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2009

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Thomas, Peter (Mrs.) (Sc 2127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Thomas, Peter (Mrs.) (Sc 2127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2127. Letter, 10 August 1889, from Mrs. Peter Thomas, Bowling Green, Kentucky to the Mayor & Board of Councilmen protesting a finding that she is located outside the city for the purposes of water service, but inside the city for purposes of taxation.

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Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2125. Letter, 14 August 1876, from John Cox Underwood, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Thomas E. Moss, Kentucky State Attorney General, Frankfort, Kentucky, in which he relates information about the condition of the locks and dams on the Green and Barren Rivers.

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Stout-Middleton Collection (Mss 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Stout-Middleton Collection (Mss 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 297. Album from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, kept by Samuel S. Templeton, 1836-1838; diary of Marguerita Middleton, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1896-1899; diary of Margaret L. Herdman Stout, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1896-1901; information related to the Stout and Middleton families.

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Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2123. Correspondence of Ernest Hubert Canon relating mainly to his service as secretary and president of the Bowling Green, Kentucky's Kiwanis Club and as a member of various committees of Bowling Green's First Christian Church. Includes correspondence from Congressman William H. Natcher commenting on appropriations for Mammoth Cave National Park and on the growing federal budget.

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Mcneel, John (Sc 2121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcneel, John (Sc 2121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2121. Bond of John McNeel, given to Justices of the County Court of Warren County, Kentucky for performance of his agreement to donate 200 acres of land in consideration of the county seat being fixed thereon.

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Mcfarland, Jonnie, B. 1873 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcfarland, Jonnie, B. 1873 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2120. Autograph album of Jonnie McFarland, Bristow, Kentucky. Includes part of a menu from J. A. Rabold, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2115. Sundry Warren County, Kentucky court records collected by Warren County Circuit Court judge, Robert Coleman. Includes a will, indenture, manusmission papers, bonds, etc. List of documents is included in the finding aid.

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Mcchesney, Gene (Sc 2116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcchesney, Gene (Sc 2116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2116. Class paper about the history of Bowling Green, Kentucky titled "The City Founded." The paper was written by Gene McChesney as a senior theme at the Western Kentucky State Teachers College Training School, when McChesney was 15 years old.

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Swann, James H., 1869-1965 (Sc 2113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Swann, James H., 1869-1965 (Sc 2113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2113. Sales contract for Lot 37 in the "College View" development, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for James H. Swann and his wife Bessie; a letter from the developer, National Development Company of Bowling Green, is included.

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Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935, Et Al (Sc 2106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935, Et Al (Sc 2106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2106. Galley proof of "Bowling Green: A Pictorial History" written by Nancy D. Baird, Carol Crowe-Carraco, and Michael L. Morse; published in a limited edition by the Donning Company in 1983.

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Mcclary, Herbert Brent, 1881-1952 (Sc 2117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcclary, Herbert Brent, 1881-1952 (Sc 2117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2117. Brief history of Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, and related correspondence.

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Shirley, James Kelly (Fa 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Shirley, James Kelly (Fa 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 474. A term project prepared by James Kelly Shirley on Cora Mae Howard for a Western Kentucky University history class titled "The Negro in American History."

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Pioneer Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Pioneer Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2107. Sexton's book for the cemetery, recording interments of both whites and African Americans from 1860-1863. Most entries state name, date of death, sex, age at death, and cause of death. A typescript is included, together with notes on the genealogy of the book owner's family.

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Taylor, John Burnam (Sc 2104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Taylor, John Burnam (Sc 2104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2104. Letter, 8 May 1981, from John Burnam Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to Lowell H. Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky providing information related to members of the Burnam family.

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Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2109. Miscellaneous correspondence and certificates related to Ernest Hubert Canon's community, club and church activities. He served for many years as an officer of the Bowling Green Kiwanis Club.

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Hamlett, Barksdale, 1908-1979 (Mss 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Hamlett, Barksdale, 1908-1979 (Mss 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 292. Transcriptions of five interviews conducted with retired four-star general Barksdale Hamlett in which he reflects on his 34-year military career, including service in World War II, the Korean War, and on the Army's General Staff in Washington, D.C.

