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Defense Service Council - Muhlenberg Presbytery Committee (Sc 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Defense Service Council - Muhlenberg Presbytery Committee (Sc 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 283. Correspondence, financial records and reports relating to services provided to personnel of nearby military camps by the Muhlenberg Presbytery Committee of the Defense Service Council.
Baird, William J. (Sc 2497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, William J. (Sc 2497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2497. V-mail letter from William J. Baird to H. H. Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Writing from a military posting overseas, Baird comments briefly on the German cigars he intends to send, as well as the quality of European tobacco.
Lane Collection (Sc 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lane Collection (Sc 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 233. Papers of Joseph and Charles W. Lane and their family, Green County, Kentucky. Includes deeds from Barren and Green Counties, 1818-1832; Green County survey, 1866; Charles Lane’s Civil War discharge, 1864; Green County tax receipts, 1875 and 1882; an early plan of the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky; and miscellaneous letters from family and friends
Shannon Family Letters, 1784-1968 (Sc 563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shannon Family Letters, 1784-1968 (Sc 563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 563. Three letters, 1784-1788, of Samuel and Jean Shannon, English’s Station, in what is now Lincoln County, Kentucky, and Nashville County, North Carolina, to son, Thomas, in Montgomery County, Virginia. The letters comment on travel difficulties, Native Americans, and the health of family members. Also Includes two letters giving Shannon family genealogy.
Dillard, Lewis (Sc 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dillard, Lewis (Sc 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 282. Photostat of letter written by Lewis Dillard, editor of The Backwoodsman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to U.S. Secretary of State John Q. Adams soliciting an appointment as a public printer of Kentucky. Dillard objects to other patronage appointments and contrasts his paper favorably with the (Russellville, Kentucky) Weekly Messenger. Original in National Archives.
Furman, Lucy Salome, 1869-1958 (Sc 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Furman, Lucy Salome, 1869-1958 (Sc 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 564. Chiefly letters, 1914-1938, written by Lucy Furman, author and educator, who taught and worked at Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, Knott County, Kentucky. Twenty-one of the letters, to Julia Neal, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, are collected in a separate subfolder. Miss Neal wrote her 1933 master’s thesis on Miss Furman. Also includes other letters and printed materials used in Miss Neal’s thesis.
Pusey, William Allen, 1865-1940 (Sc 238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pusey, William Allen, 1865-1940 (Sc 238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 238. Chiefly letters from Dr. William Pusey’s widow to Mary T. Moore, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, related to Dr. Pusey’s published works. Includes typescripts of letters commenting on Dr. Pusey’s efforts to prevent the spread of venereal diseases during World War I.
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 239. Letter written by Alben Barkley, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, to J. Marion Robertson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing his gratitude for Robertson’s work in Warren County during the recent primary election.
Taylor, R. W. (Sc 237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, R. W. (Sc 237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 237. Letter written by R. W. Taylor, a medical student in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Caleb Bryant, a friend back home in Kentucky. Taylor reveals his political views concerning the Civil War and the enlistment of African American soldiers. Also includes undated note from donor.
Jenkins, Greg (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, Greg (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 33. [Prison ministry] Interviews conducted with Overt Ray Rich by Greg Jenkins about his work with prison ministries for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky Univeristy. Contains index, tape summary, transcirpts, comments.
Gilbert, Mary C. (Sc 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gilbert, Mary C. (Sc 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 339. Letter written by Mary Gilbert, Binghamton, New York, to fellow poet, Lima Canon, Bowling Green, Kentucky, complimenting her writings and informing her of a new poetry group organization.
Helm, Louella T. (Kuykendall), 1861-1946 (Sc 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Louella T. (Kuykendall), 1861-1946 (Sc 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 281. Letters of Louella T. Helm, Morgantown, Kentucky, written to T. V. McReynolds, Quality, Kentucky, and to Mrs. Melvin Porter, with notes concerning genealogy of the Porter family of Butler, Logan, and Warren counties in Kentucky.
Henry Clay Memorial Foundation (Sc 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Henry Clay Memorial Foundation (Sc 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 341. Letter written by Raymond F. McLain, Lexington, Kentucky, to Marvin Moorman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning the Henry Clay Foundation and its program involving Ashland, Clay’s Lexington home. Foundation members are listed, and there is a related letter of Moorman.
