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Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2044), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2044), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Cassette Tape 2044. Interview with Mary Julia Neal conducted by Sheryl D. Reed on 28 April 1992 in which Neal discusses her work at the Kentucky Building at WKU and her Shaker research and publications.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2045. Interview with Deedy Hall conducted by Sheryl D. Reed in November 1991 in which Hall discusses Shakers in general, her work with the Shaker Museum at Auburn, Kentucky and her life-long relationship with Mary Julia Neal.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2046. Interview with Mary Julia Neal conducted by Sheryl D. Reed on 5 November 1991 in which Neal discusses her family and early life in Auburn, Kentucky, her education, and her early teaching career
Bush, Elkanah Turner, 1832-1900 (Mss 667), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bush, Elkanah Turner, 1832-1900 (Mss 667), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans of scrapbooks (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 667. Account book kept by Elkanah Turner Bush for a grocery/general store in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Subsequently the account book was used by John D. Read of Sumner County, Tennessee to record information about his Sumner County, Tennessee farm.
Todd, Theophilus Law, 1841-1963 (Sc 3435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Todd, Theophilus Law, 1841-1963 (Sc 3435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3435. Letter, 19-21 September 1862, from Theophilus L. Todd to his sister Agnes Jane Todd. Camped near Louisville, Kentucky while serving with the 93rd Ohio Infantry, Todd thanks her for a package of food and clothing. He describes his surroundings and camp life, including the friendly reception the troops received in Louisville and competition between the camp sutler and local women in the sale of foodstuffs. He also writes critically of the behavior of Brigadier General James S. Jackson during a lengthy and tiresome review of the brigade.
Account Books - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Account Books - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 666. Two account books for mercantile establishments in Barren County, Kentucky. One, 1832-1833, contains accounts for what is believed to be a general store. The other, 1902-1903, is believed to be an account book for the South Kentucky Oil Company which was selling items such as coal, kerosene, cement, and other oil field products.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Ct 2043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Ct 2043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Cassette Tape 2043. Recording of a presentation made by Mary Julia Neal titled “Reflections of a Former Director” in which Neal discusses her role as the Director of the Kentucky Building from 1964 to 1972. She discusses the condition of the building and collections when she came and some of the collections she helped acquire. This presentation was part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Kentucky Building, which opened in 1939. Kentucky Museum Education Curator Dianne Watkins provides an introduction.
Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Mss 668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Mss 668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 668. Research, correspondence and manuscripts of WKU English faculty member Charles Snow Guthrie regarding the history of Freemasonry in Kentucky. Includes some business records relating to Guthrie’s farm in Cumberland County, Kentucky.
Mcbride, John Randolph, 1841-1912 (Sc 3433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcbride, John Randolph, 1841-1912 (Sc 3433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3433. Letter, 1 May 1862, of John R. McBride to Lucas F. Smith, Bluffton, Indiana. Serving with the 33rd Indiana Volunteers, McBride describes the march from Lexington, Kentucky to their present encampment near Cumberland Ford on the Cumberland River, and the current command structure. He asks about Bluffton’s young women and lightheartedly complains about the absence of eggs from his diet. He also recalls his fortunes after leaving Bluffton, which included a year of homesickness and then enlistment for service in order to return home “with …
Carleton, William Mckendree, 1845-1912 (Sc 3432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carleton, William Mckendree, 1845-1912 (Sc 3432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3432. Typescripted excerpt from Will Carleton’s narrative poem, “First Settler’s Story,” first published in 1881, as recited in March 1895 by Berta M. Morton.
Witherspoon, Lister, 1848-1925 (Sc 3431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Witherspoon, Lister, 1848-1925 (Sc 3431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3431. Letters to William Simpson, New York City, from Lister Witherspoon, proprietor of Glenartney Farms, Versailles, Kentucky, with proposals for horse breeding and sales. He discusses pedigrees, prices, and recent foals. One letterhead also lists Witherspoon as the president of Lexington Roller Mills Company, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky.
