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Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1779. Letter, 11 October 1904, from author Alice Hegan Rice to the editor of Outlook magazine commenting on books that she enjoyed as a child and young adult.
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 1781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 1781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1781. Paper titled "Bowling Green's Literary History," presented by WKU English teacher Frances Richards to the Samuel Davies Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 8 October 1938.
Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 1790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 1790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1790. Research material, including news clippings and several letters, related to William Shakespeare Hays, a Kentucky musician and journalist. Also includes typescripts of poems written by Hays under the pseudonym Hayseed.
James, George D., 1871-1940 (Sc 1770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
James, George D., 1871-1940 (Sc 1770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1770. Account book of George D. James's grocery store in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky, 1914-1929, and copy of first bill he received when he opened the store in 1913.
Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1780. Brief letter, 9 June 1917, from author Alice Hegan Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to a Miss Stearns complimenting her on the attractiveness of her book plate.
Altrusa International - Bowling Green (Mss 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Altrusa International - Bowling Green (Mss 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 702. Chiefly financial reports, minutes, yearbooks, newsletters, and correspondence of the Altrusa International Club in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1954 until dissolution in 2004.
Jenkins, William Marshall, Jr., 1918-2002 (Sc 1748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, William Marshall, Jr., 1918-2002 (Sc 1748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1748. Unpublished manuscript, "Mr. Democrat," written by William Marshall Jenkins Jr. about the political career of Alben W. Barkley, former U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky and former Vice President under Harry Truman. Chiefly excerpts from his speeches and remarks made on the floor of the House and Senate.
Boyd, George Robert, 1906-1993 (Sc 1759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyd, George Robert, 1906-1993 (Sc 1759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1759. Poetry by George Robert Boyd, a Simpson County, Kentucky native and educator; also, material related to the Boyd family.
Hanor, Elizabeth Jane, 1850-1927 (Sc 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hanor, Elizabeth Jane, 1850-1927 (Sc 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 38. Loom weaving draft, "Nine Snowball Draft," made by E. Jane Hanor, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Coverlet draft.
Masters, John Post, 1885-1973 (Sc 1654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Masters, John Post, 1885-1973 (Sc 1654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Small Collection 1654. Warrant of arrest from the Bowling Green, Kentucky Police Court for John Post Masters, manager of a theater in Bowling Green owned by the Crescent Amusement Company. The offense was "maintaining a public nuisance."
Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 59. Papers chiefly of Hezekiah and Richard Ward of Ohio County, Kentucky. Promissory notes, 1857-79 (14 items); tax receipts, 1864-68 (4); telephone receipts, 1913-34 (44); and miscellaneous receipts, 1824-1937 (40); legal papers, 1873-1939 (14); essay and play, 189?; and genealogical data (2).
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Shaker scholar and English professor, Mary Julia Neal, a native of Auburn, Kentucky. Neal served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1964 to 1972. Includes photos and correspondence with twentieth century eastern Shakers.
Hardinsburg Magazine Club - Breckinridge County, Kentucky (Mss 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardinsburg Magazine Club - Breckinridge County, Kentucky (Mss 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 216. Chiefly minutes, bound and loose, of the Hardinsburg Magazine Club, Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky. Also includes correspondence, program information, news clippings, and a few yearbooks.
Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project, 2005-2008 (Mss 217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project, 2005-2008 (Mss 217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 217. Survey questionnaires and photos related to 15 outdoor sculptures in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Questionnaires also available in PDF format and photos in digital format.
Thurber, Lucille (Kerr), 1900-1976 (Sc 1667), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thurber, Lucille (Kerr), 1900-1976 (Sc 1667), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1667. Copies of poems written by Lucille (Kerr) Thurber, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native. Several of the poems were apparently written while Thurber was a patient in an unnamed hospital in October 1930. Some biographical information also included.
Hodes, Jane Ellen (Sachs), 1918-2009 (Sc 1633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodes, Jane Ellen (Sachs), 1918-2009 (Sc 1633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1633. Correspondence between Jane Ellen (Sachs) Hodes, Oakland, California and librarians at the Kentucky Library & Museum related to photos and papers in the manuscript collection of Hodes's mother and author, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling Philips. Includes a 1940s letter from Philips to Hodes.
Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1604. Copy of speech given by Charles Snow Guthrie, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, to the Kentucky Philological Association, Morehead, Kentucky, 4 March 1988, entitled "Eighteenth Century Kentucky Writing."
Dickerson And Venable Families (Sc 1574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickerson And Venable Families (Sc 1574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1574. Genealogical charts, news clippings, and photographs of members of the Dickerson and Venable families of Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes a news clipping from the Park City Daily News, 9 January 1947, about author Rosa Praigg Dickerson, who published under the name Violet Woods, and a pre-1911 photo and program from a production of "Mrs. Wiggs and the Cabbage Patch" performed at Woodburn College.
Drake, Leah Bodine, 1904-1964 (Sc 1575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake, Leah Bodine, 1904-1964 (Sc 1575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1575. Letters from poet Leah Bodine Drake, Evansville, Indiana, to Fletcher and Grace Stewart, Santa Ana, California, related to the publication of her poetry, awards for her poetry, and possible television appearances.
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 50. Correspondence of David Morton, correspondence concerning Morton Collection, speeches, essays, MSS: "Entries for a Diary," and MSS: "The Amateur Listener" -- diary, poems, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items of Morton, a poet and English professor born in Elkton, Kentucky.
Davis, Ezra (Sc 1571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Ezra (Sc 1571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1571. Receipts from tobacco warehouses in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes other legal and business correspondence. Letters of Kitty McGehee, Irvington, Kentucky, to Virginia Hensley.
Horton, George Lewis, 1894-1957 (Sc 1569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Horton, George Lewis, 1894-1957 (Sc 1569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1569. Letter, 24 July 1923, from George L. Horton, Ashland, Kentucky to Clare Anderson, Cleveland, Ohio, concerning her upcoming visit to Ashland. Includes a colorful handkerchief printed with the nursery rhyme "Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross" that was enclosed with the letter.
Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1557. Letter, 10 March 1976, from Kentucky author Jesse Hilton Stuart, W-Hollow, Greenup, Kentucky, to John Howard Spurlock, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to "He Sings for Us", Spurlock's book about Stuart's writings.
Hochstrasser, Maud Adelaide, 1900-1994 (Sc 1552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hochstrasser, Maud Adelaide, 1900-1994 (Sc 1552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1552. Letters to Maud Adelaide Hochstrasser, many concerning the establishment of the Maud Adelaide "Addie" Hochstrasser Fund honoring Jesse Stuart at Western Kentucky University. Includes letters from Naomi Deane Stuart, Jesse Stuart's widow.