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Belcher, Scott Minor (Fa 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2010

Belcher, Scott Minor (Fa 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 195. Interview done by Scott Belcher with Bill Thompson,BreckinridgeCounty, Kentucky, in which Thompson reminisces about his youth. Includes transcription and cassette tape.


Cain, Bevie Waughn, 1844-1883 (Sc 2251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2010

Cain, Bevie Waughn, 1844-1883 (Sc 2251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2251. Letters (31) from Cain to James M. Davis, written mostly during the Civil War from her home and school in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and from Illinois. A strong Confederate sympathizer, Cain responds to Davis’s support of the Union, criticizes President Abraham Lincoln, and opines freely on love, courtship and marriage. She also writes of mutual friends, family, and social and religious activities. Includes 3 additional letters to Davis from his father, sister, and a friend who writes of an opportunity to manage a store. Also includes …


White, Vernon, 1915-2008 (Mss 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

White, Vernon, 1915-2008 (Mss 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 255. Correspondence, research notes, slides, and photographs related to Vernon White's interests: covered bridges, hominy holes, archaeology, and grave covers, chiefly in Kentucky. Also includes drafts of his books and information about the White family of White Mills, Hardin County, Kentucky as well as information about White's participation in World War II. To view a selection of illustrative material from the White Collection go to this website: http://www.wku.edu/library/dlsc/vernonwhite.php


Hardinsburg Magazine Club - Breckinridge County, Kentucky (Mss 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Hardinsburg Magazine Club - Breckinridge County, Kentucky (Mss 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 216. Chiefly minutes, bound and loose, of the Hardinsburg Magazine Club, Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky. Also includes correspondence, program information, news clippings, and a few yearbooks.


Davis, Ezra (Sc 1571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Davis, Ezra (Sc 1571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1571. Receipts from tobacco warehouses in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes other legal and business correspondence. Letters of Kitty McGehee, Irvington, Kentucky, to Virginia Hensley.