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Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Van Meter Auditorium, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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Correspondence of Henry Cherry with a variety of contractors regarding the construction of Van Meter Hall. Also includes information regarding the dedication and general reception when the building opened.

• American Seating Company
• Jake Bornstein
• C.E. Morris
• Superior Seating Company
• R.W. Koch
• Andrews Company
• Brinton Davis
• A.J. Anderson & Company
• Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
• S. Keighley Metal Ceiling & Manufacturing Company
• Dow Wire & Iron Works
• First National Bank of Louisville
• Bowling Green Machine Company

Ua37/42 Commercial Teachers Training School, Bowling Green Business University

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Promotional pamphlet advertising the commercial teachers training school, summer 1912.

Ua11/1 On Normal Heights, Wku Public Affairs

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Promotional picture booklet of Western Kentucky University which includes images of the major buildings, students working on campus, faculty, Mammoth Cave, Barren River and student body.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. V, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

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Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Next Place
• The Big Fired and the Bowling Green Business University
• If and If
• The Time Was
• An Investment
• Professor L.T. Dickey
• Seibert’s Band at BGBU Chapel
• Booming Big Institution
• Kentucky Defined
• No Cut Rates
• Fifteen Hundred Boarders
• Our Competitors
• To the Ambitious
• May or May Not
• What Advancement?
• Outings, Recreation & Rent
• Topmiller Orchestra at Chapel
• Wonderful Speed
• A Good Name
• All Lost!
• Typewriting
• How a Teacher May Double His Salary
• Is It Fair?
• Champion Typewriter …

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Iv, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

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Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Old Students
• Qualifications & Qualities
• Does It Pay?
• Accomplishment or Asset?
• Commencement – Class of 1910 (BGBU)
• City Officials Welcome Students
• Kodak Contest
• Our Competitors
• Lyceum Course
• Reading Room
• Over 1,500 Boarders
• Here is the Reason
• Repairs & Betterment
• Can I Get a Position?
• Let’s Suppose a Case
• The Trade-Mark
• To Serve is to Bless
• Eliminate the Parasite
• Inspiring Records of Successful Young People
• Banking
• The Gulf States Excursion
• Five Governors
• Commerce Course
• An Open Door
• Certain …

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Davis, Brinton, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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Correspondence between Henry Cherry and architect Brinton Davis regarding the construction of Van Meter Hall.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

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Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Remarkable Business Outlook
• Can I Get a Position?
• The Illustrated Catalog
• Prosperity Coming
• Self Supporting
• Good Times Are Again in Sight
• Civil Service
• Qualification Required
• How to Get Appointment
• Salaries
• A Thousand Successful Old Students
• A Report to Congress
• A Prominent Railroad Official
• A Fact is a Fact
• Station Work
• Will Take Students
• The Crow & the Spurs
• Better Than Gold
• Gratifying & Cheering
• Academic Course
• A Recognition
• Banking
• The Commerce Course
• Outline of Commerce Course
• The …

Ua98 1909 Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

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1909 Talisman yearbook produced by the Potter College for Young Ladies.

• Faculty
• Talisman Staff
• Brief History of Potter College
• Teachers & Officers
• Departments
• Class of 1909
• Senior Class History
• Falter, Elizabeth. Incarnation
• Ballard, Trudie. WIll of Class of 1909
• Junior Class
• Hogin, Inamay. Junior Class History
• Sophomore Class
• Keith, Katherine. Nineteen Hundred & Eleven
• Freshman Class
• Mitchell, Katherine. Freshman Class History
• Specials & Irregulars
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Sigma Iota Chi
• Eta Upsilon Gamma
• Phi Mu Gamma
• Cabell, Benjamin. Compensation
• Young Women's Christian Association
• Hypatian Literary Society
• Ossolian Society
• Green & Gold Staff
• Tennis Club
• Basketball
• Bowling Club
• Departments
• To the …

Ua3/1/1 President's Report, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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President Henry Cherry's report to Kentucky Superintendent of Public Instruction J.G. Crabbe regarding finances.

