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0060: J. L. Hensley Manuscript, 1886, Marshall University Special Collections

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Typed copy of `Rise and Progress of the Church of the United Brethren of Christ in West Virginia,' written in 1886 on the fiftieth anniversary of the church in the state, from the original manuscript in the possession of T. Clayton Parsons. Copied from the original, which was left in a cornerstone of the Jackson County (W.Va.) United Brethren Church in 1886 and recovered in 1936 when the Church was razed.

White County Heritage 1972 No. 4, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by W.C. Welch
Isaac Aaron Miller Diary
Some Records of James D. Addison of White County, Arkansas by Walter L. Havens
Gum Springs Cemetery by Gum Springs Extension Homemakers Club
From the Museum Shelf by Ellen Key
They Came to Arkansas (Gordon) by Mrs. Leister E. Presley
Headcheese: An Old Time Recipe (copied)
Box 327
County Grange and County News in General, also Meets a Cobbite from The Record, Dec. 15, 1876 (copied)

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 1, Carroll Hopf, Ellen J. Gehret, Alan G. Keyser, Louis Winkler, Mac E. Barrick, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Calligraphic Drawings and Pennsylvania German Fraktur
• Flax Processing in Pennsylvania: From Seed to Fiber
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology III: Comets and Meteors
• Rural Economics in Central Pennsylvania, 1850-1867
• Palatine Emigrants to America from the Oppenheim Area, 1742-1749
• Fruit Harvesting and Preservation: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 26

The Neighbor Voice Of The Bowling Green Model Cities C. P. Program Vol. 2, No. 9, Department Of Library Special Collections

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Volume two, Number nine, September 1972

• Parker-Bennett center is closed
  • The Parker-Bennett Recreation Center has been closed by officials of the Parks and Recreation Department, following reports that a small group of youths have been controlling the operation of the center
    • The center was closed by the parks board after reports that a group of older youngsters were harassing the younger children and selling drugs at the center (there wasn’t a full-time director employed)
  • James Rogers is a juvenile officer
  • Dennis East is the leader of the crime control team
• Model Cities requests more funds
  • Members of the local Model …

The Neighbor Voice Of The Bowling Green Model Cities C. P. Program Vol. 2, No. 8, Department Of Library Special Collections

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Volume two, Number 8, August 1972

• BG city manager accepts new post
  • Leslie Allen, current city manager
  • Harold Hilliard, former city manager; was replaced with Leslie Allen
• Local Manpower program honored
  • Mr. Charles Furr, State of Kentucky Manpower Coordinator
  • Mr. Charles Ross of the Neighborhood Employment Service
  • Mr. James Cormney, Coordinator of Manpower Training in Bowling Green
  • Mr. John G. Napier of the Full Employment Commission
• Firm studies pool proposal
  • Florence & Hutchinson
    • Mrs. Frank Neuber, spokeswoman for Florence & Hutchinson
  • Jim Tucker, a lifeguard at the new Parker-Bennett pool
• New association formed in [the] state
  • Seven organizations across the …

White County Heritage 1972 No. 3, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by W.C. Welch
Isaac Aaron Miller Diary
From the Museum Shelf by Ellen Key
The Murder of Albert Parker by Vernon E. Bass, Jr.
They Came to Arkansas (Wood and Guthrie Families) by Mrs. Leister E. Presley
Tax List - White County, Ark. 1837
Old Weir Cemetery by Mrs. W.H. Collinson, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Strayhorn
The Hunter's Luck (copied)

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 4, Robert A. Barakat, Louis Winkler, Juliana Roth, Robert L. Dluge Jr., Werner Hacker, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Herr and Zeller Houses
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology II: The Moon
• Travel Journals as a Folklife Research Tool: Impressions of the Pennsylvania Germans
• My Interview with a Powwower
• American Emigrants from the Territories of the Bishropric of Speyer
• Emigrants to America from the Duchy of Zweibrucken
• Funeral Customs: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 24

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, Folk Festival Supplement, Leroy Gensler, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Richard C. Gougler, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Richard Shaner, Wayne F. Cardinalli

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• A Look at the Festival
• The Tradition of the Dutch-English Comedian
• We Waste Not
• Amish Barn-Raising
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Quilting Traditions of the Dutch Country
• Recollections of Witchcraft in the Oley Hills
• The Festival Potters
• Herbs and Herb Lore: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 25

The Neighbor Voice Of The Bowling Green Model Cities C. P. Program Vol. 2, No. 7, Department Of Library Special Collections

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Volume two, Number seven, July 1972

• Program honored by HUD (the Department of Homes and Urban Development) official
  • M.C. (Buck) Patterson
  • Bill Liles
  • Former Bowling Green major R.D. Graham
  • Charles M. Moore, Jr., president of the local chamber
• Local teenagers are named
  • Ivy Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivy Taylor was elected governor of the annual Boys State
  • Bettie Parrish, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Griffie Parrish was elected lieutenant governor of Girls State
  • Nancy Rue elected clerk of the Court of Appeals
• New assistant MC director is named
  • O.A. Moses has been with the local Model Cities Agency …

