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Ginther Collection (Sc 464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Ginther Collection (Sc 464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 464. Photocopies of typescripted letters written by brothers William A. and Joseph Ginther to their father, George Ginther, brother David, and sister of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while serving in the Union Army with the Department of the Potomac.


Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 465), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 465), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 465. Compilation of Hines family genealogical data, 1795-1911; reminiscences of early Kentucky and Warren County history; Civil War participation of Hines family and John Hunt Morgan in the Confederate cause.


Browder Family (Sc 462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Browder Family (Sc 462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 462. Letter from Philip of Virginia to Katie (Sydnor) Hatcher, Trenton, Kentucky. It contains family news; especially that of the Browder family.


Winn, Thomas, Jr., 1824-1908 (Sc 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Winn, Thomas, Jr., 1824-1908 (Sc 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 461. Letter to Thomas Winn, Columbus, Kentucky, from his niece "Sid," Elkton, Kentucky, which contains chiefly family news and one reference to war.


Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936 (Sc 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936 (Sc 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 458. Letter written by John Uri Lloyd, Cincinnati, Ohio, to John Stuart Groves, Wilmington, Delaware, regarding Lloyd’s writings about certain diseases.


Ellison, Thomas Sharp, 1797-1876 (Sc 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Ellison, Thomas Sharp, 1797-1876 (Sc 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 457. Photograph of letter, 15 March 1829, from Thomas Ellison, Burkesville, Kentucky, to Edmund Rogers, Mount Hope, Kentucky, which describes a producing oil well at Burkesville, reputedly the first in the United States.


Barr, Edward Wallace, 1887-1962 (Sc 469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Barr, Edward Wallace, 1887-1962 (Sc 469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 469. “Early History of Bowling Green,” a compilation of information by Edward Wallace Barr of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 468. Typescript paper relating the history of the Catholic Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky written in 1951, guest register used for Centennial Reception, and telegram received from the Vatican noting the occasion, 1959.


Potter College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 471), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Potter College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 471), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 471. Introduction of speaker, Richmond Pearson Hobson, at Potter College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, by unidentified individual. Also, partial response by Hobson.


Jonson, Jeptha Crawford, 1833-1912 (Sc 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Jonson, Jeptha Crawford, 1833-1912 (Sc 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

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.


Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Collector (Sc 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Collector (Sc 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection 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.


Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid,scan of typescript and and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 505. Autograph album of Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Wright) Thomas of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 459. Letter from Cale Young Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to Stuart McKenzie, of Florida, in which Rice discusses some of his own writings. Also printed book reviews (3).


Express Companies (Sc 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Express Companies (Sc 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 496. Receipt, 1854, to Wallace Hight, Bloomington, Indiana, from Adams and Company for one package of bank bills ($300), and receipt, 1855, to James P. Luse, Lafayette, Indiana, from American Express Company, for one book.


Anderson, Joseph, 1757-1837 (Sc 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Anderson, Joseph, 1757-1837 (Sc 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 456. Original letters (3) of Joseph Anderson, and original and holographic copies of letters, notes, etc. (11) written by William Meredith, Philadelphia, to Anderson, Washington, D.C. Anderson’s correspondence with Meredith pertains to a debt owed by Anderson since 1790. Anderson was a Tennessee Senator and first Comptroller of the Treasury.


Turnley, William H. (Sc 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Turnley, William H. (Sc 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 472. Statement from William H. Turnley, Elephant Tobacco Warehouse, Clarksville, Tennessee, to Joe Hatcher, Trenton, Kentucky, for tobacco sold for Hatcher. Turnley notes reason for selling some of the tobacco and for holding the rest until later.


Rodes, Robert, 1824-1913 (Sc 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Rodes, Robert, 1824-1913 (Sc 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection 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.


College Kids With Guns: Hidden In Plain Sight, John M. Rudy 2012 Gettysburg College

College Kids With Guns: Hidden In Plain Sight, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

Sunday morning found me out in the field with a stalwart group of Gettysburg devotees: the Gettysburg Discussion Group's annual spring Muster. When the coordinator of this year's Muster put out the call for something a bit different, perhaps something in town for Sunday, my ears perked up. I've been looking for groups to test out the nuggets of the College's Civil War story on and the GDG seemed like the perfect group of guinea pigs. [excerpt]


Underground Railroad, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus 2012 Minnesota State University, Mankato

Underground Railroad, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

Ethnic History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Oklahoma State University.


Clack, Ellen (Stone), 1907-1973 (Sc 2543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Clack, Ellen (Stone), 1907-1973 (Sc 2543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2543. Letter, 13 May 1946, from Ellen Clack (Mrs. Roy Clack), Arlington, Texas, to Paul W. Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky. She provides information about her family and the family of her uncle, James Clay Stone.


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