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Browne Family - Account Book, 1872-1948 (Sc 211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Browne Family - Account Book, 1872-1948 (Sc 211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 211. Account book that lists expenditures for Edmonia, Susie, and James Harvey Browne of Bardstown, 1872-1884; also, for Mary Marshall and Susie Beauchamp, 1882-1884. Book includes the will of Sue Browne Elliott, recipes, and a tuition receipt from the Bardstown Female Academy, 1873. A 1948 letter relates to the Browne family.


Metcalfe, Thomas, 1780-1855 (Sc 215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Metcalfe, Thomas, 1780-1855 (Sc 215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 215. Appointment of William Guthrie as sheriff of Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Thomas Metcalfe, 13 November 1831? Kentucky state seal is affixed.


A Community Giving A Helping Hand: Tri-State District Tornado, Andrew Prater 2011 Pittsburg State University

A Community Giving A Helping Hand: Tri-State District Tornado, Andrew Prater

Theory and Practice: HIST430

On the evening of February 24, 1935, a deadly tornado ravaged through the Tri-State District towns of Commerce, Douthat, Picher, Hockerville, Ok, Shoal Creek, Stapleton, MO, and Baxter Springs, KS. The total number of people impacted from the rare February tornado totaled 286. This disaster did not happen at an ordinary time in history, it happened at a time when many families were struggling to feed and cloth their families and at a time when the national unemployment rate exceeded twenty-five percent during the "Great Depression." During this time of great distress and unemployment, a community that was centered around …


Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842 (Sc 214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842 (Sc 214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 214. Appointment of James Harlan as Justice of the Peace for Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Joseph Desha, 28 June 1827. The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.


Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 213. Appointment of Thomas Freeman as sheriff of Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Christopher Greenup and Secretary of State John Rowan, 6 December 1804.


Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 212.  Notary public commission of Gabriel Tandy, Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor John Adair and Secretary of State Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, 8 November 1821.  The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.


Smith, Cornelia Stanley (Allen), B. 1839? (Sc 2437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Smith, Cornelia Stanley (Allen), B. 1839? (Sc 2437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2437.  Letters from various magazine editors, literary agents and publishers in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Rochester, New York and Augusta, Maine to Cornelia Stanley (Allen) Smith, who submitted prose and poetry under the pen name "Clio Stanley."


The Grizzly, April 14, 2011, Katie Callahan, Jessica Long, Sara Sherr, Lisa Jobe, Sara Hourwitz, Allison Nichols, Sarah Bollert, Katie Haldeman, Joshua C. Walsh, Kyu Chul Shin, Anna Larouche 2011 Ursinus College

The Grizzly, April 14, 2011, Katie Callahan, Jessica Long, Sara Sherr, Lisa Jobe, Sara Hourwitz, Allison Nichols, Sarah Bollert, Katie Haldeman, Joshua C. Walsh, Kyu Chul Shin, Anna Larouche

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Enjoys Sixth Annual CoSA Event • Students Participate in 30 Hour Famine • Haverford Professor Guest Lectures on Physics Theory • Dr. Ruth Rosenberg Speaks on Holocaust Remembrance • Ursinus Welcomes Patti Smith • Tips on Surviving and Salvaging Bad Internships • Hypnotist Brings Laughs • How to Avoid Allergy Season • Linking Up with LinkedIn • Internship Spotlight: Lindsay Budnick • Opinions: Response to Article "Segregation in the 21st Century"; Verizon's DroidX-R2D2 has Cool Features But is Not for Me; President Obama Sends CIA Agents to Libya • How Far Ursinus Goes to Keep Students Safe on Main …


Hymn To Freedom: Obama's 150th Proclamation, John M. Rudy 2011 Gettysburg College

