The Kentucky Museum Online Exhibits
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Art
• Joe Dudley Downing 2000
• Kentucky Women Artists: 1850-1970
  
  Artist-in-Residence Program
• Expressing Kentucky
• New Kentuckians
  
  Decorative Arts
• Firstar Contemporary Coverage: Not Your Grandmother's Quilt Anymore!
• Nature's Bounty: Quilts and More
  
  History
• Civilian Conservation Corps at Mammoth Cave National Park
• Eliza Calvert Hall: author of Aunt Jane of Kentucky
• Lo and Behold: Schoolhouses of Warren County, Ky.
• Roads, Rails and Rivers: Warren County Then and Now
• History and Folklife of the Kentucky Frontier
• New York: A City Searching for Hope
• U.S. Bank Bill"Whitey" Sanders: Comic Opera
  
  Western Kentucky University
• Bowling Green Business University
• E.A. Diddle Photo Gallery
• Ghosts of Western
• The Hill Builder: Brinton B. Davis and Western Kentucky University
• Potter College for Young Ladies
• P.S. I Love You: The Hilltoppers

Bowling Green Business University

From simple beginnings in 1874, the Bowling Green Business University became a well-known private business school offering degrees in accounting, business administration and commercial teaching as well as bookkeeping and secretarial training. This photographic exhibit highlights some of the buildings, faculty, student organizations, classes and activities of the "BU" prior to its merger with Western Kentucky University in 1963.

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E.A. Diddle Photo Gallery

Much has been written about Coach Edgar A. Diddle of Western Kentucky State College. Coming to Western in 1922 and remaining until his death in 1970, truly he was loved by players, students, coaches, fans and the entire community of Bowling Green. To all who knew him and the generations since who have learned of his commitment to Western, Coach Diddle symbolizes the Spirit in play.

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Ghosts of Western

It is said that many ghosts, spirits and apparitions inhabilt the 100-year-old campus of Western Kentucky University. Civil War soldiers, construction workers, resident assistants and students who have met tragic deaths haunt the Hill with the sights and sounds of their spectral wanderings. Are these stories true? You decide . . .

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The Hill Builder: Brinton B. Davis and Western Kentucky University

In February 1931 one of Bowling Green’s newspapers dubbed Louisville architect, Brinton B. Davis (1862-1952), the "Hill Builder" for his untiring efforts as Western’s architect. His association with the school began with the design of the master plan in 1909 and continued until 1939. With the exception of two major projects, Davis designed all the college’s new hilltop structures prior to 1939, including ten major buildings and the school’s swimming pool and stadium.

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Potter College for Young Ladies 

Named for its principal benefactor, the Pleasant J. Potter College opened in 1889 to educate young ladies from Kentucky and many Southern states. This exhibit draws on the Potter College Collection in Western's University Archives to chronicle the life of "old Potter": its founding, building, faculty, academics, student activities, and commencement traditions. Included is a list of graduates. The college closed in 1909 and its property on the Hill was purchased by Western.

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Integra Bank P.S. I Love You: The Hilltoppers
May 11, 2002 - November 1, 2003