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Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 561. Personal diaries of Clara (Wright) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, kept during her marriage to food critic Duncan Hines and after his death. Includes some correspondence, travel itineraries, and miscellaneous papers.

Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 543. Minutes, yearbooks, administrative papers and program information related to the Current Events Club, a ladies literary club in Bowling Green, Kentuckyk, that was founded in 1902.

Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 495. Letters written by Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Clara Gregory and Mildred (Gregory) Pugh, Nashville, Tennessee, related to a rental property owned by Clara Gregory at 720 State Street in Bowling Green. The newsy letters contain information about maintenance to the property and remarks about current events in Bowling Green as well as comments about national affairs.

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods.

Warren County, Kentucky - Equity Court Records (Sc 2824), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2824. Record of the Warren County, Kentucky Equity Court of an action by Ann Davis against her son, James Davis, pertaining to the estate of her husband, Robert Davis. Ann claims that James has failed to administer estate funds for her benefit as agreed to by all her children, and driven her from homes she shared with him in Virginia and Warren County. The record consists of the plaintiff’s complaint and a summons to James.

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.

Darden, Addie A., 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1283. Graduation speech delivered at Cedar Bluff Female College in Woodburn, Kentucky by salutatorian Addie Darden on 7 June 1877. Includes an essay read in Latin.

Roberts, Edwin T., 1920-1998 (Sc 1229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1229. Legal papers removed from genealogy notebooks compiled by Edwin T. Roberts, including a Mississippi deed, 1867, and documents relating to Richardella Ragland’s estate, partially in Warren County, Kentucky.

Dallas, William Robert, Sr., 1910-1997 (Mss 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 472. Correspondence, almost exclusively between William Robert Dallas, Sr., and his girlfriend, fiancé, and later wife Virginia “Ginny” Eileen Lindsay. Dallas was in the Army Air Corps and stationed in Louisville, Kentucky, while Ginny was living in her hometown of Ventnor, New Jersey, right outside Atlantic City. The letters are courtship related and are filled with plans for their wedding on 15 September 1945.

Hume, Glee, 1902-1998 (Mss 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 470. Letters written 1940-1946 to Glee Hume, a teacher at Burkesville High School, Cumberland County, Kentucky, by former students and relatives serving in various military service units around the world.

Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.

Watkins, Nancy Arianna (Sloss), 1838-1866 (Sc 2752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2752. Autograph book of Nancy Arianna “Anna” (Sloss) Watkins, Simpson County, Kentucky, with entries from 1857-1865. Many of the contributors included poems. Also includes locks of hair found in the autograph book.

Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 2720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2720. Bound typescript of the Board of Trustees minutes from the Franklin Female College, Franklin, Kentucky. (155 p.)

Mary Reed Cooke Music Club - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2712. Yearbooks, programs and news clippings related to the activities of the Mary Reed Cooke Music Club of Smiths Grove, Kentucky.

Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1003. Courtship letters (29) written by Roger Charles Porter of Warren County, Kentucky to his future wife, Nan Cole, during a summer she spent at Massey Springs, a Warren County resort operated by her parents. The Porters married 16 March 1911.

Mothers Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 113. Organizational records including minutes, financial and attendance reports, yearbooks, and newspaper clippings related to the Mothers Club, a group of concerned mothers who formed the Bowling Green club in 1925 for educational purposes. The group formally dissolved in 1998.

Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2695. Invitations to the 1886, 1887 and 1888 commencement exercises of Cedar Bluff College, a school for young ladies in Woodburn, Kentucky. The members of the graduating classes are listed, and the 1888 invitation includes the program for the event.

Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 980. Letter written by Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to a Miss Symmes, regarding Bowling Green’s participation in the planned Kentucky Room at the 1893 World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) in Chicago.

Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 669. History of the Current Events Club, formed in 1902, written by Mrs. Margaret (Nicholls) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a typescripted 1931 newspaper article with club history.

Jones, Virginia, 1861-1937 - Letters To (Sc 890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 890. Letters, 1885-1889 (13), written to Virginia “Jennie” Jones, New York City, from suitor lawyer Robert Scott Bevier, Owensboro, Kentucky, discussing their relationship, family, political aspirations, and timely topics. Also, letter, 1901, from future husband Peter Chapman Ritchie and letters, 1992-1993 (2) containing data about the letters.

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 887. Letter written by Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mina Weber, Los Angeles, California, in response to Weber’s request that she write a supporting letter to radio host Ralph Edwards of “This is Your Life,” concerning Bowling Green's Ida Hodges and her contributions to society. Also carbon copy of Weber’s letter to Edwards.

Burgess, Sarah Edward, 1876-1924 - Letters To (Sc 2667), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2667. Letters to Sarah “Sally” Burgess, addressed to her in Davis (Scott County), Kentucky, Georgetown, Kentucky, and Newton, Illinois. Young men extend invitations, a niece writes of her social activities, and her sister Ella invites her to a “cantata” in Georgetownand describes her clothing needs. Another friend writes of social activities, including attendance at “negro minstrel”

shows, for which she was “ashamed.”

Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of diploma (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 656. Mistress of Science diploma conferred upon Mollie B. Robinson by Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky. Mollie was the niece of the college's president, William F. Whitesides.

Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Correspondence, deeds, legal and other personal papers of the Edmunds family of North Carolina and Caldwell County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data and papers of associated families, primarily the Cameron family of North Carolina.

Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”

Bell, Tennie Juliet (Odom), 1872-1943 (Sc 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 74. Essay written by Tennie Juliet (Odom) Bell, of Texas, while a student at Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky.

Mcgown, Hattie Russ (Sc 2656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2656. Letter of Hattie (Mrs. Hugh) McGown, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her sister Burlie Ellis, Richelieu, Kentucky. She reports on her husband’s work as a railroad switchman, the participation of her son Joe in a school play, and her progress in joining a new church. She also describes witnessing efforts to extract a car from a ditch on her family’s return from a visit to her father.

Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 804. Paper entitled “Early Schools of Bowling Green [Kentucky],” written by Lavinia R. Scott. Includes information about the Southern College of Kentucky, Mary Kendall Jones’ Female Seminary, Samuel Moore Gaines’ Presbyterian School for Young Ladies, and George Edgar’s Bowling Green Female College.

Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2649. Subscription lists, receipts and other financial records related to the operation of Smiths Grove College in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. Includes a debate outline demanding equal rights for women (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

Moore, Gilbertine Douglass, 1914-2008 (Mss 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 435. Correspondence, autograph albums, travel accounts and other miscellaneous material of Franklin, Kentucky native Gilbertine Moore. Moore owned a seed inspection business in Franklin and was interested in the arts, nature, and writing.