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Bell, Tennie Juliet (Odom), 1872-1943 (Sc 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Bell, Tennie Juliet (Odom), 1872-1943 (Sc 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 74. Essay written by Tennie Juliet (Odom) Bell, of Texas, while a student at Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky.


Mcgown, Hattie Russ (Sc 2656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Mcgown, Hattie Russ (Sc 2656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2656. Letter of Hattie (Mrs. Hugh) McGown, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her sister Burlie Ellis, Richelieu, Kentucky. She reports on her husband’s work as a railroad switchman, the participation of her son Joe in a school play, and her progress in joining a new church. She also describes witnessing efforts to extract a car from a ditch on her family’s return from a visit to her father.


Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 804. Paper entitled “Early Schools of Bowling Green [Kentucky],” written by Lavinia R. Scott. Includes information about the Southern College of Kentucky, Mary Kendall Jones’ Female Seminary, Samuel Moore Gaines’ Presbyterian School for Young Ladies, and George Edgar’s Bowling Green Female College.


Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 792), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 792), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 792. Letters, 1916-1929, written by Lida (Calvert) Obenchain (“Eliza Calvert Hall”), Bowling Green, Kentucky and Dallas, Texas, to Mrs. W.A. Lee, Russellville, Kentucky regarding suffrage work; and to Lee’s daughter Sophie providing information to assist in writing her master’s thesis on Obenchain. Includes a 1986 letter of Sophie (Lee) Anderson relating to the items.


Ua12/2/7 Student Affairs - Panhellenic Council, Wku Archives Jan 2013

Ua12/2/7 Student Affairs - Panhellenic Council, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Panhellenic Council.


Ua19/16/1 Cross Country / Track & Field Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations Jan 2013

Ua19/16/1 Cross Country / Track & Field Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

WKU track and field media guide for 2013-14 season.


Ua35/11 Honors Program, Wku Archives Jan 2013

Ua35/11 Honors Program, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Honors Program. Includes brochures, awards programs, student handbooks, newsletters and research publications.


Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2649. Subscription lists, receipts and other financial records related to the operation of Smiths Grove College in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. Includes a debate outline demanding equal rights for women (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).


Robinson, Helen E., 1905-1986 And Ruth Robinson, 1897-1991 (Mss 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Robinson, Helen E., 1905-1986 And Ruth Robinson, 1897-1991 (Mss 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 437. Correspondence of Ruth and Helen E. Robinson, chiefly with cousins and other family members. Most of the letters are incoming Christmas cards filled with family information.


Ladies Literary Society - Lewisburg, Kentucky (Sc 793), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Ladies Literary Society - Lewisburg, Kentucky (Sc 793), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 793. Photocopy of the minutes of the Ladies’ Literary Society of Lewisburg, Kentucky, 15 November 1911 to 27 March 1912. Lists those in attendance, topics discussed, and writings by the secretary and others.


Moore, Gilbertine Douglass, 1914-2008 (Mss 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Moore, Gilbertine Douglass, 1914-2008 (Mss 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 435. Correspondence, autograph albums, travel accounts and other miscellaneous material of Franklin, Kentucky native Gilbertine Moore. Moore owned a seed inspection business in Franklin and was interested in the arts, nature, and writing.


Whitaker, Matilda Lucretia, 1841-1892 (Mss 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Whitaker, Matilda Lucretia, 1841-1892 (Mss 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 434. Photocopies of the Civil War diaries of Matilda Lucretia Whitaker, Grove Spring, Logan County, Kentucky. Whitaker sympathized with the South and noted the activities of Confederate troops in Russellville. Poetry and songs are also included.


Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 426. Correspondence and genealogical research collected by Marietta Mansfield, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, and a Methodist minister that served various churches in Kentucky. The bulk of the collection relates to the Mansfield and Osborn(e) families of Kentucky and West Virginia. Includes letters written by Mansfield while serving as a missionary in India during the 1950s. Click on "Additional Files" below for various Mansfield notes on her hospitalization in India after she contracted polio.


