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Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 717. Letter written to Margaret Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Beverly Mills Vincent, Washington, D.C. Vincent, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, thanks her for her letter in which she expressed her choice for the postmaster appointment to be filled in Bowling Green.


Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956 (Sc 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956 (Sc 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 716. Letter written to Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Otto Arthur Rothert, Louisville, Kentucky, in which he thanks her for a recent letter and invites her to visit him when she next comes to Louisville.


Halleck, Annie Jeanette (Ainslie), 1839-1915 (Sc 719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Halleck, Annie Jeanette (Ainslie), 1839-1915 (Sc 719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 719. Letter written to Bessie Oates, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Annie (Ainslie) Halleck, Louisville, Kentucky, replying to an inquiry for information for a research paper about her grandfather, Hew Ainslie.


Thomas, B. W. And Edward Davis (Sc 721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Thomas, B. W. And Edward Davis (Sc 721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 721. Writ of fi. fa., 1840, against the estate of B. W. Thomas and Edward Davis of McCracken County, Kentucky, for a debt owed to James Brown. Property sold at an auction included two enslaved persons.


Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 726. Letter to Frances Richards, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Dallas, Texas, an author and native of Bowling Green, stating that her publishers will send copies of two of her books for the Kentucky Library Collection. Also she relates her concern for the collection of textiles for the Kentucky Museum.


Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Sc 714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Sc 714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 714. Photocopy of letter written to J. Porter Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Courtney M. Ellis, Nashville, Tennessee, regarding mutual friends and their mutual interest in steamboating.


Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 718. Memoir of Learner B. Davison, a Methodist clergyman, originally of Grayson County, Kentucky, taken from the minutes of the 1898 Louisville Annual Conference; and a photocopy of a letter he wrote to a relative on the day he was killed by a train in Louisville, Kentucky, 29 June 1898.


Mather, Otis May, 1868-1950 (Sc 2609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Mather, Otis May, 1868-1950 (Sc 2609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2609. Photostat copy of a memorial to Valentine Cook, and a “Celebration of the Rise of Camp Meetings Beginning On Muddy River, Logan County, Ky.” Also includes a paper by Walter Irvin Munday, Russellville, Kentucky, titled “Logan County’s Contribution to Methodism” read at the Valentine Cook Celebration.


Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932 (Sc 723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932 (Sc 723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 723. Two letters written by Young Ewing Allison, journalist and author, Louisville, Kentucky, to Edward A. Jonas, editor, Louisville, thanking Jonas for his kind remarks.


Logan County, Kentucky - Surveys And Surveying (Sc 722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Logan County, Kentucky - Surveys And Surveying (Sc 722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 722. Photocopies of survey taken for 666 2/3 acres for George Washington in 1785 in Logan County, Kentucky, which he never claimed, and survey done for 1500 acres for one of his relatives, Burgess Ball, in 1796.


Patrons Of Husbandry Lodge #1372 - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Patrons Of Husbandry Lodge #1372 - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 712. Charter for the establishment of lodge #1372 of Patrons of Husbandry at Salome, Barren County, Kentucky.


Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 720. Letter written by Thomas Elliott Bramlette, Louisville, Kentucky, to President Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., concerning recommendation that Bramlette had made for a state political appointment which he wants disregarded as he has learned that the man recommended “is a radical of the negro suffrage and impeachment school.”


2012-09-10 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Sep 2012

2012-09-10 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter for September 10, 2012.


Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 07, September 10, 2012, Grand Valley State University Sep 2012

Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 07, September 10, 2012, Grand Valley State University

Volume 47, July 2, 2012 - June 3, 2013

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


Mr. Jerome (Coot) Weaver Sep 2012

Mr. Jerome (Coot) Weaver

African American Funeral Programs

Mr_Jerome--Coot--Weaver.pdf - Funeral program for Jerome Weaver


Effie Rebecca Williams Burns Sep 2012

Effie Rebecca Williams Burns

African American Funeral Programs

Ellie_Rebecca_Williams_Burns.pdf - Funeral program for Effie Rebecca Williams Burns. Service held on September 8, 2012 in Register, Georgia


Alma Mercer Donaldson Sep 2012

Alma Mercer Donaldson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Leroy "Pete" Byrd Sep 2012

Leroy "Pete" Byrd

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


William "Red" G. Johnson, Sr. Sep 2012

William "Red" G. Johnson, Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2598. Letters from artist Joseph Dudley Downing, France, to Elinor Green (later Hunter), who worked for the United States State Department in Bern, Switzerland. They discuss their shared interest in art and discuss upcoming visits. Also includes letters from Joseph’s brother, Dero Downing, to Green discussing the possibility of donating artwork to Western Kentucky University.


