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Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Legal papers setting the execution date of Jim Buckner, African American, Marion County, Kentucky, as 9 June 1911, and stay of execution by Acting Governor William Hopkinson Cox until 8 July 1911, because of the incompletion of the installation of the electrocution apparatus. Henry Thomas Hagerman, warden of Kentucky Penitentiary, Eddyville, attested to Buckner’s death.
Mccreary, James Bennett, 1838-1918 (Sc 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccreary, James Bennett, 1838-1918 (Sc 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 445. Appointment of Henry Thomas Hagerman of Eddyville, Kentucky as a delegate to the Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tennessee. Signed by Governor James Bennett McCreary.
Stevenson, John White, 1812-1886 (Sc 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stevenson, John White, 1812-1886 (Sc 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 433. Letter from John White Stevenson, Covington, Kentucky, to L.Q. Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding Washington’s candidacy for undesignated office, Kentucky’s Congressional races, and the upcoming national election.
U.S. Circuit Courts - Kentucky District, Bowling Green (Sc 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
U.S. Circuit Courts - Kentucky District, Bowling Green (Sc 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 434. Warrant issued to the marshal to apprehend William Davis, Edmonson County, Kentucky, for engaging in illegal liquor traffic, and subpoena issued for two witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff. Signed by M.T. Roberts, Commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States, Kentucky District.
Tolle Collection (Sc 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Collection (Sc 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 432. Papers regarding the Patrons of Husbandry, Siloam Grange, Number 1372, Barren County, Kentucky, 1874-1875. Papers include applications and recommendations for membership, chiefly signed or approved by William Daniel Tolle, J. J. Pursley, J. Nichols, and C. G. Ellis.
Mallory, Robert, 1815-1885 (Sc 641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mallory, Robert, 1815-1885 (Sc 641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 641. Letter to President Abraham Lincoln from Robert Mallory, Oldham County, Kentucky and U.S. Representative from Kentucky, relating to the appointment of Dr. L. L. Mathers for the position of regimental surgeon. He is recommended by the entire Kentucky Union delegation in Congress. Mallory congratulates Lincoln on the news from the Kentucky elections.
Lowther, Charles Ernest, B. 1951 (Sc 649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lowther, Charles Ernest, B. 1951 (Sc 649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 649. Photocopies of letters written to Charles Ernest Lowther, of Nortonville, Kentucky, and a history student at Western Kentucky University, from various members of the U.S. Congress in reply to Lowther’s letter regarding the Nixon-Cox incident.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records - Licenses, 1832-1878 (Sc 2549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records - Licenses, 1832-1878 (Sc 2549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2549. Lists of licenses issued by Warren County, Kentucky for horses and jacks used for breeding purposes, taverns, persons selling playing cards, and coffee houses. Chronological lists include licensee, name of horse/jack, type of license, and fee.
Thornberry, Martine (Calhoun), 1905-1972 (Sc 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thornberry, Martine (Calhoun), 1905-1972 (Sc 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and representative scans of over 200 items (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 609. Papers relating to Martine (Calhoun) Thornberry’s position as postmaster at Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky; papers relating to the duties as postmaster and to keeping the position when a change in political parties occurred in 1954. Also some references to her work as a teacher on Indian reservations, 1927-1938, 1947-1950, and as the first woman from Kentucky to become a Marine officer, 1943-1945, 1954.
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 584. Correspondence chiefly of Mrs. Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Librarian of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, with politicians, principally of Kentucky.
Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva (Doud), 1896-1979 (Sc 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva (Doud), 1896-1979 (Sc 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 579. Letter written to Nellie Virginia Heasley, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Mamie Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower, expressing thanks for Mrs. Heasley’s message of good wishes following Dwight D. Eisenhower’s election as President.
Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Sc 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Sc 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 535. Facsimile of George Washington’s 14 April 1789 letter to John Langdon, president pro tempore of the Senate, accepting the presidential office.Includes a discussion of the events surrounding the occasion written by Paul M. Angle.
Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 527. Photocopies of manuscript entitled “Destiny,” which concerns Alfred Hall Bemis’ five years of residency in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and a brochure used by Bemis to advertise his lecture on the life, philosophy and background of the hill people of Kentucky.
Jonson, Jeptha Crawford, 1833-1912 (Sc 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jonson, Jeptha Crawford, 1833-1912 (Sc 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 503. Autograph album of Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, 1890-1891, of delegate Jeptha Crawford Jonson of McLean County.
