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Clark, Otis Vernon, Jr., 1926-2006 (Mss 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Clark, Otis Vernon, Jr., 1926-2006 (Mss 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 428. Chiefly letters from Otis Vernon Clark, Jr., while studying in Lexington, Virginia, to his parents Otis and Susie, Bowling Green, Kentucky, detailing university social life. Also included in the collection are miscellaneous photos, postcards, and biographical information.


Miller, Carl Haskell, 1889-1964 (Sc 2587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Miller, Carl Haskell, 1889-1964 (Sc 2587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2587. Daily diary and journal of Carl Haskell Miller, Tompkinsville, Kentucky. A manager on the Chautauqua circuit, Miller writes in a detailed but lighthearted way of his family, his life at home and of his travels in the United States and Mexico. He also reproduces some of his personal and professional correspondence, and writes of his mother’s death in 1927.


Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 406. Correspondence, research notes and manuscript articles of Frances J. “Thomas” Whitaker, a Benedictine monk who lived and worked at St. Maur’s Priory, formerly the South Union Shaker Village in Logan County, Kentucky, from 1954-1988. He amassed a large collection of photocopied research material on the South Union community as well as other Shaker villages and museums in the United States. Also includes his research on various Catholic topics.


Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 60. Correspondence of Thomas V. Ferrell, teacher and businessman, and of his wife, Winnie (58 items), and of their daughter Thelma (94 items), of Somerset, Kentucky; Ferrell family legal papers (7 items); notes of Thelma, who worked for the Somerset Journal for years; and miscellaneous receipts, clippings, etc.


Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 410. Materials relating to Duncan Hines and the marketing of the “Duncan Hines” brand of food products. Includes obituary notices for Duncan Hines, ice cream franchise agreement, stock certificate books for related companies, and a study on marketing the brand to consumers, especially women.


Eclectic Book Club (Mss 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Eclectic Book Club (Mss 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 407. Minute book, yearbooks, and financial data of the Eclectic Book Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Grider, Charles J., 1905-1987 (Mss 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Grider, Charles J., 1905-1987 (Mss 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 401. Collection contains materials related to Charles J. Grider's part-time career as a music manager. Includes band advertisements, dance invitations, letters and telegrams from music corporations, lists of patrons underwriting for bands, and Grider's personal reminiscences of Bowling Green dances.


May, Gloria (Sc 2512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

May, Gloria (Sc 2512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2512. Two letters from Gloria May (Mrs. Philip S. May, Jr.), Jacksonville, Florida, to Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky, with personal news. She also relates anecdotes about the shopping habits of Pauline Tabor, a Bowling Green madam, and the luxuries she afforded her employees.


Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 393. Minutes, correspondence, programs, historical sketches, and miscellaneous material of the Ladies Literary Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Johnson, James L. (Sc 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Johnson, James L. (Sc 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 365. Typescript of a speech delivered on Nathan B. Stubblefield, “Father of the Radio,” by James L. Johnson at the annual convention of the Kentucky Broadcasters Association in Louisville.


Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 391. Correspondence and published stories of Logan County, Kentucky, romance story writer Anne Ridings Trimble. The correspondence is between Trimble and Kentucky Library librarians Mary Leiper Moore and Elizabeth Coombs. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of Trimble stories mentioned in the collection.


Shakers (Sc 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Shakers (Sc 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 356. Letters, 1834-1851 (6), of the Shakers, chiefly of South Union, Kentucky, concerning the seed industry, religious affairs, economic conditions, wagon blueprint, etc., and receipts, 1868, 1870 (2).


Fairleigh Family Papers (Sc 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Fairleigh Family Papers (Sc 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 349. Class book, 1839-1844, of the Methodist Church, Brandenburg, Kentucky, containing membership list, 1843-44, and some notations of contributions. Also, it contains law and minutes of the Belles Lettres Society, 1849-1850, and of the Union Debating Society, October 1852. The book was kept by Thomas Fairleigh and other Fairleigh family members.


Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 385. Letters written chiefly by Herman Frederick Wilhelm Volkerding, of Louisville, Kentucky, to his wife Mary Elizabeth (Hauber) Volkerding while traveling as a salesman for the John T. Barbee distillers. Volkerding pines for home and describes the scenery, hotels, amusements and rail travel in the western United States.


Reed, Margaret (Sc 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Reed, Margaret (Sc 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 344. Letter written by Margaret Reed, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, to Mrs. Charles Porter, Bowling Green, Kentucky, declining her invitation to visit during the fair.


Roberts, Ethel (Sc 2499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Roberts, Ethel (Sc 2499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2499. Letter from 16-year-old Ethel Roberts, a student in Big Creek, Kentucky, to Helen Ferenczy, Altgeld School, Chicago, Illinois. Ethel describes Christmas and other activities at her school.


Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 246. Campaign letter, 25 July 1913, written by F. Youree Patterson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning his candidacy for the Warren County Clerk’s office in the primary election on the dry ticket.