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Full-Text Articles in Women's History
Bibliography, Kristi Branham
Bibliography, Kristi Branham
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Bibliography of publications by Kristi Branham.
Heritage, Tradition, And Craft In Quiltmaking (Fa 1131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Heritage, Tradition, And Craft In Quiltmaking (Fa 1131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1131. Collection contains Interviews, photographs, and informant data sheets relating to Sandy Staebell's project with quiltmakers in Allen County and Monroe County, Kentucky and Macon County, Tennessee for the 2017-2018 Osby Lee Hire and Lillian K. Garrison Hire Memorial Lecture Series.
Tapley, Corinne Rachel, 1892-1945 (Sc 3060), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tapley, Corinne Rachel, 1892-1945 (Sc 3060), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3060. The Little Colonel’s Good Times Book (Boston: L. C. Page, 1909) containing birthday records and diary entries of Corinne R. Tapley, Watertown, New York, from January 1910 to September 1912. She writes of social occasions, travel to New York City, graduating from high school, and participation in a wedding party.
Ua12/2/2 2015 Talisman: Resurgence, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/2 2015 Talisman: Resurgence, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
2015 Talisman yearbook.
- Osborne Sam. Into the Woods – Big To-Do Music & Arts Festival
- Spalding, Shelley. The Outliers – Greeks
- Badjie, Haddy. The Right to Live – Racism
- Gibson, Helen. Net Worth – Soccer
- Greer, John. Sustaining Seasons – Sustainability
- Wegert, Sally. Bloom – Eva Ross
- Cislo, Everett. Harvest – Hemp
- Kolb, William. Preserve – John All
- Voorhees, Jessica. Making Strides – Track & Field
- Greer, John. The Science Guy – Bill Nye
- Cole, Tanner. Lip Service – Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Belknap, Abby. Race to the Senate
- Gibson, Helen. Game of Loans – Student Financial Aid
- Belknap, Abby. …
Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 2817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 2817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text of letter (Click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2817. Letter, 28 October 1905, of author Alice (Hegan) Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to Helen Keller. She praises Keller’s recent autobiography and reports on its popularity with the girls at a Japanese boarding school Rice visited the past summer. Rice encloses a composition of one of the students (not included in this collection) in which she writes that “the eyes of [Keller’s] heart are open.”
Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 60. Correspondence of Thomas V. Ferrell, teacher and businessman, and of his wife, Winnie (58 items), and of their daughter Thelma (94 items), of Somerset, Kentucky; Ferrell family legal papers (7 items); notes of Thelma, who worked for the Somerset Journal for years; and miscellaneous receipts, clippings, etc.
Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 410. Materials relating to Duncan Hines and the marketing of the “Duncan Hines” brand of food products. Includes obituary notices for Duncan Hines, ice cream franchise agreement, stock certificate books for related companies, and a study on marketing the brand to consumers, especially women.
Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2546. Laura Elizabeth Richardson’s notebook containing holographic notes about the history of quilting. Notebook includes hand executed quilt pattern images in ink, poems, definitions of quilting terms, and textile descriptions. Includes notes about the provenance of Richardson’s quilt collectionand her furniture.
Philips, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 - Relating To (Sc 2533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Philips, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 - Relating To (Sc 2533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2533. Typewritten remarks, author unknown, about Emanie Nahm’s 1924 novel, Talk. The reviewer speculates on the people and places in Nahm’s home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky on which the novel may have been based, and refers to a reported visit to Nahm in Bowling Green by the author Rebecca West.
Eclectic Book Club (Mss 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eclectic Book Club (Mss 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 407. Minute book, yearbooks, and financial data of the Eclectic Book Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 395. Minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other records of the LARTHS Club, a literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1925.
Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 261. Handwritten, pencil manuscript of “The Reformation of Sam Amos” by Lida Calvert Obenchain (Eliza Calvert Hall). This was one of nine stores published by Little Brown & Co. in The Land of Long Ago, 1909.
May, Gloria (Sc 2512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
May, Gloria (Sc 2512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2512. Two letters from Gloria May (Mrs. Philip S. May, Jr.), Jacksonville, Florida, to Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky, with personal news. She also relates anecdotes about the shopping habits of Pauline Tabor, a Bowling Green madam, and the luxuries she afforded her employees.
Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 391. Correspondence and published stories of Logan County, Kentucky, romance story writer Anne Ridings Trimble. The correspondence is between Trimble and Kentucky Library librarians Mary Leiper Moore and Elizabeth Coombs. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of Trimble stories mentioned in the collection.
Evans, Mollie F. (Sc 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Evans, Mollie F. (Sc 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 244. Letters written by Evan, 5 January 1870 and 17 May 1870, from Russellville and Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky, to Mr. J. P. Morton, Louisville, related to the possible publication of her manuscript.
