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Bennett, Katelyn Shane, B. 2000 (Fa 1416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2024

Bennett, Katelyn Shane, B. 2000 (Fa 1416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1416. Audio interviews by WKU student Katelyn Bennett of members of the Fountain Square Players, a theater group in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Two of the interviews include transcripts, and three include an index/log. Also includes Bennett’s brief reflection on the project.


Anderson, Kindle Mackenzie, B. 2002 (Fa 1415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2024

Anderson, Kindle Mackenzie, B. 2002 (Fa 1415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1415. Audio interviews by WKU student Kindle Anderson with two former students of Union High School, an African-American High school in Gallatin, Tennessee. The informants discuss race relations, athletics and other school activities, and the community at large. One interview includes a transcript, and the other includes an index/log. Also includes Anderson’s brief reflection on the project.


Cox, Cori Anne, B. 1998 (Fa 1418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2024

Cox, Cori Anne, B. 1998 (Fa 1418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1418. Audio interviews by WKU student Cori Cox of current and past employees and volunteers at the Simpson County (Kentucky) Historical Society regarding its role in the community, various projects, fundraising, history, museum and archive. Two of the interviews include transcripts, and two include an index/log.


Thompson, Cassidy Hope, B. 2002 (Fa 1424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2024

Thompson, Cassidy Hope, B. 2002 (Fa 1424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1424. Audio interviews by WKU student Cassidy Thompson of her grandmother Elisabeth Martin, who discusses her ancestry and family, her childhood in Brazil, and her emigration to and life in the United States. Includes a transcript for one interview and an index/log for the second interview.


Thompson, Madisyn Faith, B. 2002 (Fa 1425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2024

Thompson, Madisyn Faith, B. 2002 (Fa 1425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1425. Audio interviews by WKU student Madisyn Thompson of informants who discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their lives and their work at an assisted living center, a restaurant, and a preschool. One interview includes a transcript, and two include an index/log.


Houchens, Dylan Thomas, B. 1996 (Fa 1419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2024

Houchens, Dylan Thomas, B. 1996 (Fa 1419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1419. Audio interviews by WKU student Dylan Houchens concerning the history of White Plains Baptist Church, Allen County, Kentucky. Two of the interviews include transcripts, and two include an index/log.


Gerard Undertakers, Bowling Green, Kentucky - Mt. Moriah Cemetery - Record Of Lots (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2024

Gerard Undertakers, Bowling Green, Kentucky - Mt. Moriah Cemetery - Record Of Lots (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Scan of Box 12, Folder 2, Manuscripts Collection 577. This is a record book of F. C. Gerard, Undertaker (later Gerard & Gerard), Bowling Green, Kentucky, recording lots in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, an African-American cemetery in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Entries show names by lot and section number of persons buried in the cemetery’s "old" and "new" ground as well as inside and outside "the circle."


Gerard Undertakers, Bowling Green, Kentucky - Funeral Register, 1888-1890 (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2024

Gerard Undertakers, Bowling Green, Kentucky - Funeral Register, 1888-1890 (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Scan of Box 12, Folder 1, Manuscripts Collection 577. This is a record book of funerals, 1888-1890, arranged by F. C. Gerard, Undertaker (later Gerard & Gerard), Bowling Green, Kentucky. Information recorded commonly includes name of deceased, date of death and burial, residence, place of burial, age, cause of death, and race.


Ua94/6 Pershing Rifles Company B, 3rd Regiment Reunion Album, Stewart Wade Aug 2024

Ua94/6 Pershing Rifles Company B, 3rd Regiment Reunion Album, Stewart Wade

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Reunion album created by Stewart Wade for the 2024 Pershing Rifles & Rebelettes reunion.


Larkins, Sovern John, B. 1928 (Sc 3733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2024

Larkins, Sovern John, B. 1928 (Sc 3733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3733. Letters, 1947-1948, to Sovern John Larkins, Princeton, Kentucky, written during his U.S. Army service with American occupation forces in post-World War II Japan. A fellow servicemen describes conditions on his return home to Louisville, Kentucky and his wife’s reaction to his news that he dated a Japanese girl; his mother sends a Christmas card; a Princeton pastor expresses his good wishes; and a former classmate from the University of Kentucky sends greetings. Includes a photograph of four unidentified servicemen, and additional data about Larkins supplied by his daughter, 2024.


Thompson, Archibald, 1736-1808 (Sc 3730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2024

Thompson, Archibald, 1736-1808 (Sc 3730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3730. Journal of Archibald Thompson, a native of Ireland and a Revolutionary War veteran. He records many family births and marriages, his own family’s various relocations in Virginia and in Monroe (formerly Cumberland) County, Kentucky, and miscellaneous accounts and transactions. Includes a typescript and name index prepared by Sandra K. Gorin under the title “The Archibald Thompson Journal" (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan, made available with her permission).


Young, John Ellis, 1943-2013 (Sc 3732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2024

Young, John Ellis, 1943-2013 (Sc 3732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3732. Genealogy, with narrative elements, of the Rowan family of Kentucky, prepared by John Ellis Young. Includes a letter to Randall Capps explaining the genealogy and referring to Capps’s own work, The Rowan Story: From Federal Hill to My Old Kentucky Home.


