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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Waterworks (Sc 3488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Waterworks (Sc 3488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of documents (Click on "Additional Files" below for Manuscripts Small Collection 3488. “Changes in Plans and Specifications for Water Works Improvements, Contracts Nos. 1 to 5, Incl[usive] for the City of Bowling Green, Bowling Green, Kentucky, December 12, 1947.”
Kirby, Leonard Tarrant, 1760-1842 - Relating To (Sc 2907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kirby, Leonard Tarrant, 1760-1842 - Relating To (Sc 2907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2905. Typescripted letter to the editor of the Bowling Green (Kentucky) Democrat, 16 January 1873, from “Allen,” relating the memories of Len Kirby of Allen Springs regarding early Bowling Green, the railroad, and travel between Bowling Green and Scottsville, Kentucky.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1328. Letters, written by South Union, Kentucky Shaker leaders, to leaders of the Hancock Shaker Society, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, discussing the building of mills and dam, economic conditions, and religious affairs. The original letters are in the Library of Congress.
Fiegel, Kurt H. (Sc 1257), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fiegel, Kurt H. (Sc 1257), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1257. Paper, “Historic and Archival Photographic Documents of the 1869 Bowling Green Water Works Engine/Boiler Room, Repair Shop and Pump House: A Contributing Element of WA-B-3, the Bowling Green Water Works, Warren County, Kentucky” by Kurt H. Fiegel, Frankfort, Kentucky. Includes historical narrative, construction details, maps and photographs. This project documented the structure prior to its demolition.
Freight Depot - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Freight Depot - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 376. Account books, “time books” for railroad employees, conductor’s book, receipt book and other miscellaneous records found in the freight depot at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a Civil War-era “Individual Collection Register” with entries that indicate a Georgia provenance.
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 1714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 1714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1714. Letter from Mary Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Ben Johnson, Bardstown, Kentucky, 27 September 1938, related to covered bridges at Bowling Green and Bardstown. Includes copy of an act passed by the Kentucky General Assembly authorizing reconstruction of bridges destroyed by Confederate guerrilla Billy Magruder.