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2020

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Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 (Sc 3576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2020

Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 (Sc 3576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3576. “History of Manuscript Division and Bibliography of Literary Manuscripts” by Patricia M. Hodges, Manuscript Librarian at Western Kentucky University. The paper details the creation of the Manuscript Division (now the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives unit of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections), personnel, and early collecting efforts. Includes a bibliography of the literary manuscript holdings of the Manuscript Division compiled as of the date of the paper.

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Waters, Bertie Bliss, 1877-1942 (Sc 3575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2020

Waters, Bertie Bliss, 1877-1942 (Sc 3575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3575. Letter, 26 August 1935, of Bertie B. Waters, Louisville, Kentucky, asking for reinstatement as a clerk in the Railway Mail Service, making reference to his past employment and to the newly available opportunities for eligible workers affected by the Depression. Includes responses from two U. S. Congressman and the Post Office Department regarding the refusal of his request.

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Artists - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2020

Artists - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3574. Interviews with Margie Helm, Elizabeth Coombs, and Jane (Hines) Morningstar, Bowling Green, Kentucky, on their knowledge of local artists, particularly women.

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College Heights Herald - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2020

College Heights Herald - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3573. Parody issue of WKU’s student newspaper, the College Heights Herald (“The University Herald”), 18 January 1968, with a front page story purporting to report on the arrest of three local physicians at a house of prostitution.

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Shinall, David L. (Sc 3572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2020

Shinall, David L. (Sc 3572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3572. Taped interviews by David Shinall, a reporter for WKU’s College Heights Herald, with justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court, made prior to a session of the court held on WKU’s campus on 18 April 2002.

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Bowling Green Rose Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2020

Bowling Green Rose Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 712. Minutes, correspondence, show programs, and miscellaneous records of the Bowling Green Rose Society. The bulk of the material is from the 1980s and 1990s.

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Webster, Pauline (Martin) Tabor, 1905-1992 (Sc 3571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2020

Webster, Pauline (Martin) Tabor, 1905-1992 (Sc 3571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3571. Audiocassette recording of Bowling Green, Kentucky madam Pauline Tabor Webster’s appearance on The Dick Cavett Show on 8 March 1972.

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Isbell Family Papers (Sc 3570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2020

Isbell Family Papers (Sc 3570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3570. Papers relating to the Isbell family of Warren County Kentucky: 1785 military land warrant to Thomas Isbell; various deeds, notes, receipts, bonds and accounts relating mainly to Temple Isbell; muster notice, 1815; agreements, 1812 and 1815, of Temple Isbell to teach a subscription school; 1843 letter of D. E. Isbell, Gasconade County, Missouri, with family news; and family records from the Bible of John K. Isbell.

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Gerard Undertakers, Bowling Green, Kentucky - Burial Records Book, 1887-1917 (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2020

Gerard Undertakers, Bowling Green, Kentucky - Burial Records Book, 1887-1917 (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Scan of Box 9, Folder 2, Manuscripts Collection 577. This is a record book of F. C. Gerard, Undertaker (later Gerard & Gerard), Bowling Green, Kentucky, recording burials from January 1887-September 1917. Entries show the deceased’s name, age, race, residence, date of death and burial, place of burial, and cause of death.

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Gerard Undertakers, Bowling Green, Kentucky - Burial Records Book, 1890-1896 (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2020

Gerard Undertakers, Bowling Green, Kentucky - Burial Records Book, 1890-1896 (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Scan of Box 9, Folder 1, Manuscripts Collection 577. This is a record book of F. C. Gerard and Brother, Undertakers, Bowling Green, Kentucky, recording burials from December 1890 through February 1896. Entries show the deceased’s name, age, race, residence, date of death and burial, place of burial, and cause of death.

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Bowling Green-Warren County (Kentucky) Rural Church Survey (Mss 705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2020

Bowling Green-Warren County (Kentucky) Rural Church Survey (Mss 705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 705. Survey forms, historical data, and photographs documenting rural churches in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.

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Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2020

Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3569. “History of the Eastwood Baptist Church,” by Lyn Allison Yeager, 1978, and associated material including organizing documents and minutes, 1953-1955; photocopies of photographs; early membership data; clippings; and collected anecdotes.

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Mayflower Hotel - Washington D.C. (Sc 3568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Mayflower Hotel - Washington D.C. (Sc 3568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3568. Instruction card to guests of the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. describing procedures to be followed in the event of a blackout or air raid.

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Myers, Helen Neill (Mohead), 1920-1998 (Sc 3567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Myers, Helen Neill (Mohead), 1920-1998 (Sc 3567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3567. Correspondence, clippings, and congratulatory telegrams relating to the marriage on 29 June 1942 of Miss Neill Mohead of Lula, Mississippi and Kentucky Lieutenant Governor Rodes Kirby Myers.

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Grider, Dorothy, 1915-2012 (Mss 709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Grider, Dorothy, 1915-2012 (Mss 709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 709. Correspondence, papers, sketches, drawings, mockups and other artwork documenting the career of Bowling Green, Kentucky native Dorothy Grider, an artist and illustrator of greeting and playing cards, filmstrips, advertisements for magazines, and numerous activity, coloring and story books for children.

