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Larkins Family Letters (Sc 2868), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Larkins Family Letters (Sc 2868), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2868. Letter, 11 April 1859, of Carroll Larkins, Trigg County, Kentucky, to his future wife Verona Mary Bard in Greenville, Kentucky, discussing his upcoming visit; also letter, 6 December 1863, of Josephine (Brandon) Larkins to her husband (Carroll’s brother) Samuel Larkins, then serving as a state representative in Frankfort, Kentucky, with family news and greetings from home. Includes data about the correspondents.


Chambers, John B., 1852-1930 (Sc 2855), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Chambers, John B., 1852-1930 (Sc 2855), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2855. Invitation to Miss Virgie Talbert, Nicholasville, Kentucky, asking her to attend a watermelon party.


Martin Family Papers (Mss 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Martin Family Papers (Mss 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 511. Invitations sent to and correspondence of Emma Johnson (Irvan) Martin. Most of the social invitations pre-date her marriage to Joseph Marshall Martin in 1875. The correspondence deals chiefly with family matters. The collection also contains genealogical information about the Martin, Tibbs, Bard, and Willson families and photographs of the same.


Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2014

Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 495. Letters written by Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Clara Gregory and Mildred (Gregory) Pugh, Nashville, Tennessee, related to a rental property owned by Clara Gregory at 720 State Street in Bowling Green. The newsy letters contain information about maintenance to the property and remarks about current events in Bowling Green as well as comments about national affairs.


Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2014

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2014

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1345. Record book kept by a South Union Shaker, that relates chiefly the work of the women in the areas of washing, sewing, making bonnets, preserving fruit, etc. The original of this document is at Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.


Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2813. Meeting minutes of Bundles for America, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from 24 January to 14 March 1945. Includes a draft thank-you letter to a sponsor summarizing the organization’s accomplishments since 1941; also includes a 1943 clipping outlining the history and work of the organization in knitting garments, salvaging metal and clothing, and making up toiletry kits for British and American soldiers and their families.