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Mayes Family Papers (Sc 2153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2153. Miscellaneous materials, primarily deeds and recording clerks' certificates, relating to the Mayes family of Barren County, Kentucky and associated families. Includes Memorial Day gravesite photo and 1903 school program. Also includes Civil War soldier's letter written from Davidson County, Tennessee, 16 March 1862 (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

Eunice Barnes Harris

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 33, January 14, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Knight Commission Company (Sc 2154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2154. Letter from Knight Commission Company, Louisville, Kentucky, to Emerson Nale, Salem, Indiana, soliciting consignments of livestock and quoting market prices for steers, cows, "bologna bulls," calves, hogs, sheep and lambs.

Avery, James Russell, 1921-2018 (Sc 2128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2128. "My Story," the autobiography of James Russell Avery, a Hardin County native, prepared as a project of WKU gerontology student Shaylin Gimborys. Includes illustrations and genealogical information on the Avery family.

Westerfield, William P., 1835-1916 (Sc 2139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Microfilm copy of professional diaries kept by Westerfield, a Rochester, Kentucky physician, for 1895, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1908 and 1910-1915. The diaries record weather conditions and local fires as well as births, marriages, deaths, accidents, illnesses and surgery in which Westerfield was professionally involved. Includes a typescript with biographical information, description of the diaries, and listings of the births, marriages, deaths, operations, accidents, illnesses and fires recorded therein.

Manley Collection (Sc 2146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2146. Undertaking account book, undertaker's licenses (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans), and other related items from the Philip R. Manley & Brother Funeral Home in Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky.

Martin Family Papers (Sc 2152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2152. Letters, receipts, legal documents, bills, and notes of the Elbridge G. Martin family of Allen County, Kentucky. A number of the items relate to the settlement of the Benjamin Pulliam estate.

Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2147. Paper: "Jennie Green: Portrait of a Progressive Kentucky Woman" written by Karen Wolford for a Western Kentucky University history class.

Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2145. Three letters regarding the Civil War pension of Ansel Wilson, Grayson County, Kentucky, who served with the 17th Kentucky Infantry (Union).

Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2148. Letters (2) written to George A Brown, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee, from two friends serving overseas during World War II; one was in Germany and the other was in the Pacific.

Interview No. 1504, John Romero

Paso del Norte Entrepreneurship Oral History Project

John Romero got his start in his father’s tax preparation office when he was in the 7th grade. By the age of 14, John and his other siblings would assist their father with tax return preparation. After graduating from Cathedral High School, John worked at a Safeway grocery store, working his way up to different positions within the store. During this time, John and his siblings continued to help their father at his tax business during tax season from January until April. John would work at Safeway, then work at the commissary part time and attend The University of Texas …

Prescient Pacifists, William Vance Trollinger

History Faculty Publications

Reviews of two books:

• Patricia Applebaum, Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era.
• Joseph Kosek, Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy.

The Enlightenment has bequeathed us — Americans more than anyone else — the conviction that history is a story of progress. Such a notion seems ludicrous when one considers the violence of the contemporary world. As the British historian Eric Hobsbawm observes in his brilliant work The Age of Extremes, the 20th century "was without doubt the most murderous century of which we have record, both by the scale, …

Interview No. 1336, Jose Bujanda

Combined Interviews

Mr. Bujanda education was limited to the third grade because he had to help his father harvest crops; he started working at a very young age in his father’s corn field, his duties included irrigating, planting seeds and harvesting corn; at the age of 15 Mr. Bujanda traveled to Hermosillo to harvest cotton, soon after he traveled to Sonora where he was working as a tractor operator; before becoming a Bracero in 1959, Mr. Bujanda was working as a chauffeur and to this day that is his permanent job; Mr. Bujanda’s first Bracero experience was in Caléxico, California where he …

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 32, January 11, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2131. Receipt book kept by George Mitchell, deputy clerk of the Warren County Court [Kentucky]; entries list amount paid to record deeds and to copy deeds, mortgages, and other documents. Payments were also received by C.E. Blewett, clerk.

Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2138. Copies of clippings from a late-nineteenth century Warren County, Kentucky scrapbook, probably kept by a member of Moates's family. Includes obituaries, poems, recipes, and essays.

Williams, Louis P., 1910-1937 (Sc 2143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2143. Paper titled: "Slavery in the Presbyterian Church" written for the class "History of the Lower South." Mr. Williams attended Western Kentucky State Teachers College from 1928 to 1933 and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, 1933.

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2142. Typed biography titled "Julia Neal," which discusses the professional career of Mary Julia Neal (7 p.); two oral interviews with Neal conducted by Watkins which discuss Neal's career and particularly her work related to the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky; photocopy of Neal's first article on the South Union Shakers in 1926 also included.

Middleswarth, Victoria (Sc 2129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2129. Abridged index compiled from Shaker Record A, 1804-1836; Shaker Record B, 1836-1864; and Journal of the North and East Families, 1888-1897, for a "Lunchtime Learning" program about Shaker food held at the Kentucky Library & Museum, Western Kentucky University.

Bowling Green High School - Reunions, 1960 (Sc 2150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2150. Correspondence related to the 1960 reunion of the Bowling Green High School class of 1940. The letters were chiefly written to one of the organizing committee members, Frances (Robinson) Russell of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a list of class members.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 16, January 11, 2010, Grand Valley State University

2009-2010, Volume 34

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Athletes In Confessional Mode, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

What is it about the media, and by implication, the public, that we seem to require a public confessional from our fallen heroes and icons? As I watched some of the Mark McGwire interview with Bob Costas I wondered if it had started with McGwire looking at the floor and saying, "Forgive me Bobby, for I have sinned." I trust it did not, even though it might have added to the ambiance.

Fannie Lee Bailey

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2141), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2141. Oral interviews done with Appalachian writer Verna Mae Slone in which she discusses her life, her family, and her writing. Slone was a dollmaker, quilter, and quintessential storyteller.

Morris, Hiram Chesterfield, 1880-1949 (Sc 2124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2124. Legal papers, chiefly deeds and mortgages, related to land transfers among the Mitchell, Buckner, and Morris families of Simpson and Warren Counties. Also includes genealogical information concerning the Buckner, Morris, and Hegewald families.

War On Modern Music And Music In Modern War: Voelkischer Beobachter Reception Of 20th Century Composers, David B. Dennis

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Recent scholarship on Nazi music policy pays little attention to the main party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, or comparable publications for the general public. Most work concentrates on publications Nazis targeted at expert audiences, in this case music journals. To think our histories of Nazi music politics are complete without comprehensive analysis of the party daily is premature. One learns from this resource precisely what Nazi propagandists wanted average party members and Germans in general, not just top-level officials and scholars, to think—even about music. Therein, we see how contributors placed a Nazi “spin” on music history and composer’s …

Albert Alston

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Gray, John H. (Sc 2136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2136. Typewritten paper by John H. Gray, "Brief History of the Coal Industry in Western Kentucky and West Kentucky Coal Company." Includes a 1963 clipping relating to Gray's son.

Man O'War (Sc 2137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Mansucripts Small Collection 2137 and image attached as an additional file. Commemorative envelope in "Kings of Sport" series portraying Man O'War, postmarked Lexington, Kentucky, March 29, 1975. Includes horse racing postage stamp and information sheet on Man O'War.