Eastern Kentucky State Normal School (1906-1922)

Scope and Contents Leslie Anderson kept many documents relating to his time as a student at Eastern Kentucky State Normal School and his early teaching career. He has photographs from these times that cannot be found anywhere else. These, along with his compositions and the scrapbooks he compiled, paint a vivid picture of what it was like to be a student at Eastern and a teacher in Kentucky in the early part of the 20th century. Later documents shed light on the earliest alumni reunions...

Scope and Contents The Jennie Jeffers Ashby papers are useful for researchers studying education, especially in Muhlenberg and Ohio counties. Mrs. Ashby writes about her teaching career and the schools where she taught. She also kept photographs from many of those schools. As an alumni of Kentucky State Normal School Eastern Division (now Eastern Kentucky University) she also writes about faculty and events while she was there. Strong points of the collection are the school photographs and her memoir in which...

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This is an artificial collection of materials created by Maude Gibson. The bulk of the collection is her paintings, the larger of which are framed, while the smaller ones are foldered. Also included is a book she wrote about Eastern Kentucky State Normal School which contains several small paintings as well as personal correspondence.

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This collection consists mostly of photos from Clarence Foster Haley who attended Eastern in 1912 and 1913. It also includes an invitation to the 1913 graduation.

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This is an artificial collection composed of copies of correspondence between Eastern Kentucky University representatives and the Olmsted Associates of Brookline, Massachusetts regarding future building and landscaping plans for Eastern. The original records are housed at the Library of Congress and at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site which is part of the National Park Service. It also includes one surviving watercolor drawing of a plan of Eastern's campus.

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...

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Early correspondence, memorabilia and photographs from Eastern Kentucky State Normal School. Even though the correspondence is brief, it gives a glimpse into Eastern during the Normal School years. These items were collected by Robert F. Ramsey, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, for whom the Ramsey Building was named.

Scope and Contents This collection consists mostly of photographs taken when Josephine Shawhan was a student at EKSNS. Most of the photos are of friends, but there are also a number of photos of classes or class excursions she attended as a student. Several photos are from Everett and were taken at Transylvania University. There are also photos from a trip to Chicago around the same time period. In 1979 the collection was copied and returned to the donor. In 2007 the original photos were donated to EKU. There...