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Rowan Family (Mss 69), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rowan Family (Mss 69), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of oversized items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 69. Correspondence, business and legal papers, clippings, etc., of John Rowan, Sr., 1773-1843, lawyer, judge, U.S. Representative and Senator, and owner of Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky; and of John Rowan, Jr., 1807-1855, master of Federal Hill and U.S. charge d'affaires to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1848-1850. Federal Hill is more commonly referred to today as "My Old Kentucky Home."
Steele, Ira (Sc 1352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steele, Ira (Sc 1352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1352. Letter, 16 February 1862, written by Union soldier Ira Steele, stationed at Camp Glenbrook, Kentucky, to his brother Oliver Steele. He mentions the Green River; bridge burning; Bowling Green; the sending of some items to New Haven, Nelson County, Kentucky; and describes camp life.
Slavery - Bill Of Sale (Sc 1353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slavery - Bill Of Sale (Sc 1353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1353. Bill of sale, Butler County, Kentucky, for Negro Joe, who was sold to William Carson by Robert Thompson and Seth Carson.
Tyler, Sara Elizabeth, 1910-2001 (Sc 1376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tyler, Sara Elizabeth, 1910-2001 (Sc 1376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1376. Paper entitled "Growing Up on State Street," in which Sara E. Tyler recalls her childhood days in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In addition to social life and customs, she relates much about the houses in the neighborhood. Also copy of a 2002 published article based on the paper.
Ellsworth, Oliver Carnell, 1842-1864 (Sc 1359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ellsworth, Oliver Carnell, 1842-1864 (Sc 1359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1359. Correspondence of Civil War soldier Oliver C. Ellsworth, Marion, Michigan, with family and friends. He served with the 22nd Michigan Infantry in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Also includes a tintype of Ellsworth.
Wilson, Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 1357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 1357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1357. Letter, 2 January 1966, written by Gordon Wilson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to L. Y. Lancaster, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which Wilson extols their friendship that will soon celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.
Hines & Porter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines & Porter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1334. Lawyers' combined collection record book and docket book kept by the law firm of Hines and Porter, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Oakley, Bethel Beulah, 1903-1995 (Sc 1338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oakley, Bethel Beulah, 1903-1995 (Sc 1338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1338. Business papers, letters (including some written by her elementary students), printed materials, etc., of Bethel B. Oakley, originally from Hopkins County, Kentucky. She taught in Webster County and Owensboro, Kentucky, and at Oakland City College, Oakland City, Indiana.
Teachers And Teaching - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Teachers And Teaching - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1356. Teacher's class book kept by Frances Hart, for the 1924-1925 school year, evidently as a Hartford [Kentucky] High School faculty member. The book lists classes taught as well as students' names.
Rau, Ernest, 1874-1962 (Sc 1366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rau, Ernest, 1874-1962 (Sc 1366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1366. Chiefly incoming business papers of Ernest Rau, a Bowling Green, Kentucky doctor, who served in World War I. Includes items relating to his service at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, and associated items, 1962, 1974 about Rau.
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1388. Annals of First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which consist of brief entries about significant activities or events. These records began to be kept at the time of the church's sesquicentennial celebration.
Byrd, Mary (Sc 1362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Byrd, Mary (Sc 1362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1362. Autograph book belonging to Mary Byrd, Fredonia, Kentucky, which has names and addresses of several Fredonia residents. Also has nice printed engravings.
Taulman, James (Sc 1358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taulman, James (Sc 1358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1358. Letter, postcards, photos, clippings, etc., sent to James Taulman from a Bowling Green, Kentucky childhood pen pal Carolyn Williams.
Warren County, Kentucky - Justices Of The Peace (Sc 1342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Justices Of The Peace (Sc 1342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Small Collection 1342. Notice, 25 February 1808, of the removal of John Bailey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, as Warren County Justice of the Peace by Kentucky governor Christopher Greenup.
Kerr Memorial Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kerr Memorial Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and selected full scan documents (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 133. Historical materials about Kerr Memorial Methodist Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, including list of donors for original building (1891); printed histories; correspondence and commemorative programs from church anniversary celebrations; account book of the church's Young Adult Fellowship (1947-48); and deeds.