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Bowling Green Music Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Music Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 457. Minutes, governing documents, yearbooks, programs for public concerts, membership information, various reports, and news clippings for the Woman’s Music Club, the Bowling Green Music Club and the Bowling Green Junior Music Club.
Bowling Green, Kentucky Musical Fund Society (Mss 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky Musical Fund Society (Mss 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 460. Minutes, financial records, governing documents and miscellaneous items of the Bowling Green Musical Fund Society, which was established in 1872 for “the cultivation of music and the social enjoyment of its members.”
Webster, Pauline (Martin) Tabor, 1905-1992 (Sc 1192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Webster, Pauline (Martin) Tabor, 1905-1992 (Sc 1192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1192. Card from former Bowling Green, Kentucky madam Pauline Tabor Webster to David Helm in Bowling Green, promising to look for a catalog of her 1973 antiques sale and offering to send him an antique item as a gift.
Webster, Pauline (Martin) Tabor, 1905-1992 (Sc 1180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Webster, Pauline (Martin) Tabor, 1905-1992 (Sc 1180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1180. Cards and letters, 1984-1991 (10), from Pauline Tabor Webster, Universal City, Texas, to Mitchell Leichhardt, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Originally from Bowling Green, Webster discusses mutual friends, family affairs, and past and present events. Also related data.
Charter Commission For Urban County Government - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Charter Commission For Urban County Government - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1128. Correspondence, agendas, minutes and membership lists of Charter Commission and the draft and final copy of the Charter of the Urban County Government of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.
Graham, Robert Duke, 1900-1984 (Mss 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Graham, Robert Duke, 1900-1984 (Mss 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 473. Correspondence and scrapbooks of Robert D. Graham, Democratic mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1960-1963 and 1968-1971. The materials mostly document his public career, but some personal papers, including those of his wife Edith, are included.
Hodges, Ida Leighton, 1885-1949 (Sc 1025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodges, Ida Leighton, 1885-1949 (Sc 1025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1028. Letters commending Hodges for a variety of civic activities, including her work as coordinator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Civil Works Administration in Bowling Green, Kentucky during the 1930s.
Bowling Green Warren County Bicentennial Commission (Mss 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Warren County Bicentennial Commission (Mss 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 122. Correspondence, minutes, calendars, financial reports, and promotional material of the Commission which was created to oversee the bicentennial celebrations of Warren County, Kentucky (1 March 1997) and Bowling Green (1 March 1998).
Mothers Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mothers Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 113. Organizational records including minutes, financial and attendance reports, yearbooks, and newspaper clippings related to the Mothers Club, a group of concerned mothers who formed the Bowling Green club in 1925 for educational purposes. The group formally dissolved in 1998.
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Sc 950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Sc 950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 950. Letter, 17 March 1959, written by Bowling Green, Kentucky's High Street High School basketball coach Frank Otha Moxley to his basketball players as they prepared for their participation in the state basketball tournament, where they could become the first African-American team to win the state championship.
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Parks And Playgrounds (Sc 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Parks And Playgrounds (Sc 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 993. Ordinance, 1942, establishing a System of Parks and Playgrounds for the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The ordinance designates seven parcels of property to constitute the system and sets out the responsibilities of the Board of Parks and Playgrounds.
Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 669. History of the Current Events Club, formed in 1902, written by Mrs. Margaret (Nicholls) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a typescripted 1931 newspaper article with club history.
Jeffrey, Jonathan David, B. 1960 (Sc 882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jeffrey, Jonathan David, B. 1960 (Sc 882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 882. Page proof of Growing with Bowling Green: A History of the Bowling Green Public Library, 1938-1988, c.1991 and written by Jonathan Jeffrey.
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.
Bowling Green Industrial Foundation - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Industrial Foundation - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 787. Promissory note, signed 1 April 1940, by Emmons O. Pearson, Jr., and stock certificate issued by Bowling Green Industrial Foundation, 13 May 1943, to Pearson (1 share). Also included are newspaper clippings about the Bowling Green Industrial Foundation and its plans
concerning building and highway constructions.