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Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: June 2010, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2010

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates from June 2010.

On the original documents, the daily update for Thursday, June 24, 2010 was misdated as Thursday, June 25, 2010.

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.

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: June 2010, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2010

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from June 4 and 18, 2010.

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.

Through The Eyes Of A Child: The Archaeology Of Wwii Japanese American Internment At Amache, April Kamp-Whittaker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Children’s lives in the World War II Japanese American Internment Camp, Amache are investigated using a combination of archaeology, oral history, and archival research. As part of internees’ efforts to create a more hospitable environment both children and adults extensively modified the physical landscape. The importance of landscape and place in Japanese culture and for the internee community is examined using the development of gardens around the elementary school as a case study. Internees also developed a rich social landscape that allowed for the socialization of children within Amache. The socialization of children at Amache was being influenced by the …

Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Fidning aid only for Manuscripts Collection 231. Information about Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes material about the community's history, people, churches, schools, and events. Collection contains the original Board of Trustees minutes for Smiths Grove College, 1884-1901.

Newman, Robert Mason, 1910-1988 & Frances Earlene (Holton) Newman, 1918-2012 (Sc 2278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2278. Miscellaneous papers, chiefly items related to Robert Mason Newman's retirement from the U.S. Naval Reserves and pre-marriage letters written to Frances Earlene Holton from her friends.

Stone, Sue Lynn, B. 1959 (Sc 2313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan for Manuscripts Small Collection 2313. Paper: "The Gerard Undertaking Establishment, 1870-1910," written by Sue Lynn Stone for a "State and Local History" class at Western Kentucky University. Discusses the Gerard business located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes illustrations of building facade and basic floor plans as well as photographs of the facility.

Pruitt Grocery - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 214. Account book (276 p.) for the K.E. Pruitt Grocery in Halfway, Allen County, Kentucky. The accounts are for local individuals and list debits for grocery, gasoline and oil, dry goods, and hardware items.

Ham, Tobias James, 1847-1935 (Sc 2273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2273. Ledgers (2) containing lecture notes of a religious nature prepared by Tobias James Ham, a native of Allen County, Kentucky. One ledger contains a brief biographcial note about Ham's call and early years in the ministry. Also includes a few associated items related to the family.

Civil War - Medical Affairs - Confederate (Sc 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 87. Paper written by J. F. Heustis, Chief Surgeon, Breckinridge's Division, Tullahoma, Tennessee, to Surgeon W. J. Byrne, 9th Kentucky Regiment, detailing how to make out monthly and quarterly reports of the sick and wounded.

Hagan-Payne Family Papers (Sc 2272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2272. Photocopies of letters, 1927-1929 (5), mostly written by Rosavelt and Lucian Payne, of Franklin, Kentucky; and promissory notes, tax receipts, and other receipts, 1894-1908 (17), of James K. Hagan of Woodburn, Kentucky.

Warren County, Kentucky - Public Schools (Mss 311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 311. Information collected about schools in Warren County, Kentucky from 1909 to 1928, including photos, physical description of school houses, school populations, school expenses, etc. The school census books (1932 and 1934) contain information about the student population only. Also includes photographs (negatives and proof sheets) that were included with the superintendent's record books, 1909-1928.

Helm, Cyrus Thomas, 1827-1868 (Sc 2271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2271. Account book for a dry goods operation, April 1849. The book includes records for Bowling Green, Kentucky's Police Court, 1859-1864.

Kentucky Christian Missionary Convention (Sc 2269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2269. Letter, 14 August 1926, from Allen Wilson, General Secretary of the Kentucky Christian Missionary Convention, Lexington, Kentucky, to N.A. Hale in Mayfield, Kentucky. The letter summarizes the organization's mission and finances, and requests a donation to help retire its debt.

Walters, Jacob "Jack" Bradford, 1891-1924 (Sc 2268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2268. Letter, 1 May 1918, from Jacob "Jack" Walters to Grace Tichenor in Frankfort, Kentucky. On his way to military training in South Carolina, Walters consoles her on their separation and expresses support for the war.

Cisney, Barbara (Sc 2252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2252. "Bevie W. Cain," and "Civil War Letters of Bevie Cain," two papers written by Barbara Cisney for Western Kentucky University history classes and based primarily on a collection of Cain's letters held in WKU's Special Collections Library (SC 2251).

Cain, Bevie Waughn, 1844-1883 (Sc 2251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2251. Letters (31) from Cain to James M. Davis, written mostly during the Civil War from her home and school in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and from Illinois. A strong Confederate sympathizer, Cain responds to Davis’s support of the Union, criticizes President Abraham Lincoln, and opines freely on love, courtship and marriage. She also writes of mutual friends, family, and social and religious activities. Includes 3 additional letters to Davis from his father, sister, and a friend who writes of an opportunity to manage a store. Also includes …

Park City Coal Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 319. Collection consists of two of the coal company's account books, 1901-1902, and 1909-1910. Entries list the purchases of coal by individuals and businesses as well as company expenses and cash on hand.

