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Western Kentucky University

2010

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Hodges, Jack, Ii (Fa 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Hodges, Jack, Ii (Fa 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 227. Paper: "Family Ghost Stories" written by Jack Hodges II for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Norris, Ruby (Fa 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

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.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Death Records, 1877-1913 (Mss 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

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.

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Burnette, Isaac, Sr., 1801-1865 (Sc 2239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2010

Burnette, Isaac, Sr., 1801-1865 (Sc 2239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2239. Letter, 20 February 1835, from Isaac Burnett, Sr., a Trigg County, Kentucky physician, written from Frankfort, Kentucky to his wife Martha in Cadiz, Kentucky, while Burnett was serving in the General Assembly. He apologizes for an earlier, unkind letter and expresses his wish to see her and their children.

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Ewan, A. Early (Sc 2427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Ewan, A. Early (Sc 2427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2427. Letter from A. Early Ewan, Warren County, Kentucky county agriculture extension agent, to members of the Warren County Corn-Hog Production Control Association relating information about contracts to limit production of the commodities mentioned.

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Young, Edward Green, 1857-1948 (Mss 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Young, Edward Green, 1857-1948 (Mss 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 309. Materials related to Edward Green Young's service as a delegate from Warren County to the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1916 to 1920. Also family correspondence and items concerning his farming operations.

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Morgan, John, B. 1944 (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Morgan, John, B. 1944 (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 476. Fieldwork--including oral interviews, videotapes, and secondary information--compiled by John Morgan primarily pertaining to dark-fire tobacco barns in Calloway County, Kentucky and North Carolina. Also includes interviews relating to tugboats, basket making, and ghost stories and supernatural tales from western Kentucky.

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Gibbs, Marissa (Fa 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Gibbs, Marissa (Fa 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 478. Taped interviews conducted by Marissa Gibbs about the "Giles Cabin" built by Henry Giles and Janice Holt Giles near Kinfley, Adair County, Kentucky. Also includes a paper about the house. This project was completed as part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Powell, Janet Sharli (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Powell, Janet Sharli (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 17. Collection consists of interviews with Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis and Johnnie Mae (Elkins) White, Bowling Green, Kentucky, conducted by Janet Sharli Powell about quilting. Includes sample Mexican Star quilt block. Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Logan County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Logan County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2176. Writ of fi. fa., 10 May 1804, from Clerk of the Circuit Court, Logan County, Kentucky to the Sheriff of Warren County, Kentucky directing execution against the estate of Gasper Butcher, Samuel Cox and Elkin Taylor to satisfy a judgment obtained by John and James M. Mahan.

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Logan County, Kentucky - Election Certificates (Sc 2177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Logan County, Kentucky - Election Certificates (Sc 2177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2177. Two election certificates from different precincts in Logan County, Kentucky, verifying tallied votes for election of state and local officials held on 9 May 1903. The totals are filled in and the certificates are signed by election officials.

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Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2131. Receipt book kept by George Mitchell, deputy clerk of the Warren County Court [Kentucky]; entries list amount paid to record deeds and to copy deeds, mortgages, and other documents. payments were also received by C.E. Blewett, clerk.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water-Sewer-Sanitation Commission (Sc 2135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water-Sewer-Sanitation Commission (Sc 2135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2135. Letter from Allen A. Ball, Commission engineer, to Mayor James H. Topmiller, and minutes of meeting between Commission and contractor to discuss citizen complaints over inconveniences caused by sewer expansion project.

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Ua100/2/7 Training School & College High Student Projects, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua100/2/7 Training School & College High Student Projects, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Projects created by students at the training school.

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