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Strahm, Victor Herbert, 1897-1957 (Sc 2651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Strahm, Victor Herbert, 1897-1957 (Sc 2651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2651. Diary kept by Brigadier General Victor H. Strahm while serving with the Ninth Air Force during World War II. Brief daily entries for 1944 cover his work and the progress of the war, particularly the air war against the Germans. Includes loose items from diary and four photos of Strahm.


Rodes Collection (Mss 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Rodes Collection (Mss 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 427. Correspondence, photographs, and business and personal papers, primarily of Robert Rodes, Sr. of Danville, Kentucky, and John Barret Rodes of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Robert Rodes's correspondence includes letters outlining his fear of an invasion of Bowling Green by Confederate forces, 1861 (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts). Also includes material related to Rodes ancestors and descendants, as well as to members of the Grider, Hines, Helm, Loving and associated families.


Farmers Bank - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Farmers Bank - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 441. Letter press book of Farmers Bank, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, recording certificates of protest. Includes loose certificates found in the letter book.


Cummings, F. G. (Sc 2648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Cummings, F. G. (Sc 2648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2648. Letter, 25 September 1851, of F. G. Cummings, Rochester, New York, to J. D. McGill, chairman of the board of trustees of Covington Theological Institute, Covington, Kentucky, inquiring about admission. He describes his background and his decision, made in Texas, to enter the ministry. He also inquires about teaching in the school’s preparatory department.


Beard, Thomas Houston, 1872-1956 (Sc 2650), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Beard, Thomas Houston, 1872-1956 (Sc 2650), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2650. Letter of Thomas H. Beard, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his nephew William T. Beard, at school in Lexington,Virginia. He stresses the importance of education in the successful pursuit of a profession, and points to examples among some of his nephew’s contemporaries from Bowling Green.


Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2649. Subscription lists, receipts and other financial records related to the operation of Smiths Grove College in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. Includes a debate outline demanding equal rights for women (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).


Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2647. Reminiscence of Alfred Leland Crabb, Jr. of a visit to the Warren County, Kentucky farm of his grandfather, James Wade Crabb, in the mid-1920s.


Ohlenmacher, Carl Frederick, 1859-1932 (Sc 67), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Ohlenmacher, Carl Frederick, 1859-1932 (Sc 67), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 67. A sentimental essay entitled “Memories of School Days,” written by Carl Frederick Ohlenmacher, Scottsville, Kentucky.


Stansbury, Edgar Bryant, 1906-2009 (Mss 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Stansbury, Edgar Bryant, 1906-2009 (Mss 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 438. World War II diary kept by Edgar Bryant Stansbury, 1942, as well as articles by Stansbury, his thesis about industrial arts in Kentucky high schools, a scrapbook about his sports participation at Western Kentucky University, and several other items related to his experiences in World War II.


Hendricks Collection (Sc 65), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Hendricks Collection (Sc 65), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 65. Warren County, Kentucky, tax receipt of Fred Hespian [Hespen], 1868, and undated ticket issued by the Evansville, Cairo and Memphis Packet Company's steamer "Quickstep."


Magee, J. Harry (Sc 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Magee, J. Harry (Sc 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 66. Letter, 23 December 1868, written by J. Harry Magee, Washington, D.C., to Dr. Albert Covington, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding the record of the U. S. Senate impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson.


Fortnightly Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Fortnightly Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 432. Minutes, membership lists, yearbooks, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous records of the Fortnightly Club, a men’s literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Clark, John Thomas, B. 1827 (Sc 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Clark, John Thomas, B. 1827 (Sc 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 63. Union Army discharge issued to John Thomas Clark of Logan County, Kentucky. Issued on 7 May 1865 in New Albany, Indiana.


Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 2646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 2646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2646. Letter of Cale Young Rice, 29 December 1919, disputing a poor review of his poetry by literary critic William Braithwaite and complaining of similar criticism by others. The letter may have been directed to the Boston Evening Transcript, where Braithwaite was literary editor. Includes a note of 22 December 1919 asking that the letter be printed.


Hall's Chapel School District - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Hall's Chapel School District - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below)for Manuscripts Small Collection 64. A subscribers' list giving amount of money pledged to pay to John W. Sharrer to teach a three-months school at Hall's Chapel, Warren County, Kentucky.


Robinson, Helen E., 1905-1986 And Ruth Robinson, 1897-1991 (Mss 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Robinson, Helen E., 1905-1986 And Ruth Robinson, 1897-1991 (Mss 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 437. Correspondence of Ruth and Helen E. Robinson, chiefly with cousins and other family members. Most of the letters are incoming Christmas cards filled with family information.


Smith, Jesse (Sc 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Smith, Jesse (Sc 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and transcription (Click on Additional File) for Manuscripts Small Collection 554. Letter, 25-27 February 1862, to an unidentified recipient from Union soldier Jesse Smith upon his arrival in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Smith describes the abandoned Confederate fortifications in some detail and comments on the surrounding countryside, the damage to the railroad and bridges, and the large numbers of troops converging on the area. He also relates news of the occupation of Nashville, Tennessee by Union forces.


