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Sabin Collection (Mss 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 260. Letterbook containing correspondence of railroad engineer, Alpheus T. Sabin. Of particular note is information about railroad stations built in Louisville, Kentucky and Memphis, Tennessee. Also includes a store account book from Princeton, Kentucky, 1882-1885, and a small diary kept by Mrs. E.R. Sabin related to Princeton social life, 1890.

Hines, James Richard, 1903-1995 (Sc 1706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1706. Statement of James Richard Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to expanded navigation of the Green and Barren Rivers and the potential for regional economic growth.

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 1714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1714. Letter from Mary Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Ben Johnson, Bardstown, Kentucky, 27 September 1938, related to covered bridges at Bowling Green and Bardstown. Includes copy of an act passed by the Kentucky General Assembly authorizing reconstruction of bridges destroyed by Confederate guerrilla Billy Magruder.

Houchin, Roy Franklin, Ii, B. 1954 (Sc 1602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1602. Typescripts of interviews conducted by Roy Franklin Houchin, II with: Joe Richardson regarding early aviation and the aerospace industry, Douglas Campbell regarding his World War I aerial combat experience, and Bob Ford regarding World War I military uniforms. Includes Houchin family information.

Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1590. Letter to the editor (Park City Daily News?) by Charles Davenport, reminiscing about growing up in the Warren County, Kentucky community of Greencastle. Includes photos of James Ford and Thomas L. Stephens, builders of the Greencastle lock and dam on Barren River.

Causey, Robert Lewis, B. 1927 (Sc 1316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1316. Comments written by Causey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning the proposed industrial Trimodal Transpark that would be located near Smiths Grove, Kentucky, if approved.

Commissioners Report On The Shoals In The Ohio River (Sc 1545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1545. Photocopy (made in 1970) of handwritten Ohio River survey done in 1819 related to river navigation in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and Indiana. It includes many hand-drawn maps. There is a large, undated map in a pocket on inside back cover.

Greenwood & Massey's Mill Turnpike Company (Sc 1467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1467. Minute book, 1886-1899, for the Greenwood & Massey's Mill Turnpike Company, Warren County, Kentucky. The last two pages contain a plat and a listing of expenses for the Plano Church Cemetery, 1905-1909.

Ua1b2/1/5 Oral History, Paula Trafton, Charles Anderson

WKU Archives Records

Interview conducted by Paula Trafton with Charles Anderson, retired Vice President for Information Technology.

Ua1b1/7 Complex For Engineering & Biological Sciences Dedication, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Program for the Complex for Engineering & Biological Sciences dedication, includes image of the building and floor plans.

Ua1b1/7 Groundbreaking Complex For Engineering & Biological Sciences, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Invitation to the Complex for Engineering & Biological Sciences groundbreaking.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

Student research papers chosen by each college as best of the academic year.

• Bolte, William. Use of Government Documents in Small and Medium-Sized Libraries and Future Utilization Prospects
• Brevit, Valery. Development of the Concepts of Infinity
• Cook, Ken. KIM-1 Calculator Interface
• Irwin, Tom. Status Preservation in Three Characteristic Radical Right Groups
• Logan, Ben. Jungian Psychoanalysis of the Petrarchan Lover
• Moore, James Jr. Communication Problems and the Families of Schizophrenics
• Nash, Jeffrey. St. Luke as Historian
• Porto, Eugenia. In Defense of Camus
• Roberson, Philip. The Religious Thought of Rabindranath Tagore
• Wood, Irene. The Them of Incest in Dickens' Hard Times

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 49, No. 6, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

Alumni magazine published by WKU. This issue has the following articles:

• Dero Downing Steps Down
• Douglas, Michele. Top Banana – Gary Riggs
• Egan, Sherry. WKU State Climatic Center
• Gibson, Debbie. I Kind of Believe It’s a Gift – Burt Feintuch, Folk Music
• New on the Gridiron
• Adams, Bob. Digital Voltmeter – Engineering Technology
• Schock, Jack. The Projectile Point – Archaeology
• Armstrong, Bryan. Confessions of a Journalism Intern
• Highland, Jim. Terry Climer
• Beauchamp, Donnie. Commonplace Things – Photography
• Miller, Richard. The Exceptional Student – Psychology, Biology
• Harry Snyder Speaks at Commencement
• Douglas, Michele. Students Take Advantage of Study Trips Abroad
• Western …

Ua1b1/1 Rodes-Helm Lecture Series Scrapbook, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook of programs, photographs and press clippings regarding the following Rodes-Helm Lecture Series speakers:

• Arthur Schlesinger
• Pearl Buck
• Buckminster Fuller
• Chet Huntley
• Art Linkletter
• Nancy Dickerson
• Vincent Price
• William Buckley
• Richard Leakey
• Alvin Toffler
• John Ferguson
• Charles Kuralt

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 17, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs

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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:

• College Heights Herald Selected as Best College Paper in State
• William Terry Gives 27 Varsity Letters
• Lane, Chester. Largest Audience in History Attends Christmas Oratorio
• Louisville Alumni Banquet Tonight
• Need Seen for Student Chapels
• Backer, Don. Diddlemen Face First Crucial Test Tonight
• Attention – 31-W Open
• Debating Is to Return to Hill
• Sunday Musicals Are Not Planned
• Dougherty, Russ. Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association …

Address Of The Hon. Maurice H. Thatcher, Delivered Before The Alumni Association Of The University Of Alabama, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Item from the Congressional Record with remarks by Maurice H. Thatcher, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 5th district; he was also a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and governor of the Canal Zone from 1909 to 1913 as well as general counsel for the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventative Medicine, Inc. Thatcher discusses the history and significance of the canal, General Gorgas and General Sibert, the building of the canal, the French Attempt, and completion of the construction.

Ordinary Meeting, The Panama Canal, The Lock Canal Type And The Straits Of Panama Type, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Article from the Journal of the Society of Arts by M. Philippe Bunauvarilla, Bunau-Varilla helped turn the vote toward choosing the Panama site; he became minister plenipotentiary to the United States. He discusses success and failures in building of the canal.