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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 17, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Club - Notes
• Engagements – Weddings
• Faculty Notes
• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Sports Spotlight

This issue contains articles:

• Enrollment for Second Semester Shows Increase
• Toppers, Breds in Same Draw
• “First Novels Are Easy to Sell,” Says Famous Grad – Ann Davis
• Keith Chloe, Robert Todd, and Woodford Moseley Selected
• Fund Allotted for New Drill Field
• English Group Convenes on Hill Tonight
• Pictures Due for Talisman
• “I’d Like to Cook for Him” – Cora Edson
• Famed Biologist to Speak Tonight – Thomas …

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 023 And 024, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 025 And 026, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 24, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This particular show is a play written using letters owned by Lenora Lindley of Livermore, Kentucky written by a freed slave in Liberia to her former owner in Ohio County, Kentucky.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. V, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Chapel
• Class News
• Club News
• Editorials
• Kempusology Inside Out by Kelly Thompson
• Kollege Kampus Ravings by A. Shavings
• Personals
• Rambling ‘Round by Leon Cook
• Training School Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Miss Julia Duvall Dies Suddenly of Pneumonia
• Western Student is Injured When Cars Crash on State St. – Sewell Welch
• Sophie Braslau Makes Great Hit in Concert Here
• Dudley Talks to Historians on the Hill
• State Champs – Lady Hilltoppers
• Faculty Gives Reception for Student Body
• Prof. J.R. Alexander Attacks Modern Life …

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 002 And 003, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 004 And 005, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

No abstract provided.

Cummings Guest House Register (Full), Usm African American Collection

Cummings Guest House Register

The Cummings family of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, ran a guest house from 1923 until 1993. Register in which guests signed themselves in or were signed in by staff at the Cummings Guest House, 110 Portland Ave., Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Includes signatures of family members who attended reunions after the Guest House ceased operation.

Date Range:

1923-1998

Size of Collection:

1 ft.

Provenance:

The Cummings Guest House Register belonged to the Cummings Guest House, in operation in Old Orchard Beach ME from 1923 into the 1990s. It was purchased by the University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Library, with some …

Omaha's Riot In Story And Picture, Educational Publishing Company

Digitized Books

No abstract provided.

Eastern Maine Real Estate Company Meeting Minutes; May 25, 1911 - Dec 26, 1917, Eastern Maine Real Estate Company

Eastern Real Estate Company Archives

Meeting minutes from the Eastern Maine Real Estate Company, covering May 25, 1911 through December 26, 1917.

Ua1b3/7 Oratorical League Committee, Wku Faculty

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence regarding proposed constitution of the Central Oratorical League consisting of Indiana State University, Eastern Kentucky University and Ohio University. William Craig was appointed a committee of one to study the viability of WKU's participation. Includes program for oratorical contest held May 27, 1910 in Van Meter Hall.

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vii, No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Toast to Potter
• Redmond, Ethel. A Negro Sermon
• McCurdy, B.O. Never Seem to Be What You Are Not
• Eastland, May. A New “Brer Rabbit & Brer Possum” Story
• The Universal Sovereign
• Postlewaite, Delphia. Pat’s Joke
• Description of the Azores
• Sanders, Norah. Ghosts
• Barr, Corrine. Interpretation of Prometheus Unbound
• Mitchell, Katherine. The Misfortunes of Rastus
• Earth’s Pain
• The Passing of Pleasant Potter College
• Wilford, John. The Passing of Pleasant J. Potter College …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V. No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Pillsbury, Agatha. Art & Life
• Smith, Mary. Mandy’s Wedding
• Stevens, India. Home Sweet Home
• Buchanan, Pauline. The Mammoth Cave Trip
• YWCA Notes
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Delta Pi Kappa
• Mu Phi Psi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Serenades
• Irregular Entertainment
• Lost River
• Senior Banquet – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Senior Day
• Flag Rush – From the Junior Point of View
• Jokes
• Mrs. Amy Henschel’s Home-Coming
• Personals
• Exchanges
• Teachers’ Recital
• Thanksgiving Program
• Recital Potter …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• McKinney, Luna. The Nineteenth Century Modification of the Epic: The Ring & the Book
• Compensation
• Stevens, India. A Pleasant Prescription
• Gay Motes that People the Sunbeams
• Epler, Clara. A Realized Ideal
• Lewis, Lena. January Nineteenth
• Bryan, Helen. A Year in the Philippines
• Patterson, Maggie. Aunt Hannah’s Experience
• Mu Phi Psi
• Sigma Theta Phi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Delta Pi Kappa
• New Year Reception
• Presbyterian Reception
• YWCA Notes
• In Memoriam – Alice Moore …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Iii, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• Santo Domingo & the United States
• Kirby, Clara. A Dead Letter
• Willis, Effie. Milton’s Minor Poems
• Baker, Louise. Uncle Reuben’s Baptism
• Myers, Willie. Was Godfrey Cass a Victim of Circumstances?
• Gorin, Rebecca. The Expression of the Emotions in Cats
• Faculty & Students’ Reception
• Mr. Walter Spry’s Recital
• The YWCA Reception
• Reception for Seniors & Sophomores
• YWCA Notes
• Exchange

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Ii, No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• The Degeneracy of the Modern Novel
• A Plea for the New Novel
• The Home Makers
• Faculty of Potter College
• Aunt Charlotte
• Our Next Presidential Campaign
• Memories
• Societies
• Dead Sea Fruit
• Why I Disliked the Last Book I Read
• The Last Book I Read
• Exchange
• Mrs. Smith’s Forget-Me-Not Party
• The Senior Reception – Class of 1904 (PC)
• Alumnae Notes
• College Notes

Eagle Eye, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

This issue features suggestions for voting, personals with obituaries, places to lodge and eat, accidents, Woodlow School, church directory, and discussion of who was greater; Booker T. Washington or Frederick Douglass.

