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African American Funeral Home Records - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
African American Funeral Home Records - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 626. Records of the Kuykendall-Abel-Boyd and Abel Brothers funeral home businesses, operated by African Americans in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Records include names of deceased, funeral dates and expenses, and in some cases family information, cause of death and place of interment. The records were photocopied from originals in the possession of Gatewood and Sons Funeral Chapel, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Recipes (Sc 3164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Recipes (Sc 3164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3164. Handwritten recipes, mostly for cakes and frosting. Includes typescripted recipes for cookies and pastry using Pan American Mills products.
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 623. Minutes, letters, resolutions, subscriptions and other documents relating to the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, including doctrinal schisms in 1837 and 1868 and the reunification of its congregation.
Estes, Joseph Richard, 1925-1999 (Sc 3160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Estes, Joseph Richard, 1925-1999 (Sc 3160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3160. Letters, 1961-1964, to “Friends in Christ” by Joseph R. Estes, recently the pastor of First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written to update them on his travel, family life and work teaching at the Baptist Theological Seminary, Zurich, Switzerland, and after his return to the United States. A 1994 letter, written for inclusion in the cornerstone of the new Bowling Green church building, reviews his career as its pastor.
Southern Kentucky Paddlers Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Southern Kentucky Paddlers Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 619. Administrative papers and programming material from the Southern Kentucky Paddlers Society which was headquartered in Warren County, Kentucky, although some members came from adjoining counties. The group formed for educational, recreational, and conservation purposes in 1980 and disbanded sometime around 2009.
Green River Female College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green River Female College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3147. Graduation diploma from Green River Female College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, issued to Julia Woodburn Adams on 14 June 1866. Includes the signatures of Thomas H. Storts, president of the college, teachers Mrs. A. R. Storts and Caron Donalson, and trustees John Burnam and W. D. Helm.
Gordon, George W., 1802?-1862 (Sc 3144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gordon, George W., 1802?-1862 (Sc 3144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3144. Letter, 26 December 1861, of Captain George W. Gordon to his children. From Camp Bradley at Clarksville, Tennessee, he writes of his enlistment and command of a company in the 48th Tennessee. Mourning the “unnatural war” that is “desolating the Country,” he remarks on the large numbers of troops massing in Kentucky and the expectation of a “bloody conflict.” His pessimistic letter concludes that men may look only to God for mercy.
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 612. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and family papers of Richard Vance, a Warren County, Kentucky native and U.S. Army officer. After his Civil War service, Vance spent his career at several posts in the South and on the frontier until his retirement in 1892.
Woodcock, Greene B., 1814-1889 (Sc 3120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woodcock, Greene B., 1814-1889 (Sc 3120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3120. Legal and financial records, chiefly related to land holdings, of Greene B. Woodcock, of Allen County and later Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes information about the marriage of his daughter Sarah E. Woodcock to Fountain G. Mitchell of Allen County and their son William H. Mitchell.
Loving, Hector Voltaire, 1839-1913 (Sc 3123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Loving, Hector Voltaire, 1839-1913 (Sc 3123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3123. Letter, 31 July 1862, of Hector V. Loving, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Harlan P. Lloyd, Angelica, New York. He tells his former schoolmate of his law study and practice since graduation from New York’s Hamilton College, and particularly describes the uproar in his home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War: secessionist “treason,” the Confederate occupation, and the rebuilding of the city afterward. He also refers to their classmate and law student Daniel Webster Wright as a “violent” secessionist.
Garrison, Kathryn (Topmiller), 1917-2012 (Sc 3117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Garrison, Kathryn (Topmiller), 1917-2012 (Sc 3117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3117. Two letters of Kathryn Garrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her godchild “Betsy,” regarding hats made by Wilhelmina Howard, a Bowling Green milliner who was Betsy’s grandmother and Kathryn’s cousin.
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.
Beard, Mary (Hobson), 1878-1962 - Collector (Sc 3091), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beard, Mary (Hobson), 1878-1962 - Collector (Sc 3091), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3091. Letters written to Mary Beard of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and research material collected by the same for her book, Old Homes In and Near Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Clark, William Elvis, Sr., B. 1898, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark, William Elvis, Sr., B. 1898, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 608. Oral reminiscences of William Elvis Clark, who grew up in Warren County, Kentucky, but spent most of his career in the Chicago area. He discusses at length: people, events, and local historical topics that he recalls from his childhood in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883 (Sc 3098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883 (Sc 3098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3098. Letter, 26 July 1858, from Alexander H. Stephens, future vice president of the Confederacy, to friend George Bristow, in which he describes his travels through Kentucky and Tennessee. He also comments on landscapes and agriculture.
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Collector (Sc 3102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Collector (Sc 3102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3102. Letters chiefly sent to Frances Richards on miscellaneous topics, including the Bowling Green English Club, the 1960 Republican Party election campaign, and information on alumni from Western Kentucky University.
Bond, Thomas J. (Sc 3094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bond, Thomas J. (Sc 3094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding Aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 3094. Letter from Thomas Bond, Camp Wood [Munfordville], Hart County, Kentucky, to his parents, in which he relates a skirmish, including casualties, with Confederates near the Green River. He also mentions Simon Bolivar Buckner’s occupation of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and troop movements.
Bowling Green Woman's Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Woman's Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 601. Minutes, membership lists, publications, press books, event programs, and other records of the Bowling Green Woman’s Club, a civic organization in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes some materials relating to its affiliation with the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Dickey, Robert W., B. 1933 (Sc 3089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickey, Robert W., B. 1933 (Sc 3089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3089. Letter from Bob Dickey, San Augustine, Florida, to Bob & Cora Jane Spiller, Oakland, Kentucky, in which he discusses his recent activities and reminisces about his youthful years in Bowling Green, Kentucky.