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Rodes Collection (Mss 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rodes Collection (Mss 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Fortnightly Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fortnightly Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Smith, Jesse (Sc 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Jesse (Sc 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Rigsby, Clinton, 1882-1970 (Sc 2643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rigsby, Clinton, 1882-1970 (Sc 2643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Whitaker, Matilda Lucretia, 1841-1892 (Mss 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitaker, Matilda Lucretia, 1841-1892 (Mss 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 434. Photocopies of the Civil War diaries of Matilda Lucretia Whitaker, Grove Spring, Logan County, Kentucky. Whitaker sympathized with the South and noted the activities of Confederate troops in Russellville. Poetry and songs are also included.
Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 607. Photocopies of Civil War papers of James Willis Wood of Dunmor, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, which include his enlistment papers, letters, 1864 (9 items), written while in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, and his discharge papers, 1864.
Hines Family Papers (Sc 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines Family Papers (Sc 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 523. Incoming letters, 1879-1899, to Edward Ludlow Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky; Civil War experiences of said Hines and James M. Hines as recorded by Edward Ludlow Hines; and reminiscences of Green River by John P. Hines, Bowling Green, as dictated to his wife in 1942.
Southern College Of Kentucky - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Southern College Of Kentucky - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 780. Letter, 8 September 1825, of Henry Grider and A. W. Graham, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Governor Joseph Desha, requesting his assistance in funding the Southern College of Kentucky, which had been operating for three years in Bowling Green. Also included are photocopies of a (Bowling Green) Times-Journal article, 21 July 1937, concerning the educational history of Bowling Green and a 1969 paper by Ward C. Sumpter titled “Early Schools and Colleges of Warren County.”
American Association Of University Women - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
American Association Of University Women - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 727. Letters, 1949-52 (14), written to Sibyl Stonecipher, WKU professor, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from a Displaced
Person in Germnay, Aina Raits, whose family was adopted by the Bowling Green Branch. Letters relating the same, 1949, 1976 (2), and photos of Raits’ family (2).
Lawson, Alex Roger, 1858-1925 (Sc 758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lawson, Alex Roger, 1858-1925 (Sc 758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 758. Letters (2) from Alex R. Lawson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Frank Coleman, Marshall, Texas, about his brother’s business, activities at the State Street Methodist Church, and a military band. Also miscellaneous envelopes and photocopy of Lawson’s obituary.
Donaldson, John Brent, 1890-1971 (Sc 757), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Donaldson, John Brent, 1890-1971 (Sc 757), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 757. Account of J. B. Donaldson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, of the Barren River flood of 1913, the destruction of a freight house and the McMullan and Higgins tavern, and the removal of Charles J. Vanmeter’s coffin from his home due to the flood. Also includes a 1937 newspaper clipping about the flood.
Wilson, Emma Meadow (Allbritten), 1891-1977 (Sc 753), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Emma Meadow (Allbritten), 1891-1977 (Sc 753), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 753. Letters, 1962-1976 (24), written by Emma (Allbritten) Wilson, Bowling Green and Hazel, Kentucky, to Betty
Hemming, England; booklet and letter, 1976, written by Betty relating how her family met Mr. Wilson in 1935; letter to Betty written by Mr. Wilson, telling of Emma’s death; correspondence, 1977-1978 (5), between Betty and Pat Hodges, Kentucky Library, concerning the collection.
Carnes, James E. (Sc 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carnes, James E. (Sc 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 752. Letters, 1860 and undated, written by J. E. Carnes, a Methodist preacher of Galveston, Texas, to Josie Underwood, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning his ideas about Texas and recalling Bowling Green friends of former days; also included is Underwood family genealogical information.
Galloway, John Marshall, 1844-1937 (Sc 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Galloway, John Marshall, 1844-1937 (Sc 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 519. Business papers of John M. Galloway, lawyer and judge of Bowling Green, Kentucky, which include petition for election to enable county to purchase railroad stock, 1889; 1890 stock certificates and a 1901 deposition related to Warren Deposit Bank; Peter Perkins’ will, 1891; judgeship certificate, 1903; newspaper clippings and photos kept by Mrs. Galloway, 1873-1930.
Moss, John Mckenzie, 1868-1929 (Sc 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moss, John Mckenzie, 1868-1929 (Sc 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 518. Papers of John McKenzie Moss, lawyer, judge, and politician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Notice of his contest of election, 3rd Congressional District, 1900; letters to Moss pertaining chiefly to politics, 1902-1903; letter of Moss to lawyer, 1902.
