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

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

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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; a name index to Shaker Record C; and a name index of probationary members signing Articles of Agreement.


Parker Family Papers (Mss 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Parker Family Papers (Mss 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 118. A wide array of materials, chiefly correspondence, of the Liddell and Spencer families of Alabama and the Parker family of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Of particular interest are Civil War letters written to Mary E. “Mollie” Liddell, items related to Howard College and Judson Institute in Marion, Alabama, letters to Lorena Parker from a missionary in Ethiopia, and a letter mentioning Texas politics in 1860.


Tuttle, John William, 1838-1927 (Sc 1197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2013

Tuttle, John William, 1838-1927 (Sc 1197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1197. “History of the Third Kentucky Volunteers” written by John William Tuttle, Wayne County, Kentucky, from a diary that he kept of his Civil War experiences. Includes associated data.


Riggs, Hazel (Sc 2738), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2013

Riggs, Hazel (Sc 2738), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2738. Paper titled “Early Transportation in Kentucky” written by Hazel Riggs for an economics class at Western Kentucky University.


Orrahood, M. David, 1923-2000 (Sc 2657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Orrahood, M. David, 1923-2000 (Sc 2657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2657. Paper by M. David Orrahood titled “History of Green River Country” in Kentucky. Paper deals chiefly with the history of transportation and commerce along the Green River in south central Kentucky.


Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 607. Photocopies of Civil War papers of James Willis Wood of Dunmor, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, which include his enlistment papers, letters, 1864 (9 items), written while in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, and his discharge papers, 1864.


Bowling Green-Hopkinsville Bus Company, Inc. (Sc 2481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2011

Bowling Green-Hopkinsville Bus Company, Inc. (Sc 2481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2481. Schedules, business forms, strips of blank tickets, and a company profile of the Bowling Green-Hopkinsville Bus Company, Inc., Russellville, Kentucky.


Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 317. Professional correspondence, short stories, book and story manuscripts, author's notes, reviews, and primary and secondary research materials relating to the literary career of Emanie Louise Nahm Philips, a Bowling Green native. Includes some photographs, notices and reviews relating to her work as an artist, family biographical material, and personal correspondence.


Stephan, Geraldine (Sc 2087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Stephan, Geraldine (Sc 2087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2087. Outline for a paper: "Social and Economic Problems of Bowling Green" written by Geraldine Stephan. Her only topic was transportation, and she discusses the railroad, bus, steamboat, and trucking lines that serviced Bowling Green, Kentucky as well as upcoming postal airline service. She notes the amount of fuel sold and the number of service stations located within the city in 1929.


Tichenor, Doris Ann (Annis), 1931-2011 (Sc 2050), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Tichenor, Doris Ann (Annis), 1931-2011 (Sc 2050), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2050. Paper (5 p.) by Tichenor titled "A Brief History of Borah's Ferry" (Butler County, Kentucky). Includes bibliography and photocopy of a 1908 photograph of buildings in Borah's Ferry vicinity.


Greene, Edward E., Jr., 1908-1980 (Sc 2250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2009

Greene, Edward E., Jr., 1908-1980 (Sc 2250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2250. Military papers, news clippings, cartoons, V-mail, and ephemera removed from a scrapbook that documented Edward E. Greene, Jr.'s military service during World War II, chiefly in the Persian Gulf Service Command.


Causey, Robert Lewis, B. 1927 (Sc 1316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Causey, Robert Lewis, B. 1927 (Sc 1316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1316. Comments written by Causey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning the proposed industrial Trimodal Transpark that would be located near Smiths Grove, Kentucky, if approved.


Mcelroy, Clarence Underwood, 1848-1928 (Mss 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2005

Mcelroy, Clarence Underwood, 1848-1928 (Mss 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 157. Travel journals (2) kept by Bowling Green, Kentucky attorney Clarence Underwood McElroy during his trip to the Orient (1908-1909), starting at San Francisco. He describes the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Japan, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), etc. Includes passenger list of the S.S. Mongolia.