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0731: Claudia Peyton Papers, 1921-1984, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists primarily of correspondence sent from Claudie to family and church members in the United States between 1921 and 1979. Some early letters from the 1920s contain photographs of her time in Africa. Other materials include printed material such as her publication “Twenty Years in Africa”, a Mount Union Sentinal Newsletter, a poster and letter about her book “Forty-Six Years in Africa”, letters from her adopted children in Africa about her estate, negatives of her last visit to Huntington in 1963, unrelated birth announcements sent to family members, and envelopes.

Force And Colonial Development In Eastern Uganda, Carol Summers

History Faculty Publications

This article explores why and how administrators and missionaries in Eastern Uganda came to associate progress and development with the need to whip, coerce, and imprison women, developing new institutions for the violent control of wives that went far beyond more common patterns of informal patriarchal control. New Native Courts took over from husbands in arranging for troublesome wives to be whipped. New mission associations of church, teachers’ and evangelists’ groups, and church men’s groups worked to establish Christian patriarchal control over wives who rejected husbands and Christ. Both officials and missionaries understood clearly that the government and missions needed …

African American Midwifery In The South: Dialogues Of Birth, Race And Memory, By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser, Patricia Hill

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Bullington, Brittany. A History of the Piano Girl and Her Accomplishments: Women and Music in Nineteenth-Century England
• Ellis, Joseph. The Howl of the Mob: Adapting to Violence in Somalia
• Farrar, Mary. Expectations of Family Physicians: Perceptions of the Doctor and Patient
• Freeman, Tracy. Martha Gellhorn: The Hemingway Years
• Guillory, Anne. The Flemish Mare: Anne of Cleves
• Jordan, Pat. Marketing a Deadly Addiction to Youths
• Marx, Sarah. Comic Books: Carnage in Living Color
• May, …

0522: Ancella Bickley Collection, 1908-1947, Marshall University Special Collections

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West Virginia educator. Papers consist primarily of programs of events related to African-Americans in West Virginia, especially Douglass High School in Huntington, West Virginia.

0493: Revella E. Hughes Papers, 1895-1987, Marshall University Special Collections

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This addendum to the Revella E. Hughes papers consists of correspondence, professional papers, photographs, holograph music manuscripts, notebooks, plaques, certificates, photographs, and audio cassette tapes. Also included are programs and announcements of concerts, recitals, and other musical events in which Miss Hughes participated. The newspaper clippings and programs encompass the range of Miss Hughes' performing career, from 1909, at Hartshorn and Memorial College in Richmond, Virginia, until her final appearances in West Virginia in 1985 and 1986.

Printed and manuscript musical arrangements comprise the bulk of the collection. Correspondence, primarily from 1970 until 1986, includes letters from the Marble Collegiate …

0491: Carrie Eldridge Combined Collection, 1678-2014, Marshall University Special Collections

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Carrie Eldridge is a genealogical researcher in Chesapeake, Ohio. This collection contains photocopies of many county record books of the Appalachian areas of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky, ranging from the American Revolution until the early twentieth century. It also contains her personal research files on topics related to slavery and the Underground Railroad in Ohio and West Virginia as well as local history topics such as church and family histories.

0452: Pauline Fairfax Plaques, 1984 And 1986, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, public school teacher; member of Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee. This collection is composed of two plaques, one from the First Baptist Church of Huntington on March 31, 1984, and the second from the Black History Month Committee at Marshall in 1986. The bulk of Mrs. Fairfax' papers went to West Virginia State College, Institute, West Virginia.

0410: Revella E. Hughes Papers, 1895-1984, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection of Revella E. Hughes papers consists of photo reproductions of the pages of her press book pertaining to her career in New York and on tour. Original pressbook located in the Moorland-Springarn Research Center, Howard University. Later accession includes holograph arrangements for the organ; research papers written while a graduate student at Northwestern University, where Dr. Hughes earned a Masters of Music degree in 1942. Newspaper clippings comprise the bulk of the collection. Also included are programs and announcements of concerts, recitals, and other musical events in which Miss Hughes participated. The newspaper clippings and programs encompass the …

0418: Whittaker-Glanville Family Papers, 1856-1985, Marshall University Special Collections

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Papers consist primarily of diaries, newspaper clippings, correspondence, genealogies and photographs of five families: the Glanville-Carter families of St. Louis, Mo.; the Whittakers of Preble County, Ohio; Dorothy Whittaker Atkins of Huntington, West Virginia.; and the Heacocks of Bucks County, Penna.

A significant part of the collection are the diaries of Annie Heacock, a teacher at the Penn School for freed slaves in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1864-1869. Other diaries include the Civil War diary of John Whittaker, a surgeon in the 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Whittaker-Glanville …

0389: Ann Katherine Flagg Papers, 1964, Marshall University Special Collections

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Three unpublished and one published play by Ann Katherine Flagg, African American woman writer and former faculty of West Virginia State College. Plays consist of Unto the Least of these; Blueboy to Holiday--over; and A Significant Statistic. Includes Great Gettin' up Mornin'. New York: 1964.

