the northeast, 14th Street on the North, US31W By-pass on the west and Maryland & Woodland Streets on the south.

The map was filed with documents dating from 1961-1965. The agreement allowing WKU's acquisition of the Jonesville property is dated 1963.


Ua3/3/1 Unnamed Map Of Wku & Jonesville Property, Unknown Jan 1963

Ua3/3/1 Unnamed Map Of Wku & Jonesville Property, Unknown

WKU Archives Records

Unnamed map by unknown cartographer of Western Kentucky University and Jonesville property to be acquired through urban renewal, 1 sheet, 22" x 15". Legend includes existing and proposed buildings and proposed streets. The map is oriented to the southwest. The boundaries are 14th Street on the northeast, Chestnut & State Street and Normal Drive on the east, University Drive on the southwest, the L&N railroad on the north and US68 on the northwest.

The map was filed with documents dating from 1961-1965. The agreement allowing WKU's acquisition of the Jonesville property is dated 1963.


Ua3/3/1 Unnamed Map Of Wku & Jonesville Property, Unknown Jan 1963

Ua3/3/1 Unnamed Map Of Wku & Jonesville Property, Unknown

WKU Archives Records

Unnamed map by unknown cartographer of Western Kentucky University and Jonesville property to be acquired through urban renewal, 1 sheet, 22" x 14 1/2". No legend. Dates and numbers have been written in the Jonesville lots. The map is oriented to the southwest. The boundaries are 14th Street on the northeast, Chestnut & State Street and Normal Drive on the east, University Drive on the southwest, the L&N railroad on the north and US68 on the northwest.

The map was filed with documents dating from 1961-1965. The agreement allowing WKU's acquisition of the Jonesville property is dated 1963.


Ua3/3/1 Unnamed Map Of Wku & Jonesville Property, Unknown Jan 1963

Ua3/3/1 Unnamed Map Of Wku & Jonesville Property, Unknown

WKU Archives Records

Unnamed map by unknown cartographer of Western Kentucky University and Jonesville property to be acquired through urban renewal, 1 sheet, 23 1/2" x 15". There is no legend. The map is oriented to the southwest. The boundaries are 14th Street on the northeast, Chestnut & State Street and Normal Drive on the east, University Drive on the southwest, the L&N railroad on the north and US68 on the northwest.

The map was filed with documents dating from 1961-1965. The agreement allowing WKU's acquisition of the Jonesville property is dated 1963.


Ua30/1/1 Contour Map, Western Kentucky State College, Johnson, Depp & Quisenberry Jun 1960

Ua30/1/1 Contour Map, Western Kentucky State College, Johnson, Depp & Quisenberry

WKU Archives Records

Map of WKU campus, 55" x 31"

Legend: Contour Map Western Kentucky State College, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Scale 1" = 100'
June 1960
Prepared by Johnson, Depp & Quisenberry Consulting Engineers, Owensboro, KY.

Boundaries - Louisville & Nashville Railroad on north, 14th Street on east, Normal Boulevard on south and approximate location of University Boulevard on west.

Includes good representation of the African American community Jonesville north of Old Russellville Road, indicating the location of homes and other buildings.

Campus features obsolete items such as the railroad spur to the Heating Plant, Rock House, Diddle Dormitory, Home Economics Building, Ogden …