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Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 64. Ledger volume containing fulling mill records, (1814-1815), accounts (1843-1844), and journal (1909-1911) of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 62. Diary of Shaker eldress Nancy E. Moore, and a journal, probably kept by Shaker eldress Lucy Shannon. The diary and journal record life in the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, with Moore’s diary focused on the Civil War years 1863-1864.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 63. Business records, deeds, notes, receipts, surveys, agreements, bill of complaint, etc., 1800-85; account books, 1843-89; journals, 1865-1916; agreement book of probationary members, 1858-1904; and manuscript hymnals, 1844-86 (6) of the Shaker Society of South Union, Kentucky. Journals include censuses of members. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of deaths at South Union "from the beginning to the present date January 1st, 1879," with addenda to 1892; and for a name index to Shaker Record C.
Dick, Harriet Hoadley "Hattie" (Cochran), 1890-1975 (Sc 3078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dick, Harriet Hoadley "Hattie" (Cochran), 1890-1975 (Sc 3078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3078. Black-and-white, 3 in. X 5 in. photograph of “The Little Colonel’s Cottage,” a house in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, autographed on the reverse by Hattie Cochran Dick, the model for the character of Lloyd Sherman in Annie Fellows Johnston’s Little Colonel series of books.
Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863 (Sc 3077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863 (Sc 3077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3077. Letter, 7 August 1847, of Elisha Whittlesey to Nathan F. Williams, Baltimore, Maryland. He expresses high praise for Zachary Taylor, the likely candidate of the Whig Party in the 1848 presidential campaign, but fears that Taylor’s Southern origins will allow a Democratic Party candidate to gain the support of abolitionist Whigs, Whigs in non-slaveholding states, and members of the Liberty Party. The letter is written on manuscript letterhead of the Washington National Monument Office.
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 590. Personal and professional papers of Christian County, Kentucky teacher and administrator Erleen (Joiner) Rogers, and novels, poems, skits, epigrams and witticisms written by her father, Robert Tinnon Joiner. Includes a collection of Joiner’s writings titled Nonsense and Wisdom From Flat Lick, Rogers’ family history titled Seven Generations in and From Flat Lick, other family data, and photographs.
Gunther, L. W., B. 1822? (Sc 3075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gunther, L. W., B. 1822? (Sc 3075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3075. Letter, 12 March 1848, of L. W. Gunther, Cadiz, Kentucky, to Charles H. Blake, Blandville, Kentucky. He refers to Blake taking delivery of goods from the steamboat Tennessee, reports correspondence from England and France concerning their stave business, and discusses the specifications for the English customer. He also makes reference to a “shipbuilding enterprise.”
Meador, Thomas (Sc 3074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meador, Thomas (Sc 3074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3074. Agreement, 25 February 1854, between O. S. Warner and Thomas Meador setting out the terms of Meador’s employment on Warner’s farm in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. The agreement provides for payment, the provision of housing and produce from an orchard, and the use of pasture by Meador. Meador’s 12-month, full-time engagement makes allowances for his family and business, and for “unnecessary exposure” to “wet weather or heavy dews.”
Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3076. Two letters to Brent Price, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to his preparation of an article on Eastwood Baptist Church, also in Bowling Green. William H. Rogers, Director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, writes on 22 November 1978 of the principles followed during his pastorship there, and Sam Todd writes on 6 December 1978 with a historical sketch of the church.
Sorgen, Vinton Grant, 1894-1968 (Sc 3073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sorgen, Vinton Grant, 1894-1968 (Sc 3073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3073. Letter, 28 May 1918, of Grant Sorgen, stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to his family in Kenton, Ohio. He describes settling in at camp, receiving vaccinations, and the likelihood of moving to different quarters.
Boucher Family Papers (Sc 3071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boucher Family Papers (Sc 3071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3071. Miscellaneous papers and photographs of the Boucher family of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes promissory notes, tax and other receipts, deeds, Civil War military passes and slave indentures.
Cook, George Washington 1865-1928 (Sc 3072), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cook, George Washington 1865-1928 (Sc 3072), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3072. Article of agreement allowing G.W. Cook, Snowville, Barren County, Kentucky, free use of subscribers’ telephone line if he provides reciprocal access to lines running from Fountain Run, Monroe County, Kentucky, to his property.
Monroe, Quincy Adams, 1841-1928 (Sc 3070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Monroe, Quincy Adams, 1841-1928 (Sc 3070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3070. Letter, 30 December 1861, to “Orissa,” from Quincy A. Monroe, serving with the 1st Ohio Light Artillery. Writing on “Cotter’s Battery” letterhead while at Camp Wood on the Green River in Kentucky, he describes troop strength in the area, the topography, Confederate fortifications at Bowling Green, and his expectations of battle.
Mcgrath, Wallace, 1844-1909 (Sc 3064), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgrath, Wallace, 1844-1909 (Sc 3064), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text transcriptions (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3064. Three letters of Wallace McGrath to George D. Freeman, Columbus, Ohio, written in December 1861-February 1862 while serving with with the 15th Ohio Infantry near Bowling Green, Kentucky. He describes recent and anticipated marches, visiting Mammoth Cave, his duties as a clerk, and the difficulty of making a photograph to send to George. He also writes of the escort of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer’s body through the area, noting that his own commanding General and staff “took dinner with Genl Hindman of the Rebels.”
Matherly, Mary Ruth (Hinton), 1893-1985 (Sc 3068), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Matherly, Mary Ruth (Hinton), 1893-1985 (Sc 3068), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3068. Autobiographical sketch and diary entries by Mary Ruth (Hinton) Matherly, composed from 1972-1979. Orphaned at a young age, the Logan County, Kentucky native describes her youth, extended family and wedding, and reflects on growing older.
