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Cress, Mary Jane "Kit" (Firth), 1920-2010 (Sc 3491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cress, Mary Jane "Kit" (Firth), 1920-2010 (Sc 3491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3491. Alphabetical list of African Americans residing at the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. Includes name and, where available, years referencing their residence, emancipation, departure or death. The list was compiled by Kit Cress as part of her research for the article “Black Shakers at South Union, Kentucky” in The Kentucky Review 12, no. 1 (Fall 1993): 79-95.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2044), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Ct 2044), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Cassette Tape 2044. Interview with Mary Julia Neal conducted by Sheryl D. Reed on 28 April 1992 in which Neal discusses her work at the Kentucky Building at WKU and her Shaker research and publications.
Strickler, Sally Ann (Mcleod) Koenig, 1933-2016 (Mss 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strickler, Sally Ann (Mcleod) Koenig, 1933-2016 (Mss 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 643. Research materials collected by Sally Ann Strickler related to the Shaker community at South Union, Kentucky. This material deals chiefly with women’s roles in the society. Also includes information about the U.S. flag and Strickler’s dissertation on library services in Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accredited institutions.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 600. Typescript of the South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Necropolis, a compilation of deaths at the colony from 1810-1918. The deceased’s name, place and date of birth, date of death and age at death are provided. An index of men's and women's names is included.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 599. Shaker Record D, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. The journal has been typescripted from the original, held at the Shaker Museum at South Union. Click on "Additional Files" below for an index of names.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 598. Shaker Record B, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. The journal has been typescripted from the original, held at the Shaker Museum at South Union. Click on "Additional Files" below for an index of names.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 597. Shaker Record A, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. Includes a record of the missionary trip to Kentucky from the east, and the 1830 constitution and covenant of the South Union colony. An index of names and a full-text scan of John Rankin's autobiography has been added to this record (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 64. Ledger volume containing fulling mill records, (1814-1815), accounts (1843-1844), and journal (1909-1911) of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 62. Diary of Shaker eldress Nancy E. Moore, and a journal, probably kept by Shaker eldress Lucy Shannon. The diary and journal record life in the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, with Moore’s diary focused on the Civil War years 1863-1864.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 63. Business records, deeds, notes, receipts, surveys, agreements, bill of complaint, etc., 1800-85; account books, 1843-89; journals, 1865-1916; agreement book of probationary members, 1858-1904; and manuscript hymnals, 1844-86 (6) of the Shaker Society of South Union, Kentucky. Journals include censuses of members. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of deaths at South Union "from the beginning to the present date January 1st, 1879," with addenda to 1892; and for a name index to Shaker Record C.
South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3059. Letter, 1 September 2016, to friends of the South Union Shaker Village, South Union, Kentucky, soliciting funds for the purchase of two acres of land and a building, known as the 1854 Wash House or Sisters Shop, for preservation and interpretation by the Village. An enclosure provides a history of the Wash House and includes photographs.
Shakers (Sc 2938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers (Sc 2938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2938. Compilation of manuscript and printed Shaker hymns, and instructions for dances to accompany hymns. Some of the hymns were transcribed by Roger Hall.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1395. Catalog of garden seeds grown by the Shaker society at South Union, Kentucky, 1867; Shaker letterhead with cake recipe; and instructions for growing summer turnips.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1345. Record book kept by a South Union Shaker, that relates chiefly the work of the women in the areas of washing, sewing, making bonnets, preserving fruit, etc. The original of this document is at Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.
Blohm, Amanda (Sc 1129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blohm, Amanda (Sc 1129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1129. Student paper titled “Changes in the Economic Role of Women in Kentucky Shaker Communities” submitted as honors program thesis at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky by Amanda Blohm.
Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan representative of material in the collection (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 670. Correspondence of Miss Estella T. Weeks of Washington, D.C., with Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to Weeks’s research on the Shakers and the holdings of Shaker material in the Kentucky Library.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 898. Research notes from journals of the South Union, Kentucky, Shakers concerning entries about trees and plants, compiled by Shaker historian Mary Julia Neal.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 816. Photocopies of letters, 1849-1881 (12); agreement to place children with the Shakers, 1812; school merit awards, n.d. (4); and business receipts, etc., 1810-1879 (15). Also, letters regarding collection, 1984, n.d. (2).
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscriprs Small Collection 725. Original and photocopies of diary detailing an eastern trip taken to visit Shaker societies in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts by Elder John Rankin, Brother Urban Johns, Eldress Betsy Smith and Sister Nancy E. Moore of South Union, Kentucky. Probably written by Eldress Betsy Smith.
Shannon, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1895 (Sc 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shannon, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1895 (Sc 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (click on Additional Files) for Manuscripts Small Collection 561. Journal of a voyage from South Union, Kentucky to New Orleans, Louisiana, which was kept by Thomas Jefferson Shannon, a selling agent for and a member of the South Union Colony of Shakers. The pagination refers to the typed copy of the journal which is also indexed mainly by names and places.
Taliaferro, Lucy, 1844?-1893? (Sc 828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taliaferro, Lucy, 1844?-1893? (Sc 828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 828. Letter, 19 October 1892, from Lucy Taliaferro, Nashville, Tennessee, to Harriet “Hattie” Taliaferro and Nannie regarding her plans for returning to the Shaker community at South Union, Kentucky. Includes biographical data on Harriet Taliaferro compiled by her grandson, Clem L. Pope.
Eads, Harvey Lauderdale, 1807-1892 (Sc 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eads, Harvey Lauderdale, 1807-1892 (Sc 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 741. Holograph inscription by Harvey Lauderdale Eads to Thomas C. Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in a copy of Condition of Society; and Its Only Hope, In Obeying the Everlasting Gospel, as Now Developing Among Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Union Village, Ohio, 1847).
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2594. Miscellaneous letters to Margie May Helm and family members. Includes notecards and a postcard with Shaker themes. Also includes a letter to Jane Helm from a friend regarding rooming together in college, and a speech by Margie May Helm on the early history of the Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 406. Correspondence, research notes and manuscript articles of Frances J. “Thomas” Whitaker, a Benedictine monk who lived and worked at St. Maur’s Priory, formerly the South Union Shaker Village in Logan County, Kentucky, from 1954-1988. He amassed a large collection of photocopied research material on the South Union community as well as other Shaker villages and museums in the United States. Also includes his research on various Catholic topics.
Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 455. Emancipation agreement made between Thomas McClean and the trustees of the United Society of Shakers, South Union, Kentucky, regarding the manumission of a black family (Joseph, Chloe, and George).
Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 453. Letter, 9 February 1868, from Howell and John Edmonds, South Union, Kentucky, to their parents, in Tennessee, regarding their welfare. Howell and John were both enrolled at the school at South Union. Also a note informing the parents of the death of John, age 15, of spotted fever.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 631. Photocopies of legal papers pertaining to lawsuit brought by Sally Boles in which she sought and obtained a divorce from her husband William, who united with the Shakers in 1808 and left her and their three children to join the Shaker settlement at South Union, Kentucky, in 1811. The case was first tried in Logan County, then in Barren County.
Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 405. Journal of Nancy Elam Moore, an eldress of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, describing life in the colony during the Civil War, 1861-1863, especially visitation and exploitation by both Union and Confederate forces. Includes a diary of unknown authorship recording daily life at the colony in 1866. The original diary is owned by the Dayton [Ohio] Public Library.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 317. Miscellaneous business papers of the Shakers, including letters, 1884, 1915 (2);an agreement with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for the location of a depot at South Union, 1860; deeds, 1883, 1893 (2); bond, 1883; and receipts, 1884, 1906 (2).
Manire, Lucy (Sc 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manire, Lucy (Sc 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 316. Letter written by Lucy Manire, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, to Lucy Shannon, South Union, Kentucky, expressing thanks for hospitality extended to her.