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Bowling Green Music Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Music Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 457. Minutes, governing documents, yearbooks, programs for public concerts, membership information, various reports, and news clippings for the Woman’s Music Club, the Bowling Green Music Club and the Bowling Green Junior Music Club.
Wheeler, Talbot Wynn (Sc 1165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wheeler, Talbot Wynn (Sc 1165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1165. Desert Storm correspondence (8) between Talbot Wynn Wheeler and Lisa Day Robertson of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also included are photographs (2) of Wheeler.
Hume, Glee, 1902-1998 (Mss 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hume, Glee, 1902-1998 (Mss 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 470. Letters written 1940-1946 to Glee Hume, a teacher at Burkesville High School, Cumberland County, Kentucky, by former students and relatives serving in various military service units around the world.
Lindsey, Guy (Sc 1146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lindsey, Guy (Sc 1146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1146. Desert Storm letters (2) and Christmas card sent to Patty Wimsatt’s first grade class at Oakland Elementary School, Oakland, Kentucky, from Guy Lindsey. Also included is letter from Wimsatt explaining the letters.
Mccullough, Crystal - Letters To (Sc 1148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccullough, Crystal - Letters To (Sc 1148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1148. Desert Storm letters (8) and Christmas card written by three servicemen to Crystal McCullough, Tullahoma Tennessee, and photographs (2) of two of the men. Also included is an outgoing letter from McCullough to an unnamed serviceman and a letter of explanation about the letters (11).
Sullivan, Betty A. - Letters To (Sc 1159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sullivan, Betty A. - Letters To (Sc 1159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1159. Desert Storm letters (25) by several servicemen to Betty A. Sullivan, Falls of Rough, Kentucky. Also included are examples of newsletters (3) and copies of letters sent by Sullivan to servicemen during the Persian Gulf War.
Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 153. Poems, 1934-1991, obituaries, 1964-1990, written by Arlis Odell Harmon, a gospel song writer and enthusiast, of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes correspondence about gospel music, genealogical data, photos, etc.
Howard, Chloe (Miller), 1899-1989 (Sc 2758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Howard, Chloe (Miller), 1899-1989 (Sc 2758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2758. Items related to the teaching career, including salary information, of Chole Howard; includes list of retired teachers in Monroe County, Kentucky (dated 1977) and information about the Mothers' Day program at Skaggs Creek Baptist Church in Monroe County.
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.
Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1043. Letter, 30 October 1974, from Jesse Stuart, Greenup, Kentucky, to English professor O.J. Wilson, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding Stuart’s recent talk at WKU; Christmas card, 1975, from Stuart to WKU Library Director, Sara Tyler; and poetry magazine Seven, containing one of Stuart’s poems, 1968. The magazine is autographed by Stuart.
Hodges, Ida Leighton, 1885-1949 (Sc 1025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodges, Ida Leighton, 1885-1949 (Sc 1025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1028. Letters commending Hodges for a variety of civic activities, including her work as coordinator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Civil Works Administration in Bowling Green, Kentucky during the 1930s.
Hines, Jason P., B. 1969 (Sc 932), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Jason P., B. 1969 (Sc 932), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 932. Four letters written by Jason P. Hines, stationed in Saudi Arabia, to his mother Kathleen Riley, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating his experiences in Operation Desert Shield, 1990, and Operation Desert Storm, 1991.
Fleenor, Kenneth Raymond, 1929-2010 (Mss 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fleenor, Kenneth Raymond, 1929-2010 (Mss 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans of prisoner of war letters, and photo (For scans and photo click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 444. Correspondence and documentation related to the military career of Kenneth Raymond Fleenor, a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, whose plane was shot down near Hanoi, Vietnam in 1967. A prisoner of war (POW) for over five years, Fleenor served part of that time at the “Hanoi Hilton.” Collection contains letters written while a POW and subsequent documentation about his POW experience. Also includes photos of celebratory events held after his release in March 1973 and miscellaneous material …
Depressions, 1929 (Sc 910), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Depressions, 1929 (Sc 910), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 910. Christmas card, 26 December 1933, with long message, written by "Elizabeth" of New York City to her sister (name and address unlisted). Evidently both sisters were originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Elizabeth comments on the Depression and expresses concern about the actions of President Roosevelt and his family.