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Petition - State Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Petition - State Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3723. Petition signed by property owners and residents in the vicinity of the 100 block of State Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky, opposing the proposed rezoning of land at 130-134 State Street from a light industrial to a heavy industrial district for use as an auto body and repair shop.
Royal Knights - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Royal Knights - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3721. Minute book of the Royal Knights, a men’s auxiliary club for the State Street Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
George Washington Carver Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
George Washington Carver Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3720. Miscellaneous material relating to the George Washington Carver Club, Bowling Green, Kentucky, founded by Ashula P. Williams and her daughter Dolores (Williams) Moses to serve local children. Includes children’s activity plans; meeting agendas and budgets; and workshop invitations.
Moses Family Papers (Mss 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moses Family Papers (Mss 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 763. Personal papers of the Moses family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and of related Covington and Williams family members. Includes some materials relating to the Southern Queen Hotel, operated by the families to serve African American guests from 1945-1975.
Ladies Art Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ladies Art Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 762. Minute books of the Ladies Art Club, an African-American women’s club in Bowling Green, Kentucky, whose objectives included social and charitable activities and annual exhibits of sewing work.
Minton Family Papers (Mss 761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Minton Family Papers (Mss 761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 761. Primarily personal correspondence of John Dean Minton, a Trigg County, Kentucky native who served as fifth president of Western Kentucky University, his father John Ernest Minton and brother Layton Wilson Minton.
Edmonson County, Kentucky - Records (Mss 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonson County, Kentucky - Records (Mss 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 760. Primarily nineteenth-century records of Edmonson County, Kentucky, particularly the county court. Includes the county court order book beginning in 1825, the year of the county’s creation, militia lists, deed lists, and fee books. Also includes genealogical and historical data on the Houchin family.
Edmonds, John Buell, 1945-2020 (Mss 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonds, John Buell, 1945-2020 (Mss 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 742. Manuscript of Called, Justified, Glorified, and Gay: The Fictional Memoirs of Gospel Singer, Josephus Hezekiah Carson, by John Edmonds, a memoir based on the Bowling Green, Kentucky native’s life as a gay, African-American gospel singer. Includes a proposal for marketing the book, and several handwritten notes and lyrics. This material contains graphic sexual content.
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 736. Photocopied correspondence of Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson of Greensburg, Kentucky. Letters from his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, fellow soldiers, colleagues and citizens of Greensburg cover his Mexican War and Civil War service, his business ventures, and attempts to win political office. Includes Hobson's memoranda of actions against Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in 1864, a list of prisoners taken from Morgan's and other brigades, and a letter from Hobson's nephew deploring an 1892 lynching in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 732. Genealogical research, narratives, clippings, photographs, and local history pertaining to the Bennett, Hunt, Taylor and associated families of Kentucky, primarily Butler, McLean, Muhlenberg and Daviess counties.
Us 31w Resource Inventory - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Us 31w Resource Inventory - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 726. Historic resource inventory (data sheets and photographs) of structures and sites along US Highway 31W in Warren County, Kentucky. The inventory and photos were prepared in 2000, but data sheets from earlier inventories and other supporting material may be included.
Thomson, Amelia Hubbard, 1859-1953 (Sc 3604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomson, Amelia Hubbard, 1859-1953 (Sc 3604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3604. Journals (2 vol.) of Amelia Hubbard Thomson of Fayette County, Kentucky. Written for her nephew Dudley Hughes Bryant, they contain genealogical data, narratives, and anecdotes. Thomson recalls in detail her parents and ancestors, growing up at the family home, “Hurricane Hall,” and other aspects of life in Fayette County. Volume 1 includes an index at the back.
Morgan Family Papers (Sc 88), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan Family Papers (Sc 88), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 88. Diary and journal (typescript), 1808-1851, kept chiefly by Abel Morgan of Logan and Caldwell counties, Kentucky; certificate, 1777, relating to William Morgan and signed by George Washington; and genealogical material concerning the Morgan and Caldwell families.
Peridot Pictures - Bowling Green-Warren County Bicentennial Film (Mss 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Peridot Pictures - Bowling Green-Warren County Bicentennial Film (Mss 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 715. Proposal, script materials, correspondence, publicity, interviews and other items relating to the production of a film for the Bowling Green-Warren County (Kentucky) bicentennial by Peridot Pictures and the Landmark Association of Bowling Green.
Rowan Family (Sc 3592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rowan Family (Sc 3592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3592. Recording of a rebroadcast program first made in connection with Black History Month for radio station WOMI, Owensboro, Kentucky. Marilyn (Rowan) McKissic, speaking in character as her ancestor Mary (Munt) Rowan, tells the story of the Rowans of Owensboro, an African-American family whose members have maintained contact over a century of annual reunions.
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 (Sc 3582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 (Sc 3582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3582. Materials relating to applications for historical highway markers for various sites in Warren County, Kentucky, in the period during which Cora Jane Spiller and her husband Robert E. Spiller of Bowling Green served as county chairmen for the program. Includes correspondence with the Kentucky Historical Society, together with some applications and supporting materials, correspondence with cost underwriters, and dedication programs. Also includes a small amount of correspondence relating to repair of existing markers.
Hamilton Family Collection (Mss 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamilton Family Collection (Mss 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 698. Correspondence of the family of Eleazer and Emily (Perry) Hamilton of Middle Tennessee, and related families in Texas and Mississippi.
