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Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 63. Business records, deeds, notes, receipts, surveys, agreements, bill of complaint, etc., 1800-85; account books, 1843-89; journals, 1865-1916; agreement book of probationary members, 1858-1904; and manuscript hymnals, 1844-86 (6) of the Shaker Society of South Union, Kentucky. Journals include censuses of members. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of deaths at South Union "from the beginning to the present date January 1st, 1879," with addenda to 1892; and for a name index to Shaker Record C.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 62. Diary of Shaker eldress Nancy E. Moore, and a journal, probably kept by Shaker eldress Lucy Shannon. The diary and journal record life in the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, with Moore’s diary focused on the Civil War years 1863-1864.


Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3076. Two letters to Brent Price, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to his preparation of an article on Eastwood Baptist Church, also in Bowling Green. William H. Rogers, Director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, writes on 22 November 1978 of the principles followed during his pastorship there, and Sam Todd writes on 6 December 1978 with a historical sketch of the church.


Monroe, Quincy Adams, 1841-1928 (Sc 3070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Monroe, Quincy Adams, 1841-1928 (Sc 3070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3070. Letter, 30 December 1861, to “Orissa,” from Quincy A. Monroe, serving with the 1st Ohio Light Artillery. Writing on “Cotter’s Battery” letterhead while at Camp Wood on the Green River in Kentucky, he describes troop strength in the area, the topography, Confederate fortifications at Bowling Green, and his expectations of battle.


Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 577. Funeral records, correspondence, account books and other financial papers related to various undertaking establishments run by the Gerard and Bradley families, including Gerard and Gerard Funeral Home, Eugene Gerard Company Mortuary and the Gerard and Bradley Funeral Chapel in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes financial records related to an earlier furniture making business operated by John C. Gerard, a French immigrant.


Quisenberry, Frank E., 1892-1985 (Sc 3058), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Quisenberry, Frank E., 1892-1985 (Sc 3058), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3058. Letter, December 1970, and Christmas card, December 1974, of Frank Quisenberry, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He writes of his health, friends and local citizens; he also remarks on Bowling Green’s growth and the demolition and replacement of two “Negro districts” with low rent housing.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Mary Sue Meuth, 1927-2014 (Sc 3040), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Mary Sue Meuth, 1927-2014 (Sc 3040), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3040. Letter of missionary Sue Meuth in Indonesia to friends, particularly First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky. She describes the work there, expresses concern that the visas of local personnel will not be renewed, and includes a list of prayer requests for the mission. A personal note on the reverse reports news of her family.


Mitchell, William H., 1857-1951 (Sc 3042), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Mitchell, William H., 1857-1951 (Sc 3042), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3042. Remarks of William H. Mitchell given at First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 11 October 1916, on presentation of a drinking fountain in memory of church member Ella C. Ragland.


Gerard, Camilla (Herdman), 1895-1977 (Sc 3034), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2016

Gerard, Camilla (Herdman), 1895-1977 (Sc 3034), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3034. Letters (3) from Alvis H. “Al” Temple serving in the military during World War II in Tucson, Arizona (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans). Also includes an assortment of research notes related to the history of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Edmunds And Willis Family Papers (Mss 549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2016

Edmunds And Willis Family Papers (Mss 549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 549. Almost exclusively correspondence of the Edmunds and Willis families of Barren County, Kentucky. The Willis family correspondence (the bulk of the collection) is almost exclusively amongst females, so housekeeping, sewing, fashion, family matters are discussed frequently. Frank Willis, the family patriarch, does discuss farming with his daughters. Many of the letters are addressed to his wife, Laura (Edmunds) Willis, and a majority of those are from her daughters.


Bowling Green, Kentucky - Public Utilities (Sc 3021), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2016

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Public Utilities (Sc 3021), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text of various reports (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3021. Reports created by various agencies relating to the water, sewer and sanitary conditions of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky. Includes a 1911 report on a proposed sewerage system, and on the public water supply with proposed improvements to the treatment thereof. Also includes various sanitary and water supply reports, 1909-1947, and two brief surveys of the public utilities of Smiths Grove, Kentucky.


Nocquet, Emilie, 1826?-1883 (Sc 3020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2016

Nocquet, Emilie, 1826?-1883 (Sc 3020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3020. Letters of Emilie Nocquet, Chicago, Illinois, to Catherine Gerard, Bowling Green, Kentucky. On 19 September 1865, she writes of her family in New Albany, Indiana, her husband’s business, and her affection for Catherine’s young daughter. On 22 February 1866, she relates further news of her family and husband, and wonders if Catherine has another baby; in light of her delicate health, she suggests that Catherine send her husband “trav[e]ling” and offers to help “give him a good whip[p]ing.”


Bowling Green Community Concert Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3019), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2016

Bowling Green Community Concert Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3019), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3019. Letter to members listing 1970-1971 events for the Bowling Green Community Concert Association,Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes flyers relating to two of the concerts and press information for one of the performers. The Association disbanded at the conclusion of the season.


Riggs Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2016

Riggs Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3017. Correspondence and papers relating to the business of the Riggs Refinery, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes correspondence between Henry W. Bradley and principal Edgar R. Riggs while the latter pursued business opportunities in Florida. Matters discussed include business transactions, collections, the Florida land boom, and the effects of a destructive storm in Bowling Green.


