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Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1608. Deed for sale of Green Brackin's Allen County, Kentucky land to G.B. Woodcock, dated 30 August 1859.
Hume, Archie, 1892-1963 (Sc 1599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hume, Archie, 1892-1963 (Sc 1599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Smalll Collection 1599. Pages from the diaries of Archie Hume, Tompkinsville, Kentucky, related to singings and singing schools he was involved with in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1945-1963. Also, 1989 letter from Lynwood Montell concerning Hume's diaries.
Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1604. Copy of speech given by Charles Snow Guthrie, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, to the Kentucky Philological Association, Morehead, Kentucky, 4 March 1988, entitled "Eighteenth Century Kentucky Writing."
87th Depot Repair Squadron (Sc 1596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
87th Depot Repair Squadron (Sc 1596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1596. Humorous skit prepared for the second anniversary of the 87th Deport Repair Squadron's formation, celebrated at the Enlisted Men's Club, Foggia, Italy.
Music - Books (Sc 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Music - Books (Sc 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and images of cover and selected interior pages (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 8. Manuscript music book hand-sewn into a crude leather cover. Some of the songs are folk songs having a love theme, while others are spiritual songs. Letters f,s,l,m are used instead of notes.
Kentucky - Cavalry - 25th Regiment (Sc 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky - Cavalry - 25th Regiment (Sc 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 11. List of volunteers to serve under Isaac Shelby in the War of 1812 in the 25th Regiment of the Kentucky militia from Warren County, Kentucky. Signed by Colonel George Hudspeth, Commandant, 25th Regiment Kentucky Militia (R.K.M.)
Lewis, William L. (Sc 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lewis, William L. (Sc 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 9. Letter written by Lewis, Loudoun County, Virginia, to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Susanna Lewis, Nelson County, Kentucky, relating family news.
Porter, Charles, 1735-1809 (Sc 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, Charles, 1735-1809 (Sc 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 10. Will for Charles Porter, d. 1809, Montgomery County, Maryland.
Downing, H. H. (Sc 1573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Downing, H. H. (Sc 1573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1573. Letter dated 21 January 1862, written by H. H. Downing, serving with the Union army near Somerset, Kentucky, to his brother and sisters. He relates events concerning the fighting around Somerset and the death of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer, and sends a piece of Zollicoffer's coat as a souvenir.
Poak, David W., 1842-1879 (Sc 1584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Poak, David W., 1842-1879 (Sc 1584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1584. Civil War letter, Union, from David W. Poak, of the 30th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Camp McClernand near Cairo, Illinois, to his sister Sadie J. Poak, New Castle, Pennsylvania. He discusses some maneuvers in western Kentucky, near Columbus and Paducah.
Antrim, John (Sc 1589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Antrim, John (Sc 1589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1589. Letter, 20 June 1848, from John Antrim, Concordia, Meade County, Kentucky to Elizabeth Gage, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, commenting on his dry goods job and the community's social activities.
Dickerson And Venable Families (Sc 1574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickerson And Venable Families (Sc 1574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1574. Genealogical charts, news clippings, and photographs of members of the Dickerson and Venable families of Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes a news clipping about author Rosa Praigg Dickerson who published under the name Violet Woods and a pre-1911 photo and program from a production of "Mrs. Wiggs and the Cabbage Patch" performed at Woodburn College.
Cushing, Nathaniel, 1762-1827 (Sc 1594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cushing, Nathaniel, 1762-1827 (Sc 1594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1594. Two business letters, 16 July 1817 and 27 April 1818, from Leonard Wheeler, Lexington, Kentucky to Nathaniel Cushing, Pembroke Massachusetts. Invoices contained in letters concern tobacco prices and sales.
Ford, Mrs. Cannon, Collector (Sc 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ford, Mrs. Cannon, Collector (Sc 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of prescription (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 5. Survey for John Tagart of 200 acres of land in Christian County, Kentucky, 1799, and a medical prescription, 1827?
Warren, Sir George (Sc 3), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Sir George (Sc 3), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Smalll Collection 3. Lease of 55 acres of land in Surrey County, England for 14 years to William Rodgers.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1677?-1731 (Sc 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jefferson, Thomas, 1677?-1731 (Sc 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1. Typed copy of the will of Captain Thomas Jefferson, Henrico County, Virginia, the grandfather of President Jefferson.
Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1916 (Mss 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1916 (Mss 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 198. Three indices for Barren County, Kentucky Quarterly Court records; the actual court records are not part of this collection and are located in the Barren County courthouse. Two of the indices are not dated, and the third one marked "Executions" is dated 1916.
Garrison Store - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Garrison Store - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 197. Account book kept for John W. Garrison’s store at Polkville in northeastern Warren County, Kentucky. Includes accounts for many county citizens of that region.
Moss, C. Mcelroy, 1900-1965 (Sc 1583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moss, C. Mcelroy, 1900-1965 (Sc 1583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1583. Letters, photos, and newspaper clippings documenting Moss's U.S. Navy career. Includes news clipping related to educator, Mary Dishman, and a news clipping about Moss's father John McKenzie Moss.
Inter Agency Community Council, 1977-1978 (Sc 1582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Inter Agency Community Council, 1977-1978 (Sc 1582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1582. Minutes of the Inter Agency Community Council, a Bowling Green, Kentucky group composed of members from various community organizations.
Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1597. Letters to William Perry Stamps and Rosalyn Stamps, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to their leadership in the Elks and its auxiliary. Includes constitution and by-laws of the ladies auxiliary of the Bowling Green lodge.
Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of selected Civil War material (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1568. Receipts, inventories and letters relating to the business enterprises and travels of merchant Wade Veluzat, Barren County, Kentucky. Civil War letters to Union sympathizer Veluzat, military passes, and letters from his wife Eliza (Clark) Veluzat describing the family's situation at home. Material related to the Veluzat and Pace family genealogies is also included.
Hardin Family Papers (Sc 1595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardin Family Papers (Sc 1595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1595. Correspondence of various Hardin family members. Includes a description of an 1898 trip to Florida. Also, 1929 letters from F. B. Green, Evansville, Wisconsin, to Oscar C. Fletcher, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to dairy cattle.
Maschak, Jay (Sc 1577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Maschak, Jay (Sc 1577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1577. Letter and postcard from Jay Maschak, Saudia Arabia, to Kelly Butler, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, during the Persian Gulf War. Maschak was in the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division. Includes a news clipping about the correspondence.
Hills, Sallie (Holland), 1875-1945 - Letters To (Sc 1598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hills, Sallie (Holland), 1875-1945 - Letters To (Sc 1598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1598. World War II letters sent to Sallie Hills, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from her son Henry Hills, nephew and ward William Perry Stamps, Jr., and friend George L. Smith. Includes a silhouette of Stamps.
Edwards, George W. (Sc 1587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edwards, George W. (Sc 1587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1587. Correspondence between George W. Edwards, Jackson, Tennessee, and Lowell Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to the name "D. Boone" and the date 1776 carved on a tree in Jackson.
Drake, Leah Bodine, 1904-1964 (Sc 1575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake, Leah Bodine, 1904-1964 (Sc 1575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1575. Letters from poet Leah Bodine Drake, Evansville, Indiana, to Fletcher and Grace Stewart, Santa Ana, California, related to the publication of her poetry, awards for her poetry, and possible television appearances.
Brown, Claude M., 1905-1978 (Sc 1579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Claude M., 1905-1978 (Sc 1579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1579. World War II letters from Kentucky native Claude M. Brown, stationed in Italy, to Elizabeth Propes, Louisville and Hodgenville, Kentucky. Letters to Brown from friend Ralph Hurley and Brown's 1945 travel itinerary from Italy to Kentucky.
Bouldin Family Papers (Mss 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bouldin Family Papers (Mss 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 195. This collection consists of business and personal correspondence and account books of the Bouldin Family of Cumberland County, Kentucky, and of Walter H. Parks of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Of special interest is an account book kept for Albert J. Armes, a patient at Central Kentucky Hospital in Lakeland, Kentucky.
Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1592. Typescript of the membership list and minutes of congregational meetings from 30 August 1831 to 17 October 1852, for the Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church located in Sumner County, Tennessee. The papers also contain a "Family Record" in which births, baptisms, marriages, and beginning/ending church membership dates are registered.