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Hall, Dorthie A. (Mss 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hall, Dorthie A. (Mss 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 295. Letters written to Dorthie A. Hall, student and editor of the "College Heights Herald" at Western Kentucky Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, during World War II. The male correspondents are all former students from Western, and they describe military life in their specific locations around the world. They all express devotion to Western and ask for details and comment about the school, sports teams, and the Bowling Green community.
Masters, John Post, D. 1973 (Sc 2126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Masters, John Post, D. 1973 (Sc 2126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2126. Typescript of a paper written by John Post Masters, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1964 and titled "The Start of Silent Moving Pictures in the United States."
Thomas, Peter (Mrs.) (Sc 2127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Peter (Mrs.) (Sc 2127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2127. Letter, 10 August 1889, from Mrs. Peter Thomas, Bowling Green, Kentucky to the Mayor & Board of Councilmen protesting a finding that she is located outside the city for the purposes of water service, but inside the city for purposes of taxation.
Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2125. Letter, 14 August 1876, from John Cox Underwood, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Thomas E. Moss, Kentucky State Attorney General, Frankfort, Kentucky, in which he relates information about the condition of the locks and dams on the Green and Barren Rivers.
Stout-Middleton Collection (Mss 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stout-Middleton Collection (Mss 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 297. Album from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, kept by Samuel S. Templeton, 1836-1838; diary of Marguerita Middleton, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1896-1899; diary of Margaret L. Herdman Stout, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1896-1901; information related to the Stout and Middleton families.
Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2123. Correspondence of Ernest Hubert Canon relating mainly to his service as secretary and president of the Bowling Green, Kentucky's Kiwanis Club and as a member of various committees of Bowling Green's First Christian Church. Includes correspondence from Congressman William H. Natcher commenting on appropriations for Mammoth Cave National Park and on the growing federal budget.
Curle, Richard, 1883-1968 (Sc 2114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Curle, Richard, 1883-1968 (Sc 2114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2114. Letter, 30 September 1929, written by Richard Curle to "Katherine" in which he mentions their attendance at a party and her criticism of his novel.
Mcdaniel, John W., 1849-1904 (Sc 2119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcdaniel, John W., 1849-1904 (Sc 2119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2119. Copy of scrapbook kept chiefly by John W. McDaniel, Warren County, Kentucky, which includes obituaries and other news clippings.
Mcneel, John (Sc 2121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcneel, John (Sc 2121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2121. Bond of John McNeel, given to Justices of the County Court of Warren County, Kentucky for performance of his agreement to donate 200 acres of land in consideration of the county seat being fixed thereon.
Mcfarland, Jonnie, B. 1873 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcfarland, Jonnie, B. 1873 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2120. Autograph album of Jonnie McFarland, Bristow, Kentucky. Includes part of a menu from J. A. Rabold, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2115. Sundry Warren County, Kentucky court records collected by Warren County Circuit Court judge, Robert Coleman. Includes a will, indenture, manusmission papers, bonds, etc. List of documents is included in the finding aid.
Mcchesney, Gene (Sc 2116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcchesney, Gene (Sc 2116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2116. Class paper about the history of Bowling Green, Kentucky titled "The City Founded." The paper was written by Gene McChesney as a senior theme at the Western Kentucky State Teachers College Training School, when McChesney was 15 years old.
Swann, James H., 1869-1965 (Sc 2113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Swann, James H., 1869-1965 (Sc 2113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2113. Sales contract for Lot 37 in the "College View" development, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for James H. Swann and his wife Bessie; a letter from the developer, National Development Company of Bowling Green, is included.
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935, Et Al (Sc 2106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935, Et Al (Sc 2106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2106. Galley proof of "Bowling Green: A Pictorial History" written by Nancy D. Baird, Carol Crowe-Carraco, and Michael L. Morse; published in a limited edition by the Donning Company in 1983.
Mcclary, Herbert Brent, 1881-1952 (Sc 2117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcclary, Herbert Brent, 1881-1952 (Sc 2117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2117. Brief history of Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, and related correspondence.
Mccormick, Mary (Sloss), 1873-1904 (Sc 2118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccormick, Mary (Sloss), 1873-1904 (Sc 2118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2118. Letter written by Mary Sloss, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mary Stagner, a member of her wedding party, related to attire; newspaper announcement of 16 April 1889 wedding of Mary Sloss and Herschel McCormick.
