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Holsapple, John Wright, 1854-1947 (Sc 3313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Holsapple, John Wright, 1854-1947 (Sc 3313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3313. Letter, 4 April 1885, of J. W. Holsapple, Fairdealing, Kentucky, to J. F. McCartney, Metropolis, Illinois, on letterhead of the South Kentucky Christian Missionary and Sunday School Association. An evangelist for the Association, Holsapple advises that he is free to take engagements after the organization’s coming meeting in Henderson, Kentucky. While preferring a southern location, he encourages McCartney to make a proposal for them to discuss at the meeting.
Tilford, Frances Lorene, 1904-1996 (Sc 3280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tilford, Frances Lorene, 1904-1996 (Sc 3280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3280. Letter, 18 July 1940, of Lorene Tilford, written from Shanghai, China, to Friends of the Lorene Tilford Circle, Bowling Green, Kentucky. She writes of her enjoyment of missionary work and describes activities at the Triennial Conference for Baptist Young People in progress in Shanghai. She also notes with regret the recent closing of the Burma Road, used to supply China in its conflict with Japan. Features illustrated stationery and envelope, and includes a souvenir bookmark from the Young People’s Conference.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 636. Correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian, relating principally to her work for the Presbyterian Church. Also includes materials documenting her service on the Inter-Racial Commission of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Alford, Florence (Marshall), 1920-2001 (Sc 3184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Alford, Florence (Marshall), 1920-2001 (Sc 3184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3184. Speech delivered by Florence Alford to The Girls Auxiliary missionary organization at First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, about the church’s history and mission as well as a building program at the church.
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 493. Correspondence, chiefly from the Fort and Flowers families of Logan County, Kentucky, which includes prisoners of war correspondence from the Civil War. Also includes cemetery, church, and funeral home records, as well as news clippings about historic sites, people and events in Logan County.
Bradburn, Ethel (Huffines), 1889-1954 (Sc 2740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bradburn, Ethel (Huffines), 1889-1954 (Sc 2740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2740. Paper titled “History of the Logan Presbyterial Society, 1887-1950” about a female missionary society in the Logan Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in south central Kentucky.
Woman's Missionary Union - Gasper River (Kentucky) Association (Sc 2731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woman's Missionary Union - Gasper River (Kentucky) Association (Sc 2731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2731. Minutes, programs, financial reports, and administrative papers for the Gasper River (Kentucky) Association’s Woman’s Missionary Union.
Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of one document only (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 734. Minutes kept by the Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee composed of ladies' auxiliaries from the Kentucky counties of Logan, Simpson and Warren.
Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of representative sample (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 618. Record book of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Hartford Baptist Church of Ohio County, Kentucky, which contains the constitution, by-laws and amendments, treasurer’s records, lists of members, and minutes. Also includes letters from ministers’ wives, 1899, 1929 (2), and Sunday School lessons printed in Chinese, 1929 (2).
Missionary Societies - Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Missionary Societies - Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 323. Typed copy of “The History of the Logan Presbyterial [sic] Missionary Auxiliary Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1796-1955,” written by Mrs. Joseph Rogers and Mrs. Henry A. Reeder; and of auxiliary notes compiled by Margaret Hampton for 1955-1958.
Southern Region Baptist Woman's Missionary Union Of Kentucky (Mss 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Southern Region Baptist Woman's Missionary Union Of Kentucky (Mss 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 175. Minute books including minutes, financial records, correspondence, annual reports, programs, by-laws, and constitution of the Southern Region Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union of Kentucky. Also included are minutes of some executive committee meetings.