Campbell, David, 1793-1825 (Sc 3016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2016

Campbell, David, 1793-1825 (Sc 3016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3016. Letter of David Campbell, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Samuel Davidson, Vandalia, Illinois, 2 February 1822. Obliged to pay the Postmaster General's accounts in silver coin, Campbell, the postmaster at Bowling Green, blames a shortage of available currency for his failure to repay a debt to Davidson's brother and discusses other forms of payment. Includes a 1982 letter explaining how Campbell's letter was discovered.


Tiffany, John, 1842-1862 (Sc 3013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2016

Tiffany, John, 1842-1862 (Sc 3013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3013. Letter, 25 February 1862, of John Tiffany, 10th Wisconsin Infantry, to his parents. Camped near Nashville, Tennessee, he describes forced marches, including from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Nashville; rain; sickness among his fellow soldiers; and the difficulty of reaching Nashville or receiving mail due to bridge burning by the Confederates. Footsore from marching, he promises to “settle with Jeff for this if we ever catch him.”


Bowling Green, Kentucky - Streetscapes (Mss 578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2016

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Streetscapes (Mss 578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 578. Property description and physical assessment for properties in downtown Bowling Green, Kentucky. Completed by the Bowling Green Planning & Zoning Commission in 1979, the survey information is chiefly for commercial buildings in the downtown area. Information includes streetscape maps, addresses, commercial and employment activity within buildings and annual payroll.


Doll, Howard D. And Anne (Parker) Doll (Mss 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2016

Doll, Howard D. And Anne (Parker) Doll (Mss 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 573. Correspondence and papers of of the Pool, Keel and Beauchamp families of Metcalfe (formerly Barren) County, Kentucky. Includes papers of related families: Mitchell, Clark, Rogers, Cook, Shirley Yates, and others. Civil War letters include a letter from James F. Keel (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescript) describing activity at Nashville, Tennessee in July 1862.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2016

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Martin, Jerry Wayne, B. 1935 (Sc 3005), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Martin, Jerry Wayne, B. 1935 (Sc 3005), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3005. “History of First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky,” a short paper by Dr. Jerry W. Martin. Includes a list of pastors and data about material placed in the cornerstone of the church’s new sanctuary in 1993.


Upton, Larry Thurman, B. 1940 (Mss 553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Upton, Larry Thurman, B. 1940 (Mss 553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 553. Letters from Stella Minton to her daughter, Elizabeth Allen “Betty” Minton, about family matters, local happenings in Bowling Green and Warren County, church affairs in the local Mormon congregation, quilting, gardening, and cooking. Includes research notes by Larry Thurman Upton for his book Memory is a Wonderful Thing that goes over the history of the Upton family. In addition the collection contains information about the beginning of stock car racing at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Parsons, James T., 1835-1875 (Sc 2990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Parsons, James T., 1835-1875 (Sc 2990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2990. Letters of James T. Parsons to his parents, written during his service with the 17th Ohio Infantry. He details his regiment’s arduous marches through Kentucky, especially Boyle and Pulaski counties, and remarks on bad roads, picket duty, and high prices charged by the sutler. He criticizes Kentucky soldiers as both braggarts and cowards. In December 1861, he speculates on the “great Battle to come” at Bowling Green but, in hospital at Nashville in August 1862, doubts the prospects for victory over the South. He …


Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 - Collector (Sc 2992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 - Collector (Sc 2992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2992. Newspaper clippings, model press releases and other materials collected by Mary Leiper Moore, chairman of the publicity committee for a drive to recruit Warren County, Kentucky women for the Women’s Army Corps (WACs). Includes Moore’s letter to the commander of Louisville’s Bowman Field complaining of the Army’s poor planning of a publicity event held at Western Kentucky University on 12 November 1943.


Durston, James Marion, 1920-2011 (Mss 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Durston, James Marion, 1920-2011 (Mss 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 571. Letters of James M. “Brandy” Durston, a Bowling Green, Kentucky chiropractor and later a resident of Southaven, Mississippi, with copious reminiscences of people and places in Bowling Green. Includes material relating primarily to Durston’s church in Memphis, Tennessee.


Eqb Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Eqb Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 569. Minutes, financial records, publications, correspondence, historical data, and miscellaneous materials of the EQB Club, a men's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Leichhardt, Maxwell Mitchell, 1923-2015 (Mss 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Leichhardt, Maxwell Mitchell, 1923-2015 (Mss 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of photos (Click on "Additional Files" below for Manuscripts Collection 570. Correspondence, military records, photographs and scrapbooks of Bowling Green, Kentucky, landscape architect Mitchell Leichhardt. Also includes information about his work hybridizing daylilies, breeding and showing of boxer dogs, and genealogical information about the Leichhardt, Perkins, and Sublett families.


Runner, Etta Jane, 1894-1971 (Sc 2987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Runner, Etta Jane, 1894-1971 (Sc 2987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2987. Certificates and commendation letters to Etta J. Runner, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for her studies at the Bowling Green Business University and her volunteer work with the American Red Cross and Warren County United Givers Fund; contribution receipt from the Order of the Eastern Star; manuscript sheet music for song “Kentucky,” by Etta J. Runner.


Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 554. Personal and professional correspondence of Auburn, Kentucky native and New York banker Harold H. Helm. Includes biographical materials, speeches, miscellaneous papers and photographs.