Ua98 1908 Potter College Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

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1908 Talisman yearbook produced by the Potter College for Young Ladies.

• Talisman Staff
• Teachers & Officers
• Class of 1908
• Senior Class History
• Class Poem – Class of 1908 (PC)
• Stevens, India. Senior Class Prophecy
• Parting Song
• And Some Fell by the Wayside
• Junior Class – Class of 1909 (PC)
• Buchanan, Pauline. Junior Class History
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1910 (PC)
• Sophomore Class History
• Freshman Class – Class of 1911 (PC)
• Freshman Class History
• Second Academic Class
• Specials & Irregulars
• Delta Pi Kappa Sorority
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Pan-Hellenic Council
• Kentucky Club
• Girls of the Sunny South
• Girls of the Golden …

Ua99/1 Scrapbook, Bgbu President's Office

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Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of newspaper photographs highlighting Bowling Green and Kentucky businesses, parks, roads, industry, agriculture and pastimes. The scrapbook is not dated.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. I, No. 2, Bowling Green Business University

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Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• We Thank You
• 15,000 Will Read This!
• Bowling Green a School Center
• The Spirit of the School
• A Wonderful Record
• No Saloons
• E.G. Jones
• Bowling Green Never Fails
• Drudges
• The Law Department
• Board & Lodging $10 to $12 a Month
• Old Students
• No Unreasonable Claims
• The Eastern Kentucky State Normal School
• Extract from Speech of H.D. Eades
• An Interesting Address – Chapel Exercises
• The Western Kentucky State Normal School
• Congratulations, Mr. John Mathis
• Allen County
• Societies
• Letter …

Ua3/1/1 Receipts & Disbursements, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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Henry Cherry's report regarding WKU income and accounts payable for fiscal year 1906-1907.

Ua98 1907 Potter College Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

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1907 Talisman yearbook produced by Potter College for Young Women.

• Biography – Benjamin Cabell
• Talisman Staff
• Teachers & Officers
• Class of 1907
• History of the Senior Class – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Senior Class Poem
• Junior Class - Class of 1908 (PC)
• Junior Class History
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1909 (PC)
• Sophomore Class History
• Freshman Class – Class of 1910 (PC)
• Freshman Class History
• The Specials
• Irregulars
• Sigma Theta Phi
• Delta Chapter of Mu Phi Psi Sorority
• Delta Pi Kappa Sorority
• Delta Sigma Omicron
• Lectures & Entertainments
• Young Women’s Christian Association
• Ossolian Literary Society
• Hypatian Literary Society
• Athletics – …

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. I, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

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Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Southern Exponent
• The Banking Course
• The Bowling Green Business University Catalogue
• The Commerce Course
• The New Stenographers
• Penmanship
• Spirit of the Institution
• A Great Institution
• Thanks
• The School of Telegraphy
• Millionaires Once Telegraph Operators
• Something New
• Mammoth Cave, the Greatest Wonder of the World, Near the BGBU
• From Our Local Clergy
• What the Bowling Green Business University is Doing
• Positions for Commercial Teachers
• A Permanent Institution
• Conditions Have Changed
• Literary Societies
• Special Notes on the Business Course …

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. I, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

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Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Southern Exponent
• The Banking Course
• The Bowling Green Business University Catalogue
• The Commerce Course
• The New Stenographers
• Penmanship
• Spirit of the Institution
• A Great Institution
• Thanks
• The School of Telegraphy
• Millionaires Once Telegraph Operators
• Mammoth Cave, the Greatest Natural Wonder of the World, Near the BGBU
• They Hold Fine Positions – Alumni
• Twelve Applications in One Day
• A Few of Our Former Students Whose Monthly Salaries Run from $100 to $250 Each
• Rates of Tuition
• Something Else …

Ua96/1 Southern Educator, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Southern Normal School

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Newspaper published by the Southern Normal School to advertise courses, publicize events on campus and keep alumni informed.

