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Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.
Mary Reed Cooke Music Club - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mary Reed Cooke Music Club - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2712. Yearbooks, programs and news clippings related to the activities of the Mary Reed Cooke Music Club of Smiths Grove, Kentucky.
Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1003. Courtship letters (29) written by Roger Charles Porter of Warren County, Kentucky to his future wife, Nan Cole, during a summer she spent at Massey Springs, a Warren County resort operated by her parents. The Porters married 16 March 1911.
Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2695. Invitations to the 1886, 1887 and 1888 commencement exercises of Cedar Bluff College, a school for young ladies in Woodburn, Kentucky. The members of the graduating classes are listed, and the 1888 invitation includes the program for the event.
Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 980. Letter written by Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to a Miss Symmes, regarding Bowling Green’s participation in the planned Kentucky Room at the 1893 World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) in Chicago.
Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of diploma (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 656. Mistress of Science diploma conferred upon Mollie B. Robinson by Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky. Mollie was the niece of the college's president, William F. Whitesides.
Mcgown, Hattie Russ (Sc 2656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgown, Hattie Russ (Sc 2656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2656. Letter of Hattie (Mrs. Hugh) McGown, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her sister Burlie Ellis, Richelieu, Kentucky. She reports on her husband’s work as a railroad switchman, the participation of her son Joe in a school play, and her progress in joining a new church. She also describes witnessing efforts to extract a car from a ditch on her family’s return from a visit to her father.