Rodes, Robert, 1824-1913 (Sc 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rodes, Robert, 1824-1913 (Sc 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 504. Autograph album of Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, 1890-1891, of delegate Robert Rodes of Warren County. Also includes a typescript of the album’s contents.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Collector (Sc 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Collector (Sc 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 502. Autographs and biographical sketches of the members of the Constitutional Revision Assembly of Kentucky, 1964-1965 solicited by Mary Julia Neal.
Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 416. Certificate, 5 August 1869, confirming voter registration of J.J. Crisp, issued by the Commissioner of Registration for Warren County, Tennessee.
Chamberlain, John B. (Sc 2531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chamberlain, John B. (Sc 2531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2531. Letter written from Kaler, Graves County, Kentucky, by John B. Chamberlain to his daughter. He gives a general description of Kaler and its environs, including its low-lying terrain, local businesses, and railroad access.
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904 (Sc 2521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904 (Sc 2521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2521. Letter, 17 July 1888, from William Campbell Preston Breckinridge to an unknown correspondent. He advises of his intention to seek reelection to Congress and asks friends in his district for support.
Camden, Johnson Newlon, Jr., 1855-1942 (Sc 2520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Camden, Johnson Newlon, Jr., 1855-1942 (Sc 2520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2520. Letter from Johnson N. Camden, U.S. Senator (Democrat) from Kentucky, in Washington, D.C. to Ciceroe Coleman, Lexington, Kentucky, asking for support in the upcoming election. Camden filled a vacancy caused by the death of William O. Bradley
Brown, Eugene Scott, 1846-1892 - Letters To (Sc 2519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Eugene Scott, 1846-1892 - Letters To (Sc 2519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2519. Letters of a political nature addressed to Eugene Scott Brown, a prominent attorney and Republican from Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky. Several contain precinct election results for Allen and contiguous counties.
James, Addison Davis, 1849-1910 (Mss 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
James, Addison Davis, 1849-1910 (Mss 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Mansucripts Collection 400. Photocopy of a letter press book kept by Addison Davis James during the time he was U.S. Marshal for Western Kentucky. James was a physician and a prominent Republican from Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
David, Isaac (Sc 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
David, Isaac (Sc 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 318. Letter of Isaac David, secretary of St. George Lodge, Louisville, Kentucky, to Dr. Oscar E. Bloch, Louisville, arranging Bloch’s examination for his Masonic degree.
Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 395. Minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other records of the LARTHS Club, a literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1925.
Harris, Lucy Josephine, 1884-1977 - Collector (Sc 377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harris, Lucy Josephine, 1884-1977 - Collector (Sc 377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 377. Slave bill of sale, Warren County, Kentucky, 1817; legal papers concerning lots sold in Franklin, Kentucky, 24 April 1820, and appointment of first trustees of Franklin, 13 December 1820; and contract with subscribers’ list for school to be taught at Sulphur Spring in Simpson County, Kentucky, 1867.
Butler County, Kentucky - Tax Book (Mss 394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Butler County, Kentucky - Tax Book (Mss 394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 394. Tax book, 1884-1886, for Butler County, Kentucky, containing taxpayers’ names, town and nearest neighbor (in some cases), assessed value of land and personal property, and tax paid.
Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929 (Sc 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929 (Sc 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 372. Letter, 26 August 1912, of U.S. Representative Oscar W. Underwood, Washington, D.C., to John M. Bogart, New York City, declining an invitation to a dinner honoring Kentucky governor Augustus Wilson because of matters of importance requiring his return to Alabama.
Galloway, Ewing, 1881-1953 (Sc 2502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Galloway, Ewing, 1881-1953 (Sc 2502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2502. Correspondence of Ewing Galloway, a native of Henderson, Kentucky and the owner of a photography agency in New York City, with Mary Marks, a geography professor at Western Kentucky University, related to a gift of photographs made to the Kentucky Library & Museum at WKU. Also includes clippings, chiefly related to Galloway’s return to Henderson, Kentucky and the gift to WKU.
Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 393. Minutes, correspondence, programs, historical sketches, and miscellaneous material of the Ladies Literary Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Woodson, Urey, 1859-1939 (Sc 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woodson, Urey, 1859-1939 (Sc 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 367. Letter to Miss Elizabeth N. Duncan, Denver, Colorado, concerning the availability of tickets to the Democratic Convention. Urey Woodson was Secretary of the Democratic National Committee.