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Present	Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University ‐ Kentucky Museum
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Fine Arts and United States History

Exhibit Development and Historic Textiles

Donna Parker
Exhibits Curator
The Kentucky Museum
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd. #11092
Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101-1092

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Historic Schools of Warren County, Kentucky

(2015)

Donna C. Parker

In 1855, the Kentucky Superintendent of Public Instruction reported there were 3,575 children of school age in Warren County, Kentucky. ...

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Interview with Donna Ruth Collier Parker (FA 756)

FA Oral Histories (2013)

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Donna Ruth Collier Parker and Lisa Karen Miller

Oral history interview with Donna Ruth Collier Parker, Exhibits Curator at WKU's Kentucky Museum, conducted by Lisa Karen Miller on ...

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Dating Historic Costume

Historic Clothing: Period Clothing Articles in the Midwest Open Air Museums Magazine (2011)

Donna C. Parker

Dating historic clothing is by no means a simple task. The wealthiest individuals certainly wore high style fashion. For those ...

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Recommended by Duncan Hines

SCL Faculty and Staff Publications (2008)

Donna C. Parker and Jonathan J Jeffrey

Businessman, salesman, kitchen inspector, lover of comfortable lodgings, and connoisseur of good food - - this was the man Duncan ...

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Use of Flax in America

SCL Faculty and Staff Publications (2007)

Donna C. Parker

Flax is the oldest plant fiber used by man. Its moisture-absorbent qualities and ability to conduct heat make linen a ...

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Big Red: Western's Consummate Ambassador

Alumni: Western Kentucky University Alumni Magazine (2004)

Jonathan Jeffrey and Donna C. Parker

Big Red has been the mascot for Western Kentucky University’s Hilltopper athletic teams since 1979 and subsequently is the university’s ...

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Building for the Future: Rosenwald Schools in Warren County

Landmark Report (2003)

Donna C. Parker

Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), merchant and philanthropist, learned the clothing business from his uncles in New York City, and eventually opened ...

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Fulling Around: The Shaker Fulling Mill at South Union, Kentucky

Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association (1999)

Donna C. Parker and Jonathan J. Jeffrey

The fulling mill was an essential component of any successful early-19th century woolen industry. Fullers applied finishing techniques to cloth ...

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“We Have Raffeled for the Elephant & Won!”: The Wool ...

The Kentucky Review (1997)

Donna C. Parker and Jonathan J. Jeffrey

Wool, next to cotton, is perhaps the most important of all textile fibers. Like most of their contemporaries, the Shakers ...

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A Thread of Evidence: Shaker Textiles at South Union, Kentucky

The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (1996)

Jonathan Jeffrey and Donna C. Parker

Textile production was one of the many routine tasks performed in the early American home. Those who joined communal groups, ...

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"Ho! for Drakes Creek': Something Ventured, Nothing Gained

Communal Societies (1994)

Donna C. Parker

On a January day in 1817 three men rode from South Union, Kentucky to a place in nearby Warren County ...

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Made to Fit a Woman: Riding Uniforms of the Frontier ...

Dress (1993)

Donna C. Parker

The riding uniform of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) conveyed a powerful image of the nurse-midwife as authority figure and ...

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Sericulture, Silk and South Union Shakers

The Shaker Messenger, Volume XV, Number 1, 1993, pp. 5-9, 30 (1993)

Donna C. Parker and Jonathan J. Jeffrey

Kentucky Shakers were particularly adept at the process of producing silk. Kentucky's temperate climate was conducive to mulberry tree cultivation ...

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Flax Production at South Union, Kentucky

The Shaker Messenger (1992)

Donna C. Parker and Jonathan Jeffrey

From 1810 to 1849, through several tedious processes, the Shakers cultivated flax and manufactured linen at South Union, Kentucky. Converts ...

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