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Gossom, Cora Eliza, 1866-1926 (Sc 3566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Gossom, Cora Eliza, 1866-1926 (Sc 3566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3566. Scrapbook, together with clippings and ephemera contained therein, of Cora Gossom, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Although many of its pages are missing, the book is a “Mark Twain’s Scrapbook,” containing pages coated with a light adhesive that required a slight application of moisture instead of glue. The contents relate primarily to news and local social events of interest to Cora, including her own debut. Loose items include a humorous novelty card warning of “fishing pox” and a postcard extolling William Jennings Bryan.

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Stamps Family (Sc 3564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Stamps Family (Sc 3564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3564. Genealogical data and related correspondence of the Stamps and Hills families of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes family group sheets, cemetery data and other compiled material.

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Bell Buckle, Tennessee - Relating To (Sc 3565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Bell Buckle, Tennessee - Relating To (Sc 3565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3565. “Bell Buckle Spring,” a 7 page narrative by an unknown author, recounting a naval lieutenant’s reminiscences of his youth while a student in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. The story is a lyrical account of the natural features of the area and the excitement of witnessing a passing train. The story is inscribed as written in 1945 and “delivered” in May 1947.

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Nicholls Family Papers (Sc 3563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Nicholls Family Papers (Sc 3563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3563. Correspondence and papers of Emma (Gates) Nicholls and her husband James M. Nicholls, a merchant of Calhoun, Kentucky who also served as McLean County Clerk. Includes mercantile accounts, legal papers and obituary of James Nicholls; Emma’s temperance pledge and WCTU leaflet; letters to her regarding some inherited Texas land; a photocopy of a family photograph; and a letter to Emma from her husband’s former store clerk repaying money improperly taken. Also includes Emma’s letters to her two daughters at school consoling them over illness caused by a vaccination; and invitations to the …

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Gossom, Lelia Emmaline, 1865-1937 (Sc 3562), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Gossom, Lelia Emmaline, 1865-1937 (Sc 3562), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Autograph album of Lelia E. Gossom, Bowling Green, Kentucky, containing entries by friends, family, and schoolmates at Bowling Green Female College.

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Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 3561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 3561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3561. Correspondence and notices relating to the publication of Duncan Hines: The Man Behind the Cake Mix, by Louis B. Hatchett. Includes letters relating to the identification of a photograph used in the book, a review of the book, and e-mails from the author regarding its promotion.

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Bowling Green-Warren County Girl Scout Council (Mss 711), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2020

Bowling Green-Warren County Girl Scout Council (Mss 711), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 711. Minutes and miscellaneous records of the Bowling Green-Warren County (Kentucky) Girl Scout Council. Includes minutes and planning documents for the Caveland Girl Scout Council covering 14 counties in south central Kentucky.

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Girl Scout Troop No. 1 - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2020

Girl Scout Troop No. 1 - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 710. Minutes and records for Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Girl Scout Troop No. 1. Includes some individual records, troop certificates, and a play script.

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Gates Family Letters (Mss 398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2020

Gates Family Letters (Mss 398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 398. Letters and papers of the family of Thomas and Nancy Gates, Calhoun, Kentucky. Most of the letters are courtship letters to daughter Nellie, with other letters from family in Connecticut, New York, and elsewhere.

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Hines, John Pipe, 1927-1987 (Sc 3560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2020

Hines, John Pipe, 1927-1987 (Sc 3560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3560. Correspondence of John P. Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding boat tours on the Green and Barren Rivers. Included are thank-you letters for his participation in tours, and correspondence with Captain C. W. Stoll regarding their shared interest in steamboats and river travel.

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World War I Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2020

World War I Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that relate to World War I. Included are letters and diaries of soldiers and civilians, military records and papers, research projects, photographs, scrapbooks and other, mostly unpublished material. Our collections are particularly strong in documenting the experiences of Kentuckians at home and overseas, and of others who found themselves in Kentucky (most notably, at Camp Zachary Taylor, the Army training facility in Louisville) during the war and its immediate aftermath.

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Mammoth Cave Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2020

Mammoth Cave Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that contain materials relating to Mammoth Cave. Our collections include descriptions of the Cave by visitors and guides, operation of the Cave as a tourist attraction, archaeology at the Cave, and the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.

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Shaker Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2020

Shaker Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that relate primarily to the United Believers in the Second Coming of Christ, commonly known as the Shakers. Most of the collections relate to the Shaker society at South Union in Logan County, Kentucky, but materials relating to other societies are also included.

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Church Records Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2020

Church Records Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that consist of church records. Most of the churches are in Kentucky, but the collection includes a few records of churches in other states.

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Rider, Kessel Payne, 1911-1982 (Sc 3551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2020

Rider, Kessel Payne, 1911-1982 (Sc 3551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3551. Correspondence and papers related to Louisville, Kentucky accountant Kessel P. Rider’s campaign for election to the city’s Board of Aldermen. Includes invitations to candidates’ events, congratulatory letters, and Rider’s Notary Public certificate.

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