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Warren County, Kentucky - Documents (Sc 1276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Documents (Sc 1276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1276. Certificate of receipt, 6 May 1873, issued to B. Young for payment of special tax on business as a dealer in leaf tobacco in Woodburn, Kentucky; also copy of contract, 1 October 1900, between R. A. Taylor and T. H. Stamps authorizing Stamps to receive pay as a postal carrier subcontractor, with attached certificate of Postmaster General.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 1223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 1223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1223. Civil War certificate signed by President Abraham Lincoln appointing Herbert M. Enos to the position of First Lieutenant in the regiment of mounted riflemen.
Cornell, Eddie Mae, 1902-2002 (Sc 1187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cornell, Eddie Mae, 1902-2002 (Sc 1187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1187. Grades received (mutilated item), evidently necessary to earn an eighth grade certificate, by Eddie Mae Cornell, Nelson County, Kentucky; and certificate issued to her by Nelson County after she successfully passed the examination as prescribed by the State Board of Education.
Berg, Oddvar, 1914-1999 (Mss 177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Berg, Oddvar, 1914-1999 (Mss 177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 177. Personal and business correspondence, newspaper clippings, lecture notes, photographs and certificates related to minister and patriotic and inspirational speaker Oddvar Berg, a native of Norway who later made his home in Russellville, Kentucky.
Skaggs Transfer, Incorporated - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Skaggs Transfer, Incorporated - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 446. Correspondence, financial records, applications for new freight routes, and other papers generated chiefly by Willet Douglas Kirkpatrick in his position as vice-president of Skaggs Transfer, a motor-based freight transfer company located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information about Renner Express Company’s negotiations and eventual purchase of Skaggs Transfer in 1971.
Walton, Charles Potter, 1876-1971 (Sc 1120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Walton, Charles Potter, 1876-1971 (Sc 1120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1120. Sermon notes and Spanish-American War discharge certificate of Simpson County, Kentucky native, Charles Potter Walton, who served as a Methodist minister in the south central Kentucky area. Several items related to the Spanish-American War can be viewed in full-text (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Mayhew, Cornelius Harmon, 1872-1963 (Sc 2768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mayhew, Cornelius Harmon, 1872-1963 (Sc 2768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2768. Certificate certifying the election of Cornelius H. Mayhew as justice of the peace for the 6th District in Allen County, Kentucky, 1925. Also includes a group photo featuring the sheriff of Allen County, A. Lee Williams (center with hat), and Mayhew (back row, far left).
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Draft (Sc 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Draft (Sc 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1090. Commutation money receipt given to Henry J. McLean, Owensboro, Kentucky. McLean, a colonel drafted into the Union army from Kentucky’s 2nd Congressional District, paid $300 to receive a discharge from further liability for the draft. Receipt signed by George D. Blakey
Cain, Frank Davis, Sr., 1890-1953 (Mss 127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cain, Frank Davis, Sr., 1890-1953 (Mss 127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 127. Correspondence, reports and certificates of Madisonville engineer Cain. Includes information about Madisonville's Selective Service Board in World War II, the National Bituminous Coal Commission, and the 1940 Census.
Melton Family Papers (Mss 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Melton Family Papers (Mss 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 123. Letters, receipts, legal and financial papers of the Melton family of Henderson County, Kentucky. Also includes data about the Lively, Poole, and Strum families of Henderson County.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Loyalty Oaths (Sc 2705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Loyalty Oaths (Sc 2705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2705. Blank oath of allegiance and United States bond, to be sworn by residents of Warren County, Kentucky.
Quirey, Aaron Winston, 1896-1965 (Sc 1014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Quirey, Aaron Winston, 1896-1965 (Sc 1014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1014. Bureau of Mines’ first aid training certificate; letters concerning World War I pension and disability claim; Mammoth Cave and Fort Knox civil service employment of Aaron Winston Quirey, Sturgis, Kentucky, 1926-1961 (20); teacher’s certificate of William A. Proctor (maternal grandfather), Logan County, 1884; newspaper clippings and associated items.
Helm Family Papers (Sc 2697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm Family Papers (Sc 2697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2697. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Helm family of Bowling Green, Kentucky and Logan County, Kentucky. Includes family letters, 1938 financial information relating to the Morehead House Hotel, family reunion literature, a letter of praise to Walter A. Baker from U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and materials relating to the 1994 drowning death of Thomas Carson Helm.
Smith, Howard, 1922-1944 (Sc 1001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Howard, 1922-1944 (Sc 1001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1001. World War II correspondence, chiefly written by Howard Smith to his family in Hart and Larue counties in Kentucky. Smith was a munitions carrier in Company C, 133rd Infantry Division. Also contains letters from friends and family, and information about his death in Italy in 1944 and his reburial in Smith Cemetery (Priceville, Kentucky) in 1949.
Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 954. Teacher’s certificate issued for the period 1909-1911, to J.M. Hill, Hardin County, Kentucky. Included are grades he earned in various subjects.
Women's Monumental Fund (Sc 2694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Women's Monumental Fund (Sc 2694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2694. Certificate of The Women’s Monumental Fund Fund (no recipient named) acknowledging a contribution for the erection of a monument in Frankfort, Kentucky honoring Governor William J. Goebel. The monument was dedicated in 1910.
Staats, Abyram P., 1839-1931 (Sc 968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Staats, Abyram P., 1839-1931 (Sc 968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 968. Partial letter, 1862, written by Abyram P. Staats, a private in the 74th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, while stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He recounts how he shot his thumb off and the miseries of camp life. Discharge certificate, 1863, and photo included.
Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 918. Photocopies of the Civil War enlistment, promotion, and discharge papers of Henry Peyton Bledsoe, Logan County, Kentucky. He was a member of Company E, 26th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.
Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 901. World War I discharge certificate of Frank Young Patterson of Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky.
Cleaver, Oscar Payne, 1905-1996 (Mss 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cleaver, Oscar Payne, 1905-1996 (Mss 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 106. Miscellaneous papers related to the military and civilian careers of Hart County, Kentucky, native Oscar Payne Cleaver, who was a lighting expert and was instrumental in the development of night vision equipment. Includes a brief reminiscence about his lighting work on the film “Gone With the Wind.”
Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 105. Miscellaneous papers collected by Ethel Roark, Franklin, Kentucky. Includes a World War II letter; personal letters (4); Knights of Pythias certificate; general store ledger with a 1929 inventory; 1954 letter promoting legal alcohol sales in Simpson County; and 1965 farm diary.
Armitage Family Papers (Sc 668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Armitage Family Papers (Sc 668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of representative material (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 668. Letters of Valerius Armitage, 1853, Delphi, Indiana, written to his sister Mary during and after his emigration to the west; poems, 1857, copied by Valerius with comments; cemetery lot deed of Julia A. Hess, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1866; recipe book of Camilla Herdman, Bowling Green, 1877; letters to Mary Armitage, Bowling Green, 1910-1935, and Sunday School administration certificate, 1933; family obituaries; and funeral invitations, 1859-1888.
Fleenor, Kenneth Raymond, 1929-2010 (Mss 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fleenor, Kenneth Raymond, 1929-2010 (Mss 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scans of prisoner of war letters, and photo (For scans and photo click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 444. Correspondence and documentation related to the military career of Kenneth Raymond Fleenor, a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, whose plane was shot down near Hanoi, Vietnam in 1967. A prisoner of war (POW) for over five years, Fleenor served part of that time at the “Hanoi Hilton.” Collection contains letters written while a POW and subsequent documentation about his POW experience. Also includes photos of celebratory events held after his release in March 1973 and miscellaneous material …
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Self, Hazel Ruth, B. 1918 (Sc 660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Self, Hazel Ruth, B. 1918 (Sc 660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 660. Certificate issued to Hazel Self, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for passing an examination on “Alcohol in Experience and Experiment” given by the Young People’s Branch of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
Bowling Green Female College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Female College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 661. Certificates of proficiency in various subjects awarded to Mattie and Kate Sumpter, Bowling Green, Kentucky, by the Bowling Green Female College and signed by its president, George M. Edgar.
Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Sc 658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Sc 658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 658. Certificate of attendance awarded by Auburn Seminary, Auburn, Kentucky, to Harold Holmes Helm for not being absent or tardy during the quarter ending 4 June 1909.
Jessee, William Mortikey, 1846-1931 (Sc 796), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jessee, William Mortikey, 1846-1931 (Sc 796), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 796. Photocopy of Union Army discharge certificate issued to William Mortikey Jessee, 10 January 1865. Jessee was born in Adair County, Kentucky but reared in the Metcalfe County community of Red Lick.
Enochs, Charles J., 1881-1945 (Sc 794), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Enochs, Charles J., 1881-1945 (Sc 794), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 794. Embalmer’s license issued in Missouri, 12 May 1906, and renewable certificate receipts, 1909, 1910 (2); and Kentucky embalmer’s license, 20 October 1908, and renewable certificate receipts, 1910-12 (3), of Charles J. Enochs.
Richardson, Sarah "Sally" Pickett, 1944-2023 (Sc 2653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richardson, Sarah "Sally" Pickett, 1944-2023 (Sc 2653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2653. Miscellaneous items relating to the childhood of Sarah Richardson: birth announcement clippings, a congratulatory card to her mother, a church school certificate, high school report card, and a letter from a friend.