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Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2021

Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 734. Correspondence and papers of the Moulder, Campbell and related families of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data.


Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2021

Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 733. Journal, 1878-1880, of Mattie (Spangler) Gentry, Covington, Kentucky, chronicling her attendance at Lexington’s Hamilton Female College and at boarding school in Orléans, France; also her journal, 1889-1898, recording her life as a music teacher and her courtship and marriage. Includes photographs and a letter to Mattie in France from the president of Hamilton College (Click on "Additional Files" for typescript).


Thomson, Jean Quarles, 1894-1982 (Sc 3625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2021

Thomson, Jean Quarles, 1894-1982 (Sc 3625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3625. Paper, “Political Parties in America,” by Jean Thomson, Fayette County, Kentucky. The paper, illustrated with artwork and probably written while she was a student, describes the evolution of political parties from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. Also includes notes on the War of 1812.


Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2021

Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 732. Genealogical research, narratives, clippings, photographs, and local history pertaining to the Bennett, Hunt, Taylor and associated families of Kentucky, primarily Butler, McLean, Muhlenberg and Daviess counties.


Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 3624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2021

Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 3624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3624. Letters, 12 February 1963 and 15 April 1964, of author Janice Holt Giles to Mrs. William F. Barr, Rochester, Kentucky. The first outlines her research and plans for three “Green River” books (one volume was eventually published as Run Me a River) and refers to Mrs. Barr’s assistance in providing informants for the project. The second letter provides her thoughts about an interview in which her estimation of other authors and her own public image were inaccurately reported.


Taylor Family Papers (Mss 730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2021

Taylor Family Papers (Mss 730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 730. Letters of Aaron H. Taylor and William B. Taylor, husband and son of Carrie Burnam Taylor of Bowling Green Kentucky, written to her daughter Louise (Taylor) Beckwith regarding Carrie Taylor's estate and the affairs of Taylor’s large dressmaking business, the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company. Also includes data on Louise Beckwith and miscellaneous papers.


Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Sc 3623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2021

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Sc 3623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3623. Photographs (27) and accompanying narrative of an “adventure in good eating” of Duncan Hines and his wife Clara, consisting of a June automobile trip to restaurants and inns in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. They were accompanied by a photographer and editor for Look Magazine.


Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 731. Correspondence, biographical data, planning and publicity materials relating to Duncan Hines Week on 9-15 November 1986 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Hines’s guidebook Adventures in Good Eating, and material relating to subsequent annual events under the names Duncan Hines Celebration and Duncan Hines Festival.


Strode Family Collection (Mss 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Strode Family Collection (Mss 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 729. Papers, primarily land records, of the Strode family of Monroe County, Kentucky.


Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Collector (Sc 3622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Collector (Sc 3622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3622. Autographs of six authors, collected by WKU English professor Frances Richards.


Kyrock Oral History Project (Fa 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Kyrock Oral History Project (Fa 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 167. Interviews conducted February April 1981 with Edmonson County, Kentucky, residents concerning the Kentucky Rock Asphalt Company. Includes information on the Methodist church, schools, social life and customs, United Mine Workers of America Local #72, and working conditions.


Holloway, Grant (Lg 469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Holloway, Grant (Lg 469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 469. Original land grant, 12 December 1833, by which John Breathitt, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Grant Holloway, assignee of William H. Wilson, assignee of William Butler as agent for the Monroe County Court, 90 acres in Monroe County, Kentucky.


Monroe, Thomas B. And Benjamin F. Pleasants (Lg 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Monroe, Thomas B. And Benjamin F. Pleasants (Lg 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding and and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 468. Original land grant, 21 February 1820, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas B. Monroe and Benjamin F. Pleasants 275 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.


Bushong, George (Lg 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Bushong, George (Lg 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 467. Original land grant, 6 December 1832, by which John Breathitt, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to George Bushong 250 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.


Page, Fleming Smith, 1803-1857 (Lg 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Page, Fleming Smith, 1803-1857 (Lg 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 466. Original land grant, 2 July 1849, by which John J. Crittenden, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to F. S. Page 25 acres in Monroe County, Kentucky.


Watts, John Clarence, 1902-1971 (Sc 3620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Watts, John Clarence, 1902-1971 (Sc 3620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3620. Letter, 18 September 1962, from Congressman John C. Watts to constituent Faye Steilberg, Lexington, Kentucky, updating her on proposed legislation regarding voluntary pension plans for self- employed individuals.


Combs, Leslie, 1793-1881 (Sc 3617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Combs, Leslie, 1793-1881 (Sc 3617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3617. Letter, 30 January 1876, from Leslie Combs, Lexington, Kentucky, to Thomas L. Jones. Combs appeals to Representative Jones to assist him in promoting a petition to Congress in which Combs seeks redress for loss of property to a railroad.


