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2013

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Damron, Danny Lee (Sc 1133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Damron, Danny Lee (Sc 1133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1133. Letters and a postcard sent from Damron to Becky Spradlin of Nicholasville, Kentucky. Also included is a photo of Damron, a water bottle label with Arabic captions and a riyal bill from Saudi Arabia.


Wall Family Papers (Sc 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Wall Family Papers (Sc 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1094. Documents mainly of Wall family members of Cynthiana (Harrison County), Kentucky, and Dallas, Texas. The family correspondence includes three Civil War era letters. The financial receipts include one for the cost of an 1841 servant’s coffin.


World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 2710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 2710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2710. Three letters written by “Tom” to his brother Summers, mother and “Mary,” from May-July 1942. He describes his work at an unnamed location constructing a galley, mess hall and housing, and the hauling of building materials up a hillside using a cable car system called a “kah-vall-ee.” Includes another soldier’s whimsical story about mishaps with the contraption, titled “Kah-vall-ee: The First in a Series of Battery ‘L’ Incidents.”


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 956. Letters, 1861-1864 (3), written by three soldiers from Indiana. Two are stationed in Virginia and describe recent battles and camp life. The letter writer from 1864 speculates that the war is almost over and describes Raleigh, North Carolina, and military affairs there.


World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 971. Photocopies of letters (2), written to Milwaukee, Wisconsin residents, chiefly concerning naval life in South America, 1944, and including comments about bombing devastation and V-E Day celebrations in Europe.


Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 983. Letter written from France by Cooper Ray Smith to his sister Mackie Bennett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing his trip to France, the end of World War I, and inquiring about events in Bowling Green.