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Gordon, George W., 1802?-1862 (Sc 3144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gordon, George W., 1802?-1862 (Sc 3144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3144. Letter, 26 December 1861, of Captain George W. Gordon to his children. From Camp Bradley at Clarksville, Tennessee, he writes of his enlistment and command of a company in the 48th Tennessee. Mourning the “unnatural war” that is “desolating the Country,” he remarks on the large numbers of troops massing in Kentucky and the expectation of a “bloody conflict.” His pessimistic letter concludes that men may look only to God for mercy.
Murphy, Ruby Bradford, 1909-1995 (Sc 3142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Murphy, Ruby Bradford, 1909-1995 (Sc 3142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3142. Short article about Nellie Verne Walker, a sculptor from Iowa, titled “Little Lady With a Big Idea,” accompanied by 11 photographs.
Pascoe Family Papers (Sc 3141), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pascoe Family Papers (Sc 3141), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3141. Papers of the Pascoe family, Chicago, Illinois and Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly letters to Shirley Pascoe from her parents and friends. Includes a letter from her grandfather Colonel Samuel Pascoe, a United Mine Workers organizer and District 30 (Kentucky) president. Also includes ordering and product information from Chicago’s Mead Cycle Company.
Cloud, Allen Carol, 1930-1982 (Sc 3140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cloud, Allen Carol, 1930-1982 (Sc 3140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3140. Letter, 26 September 1951, of Allen Carol Cloud, Jefferson County, Kentucky, to Emma Barnes. Writing during his military service in Seoul, Korea, he declares his love for her and his intention to propose marriage, and regrets a friend's premature disclosure to her of this confidence. He also comments on the poor living conditions of the Korean people.
Helm Collection (Mss 616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm Collection (Mss 616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 616. Research used to compile the genealogicalwork Moses Helm [Nashville: Bob Law, 1995] by Robert Cornwell “Bob” Law and Clyde Smith. Included are photocopies of material from genealogical sources, photographs, clippings, narratives, and correspondence with descendants of Moses Helm (b. ca. 1710) and his wife Sarah Jameson (1711?-1812).
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.
Taylor, Richard, B. 1941 (Sc 3139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Richard, B. 1941 (Sc 3139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3139. Handwritten note card from Richard Taylor, Frankfort, Kentucky, to James Baker Hall thanking him for arranging a recent event honoring Larkspur Press of Monterey, Kentucky. He also refers to the work of the operator of the Press, Gray Zeitz.
Logan, Mary Middleton (Curd), 1915-2019 - Collector (Sc 3137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan, Mary Middleton (Curd), 1915-2019 - Collector (Sc 3137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3137. Chiefly invitations, Christmas cards and brief letters from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt to James and Mary Logan, Hyde Park, New York. Includes a photograph of Mrs. Roosevelt’s Hyde Park cottage, Val-Kill, and of prominent mourners at her funeral. Also includes invitations to Roosevelt memorials and social occasions from the Roosevelts’ son John, and birthday greetings to Mary from President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
Mcguirk, Martha (Stiles), 1937-2023 - Collector (Mss 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcguirk, Martha (Stiles), 1937-2023 - Collector (Mss 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 618. Chiefly correspondence, speeches, and ephemera related to William Thomas Beard of Smiths Grove, Kentucky; prescriptions, remedies, and recipes collected by Mabel Kirby; and a baby book and cheerleading letters that belonged to Martha (Stiles) McGuirk.
Rountree, Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie," 1853-1912 (Sc 3136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rountree, Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie," 1853-1912 (Sc 3136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3136. Letter, 10 January 1869 of “Mag” (or “May”) to Lizzie Rountree, Lebanon, Kentucky. Writing from Louisville, Kentucky, she tells Lizzie that she will not be returning to Caldwell Institute in Danville, Kentucky, where they had been schoolmates. She notes the departure of three additional students and reports on the whereabouts of others.
