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Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: June 2008, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management Jun 2008

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: June 2008, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2008

LSUHSC Dailly Facilities Updates from June 2008. These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.


Hammers, Clark Porter (Fa 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Hammers, Clark Porter (Fa 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 244. Paper: "The Porter Family of Butler County from 1736 to 1950" written by Clark Porter Hammers for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Sons Of The American Revolution - Applications (Sc 1665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Sons Of The American Revolution - Applications (Sc 1665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1665. Applications (42) for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution from individuals in far eastern Kentucky and far western Virginia. To see a list of the applicants click on "Additional Files" below.


Smith, Rhonda L. (Sc 1666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Smith, Rhonda L. (Sc 1666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1666. Paper titled "Death on the Rails" written by Rhonda L. Smith for a history class at Western Kentucky University. Relays the World War I story of how members of the 113th Engineer Battalion and the 138th Field Artillery, which included many Kentuckians, were killed in a rail accident in France.


Bradley, Robert Michael, 1947-2006 - Collector (Sc 1663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Bradley, Robert Michael, 1947-2006 - Collector (Sc 1663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1663. Items from the Bradley and Gerard families, chiefly concerning their Bowling Green, Kentucky undertaking business. Includes information related to the funeral service of Martha "Mattie" Jane (Buchanan) Gerard.


Concord Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Concord Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 207. Typescript of the record book of Concord Baptist Church, Barren County, Kentucky, consisting primarily of brief business meeting entries and membership lists.


Autograph Album (Sc 1664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Autograph Album (Sc 1664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1664. Autograph album kept by a girl named "Nellie" and signed by a number of her friends in Carterville, Missouri.


Jones, Edwina Chandler, 1911-2002 (Sc 1661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Jones, Edwina Chandler, 1911-2002 (Sc 1661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1661. Correspondence between Edwina Chandler Jones and Betty Boyd Lyne, chiefly related to their families and mutual friends, Jones's travel and church activities, and her move from Bowling Green to Lakewood Manor Baptist Retirement Home in Richmond, Virginia.


Alford, Florence (Marshall), 1920-2001 (Sc 1662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Alford, Florence (Marshall), 1920-2001 (Sc 1662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1662. Copy of letter to Florence Alford, Bowling Green, from Larry H. Embry, Bowling Green, related to his illness. Also, her written account of the 1991 fire at Bowling Green's First Baptist Church where she was a member.


Blair Family - Ciphering Book (Sc 1659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Blair Family - Ciphering Book (Sc 1659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1659. Ciphering book created by Blair family member in Fleming County, Kentucky. Although undated, the book contains several mathematical problems with dates ranging from 1792 to 1796. Fleming County, which is noted in one of the problems, was established in 1798.


St. Paul's Indian Burial Mounds, Paul Nelson May 2008

St. Paul's Indian Burial Mounds, Paul Nelson

Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Boyd, Gilbert, Jr., B. 1950 (Sc 1657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Boyd, Gilbert, Jr., B. 1950 (Sc 1657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1657. Letters from Gilbert "Randy" Boyd, Jr., serving as a Chief Warrant Officer in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, to his wife Reba in Bowling Green. He comments on his fellow soldiers, the beginning of the war and a trip to Kuwait.


Helm, Virginia Stockton (Beck), 1900-1992 (Sc 1647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Helm, Virginia Stockton (Beck), 1900-1992 (Sc 1647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1647. Letters, programs, and clippings related to musical events in Warren County and information related to musicians and composers Franz Joseph Strahm, Roy Harris, and John Vincent, who had all been faculty members at Western Kentucky University.


Helm, David Maury, 1927-1994 (Sc 1649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Helm, David Maury, 1927-1994 (Sc 1649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1649. Three deeds of conveyance related to pieces of property in Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky that were owned by the Helm family. Also includes two plat maps.


Austin - Letters Of (Sc 1656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Austin - Letters Of (Sc 1656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1656. Letters from “Austin,” Louisville, Kentucky, to his brother in Mississippi. He laments their shared poor health as well as that of their father and mourns their recently deceased mother, but expresses pleasure at receiving letters from the place where he was born and raised. He indicates his intention to go to Tennessee for a month or two to make some money in the practice of dentistry.


Agnew, William Walter, 1903-1990 (Sc 1646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Agnew, William Walter, 1903-1990 (Sc 1646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1646. "Delayed Issue" of The Quill, published for the 1980 reunion of the 1918-1924 classes of Barrett Manual Training High School in Henderson, Kentucky. It is comprised of short autobiographies of the graduates.


Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 1648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 1648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1648. Copy of John Helm's appointment as Second Lieutenant in the Bedford County, Virginia militia. Signed 22 November 1779 in Williamsburg, Virginia by Governor Thomas Jefferson.


Elrod, Pamela Jean, B. 1959 (Sc 1652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Elrod, Pamela Jean, B. 1959 (Sc 1652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1652. Girl Scout autograph book and membership card for Pamela Jean Elrod, Valley Station, Kentucky. Also includes a card indicating completion of a basic canoeing course with the Red Cross and an "Eagle Guardian Pledge" issued by the Florida Audubon Society.


Mcdaniel, Sue Lynn (Stone), B. 1959 (Sc 1651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Mcdaniel, Sue Lynn (Stone), B. 1959 (Sc 1651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1651. E-mails sent from Sue Lynn McDaniel to various correspondents related to a Caribbean cruise impacted by Hurricane Wilma in October 2005. McDaniel was aboard the cruise ship "Enchantment of the Seas" with friend Pamela Jean Elrod.


Mayberry, Gerald Wayne, 1948-1968 (Sc 1655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Mayberry, Gerald Wayne, 1948-1968 (Sc 1655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1655. Letters written by Gerald Wayne Mayberry to "Lula" and "Sally," Franklin, Kentucky, while Mayberry was serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam.


Bailey, Jefferson Davis, 1914-2011 (Sc 1650), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Bailey, Jefferson Davis, 1914-2011 (Sc 1650), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1650. Detailed memory book created about the life of Jefferson Davis Bailey, who lived most of his life in Owensboro, Kentucky. The book was compiled by his daughter, Brenda (Bailey) Little, Hartford, Kentucky.


Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 222. Correspondence of the Pearson family, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly letters from Carroll Pearson to his wife Patricia while he is in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The collection also contains letters sent to Carroll from his parents and letters sent to Patricia from her parents and friends.


The Upper Country: French Enterprise In The Colonial Great Lakes, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr. May 2008

The Upper Country: French Enterprise In The Colonial Great Lakes, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.

Faculty Publications & Research

The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly fur traders of popular myth as agents of a hard-nosed, often ruthless, imperial endeavor. Skinner's engaging narrative takes the reader through daily life at posts like Forts Saint Louis and Michilimakinac, illuminates the complexities of interracial marriage with the courtship of Michel Aco at …


Poe Family Papers (Sc 1641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Poe Family Papers (Sc 1641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1641. Two Warren County, Kentucky deeds, one receipt, and a letter from Alvin Poe, Connersville, Missouri, to his brother Stephen M. Poe, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 25 January 1855 in which he discusses crop and livestock prices and the political situation in Nebraska. A typescript of the letter is attached as an additional file.


Civil Defense - Ordinance - Kentucky, [1943] (Sc 1643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Civil Defense - Ordinance - Kentucky, [1943] (Sc 1643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1643. Template for the use of municipal governments in adopting a Civil Defense ordinance in Kentucky during World War II.


Mcdonald, Kittie A., 1894-1922 (Sc 1645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Mcdonald, Kittie A., 1894-1922 (Sc 1645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1645. Three letters to Kittie McDonald, Woodburn, Kentucky and Lafayette, Tennessee concerning work, family and social activities. Also includes a 1904 receipt for eye care and her 1921 photograph.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1626. Copies of letters exchanged in an attempt to identify four Confederate soldiers killed in Hopkins County, Kentucky in 1865 and interred in an unmarked grave in the Madisonville Odd Fellows Cemetery in Hopkins County.


Drake, James Fishback, 1818-1883 (Sc 1644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Drake, James Fishback, 1818-1883 (Sc 1644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1644. Letter, 19 August 1845, from James F. Drake, Lexington, Kentucky to John Allen Gano, Centerville, Bourbon County, Kentucky, inquiring about a milk cow he has advertised for sale.


Independent Strawberry Growers' Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Independent Strawberry Growers' Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1640. Minutes, membership lists, financial reports and sundry forms from the Independent Strawberry Growers Association, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes picking card with agreement to pick for season on back. Two related photographs from the Kentucky Library & Museum Collection are included as additional files.


Kleiderer, Charles W., D. 1999 (Sc 1628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Kleiderer, Charles W., D. 1999 (Sc 1628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1628. Letters from Henderson native Charles W. Kleiderer, Silver Spring, Maryland to his aunt Mary Moore, Bowling Green related to his development of the Variable Time (VT) Fuze. Accompanying photographs show how this fuze, used in artillery shells, contributed to the Allied vicotry in World War II.