Daffinrud, Solveig (Sc 2111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Daffinrud, Solveig (Sc 2111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2111. Note from Solveig Daffinrud, Edina, Minnesota to Sue Lynn McDaniel, Bowling Green, Kentucky relating tho their mutual friendship with Joe Kimbrough. Also includes two photos of Kimbrough.
Strange, Carrie, 1862-1940 (Sc 2110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strange, Carrie, 1862-1940 (Sc 2110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2110. Autograph albums (2) kept by Carrie Strange of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Several of those autographing the album took artistic and literate license with their work. Also includes a pen & ink drawing of a young woman, dated 1908.
Brown, Carol P. - Collector (Sc 2105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Carol P. - Collector (Sc 2105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and print (attached as an additional file) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2105. Collaborative set of three signed poems by Jim Wayne Miller and an Ivan Schieferdecker art print titled "Late Fall" (numbered 77/100 and signed), along with the typescript of another signed poem by Miller. Also includes a promotional piece for the set.
Pioneer Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pioneer Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2107. Sexton's book for the cemetery, recording interments of both whites and African Americans from 1860-1863. Most entries state name, date of death, sex, age at death, and cause of death. A typescript is included, together with notes on the genealogy of the book owner's family.
Mckee, John, 1829-1882 (Sc 2101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckee, John, 1829-1882 (Sc 2101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts of letters (attached as additional files) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2101. Two letters from John McKee, serving with the 37th Indiana Infantry, to his wife Sarah McKee in Hamilton, Ohio. He writes of his encampments near Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tennessee, his reading, nearby guerrilla activity involving John Hunt Morgan, difficulties with mail, and the general condition of the countryside.
Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2109. Miscellaneous correspondence and certificates related to Ernest Hubert Canon's community, club and church activities. He served for many years as an officer of the Bowling Green Kiwanis Club.
Taylor, John Burnam (Sc 2104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, John Burnam (Sc 2104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2104. Letter, 8 May 1981, from John Burnam Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to Lowell H. Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky providing information related to members of the Burnam family.
Hamlett, Barksdale, 1908-1979 (Mss 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamlett, Barksdale, 1908-1979 (Mss 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 292. Transcriptions of five interviews conducted with retired four-star general Barksdale Hamlett in which he reflects on his 34-year military career, including service in World War II, the Korean War, and on the Army's General Staff in Washington, D.C.
Bousman, Louise Tate, 1906-1979 (Sc 2102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bousman, Louise Tate, 1906-1979 (Sc 2102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2102. Draft weaving pattern for a "Snail Trail" coverlet originally included in a 1781 letter from a young soldier to his sweetheart in western Virginia (present day Kentucky). The pattern was a memento given at a 1977 weaving convention. Distributed by Bousman's Little Loomhouse, Louisville, Kentucky. Includes an inscription on the verso from Bousman.
Porter, Eugene A., 1841-1922 (Mss 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, Eugene A., 1841-1922 (Mss 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 294. Two letter press books containing outgoing letters from the firm, E. A. Porter & Bros. of Bowling Green, Kentucky. These letters deal almost exclusively with the manufacture and marketing of a piece of agricultural equipment called the "corn cob crusher." A small amount of correspondence also documents Mr. Porter's personal agricultural pursuits.
Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text paper (click on Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2103. Paper: "A New Look at the History of Soldier's Retreat" produced by Lawrence L. Barr for an adult education class at Senior House, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky. Soldier's Retreat was built around 1789 in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Kimbrough, William Joseph, Jr., 1930-2007 (Sc 2100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kimbrough, William Joseph, Jr., 1930-2007 (Sc 2100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2100. Letter from William Joseph Kimbrough, Jr. to Sue Lynn (Stone) McDaniel, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he discusses his bout with cancer and expresses empathy for McDaniel and her mother who are caregivers for her ailing father.
Thompson, Mary H., B. 1875 (Sc 2097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thompson, Mary H., B. 1875 (Sc 2097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2097. Diary kept by Mary H. Thompson, a physician's daughter living near Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky, from February to November 1902. She writes of social events, home life, teaching school, church attendance, family and friends.
Thackston, Zadock Baker, 1766-1853 (Sc 2099), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thackston, Zadock Baker, 1766-1853 (Sc 2099), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2099. Letter, 12 September 1832, from Zadock Baker Thackston, Scottsville, Kentucky, to his son Paul Thackston in Smith County, Tennessee. He writes of his remarriage and asks his son to visit and bring several items, including winter shoes for himself and his new wife, in exchange for a horse.