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Full-Text Articles in Social History
Ua42/4/3 Commencement Program, Wku Owensboro
Ua42/4/3 Commencement Program, Wku Owensboro
WKU Administration Documents
Commencement program listing graduates with order of exercises for WKU Owensboro.
Pierian Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pierian Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 610. Minutes, correspondence, yearbooks, and miscellaneous records of the Pierian Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters
Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters
WKU Administration Documents
Magazine created by WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters regarding faculty and student research, events and programs.
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Administration Documents
Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.
Ua1f Wku Tuition, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Tuition, Wku Archives
WKU Administration Documents
Bibliography of sources related to WKU tuition rates.
Ua1f Wku Buildings & Grounds, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Buildings & Grounds, Wku Archives
WKU Administration Documents
Bibliography of sources regarding buildings, construction and the WKU campus.
Ua1f Wku Student Hangouts, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Student Hangouts, Wku Archives
WKU Administration Documents
Bibliography of sources related to student hangouts.
Ua1f Wku Spirit & Symbols, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Spirit & Symbols, Wku Archives
WKU Administration Documents
Bibliography of sources related to WKU Spirit, symbols, mascots, logos and school colors.
Ua1f Wku Cultural Diversity, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Cultural Diversity, Wku Archives
WKU Administration Documents
Bibliography of sources related to cultural diversity at WKU.
Ua1f Cheerleaders, Wku Archives
Ua1f Cheerleaders, Wku Archives
WKU Administration Documents
Bibliography of sources regarding cheerleading at WKU and list of cheerleaders.
Ua1f A Mascot For The Western Hilltoppers, Wku Archives
Ua1f A Mascot For The Western Hilltoppers, Wku Archives
WKU Administration Documents
Article written by Chester Travelstead about his adventures as athletic mascot for E.A. Diddle.
Ua1f Chapel, Wku Archives
Ua1f Chapel, Wku Archives
WKU Administration Documents
Bibliography of sources regarding chapel at WKU.
Traces Index By Sandra Gorin, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Index By Sandra Gorin, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Research Collections
Index to Traces journal, 1973-2016, the publication of the Barren County, [Kentucky] Historical Society, formerly the South Central, Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society
Mcgown, Joe (Fa 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgown, Joe (Fa 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 991. Project titled: “"Funeral Customs" compiled by Joe McGown for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes individual survey sheets listing a single funeral custom, the informant, date, and location. A large number of photographs, documenting tombstones, are included in the collection. The location of the tombstones is not included, but most of the survey work was done in Warren County, Kentucky.
Ashby, J. S. (Sc 3062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ashby, J. S. (Sc 3062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3062. Letter, 9 February 1843, of J. S. Ashby, Daviess County, Kentucky, to James M. Howard, Wayne County, Illinois. He replies to Howard’s request for money with a description of poor local economic conditions, including low prices for crops and horses, difficulty collecting debts, and even lack of money to pay for marriage licenses. He expresses his wish to marry and relates an anecdote about three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter, the last referring to bachelors.
Nocquet, Emilie, 1826?-1883 (Sc 3020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nocquet, Emilie, 1826?-1883 (Sc 3020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3020. Letters of Emilie Nocquet, Chicago, Illinois, to Catherine Gerard, Bowling Green, Kentucky. On 19 September 1865, she writes of her family in New Albany, Indiana, her husband’s business, and her affection for Catherine’s young daughter. On 22 February 1866, she relates further news of her family and husband, and wonders if Catherine has another baby; in light of her delicate health, she suggests that Catherine send her husband “trav[e]ling” and offers to help “give him a good whip[p]ing.”
Crase, Donny G., 1930-2005 (Sc 3046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crase, Donny G., 1930-2005 (Sc 3046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3046. Letters written to Donny Gene Crase chiefly from his girlfriend and future wife, Cinda Sparkman, and his parents in Letcher County, Kentucky. The letters discuss family matters and local happenings.
Barr, Edward Wallace, 1887-1962 (Mss 576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barr, Edward Wallace, 1887-1962 (Mss 576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 576. Papers, lecture notes and appointment book relating to Dr. E. Wallace Barr’s training and service as a dentist with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I; includes a few items of family correspondence.
