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Calvert-Obenchain-Younglove Collection (Mss 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Calvert-Obenchain-Younglove Collection (Mss 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 30. Correspondence, diaries, writings, business papers, scrapbooks, clippings, genealogical notes, weather records, and photographs of the Calvert, Obenchain, and Younglove families of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Selected items from the collection can be viewed in full text by clicking on the "Additional Files" links below.


Dean, Sophia Leona, 1854-1948 - Letters To (Sc 1499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2007

Dean, Sophia Leona, 1854-1948 - Letters To (Sc 1499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1499. Courtship letters written by John W. Stipes and Mell F. Broeffle to Miss S.L. Dean of Polkville, Kentucky. Contains a reference letter for John W. Stipes written by William H. Hall, an engineer for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.


Love Family Papers (Mss 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2007

Love Family Papers (Mss 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 164. Correspondence of George Matthew Love and Nora (Sullivan) Love of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and their children: Ruel, Margaret, and George Marshall Love, Sr. The bulk of the letters date from 1922 to 1949 and contain information about the family and local happenings in Bowling Green.


Bowling Green, Kentucky - Associations (Sc 1475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2007

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Associations (Sc 1475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1475. Draft of an article entitled "Association Building in America, 1850-1920" written by Gerald Gamm and Robert D. Putnam. The paper discusses the development and maintenance of organizations in communities. Bowling Green, Kentucky, was used as a model city for the project.


Tubb, Titus D. (Sc 1477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2007

Tubb, Titus D. (Sc 1477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1477. Letters from Titus B. Tubb to his girlfriend, Ashli Marie Miller, of Smiths Grove, Kentucky. The letters deal with courtship, religion, and Tubb's experiences in the U.S. Army during the Iraq War.


Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2007

Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1470. Chiefly incoming letters to William P. Stamps, Jr., while he served in the Air Force during World War II. Included are report cards, sympathy letters written to Stamps on the death of his aunt and guardian, Sallie Hills, letters from friends serving in World War II, and a small notebook of flower orders kept by Stamps while in the Air Force.


Simpson, George Franciscus, 1869-1934 (Sc 1367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2007

Simpson, George Franciscus, 1869-1934 (Sc 1367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1367. Courtship letters, 1884, written by George F. Simpson, Louisville, Kentucky, to Amanda Park, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, expressing his delight in visiting with her as well as enjoying his profitable hunt for wild game. They married in 1885. Also genealogical data.