Edwards, John, 1748-1837 (Sc 3417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edwards, John, 1748-1837 (Sc 3417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3417. Letter, 12 December 1824, of John Edwards, Lexington, Kentucky to George W. Williams, Paris, Kentucky. The former U.S. senator offers to discuss the terms on which Williams is to hire out slaves for Edwards’s factory business, but declines his request to train them in cigar-making. He also reports on his law studies, his hopes for financial success, and on a recent visit to Frankfort, Kentucky, where he found state legislators to be “mere factionists,” “without intelligence, without principle, dignity, [or] virtue.”
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Letters To (Sc 3429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Letters To (Sc 3429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3429. Letters to WKU faculty member Frances Richards, written by various WKU colleagues both before and after her retirement. Presidents Henry Hardin Cherry and Dero Downing express their esteem and friendship; Earl A. Moore and Josephine (Cherry) Lowman write thank-you notes (the latter’s includes the text of an interview with her); history professor A. M. Stickles invites her to a dinner; and Gayle Carver writes mostly of the health of retired art professor Ivan Wilson.
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1881-1941 - Relating To (Sc 3425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1881-1941 - Relating To (Sc 3425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3425. Notes by an unidentified individual of an interview of author Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Apparently sent to WKU student Paul Wharton from Roberts’ home city of Springfield, Kentucky, the notes recount her comments on her novels The Time of Man and He Sent Forth a Raven, and on the title of her most recent book, Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair.
Odum, Daisy Dean, 1877-1969 (Sc 3426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Odum, Daisy Dean, 1877-1969 (Sc 3426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3426. Letter, 19 August 1961, to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from Daisy Odum. She recounts a ghost story from DeKalb County, Tennessee, involving her nephew and the reaction of his horse to the sight of a spectral figure.
Kentucky Heritage Commission - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 3430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Heritage Commission - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 3430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 3430. Letters and reports sent to Frances Richards, Franklin Kentucky, in her capacity as Simpson County representative for the Kentucky Heritage Commission’s Statewide Survey of Historic Sites. Includes letters explaining the project, completed survey forms documenting six historic buildings in Simpson County, and the Commission’s report of its major accomplishments for 1972-1973. Also includes a program on the history of the Kentucky Governor’s mansion, prepared by the Daughters of the American Revolution in opposition to a proposal to convert it to another use.
Wood, Mary Anne (Sc 3427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wood, Mary Anne (Sc 3427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3427. Letters to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards from former student Mary Anne Wood. She reports on her health, earning a master’s degree in 1970, and her work for Kentucky Educational Television.
Kentucky Sesquicentennial Commission (Sc 3424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Sesquicentennial Commission (Sc 3424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3424. Letter, 31 January 1941, to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from the Secretary of the Kentucky Sesquicentennial Commission, inviting her to a radio broadcast in Louisville, Kentucky featuring the Governor and Commission Chairman. The letterhead lists the Commission members.
Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 3428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 3428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3428. Letter to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from artist and Kentucky native Joe Downing, Paris, France, regretting his inability to see her during a 1962 visit to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes various notices and catalogs of Downing’s art exhibits.
Timmons, James Aloysia, 1836-1902 (Sc 3434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Timmons, James Aloysia, 1836-1902 (Sc 3434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3434. Letter, 18 March 1869, of James A. Timmons, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to A. T. Stewart. The struggling schoolmaster implores Stewart, a wealthy New York merchant and fellow native of Ireland, to help him save his home from judicial sale and support his vocation “instructing the poor Irish children of this place.” He anticipated repaying Stewart in three years out of the tuition from his American students and what little the Irish students can pay. He enclosed the notice of Commissioner’s sale of his house pursuant to …
Miner Family Letters (Sc 3410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miner Family Letters (Sc 3410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3410. Letter, 7 March 1849, of Selden Miner and his wife Maria of Wethersfield, Illinois (formerly of Wethersfield, Connecticut) to Selden’s brother Samuel S. Miner and his wife Araminta in Maysville, Kentucky. Hearing of their plan to visit Illinois, they warn that Selden has “Gold fever” and may depart for California. An enthusiastic Selden details the preparations being made by others in the community, but admits his wife’s lack of support and asks Samuel’s advice. A skeptical Maria doubts the wisdom of the plan for several reasons and fears it will ruin the …
Beeler, Andrew J., Jr., 1912-1998 (Sc 3418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beeler, Andrew J., Jr., 1912-1998 (Sc 3418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3418. Letters to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from A. J. Beeler, curriculum director for the Louisville, Kentucky public schools. A letter of 1 May 1946 encloses his list of recent Kentucky literature, and a letter of 3 January 1958 reports on his family and Christmas holiday. Includes his reviews of three books by Janice Holt Giles.
