World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330),
2010
Western Kentucky University
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 330. Letters written to parents, friends, faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University by students during their service in Word War II. Includes some press releases, newspaper articles and photos. Also includes a history and travel log of the USS Stevens.
Underwood Family Papers, 1878-1980 (Sc 2327),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Underwood Family Papers, 1878-1980 (Sc 2327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Fidning aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2327. Certificate for the 1878 marriage of Mary Underwood and Samuel Poyntz; 1880 letter to Mary Underwood Poyntz, Maysville, Kentucky, from her mother Lucy Underwood, Bowling Green, Kentucky; Underwood family history compiled by Frances Underwood Grider (39 pp.); Lee family genealogy (4 pp.); also includes miscellaneous correspondence and genealogical notes.
Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2299. Chiefly incoming letters which concern an estate settlement for Abraham Smith and family news. Civil War-era letters written by William Riley Smith (Click on "Additional Files" below) contain comments about the war and contain expressions of his attitudes toward African Americans. Also includes a church letter of transfer for Furman Smith and his wife and a small amount of genealogical information about the Smith family.
Johnson & Hardin, Attorneys (Sc 2321),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Johnson & Hardin, Attorneys (Sc 2321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2321. Memorandum, 22 June 1866, of Johnson & Hardin, Attorneys, explaining the procedure for bringing an indictment against three men for "outrages committed on persons of color" in Nelson County, Kentucky.
Summers, Hollis Spurgeon, 1916-1987 (Sc 2316),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Summers, Hollis Spurgeon, 1916-1987 (Sc 2316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Mansuscripts Small Collection 2316. Letters from Hollis Spurgeon Summers and his wife, Laura, in Athens, Ohio, to Jefferson Caskey, a professor in the Department of Library Science at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green. The letters mention Summers' work, health, and a forthcoming sabbatical, and discuss arrangements for a speaking engagement in Bowling Green. Includes a program for two lectures Summers delivered in Bowling Green on 18 October 1979, and Christmas greetings.
Smiths Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2306),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Smiths Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2306. Letter of recommendation for Thomas H. Beard from Smiths Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, 7 February 1898.
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2302. Chiefly letters from Barnett Smith, Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory and Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Alabama to his mother in Hadley, Warren County, Kentucky, 1898. He describes his military training and ponders being shipped to Cuba. Also includes (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans) an 1865 letter from Union soldier James W. Howard of Butler County, Kentucky, Howard’s discharge certificate, an 1863 slavery bill of sale, and an 1873 receipt for a coffin.
Stewart, J. A. (Sc 2311),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Stewart, J. A. (Sc 2311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2311. Partial enrollment and grade book kept by teacher [J.A. Stewart] from October 1895 to February 1896. Item found in Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky.
Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2318. Chemistry notebook of Ward Cullin Sumpter, probably kept about 1930 while he was a doctoral student at Yale University. Includes other miscellaneous documents: a tribute to a church's departing pastor, a draft petition in support of an anti-cigarette law, and a poem relating to the 1928 presidential election.
Stith, Mary Emma, 1892-1979 (Sc 2312),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Stith, Mary Emma, 1892-1979 (Sc 2312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2312. Photocopy of household furnishings inventory done by Mary Emma Stith when she resided at 533 East Main Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Sprowl, Wilson (Sc 2308),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Sprowl, Wilson (Sc 2308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2308. Brief World War I letters from Wilson Sprowl to family members in Monroe County, Kentucky while he was stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky and Camp Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan. Also, a welcoming letter from King George V to American troops, and a billet for a bunk on the U.S.S. Florida that includes instructions for troop conduct.
Snell, Commodore Perry, 1821-1881 (Sc 2307),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Snell, Commodore Perry, 1821-1881 (Sc 2307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2307. Divorce decree for Commodore Perry Snell and Ellen A. Snell, granted 13 February 1866 in Warren County, Kentucky. The certified copy was made from Warren Circuit Court Record Book 23.
Interview With Alice Triplett (Fa 154),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Interview With Alice Triplett (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Alice Triplett conducted by Genie Sullivan for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Triplett discusses her life and times, including information about her life in Ohio County, Kentucky, and her teaching experience. The original tape does not have good sound quality, thus the transcription is spotty.
Smith, Gustavus Woodson, 1821-1896 (Sc 2300),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Smith, Gustavus Woodson, 1821-1896 (Sc 2300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2300. Book flyleaf inscribed by Gustavus Woodson Smith, a major-general in the Confederate Army, to Clarence Clough Buel, an editor and writer. Includes photo of Smith and biographical information.
Summers, Hollis Spurgeon, 1916-1987 (Sc 2317),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Summers, Hollis Spurgeon, 1916-1987 (Sc 2317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2317. Letter from Hollis Spurgeon Summers, in Athens, Ohio to Charles and Vera Guthrie, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing appreciation for hosting him during a recent visit to Bowling Green.
Smith, Harriett (Sc 2301),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Smith, Harriett (Sc 2301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2301. Master Commissioner's deed of lands in Warren County, Kentucky, conveyed on behalf of Junius Frances Jones, J. W. Petty and M.A. Petty to Lanes Hendrick and William Hendrick pursuant to an order of partition of the lands of Betsy Lancaster made in the case of Harriett Smith, et al. v. W. B. Smith, et al.
Cooke, Bess Miller, 1889-1977 (Sc 2305),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Cooke, Bess Miller, 1889-1977 (Sc 2305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2305. Paper: "The History of Smiths Grove Baptist Church, 1812-1972" by Bess Miller Cooke. Includes typewritten and handwritten drafts.
Smith, Rebecca M. (Sc 2304),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Smith, Rebecca M. (Sc 2304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2304. Paper by Rebecca M. Smith, “Informational Outline of Simpson County Schools,” written for a Kentucky History class at Western Kentucky State Teachers College. The paper includes data on various nineteenth-century educational institutions in the county.
Smith, Patrick Cavanaugh, 1886-1973 (Sc 2303),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Smith, Patrick Cavanaugh, 1886-1973 (Sc 2303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2303. Letter, 6 March 1970, from Patrick Cavanaugh Smith in Louisville, Kentucky, to Sarah Geurin in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Smith forwards a copy of a children's book, A Week at Grandmamma's and discusses the monetary value of another book, The Grammar of Ornament.
Warren County, Kentucky - World War Ii Servicemen (Mss 326),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Warren County, Kentucky - World War Ii Servicemen (Mss 326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 326. Data and newspaper clippings on U.S. military personnel from Warren County, collected during their service in World War II. The seventy pages of names includes women and African Americans.
