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Ms. Lula Mae Canty Jul 2012

Ms. Lula Mae Canty

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Punishment, Richard C. Crepeau Jul 2012

Punishment, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

After the Freeh Report was issued there was an outcry demanding that the NCAA do something to punish Penn State University. Many called for the death penalty. Others complained about the failure of the NCAA to act immediately. Then on Monday morning when the NCAA President, Mark Emmert, announced the judgment and punishment of Penn State the outcry was that the NCAA acted too quickly. It was a rush to judgment by Emmert and his colleagues. What happened to due process?


Cassell, J. Frank, 1872-1925 (Sc 2559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Cassell, J. Frank, 1872-1925 (Sc 2559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2559. Letter, 20 June 1921, from Frank Cassell, Chairman, Louisville, Kentucky Legislative District, to Pearl Smith (Mrs. Stuart A.), Louisville, informing her of her selection as a delegate to the Democratic nominating convention to be held on 22 June 1921.


U.S. President Barack Obama, Portland, Or, Svg Postal Corporation Jul 2012

U.S. President Barack Obama, Portland, Or, Svg Postal Corporation

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

"U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign fundraiser at the Oregon Convention Center", Mustique, sheet of 4 stamps, The President Obama International Stamp Collection.


Griffith, Josh T., 1861-1939 (Sc 2557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Griffith, Josh T., 1861-1939 (Sc 2557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2557. Form letter, 24 March 1903, from Josh T. Griffith, Clerk of the Daviess County (Kentucky) Court, setting out his credentials and seeking support for the Democratic nomination for State Treasurer.


Payne, William R., 1781-1847 (Sc 486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Payne, William R., 1781-1847 (Sc 486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 486. Notes pertaining to Revolutionary War service of various members of the Payne family and settlements made by the government for their service.


Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 484. An autographed letter to Mr. Blodgett stating that he never saves his manuscripts, 6 March 1917, and a poem entitled “Silence,” 1 November.


Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 488. Photocopy of paper entitled “Reminiscences of the Life and Teachings of Mary Kendall Jones while a Resident of this City,” written by a former student, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sometime during the period 1883-1887.


Hughes, Rose Anna (Sc 2558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Hughes, Rose Anna (Sc 2558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2558. Letter, 21 March 1844, from Rose Anna Hughes, Louisville, Kentucky, to Samuel Jacob, Wellsburgh, Virginia (now Wellsburg, West Virginia). She proposes extending repayment terms on a note due her and reports on the health of various family members and friends.


Johnson, Calvin, 1770-1860 (Sc 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Johnson, Calvin, 1770-1860 (Sc 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 485. Deed, 1813, by which Richard Owings sold 122 acres in Warren County, Kentucky, to Calvin Johnson; and deed, 1851, by which Johnson sold 222 acres in Simpson County, Kentucky, to his son-in-law Henry May.


Causey, Lewis Kenneth, 1904-1974 (Sc 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Causey, Lewis Kenneth, 1904-1974 (Sc 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text scan (click on "Additional Files") of speech for Manuscripts Small Collection 487. Speech given by Lewis Kenneth Causey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled "Historical Review of the Bowling Green-Warren County Airport," covering the years 1932 to 1970. Also copy of original, with notations, done by son Robert Causey in 2001.


Transcript Of Creating The Dory Days Posters, Carol M. Johnson Jul 2012

Transcript Of Creating The Dory Days Posters, Carol M. Johnson

All Story Transcripts

This story is an excerpt from an interview collected as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project. The on-the-spot interview was conducted on the beach at Cape Kiwanda during Dory Days 2012. In this story, Carol Miles Johnson, Pacific City artist and dorywoman, describes the inspiration and process involved in the design of her series of Dory Days posters, which she began creating in 2004.


Lawrence Carson Conaway, Jr. Jul 2012

Lawrence Carson Conaway, Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


American Commemorative Panels: Major League Baseball All-Stars: Willie Stargell, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division Jul 2012

American Commemorative Panels: Major League Baseball All-Stars: Willie Stargell, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Informational pages for Major League Baseball All-Stars: Willie Stargell Commemorative Stamp – American Commemorative Panels, includes images of the stamps, information about the physical stamp and biographical information for Major League Baseball All-Stars: Willie Stargell. First issued July 21, 2012.


