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Owens, Nellie, 1912-2007 (Sc 3051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Owens, Nellie, 1912-2007 (Sc 3051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3051. W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) sewing notebook of Nellie Owens, Louisville, Kentucky, containing fabric swatches and sewing samples.
Edmunds And Willis Family Papers (Mss 549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmunds And Willis Family Papers (Mss 549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
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.
Lawrence, Ruth, 1892-1969 (Mss 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lawrence, Ruth, 1892-1969 (Mss 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 476. Letters, written mostly to Ruth Lawrence in North Carolina and Louisville, Kentucky, genealogical notes, and Ruth’s domestic science notebook. Many of the letters are from or concern her relatives in the Goodnight, Moulder and Lawrence families of Kentucky, Texas and Tennessee.
Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 219. This collection consists chiefly of correspondence of the Moore, Mulligan, Brown and Johns families, who are interrelated. The correspondence deals chiefly with family matters and events occurring in Trigg County, Kentucky and Allen County, Kentucky.
Runyon, Ora Mae (Gentry), 1900-1972 (Sc 1791), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Runyon, Ora Mae (Gentry), 1900-1972 (Sc 1791), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1791. Domestic science workbook compiled by Ora Mae (Gentry) Runyon while a student at Western Kentucky State Normal School. It includes class notes as well as examples of various needlework stitches. Also, 1978 letters from her son Troy H. Runyon, Lake Park, Florida and Dero G. Downing, Bowling Green, Kentucky related to the donation of the workbook.
Morgan, Martha F., B. 1935 (Sc 1303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, Martha F., B. 1935 (Sc 1303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1303. Short story (7p.) entitled "Adventure and Romance," written by Martha F. Morgan of Bowling Green, Kentucky concerning a weekend visit with her grandmother Nellie Ada (Jeffords) Fox in Paducah, Kentucky, when Martha was ten years old.