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Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”


Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 426. Correspondence and genealogical research collected by Marietta Mansfield, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, and a Methodist minister that served various churches in Kentucky. The bulk of the collection relates to the Mansfield and Osborn(e) families of Kentucky and West Virginia. Includes letters written by Mansfield while serving as a missionary in India during the 1950s.


Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 236. Photocopies and typescript of 2 March 1862 letter written by Mrs. Josephine (Wells) Covington, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her father, Judge Robert William Wells of Missouri. She relates happenings in Bowling Green during its occupation and later evacuation by Confederate troops (18 September 1861-14 February 1862). Also includes information about Mrs. Covington and the Covington family. The original 2 March 1862 letter is housed at the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.


Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2011

Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 375. Correspondence, photographs, diaries, and personal and professional writing of Virginia Wood Davis, a Smiths Grove, Kentucky native and a reporter and editor, 1943-1985, for newspapers in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and McCreary County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data as well as correspondence and miscellaneous papers of her family, especially her mother, Virginia Wood (Cox) Davis.


Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 49. Correspondence of the Green family, Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky, including business papers and account books, and correspondence for several generations of the Robert Wilmot Scott family, originally of Frankfort, Kentucky.


Welborn, Annie E., B. 1869 (Sc 2160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Welborn, Annie E., B. 1869 (Sc 2160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2160. "The Story of My Life," autobiographical essay by Annie E. Welborn, born in Todd County, Kentucky. She describes her early married life, farming, her children and grandchildren, and a trip to Montana and Washington.


Blackburn, Jeanie Daviess, 1847-1929 (Sc 1677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Blackburn, Jeanie Daviess, 1847-1929 (Sc 1677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1677. Letter, 1 April 1902, from Sallie Briggs, Oakwood, Marion County, Missouri, to Jeanie Daviess Blackburn [Bowling Green, Kentucky] relating to Daviess/Davis family genealogy. Also, Daughters of the American Revolution membership application of Queenie Blackburn Coke.


Hobson, Margaret Morehead, 1890-1987 (Mss 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Hobson, Margaret Morehead, 1890-1987 (Mss 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 174. Includes personal and business correspondence of Margaret Morehead Hobson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to oil and gas exploration in south-central Kentucky. Collection also includes nature notebook containing flora and fauna sketches done by Hobson as a child, Hobson family genealogy, some small artwork done for interior decorating, and information about Riverview at Hobson Grove.