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Cassidy, Paul S., 1908-1998 (Sc 3497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3497. Letters written by Paul S. Cassidy--likely in the 1950s--soliciting for the purchase of small rental houses for a company called "The Rental Pool" in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Standard Oil Company Of Kentucky (Sc 3331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3331. Receipts, promotional material, and a photograph of a sign documenting the operation of the Standard Oil Company service station at the corner of College and Seventh streets in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes a paper by Michael Mathews for a museum internship in which he examined the items in the collection. Because of the deteriorated condition of many of the originals, they could not be kept without causing damage to other material. A month of inventory sheets were kept from December 1922 to show a typical month’s operation for the station.

Garvin, David Berry, 1943-2014 (Mss 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 547. Limited correspondence, calendars, photos, news clippings, and reports that document the life of Warren County, Kentucky, businessman David Berry Garvin. Includes information about Beech Bench Park, Camping World, Sugar Maple Square and an unrealized land development project near Franklin, Kentucky. Includes several memorial books from Garvin’s funeral

as well as a large number of sympathy cards.

Park City Hotel Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scans for Manuscripts Small Collection 1015. Promotional letter written by Park City Hotel owner, W. G. Thomas, related to the hotel and a listing of hotel guests for 1940.

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Sc 2711), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2711. Envelope, postmarked 1 July 1947, printed “From Duncan Hines To” and addressed to Manager, The Elms Guest House, Jessup, Maryland. Includes Hines’s printed return address of P.O. Box 548, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 410. Materials relating to Duncan Hines and the marketing of the “Duncan Hines” brand of food products. Includes obituary notices for Duncan Hines, ice cream franchise agreement, stock certificate books for related companies, and a study on marketing the brand to consumers, especially women.

Dunbar, Elijah, 1821-1911 (Sc 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1335. Letter written by Elijah Dunbar from Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brother in Canton, Massachusetts. Evidently he and an associate were traveling piano salesmen. Dunbar vividly describes the terrible road conditions between Bowling Green and Elkton, Kentucky.

Greenspan Brothers & Company (Mss 92), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 92. Account books, 1910-1936 (6), including inventory, 1931, and receipts, 1930, 1934 (2), of Greenspan Bros. & Company, also known as The Bazaar, a dry goods store in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Data also about Reuben and Sego Greenspan and their store, 1902-1966 (6).