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Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Collector (Mss 688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and digital scans for some files for Manuscripts Collection 688. Material collected by Bowling Green, Kentucky attorney, Ray B. Buckberry, Jr. for presentations he prepared about the history of grocery stores locally and nationally and about Operation Tiger, the practice battle for D-Day on Slapton Sands, Devon, England on 28 April 1944 during World War II.

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.

Riggs Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3017. Correspondence and papers relating to the business of the Riggs Refinery, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes correspondence between Henry W. Bradley and principal Edgar R. Riggs while the latter pursued business opportunities in Florida. Matters discussed include business transactions, collections, the Florida land boom, and the effects of a destructive storm in Bowling Green.

Howell Family (Sc 2953), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2953. Farm ledger belonging to the Howell family of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes a letter, 26 April 1925, drafted in Alvaton, Kentucky, to Clarence Howell and family.

Garvin, David Berry, 1943-2014 (Mss 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 547. Limited correspondence, calendars, photos, news clippings, and reports that document the life of Warren County, Kentucky, businessman David Berry Garvin. Includes information about Beech Bench Park, Camping World, Sugar Maple Square and an unrealized land development project near Franklin, Kentucky. Includes several memorial books from Garvin’s funeral

as well as a large number of sympathy cards.

Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 510. Correspondence, business records, account books, and miscellaneous personal papers of members of the Allen, Barner, Savage and Mallory families of Edmonson, Hart and Warren counties in Kentucky.

Lehman-Collet Papers (Mss 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 474. Business and legal papers, primarily of Bowling Green Kentucky businessman George Lehman and his nephew George A. Collet. Includes materials relating to Lehman’s estate and to other Collet family members.

Bowling Green Gas, Oil And Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2700. Three certificates for shares of stock in the Bowling Green Gas, Oil and Refining Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a subscription form for stock in the Consolidated Oil Corporation.

Riggs Refining Company - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 442. Chiefly financial records from the Riggs Refining Company of Delafield, Warren County, Kentucky, 1922-1925. Records include check registers, bank statements, receipts, account books, and checkbook stubs

Rigsby, Clinton, 1882-1970 (Sc 2643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2643. Personal and business correspondence as well as financial records kept by Clinton Rigsby, a farmer, salesman, and accountant of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes informationabout the strawberry industry in Warren County as well as the Mrs. A.H. Taylor & Company, a dressmaking establishment of Bowling Green.

Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 415. Miscellaneous receipts from Warren County, Kentucky: carding business, 1855-56, dry goods store receipt and inventory, 1860, 1872, grocery, 1871, and freight business, 1868-1869. Also memo to county attorney asking that pistol be returned to the lawful owner, 1875.

Davis, Robert (Sc 300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 300. Account book, 1846-1847, of the estate of Robert Davis, a merchant at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a list of notes and accounts due, and cash received from the sale of his goods and chattels, including slaves.

Renick Account Books (Sc 296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 296. Account books, 1816-1821 and 1846-1885, of the Renick family, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, containing records of work done by a blacksmith for barter, with accounts noted in pounds and shillings; and of a general merchant, whose records include an estate appraisal; and miscellaneous notes.

Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 260. Three letters of Joseph I. Younglove, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brothers, David and James, and sister, Jane, New York state, relating news of his drugstore, of his upcoming marriage to Sarah Morehead, and the effect of the Civil War on conditions in Bowling Green; a candy order for the drugstore, 1847; and a certificate attesting to his business integrity, presented by the Merchants Protective Association.

Jones & Stevens - Account Book (Sc 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 248. Account book for the Jones & Stevens general store located in Greencastle, Warren County, Kentucky. Index of accounts is located in the front of the volume, followed by the full accounts of the store’s customers. A label affixed to the ledger’s cover indicates that the volume was originally intended for recording information about Warren County court cases, but this was never done. The label is signed by James D. Hines.

Bowling Green-Warren County [Kentucky] Junior Chamber Of Commerce (Sc 2411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2411. Directory of 1957-1958 officers and active members of the Bowling Green-Warren County, [Kentucky] Junior Chamber of Commerce. Includes the "Jaycee Creed" and procedure for nomination of new members.

Manning, Allen, 1864-1950 (Sc 1762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1762. Journal of farm work done by Allen Manning and his co-workers for Mrs. Underwood of Warren County, Kentucky. He makes note of the weather and its effect on the crops.

Garrison Store - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 197. Account book kept for John W. Garrison’s store at Polkville in northeastern Warren County, Kentucky. Includes accounts for many county citizens of that region.

Totty, Leonard, 1812?-1863? (Mss 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 36. Account books consisting of a journal of customer's account, 1848-1854, and a ledger, 1848-1858, of Leonard Totty, a general merchant of Doughty's Creek, Warren County, Kentucky.

Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1522. Farm ledger kept by S. Barker and Daniel Wilcoxson Middleton of Warren County, Kentucky. The farm was located approximately five miles east of Bowling Green on the Louisville Road (Highway 31-W). Records expenses and wages for farm laborers.

Read, Emily Jane, 1839-1916 (Sc 1497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1497. Letter from Emily J. Read, Rich Pond, Kentucky, to an unnamed friend. she discusses peoplein the neighboring region and her husband's mercantile operation in Rich Pond.

Cooke-Crump - Smiths Grove, Kentucky - Account Books (Sc 1484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1484. Account books for a mercantile store in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. Included are long lists of horses and mules that were bought and sold by William Crump.

Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Mss 34), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 34. Account books, 1858-1866, of a merchant at Bowling Green, Kentucky. One, undated, with author uncertain, contains records of goods bartered; two dated ones contain accounts of work done by employees as well as store accounts.

Neel, James Lucellus, 1849-1922 (Mss 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 108. Account book of James Lucellus Neel, a physician at Madison Mills, Warren County, Kentucky, which contains accounts of patients, 1874-1878; money and equivalent received, 1884-1891; birth records, 1874-1892; and monthly records of his practice, 1874-1894. Also contains photos, n.d. (7), chiefly of male members of the Neel family.