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Bethel College - Matriculation Records, 1854-1919 (Mss 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bethel College - Matriculation Records, 1854-1919 (Mss 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 182. Matriculation book (414 p.) for Bethel College, 1854-1918. Bethel, a Baptist school located in Russellville, Kentucky, started as a high school, evolved into a four-year college, and finally became a junior college.
Simmons, Stella (Sc 1810), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Simmons, Stella (Sc 1810), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1810. Paper: "Science Hill School: English and Classical School for Girls, Shelbyville, Kentucky" written by Stella Simmons for a Western Kentucky State Teachers College literature class. Includes requirements for admission and graduation taken from the school catalog.
Russellville Institute - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 1789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Russellville Institute - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 1789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1789. Register of the Russellville Institute, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky listing names of students, a conduct report for each, and tuition payment. Also birth, death, and marriage records of the Goucher family.
Altrusa International - Bowling Green (Mss 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Altrusa International - Bowling Green (Mss 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 702. Chiefly financial reports, minutes, yearbooks, newsletters, and correspondence of the Altrusa International Club in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1954 until dissolution in 2004.
Edens, William Jeptha, 1898-1969 (Mss 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edens, William Jeptha, 1898-1969 (Mss 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 232. This collection contains Edens' unpublished theses related to agriculture pedagogy (1930) and the development of the national farm loan associations in Warren County, Kentucky (1937), as well as a paper on the development and amenities of Bowling Green, Kentucky (1937). The collection also contains scrapbooks about Edens' work as an agricultural advisor in Saudi Arabia (1952), Indonesia (1956), and South Africa (1958). Also included are Edens' master's and doctorate diplomas from Cornell University.
Bate, Aaron, 1846-1863 (Sc 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bate, Aaron, 1846-1863 (Sc 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 48. Awards of merit in grammar and arithmetic, 1860-1861, presented to Aaron Bate by Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. They are printed and written in Latin.
Lucas, Marion Brunson, B. 1935 (Sc 1733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lucas, Marion Brunson, B. 1935 (Sc 1733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1733. Research notes (saved on CD-ROM) used in the compilation of "History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891" (first published in 1992; paperback in 2003). Includes an index with eighteen specialized topics.
Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 59. Papers chiefly of Hezekiah and Richard Ward of Ohio County, Kentucky. Promissory notes, 1857-79 (14 items); tax receipts, 1864-68 (4); telephone receipts, 1913-34 (44); and miscellaneous receipts, 1824-1937 (40); legal papers, 1873-1939 (14); essay and play, 189?; and genealogical data (2).
Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 226. Chiefly courtship correspondence between Robert Yancy Price, Rockfield, Kentucky and his girlfriend and future wife, Virginia Eva Dalton, Scottsville, Kentucky. Also includes information about Price's death and subsequent letters sent to Virginia by friends and family members.
Mcgehee, Wilburn Ross, 1900-1971 (Sc 1630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgehee, Wilburn Ross, 1900-1971 (Sc 1630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1630. Paper: "History of Education in Bowling Green," written by W. Ross McGehee.
Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 85. Genealogical materials revolving chiefly around the Hobday family of Tennessee and Kentucky as researched and collected by Bob Law, Nashville, Tennessee.
Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 91. War of 1812 letters, 1814-1815 (3), written by James Hines to his wife, also deeds and will; John Hines papers pertaining to selling and employing slaves, 1823-1840 (3); and correspondence, etc., 1856-1879 (27) of John Henry Hines, from Johnson's Island, an Ohio prisoner of war camp. The Hines family migrated from Virginia to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Various other family items are in the collection.
Pickett, Mary C. (Sc 1622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pickett, Mary C. (Sc 1622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1622. Letter, 5 April 1885, from Mary C. Pickett, a student at Georgetown Female Seminary, Georgetown, Kentucky to her grandmother Anne E. Bailey, Stanford, Kentucky, commenting about her examinations, her clothes and her school uniform.
Mcgrohan, Mary M. (Sc 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgrohan, Mary M. (Sc 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 16. Signed statement of Mary McGrohan listing the subjects that Miss Jane Berry studied while a pupil of hers at the Glasgow Female Academy, Glasgow, Kentucky.
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 50. Correspondence of David Morton, correspondence concerning Morton Collection, speeches, essays, MSS: "Entries for a Diary," and MSS: "The Amateur Listener" -- diary, poems, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items of Morton, a poet and English professor born in Elkton, Kentucky.
Smith, Dennis M. (Mss 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Dennis M. (Mss 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 191. Paper concerning the naming of Bowling Green, Kentucky's elementary schools and cassette tapes of interviews conducted by Smith. Also, scrapbook materials relating to Mackie E. (Smith) Bennett.