Hymn To Freedom: Obama's 150th Proclamation, John M. Rudy

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

This post is about the President's proclamation on Tuesday. I was heartily pleased by this action from the White House. It phrasing brings to mind an intellectual fusion not unlike that crafted through Daniel Webster's 1830 pronouncement of, "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable." Certainly the 19th century conception of Liberty and our modern conception of the term, as adeptly pointed out in the most recent episode of Backstory with the American History Guys, are not the same. Still, Obama's proclamation keenly joins the two Northern war aims and war outcomes at the hip. "The meaning of …


Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 165. Materials related to education and teaching career of Harry Edgar Thompson. Includes commencement invitation and program of Southern Normal School, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1888; letters of recommendation, 1888-1893; Kentucky and Texas teaching certificates, 1885-1891; clippings; photographs; and autobiographical note, 1958, of Thompson, later a chiropractor in McPherson, Kansas.


Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 (Sc 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 (Sc 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 164. “Love’s Calendar,” handwritten poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The Atlantic Monthly, of which Aldrich would later become editor, published the poem under the title “Snow” in its March 1866 issue.


Allen, C. W. (Sc 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Allen, C. W. (Sc 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 206. Photocopy of letter, 10 November 1868, written by C.W. and M.E. Allen, Big Coon, Alabama, to their cousin John W. Campbell. They comment on family matters as well as economic and political conditions in Alabama.


Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928 (Sc 2436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928 (Sc 2436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2436. Letter of George Otto Trevelyan to Joseph H. Choate, 18 March 1912, written on the publication in the United States of Trevelyan’s book George the Third and Charles Fox. Trevelyan remarks on the book’s favorable reception in Britain and gives news of his family.


Smith, Benjamin Bosworth, 1794-1884 (Sc 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Smith, Benjamin Bosworth, 1794-1884 (Sc 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 209. Letters, 10 July 1826 and 15 April 1835, from Benjamin Bosworth Smith, an Episcopal clergyman and first bishop of Kentucky, to Reverend and Mrs. T. Edson, Lowell, Massachusetts. The first letter relates to the printing of one of Edson’s sermons. In the second letter, Bosworth expresses his regrets in declining an invitation from the couple.


Farnsley, Alexander Pericles, 1832?-1906 (Sc 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Farnsley, Alexander Pericles, 1832?-1906 (Sc 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 208. Facsimiles of courtship letters from Alexander Farnsley, Louisville, Kentucky, to Mary E. E. Thurman, also of Louisville, and one of her replies. They both comment on the growing sectional feeling and the approaching Civil War. Also includes a 1962 newspaper article related to the letters, written by a Farnsley descendant.


Kentucky Council On Archives (Mss 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Kentucky Council On Archives (Mss 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 364. Correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, photographs and audiotapes regarding the Kentucky Council on Archives, a statewide professional organization for archivists, records managers, manuscript curators, and others interested in the preservation and use of public records and manuscript collections in Kentucky.


Richardson, Lewis George, 1829-1906 (Sc 207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Richardson, Lewis George, 1829-1906 (Sc 207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 207. Copy of 1 February 1852 letter from Lewis George Richardson, a medical student at the University of Louisville, to his father, Reverend George Richardson, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky. He writes of his schooling, the Louisville winter, and his prospects for the future. Also includes a biographical sketch of Dr. Richardson written by a grandchild.


Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935 (Sc 2435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935 (Sc 2435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2435. Pre-printed check for a farewell offering, payable to evangelist William Ashley "Billy" Sunday and drawn on Kentucky Bank and Trust Company, Madisonville, Kentucky, 17 October 1928.


Grundy, Sydney, 1848-1914 (Sc 2434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Grundy, Sydney, 1848-1914 (Sc 2434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2434. Letter, 7 April 1891, of English dramatist Sydney Grundy to Richard M. Field, manager of the Boston Museum Company in Boston, Massachusetts, discussing the royalty payment scale for production of his play "Lady Jess."


"Gone With The Wind" (Sc 2438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

"Gone With The Wind" (Sc 2438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2438.  Souvenir booklet sold at theaters showing the motion picture "Gone With the Wind."  Includes illustrations, cast list, major players' credits, and information about the production.


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