Romney Fights Cold War, Obama Fights Not To Overreach, Nicholas Hayes Sep 2012

Romney Fights Cold War, Obama Fights Not To Overreach, Nicholas Hayes

University Chair in Critical Thinking Publications

No abstract provided.


Nina Bell Johnson Sep 2012

Nina Bell Johnson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Memories Of Fred Meijer, Delivered At Millenium Park On September 6, 2012, Arend D. Lubbers Sep 2012

Memories Of Fred Meijer, Delivered At Millenium Park On September 6, 2012, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Memories of Fred Meijer, delivered at Millenium Park on September 6, 2012 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.


Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2594. Miscellaneous letters to Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and to family members. Includes notecards and a postcard with Shaker themes. Also includes a letter to Jane Helm from a friend regarding rooming together in college, and a speech by Margie Helm on the early history of the Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church.


Reid, Josephine Rogers (Rowan), 1838-1911 (Sc 2593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Reid, Josephine Rogers (Rowan), 1838-1911 (Sc 2593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2593. Letters of Josephine Rogers (Rowan) Reid, written from Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky to a friend, “Mary.” She writes in 1860 of treatment for an injured foot and an offer of marriage; reacts to Mary’s marriage to a Mr. Keating, notes the anniversary of her brother John’s death, and reports on her brother Lytle’s Civil War service in 1863; and writes of her own marriage and forthcoming move to New Orleans in 1865.


Curating And Commemorating The City: Research, Oral History, And Mobile Publishing, David Braunlich, Gabriella Halligan-Taylor, Kelsey Smith Sep 2012

Curating And Commemorating The City: Research, Oral History, And Mobile Publishing, David Braunlich, Gabriella Halligan-Taylor, Kelsey Smith

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Our research team recorded, analyzed, processed, and extracted digital clips from more than 50 oral history interviews in support of two major centennials--those of Shaker Heights and the West Side Market. They learned important historical skills while working in a dynamic team and contributing to a major public and digital history project.


The Fourteenth Century Meets The Twenty-First: An Engaged Learning Experience In Historical Geography, Monica L. Ward Sep 2012

The Fourteenth Century Meets The Twenty-First: An Engaged Learning Experience In Historical Geography, Monica L. Ward

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Our goal was to develop an application that would enable students to use the Map Walk to “walk” through world traveler Ibn Battuta’s itinerary of his trips throughout the Muslim world between 1325 and 1354. On the day of the Map Walk, students will be able to use their smart phones to access the blogs and follow Ibn Battuta on his travels around the world.


The Grizzly, September 6, 2012, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Larissa Coyne, Rosemary Clark, Austin Fox, Amanda Frekot, David Marino, Emerson Miles Hawkins, Alexa Lamontagne, Rayleen Rivera-Harbach, Michael Klazas, Courtney Scott, Kyu Chul Shin, Chris Rountree, Samantha Salomon, Jordan Demcher Sep 2012

The Grizzly, September 6, 2012, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Larissa Coyne, Rosemary Clark, Austin Fox, Amanda Frekot, David Marino, Emerson Miles Hawkins, Alexa Lamontagne, Rayleen Rivera-Harbach, Michael Klazas, Courtney Scott, Kyu Chul Shin, Chris Rountree, Samantha Salomon, Jordan Demcher

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Welcomes New Dean • Wismer Changes • Orientation Update • Dr. Heinzl Lecture • Gary Hodgson's Tenure as Campus Safety Officer • Meet Mike Mullin, New R.D. • Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Arrive on UC Campus • Residence Life Offers Support for the Class of 2016 • Opinion: Athletes Frustrated by Dining Changes; Senator Rubio Would Have Been a Better V.P. Choice for the GOP • Field Hockey Looks to Keep Tradition • Under New Coach, Volleyball Begins 2012 Season • Lofty Expectations for Bears Football


Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 06, September 6, 2012, Grand Valley State University Sep 2012

Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 06, September 6, 2012, Grand Valley State University

Volume 47, July 2, 2012 - June 3, 2013

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


Panel Discussion: Remarks By Heath Martin, Heath Martin Sep 2012

Panel Discussion: Remarks By Heath Martin, Heath Martin

Putting America Back to Work during the Great Depression: Preserving and Improving Access to the Works Progress Administration Records for the Future

No abstract provided.