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Ua1c4/15 Ogden College Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Ogden College students.

Ua1c3/2 Faculty/Staff Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.

Ua1c4/1 Administrator Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of administrative groups.

Ua1c4/2 Faculty/Staff Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of faculty and staff groups and associations of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.

Ua1c4/5 Class Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of class groups from Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.

Ua1c5/1 Baseball Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of baseball players and games, includes College High and Ogden College baseball teams.

Ua1c3/1 Administrator Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of administrators of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.

Ua1f Ogden Trustees Scholarship Award Winners, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

List of Ogden Trustees scholarship award winners.

Ua1f Ogden-Robinson Oratorical Contest Winners, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

List of winners of the Ogden-Robinson oratorical contests. These two oratorical contests originated in the Ogden College in 1885. The Robinson award is given to the winner of a contest for freshmen and sophomores. The Ogden Medal is given to the winner of the upperclassman contest. Since the merger of Ogden College and WKU the even is generally held on or near Ogden College Founders’ Day which is observed on the first Friday of April.

Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 567. Correspondence, speeches and scrapbooks related to the life of Rodes Kirby Myers, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1939 to 1943. Includes clippings and speeches from political campaigns. Also includes three scrapbooks of clippings related to the trial of Henry Herman Denhardt for the murder of Verna Garr Taylor in 1936.

Ua68/8/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters History Oral History Committee, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by the Oral History Committee. Series includes oral history interview tapes and transcriptions.

Ua94/2 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Ogden College, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small collections of items donated by or about Ogden alumni.

Ua1b2/2 Anniveraries - Allied Institutions, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records regarding anniversaries celebrated by allied institutions such as Ogden College, Southern Normal School and the Bowling Green Business University.

Ua97/5 Ogden College Departments, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and regarding the departments of Ogden College. Series contains brief records from the Athletic, English and Science departments.

Ua97/6 Ogden College Student Organizations, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and regarding classes and student organizations of Ogden College. Series includes records created by the Alumni Association, Class of 1925, Hi-Y Club, Last Man Club, Phi Beta Chi among others.

Ua97/8 Ogden College Memorabilia, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Memorabilia has been donated by and collected from various sources. Many of the earliest artifacts have come into the WKU Archives with no surviving documentation.

Most of the items in the collection are for exhibit purposes only. Images may be requested from the WKU Archivist. Items may be pulled for researchers by prior appointment.

If you have items that may be of interest to the WKU Archives, please contact us at the address above. Large three-dimensional objects may be accessioned through the Kentucky Museum. See allied and related materials for a list of these items.

Ua97/7 Ogden College Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by and about Ogden College. Series includes a full run of the Course Catalogs/Bulletins, Cardinal Newspaper and Yearbook as well as several histories of Ogden College.

Ua1c3 Portraits Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Portraits of people not otherwise categorized. This section includes unidentified images.

Ua97/1 Ogden College Administration, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Regent and Trustees of Ogden College and the Ogden Foundation. This series includes information regarding Robert Ogden's estate, a list of regents, Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes and information regarding the lease of Ogden College to Western.

Ua37/25 Faculty Personal Papers Jesse Johnson, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created and collected by Jesse Johnson, Ogden College faculty member and athletic coach. These records include a scrapbook of football clippings and flyers, clippings regarding basketball and track, faculty schedules, research notes on accreditation and student organizations and his thesis "History of Ogden College."

Ua37/11 Faculty/Staff Personal Papers James Cornette, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications related to Western Kentucky University and Bowling Green by James Cornette.

Ua1c1 Views - Wku Archives Photograph Collection, Wku Archives, James Galore

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Views of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions showing multiple buildings. Includes aerial photographs and maps.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - A Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 170 topics beginning with A ranging from AAUP to Awards.

Ua52/1 Alumni Memories, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

Memories of WKU and other alumni solicited by WKU Archives.

Ua37 A Factbook Of Western Kentucky University, O. J. Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

A factbook compiled by O.J. Wilson regarding the pre-history of WKU and the history of the university from 1907 through 1967. It includes chapters:

• Genealogical Background
• The Presidents
• Academic Expansion at Western
• The Physical Plant
• Traditions at WKU
• Intercollegiate Athletics at Western
• Sixty Years of Vital Statistics
• Chronology of Historical Events
• Western's Faculty & Staff

An appendix is listed, but was not included with the factbook.

Ua97/1 Ogden Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes of the Ogden College trustees for 1934:

• June 1
• no date, circa 1934

Topics include: purchase of property, investments, bids for building improvements to various holdings of the trustees in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ua11/1 Teachers College Heights, Vol. 10, No. 4, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Teachers College Heights monthly magazine promoting WKU and documenting campus events and courses offered. Articles:

• Rural Education & Rural Life One of the Outstanding Features of the First Summer School of 1928
• Special Features
• Primary Work
• Twilight
• Westerns Again Take Rifle Honor – ROTC
• Renewal of Certificates
• What Makes a Great Summer School?
• Special Railroad Rates to Summer School
• Many Worthwhile Books Added to the Library
• Ogden College is Now Merged with Western
• Do You Need a Teacher?
• Free Tuition & Reasonable Board
• Some of the Leading Educators of Kentucky . . . Will be Instructors
• A Large Attendance
• Reserve …

Ua1a Trade Journal, Bowling Green Trade Journal

WKU Archives Records

Photo spread section of the Bowling Green Trade Journal featuring images of homes of prominent citizens, business and school. Includes images of Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green Business University and Ogden College.

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. Vi, No. 7, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. Vi, No. 6, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.