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Denny, John, 1750-1834 (Sc 2979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Denny, John, 1750-1834 (Sc 2979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2978. Power of attorney, 25 May 1824, of John Denny, Mercer County, Kentucky, appointing John Guthrie, also of Mercer County, his agent and attorney for the purpose of pursuing, regaining possession of, and disposing of six slaves seized by James Denny and Asher Labertew. Includes detailed physical descriptions of the slaves. Denny and Labertew biographical data is also included.
Manning, Will Paul, Jr., 1928-2018 (Sc 2980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manning, Will Paul, Jr., 1928-2018 (Sc 2980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2980. Sketch by Will Paul Manning of stone chimneys constructed by Confederate forces during the Civil War, as he remembered seeing them on his family farm near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes explanatory notes, which also mention a “pest house” in the vicinity of the farm.
Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 567. Correspondence, speeches and scrapbooks related to the life of Rodes Kirby Myers, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1939 to 1943. Includes clippings and speeches from political campaigns. Also includes three scrapbooks of clippings related to the trial of Henry Herman Denhardt for the murder of Verna Garr Taylor in 1936.
Gates, Lloyd W., 1830-1890 (Sc 2971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gates, Lloyd W., 1830-1890 (Sc 2971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2971. Business and political postcards, chiefly sent to attorney Lloyd W. Gates, Calhoun, Kentucky. Topics range from political patronage to debt collection.
American Party - Kentucky (Sc 2972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
American Party - Kentucky (Sc 2972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2972. Founding documents, press releases, forms, and announcements related to the American Party in Kentucky. Includes a sermon denouncing the National Council on Churches.
Sargent, George Henry, 1828-1917 (Mss 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sargent, George Henry, 1828-1917 (Mss 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of a portion of a diary (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 564. Diary kept by George Henry Sargent from 1 May 1851 to 10 January 1853. The Harvard student writes on a variety of subjects, including education, religion, historical events, travel, etc. Of particular interest is a three-month sojourn in 1852 with his sister, Lucy Baldwin (Sargent) Rupert in Louisville, Kentucky. While in Kentucky, he also visits Henderson and Mammoth Cave.
Griffin Family Papers (Sc 2969), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Griffin Family Papers (Sc 2969), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2969. Newspaper clipping of school children at the Weir School in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 1933; WWII chapel program dated 26 August 1945 with a note written by Clifford Griffin; and an address book listing contact information for friends "in service" during the World War II which belonged to Elmer Lee Griffin.
Morse, Alexander Porter, 1842-1921 (Sc 2967), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morse, Alexander Porter, 1842-1921 (Sc 2967), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text transcription (Click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 2967. Letter, 9 December 1861, of A. P. Morse, serving with the First Louisiana Cavalry. Writing to his father from camp near Bowling Green, Kentucky, he describes troop numbers, movements and fortifications in the area. He also refers to an outbreak of measles and to dining with an officer involved in the Battle of Belmont near Columbus, Kentucky.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
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