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Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2402. Letters of Louis Arnold Rich, a U. S. Army private from Tompkinsville, Kentucky, written to his wife and in-laws during his military training and while hospitalized for a long illness that resulted in his death on 3 August 1944. He writes of his medical condition and mentions other soldiers from home. Includes letters from his wife, Martha, to her parents and grandmother discussing his medical treatment. Also includes an unidentified soldier’s letter and a child’s letter to her father.
Tabor Dry Goods Store - Hartford, Kentucky (Mss 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tabor Dry Goods Store - Hartford, Kentucky (Mss 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 339. Day books, account books, and invoice books of Pardon Winfield Tabor's dry goods store in Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky. Includes some druggists' prescription forms and farm records of his son, Earl P. Tabor.
Hart County, Kentucky - Prescriptions (Sc 2279), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hart County, Kentucky - Prescriptions (Sc 2279), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2279. Prescriptions written primarily by physicians practicing in Hart County, Kentucky and surrounding counties. Some are written on the physician's own form while others are written on the form of a local druggist or drugstore.
Mosley, Della Cassidy, 1883-1968 (Sc 2234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mosley, Della Cassidy, 1883-1968 (Sc 2234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2234. "Physician's Record" forms on which Della Cassidy Mosley, of Alvaton, Kentucky, recorded birth information about infants she delivered as a midwife in Warren County and Allen County, Kentucky. Includes forms as well as a photo of Mosley and her obituary.
Norris, Ruby (Fa 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Norris, Ruby (Fa 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of collection (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 218. Paper: "[Folk Medicine in Cumberland County]" written by Ruby Norris for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Death Records, 1877-1913 (Mss 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Death Records, 1877-1913 (Mss 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and copy of a "Death Return" (click on Additional File below) for Manuscripts Collection 293. To view scanned copies of the records, click on the individual folders; they are links to the contents of that particular folder. Physician's death certificates and undertaker's certificates relating to permits for burials wihin the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information on the deceased's date and cause of death, age, race, marital status, place of birth, residence, and date and place of intended interment. May include other documentation when a death occurred outside Warren County, Kentucky.
Westerfield, William P., 1835-1916 (Sc 2139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Westerfield, William P., 1835-1916 (Sc 2139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Microfilm copy of professional diaries kept by Westerfield, a Rochester, Kentucky physician, for 1895, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1908 and 1910-1915. The diaries record weather conditions and local fires as well as births, marriages, deaths, accidents, illnesses and surgery in which Westerfield was professionally involved. Includes a typescript with biographical information, description of the diaries, and listings of the births, marriages, deaths, operations, accidents, illnesses and fires recorded therein.