Hannum Family (Sc 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hannum Family (Sc 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 746. Ciphering book containing problems using the British pound system, which also contains accounts of John Hannum, Jr., and Richard Hannum, and writings of Penelope Hannum, Logan County, Kentucky. Also clippings, chiefly from newspapers of Russellville, Kentucky, 1820-1860.
Sumpter, William Cullin, 1862-1958 (Sc 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter, William Cullin, 1862-1958 (Sc 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 748. Membership book of Aeolian Lodge Number 51 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Bowling Green, Kentucky, retained by William Cullin Sumpter. Information includes name, residence, occupation, and age of each applicant.
Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 166. Project titled “African American education in south central Kentucky, 1920-1960.” Interviews with twenty-nine African Americans regarding their experiences as students and teachers in fourteen Kentucky counties.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 511. Autograph album covering the period that Gardner was a student at Southern Normal School and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also, copy of 1962 newspaper interview with the 97 year old Gardner.
Warren County, Kentucky - Maps (Sc 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Maps (Sc 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 732. Original holographic maps of the towns of Jeffersonville, 1805? and Bowling Green, 1807, in Warren County, Kentucky. Also holographic copies of early plans of Bowling Green, n.d., and of an order which designates prison bounds for the county, 1814.
Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 739. An invitation to a centennial party for the Adelphian Society on 26 February 1886 at the home of J.D. Hines, Circuit Clerk, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Atkinson Collection (Sc 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Atkinson Collection (Sc 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of 19th Century materials (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 715. Copies of letters written by John and Jane Atkinson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to friends and relatives in England, 1866-1879 (4 items), which contain family news, information about Bowling Green during the Civil War, description of their return trip from England, 1873, correspondence concerning these letters, 1960-1961 (12), and a photograph.
Local Option Election - Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1960 (Sc 2592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Local Option Election - Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1960 (Sc 2592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2592. Handbill and voting precinct information relating to a local option vote in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Callis, Mariah (Fa 583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Callis, Mariah (Fa 583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 583. Illustrated paper by Mariah Callis titled “Grave Decoration in a Bowling Green Cemetery: An Analysis of Children’s Grave Adornment.” This illustrated project provides a brief yet detailed description of the author’s first field work experience. The work, an analysis of children’s grave adornment, provides information specific to Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and categorizes the types of ornamentation placed on children’s graves and the frequency of such decoration. The project was submitted for the 2011 Folklife Archives Award competition at Western Kentucky University.
Bolick, Molly (Fa 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bolick, Molly (Fa 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 579. Illustrated paper by Molly Bolick titled “Embodied Art: Identity, Adornment, and Style in Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby.” Analysis of the artistic process of choosing a derby name and the assemblage of dress elements and adornment in the context of the body as a canvas. This project was submitted for the 2011Folklife Archives Award competition at Western Kentucky University.
Rue, Elizabeth Waitt, 1894-1980 (Sc 2583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rue, Elizabeth Waitt, 1894-1980 (Sc 2583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2583. Bound holographic copy of a paper titled “History of the Development and Growth of Warren County Kentucky as Recorded in Deed Books I through XVI…”, given by Elizabeth Waitt Rue, Bowling Green, Kentucky, before the Daughters of the American Revolution. Paper highlights the development of business and judicial transactions with individuals and institutions in Warren County, and includes information about marriages, the Shakers, churches, schools, and other miscellaneous information.
Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 406. Correspondence, research notes and manuscript articles of Frances J. “Thomas” Whitaker, a Benedictine monk who lived and worked at St. Maur’s Priory, formerly the South Union Shaker Village in Logan County, Kentucky, from 1954-1988. He amassed a large collection of photocopied research material on the South Union community as well as other Shaker villages and museums in the United States. Also includes his research on various Catholic topics.
Mcmurtry, Horace (Sc 2575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcmurtry, Horace (Sc 2575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2575. Paper titled: “Warren County, Kentucky,” written by Horace McMurtry. This paper discusses the geography, history, agriculture, and social life and customs of Warren County.
Account Book - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Account Book - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2570. Merchant’s account book, which includes accounts for merchandise due from early residents of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky such as Benjamin Hampton, Jacob Skiles, George Moore, Robert Lucas and Solomon P. Sharp.