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Casebier, Gertrude, 1901-1996 (Sc 2785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Casebier, Gertrude, 1901-1996 (Sc 2785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2785. Two-page essay written by Gertrude Casebier titled "History of Shakertown in Mercer County, Kentucky." Includes brief bibliography.
Blohm, Amanda (Sc 1129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blohm, Amanda (Sc 1129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1129. Student paper titled “Changes in the Economic Role of Women in Kentucky Shaker Communities” submitted as honors program thesis at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky by Amanda Blohm.
Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan representative of material in the collection (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 670. Correspondence of Miss Estella T. Weeks of Washington, D.C., with Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to Weeks’s research on the Shakers and the holdings of Shaker material in the Kentucky Library.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 898. Research notes from journals of the South Union, Kentucky, Shakers concerning entries about trees and plants, compiled by Shaker historian Mary Julia Neal.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscriprs Small Collection 725. Original and photocopies of diary detailing an eastern trip taken to visit Shaker societies in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts by Elder John Rankin, Brother Urban Johns, Eldress Betsy Smith and Sister Nancy E. Moore of South Union, Kentucky. Probably written by Eldress Betsy Smith.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 816. Photocopies of letters, 1849-1881 (12); agreement to place children with the Shakers, 1812; school merit awards, n.d. (4); and business receipts, etc., 1810-1879 (15). Also, letters regarding collection, 1984, n.d. (2).
Taliaferro, Lucy, 1844?-1893? (Sc 828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taliaferro, Lucy, 1844?-1893? (Sc 828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 828. Letter, 19 October 1892, from Lucy Taliaferro, Nashville, Tennessee, to Harriet “Hattie” Taliaferro and Nannie regarding her plans for returning to the Shaker community at South Union, Kentucky. Includes biographical data on Harriet Taliaferro compiled by her grandson, Clem L. Pope.