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection, Marshall University Special Collections

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Tape recordings and transcripts of oral interviews with residents in the West Virginia-Ohio-Kentucky Tri-State region regarding such topics as farming, schools, health care, folk customs, and many others related to life in this Appalachian region.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Marshall University Oral History Collection here.

Uniform Burial Contract, War Department, E. B. Gregory

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Contract: Informal Invitation, Bid and Acceptance (Negotiated Contract), Informal invitation from E. B. Gregory, Major General, The Quartermaster General, Army Air Field Jacksonville, Florida, for caskets and funeral services that meet quality specifications; Date: June 9, 1943

Florida Tax Information Association, Inc.- Mrs. R. H. Walker, July 3, 1941, Florida Tax Information Association, Inc.

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Correspondence: Non-profit, Non-partisan, non-political Florida Tax Information Association Incorporated, Jacksonville, Florida, encouraging attendance for public hearings regarding the Duval County 1941-42 Budget; Date: July 3, 1941

L. E. Hakes- Holmes Funeral Directors, July 28, 1939, L. E. Hakes

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Correspondence: Letter containing an ordinance proposal from Lynn E. Hakes, Councilman, 18th Ward, Jacksonville, Florida, regarding funeral processions. Typed on City of Jacksonville Legislative Department Letterhead. Date: July 28, 1939

Estimate, B. B. Bailey- Rosa H. Walker, B. B. Bailey

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Document: Estimate/Job bid stating agreement outlining the cost, work, labor, and supplies to recondition 621 W. State Street; Date: February 1, 1939

Supply Order, W. Alfred Dozier- Holmes Funeral Director, W. Alfred Dozier

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Document: Bill listing supplies ordered from W. Alfred Dozier, Juniper, Georgia; Date: December 14, 1938

Invoice, Southern Bell Telephone And Telegraph Company- Holmes Funeral Directors, Southern Bell Telephone And Telegraph Company

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Document: bill for monthly service, Toll Service and Telegrams service for Holmes Funeral Directors, 621, W. State St. Jacksonville Florida. Crossed out: Additional Local Telephone Messages and Balance due from Previous Bill. Total: $12.45. Date: December 21, 1937

Tax- Gram, November 15, 1937, Florida Tax Revision League Inc.

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Correspondence: Newsletter from Florida Tax Revision League, Inc. Jacksonville, Florida, regarding "Reducing State expenses to offset the current $500,00 General Revenue Fund deficit, at least in part, instead of devoting all its efforts to finding funds to meet the deficit".

Burbridge And Higbee- Mrs. Rosa Holmes Walker, August 23, 1937, Clinton Burbridge

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Correspondence: Letter from Clinton Burbridge, Burbridge and Higbee, Real Estate Rents and Fire Insurance, Jacksonville, Florida, regarding property insurance on new Henney Hearse

Invoice, New York Ornament Co.- Holmes Funeral Directors, New York Ornament Co.

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Document: Invoice for supplies from New York Ornament Co., New York, New York. Date: November 17, 1936

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 24, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This particular show is a play written using letters owned by Lenora Lindley of Livermore, Kentucky written by a freed slave in Liberia to her former owner in Ohio County, Kentucky.

Invoice, New York Ornament Co.- Holmes Funeral Directors, New York Ornament Co.

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Document: Invoice for supplies from New York Ornament Co., New York, New York. Date: February 7, 1936

Payment, R. H. Walker- William R. Walker, R. H. Walker

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Check: R. H. Holmes Walker, Holmes Funeral Directors pay to the order of William R. Walker, The Atlantic National Bank of Jacksonville; Date: January 13, 1936

State Board Of Florida Funeral Directors And Embalmers- Rosie Holmes Walker, September 28, 1935, S. Chas. Mcintosh

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Correspondence: Letter to acknowledge receipt of application for funeral directors license and check.

Payment, R. H. Walker, R. H. Walker

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Check: Rosa G. Holmes Walker pay to the order of Cash, The Atlantic National Bank of Jacksonville; Date: July 31, 1934

New York Ornament Co.- Rev. Dr. Walker, April 10, 1934, New York Ornament Co.

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Correspondence: Letter from New York Ornament Co., New York, New York, to Reverand Dr. Walker, Jacksonville, Florida, requesting Rev. Dr. Walker have the bookkeeper for Holmes Funeral Directors send agreed upon payment.

Invoice, The Undertakers' Supply Co.- Holmes Funeral Directors, The Undertakers' Supply Co.

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Document: Invoice for supplies from The Undertakers' Supply Co., Chicago, Illinois. Date: February 8, 1933

Receipt, Mrs. R. H. Walker- Atlantic National Bank

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Document: Receipt Stub stating The Atlantic National Bank Jacksonville Florida 7/25/1932 "Received of The Atlantic National Bank statement of account current to date" (signed) Mrs. R.H. Walker 621 W. State Street. Handwritten on front: 192.68. Date: June 25, 1932

Invoice For Funeral Services For Mary Graham, R. H. Walker

Holmes Funeral Home Bills and Correspondence, 1923-1943

Document: Bill listing services provided by Holmes Funeral Director R.H. Walker, Manager, Jacksonville, Florida, for the late Mary Graham. January 16, 1928