American Commemorative Panels: Major League Baseball All-Stars: Larry Doby, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division Jul 2012

American Commemorative Panels: Major League Baseball All-Stars: Larry Doby, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Informational pages for Major League Baseball All-Stars: Larry Doby Commemorative Stamp – American Commemorative Panels, includes images of the stamps, information about the physical stamp and biographical information for Major League Baseball All-Stars: Larry Doby. First issued July 21, 2012.


Karlyn Ellis Jul 2012

Karlyn Ellis

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Fun With Civil War Sheet Music, Emily A. Francisco Jul 2012

Fun With Civil War Sheet Music, Emily A. Francisco

Blogging the Library

One project I haven’t blogged too much about yet is the Civil War Sheet Music exhibit for the Main Floor. Initially, Meggan only asked me to come up with a tentative list of pieces to display from the resources available; now, though, I’m finding myself assigned to the task of organizing, mounting, and labeling the exhibit. It’s a cool assignment, because it’s so different from everything else I’ve been working on this summer. [excerpt]


Program; 2012-07-20; 24th Pastoral Anniversary, Hopewell Baptist Church Jul 2012

Program; 2012-07-20; 24th Pastoral Anniversary, Hopewell Baptist Church

Hopewell Baptist Church

No abstract provided.


United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 481. Charter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Bowling Green Chapter No.194 with a list of the charter members and signed by Katie Cabell Currie, President, and Mrs. John P. Hickman, Secretary.


Carpenter, Samuel, 1824-1900 (Sc 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Carpenter, Samuel, 1824-1900 (Sc 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 480. Certificate of appointment for Samuel Carpenter as Circuit Judge of the 13th Kentucky Judicial District in place of John W. Helm, who refused to serve. Signed by William Owsley, Governor of Kentucky. Endorsed on back by J. Wood Wilson, Justice of the Peace, Nelson County.


Reynolds, George, Jr. (Sc 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Reynolds, George, Jr. (Sc 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 482. Land office treasury warrant by which William G. Pendleton, registered land officer of Virginia, granted order for survey of fifty acres for George Reynolds, Jr. The witnesses to the
transaction were James, Samuel, Joseph, and William McMurran.


Goodman, John Jacob, 1784-1880 (Sc 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Goodman, John Jacob, 1784-1880 (Sc 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 483. Certificate of (John) Jacob Goodman’s appointment as Postmaster at Hughes, Monroe County, Kentucky. Signed by W. T. Barry, Postmaster General.


American Commemorative Panels: Major League Baseball All-Stars, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division Jul 2012

American Commemorative Panels: Major League Baseball All-Stars, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Informational page for Major League Baseball All-Stars Commemorative Stamp – American Commemorative Panels, includes images of the stamps, some information about the physical stamp and information about Major League Baseball All-Stars. First issued July 20, 2012.


Keeping The Lights Jul 2012

Keeping The Lights

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.


Major-Herton, Victoria, Victoria Major-Herton, Hill Carrid, Damien Johnson Jul 2012

Major-Herton, Victoria, Victoria Major-Herton, Hill Carrid, Damien Johnson

Video Collection

No abstract provided.


Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 476. Letters, 1926-1952 (3), sermons and speeches (15), commencement program, 1913, memo books, 1920-1923 (2) of Baxter W. Napier, Sr., Methodist minister, 1882(?)-1971; Masonic tribute and receipt, 1895 (2) of I. S. Napier; and miscellaneous items, 1842, 1951 (8).


Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 (Mss 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 (Mss 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 419. Letters and clippings removed from a scrapbook belonging to John T. Scopes or his wife and relating primarily to the 1925 Scopes trial, his subsequent notoriety, and later publicity and commemorations surrounding the controversy.


Interview With Troy Davis Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Interview With Troy Davis Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral history interview done with Troy Davis related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.


Young Family Papers (Sc 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Young Family Papers (Sc 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 475. Receipt for tobacco transportation, 1817, and diary of river trip from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Natchez, Mississippi, March 14 – April 13, 1817; newspaper article about western travels by father and son, 1850 & 1940, August 29, 1940; and genealogy of
George C. Young family, Barren County (original).


Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 477. Minute book of the Building Committee of the Reformed Church [Christian], Danville, Kentucky. Fire destroyed the building on 22 February 1860, and the minutes detail an account of the transactions, contributions, and expenses incurred in rebuilding.