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Public Library Of Kentucky - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 1453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Public Library Of Kentucky - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 1453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1453. Materials concerning lotteries held to establish and operate a free public library in Louisville, Kentucky. Also, related items.
Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Mss 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Mss 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 28. Correspondence, poems, lyrics for songs, newspaper marine columns, and royalty and copyright contracts related to William Shakespeare Hays, a poet, composer, and newspaper columnist of Louisville, Kentucky. Many clippings of a biographical nature and of his works. Attached (Click on "Additional Files" below) is full text scan of a diary kept by Hayes from 1864 to 1865 and titled "My Leisure Moments to Belle McCullough." This diary is found in Box 3, Folder 4 of the collection.
Allmond Collection (Mss 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allmond Collection (Mss 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 12. Genealogical material collected by Allen E. Allmond, Louisville, Kentucky, pertaining to the Allmond and Meade families. Letters, photostats, maps, newspaper clippings and notebook. Also includes information about the Louisville Commercial Club.
Walnut Street Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky - History, 1949-1965 (Sc 1521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Walnut Street Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky - History, 1949-1965 (Sc 1521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1521. Manuscript copy with corrections of "The History of Walnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky", 1949-1965. This was intended to be an addition to an earlier history of the church written by Bradley Thomas Kimbrough, Sr. in 1949.
Denton, Judith Darlene (Sc 1506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Denton, Judith Darlene (Sc 1506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1506. Paper titled "History of Glenmore," written by WKU student, Judith Darlene Denton, for a Kentucky history class. The paper is a brief history of the Glenmore Distillery in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Stout, Alice Virginia, 1908-1983 (Sc 1495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stout, Alice Virginia, 1908-1983 (Sc 1495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1495. Journal kept by Stout describing the 1937 Ohio River flood in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes some telegrams sent to her family in Bowling Green, Kentucky during the same period; photographs of the flood; and clippings about the family and the Cortlandt Hotel, where Stout resided during the flood.
Bryant, A. J. (Sc 1487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant, A. J. (Sc 1487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1487. Correspondence between A.J. Bryant, while in Louisville, Kentucky, and his fiance and later wife, Martha Stewart, of Union Star, Kentucky. The letters concern courtship and everyday matters. Mr. Bryant is a carpenter working on building projects in Louisville; he obviously has gone to find temporary work because of the lack of projects in his home county.
Coleman Family Papers (Sc 1483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coleman Family Papers (Sc 1483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1483. Incoming business letters, 1866, and 1877, to James P. Coleman, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also business letter, 1881, to Harry R. Coleman related to a printing job at the Courier-Journal in Louisville.
Bush, Thomas (Sc 1421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bush, Thomas (Sc 1421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1421. Civil War letter written by Thomas Bush, Louisville, Kentucky, to his brother, commenting on the poor hospital care he is receiving for consumption. He notes his doctor's opinion that the man who enlisted him should be sent to the penitentiary.
Shakers - South Union, Ky. (Mss 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Ky. (Mss 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 154. Shaker materials related to Jesse McCombs and James Johnson including slavery documents, guardianship documents, legal papers, land papers, grist and fulling mill papers, wills, agreements and receipts.
Carraco, Arthur, 1873-1964 (Sc 1370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carraco, Arthur, 1873-1964 (Sc 1370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1370. Hospital fee statements received by Arthur Carraco, Carrollton, Kentucky, after treatment at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky.
Ellsworth, Oliver Carnell, 1842-1864 (Sc 1359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ellsworth, Oliver Carnell, 1842-1864 (Sc 1359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1359. Correspondence of Civil War soldier Oliver C. Ellsworth, Marion, Michigan, with family and friends. He served with the 22nd Michigan Infantry in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Also includes a tintype of Ellsworth.
Middleton, Anna R., 1866?-1888 (Sc 1320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Middleton, Anna R., 1866?-1888 (Sc 1320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1320. Autograph book kept by Annie Middleton, Louisville, Kentucky, while attending the Baltimore Conservatory of Music. Also includes family data.
Robertson, Clara Louise, 1908-2004 (Mss 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, Clara Louise, 1908-2004 (Mss 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 87. Diary kept by Clara Louise Robertson of Louisville, Kentucky, detailing schools, church and club activities and amusements. Vivid description of a 1921 Washington, D.C. family vacation. Associated letter, 1991. A copy of Robertson "Little Colonel’s Good Times Book" diary is included as an "Additional File" below. Click on it to see the diary in its entirety.
Jones, Howard Malcolm And Frances (Young) Jones Collection (Mss 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Howard Malcolm And Frances (Young) Jones Collection (Mss 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 103. Papers collected by Howard Malcolm Jones and his wife Frances (Young) Jones of Glasgow, Kentucky. The collection contains the papers of several families from Barren County, Kentucky, including: Eubanks, Huggins, Jones, Smith, Warder, White and Young. Collection also contains information about Barren County history and includes some Barren County court records.
Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 (Mss 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 (Mss 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Manuscripts, galley proofs and research material for janice Holt Giles's books; published and unpublished articles and short stories; poems; reviews and clippings relating to Giles's work; correspondence of Giles, her husband (Henry Earl Giles) and daughter (Elizabeth Moore Hancock); correspondence of Giles, her literary agent, and publisher; Holt and Giles family material.
Brown, Robert T., 1871-1939 (Sc 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Robert T., 1871-1939 (Sc 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1351. Ministerial record book kept by R. T. Brown, a Methodist minister, who resided mostly in Kentucky and West Virginia. Besides listing places where he preached, he also lists sermon titles, responses, weddings and funerals.
Whitmore, David (Sc 1430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitmore, David (Sc 1430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Small Collection 1430. Paper written by WKU student David Whitmore for a history class, based on an interview with Hazel Bratcher. Living in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1937, she recalls the enormous flood and its impact on her and her family's lives.
Weber, Beth Ann (Sc 1433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weber, Beth Ann (Sc 1433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Small Collection 1433. Paper written by WKU student Beth A. Weber for a history class, based on an interview with her father, Jim Weber. He discusses growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, focusing on the 1937 flood and the home front during World War II.