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Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 732. Genealogical research, narratives, clippings, photographs, and local history pertaining to the Bennett, Hunt, Taylor and associated families of Kentucky, primarily Butler, McLean, Muhlenberg and Daviess counties.
Rowan Family (Sc 3592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rowan Family (Sc 3592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3592. Recording of a rebroadcast program first made in connection with Black History Month for radio station WOMI, Owensboro, Kentucky. Marilyn (Rowan) McKissic, speaking in character as her ancestor Mary (Munt) Rowan, tells the story of the Rowans of Owensboro, an African-American family whose members have maintained contact over a century of annual reunions.
Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 678. Correspondence, papers and photographs of the Tichenor family of McLean County, Kentucky, and related families, especially Cherry, Short, and Hutchison. Much relates to the home front during World War II during the Navy service of high school teacher Thomas Cherry Tichenor.
Molloy, John Calhoun, 1855-1923 (Sc 3321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Molloy, John Calhoun, 1855-1923 (Sc 3321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3321. Letter, 14 December 1891, of John C. Molloy, Pastor of Fourth Street Presbyterian Church, Owensboro, Kentucky, to Reverend E. W. Bedinger, Anchorage, Kentucky. He encloses his church’s donation to the Synod’s Evangelistic Fund and hopes to add to it during the coming winter. Includes envelope bearing the postmark “Owensborough Ky.”
Field Packing Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 3207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Field Packing Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 3207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3207. Preliminary package designs, in color, for Pizza Dogs and Pizza Loaf, two food products of the Field Packing Company, Owensboro, Kentucky. Includes letters from the design firm, and grocery store display cards for Pizza Dogs and for Field’s Fresh Ham Sausage.
F. A. Ames Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 3180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
F. A. Ames Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 3180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3180. Letter, 22 December 1906, of the sales manager of F. A. Ames Company, Owensboro, Kentucky, makers of “Pleasure Vehicles and Carriage Materials,” to W. E. Shelton, a dealer in Mayfield, Kentucky. The letter discusses substituting parts to remedy errors in two orders, and the catalog pricing for an earlier delivery of parts. The company letterhead includes an image of its factory and the motto, “Buggies Bred in Old Kentucky.”
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.
Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 602. Correspondence, research notes, book manuscripts, promotional material, and editorials related to Hugh O. Potter’s career as a radio broadcaster and his interests in Kentucky history, specifically Owensboro and Daviess County, and Abraham Lincoln. Includes one box of original legal documents (1783-1953) related to the Massie family of Daviess County.
Womi Radio - Owensboro, Kentucky (Ct 2042), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Womi Radio - Owensboro, Kentucky (Ct 2042), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Cassette Tape 2042. Recording of an online observation of the tenth anniversary of the WOMI radio station in Owensboro, Kentucky. Includes greeting from the mayor, county judge executive and WOMI’s president as well as the reading of congratulatory telegrams and letters from other dignitaries.
Gates, Lloyd W., 1830-1890 (Sc 2971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gates, Lloyd W., 1830-1890 (Sc 2971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2971. Business and political postcards, chiefly sent to attorney Lloyd W. Gates, Calhoun, Kentucky. Topics range from political patronage to debt collection.
American Party - Kentucky (Sc 2972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
American Party - Kentucky (Sc 2972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2972. Founding documents, press releases, forms, and announcements related to the American Party in Kentucky. Includes a sermon denouncing the National Council on Churches.
Clements Family Papers (Mss 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clements Family Papers (Mss 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Turner, Bedford (Sc 2809), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Turner, Bedford (Sc 2809), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2809. Letter, 2 January 1936, of Bedford Turner, minister of Settle Memorial Methodist Church, Owensboro, Kentucky, to Lawrence W. Hager, editor of the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer. He thanks Hager for providing space in the paper to the church for publication of items of interest during 1935.
Topmiller Family Papers (Sc 2778), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Topmiller Family Papers (Sc 2778), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2778. Letters and papers of various members of the Topmiller family of Kentucky, Tennessee and New Mexico. Includes letters of Benjamin E. Topmiller to his wife Jessie; letters of condolence to Jessie on her husband’s death; postcards from a World War I serviceman to a young lady in Owensboro, Kentucky; and letters to Victor Topmiller regarding his service to the Davet Home and School for Spastic Paralysis in Owensboro.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Draft (Sc 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Draft (Sc 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1090. Commutation money receipt given to Henry J. McLean, Owensboro, Kentucky. McLean, a colonel drafted into the Union army from Kentucky’s 2nd Congressional District, paid $300 to receive a discharge from further liability for the draft. Receipt signed by George D. Blakey
Orrahood, Marvin David, 1923-2000 (Mss 465), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Orrahood, Marvin David, 1923-2000 (Mss 465), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only Manuscripts Collection 465. Correspondence, primarily professional, or Dr. Marvin David Orrahood, a pathologist practicing in Owensboro, Kentucky. Includes Parts I-IV of a family history and genealogy, "The Family of Marvin David Orrahood II and Aline Joyce Orrahood," and a list of Owensboro physicians (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans).