The Neighbor Voices Of The Bowling Green Model Cities C. P. Program Vol. 2, No. 6, Department Of Library Special Collections

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Volume two, Number six, June 1972

• Keith Burroughs was the principal speaker during the workshop at Barren River Reservoir with Tom Davidson, C-P Co-Ordinator, and Joe Denning, liaison officer for Model Cities
• Project New Hope termed a success
  • Project New Hope is giving new hope to several residents of the Model Neighborhood Area who have trouble getting and keeping a job
• Crackdown to begin soon on illegal city outhouses
  • City Manager Leslie Allen says the city may have to use “some discretion” in enforcing the state law which requires all outdoor toilets in first and second-class cities to be connected …

White County Heritage 1972 No. 2, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by W.C. Welch
Local Items: White County Record - 1876
Isaac Aaron Miller Diary
Election Supervisors: White County Record - 1876
Affairs of the Heart by William F. Davidge
Letter by Mrs. H.C. Pinkston
News Today by Mrs. Leister E. Presley
Bethesda Cemetery
Davis Cemetery

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 3, Wasyl O. Luciw, George Wynnysky, Donald M. Hines, Lester Breininger, Louis Winkler, Mac E. Barrick, C. Lee Hopple, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Ukrainian Pysanka and Other Decorated Easter Eggs in Pennsylvania
• The Development of Folklife Research in the United Kingdom
• Just a Bone
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology: Almanacs
• Central Pennsylvania Fishing Spears
• Spatial Development of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Community to 1970: Part II
• 18th-Century Emigrants from the Palatinate, Lower Alsace, and Rheinhessen
• Tobacco and Tobacco Culture: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 23

1972 Keystonia, Kutztown State College

Yearbooks 1970-1979

The yearbook of the class of 1972 at Kutztown State College, now Kutztown University, in Kutztown, PA.

White County Heritage 1972 No. 1, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by W.C. Welch
News Today by Mrs. Leister E. Presley
An Auto-biographical Sketch of My Life (and Diary) by Isaac Aaron Miller
Walker Cemetery by Billy Leach
From the Museum Shelf - Our Latest Acquisitions by Ellen Key
Notes and Statements - Museum Collection
Can You Help?
Hardy Bible Record

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 2, Don Yoder, C. Lee Hopple, Friedrich Krebs, Rufus A. Grider, Gabriel Hartmann

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Pennsylvania Germans: A Preliminary Reading List
• Spatial Development of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Community to 1970: Part I
• Palatine Emigrants of the 18th Century
• Winter Album
• Emigrants from Dossenheim (Baden) in the 18th Century
• Farm Layouts and Building Plans: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 22

0009: David Michael Gideon Papers, 1878-1959, Marshall University Special Collections

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A major portion of the collection consists of correspondence between Mr. Gideon and his political and business associates between 1929 and 1945. Included is correspondence regarding the administration of the estate of Mr. Gideon's brother-in-law, Mike Broh. Another large group of papers is made up of ledgers, journals, day books, daily cash sheets, check ledgers, account ledgers, and other records from the Huntington Herald Company and the several land and holding companies with which Mr. Gideon was associated.

Correspondence and business records of the Sam and Dave Gideon clothing store from 1914 until 1926 comprise most of the remaining papers. …

0004: Charles E. Frampton Papers, 1917-1964, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, native. Collection consists of medals, including the Croix de Guerre and the Silver Star for service as an Infantry officer in the First World War; diaries with detailed descriptions of maneuvers and tactical plans; framed certificates and plaques. Born in Huntington, West Virginia April 5, 1894, Son of David W. and Ruth Frampton. Volunteered October 1915- Army Co. E, 9th U.S. Reg. 2nd Division. Saw Service on Mexican Boarder, 1 1/2 years active service in France. Lieutenant from Honor Roll of Cabell County, West Virginia/ compiled by W.W. Smith, Huntington, West Virginia.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 1, Earl F. Robacker, Eleanor Fein Reishtein, Ronald L. Michael, C. Frances Berman, Maurice A. Mook, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Fraktur of Monroe County
• Minutes of the West Grove Housekeepers Association as Source Material for Folklife Studies
• The Searight Tavern on the National Road: An Archaeological Study
• The "Brown Sugar" Game in Western Pennsylvania
• Bread Baking in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania: Commentary for the Documentary Film in the "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica"
• Notes and Documents: Literature for the Allegheny Frontier: The Huntingdon Literary Museum and Monthly Miscellany (1810)
• Hunting and Food-Gathering: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 21

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 080 And 081, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Christian B. Newswanger, Wayne E. Homan, Robert I. Schneider, John E. Stinsmen, Martha S. Best, Cecelia Whitman, Edna Eby Heller, David W. Thompson, Edward S. Gifford Jr.

