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Camp Paradise - Calloway County, Kentucky (Sc 3322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Camp Paradise - Calloway County, Kentucky (Sc 3322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3322. Letter, 7 June 1957, to a Mr. Hicks from Sid and Florence Jobs, owners and operators of Camp Paradise at Kentucky Lake, Calloway County, Kentucky, with suggestions on timely scheduling of a reservation. Includes a two-page mimeograph describing the Camp’s location, amenities, lodging facilities and rates; a color postcard of the camp, and black and white photographs of fishermen and of the Camp’s cottages.
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collections 2999. Photocopied typescript of a report by Joseph Rogers Underwood dated 13 February 1868 regarding business and tourist activity at Mammoth Cave in 1867. Submitted to the beneficiaries of a trust created after the death of the property’s last private owner, the report covers income and expenditures, the status of leases, and a plan to acquire land with a spring for water supply. Underwood also discusses the necessity of appointing his successor as trustee and finding lessees with management skills, or selling the property. The original typescript is in the Janin Collection, Huntington …
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 (Sc 2994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 (Sc 2994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2994. “Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Overview of Six Quiet Walkways,” by Ray Buckberry and Arnold Franklin, a guide, with maps and color illustrations, to six walking trails in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Green, Frank Henry (Sc 2946), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green, Frank Henry (Sc 2946), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text manuscript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2946. “Mammoth Cave Stories – Mammoth Cave National Park,” by Frank Henry Green. A guide at the park from 1975-1986 and 2008-2009, Green includes narratives of cave tours, stories about other guides, and anecdotes relating to his work. Includes illustrations.
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 561. Personal diaries of Clara (Wright) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, kept during her marriage to food critic Duncan Hines and after his death. Includes some correspondence, travel itineraries, and miscellaneous papers.
Foster, Richard Wesley, 1879-1969 (Sc 2858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Foster, Richard Wesley, 1879-1969 (Sc 2858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2858. Letter, 2 February 1906, written by Wesley Foster, Shelbyville, Kentucky, to his mother Mrs. J. R. Foster, Matthews. Virginia, in which he expresses his disappointment in Mammoth Cave after a tour. Includes original envelope illustrated with an H.C. Ganter photograph of the Cave's "Olives Bower."
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2852. Letter to Cora Jane Spiller, 29 April 2014, from Ronnie Doyle, Park City, Kentucky, with reminiscences about Ford's Farm and Ford's Farm Cave in Barren County, Kentucky.
Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers (Mss 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers (Mss 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and images (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 66. Original, bound folio hotel registers and bound typescript copies of the same for the Mammoth Cave Hotel, located near the famed subterranean tourist attraction in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Entries include the name and hometown of the visitor as well as the date. One wag signed in as Abraham Lincoln on 30 May 1863.