Eastern Kentucky University--Faculty and staff.

Scope and Contents The Richard Alexander Edwards Collection documents the Cook and Gatewood families of Trimble County, KY, of which Pauline Cook, Edwards's wife, is a descendant. In addition to these family documents dating back to the early 19th century, there are scrapbooks documenting farm activities and daily life. R.A. Edwards added to the scrapbook collection with his notes on bee-keeping. School notes and teaching materials document the education and career of Edwards, especially related to the...

Scope and Contents In February 1980 Mrs. Mary Dean Ferrell donated the Doctor Thomas Ferrell collection of records to Eastern Kentucky University. Since the bulk of the Ferrell collection had no organization, the Archives staff imposed its own pattern of arrangement. The inventory to the collection describes material at the folder title level. According to provisions of the Donor Gift Agreement the entire collection is open to research. The personal and official papers of Doctor Thomas Ferrell comprise 36...

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Correspondence from friends serving in the Army and Army Air Corps during WWII along with propaganda leaflets and a silk flag. Also included are Christmas cards from friends, most notably from author, A. L. Crabb and family. There is also some official EKU Library correspondence regarding the John Wilson Townsend Collection and other items that were added to the library collections over the years.

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These photographs were taken during the course of collecting oral history interviews. The actual interviews are located at Eastern or at the Kentucky Historical Society as noted in the finding aid. Interviews at EKU include the accession number of the interview. All others are at KHS.

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Photographs of the 1997 Eastern vs. Western game as well as photos of First Street in Richmond.

Scope and Contents Most of the material dates from Grise's tenure as a teacher at Model High School and a teacher and department head at Eastern Kentucky University's English and Language Departments. Most of the papers touch upon some facet of his work in these departments. Some exceptions are: letters to the editors of various newspapers, program folders, and some inter-university correspondence. These papers also prove interesting to study in terms of the effects of the Depression and World War II upon the...

Scope and Contents The Eastern Kentucky University Archives acquired the personal papers of Dr. Thomas Corwin Herndon in 1978. Unfortunately, the papers are rather incomplete and offer little information on Dr. Herndon's many years as a professor of chemistry at Eastern Kentucky University. Of particular interest is the documentation of his participation in a United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) education seminar held in England in 1948. Dr. Herndon devoted a great deal of...

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This collection includes letters, documents, and newspaper clippings from the time in which Dr. Aughtum Howard served as a faculty memeber at both Kentucky Wesleyan College and Eastern Kentucky University.

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This collection contains materials related to teacher education and public K-12 education, in particular rural education, in the state of Kentucky.

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Anna Kadlec spent her career in social work. She worked closely with individuals like Jane Addams in the Chicago settlement house movement to improve social conditions for impoverished communities. Afterwards, she went on to study the employment of women in Chicago meat packing plants and to work as a teacher at Model.