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First Church Of Christ, Scientist - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
First Church Of Christ, Scientist - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3654. “Historical Record of First Church of Christ, Scientist,” a narrative by Kate (Topmiller) Hunt outlining the formation and growth of a Christian Science Society in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the chartering of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in 1925. Includes a list of the early members and a photograph of the church building at 11th and Center Streets in Bowling Green.
Christian Science Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Christian Science Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3640. Legal papers, notes and historical data relating to the Christian Science Society, Bowling Green, Kentucky, particularly its acquisition of the church at 11th and Center Streets in Bowling Green, formerly the home of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Second Baptist Church. Includes articles of incorporation and bylaws for the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Bowling Green (1967) and draft articles of incorporation for the Society (1994).
Cress, Mary Jane "Kit" (Firth), 1920-2010 (Sc 3491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cress, Mary Jane "Kit" (Firth), 1920-2010 (Sc 3491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3491. Alphabetical list of African Americans residing at the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. Includes name and, where available, years referencing their residence, emancipation, departure or death. The list was compiled by Kit Cress as part of her research for the article “Black Shakers at South Union, Kentucky” in The Kentucky Review 12, no. 1 (Fall 1993): 79-95.
Bethlehem Methodist Church - Monroe County, Kentucky (Sc 3485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bethlehem Methodist Church - Monroe County, Kentucky (Sc 3485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3485. "Bethlehem Methodist Church (Monroe County, Kentucky) Membership List, ca. 1853-54" compiled by Charles R. Arterburn. A one-page history of the church is included on page 2. The remainder of the pages are photocopies of the church’s membership list from 1853 to 1854, although the church was established in 1839.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2046. Interview with Mary Julia Neal conducted by Sheryl D. Reed on 5 November 1991 in which Neal discusses her family and early life in Auburn, Kentucky, her education, and her early teaching career
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2045. Interview with Deedy Hall conducted by Sheryl D. Reed in November 1991 in which Hall discusses Shakers in general, her work with the Shaker Museum at Auburn, Kentucky and her life-long relationship with Mary Julia Neal.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2044), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2044), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Cassette Tape 2044. Interview with Mary Julia Neal conducted by Sheryl D. Reed on 28 April 1992 in which Neal discusses her work at the Kentucky Building at WKU and her Shaker research and publications.
Molloy, John Calhoun, 1855-1923 (Sc 3321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Molloy, John Calhoun, 1855-1923 (Sc 3321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3321. Letter, 14 December 1891, of John C. Molloy, Pastor of Fourth Street Presbyterian Church, Owensboro, Kentucky, to Reverend E. W. Bedinger, Anchorage, Kentucky. He encloses his church’s donation to the Synod’s Evangelistic Fund and hopes to add to it during the coming winter. Includes envelope bearing the postmark “Owensborough Ky.”
Baptist Young People's Union Of America (Sc 3293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baptist Young People's Union Of America (Sc 3293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3293. Report of the Senior Baptist Young People’s Union of the Campbellsville Baptist Church, Campbellsville, Kentucky, in the Russell Creek Association, for the quarter ending 28 March 1926. The one-page form lists officers and provides brief details of organization and operation.
Strickler, Sally Ann (Mcleod) Koenig, 1933-2016 (Mss 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strickler, Sally Ann (Mcleod) Koenig, 1933-2016 (Mss 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 643. Research materials collected by Sally Ann Strickler related to the Shaker community at South Union, Kentucky. This material deals chiefly with women’s roles in the society. Also includes information about the U.S. flag and Strickler’s dissertation on library services in Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accredited institutions.
Morgan, Nyla Margaret (Hammers) Moore, 1918-2017 (Mss 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, Nyla Margaret (Hammers) Moore, 1918-2017 (Mss 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 639. Information collected by Morgan about Butler County, Kentucky history and historical organizations. Genealogical records related to Morgan, Moore, and Johnson families (particularly the children of Christopher Columbus “Lum” Johnson, 1847-1921), as well as allied families. Includes two boxes of material related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia, particularly its women’s Relief Society.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 636. Correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian, relating principally to her work for the Presbyterian Church. Also includes materials documenting her service on the Inter-Racial Commission of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 623. Minutes, letters, resolutions, subscriptions and other documents relating to the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, including doctrinal schisms in 1837 and 1868 and the reunification of its congregation.
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 603. Manuscript books of sermons, religious, medical and other writings created by Benjamin McReynolds, a Butler County, Kentucky Methodist minister. Includes family history and records of schools operated by McReynolds.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 600. Typescript of the South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Necropolis, a compilation of deaths at the colony from 1810-1918. The deceased’s name, place and date of birth, date of death and age at death are provided. An index of men's and women's names is included.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 599. Shaker Record D, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. The journal has been typescripted from the original, held at the Shaker Museum at South Union. Click on "Additional Files" below for an index of names.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 598. Shaker Record B, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. The journal has been typescripted from the original, held at the Shaker Museum at South Union. Click on "Additional Files" below for an index of names.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 597. Shaker Record A, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. Includes a record of the missionary trip to Kentucky from the east, and the 1830 constitution and covenant of the South Union colony. An index of names and a full-text scan of John Rankin's autobiography has been added to this record (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 64. Ledger volume containing fulling mill records, (1814-1815), accounts (1843-1844), and journal (1909-1911) of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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; and for a name index to Shaker Record C.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3059. Letter, 1 September 2016, to friends of the South Union Shaker Village, South Union, Kentucky, soliciting funds for the purchase of two acres of land and a building, known as the 1854 Wash House or Sisters Shop, for preservation and interpretation by the Village. An enclosure provides a history of the Wash House and includes photographs.
Mount Union Baptist Church - Summersville, Kentucky (Sc 2894), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mount Union Baptist Church - Summersville, Kentucky (Sc 2894), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text scan for Manuscripts Small Collection 2894. Minute book containing minutes from business meetings of the Mount Union Baptist Church in Summersville, Green County, Kentucky. Also includes information about offerings and lists of members. Short history of the church included.
Union County, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2888), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Union County, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2888), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2888. Portion of a letter, 25 December 1865, written from Morganfield, Kentucky, by a Presbyterian clergyman to his father. After a two-year lapse in communication, he updates his father on his teaching duties at a male academy and his preaching at two churches. He also mourns social ills such as crime and intemperance, and contrasts the irreligion of the North with the growth of evangelical churches in the South.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1395. Catalog of garden seeds grown by the Shaker society at South Union, Kentucky, 1867; Shaker letterhead with cake recipe; and instructions for growing summer turnips.
Casebier, Gertrude, 1901-1996 (Sc 2785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Casebier, Gertrude, 1901-1996 (Sc 2785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2785. Two-page essay written by Gertrude Casebier titled "History of Shakertown in Mercer County, Kentucky." Includes brief bibliography.
Sanders, Nolan (Sc 1798), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sanders, Nolan (Sc 1798), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1798. Paper: "South Union: Their Business and Life in the 1870s" written by Nolan Sanders for a Western Kentucky University history class.
Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1534. Church register for the Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church, South, located in southern Logan County, Kentucky, from December 1925 to April 1973. Register includes list of members, marriages, and baptisms. Also includes several news clippings.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1393. Journal kept by Jane Cowan from 1900 to 1903, with additional entries from 1919-1921 by other members, detailing the daily activities of the Center Family. Includes materials relating to the disbandment of the South Union Society.