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Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 3639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 3639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3639. Postcard advertising the spring opening, 10 February 1915, of the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky, inviting patrons to inspect fabrics and designs and offering samples by mail.
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Mss 89), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Mss 89), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 89. Pattern pieces for articles of women’s clothing, primarily jackets or shirtwaists, used in Taylor’s Bowling Green, Kentucky dressmaking business. The pieces are made of paper and in some cases carry penciled notations of names, presumably of the client(s) for whom the garment was being made.
Jureka, Theresa L. (Sc 2025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jureka, Theresa L. (Sc 2025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2025. "Women and Work at the Turn of the Century: The Mrs. A. H. Taylor Dressmaking Company," M.A. thesis submitted by Theresa L. Jureka to WKU Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies.
Centers, Janice Faye Walker (Sc 2024), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Centers, Janice Faye Walker (Sc 2024), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2024. "A Kentucky Dressmaker, Mrs. A. H. (Carrie) Taylor: An Examination of Her Role in Fashion at the Turn of the Century," M.S. thesis submitted by Janice Faye Walker Centers to WKU Department of Home Economics and Family Living. Includes typescripts of correspondence with descendants of Taylor and her customers.
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2019), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2019), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2019. Minute book of the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes some financial information and related correspondence.