Boone Family Letters (Sc 3731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2024

Boone Family Letters (Sc 3731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3731. Two letters, 1873 and 1908, from members of the Boone family of Louisville, Kentucky. William P. Boone writes his wife from Laconia, Indiana concerning a family farm, and Samuel H. Boone writes a cousin giving sources for discovering the literary work of his grandfather, John M. Harney.


Hayes, Eugenia Mary (Blakey), 1905-1992 (Mss 764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2024

Hayes, Eugenia Mary (Blakey), 1905-1992 (Mss 764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 764. Primarily genealogical research collected by Eugenia Hayes on her ancestors in the Blakey, King, Morris, Cowherd and related families.


Hodges, Mary J. "Mollie" (Sc 3727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2024

Hodges, Mary J. "Mollie" (Sc 3727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3727. Letters of Mollie Hodges, Hart County, Kentucky, to her future husband Ambrose King, written during his Civil War U.S. Army service. She mourns their separation, mentions the Confederate presence near Burkesville, and recalls her visit to him in camp, where she found him in a sad state of mind. Distressed by his mood, she is anxious to keep up their correspondence.


Memorial High School - Hart County, Kentucky (Sc 3729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2024

Memorial High School - Hart County, Kentucky (Sc 3729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3729. Directory of graduates, 1920-1969, of Memorial High School, located between Hardyville and Canmer in Hart County, Kentucky.


Hayes, Eugenia Mary (Blakey), 1905-1992 (Sc 3728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2024

Hayes, Eugenia Mary (Blakey), 1905-1992 (Sc 3728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3728. “A History of Old Gilead Church House,” by Eugenia Blakey Hayes, prepared for the church’s one-hundredth anniversary, 1860-1960.


Stringfellow, Jessie Eleanor, 1904-1980 (Sc 3726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2024

Stringfellow, Jessie Eleanor, 1904-1980 (Sc 3726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3726. Letter, 26 December 1926, to Jessie Stringfellow, Nashville, Tennessee, from “Boots.” He recounts his efforts to locate her during a visit to town, asks about recent flooding in Nashville, and describes a pin given to his girlfriend. He writes on letterhead of the Green River Fuel Company Incorporated, Mogg, Kentucky. The reverse provides information about the company and its product, “Green River Coal.”


Oetzel, Virgil Donaphin, 1911-1998 (Sc 3725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2024

Oetzel, Virgil Donaphin, 1911-1998 (Sc 3725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3725. “Virgil Oetzel: HIs Life & Times in the Kentucky Hills,” a memoir by Virgil Oetzel. The Campbell County, Kentucky native recalls his family, childhood, activities and pastimes, farm work, schooling, church, memorable local personalities, the Depression years, marriage and children, encounters with hoboes, and a deep-sea fishing trip to Florida.


George Washington Carver Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

George Washington Carver Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3720. Miscellaneous material relating to the George Washington Carver Club, Bowling Green, Kentucky, founded by Ashula P. Williams and her daughter Dolores (Williams) Moses to serve local children. Includes children’s activity plans; meeting agendas and budgets; and workshop invitations.


Petition - State Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Petition - State Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3723. Petition signed by property owners and residents in the vicinity of the 100 block of State Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky, opposing the proposed rezoning of land at 130-134 State Street from a light industrial to a heavy industrial district for use as an auto body and repair shop.


County Of Warren Public Judiciary Corporation - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

County Of Warren Public Judiciary Corporation - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3722. Articles of incorporation and minutes of one meeting of the County of Warren Public Judiciary Corporation, a non-profit corporation acting as agent for Warren County, Kentucky, in the planning and development of new judicial and correctional facilities. Includes a letter to a Louisville, Kentucky architectural firm inviting a proposal for the project.


Moses Family Papers (Mss 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Moses Family Papers (Mss 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 763. Personal papers of the Moses family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and of related Covington and Williams family members. Includes some materials relating to the Southern Queen Hotel, operated by the families to serve African American guests from 1945-1975.


Ladies Art Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Ladies Art Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 762. Minute books of the Ladies Art Club, an African-American women’s club in Bowling Green, Kentucky, whose objectives included social and charitable activities and annual exhibits of sewing work.


Dent, Emory Gleason, 1878-1945 (Sc 3724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Dent, Emory Gleason, 1878-1945 (Sc 3724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3724. Clippings, telegrams of sympathy to his widow, and funeral flower list relating to the death on 19 April 1945 of Bowling Green, Kentucky druggist, businessman and public servant Emory G. Dent.


Royal Knights - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Royal Knights - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3721. Minute book of the Royal Knights, a men’s auxiliary club for the State Street Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Lost River Cave Oral History Project (Fa 1414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Lost River Cave Oral History Project (Fa 1414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1414. Recorded interviews with 16 informants regarding their memories of the nightclub operated at Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Lost River Cave.


Winstead, Sara C. (Fa 1413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Winstead, Sara C. (Fa 1413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1413. “The Shaker Chair,” a paper written by Sara Winstead for a WKU folk studies class.


Simmons, Mary Jean (Fa 1412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Simmons, Mary Jean (Fa 1412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1412. “Shaker Music as a Genre of Folk Music,” a paper written by Jean Simmons for a WKU folk studies class.


Minton Family Papers (Mss 761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2024

Minton Family Papers (Mss 761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 761. Primarily personal correspondence of John Dean Minton, a Trigg County, Kentucky native who served as fifth president of Western Kentucky University, his father John Ernest Minton and brother Layton Wilson Minton.