Fulkerson, Joseph Gerald, 1923-2013 And Josephine (Woodward) Fulkerson, 1926-2016 (Sc 2995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fulkerson, Joseph Gerald, 1923-2013 And Josephine (Woodward) Fulkerson, 1926-2016 (Sc 2995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2995. Autograph album of Josephine (Woodward) Fulkerson, 1937; and “Memories West Louisville High School 1942-1992,” a souvenir booklet belonging to Joseph G. Fulkerson, with biographical data on the members of his 1942 high school graduating class.
Eqb Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eqb Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 569. Minutes, financial records, publications, correspondence, historical data, and miscellaneous materials of the EQB Club, a men's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Sargent, George Henry, 1828-1917 (Mss 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sargent, George Henry, 1828-1917 (Mss 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of a portion of a diary (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 564. Diary kept by George Henry Sargent from 1 May 1851 to 10 January 1853. The Harvard student writes on a variety of subjects, including education, religion, historical events, travel, etc. Of particular interest is a three-month sojourn in 1852 with his sister, Lucy Baldwin (Sargent) Rupert in Louisville, Kentucky. While in Kentucky, he also visits Henderson and Mammoth Cave.
Leap Year: Chance, Chase, Or Curse?, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
Leap Year: Chance, Chase, Or Curse?, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
SCL Faculty and Staff Publications
Based on a popularized legend in which St. Patrick granted to St. Bridget the right for all single women to propose marriage during leap years, the custom has produced ephemera as evidence of stereotypical old maids and bachelors and created vinegar valentines, ball invitations, dance cards, sheet music and calling cards. Between 1904 and 1916, at least 54 publishing houses created Leap Year postcards illustrated by more than 17 of the most talented artists of the day. Despite possible good intentions, the majority of the ephemera stereotypes single women as so desperate to marry that even unsuitable spouses, including alcoholics, …
Ua1f Wku Greek & Service Organizations Bibliography, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Greek & Service Organizations Bibliography, Wku Archives
WKU Administration Documents
Bibliography of sources related to discipline, honor, Greek and service fraternities and sororities at WKU.
Ua1c11/80 Wku Photo Album, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/80 Wku Photo Album, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
WKU photograph album, available online at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/4210
Bath County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 2958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bath County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 2958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2958. Correspondence of two related Bath County, Kentucky families. A lonesome Sarah L. Boyd writes to her mother, Elizabeth A. “Lizzie” Rogers, from boarding school in Fleming County, Kentucky in 1865, where she discusses having her photograph taken, “hateful” schoolmates, and provisions from her family of clothing, whiskey and bitters. In the 1880s, Ida Lee Bell receives letters from cousins, friends and suitors with family news and local gossip. One of her letters voices disapproval of young men who drink when calling on ladies. The letters mention many family members by first name.
Hardy, Lawrence J., B. 1874? (Sc 2950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardy, Lawrence J., B. 1874? (Sc 2950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2950. Handwritten invitation to Misses Alice and Dump Page, Hart County, Kentucky, to a candy pulling at the home of L.J. Hardy on Christmas night, 1896.
Gates, Nellie Gertrude, 1856-1950 (Sc 2948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gates, Nellie Gertrude, 1856-1950 (Sc 2948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2948. Diary kept by Nellie Gates, Calhoun, Kentucky, from 12 March 1872 to 25 October 1873. Also includes a brief note, dated 24 January 1942, written by Gates in which she reminisces about the visit of a friend on 24 January 1881.
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 561. Personal diaries of Clara (Wright) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, kept during her marriage to food critic Duncan Hines and after his death. Includes some correspondence, travel itineraries, and miscellaneous papers.
Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 559. Letters to Benjamin Gideon Davidson “B.G.,” III, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written primarily by female friends when he was a student at Bowling Green High School and Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Includes some letters from his mother and miscellaneous papers.
Jackson, Mary Nancy "Nannie" (Taylor), 1893-1974 - Letters To (Sc 2923), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Mary Nancy "Nannie" (Taylor), 1893-1974 - Letters To (Sc 2923), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2923. Courtship letters, 1911-1919, to Nannie Taylor, Logan County, Kentucky, from “Shine” in Woodburn, Kentucky, including a letter expressing his intention to leave the state now that another has “won your love from me.” Also includes a 1919 letter from Nannie’s future husband Sam F. Jackson, and a 1945 letter from her uncle in Magnolia, Arkansas.