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Young Dairymen, Mammoth Cave Chapter (Mss 662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Young Dairymen, Mammoth Cave Chapter (Mss 662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans of scrapbooks (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 662. Scrapbooks (scanned copies only) and newsletters for the Young Dairymen, Mammoth Cave Chapter which was located in south central Kentucky and organized byH. Bland Dorris, Jr. The scrapbooks chiefly contain photographs of the group’s activities. Also included are the Chapter’s newsletters, 1982-1986.
Edens, William Jeptha, 1898-1969 - Relating To (Sc 3404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edens, William Jeptha, 1898-1969 - Relating To (Sc 3404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3404. Report of an interview conducted by WKU student Mary Helen Jenkins of William J. Edens, a former WKU agriculture professor and Arkansas State College president who was then serving as attaché with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The interview discusses his education and career, particularly as an agricultural advisor overseas.
Nunn, Louie Broady, 1924-2004 (Sc 3405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nunn, Louie Broady, 1924-2004 (Sc 3405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3405. Letter, 25 October 1971, to “Fellow Kentuckian” from Kentucky Governor Louie B. Nunn. Preparing to leave office, he provides a report on his administration’s accomplishments with respect to agriculture in the state. Much of the detail is set out in a report to Nunn from the Commissioner of Agriculture that is included with the letter.
Minton, John Dean, Sr., 1921-2008 (Mss 660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Minton, John Dean, Sr., 1921-2008 (Mss 660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 660. Letters written by John D. Minton, Sr. to his brother, Layton Minton, while both were in military service during World War II. The collection also contains a small amount of Minton family correspondence and some vocational agriculture notebooks kept by the brothers while in high school.
Ennis, William Franklin, Sr., 1856-1939 (Mss 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ennis, William Franklin, Sr., 1856-1939 (Mss 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 614. Journals with short entries about daily happenings and listings of farm expenses for William F. Ennis, a farmer, quarry owner, and businessman from Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes some poetry, weather information, and data about an unnamed individual conducting a school.
Agricultural And Industrial Development Board (Sc 2993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Agricultural And Industrial Development Board (Sc 2993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2993. Summary report for 1948 on the activities of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board, an agency created by the Kentucky General Assembly in February, 1948 to survey, study and promote the state’s natural and man-made resources for future development.
Devine, Lillian K., 1895-1990 (Mss 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Devine, Lillian K., 1895-1990 (Mss 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 463. Farm ledgers for the Devine family farm in Grass Township, Spencer County, Indiana, as well as personal daily dairies of Lillian K. Devine, 1960-1981.
Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 105. Miscellaneous papers collected by Ethel Roark, Franklin, Kentucky. Includes a World War II letter; personal letters (4); Knights of Pythias certificate; general store ledger with a 1929 inventory; 1954 letter promoting legal alcohol sales in Simpson County; and 1965 farm diary.
Ewan, A. Early (Sc 2427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ewan, A. Early (Sc 2427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2427. Letter from A. Early Ewan, Warren County, Kentucky county agriculture extension agent, to members of the Warren County Corn-Hog Production Control Association relating information about contracts to limit production of the commodities mentioned.
Ford, Marion Conner, 1888-1940 (Sc 1720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ford, Marion Conner, 1888-1940 (Sc 1720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1720. Correspondence related to Marion Conner Ford's position as director of the Ogden Department of Science at Western Kenktucky State Teachers College and his involvement with the College's farms.
Winstead, Joe Everett, 1938-2019 - Collector (Sc 1690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winstead, Joe Everett, 1938-2019 - Collector (Sc 1690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1690. Correspondence between Western Kentucky University students and members of Kentucky's congressional delegation related to air pollution and its potential effects on the state's agricultural economy.
Independent Strawberry Growers' Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Independent Strawberry Growers' Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1640. Minutes, membership lists, financial reports and sundry forms from the Independent Strawberry Growers Association, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes picking card with agreement to pick for season on back. Two related photographs from the Kentucky Library & Museum Collection are included as additional files.
Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1522. Farm ledger kept by S. Barker and Daniel Wilcoxson Middleton of Warren County, Kentucky. The farm was located approximately five miles east of Bowling Green on the Louisville Road (Highway 31-W). Records expenses and wages for farm laborers.
Sericulture Letter (Sc 1490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sericulture Letter (Sc 1490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1490. Letter written in 1839 by Fox & Still of Dover, Kentucky, in Mason County, to Mr. Adam Beatty in Frankfort regarding sericulture in Kentucky. Beatty wrote extensively about Kentucky agriculture. The letter discusses the processes involved in sericulture and particularly the feeding of silkworms.
Garland, Robert F. (Sc 1478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Garland, Robert F. (Sc 1478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1478. Letter from Robert F. Garland to Rubin Morris of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he discusses family matters and farming in Wilson County, Tennessee.
Cox Family Collection, 1919-1945 (Mss 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cox Family Collection, 1919-1945 (Mss 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 161. Correspondence, legal papers, and farm records of the Cox family of Hart County, Kentucky. Consists chiefly of letters sent to John Howard Cox, Sr. from his children and in-laws. Includes World War II letters from John Howard Cox, Jr. to immediate family members.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1318. Journal (111 p.), kept by Elder John Rees Cooper and others, detailing the daily activities at South Union, Kentucky, 1872-1878. Correspondence regarding the journal and its provenance is included. Pagination refers to the original journal.
Butram, Almon V., 1910-1993 (Mss 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Butram, Almon V., 1910-1993 (Mss 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 109. Includes correspondence, legal and financial papers of Almon V. Butram, who operated a farm in northern Warren County, Kentucky.