Devine, Lillian K., 1895-1990 (Mss 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Devine, Lillian K., 1895-1990 (Mss 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 463. Farm ledgers for the Devine family farm in Grass Township, Spencer County, Indiana, as well as personal daily dairies of Lillian K. Devine, 1960-1981.
Daviess County High School - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 2699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Daviess County High School - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 2699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2699. Last will and testament of the Daviess County High School Class of 1939.
Southern Foundry Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Southern Foundry Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 944. Letter, 7 June 1910, written by M.F. Bransford of the Southern Foundry Company, Owensboro, Kentucky, to C.F. Krider, Paris, Tennessee, inquiring about furnishing ironwork under a contract Krider has received to construct Grove School Dormitory in Paris.
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 445. Correspondence, published and unpublished writing, and research of Alexander Gordon Wilson, faculty member in the English department of Western Kentucky University from 1915-1959. Includes genealogical and autobiographical material as well as extensive research data and writing on the ornithology of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky, on folklore and linguistics, and on the ornithology and folkways of the Mammoth Cave region of Edmonson County, Kentucky.
Ohio County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ohio County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 825. Miscellaneous accounts and receipts relating to the Ohio County Court, 1873-1927; some are for the work on the courthouse and jail.
Mccullock, Sue R. (Sc 2566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccullock, Sue R. (Sc 2566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2566. Bound copy of “History of Owensboro, Kentucky,” compiled by Sue R. McCullock. This history includes the early settlement of Daviess County, important citizens, industry, organizations, and general information about Owensboro in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
J. H. Bell Tobacco Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
J. H. Bell Tobacco Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 702. Account book of the J. H. Bell Tobacco Company, Owensboro, Kentucky, which lists amounts paid to employees.
Washington, William Armstead, B. 1800 (Sc 368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Washington, William Armstead, B. 1800 (Sc 368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 368. Letter written from Owensboro, Kentucky, in which William Armstead Washington tells of his ill health and mentions people of mutual interest.
Perguson, Dee Carl, Jr., 1921-2010 (Mss 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perguson, Dee Carl, Jr., 1921-2010 (Mss 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 8. Correspondence and diaries of Deel Carl Perguson, Jr., Horse Branch (Ohio County), Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington. Of interest are his letters written while serving in World War II in the United States, North Africa, and Italy, and his later memoirs of this period. Also of interest are diaries of his years as a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, 1939-1943. The collection also includes his recollections of growing up in Horse Branch in the 1920s and 1930s.
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 375. Correspondence, photographs, diaries, and personal and professional writing of Virginia Wood Davis, a Smiths Grove, Kentucky native and a reporter and editor, 1943-1985, for newspapers in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and McCreary County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data as well as correspondence and miscellaneous papers of her family, especially her mother, Virginia Wood (Cox) Davis.
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2405. A letter regarding the genealogy of the Hall and Hines families, and a letter to Jane (Hines) Morningstar regarding fundraising for the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra.
Schroeder, Ralph Louis, 1885-1976 (Sc 1971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Schroeder, Ralph Louis, 1885-1976 (Sc 1971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1971. Letter, 14 February 1930, from Ralph Louis Schroeder, a physician, to Dorothy Blocher, Owensboro, Kentucky discussing details about automobiles and the furniture and equipment in his office. Also includes a brief biography of Schroeder.
Barlow Family Papers (Mss 259), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barlow Family Papers (Mss 259), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 259. Chiefly letters sent to Georgetown, Kentucky native James Edward Barlow, who was employed in the electrical engineering field. The letters are generally from friends inquiring about his work, health, and interests in electronics and photography. Also includes correspondence of his parents, Edward Calistis Barlow and Lily (Robertson) Barlow of Georgetown, Kentucky.
Womi (Radio Station) - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 1943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Womi (Radio Station) - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 1943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1943. Program Verification card sent from WOMI, Owensboro, Kentucky to Harold Gentry, Haworth, Oklahoma.