Eastern Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College (1922-1930)

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Three scrapbooks with clippings from the Louisville Courier-Journal all of which are about Eastern. They include some interesting newspaper photographs that aren't available in the Eastern photograph collections.

Scope and Contents Roberta Dearborn Mitchell (1899-1991) was a student at Eastern Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College from 1919 to 1925 when she graduated with a teaching degree. The photographs and ephemera in the scrapbook give researchers a good look at the life of an Eastern student in the early 1920s. The photographs include several of George D. Smith's photos of student excursions from 1924. This collection can be used with other materials from the same era including the Ruth Knarr Yerky...

Scope and Contents The Thomas J. Coates collection is composed of six boxes of material relating to Coates' presidency at Eastern Kentucky State Normal School (1916-1928). The material covers only a small part of Coates' term of service, primarily the last two years. Unfortunately, many of the records from this period of the university's history were either destroyed or lost through the years. The majority of the papers cover general correspondence from 1926-1928. Also included are a fragmentary collection of...

Scope and Contents This scrapbook album was created by Grace Robinson Shearin, a 1924 graduate of Eastern Kentucky University. The album contains items, between the years 1920 and 1924, including: memorabilia, newspaper clippings and photos of campus, students, and local places they visited. It is important to note that Grace annotated many items, such as letters and event programs, within the album, and these annotations really give the researcher insight into campus culture and personalities at the time....

Scope and Contents The Ruth Knarr Yerkey Papers were donated to the University Archives by Mrs. Yerkey (Mrs. William T. Yerkey) of Ft. Thomas, Kentucky in August 1978. This was a carefully preserved collection consisting of a number of photographs and memorabilia from Eastern Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College, 1924-28, the years Mrs. Yerkey was a student here. This collection is divided into two series: Photographs and Publications/Memorabilia. Descriptions of the series precede the...