Cook, Elizabeth Charlotte (Mss 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Cook, Elizabeth Charlotte (Mss 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 403. Letters written by various male friends, many in military service during World War II, to Elizabeth Charlotte Cook while she was in school at Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky and Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Some of the letters are of a courtship nature.


Salyers, Mary Alice, 1910-1998 - Letters To (Mss 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Salyers, Mary Alice, 1910-1998 - Letters To (Mss 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 430. Courtship letters sent to Mary Alice Salyers, Somerset, Kentucky from various suitors, chiefly Charles Duke Payne, a Christian minister and her future husband, Richard Allen Hays.


Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 431. Sundry items from Lillian Iona Tynes’s childhood and adolescence in Russellville, Kentucky, including greeting and holiday cards, correspondence, diaries, report cards, programs from school functions, news clippings, church programs, and more.


Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Mss 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Mss 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 423. Family letters, notes and typescripted scrapbook items (primarily contemporary newspaper articles) relating to the family and career of Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan.


Decantillon, Mary E. (Sc 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Decantillon, Mary E. (Sc 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 514. Autograph album of Mary E. DeCantillon of Louisville, Kentucky, which contains essays as well as autographs.


Perry, Emily Bailey, 1844-1923 (Sc 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Perry, Emily Bailey, 1844-1923 (Sc 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 513. Album containing autographs of Civil War Confederate soldiers. It was found on a Southern battlefield and was presented to Emily Perry of Hopkinsville, Kentucky by a friend in 1866. Includes autographs of Kentucky soldiers, some having served with John Hunt Morgan.


Hassman, Drusilla (Hand), 1875-1971 (Mss 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Hassman, Drusilla (Hand), 1875-1971 (Mss 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 413. Chiefly courtship letters addressed to Drusilla (Hand) Hassman, Evansville, Indiana from various male admirers. Also correspondence with her husband, Fred Hassman, and letters sent to them as a married couple from friends and family.


Ware, Josiah William, 1802-1883 (Sc 2561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Ware, Josiah William, 1802-1883 (Sc 2561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 2561. Letter of Josiah William Ware, written from Greensburg, Kentucky to his cousin Winnifred Williams, Paris, Kentucky. Ware provides anecdotes relating to his travel, including an acquaintance’s account of a conversation with the guards of accused murderer Jereboam O. Beauchamp about evidence of his guilt.


Condict Family Letters (Sc 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Condict Family Letters (Sc 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 21. Letter written by Rebecca Condict, Warrick County, Indiana, to her sister, Mrs. Mary Condict, Ohio County, Kentucky, 1830, advising frequent bathing as a cure for sickness, and a letter written by Uzal Condict from McLennan County, Texas, to his wife Mary, describing his trip to Texas, 1859.


Daughters Of America - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Daughters Of America - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 499. Officers’ bonds of Val Frey as trustee and William Breitenstein as recording secretary of Banner Council, No. 7, Daughters of America, Louisville, Kentucky.


Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection 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 Aug 2012

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection 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.


Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 488. Photocopy of paper entitled “Reminiscences of the Life and Teachings of Mary Kendall Jones while a Resident of this City,” written by a former student, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sometime during the period 1883-1887.


Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) 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 collection and her furniture.


Wright, Linda Sue (Sc 2548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Wright, Linda Sue (Sc 2548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2548. Letter, 1959, written by Linda Sue Wright, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, to Martha Rasdall explaining that she had selected Rasdall as her "little sister" in the Future Homemakers of America chapter at North Warren High School.


Campbell, May E. (Sc 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Campbell, May E. (Sc 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 510. Autograph album of May E. Campbell, Newport, Kentucky, 1883-1885, which contains autographs of Bowling Green, Kentucky friends. Also, a 1972 letter from Florence Cooksey, Madison, Wisconsin, a relative of Miss Campbell.


Washington, William Armstead, 1800-1883 (Sc 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Washington, William Armstead, 1800-1883 (Sc 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 506. Memory album containing poetry written by William Armstead Washington, Logan County, Kentucky, some of which was written for his sisters, Sarah Virginia and Louisa Fairfax. Also, a poem written by J.A.C. Boyer which he dedicated to Sarah V. Washington, and holographic notes (2) are included.