Valentines (Sc 3134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Valentines (Sc 3134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3134. Handmade and colored valentine “from Eunice” to an unnamed recipient, featuring a drawing of a young girl with lettered greeting, “My heart I lay at your feet, O be my Valentine sweet.”
Cochran Family Letters (Sc 3135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cochran Family Letters (Sc 3135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3135. Two letters of John B. Cochran, 22 August 1855 and 1 June 1856, written from his family farm, Locust Grove, in Spencer County, Kentucky to his wife (and cousin) Magdalen M. Cochran. He refers to a celebration of his election as state representative, and teases her about letter-writing; the second letter consoles her on her father’s death. Includes a letter, 27 August 1856, from Magdalen to John, written from her family home, Loch Willow, in Augusta County, Virginia, regarding her health and planned return home. The letters mention several individuals by first …
Deweese, Elizabeth Ann (Phelps), 1842-1915 (Sc 3132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Deweese, Elizabeth Ann (Phelps), 1842-1915 (Sc 3132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3132. Weaving drafts (4 originals; 1 photocopy) on long strips of paper, several of which have been stitched together, created by Elizabeth Ann Deweese of Butler County, Kentucky.
Beninger, John, 1850-1922 (Sc 3133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beninger, John, 1850-1922 (Sc 3133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3133. Notebook containing original and copied poetry by John Beninger, a native of Ohio County, Kentucky. Beninger resided in Versailles, Kentucky, for a number of years, and several of the poems refer to people or places in that community. Beninger often mentions the source of his poem’s inspiration and the date he penned it. Mr. Beninger is buried in the McCord Cemetery in Ohio County, Kentucky.
Same-Sex Marriage - Law And Legislation (Sc 3131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Same-Sex Marriage - Law And Legislation (Sc 3131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3131. Letters to Brian Coutts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Congressman Ron Lewis (R-KY) and Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY), outlining their support of the Marriage Protection Act, a bill to amend the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and woman. The bill failed to pass in either the House or Senate.
Carroll, Hillary Bellerby, 1908-1999 (Mss 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carroll, Hillary Bellerby, 1908-1999 (Mss 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 615. World War II letters written by Hillary B. Carroll, while serving in the U.S. Army in The Philippines and Japan, to his wife Katherine “Kate” (Whallen) Carroll, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes some information and photos related to Carroll’s family.
Gerwig, Frank Todd, 1897-1962 (Sc 3128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gerwig, Frank Todd, 1897-1962 (Sc 3128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3128. Letter, 24 February 1918, of Frank T. Gerwig to Hal Kritschgau, Scottdale, Pennsylvania. While training at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, Gerwig writes on YMCA letterhead of military routines, a quarantine due to measles, meeting other soldiers from Pittsburgh, and his eagerness to serve overseas as an ambulance driver.
Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and transcription (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3129. Letter, 26 March 1863, of George Messer to his wife Lottie in DeWitt County, Illinois. From Camp Joe Kelly (the name changed, as he notes, to Camp Hobson) near Glasgow, Kentucky, he describes camp life, including the clearing of timber and his duty in the cold and rainy weather. He also praises the hospital facilities and describes a joke played on an officer who returned to camp without a pass. Expecting the war to end soon, he also writes of matters relating to home.
Booksellers And Bookselling - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Booksellers And Bookselling - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3130. Pamphlet advertising school books and theological and other works for sale at the Missionary and Education Rooms, South Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Includes a purchaser’s account showing sales, prices and returns.
Historic Houses - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Historic Houses - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3127. Pencil sketch of the Warren County, Kentucky, home of Nathaniel and Mary Lucas, executed by an English visitor in the winter of 1883.
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 612. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and family papers of Richard Vance, a Warren County, Kentucky native and U.S. Army officer. After his Civil War service, Vance spent his career at several posts in the South and on the frontier until his retirement in 1892.