Cawein, Madison, 1865-1914 (Sc 3621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Cawein, Madison, 1865-1914 (Sc 3621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3620. Poem, “The Little Boy’s Thanksgiving,” by Madison Cawein. The typescript of the poem is inscribed by Cawein. Includes a letter from Cawein to Reverend Charles E. Craik, Louisville, Kentucky, expressing pleasure in composing it for children.


Helm, John Blakey, 1889-1979 (Sc 3619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Helm, John Blakey, 1889-1979 (Sc 3619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3619. Miscellaneous letters to John Blakey Helm, Louisville, Kentucky, relating to various civic matters. One asks his help in staffing a precinct with primarily African-American voters in a 1923 election; two refer to his participation in Constitution Week in Louisville; others acknowledge his views on political issues.


Wyatt, Wilson Watkins, 1905-1996 (Sc 3618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Wyatt, Wilson Watkins, 1905-1996 (Sc 3618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3618. Letter, 13 August 1945, from Mayor Wilson W. Wyatt, Louisville, Kentucky to Major Carl E. Heustis, Louisville, Kentucky Police Department, expressing sympathy on the death of his father. Includes a photograph of Wyatt, 1952.


Wilk, Joseph Peter, 1926-1994 (Mss 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Wilk, Joseph Peter, 1926-1994 (Mss 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 728. Printed matter, photographs, and correspondence relating to a small number of commissions executed by Bowling Green, Kentucky architect Joseph P. Wilk. Also includes some biographical data.


Bowling Green Woolen Mills - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Bowling Green Woolen Mills - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3616. Pages from a payroll ledger, March-July 1875, of the Bowling Green Woolen Mills, Bowling Green, Kentucky, listing employees’ names and wages paid. Includes data on scoured and unscoured jeans manufactured in 1874. Some data is incomplete due to damaged and mutilated pages. Also includes historical notes on the business collected in 1955 by WKU librarian Elizabeth Coombs.


Ua19/16/2 Women's Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations Oct 2021

Ua19/16/2 Women's Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Archives Records

Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU women's basketball team from August to December 2021.


Brown, James (Sc 3615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Brown, James (Sc 3615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3615. Notes written to Bowling Green, Kentucky merchant James Brown, mainly requests to supply goods to the bearer on account.


Moore, George, 1771-1812, And Robert Moore, D. 1819 (Sc 3614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Moore, George, 1771-1812, And Robert Moore, D. 1819 (Sc 3614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3614. Warren County, Kentucky court documents pertaining to or signed by brothers George and Robert Moore, considered to be the founders of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes summons issued by George Moore as Justice of the Peace; receipts; settlements of accounts; and a bond given in connection with an attachment.


Us 31w Resource Inventory - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2021

Us 31w Resource Inventory - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 726. Historic resource inventory (data sheets and photographs) of structures and sites along US Highway 31W in Warren County, Kentucky. The inventory and photos were prepared in 2000, but data sheets from earlier inventories and other supporting material may be included.


Us 31e Heritage Corridor (Mss 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2021

Us 31e Heritage Corridor (Mss 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 727. US 31E Heritage Corridor Resource Inventory, 21 March 2003, a report on historic resources in nine counties in Kentucky and Tennessee, prepared as part of a grant-funded project to identify sites along US 31E (the “Jackson Turnpike”) for heritage tourism. Also includes a proposal to develop an agricultural and recreational site on Green River Lake in Taylor County, Kentucky.


Southern Kentucky Fair - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2021

Southern Kentucky Fair - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 725. Correspondence, planning documents, financial and other records of the Southern Kentucky Fair, Warren County, Kentucky. Much of the material relates to the procurement of equipment and arrangements for entertainment--rides, bands, circus and novelty acts, livestock shows, etc.--as well as for concession booths and exhibits.


Gospel Center - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2021

Gospel Center - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3613. Two record books, 1937-1947 and 1956-1960, of the Gospel Center, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The books record membership, meeting minutes, and financial data. Also included is a list of baptisms, 1937-1943.


Milligan, James Lewis, 1843-1927 (Sc 3612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2021

Milligan, James Lewis, 1843-1927 (Sc 3612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3612. Letter to “Henry,” 20 April 1862, from James Milligan, serving with the 11th Kentucky Infantry. Writing from Shiloh, Tennessee, he describes the recent battle, the high number of casualties, and the courage of his regiment’s officers. He reports on the fate of some of his comrades and remarks on fighting against men from his county who sided with the Confederates, the prevalence of rain and mud, and the food and drink of the soldiers.