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Trustees Of Augusta College (Lg 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Trustees Of Augusta College (Lg 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, full scan and photograph (click on "Additional File" below) for Land Grant 425. Original land grant, 4 December 1826, by which Joseph Desha, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Trustees of Augusta College, Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky, 500 acres in Sumner County, Tennessee. Identified as "Kentucky Land-Office Warrant no. 16005." Wax seal has been removed. Signed by Joseph Desha and J. E. Pickett.

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Goode, Cecil Earnest, 1915-2011 (Sc 2404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Goode, Cecil Earnest, 1915-2011 (Sc 2404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2404. Typed manuscript copy of Cecil Earnest Goode's book "World Wonder Saved: How Mammoth Cave Became a National Park." Also includes a copy of the book's copyright registration form as sent to the Library of Congress.

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Reid, Patricia (Ennis) - Collector (Mss 347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Reid, Patricia (Ennis) - Collector (Mss 347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 347. Genealogical data collected by Patricia (Ennis) Reid on numerous Ohio County, Kentucky families. Includes a copy of "Early Tax Lists of Warren County, Kentucky, 1797-1807."

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Confederate States Of America - Bond Coupons (Sc 2403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Confederate States Of America - Bond Coupons (Sc 2403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2403. Full sheet of bond coupons issued by the Confederate States of America in $30 denominations with a full term of thirty years; total $1,000. The bonds were approved by the CSA on 11 February 1864. This sheet is hand numbered "8654" and was part of the "Fifth Series" issue.

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Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 352. Material related to Cecil Murray Elrod, chiefly about his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-21. Includes notes on planes and guns discussed during training, aviators flight log books, and other military papers. Also includes information about reunions of the Valley High School (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Class of 1943.

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Miller Family Papers (Mss 324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Miller Family Papers (Mss 324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 324. Collection consists of a physician's daybook kept by David Griffin Miller, Jr. in Butler County, Kentucky, 1937-1938, and some other material related to Miller's medical career. Also included are numerous photographs from the Miller and Hudson families and a memoir by David Griffin Miller III.

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Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2402. Letters of Louis Arnold Rich, a U. S. Army private from Tompkinsville, Kentucky, written to his wife and in-laws during his military training and while hospitalized for a long illness that resulted in his death on 3 August 1944. He writes of his medical condition and mentions other soldiers from home. Includes letters from his wife, Martha, to her parents and grandmother discussing his medical treatment. Also includes an unidentified soldier’s letter and a child’s letter to her father.

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Cloud Family Papers (Mss 351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Cloud Family Papers (Mss 351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 351. Correspondence, news clippings, and sundry other material related to the Cloud family of Louisville, Kentucky. The bulk of the collection concerns the estates of Willis J. Cloud and Lillian Lee Cloud.

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Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 49. Correspondence of the Green family, Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky, including business papers and account books, and correspondence for several generations of the Robert Wilmot Scott family, originally of Frankfort, Kentucky.

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Tanner, James Freeman, B. 1906 (Sc 2367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Tanner, James Freeman, B. 1906 (Sc 2367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2367. "The Louisville and Nashville Railroad to 1866" by James Freeman Tanner, a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1932.

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West Kentucky Coal Company - Sturgis, Kentucky (Sc 2401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

West Kentucky Coal Company - Sturgis, Kentucky (Sc 2401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2401. Letter, 17 August 1927, from T.E. Jenkins, vice president of West Kentucky Coal Company, Sturgis, Kentucky, thanking him for his rescue and recovery work after a mine explosion near Clay, Kentucky, on 3 August 1927.

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Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 345. Correspondence, legal documents, and sundry material related to the Meador, Richards, and Johnson families chiefly of Simpson County and Logan County, Kentucky. Also includes documents and correspondence from the King and Garrett families of Robertson and Sumner County, Tennessee. The attached 1842 letters are from R. M. Latimer to Caroline Garrett reporting the death and burial of her brother, George King, in Cuba; and to Caroline Garrett from another brother, John, discussing tensions with Mexico.

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Muncy, William Mckinley, 1894-1963 (Sc 2400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Muncy, William Mckinley, 1894-1963 (Sc 2400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2400. Two letters from William M. "Mack" Muncy to Eliza Ranson, written from Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky while serving with the 159th Depot Brigade. He writes of drills, vaccinations and social activities. He also refers to desertion and suicide among his comrades and to the treatment of conscientious objectors by the military.

