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Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.
Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1003. Courtship letters (29) written by Roger Charles Porter of Warren County, Kentucky to his future wife, Nan Cole, during a summer she spent at Massey Springs, a Warren County resort operated by her parents. The Porters married 16 March 1911.
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.
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.
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 887. Letter written by Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mina Weber, Los Angeles, California, in response to Weber’s request that she write a supporting letter to radio host Ralph Edwards of “This is Your Life,” concerning Bowling Green's Ida Hodges and her contributions to society. Also carbon copy of Weber’s letter to Edwards.
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”
Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 804. Paper entitled “Early Schools of Bowling Green [Kentucky],” written by Lavinia R. Scott. Includes information about the Southern College of Kentucky, Mary Kendall Jones’ Female Seminary, Samuel Moore Gaines’ Presbyterian School for Young Ladies, and George Edgar’s Bowling Green Female College.