Owen, Franklin (Sc 3065), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Owen, Franklin (Sc 3065), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3065. “The Landmark Movement,” a paper by Dr. Franklin Owen, delivered in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 24 July 1981. He traces the history of the controversy known as the Landmark Movement, which divided the Southern Baptist Convention in the 19th century.
Jackson, James Herschel, 1883-1957 (Sc 3067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, James Herschel, 1883-1957 (Sc 3067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3067. Typescript of entries from 1 January to 23 November 1911 in the diary of James Herschel Jackson, a farmer of Drake, Kentucky. He writes of farm work, visitors, family, and local births and deaths, including the killing of two men by persons unknown. Includes Jackson’s obituary and information about persons mentioned in the diary and about the Jackson family.
Honeycutt, Roy Lee, Jr. (Sc 3066), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Honeycutt, Roy Lee, Jr. (Sc 3066), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 3066. “Response to ‘The Cover-up at Southern Seminary,’” a statement by Roy L. Honeycutt, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 22 April 1990. He offers a detailed defense of himself and the Seminary’s Board of Trustees against trustee Jerry Johnson’s criticism in a forthcoming article of his Biblical beliefs and commentary.
Scioto (Steamboat) (Mss 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scioto (Steamboat) (Mss 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 593. Receipts for various goods and services for the crew of the steamboat Scioto which ran between Hartford in Ohio County, Kentucky, to Evansville, Indiana, via the Rough, Green, and Ohio Rivers. The receipts are chiefly fromEvansville with a few from Hartford and Calhoun, Kentucky.
Bank Of Kentucky (Sc 3063), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bank Of Kentucky (Sc 3063), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3063. Certificate for 100 shares of stock in the Bank of Kentucky, issued to May Humphreys on 1 February 1858. Signed by Virgil McKnight, President, and S. H. Bullen, Cashier.
Point Pleasant Store - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Point Pleasant Store - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 594. Ledger books containing transactions from the Point Pleasant Store in Ohio County, Kentucky. Because of this store’s location on the Green River, ledgers also include information about shipment of tobacco from that site. Also includes wages for labor performed for the store owner.
Lightfoot, Robert Karl, 1923-2002 - Collector (Sc 3061), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lightfoot, Robert Karl, 1923-2002 - Collector (Sc 3061), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3061. Correspondence, accounts, receipts, contracts and papers of the Gladish family of Warren County, Kentucky and the Pendley family of Butler County, Kentucky. Includes letters from Gladish family members in Missouri, discharge of J. I. Gladish from Confederate Civil War service, and letters from Pendley family members in Texas.
Ashby, J. S. (Sc 3062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ashby, J. S. (Sc 3062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3062. Letter, 9 February 1843, of J. S. Ashby, Daviess County, Kentucky, to James M. Howard, Wayne County, Illinois. He replies to Howard’s request for money with a description of poor local economic conditions, including low prices for crops and horses, difficulty collecting debts, and even lack of money to pay for marriage licenses. He expresses his wish to marry and relates an anecdote about three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter, the last referring to bachelors.
Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 577. Funeral records, correspondence, account books and other financial papers related to various undertaking establishments run by the Gerard and Bradley families, including Gerard and Gerard Funeral Home, Eugene Gerard Company Mortuary and the Gerard and Bradley Funeral Chapel in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes financial records related to an earlier furniture making business operated by John C. Gerard, a French immigrant.
Tapley, Corinne Rachel, 1892-1945 (Sc 3060), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tapley, Corinne Rachel, 1892-1945 (Sc 3060), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3060. The Little Colonel’s Good Times Book (Boston: L. C. Page, 1909) containing birthday records and diary entries of Corinne R. Tapley, Watertown, New York, from January 1910 to September 1912. She writes of social occasions, travel to New York City, graduating from high school, and participation in a wedding party.
Quisenberry, Frank E., 1892-1985 (Sc 3058), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Quisenberry, Frank E., 1892-1985 (Sc 3058), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3058. Letter, December 1970, and Christmas card, December 1974, of Frank Quisenberry, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He writes of his health, friends and local citizens; he also remarks on Bowling Green’s growth and the demolition and replacement of two “Negro districts” with low rent housing.
South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3059. Letter, 1 September 2016, to friends of the South Union Shaker Village, South Union, Kentucky, soliciting funds for the purchase of two acres of land and a building, known as the 1854 Wash House or Sisters Shop, for preservation and interpretation by the Village. An enclosure provides a history of the Wash House and includes photographs.
Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3057. Certificate no. 1653 dated 21 August 1890 for ten shares of stock in the Louisville Bridge Company, issued to J. S. Bell. The certificate is endorsed by Bell and bears a cancellation stamp of 4 April 1896. Includes an engraving of the bridge spanning the Ohio River and the canal at Louisville, Kentucky.
Miller, Winfield, 1852-1947 (Sc 3056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Winfield, 1852-1947 (Sc 3056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3056. Letter, 26 March 1910, to Ridgely B. Hilleary, Indianapolis, Indiana, from Winfield Miller, chairman of a committee charged with welcoming home former Vice President and Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks from a trip around the world. Miller thanks him for his assistance at the reception held for the couple on 24 March.
Boone, Joy (Field) Bale, 1912-2002 (Mss 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boone, Joy (Field) Bale, 1912-2002 (Mss 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 588. Papers of poet, editor and activist Joy Bale Boone, Elkton, Kentucky, relating primarily to her service as chair of the Committee for the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University. Includes correspondence, Committee records, collected data on Robert Penn Warren, and photographs. Also includes audio and video interviews of Boone and colleagues.