Museum Studies Commons^™

To Tell The Truth: The Lesbian Herstory Archives: Chronicling A People And Fighting Invisibility Since 1974, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

A portrait of the Lesbian Herstory Archives by a volunteer, describing the archive in its original home in Joan Nestle's Upper West Side New York City apartment that she shared with Mabel Hampton. Originally published in Out/Week Magazine.

Renée Heyum's Review Of Louise Hanson And F. Allan Hanson's The Art Of Oceania: A Bibliography, Renée Heyum

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 45, No. 2, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Administration Documents

WKU alumni magazine. Features the following articles:

• The Kentucky Building
• Handy, Riley. Kentucky in Storage for Posterity
• Baird, Nancy. Remember When: The Kentucky Building Making It a Reality
• Mounce, Bill. The Kentucky Museum
• MacLeish, Bruce & Anne Johnston. Kentucky Museum: A Task Never Finished
• Farley, Jeannette, et al. The Kentucky Library: By and About Kentucky and Kentuckians
• Ball, Ed. The Teacher Corps
• Conway, Sheila. America's Heritage Homecoming 1975
• McCubbin, Mary. Student Volunteers
• Dougherty, Russell. Free Men and Things
• WKU Awarded Media Grant for In-Service
• Conway, Sheila. Youngsters Like Mr. Bob - Robert Otto
• Regents Okay New Academic Degree Programs
• Summer …

History Of The University Of Northern Iowa Museum, 1890-1975, Pauline L. Sauer

Library Documents & Reports (entire collection)

The museum at the University of Northern Iowa has been an important adjunct of the institution since the last decade of the nineteenth century. The first 65 or so years of its existence are reviewed by the late Mr. Fred Cram, then archivist at the Iowa State Teachers College, in a 15-page paper, “The Museum at the Iowa State Normal School,” prepared in 1955 at the request of Dr. Emmett J. Cable, curator of the museum. The information on this era, summarized below, is gleaned from this paper unless otherwise noted.

Ua37/6 Gayle Carver & L.Y. Lancaster Interview, Sara Tyler, L. Y. Lancaster, Gayle Carver

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Interviews conducted by Sara Tyler with Gayle Carver and L.Y. Lancaster. The majority of the interviews are about the history of the Kentucky Building and Kentucky Museum collections. There is also information regarding WKU in the 1910s through 1950s, student activities, WKU Bookstore, faculty and staff members, Henry Cherry and other information about the early history of WKU.

The Museum At The Iowa State Normal School (State College Of Iowa), Fred Cram

Library Documents & Reports (entire collection)

So far as a careful scanning of the catalogs of ISNS reveals, the first mention of a museum occurs in the 1896 issue, where on page 45 we find that “Natural Science has its museum well stocked with minerals, rocks, fossils dried and alcoholic specimens.”

While our Museum has usually been referred to as one of natural history, there has accumulated over the years a miscellaneous collection of other materials. There are items of historical value, such as swords, guns, and uniforms. There are old documents, coins, and curiosities. There are boats and other items from river and sea. Industrial …

Ua3/1/1 Departmental Reports, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Reports by various WKU department heads to the president:

• Canon, E.H. Graduates 1924-1929
• Johnson, Lowe. Training School
• Pearce, W.M. Extension Department
• Diddle, E.A. & Carl Anderson. Health Education & Athletics
• Seward, R.H. College Heights Foundation
• Craig, W.J. Personnel Department [Placement Services]
• Yates, Charleen. Library
• Burton, A.C. Rural Demonstration School & Rural Education
• Smith, L.T. Industrial Arts Department
• College Heights Post Office
• College Heights Herald
• Bookstore
• Art Museum
• Kentucky Museum
• Three Hundred Thousand Dollar Campaign
• Taylor, Charles. Agriculture
• Strahm, Franz. Music
• Home Economics
• ROTC
• Hill, Will. All Star & Lecture Program & Publicity
• Woodward, R.C. Grounds
• Hines, J. Porter. Mechanical Department …