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Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 678. Correspondence, papers and photographs of the Tichenor family of McLean County, Kentucky, and related families, especially Cherry, Short, and Hutchison. Much relates to the home front during World War II during the Navy service of high school teacher Thomas Cherry Tichenor.
Miller, Harold Asher, B. 1939 (Mss 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Harold Asher, B. 1939 (Mss 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 679. Correspondence, speeches, political material and notes related to Harold Asher Miller’s political career, which included several terms on the Bowling Green City Commission and one term as the city’s Mayor in the 1980s. It also includes material related to several Miller campaigns for the Warren County Judge Executive position.
Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 677. Chiefly courtship letters written by Edward Daniel Covington while teaching high school industrial arts classes at St. Petersburg High School in Florida to his girlfriend and future wife, Evelyn Reynolds, Cave City, Kentucky. The 1933 letters mention the financial effects of the Great Depression and the difficulty of paying teachers.
Morrow, Edwin Porch, 1877-1935 (Sc 3470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morrow, Edwin Porch, 1877-1935 (Sc 3470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3470. Letter, 25 October 1920, of Kentucky Governor Edwin P. Morrow to Sim Smith, Albany, Kentucky. Written on letterhead of the Republican State Central Committee, the letter declares that the upcoming election in Kentucky “hangs by a thread” and will be won “if the mountain women come to the polls.” The letter pleads for efforts “above all” to “fire every man so that he will bring his women out” in order to thwart the stated intention in the Bluegrass of outvoting this constituency.
Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 675. Papers and photographs of James Proctor Knott, Lebanon, Kentucky, and his wife Sarah "Sallie" (McElroy) Knott. Includes two journals of Sallie Knott covering the first eight years of their marriage (Click on "Additional Files" below to view typescripts), and miscellaneous papers of a related family, the Clarks.
Hamlin, Thurman Jerome, 1924-2010 (Sc 3439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamlin, Thurman Jerome, 1924-2010 (Sc 3439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3439. Letter, 1 October 1979, to news services and voters from Thurman Jerome Hamlin, London, Kentucky, promoting his election as a write-in candidate for Governor of Kentucky. He lists his qualifications and personal attributes, and offers to pay “you in communications” a daily fee of $100.00 to elect him, with an advisory position afterward. A frequent office-seeker, Hamlin includes some obscure references about local taxes and the election of past governors.
Patton, Paul Edward, B. 1937 (Sc 3400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patton, Paul Edward, B. 1937 (Sc 3400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3400. Letter, 16 April 1987, of Paul E. Patton, Pikeville, Kentucky, to Riley Handy, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The letter asks support for Patton’s campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky and outlines his experience and qualifications for the office.
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda (Roberts), 1925-2013 (Sc 3372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda (Roberts), 1925-2013 (Sc 3372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3372. Printed letter in her handwriting, May 1979, from Margaret Thatcher to Mrs. Hobson Sinclair (June Rose Garrott), Bowling Green, Kentucky, thanking her for her message of congratulation on Thatcher’s election as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. “We were thrilled with the decisive result and good majority,” the letter states, and declares that “there is work to be done” to fulfill the trust placed in her government by the public.
Jackson, Pauline (Hickman), 1898-1973 (Sc 3353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Pauline (Hickman), 1898-1973 (Sc 3353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3353. Letter, 9 December 1963, to “Bonnie” from Pauline Jackson, Corsicana, Texas. Regarding the recent assassination of President John F. Kennedy, she speculates that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was part of a government-orchestrated plot, that he knew his own killer Jack Ruby, and that more than a single gun was fired. She comments on many Texans’ antipathy toward the Kennedy Administration and suspicion of Vice President Lyndon Johnson for another murder “coverup,” but does not blame Texas for the assassination. She also shares some genealogical data.
Sanders, William Willard "Whitey," 1930-2021 (Mss 659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sanders, William Willard "Whitey," 1930-2021 (Mss 659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.