Ua1a The Illustrated South, Vol. 3, No. 1, The Illustrated South

WKU Administration Documents

Single sheet newspaper printed in Louisville, Kentucky.

• Graduating Class of Potter College at Bowling Green, 1901
• The Girl He Married Secret
• Joseph Reed, President Lawyers' Club
• If You Would Read Character Study Lips
• After the Quarrel
• Lynchings
• O'Malley, Charles. Hush, Hark, the Fairyland Bells Are Ringing

Cabinet Photograph Of Millie [And] Christine, "The Two Headed Nightingale," N.D., Ollivier

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Cabinet card is 6.5in (16.5cm) tall and 4.5in (11cm) wide. Millie and Christine are photographed in full portrait, each in fine clothes and shoes, each grasping the curtains that frame them in the photographer's studio. Christine, presumably the figure on the right, hold a fan in her right hand.

Government Education Of The Indians, Eliza Alice Tefft

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Overview of the U.S. Government’s failed and successful attempts to educate natives of the country.

Fictional Advertisement, An Illustration From "Tom Clifton...." By Warren Lee Goss, 1892: "Gang Of 25 Sea Island Cotton And Rice Negroes", Warren Lee Goss

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This item was originally created and disseminated as an illustration in the novel Tom Clifton, or, Western boys in Grant and Sherman's army, '61-'65, by Warren Lee Goss, published in 1892. The advertisement appeared on an unnumbered page in chapter 7.

This is a fictional advertisement for a sale of 25 enslaved people in Charleston, S.C. at Ryan's Mart on Chalmers Street, September 25, 1852.

Glenn Springs, So. Ca. : Its Location, Discovery, History, Personal Sketches Of Its Habitues, What It Will Cure, &C., Trimmier's Printing Office And Book Store, Simpson & Simpson

Local History

From Introduction:

"[....][Y]ou will find this an interesting little volume, containing a romance of the discovery of Glenn Springs in the time of the Indians; its re-discovery by the white man, and its history, with personal sketches of some of South Carolina's distinguished men, who were constant visitors at this fountain of health; and other description of Glenn Springs as a Summer Resort and accounts of the wonderful results from the use of this water."

Ua96/3 Southern Normal School - Class Lists, Southern Normal School

WKU Administration Documents

Class lists for Southern Normal School and early Bowling Green Business University 1876-1910. These lists are incomplete and are part of UA96 Southern Normal School Records. Check KenCat for extant corresponding class portraits.

Carte-De-Visite Photograph: "2 Headed Girl, Millie Crissie," No Date., J. H. Fitzgibbon

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McKoy in full portrait. Date of photograph unknown (likely ca. 1870, subjects died 1912).

Six Military And Patriotic Illustrated Songs. Elaborately Colored. In A Novel Form. Series No. 1., Charles Magnus, John F. Poole, W. J. Florence, George P. Holt, Daniel Decatur Emmett, Tony Pastor, Dan Bryant

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This publication contains the lyrics to six songs, each accompanied by a color illustration, and an advertisement on the last page.

1. Our Grandfathers' Days

2. The Captain with his Whiskers

3. Want — A Substitute

4. Dixie's Land

5. Young American and ould Ireland

6. Kingdom Coming

Letter From James Harrison To James A. Seddon, December 23, 1864., James Harrison

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Harrison, colonel in the Confederate Army, suggests to the Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon the establishment of an alliance with Comanche Native Americans to disrupt United States trade and government routes in the West.

Receipt To C. Sareon For Loss Of His Slave, Hooker, To Employment In The Confederate Army, South Carolina. Columbia, February, 1864., South Carolina

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Instrument indicating Sareon received $1250 from S.C. for having Hooker, his slave, build military fortifications in the state.

Runaway Slave Broadside From Clay County, Missouri, Dated July 14, 1860., Gideon Thompson

Documents Related to Slavery

RANAWAY

FROM the residence of the undersigned, one mile north of Barry, Clay county, Mis- souri, on the night of the 13th inst., a mulatto negro girl named

VERCILLA,

aged about 17 years, weighs about 135 lbs., and has a scar on her left jaw. ..A liberal reward will be given for the delivery of said negro girl to me, or her confinement so that I can get her

GIDEON THOMPSON. Clay Co., Mo., July 14, 1860.

Sworn Oath To Not Provide Liquor To Enslaved Persons; Liquor License., B. H. Teague, Aiken, Barnwell District, South Carolina

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

John F. Cutter attests to not provide or sell liquor to any enslaved persons. Aiken, Barnwell District, South Carolina, 1859.

Warrant For $496.89 Due John A. Watie, Signed By Cherokee Leader Stand Watie. January 26, 1847., Stand Watie

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Stand Watie signs a warrant for $496.89 owed his brother John A. Watie, January 26, 1847.