Rennick, Robert M., 1932-2010 (Sc 3419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rennick, Robert M., 1932-2010 (Sc 3419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) 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 …
Goodman, Julian Byrn, 1922-2012 (Sc 3420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Goodman, Julian Byrn, 1922-2012 (Sc 3420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3420. Letter, 12 September 1966, to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards from Julian Goodman, president of the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. The former student of Richards thanks her for attending his recent WKU commencement speech, praises her habit of maintaining correspondence with students, and remarks fondly on his days at WKU. He also promises to “try to give you more of those good dramatic programs you’d like to see.” Also includes a copy of a theme for Richards’ English class, apparently written by Goodman, that makes …
Schools - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 3423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Schools - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 3423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3423. Report of a joint meeting to discuss proposals to merge the Independent School District of Franklin, Kentucky and the Simpson County (Kentucky) School District. Matters considered include a joint budget, tax rate, facilities, and costs per pupil. Includes data on high school enrollment for 1939-1940. The report concludes with a decision to reject the merger.
Kentucky Historical Society - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 3422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Historical Society - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 3422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3422. Letters to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards, Franklin, Kentucky, from the Kentucky Historical Society. Most relate to Simpson County’s participation in ceremonies and programs commemorating the 175th anniversary of Kentucky statehood. Includes Governor Edward T. Breathitt’s proclamation and calendars of statewide events. Also includes 1958 letters with biographical data from Secretary-Treasurer Charles F. Hinds, delivered in advance of his speaking engagement at WKU.
Kentucky High School Speech League (Sc 3421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky High School Speech League (Sc 3421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3421. "Kentucky High School Speech League Bulletin," 24 January 1942, with a list of Kentucky literature, poetryand orations for use in speech festivals during Kentucky’s sesquicentennial celebrations; monograph titled “Kentucky Literature for Speech Contests,” possibly written by WKU faculty member Frances Richards, with suggested readings and commentary; and a 1947 bibliography of selections from Kentucky literature.
U.S. 31-W To Interstate 65 Connector Project (Mss 663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
U.S. 31-W To Interstate 65 Connector Project (Mss 663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 663. Reports, correspondence, and data related chiefly to Section 106 Review of the connector project which covered the project’s potential effects on historic resources within the area affected. This connector was proposed to allow easier access from the Kentucky Transpark in northern Warren County, Kentucky to Interstate 65.
Harrison, Lowell Hayes, 1922-2011 (Sc 3416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harrison, Lowell Hayes, 1922-2011 (Sc 3416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3416. Letters of WKU history professor Lowell Harrison to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards, Franklin, Kentucky. He writes of his activities, travel, publications, and the health of himself and his wife Penny. Includes a manuscript, “On His Majesty’s Service” regarding unrest in colonial America.
Stewart, Robert Lee, 1873-1963 (Sc 3415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stewart, Robert Lee, 1873-1963 (Sc 3415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3415. Letters, 30 May 1956 and 15 May 1957, to Mary Ellen Richards, Franklin, Kentucky, from Lee Stewart, Morehead, Kentucky. He encloses poems and song lyrics relating to Kentucky history, and comments on the Rowan County, Kentucky centennial celebrations. He also encloses his newspaper article about a Fayette County, Kentucky judge, legislator and poet.