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Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 524. Correspondence and papers of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes data on the Tolle, Snoddy and Bransford families, William Daniel Tolle’s history of Barren County, and materials relating to his work as a veteran’s pension claims agent.
Clagett, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1900-2000 (Mss 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clagett, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1900-2000 (Mss 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 513. Correspondence and papers of Marjorie E. Clagett, a WKU faculty member who taught French from 1928-1964. Includes field notes and slides relating to her studies of flora in south central Kentucky, Great Britain and other habitats in the United States, and research materials relating to the history of the French in Kentucky. Includes correspondence, photographs and genealogical data of the Clagett, Northcott, Strange and associated families. Also includes notes (Click on "Additional Files" below) of a Northcott ancestor's encounter with Lost River Cave in Warren County during the Civil War.
Warren Seminary - Warren County, Kentucky (Lg 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren Seminary - Warren County, Kentucky (Lg 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 118. Original land grant, 27 December 1816, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lt. Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to the Trustees of Warren Seminary 168 acres in Warren County, adjoining land of William Wingfield, Angus McDonald, John Dixon, and John Wingfield.
Clements Family Papers (Mss 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clements Family Papers (Mss 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 357. Correspondence, photographs and personal papers of the Clements family of Owensboro, Kentucky, primarily LaVega Clements his wife Margaret “Maggie” (Brown) Clements, and their descendants. Includes genealogical research on the Clements and associated families.
Washer, Gladys Pernie, 1879-1975 (Sc 2854), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Washer, Gladys Pernie, 1879-1975 (Sc 2854), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2854. Reminiscence titled "Sketches of My Childhood To My Grandchildren" in which Gladys P. Washer talks about her childhood in the Three Forks area of Warren County, Kentucky. She discusses farming, recreation, education and schools, and social life and customs. Also includes a news clipping about her from 1965.
Deweese Family Papers (Mss 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Deweese Family Papers (Mss 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 504. Materials collected by Ray Paul DeWeese and Carolyn DeWeese, a brother and sister. Most of the collection is photocopied material of writings about the DeWeese family and Butler County, Kentucky history.
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods.
Cartwright, Frederick Dean, Sr., 1876-1929 (Sc 2833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cartwright, Frederick Dean, Sr., 1876-1929 (Sc 2833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2833. Diploma for attendance and good deportment issued to Fred D. Cartwright by the public schools of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 11 June 1891. The diploma is signed by teacher Alice Barre.
Forsythe, Belmont, 1920-2005 (Mss 486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Forsythe, Belmont, 1920-2005 (Mss 486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 486. Biographical data, military, health and travel records, photographs and papers relating to the life, military service and hobbies of Belmont Forsythe, a native of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Military material documents his service in the U.S. Marine Corps and U. S. Army Signal Corps from 1941-1966. Includes audio recordings by Forsythe recounting his life and career.
Darden, Addie A., 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Darden, Addie A., 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1283. Graduation speech delivered at Cedar Bluff Female College in Woodburn, Kentucky by salutatorian Addie Darden on 7 June 1877. Includes an essay read in Latin.
Kirkland, Jesse C., 1866-1937 (Sc 1248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kirkland, Jesse C., 1866-1937 (Sc 1248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1248. Letter written by Jesse Kirkland, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his cousin John Milstead, Crossland, Kentucky, while attending school at Southern Normal School and Business College in Bowling Green. He describes a trip he took on the Green River and of seeing the landscape lit by electricity.
Chaney, Mary Myrtle, 1907-1996 (Sc 1246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chaney, Mary Myrtle, 1907-1996 (Sc 1246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1246. Cheers from a 1922 sporting event between two Logan County, Kentucky schools, Sycamore and Auburn; and Myrtle Chaney’s seventh-grade report card.
Stout, Edward B., Jr., 1903-2000 (Sc 1244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stout, Edward B., Jr., 1903-2000 (Sc 1244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1244. Warren County, Kentucky native Edward B. Stout, Jr.’s report cards, 1912-1917, from Bowling Green and Oakland, Kentucky schools; letter from T.C. Cherry and resolution about service on Bowling Green’s school board, 1936; and 1983 personal narrative and news clippings relating to the Diamond Theatre in Bowling Green.
Hebbardsville High School - Hebbardsville, Kentucky (Sc 1242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hebbardsville High School - Hebbardsville, Kentucky (Sc 1242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1242. Script titled “Senior Sentiments,” for 1945 class night exercises at Hebbardsville High School in Henderson County, Kentucky.
Matthews, Albert M., B. 1931 (Sc 1272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Matthews, Albert M., B. 1931 (Sc 1272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1272. Post-1996 reminiscences of Albert M. Matthews about growing up in the Hays community of Warren County, Kentucky, in the 1930s and 1940s. He explains his lyrics and a poem written about this period in his life.
Bowling Green Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1233. Letters written to Elizabeth Coombs, of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, answering her inquiries about the Bowling Green Academy, a school for African Americans sponsored by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.