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Page, Evelyn, 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Page, Evelyn, 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 982. Letters (2) to Evelyn Page of Bowling Green, Kentucky from her sons, 1905, 1913; letter regarding Foster Page’s religious conversion, n.d.; letter discussing rural life, n.d.; and invitation to an egg fair, 1895.

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Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 983. World War I letter written from France by Cooper Ray Smith to his sister Mackie Bennett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing his trip to France, the end of World War I, and inquiring about events in Bowling Green.

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Taylor, Lee Arnold, 1894-1919 (Sc 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Taylor, Lee Arnold, 1894-1919 (Sc 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 984. Business contract regarding a tombstone for Joel H. Gregory, 1913 (1), and papers, March 1919 (2) of Lee Arnold Taylor regarding a military leave.

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Loving, John, 1770-1827 (Sc 985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Loving, John, 1770-1827 (Sc 985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 985. Letter written by John Loving, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brother Samuel, Lovingston, Virginia, encouraging Samuel and relatives to emigrate to his region which he calls “the flower of the western country.” Loving also discusses the raising of cattle and the financial
gain therefrom. Also family data.

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Ketcham, Jennie B. (Brown) (Sc 987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Ketcham, Jennie B. (Brown) (Sc 987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 987. Autograph album of Jennie B. (Brown) Ketcham, probably of New London, Ohio. There are also entries of friends and family from Bridgeport, Connecticut, and New York City.

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Vail, Carmen, B. 1959? (Sc 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Vail, Carmen, B. 1959? (Sc 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 986. Project titled “Welcome to Woolco,” done by Carmen Vail for a Distributive Education class at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Woolco was a retail store located in Bowling Green’s Greenwood Mall for a number of years.

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Giesy, Henry H., D. 1864 (Sc 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Giesy, Henry H., D. 1864 (Sc 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 975. Civil War letters, 1862-1863 (3), written by Henry H. Giesy of Company F, 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he discusses war activities especially battles at Shiloh, Tennessee and in the Vicksburg, Mississippi area during the Civil War. Giesy was a brigadier general for the Union. Also related research data.

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Geeslin, Robert H. (Sc 974), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Geeslin, Robert H. (Sc 974), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 974. Report titled “Caves of the Warren County, Kentucky area,” submitted by Robert H. Geeslin to the Cave Research Foundation, 1965? Includes holographic maps.

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Sutton Family (Sc 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Sutton Family (Sc 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 973. A page from the Logan County Sutton family Bible listing a few births and deaths.

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Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 972. Paper titled “African American Education in Kentucky: An Overview,” presented at the Kentucky Building, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in observance of Black History Month by history professor John Hardin.

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Kinney, Grover, 1885-1963 (Sc 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Kinney, Grover, 1885-1963 (Sc 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 976. Letters to and receipts of Lewis County, Kentucky farmer, Grover Kinney.

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Escaping In The “Tender, Blue Haze Of Evening”: The Morro Castle And Cruising As A Form Of Leisure In 1930’S America, Josh W. Poorman '13 Gettysburg College

Escaping In The “Tender, Blue Haze Of Evening”: The Morro Castle And Cruising As A Form Of Leisure In 1930’S America, Josh W. Poorman '13

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

The paper demonstrates a microhistory approach to the development of cruising as a form of leisure in the early twentieth century of American history. Using the 1934 Morro Castle disaster and the subsequent attention the ship and its survivors received, this paper provides a window into an unexplored topic of American leisure. This paper is unique in its finding because the disaster provided numerous firsthand accounts of cruising in the 1930’s. The findings illustrate that this form of leisure was directly connected to larger events and trends of the time, including the Great Depression, Prohibition, and America’s Cuban ...

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“To Think Of The Subject Unmans Me:” An Exploration Of Grief And Soldiering Through The Letters Of Henry Livermore Abbott, Rebekah N. Oakes '13 Gettysburg College

“To Think Of The Subject Unmans Me:” An Exploration Of Grief And Soldiering Through The Letters Of Henry Livermore Abbott, Rebekah N. Oakes '13

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

“‘To think of the subject unmans me:’ An Exploration of Grief and Soldiering Through the Letters of Henry Livermore Abbott,” explores the challenges to both the Victorian ideals of manliness and the culture of death presented by the American Civil War. The letters of Henry Abbott, a young officer serving with the 20th Massachusetts, display the tension between his upper class New England world in which gentleman were to operate within an ideal of emotional control and sentimentality, and his new existence on the ground level of the Army of the Potomac. After the death of his brother, this ...

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Navigating Boundaries: The Development Of Lewis, Clark And Pike In The Historic Consciousness, Andrew J. Ewing '13 Gettysburg College

Navigating Boundaries: The Development Of Lewis, Clark And Pike In The Historic Consciousness, Andrew J. Ewing '13

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

This papers seeks to evaluate modern conceptions that have emerged regarding the Expeditions of Lewis and Clark, and Zebulon Pike. Instead of being thought as separate enterprises, the article argues that these two expeditions should be jointly considered as outgrowths of an American expansionist ideology and that the expeditions are examples of this growing national interest in the West.

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Ellis, Beulah (Collins), 1886?-1975 - Telegrams To (Sc 951), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Ellis, Beulah (Collins), 1886?-1975 - Telegrams To (Sc 951), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 951. Telegrams, 1937, n.d. (3), sent to Beulah Collins Ellis, Bowling Green, Kentucky, by her daughters Lena and Dot, as birthday and Mother’s Day remembrances.

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Matthews, James (Sc 957), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Matthews, James (Sc 957), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 957. Letter to James O. Fahling, Sr., Mundelein, Illinois, from James Matthews who is stationed in Vietnam. He describes a successful skirmish that his group of eight fought against a Vietcong column of thirty.

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Parrish, Roger M., 1891-1964 (Sc 958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Parrish, Roger M., 1891-1964 (Sc 958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 958. Advertisements (done on blueprint paper), 1924, hand-drawn and hand-painted by Roger M. Parrish of Economy Car-Parts Co., Inc., Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a listing of automobiles and the parts that his company can provide.

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Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1881-1941 (Sc 959), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1881-1941 (Sc 959), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 959. Letter written by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Springfield, Kentucky, to Marjorie, evidently a fellow student at the University of Chicago. Roberts mentions the Poetry Club, the problem of finding suitable housing, and comments about fellow students Janet Loxley Lewis and Maurice Lesemann.

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Spainhoward, William C., B. 1948 (Sc 960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Spainhoward, William C., B. 1948 (Sc 960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 960. Letter, 1970, of William C. Spainhoward, Henderson County, Kentucky, from Vietnam to his mother, detailing the treatment given to Vietnamese children during the Vietnamese Conflict; and notes on his interview by Barbara Smith, 1995, and Vietnam photos. Also notes on Smith’s 1995 interview with James T. Smith, Warren County, Kentucky, about his ETO service in World War II, etc.

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Lewis, Harriet Ellen "Ella" (Ivey), B. 1837 (Sc 961), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Western Kentucky University

Lewis, Harriet Ellen "Ella" (Ivey), B. 1837 (Sc 961), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 961. Letter written by Harriet Ellen “Ella” (Ivey) Lewis, Russellville, Kentucky, to Lida Calvert Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing gratitude for Obenchain’s complimentary remarks in McCall’s Magazine about her sister, Virginia Mason Ivey’s, needlework. Also included are material relating to Ivey’s needlework, Ivey family data, and a holiday greeting note from Fannie Morton Bryan, Russellville, Kentucky.

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