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Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 281. Chiefly personal and professional correspondence, speeches, journal articles, reminiscences, and news clippings of noted educator Chester Coleman Travelstead. Of particular interest are the materials related to his 1955 dismissal from the University of South Carolina owing to his support of racial integration. Also includes correspondence and diaries of his mother Nelle (Gooch) Travelstead, long-time Western Kentucky University faculty member.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union Of Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Woman's Christian Temperance Union Of Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 344. Correspondence, membership and financial information of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, formed to promote abstinence from alcohol and enforcement of prohibition laws. Includes some materials from the state and national WCTU.

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Warren County Bar Association - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Warren County Bar Association - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2399. Memorial resolution of Warren County Bar Association on the death of William H. Sterrett, an officer of the county court.

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Sampson, Flemon Davis, 1875-1967 (Mss 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Sampson, Flemon Davis, 1875-1967 (Mss 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 342. Family correspondence of Flemon Davis "Flem" Sampson, attorney, judge, and governor of Kentucky from 1927-1931. Includes correspondence of Sampson, his wife, daughter and their families, and miscellaneous papers.

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Spears, John Ulysses, 1873-1947 (Sc 2398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Spears, John Ulysses, 1873-1947 (Sc 2398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2398. Receipts to John Ulysses Spears from E. M. House and Son, Franklin, Kentucky, and J. H. Herrington, Gold City, Kentucky, relating to an estate account and burial expenses for his mother, Mary Julia Spears.

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Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2397. Correspondence primarily to Jane (Hines) Morningstar of Bowling Green, Kentucky, responding to her providing of historical and genealogical information. Includes a letter from Detrex Chemical Industries thanking her for her cooperation during a labor controversy.

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Wise Family Papers (Mss 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Wise Family Papers (Mss 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 341. Correspondence of the Wise family of Ohio County, Kentucky, and related families. Includes letters of Levi Franklin Wise, serving with Union forces in Bowling Green, Kentucky 1864. A few letters have been typescripted. Click on "Additional Files" to see several of the typescripts.

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Nunn, Louie Broady, 1924-2004 (Sc 2396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Nunn, Louie Broady, 1924-2004 (Sc 2396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2396. Letter, 12 January 1968, from Kentucky Governor Louie B. Nunn to Dr. Thomas H. Baird in Bowling Green, Kentucky, nominating him for appointment as Medical Advisor, Local Selective Service Board No. 95, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes envelope with postage due stamp.

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Gilliam, William D. (Sc 2386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Gilliam, William D. (Sc 2386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2386. "The Public Career of Robert Perkins Letcher," by William D. Gilliam, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1941.

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Hill, James Emmett, B. 1926 (Sc 2388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Hill, James Emmett, B. 1926 (Sc 2388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2388. "James Madison Pendleton's Theology of Baptism," by James Emmett Hill, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Theology degree, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1948.

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Hale, Robert Earl, B. 1894 (Sc 2387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Hale, Robert Earl, B. 1894 (Sc 2387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2387. "The Successors of the Whig Party in Kentucky," by Robert Earl Hale, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1925.

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Arnold, Grace S., 1893-1983 (Mss 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Arnold, Grace S., 1893-1983 (Mss 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 338. Correspondence, clippings and programs of Grace S. Arnold, curator of Federal Hill in Bardstown, Kentucky. Inlcudes information and correspondence about Stephen Collins Foster and Federal Hill, said to have inspired Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home." Also includes correspondence and information about the Rowan family, owners of Federal Hill.

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Mccalister, Virginia May (Sc 2365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Mccalister, Virginia May (Sc 2365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2365. "The Political Career of Ollie M. James" by Virginia M. McCalister, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1933.

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Sublett, Metta Maurine (Sc 2378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Sublett, Metta Maurine (Sc 2378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2378. “The Role of the Confederate Veteran in the Industrial Development of Kentucky,” a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Philosophy degree, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1945.

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Egbert, Ercell Jane, 1895-1974 (Sc 2392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Egbert, Ercell Jane, 1895-1974 (Sc 2392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2392. "Kentucky's Interest in the Pacific Railroad Question From 1830 to 1865," a thesis presented by Ercell Egbert in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, 1929.

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Mayfield, Edith Evalyn, 1896-1958 (Sc 2377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Mayfield, Edith Evalyn, 1896-1958 (Sc 2377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2377. “The History of Journalism in Bowling Green, Ky.,” a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, 1926.

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Beeler, Andrew J., Jr. (Sc 2362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Beeler, Andrew J., Jr. (Sc 2362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 2362. "Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Her Interpretation of LIfe" by Andrew J. Beeler, Jr., a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, University of Louisiville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1940.

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