Weeks, George Henry, 1839-1914 (Sc 798), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Weeks, George Henry, 1839-1914 (Sc 798), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 798. Letters, 18 and 24 May 1863, of George Henry Weeks, a Union soldier from the 103rd Ohio Regiment, to his mother and sisters while camped near Somerset, Kentucky and the Cumberland River. Weeks includes details on duty, guerrilla activities, a slave’s plight, and his chaplain.


Malasky, Harris M. (Sc 2644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Malasky, Harris M. (Sc 2644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2644. Photocopy of a mimeographed letter written by General Harris M. Malasky to the officers and men of the 86th Infantry Division for their bravery during the “Battle of the Rose Pocket” in World War II.


Davis, George Hamilton, 1872-1939 (Sc 2632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Davis, George Hamilton, 1872-1939 (Sc 2632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2632. Letter of George H. Davis, Glasgow, Kentucky, to Roland G. Railey, Tompkinsville, Kentucky. Proprietor of the New Davis Hotel, Davis writes of local excitement about the hotel’s imminent opening and its amenities, including hot water. He also asks for a small loan to pay off expenses. Includes a business card advertising the hotel.


White, Margaret Lee, 1892-1984 - Letter To (Sc 2631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

White, Margaret Lee, 1892-1984 - Letter To (Sc 2631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2631. Letter to Margaret White, Bowling Green, Kentucky from “Walter” in Walton, Kentucky. He thanks her for her gift of a lock of hair, compares their personal characteristics, and expresses his hopes for a romance.


Rigsby, Clinton, 1882-1970 (Sc 2643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Rigsby, Clinton, 1882-1970 (Sc 2643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2643. Personal and business correspondence as well as financial records kept by Clinton Rigsby, a farmer, salesman, and accountant of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes informationabout the strawberry industry in Warren County as well as the Mrs. A.H. Taylor & Company, a dressmaking establishment of Bowling Green.


Omer, Charles Henry, 1865-1937 (Mss 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Omer, Charles Henry, 1865-1937 (Mss 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 436. Personal journals of Charles Henry Omer of Union County, Kentucky. In this daily record Omer records information about his farming, family and church activities, the weather, as well as prices for food, timber and farm supplies.


Lyon, George Ella, B. 1949 (Sc 2629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Lyon, George Ella, B. 1949 (Sc 2629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2629. Color page proofs and book jacket proof for The Pirate of Kindergarten, by George Ella Lyon, with illustrations by Lynne Avril (Atheneum Books, 2010). The book received the Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award from Western Kentucky University Libraries in 2012.


Avril, Lynne, B. 1951 (Sc 2630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Avril, Lynne, B. 1951 (Sc 2630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2630. Color illustration for two pages of The Pirate of Kindergarten, by George Ella Lyon, with illustrations by Lynne Avril (Atheneum Books, 2010). The book received the Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award from Western Kentucky University Libraries in 2012.


Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 (Sc 61), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 (Sc 61), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 61. Manuscript poem entitled “The Censer Bowl” written by Simon Bolivar Buckner.


Taylor, Miles Anderson, 1843-1916 (Sc 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Taylor, Miles Anderson, 1843-1916 (Sc 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 62. Union Army discharge, 1865, and 1884 certificate for restoration and increase in pension issued to Miles A. Taylor, Caneyville, Kentucky.


Sodeman, Lowell Frazier, 1914-2003, & Mary Elizabeth (Ferguson) Sodeman (Sc 2628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Sodeman, Lowell Frazier, 1914-2003, & Mary Elizabeth (Ferguson) Sodeman (Sc 2628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2628. Letter of Lowell F. Sodeman, pastor of Shepherdsville Baptist Church, Shepherdsville, Kentucky, and his wife Mary, to Roy and Ruth Baucom, Raleigh, North Carolina. They reminisce about their previous fellowship at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and relate news of their young daughter, Betty Albert, and of Mary’s high school teaching. Lowell also mentions his seminary studies.


Sharp, W. T. (Sc 2627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Sharp, W. T. (Sc 2627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2627. Letter of W. T. Sharp, Foster (Bracken County) Kentucky, to an unidentifed young lady. In the company of her sister, Mrs. Tegard, she had recently visited the store of H. S. Pribble & Company, where Sharp worked, and he asks permission to correspond with her.


Moore, Gilbertine Douglass, 1914-2008 (Mss 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Moore, Gilbertine Douglass, 1914-2008 (Mss 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 435. Correspondence, autograph albums, travel accounts and other miscellaneous material of Franklin, Kentucky native Gilbertine Moore. Moore owned a seed inspection business in Franklin and was interested in the arts, nature, and writing.