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Shelton, Martha Beth (Sc 1375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shelton, Martha Beth (Sc 1375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1375. Paper written by Martha B. Shelton of Greenville, Kentucky, giving the history of the town by recording the various owners of Greenville's houses and buildings.
Aspley Family (Sc 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Aspley Family (Sc 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1377. World War II letters, 1942-1943 (5), written stateside and from Europe by Aspley brothers Robert Charles ("Charlie") and William Neil ("Billy") to parents and friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly discussing everyday camp life. Charlie writes one letter from a German prisoner of war camp. Includes obituaries, newspaper clippings, etc.
Guthrie Family (Mss 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Guthrie Family (Mss 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Autograph books of two female and one male member of the Guthrie and related families of Cumberland County, Kentucky. Includes some family data.
Todd County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 1372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Todd County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 1372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1372. Letters, 1887-1923, written to Sherrod and Williams family members, Todd County, Kentucky, mainly containing family news. The 1913 letter focuses on tobacco selling and Night Riders' activities in Henderson County, Kentucky.
Githens, William Harrison, 1826-1904 (Sc 1364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Githens, William Harrison, 1826-1904 (Sc 1364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan, and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1364. Letter, 22 February 1862, written by U.S. Army surgeon William H. Githens, Birds Point, Missouri, to his wife describing conditions, especially in Cairo, Illinois, and mentioning the activity at Forts Holt and Payne across the river in Kentucky. He includes a sketch of these fortifications.
Tucker, Mildred Carpenter, 1894-1994 (Mss 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tucker, Mildred Carpenter, 1894-1994 (Mss 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 145. Materials removed from a scrapbook kept by Tucker, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, while a student at Hamilton College in Lexington, Kentucky, for the 1915-1916 school year. Includes notes about the college, printed items, photos, mementos, etc. Also includes related data.
Voice Of The People (Fa 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Voice Of The People (Fa 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of student papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 83. The Voice of the People: An Understanding of Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A Western Kentucky University Folk Studies project directed by Dr. Lynwood Montell, involving 9 students and 26 informants. Several of the interview transcriptions are available by downloading (Click "Download" button on the right) the finding aid and clicking on the hyperlinks in the text.
Helm-Lucas Family Papers (Mss 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm-Lucas Family Papers (Mss 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 146. Chiefly family and courtship correspondence between James Helm, Butler County, Kentucky, and Virginia Lucas, Warren County, Kentucky. Their 1879 marriage rites were the first ones to be performed in Mammoth Cave. Includes associated items.
Pace, Pearl Eagle (Carter), 1896-1970 (Mss 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pace, Pearl Eagle (Carter), 1896-1970 (Mss 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 114. Correspondence, business papers, and speeches of Monroe County, Kentucky native Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace. Includes materials concerning Republican National Committee and Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; civic, religious, political and professional organizations in Kentucky and Washington, D.C. Also includes some Cumberland County, Kentucky records.
Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 143. Shaker journal, 1891-1893 (184p.) kept by James Carr, South Union, Kentucky, giving daily activities within the Shaker community. Includes hymnals, 1836-1856 (9), compiled by Shaker society members. A name index is available.
Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 68. Personal and business papers, 1905-1935 (293 items), of Herdman, an attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and assistant attorney general of Kentucky, 1936-1947, and legal papers, 1884-1934 (867), from his practice in Bowling Green which relate chiefly to civil and commercial matters in Warren County, Kentucky.
Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 128. Correspondence, papers, financial records, minutes, essays written by children, etc., of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, Warren County, Kentucky, which was part of an international religious organization.
Sudduth Goff, Artist: A Preliminary Record, James D. Birchfield
Sudduth Goff, Artist: A Preliminary Record, James D. Birchfield
The Kentucky Review
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Casselberry, Anita Beatrice, 1890-1970 (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Casselberry, Anita Beatrice, 1890-1970 (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1378. Journal, 1925, 79p., kept by Anita B. Casselberry, Cleveland, Ohio, while serving a few weeks as a public health nurse under the direction of Alice Lloyd in Knott County, Kentucky. Also associated letter, 1960-1965?, newspaper clippings, 1940-1941 (2), and photos, 1925 (2).
Carraco, Arthur, 1873-1964 (Sc 1370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carraco, Arthur, 1873-1964 (Sc 1370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1370. Hospital fee statements received by Arthur Carraco, Carrollton, Kentucky, after treatment at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky.
Rogers, Odie Floyd, Jr. 1921-1957 (Sc 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rogers, Odie Floyd, Jr. 1921-1957 (Sc 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1386. World War II diary kept by Odie Floyd Rogers, Jr. (1921-1957) Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, who was a member of a flight crew that evidently was stationed in Sicily. They bombed chiefly Italian targets. Rogers completed 66 missions. Includes a 2001 letter with data on planes flown by Rogers.
Wilcher, Joda, 1905-1971 (Mss 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilcher, Joda, 1905-1971 (Mss 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 155. Chiefly business papers of Joda Wilcher, Bradfordsville, Kentucky, pertaining to his work as an agent that bought trees, especially walnut trees, for various lumber companies. Also a few family items, including his memorial book and other items relating to his funeral.