Robinson Family - Bible Records (Sc 3126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robinson Family - Bible Records (Sc 3126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3126. Two pages from a Bible of the Robinson family, Warren County, Kentucky, listing births, marriages and deaths.
Green, Frank Henry (Sc 3125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green, Frank Henry (Sc 3125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 3125. “Glacier National Park, Montana, United States of America (Part of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park): A Few Stories as Told by Frank Henry Green, Season Park Ranger at Avalanche Creek Campground.” The text is liberally illustrated with photos.
Cowing, Rufus Billings, 1840-1920 (Sc 3124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cowing, Rufus Billings, 1840-1920 (Sc 3124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3124. Letter, 21 February 1862, of attorney Rufus B. Cowing, New York City, to his mother. He encloses a letter from his brother (not included), who was then serving in the Union Army and would later be killed at the Battle of Chickamauga. Rufus notes his brother’s arrival in Bowling Green, Kentucky after “the enemy had run away.” Believing the war will soon end, he speculates on his brother’s future in business and writes of his own desire to be financially independent.
Mcdonald, Nancy D. (Sc 3122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcdonald, Nancy D. (Sc 3122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3122. Note from Nancy D. McDonald accompanying a copy of "I'll Take My Stand" acknowledging that Dr. Lowell H. Harrison, a Western Kentucky University (WKU) history professor, had loaned her the book around 1970. She had failed to return it, and decided, after the deaths of Dr. Harrison and his wife, to donate it in their memory to the Kentucky Library at WKU.
Mcintosh, James T., B. 1819? (Sc 3121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcintosh, James T., B. 1819? (Sc 3121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3121. Letter, 4 May 1873, of James T. McIntosh to his wife Mary. Writing from Louisville, Kentucky on an apparent selling trip, he describes attending church, visiting the steamer Charles Brown at Jeffersonville, and the purchases he has made for her and their daughters Anne, Sallie, Lela, Fawn, Olinda and Bonnie. He expresses doubts about making money on the trip, but advises that Owensboro is his next destination.
Woodcock, Greene B., 1814-1889 (Sc 3120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woodcock, Greene B., 1814-1889 (Sc 3120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3120. Legal and financial records, chiefly related to land holdings, of Greene B. Woodcock, of Allen County and later Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes information about the marriage of his daughter Sarah E. Woodcock to Fountain G. Mitchell of Allen County and their son William H. Mitchell.
Bruton, Mary Virginia (Guess), 1907-1978 (Sc 3119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bruton, Mary Virginia (Guess), 1907-1978 (Sc 3119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3119. Photos (3) and a reminiscence about chenille bedspreads sold by the Bruton family at their Hart County, Kentucky, Pine Ridge Gift Shop. Besides bedspreads, the shop sold locally made baskets, chalk figurines, cider,and Mammoth Cave souvenirs. Scans of the photographs are stored in the Photo Archives.
Loving, Hector Voltaire, 1839-1913 (Sc 3123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Loving, Hector Voltaire, 1839-1913 (Sc 3123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3123. Letter, 31 July 1862, of Hector V. Loving, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Harlan P. Lloyd, Angelica, New York. He tells his former schoolmate of his law study and practice since graduation from New York’s Hamilton College, and particularly describes the uproar in his home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War: secessionist “treason,” the Confederate occupation, and the rebuilding of the city afterward. He also refers to their classmate and law student Daniel Webster Wright as a “violent” secessionist.
Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3118. Letter, 23-24 May 1862 [sic], of George Messer, 107th Illinois Infantry, to his wife Lottie in DeWitt County, Illinois. From Camp Hobson, Glasgow, Kentucky, he reports on his health and the possibility of battle, and mockingly describes the two-men “dogtents” issued to the troops. He also discusses recent promotions and the prospects for a military draft, notes the arrival of an Indiana regiment decimated at the Battle of Perryville, and criticizes "shoulder strap gentlemen” who take credit for soldiers’ achievements.