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Kentucky

2003

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Aspley Family (Sc 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2003

Aspley Family (Sc 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1377. World War II letters, 1942-1943 (5), written stateside and from Europe by the three Aspley brothers Charles, Billy and Robert, to parents and friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly discussing everyday camp life. Also includes related newspaper clippings.

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Shelton, Martha Beth (Sc 1375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2003

Shelton, Martha Beth (Sc 1375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1375. Paper written by Martha B. Shelton of Greenville, Kentucky, giving the history of the town by recording the various owners of Greenville's houses and buildings.

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Todd County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 1372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2003

Todd County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 1372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1372. Letters, 1887-1923, written to Sherrod and Williams family members, Todd County, Kentucky, mainly containing family news. The 1913 letter focuses on tobacco selling and Night Riders' activities in Henderson County, Kentucky.

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Guthrie Family (Mss 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2003

Guthrie Family (Mss 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Autograph books of two female and one male member of the Guthrie and related families of Cumberland County, Kentucky. Includes some family data.

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Githens, William Harrison, 1826-1904 (Sc 1364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2003

Githens, William Harrison, 1826-1904 (Sc 1364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1364. Letter, 22 February 1862, written by U.S. Army surgeon William H. Githens, Birds Point, Missouri, to his wife describing conditions, especially in Cairo, Illinois, and mentioning the activity at Forts Holt and Payne across the river in Kentucky. He includes a sketch of these fortifications.

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Voice Of The People (Fa 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2003

Voice Of The People (Fa 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of student papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 83. The Voice of the People: An Understanding of Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A Western Kentucky University Folk Studies project directed by Dr. Lynwood Montell, involving 9 students and 26 informants. Several of the interview transcriptions are available by downloading (Click "Download" button on the right) the finding aid and clicking on the hyperlinks in the text.

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Tucker, Mildred Carpenter, 1894-1994 (Mss 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2003

Tucker, Mildred Carpenter, 1894-1994 (Mss 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 145. Materials removed from a scrapbook kept by Tucker, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, while a student at Hamilton College in Lexington, Kentucky, for the 1915-1916 school year. Includes notes about the college, printed items, photos, mementos, etc. Also includes related data.

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Helm-Lucas Family Papers (Mss 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2003

Helm-Lucas Family Papers (Mss 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 146. Chiefly family and courtship correspondence between James Helm, Butler County, Kentucky, and Virginia Lucas, Warren County, Kentucky. Their 1879 marriage rites were the first ones to be performed in Mammoth Cave. Includes associated items.

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Pace, Pearl Eagle (Carter), 1896-1970 (Mss 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2003

Pace, Pearl Eagle (Carter), 1896-1970 (Mss 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 114. Correspondence, business papers, and speeches of Monroe County, Kentucky native Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace. Includes materials concerning Republican National Committee and Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; civic, religious, political and professional organizations in Kentucky and Washington, D.C. Also includes some Cumberland County, Kentucky records.

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Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2003

Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 143. Shaker journal, 1891-1893 (184p.) kept by James Carr, South Union, Kentucky, giving daily activities within the Shaker community. Includes hymnals, 1836-1856 (9), compiled by Shaker society members. A name index is available.

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Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2003

Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 68. Personal and business papers, 1905-1935 (293 items), of Herdman, an attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and assistant attorney general of Kentucky, 1936-1947, and legal papers, 1884-1934 (867), from his practice in Bowling Green which relate chiefly to civil and commercial matters in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2003

Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 128. Correspondence, papers, financial records, minutes, essays written by children, etc., of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, Warren County, Kentucky, which was part of an international religious organization.

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Reed, Sheryl Diane (Fa 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2003

Reed, Sheryl Diane (Fa 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 190. Paper written by Reed entitled, "The War at Home" (17 p.), based on interviews with various Bowling Green, Kentucky individuals about the effects of World War II on them and the home front. Also includes cassette tapes (4) and transcriptions (3).

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Sudduth Goff, Artist: A Preliminary Record, James D. Birchfield Jan 2003

Sudduth Goff, Artist: A Preliminary Record, James D. Birchfield

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

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Wilcher, Joda, 1905-1971 (Mss 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2003

Wilcher, Joda, 1905-1971 (Mss 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 155. Chiefly business papers of Joda Wilcher, Bradfordsville, Kentucky, pertaining to his work as an agent that bought trees, especially walnut trees, for various lumber companies. Also a few family items, including his memorial book and other items relating to his funeral.

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Carraco, Arthur, 1873-1964 (Sc 1370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2003

Carraco, Arthur, 1873-1964 (Sc 1370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1370. Hospital fee statements received by Arthur Carraco, Carrollton, Kentucky, after treatment at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Casselberry, Anita B. (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2003

Casselberry, Anita B. (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1378. Journal, 1925, 79p., kept by Anita B. Casselberry, evidently from Cleveland, Ohio, while serving a few weeks as a public health nurse under the direction of Alice Lloyd in Knott County, Kentucky. Also associated letter, 1960-1965?, newspaper clippings, 1940-1941 (2), and photos, 1925 (2).

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Rogers, Odie Floyd, Jr. 1921-1957 (Sc 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2003

Rogers, Odie Floyd, Jr. 1921-1957 (Sc 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1386. World War II diary, kept by Odie Floyd Rogers, Jr. (1921-1957) Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, who was a member of a flight crew that evidently was stationed in Sicily. They bombed chiefly Italian targets. Rogers completed 66 missions.

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Ua1d We Were One And Two Teammates, Vernon Hornback Jan 2003

Ua1d We Were One And Two Teammates, Vernon Hornback

WKU Archives Records

Undated autobiographical sketch written by Ted Hornback. He includes his experiences as a Hilltopper basketball player under E. A. Diddle, work as coach at Elkhorn and experiences working as Diddle's as assistant coach.

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Joseph A. Altsheler And The Great Ghost Forest Of Kentucky, Mervyn Nicholson Jan 2003

Joseph A. Altsheler And The Great Ghost Forest Of Kentucky, Mervyn Nicholson

The Kentucky Review

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The Clavichord In The Bluegrass: Dolmetsch, Fudge, And Hammer, Joseph R. Jones Jan 2003

The Clavichord In The Bluegrass: Dolmetsch, Fudge, And Hammer, Joseph R. Jones

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

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