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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.
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.
Jefferson, Belinda Coombs (Mcginley) - Collector (Mss 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jefferson, Belinda Coombs (Mcginley) - Collector (Mss 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts for two diaries from Manuscript Collection 244. Diary of Elizabeth Belle Coombs, 1904; diary of Pearl Coombs Moore, 1926-1927, while a student at Western Kentucky State Normal School; 1852-1853 Jefferson Medical College notes and thesis of Samuel W. Coombs; miscellaneous correspondence, receipts, and documents related to the Moore, Coombs, and Potter families of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Steele, Henry N., 1833-1865 (Sc 2309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steele, Henry N., 1833-1865 (Sc 2309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2309. Diary kept by Confederate Henry N. Steele, a second lieutenant serving in the Warren Light Artillery, Warren County, Mississippi, from 17 August 1861 to 31 December 1861. Brief entries discuss troop movements and skirmishes in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and especially southcentral Kentucky. He makes more in-depth comments about a skirmish at Woodsonville, Hart County, Kentucky on 17 December 1861.
Campbell, Andrew Jackson, 1834-1863 (Sc 1926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Campbell, Andrew Jackson, 1834-1863 (Sc 1926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1926. Typescript of portion of Andrew Jackson Campbell's diary kept while he was traveling by train in Kentucky, 28 December 1859 to 18 January 1860.
Sabin Collection (Mss 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sabin Collection (Mss 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 260. Letterbook containing correspondence of railroad engineer, Alpheus T. Sabin. Of particular note is information about railroad stations built in Louisville, Kentucky and Memphis, Tennessee. Also includes a store account book from Princeton, Kentucky, 1882-1885, and a small diary kept by Mrs. E.R. Sabin related to Princeton social life, 1890.
White, Vernon, 1915-2008 (Mss 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
White, Vernon, 1915-2008 (Mss 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 255. Correspondence, research notes, slides, and photographs related to Vernon White's interests: covered bridges, hominy holes, archaeology, and grave covers, chiefly in Kentucky. Also includes drafts of his books and information about the White family of White Mills, Hardin County, Kentucky as well as information about White's participation in World War II. To view a selection of illustrative material from the White Collection go to this website: http://www.wku.edu/library/dlsc/vernonwhite.php
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1896), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1896), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Travel diary kept by Nancy Disher Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky, during a trip to China in the summer of 1992.
Armitage Family Collection, 1892-1994 (Sc 1881), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Armitage Family Collection, 1892-1994 (Sc 1881), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1881. Marriage license of Harold V. Armitage and Ella G. Barker, Fresno, California, 1892; telegrams and letter related to his mother's death in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1911; his Railway Express retirement papers, 1936-1938; diary kept by his sister Mary Armitage during her European tour, 1931.
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1880), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1880), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1880. Diary kept by Nancy Disher Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky of a sabbatical semester spent traveling and researching in southern Africa.
Wheeler, Ernest Eugene, 1921-1944 (Mss 210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wheeler, Ernest Eugene, 1921-1944 (Mss 210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 210. Correspondence between Ernest Eugene "Gene" Wheeler and his fiance and future wife, Alma Blancett of Calhoun, Kentucky. The correspondence begins while Wheeler was a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College and continues when he enters the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed on D-Day. Also contains Alma's 1945 diary.
Hobson Family Papers (Mss 121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson Family Papers (Mss 121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 121. Correspondence, legal papers, and news clippings about the Hobsons, a prominent family of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The correspondence and reminiscences of Civil War veteran William E. Hobson; a diary kept by Mary Elizabeth Van Meter during the evacuation of Bowling Green, 1861; and correspondence of George Anna (Hobson) Duncan, an award winning trapshooter, are of particular significance. Also includes genealogical information about the Hobson and related families.
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1863), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1863), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1863. Travel diary kept by Nancy Disher Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky of a trip to Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia in the summer of 1990.
Richardson, Charles Baker, 1917-2000 And Charlotte Wright (Thomas) Richardson, 1913-1998 (Sc 1856), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richardson, Charles Baker, 1917-2000 And Charlotte Wright (Thomas) Richardson, 1913-1998 (Sc 1856), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1856. Travel diary kept by Charlotte Wright (Thomas) Richardson on various trips to Texas in the 1980s and a 1997 Christmas letter from both Richardsons.
Martin, Anna Katherine (Flege), 1902-1976 (Sc 1841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Anna Katherine (Flege), 1902-1976 (Sc 1841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1841. Diary kept from 1 January 1923 to 14 August 1923 by Anna Katherine Flege, Grant County, Kentucky. She relates details of her life as a teacher in the one-room Round Top School. She also comments about the weather, her family and home life, and her participation in community social and religious activities.
Claggett, David Mckee, 1835-1869 (Sc 1827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Claggett, David Mckee, 1835-1869 (Sc 1827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1827. Typescript of Civil War diary kept by David McKee Claggett from 1 October 1861 to 1 January 1865. Collection also includes associated research data.