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Lost River Cave Oral History Project (Fa 1414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lost River Cave Oral History Project (Fa 1414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1414. Recorded interviews with 16 informants regarding their memories of the nightclub operated at Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Lost River Cave.
Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks (Sc 3383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks (Sc 3383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3383. Correspondence, news clippings, documents, photos, certificates, and other ephemera related to the Kentucky state Elks and the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Lodge (#320). Much of this revolves around leadership roles played by William P. Stamps, Jr. of Bowling Green. Also includes constitution and by-laws as well as minutes of the Bowling Green auxiliary, 1986-1987.
Hill, Ruth Elizabeth (Phillips), 1894-1980 (Sc 3340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hill, Ruth Elizabeth (Phillips), 1894-1980 (Sc 3340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3340. Typescript, with handwritten notations, of a speech by Ruth Hill, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled “Some of ‘My Favorite Things.’” First given at the Chautauqua Club, a Bowling Green, Kentucky literary club, in 1965 and thereafter to several women’s clubs, the speech reviews Mrs. Hill’s appreciation for theater, scientific progress, and other aspects of life that “shut out the winds of pessimism and depression.”
Pierian Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pierian Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 610. Minutes, correspondence, yearbooks, and miscellaneous records of the Pierian Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Nocquet, Emilie, 1826?-1883 (Sc 3020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nocquet, Emilie, 1826?-1883 (Sc 3020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3020. Letters of Emilie Nocquet, Chicago, Illinois, to Catherine Gerard, Bowling Green, Kentucky. On 19 September 1865, she writes of her family in New Albany, Indiana, her husband’s business, and her affection for Catherine’s young daughter. On 22 February 1866, she relates further news of her family and husband, and wonders if Catherine has another baby; in light of her delicate health, she suggests that Catherine send her husband “trav[e]ling” and offers to help “give him a good whip[p]ing.”
Eqb Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eqb Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 569. Minutes, financial records, publications, correspondence, historical data, and miscellaneous materials of the EQB Club, a men's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 561. Personal diaries of Clara (Wright) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, kept during her marriage to food critic Duncan Hines and after his death. Includes some correspondence, travel itineraries, and miscellaneous papers.
Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 559. Letters to Benjamin Gideon Davidson “B.G.,” III, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written primarily by female friends when he was a student at Bowling Green High School and Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Includes some letters from his mother and miscellaneous papers.
Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 543. Minutes, yearbooks, administrative papers and program information relating to the Current Events Club, a ladies literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that was founded in 1902.
Kentucky Folklife Festivals - Files (Fa 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Festivals - Files (Fa 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 746. This collection contains documentation of various folklife related festivals held within the state of Kentucky that were documented by folklorist Bob Gates. the ones documented in this collection include the Discovery Festival in Mt. Vernon, the International Festival in Bowling Green, the River Folk Arts Festival in Louisville, “A Day in the Country” Festival, the Horse Cave Heritage Festival in Horse Cave, the Ganesha Festival in Louisville, and the Watermelon Festival in Tompkinsville. There are also slides in Folder 6 that document the Michigan Folklife Festival.
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 495. Letters written by Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Clara Gregory and Mildred (Gregory) Pugh, Nashville, Tennessee, related to a rental property owned by Clara Gregory at 720 State Street in Bowling Green. The newsy letters contain information about maintenance to the property and remarks about current events in Bowling Green as well as comments about national affairs.
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods.
Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2813. Meeting minutes of Bundles for America, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from 24 January to 14 March 1945. Includes a draft thank-you letter to a sponsor summarizing the organization’s accomplishments since 1941; also includes a 1943 clipping outlining the history and work of the organization in knitting garments, salvaging metal and clothing, and making up toiletry kits for British and American soldiers and their families.
Roberts, Edwin T., 1920-1998 (Sc 1230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roberts, Edwin T., 1920-1998 (Sc 1230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1230. Letters, removed from genealogy notebooks prepared by Edwin T. Roberts, written by Thomas W. Jenkins of Bowling Green, Kentucky to his daughter, Ethel Mae Roberts, discussing his family and life in a Bowling Green boarding house.
Bowling Green Music Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Music Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 457. Minutes, governing documents, yearbooks, programs for public concerts, membership information, various reports, and news clippings for the Woman’s Music Club, the Bowling Green Music Club and the Bowling Green Junior Music Club.