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Andress, Bruce K. (Fa 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Andress, Bruce K. (Fa 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 472. Project conducted by Andress concerning Wayman Hayes, a Bowling Green, Kentucky toymaker. Project includes some toys made by Hayes, patterns for the toys, as well as information about marketing them.

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Porter, Eugene A., 1841-1922 (Mss 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Porter, Eugene A., 1841-1922 (Mss 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 294. Two letter press books containing outgoing letters from the firm, E. A. Porter & Bros. of Bowling Green, Kentucky. These letters deal almost exclusively with the manufacture and marketing of a piece of agricultural equipment called the "corn cob crusher." A small amount of correspondence also documents Mr. Porter's personal agricultural pursuits.

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Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text paper (click on Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2103. Paper: "A New Look at the History of Soldier's Retreat" produced by Lawrence L. Barr for an adult education class at Senior House, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky. Soldier's Retreat was built around 1789 in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Smith, Mona Gayle (Fa 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Smith, Mona Gayle (Fa 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 473. Folk studies project in which Smith collected information about carpenter Charles Browning of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes paper material related to his work as well as wood samples.

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Thompson, Mary H., B. 1875 (Sc 2097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Thompson, Mary H., B. 1875 (Sc 2097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2097. Diary kept by Mary H. Thompson, a physician's daughter living near Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky, from February to November 1902. She writes of social events, home life, teaching school, church attendance, family and friends.

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Jefferson, Belinda Coombs (Mcginley) - Collector (Mss 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Jefferson, Belinda Coombs (Mcginley) - Collector (Mss 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts for two diaries from Manuscript Collection 244. Diary of Elizabeth Belle Coombs, 1904; diary of Pearl Coombs Moore, 1926-1927, while a student at Western Kentucky State Normal School; 1852-1853 Jefferson Medical College notes and thesis of Samuel W. Coombs; miscellaneous correspondence, receipts, and documents related to the Moore, Coombs, and Potter families of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Haley, Delphine Delacroix (Mss 291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Haley, Delphine Delacroix (Mss 291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 291. Replies sent to Delphine Haley, Campbellsville, Kentucky, from individuals across Kentucky related to how the Commonwealth's communities were named. Initial query letter is included.

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Magruder-Clysdale Collection (Mss 284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Magruder-Clysdale Collection (Mss 284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 284. Correspondence of the Magruder and Clysdale families of Louisville, Kentucky, London, Ontario and Grand Bend, Ontario. The correspondence covers family matters and the progress of the Magruders' professional work and writing on Protestant theology and social issues. Includes photographs relating to the Clysdales and a related family, the Brighams.

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Hurricane Katrina (Sc 2098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Hurricane Katrina (Sc 2098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2098. E-mails sent by Beverly Pitts to friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to a mission trip to New Orleans, Louisiana to aid in the clean up following Hurricane Katrina. The trip included thirteen people from First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 2096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 2096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2096. Letters from Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice to Henry and Rebecca Watterson, 1903-1916 (13), chiefly including personal advice, discussions of literary topics, and social invitations. Also includes a brief note to Benjamin W. Huebsch, n.d., giving a positive review of a book titled 'Dragnet'; and a letter to William Orton Tewson, n.d., in which Rice discusses literary criticism.

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Starr, Tommy - Collector (Sc 2095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Starr, Tommy - Collector (Sc 2095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2095. Promotional material, tour information and cue sheets related to bands playing in the Bowling Green, Kentucky area.

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Bethel Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Bethel Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 256. Record books of Bethel Baptist Church, Gainesville, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes brief business information about the church, acts of church discipline, and when people were admitted to membership. Also includes the church's "Rules of Decorum" and "Articles of Faith."

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Dodd, Euclid Porter, 1870-1958 (Sc 2078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Dodd, Euclid Porter, 1870-1958 (Sc 2078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2078. Two record books (together with loose items within) of Euclid Porter Dodd, a member of the Bowling Green Fire Department from 1900 to 1938 and a watchman for ten years thereafter. The books include notes on fire department equipment and personnel, weather and temperatures, sports scores, fires and other local events. Also included are lists of local deaths, clippings on fire department personnel and miscellaneous Dodd family information.

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White Stone Quarry Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

White Stone Quarry Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 298. Records of the White Stone Quarry Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky consisting of meeting minutes and membership lists.

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