• Catalogue Information
• Literary Societies
• Important Suggestions
• Our Platform
• Library
• Our School May Not Suit You
• You Will Be Pleased
• Practical Information
• Teachers’ Department
• Some Advantages of the Teachers’ Course
• Course of Study in Southern Normal School
• Remarks on the Preparatory Course
• Scientific Course
• Classical Course
• Other Features Free
• J.S. Dickey
• Elocution & Oratory
• Conservatory of Music
• A Safe Place for Young Students at School Away from Home – Frisbie Hall
• Class of 1906 (SNS)
• Class of 1906 (BGBU)
• Editorial Notes – Western …

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

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Extant 1906 meeting minutes of the Southern Educational Building Company. Discussion of possible placement of Normal School in Bowling Green and transfer of property to state of Kentucky.

Ua96/1 Southern Educator, Vol.2, No. 4, Southern Normal School

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Quarterly newspaper published by the Southern Normal School to advertise courses, publicize events on campus and keep alumni informed.

• School of Shorthand
• Another Record
• Civil Service Opportunities
• School of Telegraphy
• A Business College
• Can You Beat Them?
• Class of 1906 (BGBU)
• Alumni of Southern Normal School
• To Our Boys & Girls
• Rates of Tuition Bowling Green Business University
• A New & Valuable Feature – Lectures by Businessmen
• Points
• A Rare Opportunity
• The BGBU Man
• Board
• Can I Get a Position?
• Special
• A Strong Address – W.S. Ashby
• The Southern Normal School

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

WKU Archives Records

Extant 1905 meeting minutes of the Southern Educational Building Company directors. Discussion of property dispute with Mrs. Thomas Wright, transfer of stock, and dissolution of Southern Educational Building Company.

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Normal School & Bowling Green University

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Extant 1904 meeting minutes of the Southern Normal School & Bowling Green University. Discussion of incorporation, selection of Henry Cherry as president, budget, salaries and employees.

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

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Extant 1903 meeting minutes of the Board of Directors of the Southern Educational Building Company. Discussion of sale of property.

Ua99/9 Sns/Bgbu National School Of Telegraphy, Civil Service, Railroading & Express, Bowling Green Business University, Southern Normal School

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Newsletter created by the SNS/BGBU National School of Telegraphy, Civil Service, Railroading & Express to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

Ua99/9 Sns/Bgbu National School Of Telegraphy, Civil Service, Railroading & Express, Bowling Green Business University, Southern Normal School

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Newsletter created by the SNS/BGBU National School of Telegraphy, Civil Service, Railroading & Express to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

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1901 meeting minutes of the Board of Directors of the Southern Educational Building Company. Discussion of collection of money from stockholders and resolution in honor of Captain Charles Vanmeter and naming the original Vanmeter Hall for him.

Ua3/1/3 Scrapbook, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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Scrapbook created by Southern Normal School president Henry Cherry regarding anti-cigarette league, manufacturing in the South and education.

• A Beautiful Thought, p. 63
• A Divided Heart, Hosea 10:2, p. 63
• A Fickle Life, p. 42
• Anti-Cigarette League, p. 49
• As a Beacon Light – Vitae-ore, p. 89
• Awarding Business College Diplomas, p. 47
• Awarding November College Diplomas, p. 37
• Be Ready Pa, p. 2
• Bogus Advertising, p. 60
• Brilliant Sayings of Robert Ingersoll, p. 71
• Capital Turning to the South, p. 85
• Carnegie, Andrew, p. 65
• Charge to the Pastor, p. 64
• Cherry, Henry. The Balancing Pole, p. 253
• Cigarette …

Ua96/3 Commencement Program, Southern Normal School

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Graduation program for the business section of the Southern Normal School Class of 1900, includes lists of graduates.

Ua96/2 Scrapbook, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Accounting ledger used as scrapbook for items related to the Southern Normal School.

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

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1900 meeting minutes of the Board of Directors of the Southern Educational Building Company. Include discussion of contractors' bids and sale of bonds.

Ua96/3 Commencement Program, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Commencement program for the business section of the Southern Normal School for the Class of 1899. Class list is included.