"An Attentive Ear, A Watchful Eye, And A Calm Judicious Pen": William Samuel Johnson, The Colonial Agents, And The Transformation Of The British Atlantic World, Allison Hopkins

Honors Scholar Theses

By looking at Great Britain and the American colonies in conjunction with the larger British Atlantic Empire, historians can better understand the political, social, and cultural transformations that occurred when transatlantic actors met. William Samuel Johnson is an example of an "ordinary" agent who nonetheless had extensive contacts with numerous British and American thinkers. While acting on Connecticut's behalf in London between 1767 and 1771, he sent reports back to Connecticut governors Jonathan Trumbull and William Pitkin on parliamentary proceedings while corresponding with the people who traveled around the Atlantic world during this critical period-merchants, seafarers, emigrants, soldiers, missionaries, radicals …

Rolling Fork United Baptist Church Of Christ - Larue County, Kentucky (Sc 616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 616. Minute book of Rolling Fork United Baptist Church of Christ, Larue County, Kentucky. Includes principles of union, rules of decorum, minutes of meetings, and lists of pastors, deacons, clerks, and members, both white and African American. Notes on the church's history by Jacob A. Miller appear at the back of the minute book.

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Poetry, [1862] (Sc 2264), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2264. Thirteen poems relating to the Civil War, some to be sung to popular tunes of the era, copied on lined ledger paper. Some of the poems praise the Union forces in the Kentucky battles of Mill Springs and Perryville; others relate to Lincoln's 1860 election and to Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan.

Carroll, Elizabeth (Rodes), 1908-1984 - Collector (Sc 2255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2255. Personal letters (2) written by John B. Rodes to his grandchildren Betsy and Sallie Carroll, all of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a paper: "The Father of Bowling Green," written by Sallie Carroll about Robert Moore. Includes a letter explaining the contents of the collection from Elizabeth (Rodes) Carroll.

Van Winkle, Loretta (Sc 2253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2253. Paper: "Josephine Calvert, 1864-1956, Bowling Green, Kentucky" written by Loretta Van Winkle for a history class at Western Kentucky University. The paper is a biographical look at Calvert, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, and her family. The paper is based on a collection of family letters in the Kentucky Library & Museum, WKU.

Chenault, Effie Mai (Sc 2259), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2259. Items belonging to Effie Mai Chenault, including a letter from her brother while she was at Fanning Orphan School in Nashville, Tennessee, 1909; her report card from Bowling Green High School, 1912; and a letter and pamphlet related to the progress of Bowling Green High School, 1912.

The Grizzly, May 6, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Michael Delaney, Ryan Collins, Jessica Neuman, Lisa Jobe, James Kilduff, Cory Kram, Elizabeth Mahoney, Zach Shamberg, Carly Siegler, Helen Ann Coin, Nick Pane, Shane Eachus

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Students in Free Enterprise Wins Regional Competition • Ursinus Celebrates Student Artwork with Annual Exhibit • Students Volunteer with UCARE's Community Week • Gala to Benefit Education in Haiti • Ursinus Bike Share Goes National • Seniors Reflect on UC Memories • Senior Spotlight: UC Softball's Lauren Davis-Macedonia; Track and Field's Travis Youngs

Cheairs, Nathaniel Frances, 1818-1914 (Sc 2257), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2257. Portion of a deposition provided by Nathaniel Francis Cheairs in a claims case related to damages done to the property of Larkin F. Baker when a Civil War fortification known as Baker's Hill was constructed by Confederate forces on his property at Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1861. The original of this document is in the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Courts-Martial And Courts Of Inquiry (Sc 2265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2265. Civil War General Orders no. 269 (printed) related to courts-martial of Kentuckians or those engaged in events that occurred in Kentucky.

Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 2263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2263. Letters (2) written by Nell Childress, Auburn, Kentucky, to her friends Louise Blakey and Margie Helm in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The 1962 letter describes the commemorative locomotive "The General" that visited Auburn during the Civil War centennial. The other letter discusses community events, particularly information about the Auburn Baptist Church.

Brashear, Kathleen, 1895-1986 (Sc 2260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2260. Card, with picture of his home, sent by T.C. Cherry to teacher Kathleen Brashear, prior to the outbreak of World War II. Also, related correspondence and biographical material about Brashear.

Chesnut, Walter Lewis, 1916-2014 (Sc 2262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2262. Paper: "A History of Auburn Seminary" written by Walter Lewis Chesnut. The seminary, established by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1892, was located in Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky.

Cheek, Martha (Butt), 1892-1987 (Sc 2258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2258. Postcard to Martha Cheek, Lexington, Kentucky, related to a 1948 luncheon of alumnae of Logan College, Russellville, Kentucky; typed compilation of Logan College alumnae, 1953.