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Coombs, Samuel Williams, 1830-1882 (Sc 2602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2602. Bound photocopy of the holographic personal diary of Samuel Williams Coombs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, detailing medical school, and his day-to-day life.

"...Our Hearts Tell Us There Is Something Else Out There.": Prowling The Halls Of The Mib, John M. Rudy

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

In the basement corridor of the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C. is the most beautiful painting I've even seen. I've gotten the chance on a couple of occasions, while visiting the Department of the Interior Headquarters for meetings and whatnot for work to wander down outside of the cafeteria to see the mural. It is pure beauty, mostly forgotten and ignored by the folks who work in that building everyday. I get these weird looks while I stand in awe of the massive canvas, like I shouldn't stop and stare. I don't care. I take pictures. I gawk. My …

Miller, Harold Asher, B. 1939 (Sc 2564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2564. Letter of Harold A. Miller, Mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Frances Jones Mills, Kentucky Secretary of State, providing statutorily required information about the City of Bowling Green, namely its incorporation date (1812), its present classification as a Second Class city, and its present boundaries (detailed on a map which is not included). The date of incorporation presumably references Laws of Kentucky 1811, ch. 308 (approved 6 January 1812), which directed the town’s free white male inhabitants to assemble on the first Saturday in May 1812 …

Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Sc 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 17. Receipt stating that John Hines’ account has been paid in full, 1814; deed for land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky; which Hines bought from Thomas Anderson, 1826; and undated statement signed by James Patterson attesting to Hines’ ownership of a slave.

Denason, Benjamin & Zachariah Denason (Sc 18), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 18. A page, probably from a docket book, which relates to the collection of a debt owed to Samuel Doyle by the Denasons of Edmonson County, Kentucky.

Homemakers Club - Metcalfe County, Kentucky (Sc 2562), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2562. Manuscript paper titled “History of Metcalfe County” compiled by the Homemakers Club and presented by Virginia Depp, Summer Shade, Kentucky, on 6 November 1950. The paper includes historical information about the towns in Metcalfe County, including Center, Sulphur Well, Knob Lick, Wisdom, Edmonton, Curtis, and Summer Shade. Also includes information about Crail Hope, Green County, Kentucky.

Land - Claims - Arkansas Territory (Sc 498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 498. Claim, 1830, directed to the Register of the Land Office, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, for land evidently in the Roseville area of northwest Logan County. No name is on the claim. Because of construction of canals in Ohio, land was made available in Arkansas Territory to certain persons as directed by an Act of Congress, 14 May 1828.

County Clerk - Edmonson County, Kentucky (Sc 2563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2563. Typescript copy (2 pages) of selected abstracts from sundry documents found in the Edmonson County Clerk’s office which explains the establishment of county government including those proffering bonds for elected positions such as sheriff, justices of the peace, etc. (1825). Also includes information about early land transactions, building projects, licenses granted, and information about the emancipation of a slave. Collected by John B. Rodes.

Thomas, Frank Morehead, 1868-1921 (Sc 500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 500. Paper written by Frank Morehead Thomas in 1898 titled "The Early Exploration of Warren County, Kentucky."

Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 710. Manuscript book of 30 poems written by Dr. Lewis H. Averitt physician of Caledonia, Trigg County, Kentucky, between 1840-1872. Several of the poems are about the Whig Party in Kentucky, 1842-1843.

Hamby, Golden H., 1842-1922 (Sc 711), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 711. Photocopies of Union Army discharge, 1865, and Civil War disability pension claim, 1891, of Golden H. Hamby, Hopkins County, Kentucky.

Daughters Of America - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 499. Officers’ bonds of Val Frey as trustee and William Breitenstein as recording secretary of Banner Council, No. 7, Daughters of America, Louisville, Kentucky.

Trago, Vincent T., 1838-1880 (Sc 2500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2500. Letter, 26 February [1862], from Vincent T. Trago, a Union soldier serving with an Ohio regiment, to Milton W. Griffith. Camped on the Barren River outside Bowling Green, Kentucky following its evacuation by the Confederates, Trago describes marching toward the town, being greeted by local women, Confederate positions in the region, and disciplinary action against the troops for misconduct.

Thinking Fourth Dimensionally: How Battlefields Become Deloreans, John M. Rudy

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

I have written before of my intense love for Back to the Future III. Part of the reason that film resonates with my movie-going soul is my abiding love of the 19th century. Part of me wishes I could hop into a Stainless-Steel Delorian and visit the past for a short stint. I'm pretty sure I'm too much of a pansy to last very long in the world of latrines and muddy water, but I'd love to see the past for even just one fleeting moment. [excerpt]

Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 60. Correspondence of Thomas V. Ferrell, teacher and businessman, and of his wife, Winnie (58 items), and of their daughter Thelma (94 items), of Somerset, Kentucky; Ferrell family legal papers (7 items); notes of Thelma, who worked for the Somerset Journal for years; and miscellaneous receipts, clippings, etc.

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 410. Materials relating to Duncan Hines and the marketing of the “Duncan Hines” brand of food products. Includes obituary notices for Duncan Hines, ice cream franchise agreement, stock certificate books for related companies, and a study on marketing the brand to consumers, especially women.

Handy, Eldon Riley, 1902-1962 (Sc 705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 705. Correspondence of Eldon Riley Handy (who played with a riverboat band) of Anderson, Indiana, with riverboat acquaintances, 1950-1962 (6 items); a riverboat skit; steamboat tickets, 1938-1946 (4); and related miscellaneous items (3).

Bowling Green Railway Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 703. Records from Warren County Circuit Court Case #2043 pertaining to a lawsuit filed against the Bowling Green Railway Company after a thirteen-year-old boy, Herman Lewis, died on 31 October 1910 when a street railway car ran over him.

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Bowling Green Thespian Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 701. A manuscript broadside advertising a melodrama and an opera that was to be presented at the store of Vaughn & Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Saturday night, 9 March 1833. The list of actors in the productions were local people.

Richardson, Samuel Bainbridge, 1803-1864 (Sc 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 707. Account book, 1848-1859, of a physician at Louisville Kentucky, which contains records, accounts and occupations of patients; a letter regarding debts owed to the doctor, 1855; a photographic negative of one page of the account book, 1850; and a newspaper article about the account book, 1951.