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Warren County, Kentucky - Maps (Sc 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

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.


Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Rebecca Gould Aug 2012

Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

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Prisons - Administration - Florida (Sc 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Prisons - Administration - Florida (Sc 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 446. Letter written by Miss Daniels, Hardinsburg, Kentucky, to the mayor of Lakeland, Florida, inquiring as to the local jail’s conditions after becoming concerned about them by reading a book written by a former prisoner. Also, carbon copy of mayor’s reply, inviting Daniels to visit the jail and stating that the jail’s conditions would compare favorably with those in Kentucky.


Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Legal papers setting the execution date of Jim Buckner, African American, Marion County, Kentucky, as 9 June 1911, and stay of execution by Acting Governor William Hopkinson Cox until 8 July 1911, because of the incompletion of the installation of the electrocution apparatus. Henry Thomas Hagerman, warden of Kentucky Penitentiary, Eddyville, attested to Buckner’s death.


Fulkerson, Edwin Pierce, B. 1922 (Sc 2509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Fulkerson, Edwin Pierce, B. 1922 (Sc 2509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2509. Letters from Edwin Pierce Fulkerson, Germany, to his parents, Elmer M. and Nora Fulkerson, and uncle, Jesse Fulkerson, Sonora, Kentucky, in which he details his life in the military during World War II. Includes wartime log and other memorabilia documenting Fulkerson’s imprisonment in a German stalag during World War II, as well as Ben H. Phelper’s published and illustrated reminiscences from the same prison.


Jenkins, Greg (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Jenkins, Greg (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 33. [Prison ministry] Interviews conducted with Overt Ray Rich by Greg Jenkins about his work with prison ministries for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky Univeristy. Contains index, tape summary, transcirpts, comments.