Campbell Collection (Mss 683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Campbell Collection (Mss 683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 683. Correspondence and papers primarily relating to the service of Elvis R. Campbell, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in the public works department of city government and at Detrex Corporation. Also includes account books/farm journals and business papers of his parents, John R. Campbell and Maggie (Brown) Campbell.
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.
Weldon, William R., B. 1827? (Sc 3457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weldon, William R., B. 1827? (Sc 3457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3457. Letter, 17 March 1849, of William R. Weldon, Elizabeth, Arkansas, to his parents and brother in Ballard County, Kentucky (Fancy Farm post office). He writes of his wish to hear news from home (including “how the Blacks are getting along”) since his departure five months earlier, reports his attendance at a “genteel” wedding, and suggests that his parents consider joining him in Arkansas. To his brother, he writes of his embarrassment at having to strip the clothing off an attractive young lady after her dress accidentally caught fire. He further remarks that …
Hunt, Richard (Sc 3455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hunt, Richard (Sc 3455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3455. Letter, 15 March 1837, of Richard Hunt to his brother David B. Hunt in Brooklyn, New York. Employed by a merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, Richard writes of his economic prospects but laments leaving his friends and family behind, including a young lady. He encourages David’s entry into business and refers to their father, “Deacon Hunt,” and to Samuel, another brother. He also writes of his work at a “colored school” and the eagerness of the students despite a shortage of teachers. Referring to an earlier discussion with his brother about abolishing slavery, …
Cox, Hal Z., 1883-1952 (Sc 3414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cox, Hal Z., 1883-1952 (Sc 3414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3414. Poem, “Old Kentucky,” written by Hodgenville, Kentucky native Hal Z. Cox in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of Kentucky statehood. Includes a 2011 newspaper article about Cox.
Atwood, Rufus Ballard, 1897-1963 (Sc 3397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Atwood, Rufus Ballard, 1897-1963 (Sc 3397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3397. Curriculum vitae of Rufus B. Atwood, who became president of Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky in 1929. The document lists his educational credentials, achievements as KSU president, organizational affiliations, and published and unpublished work.
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Mss 664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Mss 664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 664. Personal and professional papers of Dr. Frank O. Moxley of Bowling Green, Kentucky, an educator, guidance counselor, coach, and prominent member of the city’s African American community. Includes projects and narratives related to Bowling Green’s African American heritage.
Pearson, Carolyn (Sc 3377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearson, Carolyn (Sc 3377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3377. “Shadow of a Rope,” a paper by WKU student Carolyn Pearson about the arrest and trial for rape of an African American man, Sam Jennings, and his 1932 execution, the last public hanging in Breckinridge County and the second-last in Kentucky. Pearson interviewed citizens connected with the case and included five photographs of Jennings on the scaffold.
Sanders, William Willard "Whitey," 1930-2021 (Mss 659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sanders, William Willard "Whitey," 1930-2021 (Mss 659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 659. Correspondence, articles and miscellaneous material documenting the career of newspaper editorial cartoonist Bill “Whitey” Sanders. Includes letters from readers, public figures and fellow cartoonists, video of programs and appearances, and material related to Sanders’ books and his participation in professional organizations.
Mitchell, Samuel Williamson, 1833-1902 (Sc 3324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mitchell, Samuel Williamson, 1833-1902 (Sc 3324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3324. Letter, 24 December, 1856?, of Samuel W. Mitchell, Danville, Kentucky (where he graduated from Centre College in 1857 and from the theological seminary in 1860) to H. B. Craig, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Mitchell tells of his profitable resale to area Presbyterians of books purchased from an agent, and of meeting a “very fine” young lady. Describing Christmas in Danville, he notes the noisy firecrackers and the visibility of local African Americans, who uncharacteristically venture into the cold under the “impulse” of the liberty granted them during …
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 3301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 3301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 3301. Letters of Reverend Learner Blackman Davison to his brother Dr. David Davison, Hawesville, Kentucky. The Methodist preacher writes cheerfully from Henderson and Hopkinsville of his travels as a circuit rider in Kentucky: his hosts along the way, including a family he found living “in the dirt”; his overworked horses; his popularity with African Americans, old women, and children; and the split of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He tells David of his intention to remain unmarried for a few more years, and to …
Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 651. Letters and papers of the Weir family of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and related members of the Rumsey and Miller families. Well-to-do merchants and farmers, the Weirs were leading supporters of the Union during the Civil War, providing advocacy, financial support, and military service. Includes full-text scans of a letter from the brother of steamboat pioneer James Rumsey defending his legacy as an innovator; James Weir's journal; James Weir's will; the annotated recollections of Edward Weir, Sr.; and two letters from former Weir slaves recolonized in Liberia (Click on "Additional files" below).
Ligon, Lucy Ann (Parker) Robbins, 1833-1891 - Letters To (Sc 3278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ligon, Lucy Ann (Parker) Robbins, 1833-1891 - Letters To (Sc 3278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3278. Letters to Lucy Ann Robbins Ligon, the daughter of Fulton County, Kentucky judge Josiah Parker and his wife Lucy A. Parker, written while she lived in Crittenden County, Arkansas with her late husband’s brother, and in Hickman, Kentucky after her remarriage. Lucy’s parents relay news of her siblings and of pre-Civil War Hickman, and at the outbreak of war dramatically describe the division of loyalties, the townspeople’s fear and uncertainty as invasion threatens from the North, the enlistment of local men, two destructive fires, economic conditions, …