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The Development And Growth Of Community Schools In Hopkins County, Compton C. Crowe

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

For several years many of the leading educators of the different states and the leading schools of higher education have been studying and advocating the community school idea. There have been many community schools established with various plans and ideas installed. Some are more advanced than others, but all are established with a long time plan in view. Many conferences have been held, and experts have been consultants and co-ordinators, and several visits have been made within the community to see at first hand the workability of school and its affect upon the lives of the children and citizens of …

A Study Of The Public School System Of Nelson County, Earl Huber

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Only seven years more than one hundred years ago, 1838, Kentucky’s public school system was established. Few Kentuckians conceived of a state-wide public school system. Many of the citizens were conservative and inclined to look upon a scheme of public education with doubt and disfavor; they were accustomed to the traditional plan of private education. In Nelson County, as in the rest of Kentucky, the early sponsors of public education were confronted with the problem of building sentiment for such a public service. Their task was one of establishing schools. Their chief goal was one of providing a school service, …

Items Related To The United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary (Mss 5 B1 F7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Primary Sources

Items collected by Bowling Green, Kentucky clubwoman Mackie E. (Smith) Bennett related to the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary. The finding aid can be downloaded using the "Download" button and full-text scans of the material can be accessed by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.

Caswell, Samuel Lee, 1907-1991 (Sc 2503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2503. V-mail letter from S. Lee Caswell, serving in Italy during World War II, to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jones, Upton, Kentucky, in which he inquires about his family.

Ua94/5/1 Pledge Diary, Leone Brewer

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Spiral notebook kept by Bowling Green Business University student Leone Brewer while pledging Delta Theta. Includes instructions for pledges, notes on clothes daily activities, a map of the business around Bowling Green square and a list of the train stations between Bowling Green and Louisville.

Harlan Wallins Coal Corporation, Harlan Wallins Coal Corporation

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Harlan Wallins Coal Corporation mine with a value of 5¢.

Berger Coal Mining Company, Incorporated, Berger Coal Mining Company, Incorporated

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Berger Coal Mining Company, Incorporated mine with a value of $1.

Bardo Coal Mining Company, Blue Diamond Coal Company, Wallins Creek Coal Company, Bardo Coal Mining Company, Blue Diamond Coal Company, Wallins Creek Coal Company

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

The scrips from the Bardo Coal Mining Company have values of 5¢, 10¢, and $1.

The scrips from the Blue Diamond Coal Company have values of 5¢ and $1.

The scrips from the Wallins Creek Coal Company have values of 1¢ and 25¢.

Southeast Coal Company, Southeast Coal Company

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Southeast Coal Company mine with a value of $1.

Southeast Coal Company, Southeast Coal Company

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Southeast Coal Company mine with a value of $1.

Southeast Coal Company, Southeast Coal Company

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Southeast Coal Company mine with a value of 10¢.

Souvenir Book: Twenty-Ninth Annual Encampment And Twelfth Annual Convention Ladies' Auxiliary, Department Of Kentucky, United Spanish War Veterans, June 5,6,7, 1938, Bowling Green, Kentucky (Ephemera W-30), Kentucky Library Research Collection

Research Collections

"Souvenir Book: Twenty-Ninth Annual Encampment and Twelfth Annual Convention Ladies' Auxiliary, Department of Kentucky, United Spanish War Veterans, June 5,6,7, 1938, Bowling Green, Kentucky." (Ephemera W-30)

Robert Ground Family Tree, Mamie Ground Hays, Pleasant Ground

Research Collections

Robert Ground and Margaret Cockeral Family Tree. This family tree chart was compiled by Mamie Ground Hays and Pleasant Ground in 1937. It was recopied in January, 1983 by Karla Ground Lowe, daughter of Clifton Ground. The chart was transcribed by Frankie Ground Stone and Sue Lynn Stone McDaniel in March of 2010.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 14, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, B.S. Rutherford, J. Lewie Harmon, Garentte Stout, Bowling Green Women's Music Club, John Rodes,

Ua94/6/1 The Economic & Social Status Of Boyce Rural Community, Thelma Glasscock

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

A paper written for Economics 310 at Western Kentucky Teachers College.

My aim in this study is to present in a brief manner the economic and social status of the community or school district in which I live. My data have been collected through observations over a period of twenty years and contacts made with the people of this district, through conferences with those much older than I, from records and reports of others, and a house to house canvass of the district. The pictures, illustrating certain features, were made during the spring of 1935.

Ua1a Students Weekly, News Publishing Company

WKU Administration Documents

Weekly Bowling Green newspaper which catered to students at WKU, Bowling Green Business University and College High.

Ua1a Students Weekly, News Publishing Company

WKU Administration Documents

Weekly Bowling Green newspaper which catered to students at WKU, Bowling Green Business University and College High.

Joseph Barnett & Alexander Barnett Family, Department Of Library Special Collections

Research Collections

No abstract provided.

The Sequence Of The Human Occupance In Wayne County, Kentucky: An Historical Study, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

No abstract provided.

Receivers Of The Consolidation Coal Company, Receivers Of The Consolidation Coal Company

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Receivers of the Consolidation Coal Company mine with a value of 1¢.

Ua99/1 Scrapbook, Bgbu President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of newspaper clippings, correspondence, song lyrics, programs, postcards and poetry on a variety of topics. Many items are not dated. The earliest dated item is from 1874 and the latest is from 1933.

Greenville Leader - Greenville, Ky. (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Newspaper clippings, dated 1933 to 1993, from a newspaper titled "Greenville Leader" which was published in Greenville, Kentucky.

Matthew Lyon In Kentucky, Lyda Smith

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

“Men at some time are masters of their fate:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

Thus Shakespeare has the wily Cassius speak, and thus Matthew Lyon must have believed; else he had not contended so fiercely, so incessantly, and so interminably against such adverse circumstances as the average individual would have submitted to sooner or later. Many may have thought so; the facts often indicated so; yet never in a true sense was Matthew Lyon an underling. His fierce spirit was supreme over material things. Even while an indentured servant …

Ua99/1 Scrapbook, Part 1, Bgbu President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of newspaper clippings, high school graduation programs, meeting programs, speech notes and personal items.

Ua99/1 Scrapbook, Part 2, Bgbu President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of newspaper clippings, high school graduation programs, meeting programs, speech notes and personal items.

Messenger - Central City, Ky. (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Newspaper clippings, dated 1932 to 1937, from a newspaper titled "Messenger" which was published in Central City, Kentucky.

Ua99/1 Scrapbook, Bgbu President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of newspaper clippings, correspondence, song lyrics, programs and poetry on a variety of topics. Many items are not dated. The earliest dated item is from 1896 and the latest is from 1932.

Kentucky Negro Educational Association - Knea Journal, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Select issues of KNEA: a journal covering African American education in Kentucky prior to integration. Includes photographs with Lebanon school, Marie Spratt Brown, Mabel Moore of Bowling Green, Western High School of Owensboro, ruth Hill Jones, story of Julius Rosenwald, mentions of Luska J. Twyman, and many other articles and statistics.

District 32, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky 1930 School Census (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

1930 school census for District 32, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Information includes child's name, parents' names, child's date of birth, child's age, and sex.

District 31, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky 1930 School Census (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

1930 school census for District 31, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Information includes child's name, parents' names, child's date of birth, child's age, and sex.