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Bryant, Farnsworth Dudley, B. 1939 - Collector (Mss 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant, Farnsworth Dudley, B. 1939 - Collector (Mss 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 741. Business papers of the Thomson family of Fayette County, Kentucky, most notably Patrick Henry Thomson, his son William Z. Thomson, and son-in-law Squire C. Gaines. Includes scans of selected materials (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Holder Family Papers (Sc 3447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Holder Family Papers (Sc 3447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3447. Miscellaneous personal papers of the Holder family of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes employment and National Service Life Insurance applications and driver’s license of Clifford Holder; also includes promissory notes of his great-grandfather, a great-aunt’s marriage certificate, a letter to his wife from her coworkers after her marriage, an uncle’s tobacco allotment notice, and song lyrics, “After the War,” by a cousin.
Milliken, Rena Edna, 1909-1998 (Mss 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Milliken, Rena Edna, 1909-1998 (Mss 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 529. Chiefly transcriptions of oral history interviews conducted by Rena Edna Milliken with Logan County, Kentucky residents about local history and genealogy. Also includes speeches and newspaper articles about local history topics and genealogy by Milliken and two Daughters of the American Revolution scrapbooks about the same topics.
Lanier Collection (Mss 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lanier Collection (Mss 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of post-World War II pen pal letters and selected images from ciphering book of Collins Lanier from Manuscripts Collection 488. Collection consists chiefly of letters written to Deanna June (Linville) Lanier by friends and her family, particularly her mother Lena (Harris) Linville. Includes some interesting pen pal letters with a German child, 1948 to 1950. Includes genealogical material about the Lanier and Linville families. Also includes early Warren County, Kentucky material from brothers, Byrd Lanier and Collins Lanier, including a little correspondence, bills and notes, receipts, and property records.
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 - Relating To (Sc 1273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 - Relating To (Sc 1273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1273. Insurance application, dated 17 October 1859, for the home and barn of General Robert E. Lee in Arlington, Virginia. Includes a detailed description of the structures.
Bowling Green Warren County Bicentennial Commission (Mss 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Warren County Bicentennial Commission (Mss 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 122. Correspondence, minutes, calendars, financial reports, and promotional material of the Commission which was created to oversee the bicentennial celebrations of Warren County, Kentucky (1 March 1997) and Bowling Green (1 March 1998).
Matlock Family Papers (Mss 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Matlock Family Papers (Mss 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 450. Personal papers, mostly tax receipts and deeds, of the Matlock family of Logan County, Kentucky. Includes some genealogical data and a journal of a trip to London kept by an Englishwoman whose relation to the family is unknown.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 666. Facsimiles of outgoing letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1848-1865; marriage license of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, 1842; speeches and notes of or pertaining to Lincoln, 1835-1873, including program for dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, 1863. Explanatory information appears on the reverse of the letters.
Fennell Collection, 1869-1957 (Mss 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fennell Collection, 1869-1957 (Mss 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 348. Account books of Cynthiana Horse Boot Company; materials related to Kentucky Hemp Brake Company of Cynthiana, Kentucky; correspondence of Cynthiana attorneys Chester M. Jewett, J. J. Osborne, William J. Osborne, McCauley C. Swinford, and William Wilson Van Deren.
Phillips, Clem Benjamin, 1894-1970 (Mss 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phillips, Clem Benjamin, 1894-1970 (Mss 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 365. Letters of Clem Benjamin Phillips of St. Peters, Missouri, written during his World War I military training in Kansas and New Jersey and while serving in France. Includes correspondence of other Phillips family members and relatives.
Chelf, Carl Philip, 1937-2011 (Sc 2256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chelf, Carl Philip, 1937-2011 (Sc 2256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2256. Transcription of an interview with Tim Lee Carter, former U.S. Representative of Kentucky's 5th Congressional district, by Dr. Carl P. Chelf, government professor at Western Kentucky University, 21 October 1982.
Young, Edward Green, 1857-1948 (Mss 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Young, Edward Green, 1857-1948 (Mss 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 309. Materials related to Edward Green Young's service as a delegate from Warren County to the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1916 to 1920. Also family correspondence and items concerning his farming operations.
Reynolds, William Russell, Jr., 1878-1955 (Sc 2004), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reynolds, William Russell, Jr., 1878-1955 (Sc 2004), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2004. Letters, chiefly to William Russell Reynolds, Jr., Cave City, Barren County, Kentucky, in his role as an agent or "sovereign" for the Woodmen of the World.
Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 68. Personal and business papers, 1905-1935 (293 items), of Herdman, an attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and assistant attorney general of Kentucky, 1936-1947, and legal papers, 1884-1934 (867), from his practice in Bowling Green which relate chiefly to civil and commercial matters in Warren County, Kentucky.