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Middleton, Amanda (Sc 817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Middleton, Amanda (Sc 817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 817. Letter, 10 December 1865, of Amanda Middleton of Smiths Grove, Kentucky, a student at the Russellville Female Academy, to Charlie R. Bagby of Smiths Grove. She comments on school life and anticipated Christmas activities while at home during the holidays.


Blewett, Benjamin Turner, 1820-1911 (Sc 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Blewett, Benjamin Turner, 1820-1911 (Sc 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 747. Letter, 18 April 1857, from Benjamin Turner Blewett, president of Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, to mathematics professor D. W. Hoyt, Brighton, Massachusetts, recruiting him for that position and describing the school and the town. Includes an illustrated school brochure.


Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 2623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 2623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2623. Paper by Benjamin Franklin Procter titled, “Dr. Leslie Waggener,” a biography of an English Professor at Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky. Also includes a three-page farewell address delivered by Waggener in 1883.


Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 166. Project titled “African American education in south central Kentucky, 1920-1960.” Interviews with twenty-nine African Americans regarding their experiences as students and teachers in fourteen Kentucky counties.


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.


Bethel College - Matriculation Records, 1854-1919 (Mss 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2008

Bethel College - Matriculation Records, 1854-1919 (Mss 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 182. Matriculation book (414 p.) for Bethel College, 1854-1918. Bethel, a Baptist school located in Russellville, Kentucky, started as a high school, evolved into a four-year college, and finally became a junior college.


Bryan, Fannie Morton, 1870-1965 (Mss 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Bryan, Fannie Morton, 1870-1965 (Mss 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 83. Diaries, 1889-1895, correspondence, 1885-1955, photographs, and related items of Fannie Morton Bryan, a Russellville debutante and school teacher. Includes Logan Female College records, 1860-1869, and Russellville Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1863-1889.


Bethel College, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1888

Bethel College, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Bethel College opened as a high school on January 3, 1854, and quickly moved to become a college in September 1856.


13th Annual Register And Announcement Logan Female College, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1885

13th Annual Register And Announcement Logan Female College, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Scanned images of the catalog for Logan Female College in Russellville, KY; it was founded in 1846 and closed in 1931 due to financial problems.