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Flight of the Distelfink
• The Newswangers, Interpreters of Amish Life
• The Sorrow Song of Susanna Cox
• Country Butcher: An Interview with Newton Bachman
• "Swing Your Partner": Folk Dancing at the Festival
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Leaving the Festival with Thoughts of Food
• Spindrift: The Old Dog Churn
• Candy Making in the Dutch Country
• Gee, Haw and Geehaw
• The Evil Eye in Philadelphia
• The Country School: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 20

The Neighbor Voice Of The Bowling Green Model Cities C.P. Program Vol. 1 No. 5, Department Of Library Special Collections

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The Neighbor

Voice of the Bowling Green Model Cities C.P. Program

Volume one, Number five, June 1971

• Parkside West project to relieve Delafield area

• State Street Baptist Church is celebrating its 133rd anniversary

• Rev. H. M. Jones is the pastor

• Reservoir Hill’s water tower is illuminated in patriotic colors

• It was officially lit on June 10

• The community is searching for a photograph of a former community leader: Roland Bland

• The Center Street sewer portion is soon to be completed

• Because the ditch was covered with pipe and the street was not repaired, it was the cause of many car …

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 3, Alan G. Keyser, Don Yoder, Gregory Gizelis, Angus K. Gillespie

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Gardens and Gardening Among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Historical Sources For American Traditional Cookery: Examples from the Pennsylvania German Culture
• The Use of Amulets Among Greek-Philadelphians
• Work and the Farmer: The Almanac as Cultural Index, 1858-1898
• Pennsylvania German and High German: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 19
• Engravings of Western Pennsylvania Scenes

1971 Keystonia, Kutztown State College

Yearbooks 1970-1979

The yearbook of the class of 1971 at Kutztown State College, now Kutztown University, in Kutztown, PA.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 2, Carroll Hopf, Gregory Gizelis, Mac E. Barrick, Susan Dwyer Shick, Amos Long Jr., William S. Troxell, Ruth K. Hagy

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Decorated Folk Furniture
• Foodways Acculturation in the Greek Community of Philadelphia
• David Stoner: Notes on a Neglected Craftsman
• Baptist Autobiography as a Folklife Source
• Bank (Multi-Level) Structures in Rural Pennsylvania
• Der Census Enumerator
• Leisure Time Activities in West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1800-1850
• Local Characters and Originals: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 18

A History Of The Genealogical Society Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints To 1970, Merrill S. Lofthouse

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a study of the growth and development of the various departments of the Genealogical Society and how they contributed to the function of the total organization. The following was considered with each department: (1) the date of organization, (2) purpose for which organized, (3) methods used to carry out responsibilities, (4) function and interaction with other departments of the organization.

Activities of the Genealogical Society were evaluated on the basis of the following major roles: (1) as an agency for locating researchers, (2) agency to make records available to search, (3) a clearing house for records prior …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 1, Robert D. Bethke, Earl F. Robacker, Daniel B. Reibel, Guy Tilghman Hollyday, William P. Stein

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Chapbook "Gallows-Literature" In Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania
• The Winding Road to Stick Spatter
• The Kunstfest at Old Economy
• The Ephrata Codex: Relationships Between Text and Illustration
• Report of the Living History Seminar, 1969
• Dairy Products: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 17
• Country School Photographs from Pennsylvania

White County Heritage 1970 No. 4, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Rose Bud Map (Cover)
/="/">President's Message by Claud Johnson
/="/">Wild Sports and Adventures in the Far West by Frederick Gerstaecker
/="/">Christmas at Uncle Jimmie's by Howard H. Snowden
/="/">Rose Bud Cemetery
/="/">The Rose Bud Fire of 1925 by Nancy May Fomby
/="/">From the Museum Shelf by Ellen Key
/="/">Tax Receipts provided by W. C. Welch
/="/">The Plant Genealogy by Ellen Key

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Sioux Baldwin, Edna Eby Heller, Martha S. Best, Dodds Meddock, Mac E. Barrick, Henry Snyder Gehman, Hilda Adam Kring

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Whittling: Dumb Dutch Pastime
• Amish Plain Costume: A Matter of Choice
• It's Sticky - But We Love It
• The Folk Festival Seminars: Folk Art and Antique Collecting
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• 19th-Century Ballooning Tradition Continues at Kutztown Festival
• Jump-Rope Rhymes
• Ghost Stories and Old Superstitions of Lancaster County
• Mary Goes Over the Mountain
• Children's Games: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 16

White County Heritage 1970 No. 3, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by Claud Johnson
/="/">Wild Sports and Adventures in the Far West by Frederick Gerstaecker
/="/">Some Arkansas Baptist History by J. L. Brown (Reprint)
/="/">History of the Searcy Baptist Church by Ben. M. Bogard, D.D. (Reprint)
/="/">Center Hill Presbyterian Cemetery
/="/">From the Museum Shelf by Ellen Key

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 3, Toni F. Fratto, David C. Winslow, Leslie P. Greenhill, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, Don Yoder, Guy Tilghman Hollyday

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Cooking in Red and White
• Trade Cards, Catalogs, and Invoice Heads
• The Encyclopaedia Cinematographica and Folklife Studies
• The Cheese was Good
• Notes and Documents: Eighteenth-Century Letters from Germany
• The Ephrata Wall-Charts and Their Inscriptions
• Itinerants - Peddlers, Drovers, Wagoners, Gypsies, Tramps: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 15
• Engravings of Pennsylvania Mills