Doyle, Kathina J., B. 1990 (Fa 537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Doyle, Kathina J., B. 1990 (Fa 537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional File" below) for Folklife Archives Project 537. Project in which Kathina Jo Doyle executed a cultural analysis of the hope chest, a physical piece of furniture (chest) or a collection of items that a young woman assembled for her future household. This project was a requirement for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes colored illustrations and a transcript of an interview done with Doyle's maternal grandmother Beatrice Firkin.
Klimowicz, Teresa D. (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Klimowicz, Teresa D. (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 13. Interviews conducted by Teresa D. Klimowicz with Esther (Magers) Isbell, a native of Barren Coutny, Kentucky. Special attention is focused on her biblical themed quilts. Isbell also discusses her various occupations and participation in community affairs while living in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 11. Interviews conducted by Luanne Carol (Aylesworth) Glynn with Marvel (Welborn) Mohon, Lewisburg, Kentucky concerning Thanksgiving customs, with much attention paid to Marvel’s life, especially her family.
Interview With Opal Cline Crabb Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Opal Cline Crabb Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Opal Cline Crabb conducted by Joe Adams for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Crabb discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in McLean County, Kentucky, education, her teaching experience in a one-room school, food preservation at home including hog butchering and meat processing, the introduction of radios and televisions, the Green River and steamboats.
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 317. Professional correspondence, short stories, book and story manuscripts, author's notes, reviews, and primary and secondary research materials relating to the literary career of Emanie Louise Nahm Philips, a Bowling Green native. Includes some photographs, notices and reviews relating to her work as an artist, family biographical material, and personal correspondence.
Over Here, Over There (Fa 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Over Here, Over There (Fa 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 480. Collection contains recorded interviews and transcriptions conducted by David Baxter and Laura Harper Lee. The interviews contain information about the war effort at home and, for those who served, their experiences with the military and their combat experiences specifically.
Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2159. Letters (some incomplete) to Bertha C. Stephenson, of Milton, Trimble County, Kentucky, from friends, relatives and sweethearts in Kentucky, California and Florida. They write of gifts and photographs exchanged, mutual friends, travel, romances, and Stephenson's upcoming wedding. Includes a handwritten notice from the Board of Health requiring Stephenson and her pupils to be vaccinated in order to conduct school (click on "Additional Files" below for scan).
Robertson, Stephen & Cindy Robertson (Fa 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, Stephen & Cindy Robertson (Fa 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 436. Interview with June Long conducted by Stephen Robertson and Cindy Roberston for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Interview With Stella Mudd Allen Regarding Her Life In Daviess County, Kentucky (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Stella Mudd Allen Regarding Her Life In Daviess County, Kentucky (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an oral history interview done with Stella Mudd Allen by Karen Owen on July 29, 1986 as part of a project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." She discusses social life and customs, growing up on a farm, her education, games, home remedies, courtship, dressmaking, automobiles, floods, and electrification.
Chase, Barbara J. (Fa 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chase, Barbara J. (Fa 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 316. Paper: "A Study of the Black Cosmetology Field" written by Barbara J. Chase for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Hardinsburg Magazine Club - Breckinridge County, Kentucky (Mss 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardinsburg Magazine Club - Breckinridge County, Kentucky (Mss 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 216. Chiefly minutes, bound and loose, of the Hardinsburg Magazine Club, Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky. Also includes correspondence, program information, news clippings, and a few yearbooks.
Interview With Yvonne Dodge Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Yvonne Dodge Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Yvonne Dodge, Princeton, Kentucky, conducted by Michael Ann Williams regarding the life of Sarah Gertrude Knott and her sister Gladys Knott. Dodge discusses the Knott family, but the majority of the interview focuses on Sarah's personal and professional life, including her work with the National Folk Festival.
Interview With Joe Hickerson Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Joe Hickerson Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Joe Hickerson at the Library of Congress regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott and the National Folk Festival. Also includes discussions about folk music, folk musicians, and the National Council for the Traditional Arts.
Ua37/21/2 Research Interview, William Jenkins, Suzanne Hansen
Ua37/21/2 Research Interview, William Jenkins, Suzanne Hansen
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Research interview with Suzanne Hansen owner-operator of Recycled Revolution. The tape has quite a lot of background noise which occasionally make it difficult to hear what is being said.
For more information regarding Recycled Revolution see:
- Apodaca, Rose. New-Age Junkies, Los Angeles Times, 4/23/1993.
Interview With Mattie Lou (Emmett) Thrasher Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Mattie Lou (Emmett) Thrasher Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Mattie Lou (Emmett) Thrasher conducted by Karen Owen for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Thrasher discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Hancock County, Kentucky, education, electrification, teachers and teaching, motherhood, race relations, attitudes toward tenant farmers, automobiles, the Great Depression and World War II.