Bowling Green, Kentucky Musical Fund Society (Mss 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky Musical Fund Society (Mss 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 460. Minutes, financial records, governing documents and miscellaneous items of the Bowling Green Musical Fund Society, which was established in 1872 for “the cultivation of music and the social enjoyment of its members.”
Meador, John, 1853-1944 (Sc 2779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meador, John, 1853-1944 (Sc 2779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2779. Letter of John Meador, Bristow Station, Kentucky, to his brother A. G. “Gillie” Meador, Union City, Tennessee, 28 June 1873. He refers to Meador’s gaining possession of some land, mentions an outbreak of cholera in Bowling Green, and reports on his activities and the health of mutual friends.
Topmiller Family Papers (Sc 2778), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Topmiller Family Papers (Sc 2778), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2778. Letters and papers of various members of the Topmiller family of Kentucky, Tennessee and New Mexico. Includes letters of Benjamin E. Topmiller to his wife Jessie; letters of condolence to Jessie on her husband’s death; postcards from a World War I serviceman to a young lady in Owensboro, Kentucky; and letters to Victor Topmiller regarding his service to the Davet Home and School for Spastic Paralysis in Owensboro.
Warren County, Kentucky Anti-Liquor Association (Sc 1121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky Anti-Liquor Association (Sc 1121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1121. Minutes, correspondence, and research notes of the Warren County, Kentucky Anti-Liquor Association and the local option election held in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 24 September 1960.
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.
Mckinney, Thurman Ray, Jr., 1931-2008 (Sc 1093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckinney, Thurman Ray, Jr., 1931-2008 (Sc 1093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1093. Baby book of Thurman Ray McKinney, Jr. kept by his mother Emily while living in Somerset and Louisville, Kentucky. Includes Ray's report card for 2nd grade from Bowling Green's 11th Street school; photos of family members and schoolmates; and copies of his mother's obituary and death certificate.
Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1003. Courtship letters (29) written by Roger Charles Porter of Warren County, Kentucky to his future wife, Nan Cole, during a summer she spent at Massey Springs, a Warren County resort operated by her parents. The Porters married 16 March 1911.
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Social Life And Customs, 1904 (Sc 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Social Life And Customs, 1904 (Sc 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 928. Letter, 20 January 1904, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Katie Love, Gallatin, Tennessee, chiefly relating family news. The writer also mentions a visit to the local Morehead House Hotel and comments on two local churches.
Mills, Barbara Ann (Tucker), 1931-2020 (Sc 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mills, Barbara Ann (Tucker), 1931-2020 (Sc 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 921. Barbara Ann (Tucker) Mills writes of her life growing up in a home in Bowling Green, Kentucky that provided rooms and meals for students at Western Kentucky State Teachers College and Bowling Green Business University during the 1930s and 1940s. Her parents, known and “Ma Tucker” and “Pa Tucker,” operated boardinghouses located on College Street. Also includes two family photographs.
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”
Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 166. Project titled “African American education in south central Kentucky, 1920-1960.” Interviews with twenty-nine African Americans regarding their experiences as students and teachers in fourteen Kentucky counties.
Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 511. Autograph album covering the period that Gardner was a student at Southern Normal School and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also, copy of 1962 newspaper interview with the 97 year old Gardner.
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 42. Correspondence, 1864-1878 (8); journal, 1852-1883; scrapbooks (2); Manuscript: “House of Madison and McDowell in Kentucky,” 1888; family genealogical data; slave records; etc., of Agatha (Rochester) Strange, 1832-1896, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 405. Journal of Nancy Elam Moore, an eldress of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, describing life in the colony during the Civil War, 1861-1863, especially visitation and exploitation by both Union and Confederate forces. Includes a diary of unknown authorship recording daily life at the colony in 1866. The original diary is owned by the Dayton [Ohio] Public Library.
Fair Hop - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fair Hop - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1698. Paper: "The Social Event of the Year: Bowling Green Kentucky's Annual Fair Hop, 1870s-1940s" written by Betsy Tyrie for a Western Kentucky University history class. Tyrie interviews participants and provides copies of news clippings and photos related to this popular formal dance.