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Roberts, Edwin T., 1920-1998 (Sc 1230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roberts, Edwin T., 1920-1998 (Sc 1230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1230. Letters, removed from genealogy notebooks prepared by Edwin T. Roberts, written by Thomas W. Jenkins of Bowling Green, Kentucky to his daughter, Ethel Mae Roberts, discussing his family and life in a Bowling Green boarding house.
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 159. Family correspondence, greeting cards, handicrafts, and newspaper clippings of Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also items from various family members.
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.
Vick, Velma Gertrude (Brown), 1892-1978 (Sc 2741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vick, Velma Gertrude (Brown), 1892-1978 (Sc 2741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2741. Paper titled “The History of the First Baptist Church of Russellville, Kentucky, 1818-1958.”
Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 1028), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 1028), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1028. Paper written by John Quincy Burnam titled "Some Reflections and Thoughts Connected with the Baptist Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky," and a 1967 letter with information about Burnam.
Armitage Family Papers (Sc 668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Armitage Family Papers (Sc 668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
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?”