Louise Willson Worthington papers and photographs, 1902-1992 1930s-1949.

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Louise Willson Worthington papers and photographs, 1902-1992 1930s-1949.

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The Louise Willson Worthington papers and photographs document Ms. Worthington's time in Germany during the 1930s. There are journals and correspondence from this time, as well as letters from Germany written just after World War II. There are also drawings by German schoolchildren, some of which contain pro-Nazi material. The collection also contains postcards, brochures, maps, and photographic prints of Ms. Worthington's time in Germany. Many of the prints have corresponding negatives, which are referenced in the inventory and housed separately. Photographic descriptions were found on the verso of many photographs and are noted with quotation marks. The collection includes a copy of "A Year with a Third Grade of the University School" from the Bulletin of the Bureau of School Service, as well as other typed manuscripts of Ms. Worthington's writing. There is a complete photocopy of a scrapbook of her life and career through 1992.

0.9 cu. ft. 4 boxes.

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University of Kentucky.

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The University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY is a land grant institution founded in 1865. The University evolved through three stages before becoming the University of Kentucky in 1916: the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, 1865-78, a private, denominational institution in Lexington created by an act of the legislature on February 22, 1865; the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 1878-1908; and State University, Lexington, 1908-1916. A statute in 1916 changed ...

Worthington, Louise Willson, 1902-1993.

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Louise Willson Worthington was born on August 16, 1902 in Marianna, Arkansas. She received her A.B. from Arkansas State Teacher's College in 1930 and her M.A. from Columbia. She taught 3rd grade at the University School of the University of Kentucky beginning in 1930. In 1932 she was appointed supervisor of the training school of UK. In order to study the German school system, she spent the summer of 1933 in Berlin, where she observed the influence of Nazism on German elementary school students....