Bush Family Papers (Sc 2495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bush Family Papers (Sc 2495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2495. Correspondence, pedigree charts and sundry other items relating to the Bush family genealogy, particularly members from Barren County, Kentucky.
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc 340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc 340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 340. Typescript of letter written by Henry Clay, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., to Joseph H. Davies, Lexington, Kentucky, concerning current political affairs and mentioning James Wilkinson being in Washington.
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 280. Photostat of a letter written at Washington, D.C. on 20 January 1861 by Jefferson Davis to President Frankin Pierce advising of his resignation from the U.S. Senate and his intention to return to Mississippi. Davis also comments on the unsettled conditions following Mississippi's secession from the Union. Original in Library of Congress.
Lehman, George, 1812-1889 (Sc 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lehman, George, 1812-1889 (Sc 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 338. Typescript of legal brief of Congressional Case No. 2310, which concerns Civil War claims of George Lehman of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Application was originally filed 18 August 1871 and resume of case was dated 30 June 1888.
Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921 (Sc 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921 (Sc 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 337. Copy letter written by Henry Watterson, Louisville, Kentucky, to an unknown addressee, requesting addressee to be especially kinds to an acquaintance of his.
Waggoner, Laura L., 1883-1974 - Letters To (Sc 2492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Waggoner, Laura L., 1883-1974 - Letters To (Sc 2492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2492. Letters written to Laura Waggoner in Mayfield, Kentucky, primarily by her brother, John F. Waggoner in Kirksey, Kentucky, containing family and personal news. Includes data relating to John F. Waggoner’s death and an attorney’s letter to Laura Waggoner in Kirksey, Kentucky regarding a tobacco farmer’s debt.
Paxton, Garland, B. 1919 (Sc 2493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Paxton, Garland, B. 1919 (Sc 2493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collecction 2493. Documents relating to Garland Paxton’s military service in the U.S. Army’s 319th Infantry Regiment during World War II.
Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2494. Letter written from Hopkinsville, Kentucky by “Abby L.” to “Annie,” possibly her sister. In addition to various witty observations and gossip, she supplies news on her health and disposition and comments about the family members with whom she is staying.
Davis, Jacob Weaver, 1819-1862 (Sc 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Jacob Weaver, 1819-1862 (Sc 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of letter (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 235. Photocopy of letter 11 April 1862 written by Jacob Weaver Davis, serving in the Union Army, to his brother, George, in McLean County, Kentucky, concerning the fighting at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. Also, 1969 letter from the donor giving information pertaining to Davis and the 1862 letter.
Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company (Sc 231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company (Sc 231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 231. Letter, 24 May 1938, containing information about the proposed Cumberland & Ohio Railroad through Taylor County, Kentucky, which was never constructed. Also Cumberland & Ohio Railroad tax receipt, 31 July 1873.
Baker, L. Alleyne, 1858-1916 (Sc 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baker, L. Alleyne, 1858-1916 (Sc 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 234. Two letters written to L. Alleyne Baker, a school teacher In Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky. An 1898 letter, from a cousin, contains family news; a 1907 letter pertains to educational matters. Also includes an undated essay by a female high school student entitled, “Woman’s Sphere.”
Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 236. Photocopies and typescript of 2 March 1862 letter written by Mrs. Josephine (Wells) Covington, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her father, Judge Robert William Wells of Missouri. She relates happenings in Bowling Green during its occupation and later evacuation by Confederate troops (18 September 1861-14 February 1862). Also includes information about Mrs. Covington and the Covington family. The original 2 March 1862 letter is housed at the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.
Blakey, George Douglas, 1809-1885 (Sc 335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blakey, George Douglas, 1809-1885 (Sc 335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 335. Letter written by George D. Blakey, Bowling Green, Kentucky., to William Heth Whitsitt, relating genealogical information about the Ewing and Whitsitt families.
Mckinney, Collin, 1766-1861 (Sc 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckinney, Collin, 1766-1861 (Sc 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 232. Photocopy and typescript of dismissal in good standing of Collin McKinney and his wife, Betsy, from Hurricane Creek Meeting House, Baptist Church of God, Southern Kentucky Association of Separate Baptists, Casey County, Kentucky. Also includes photocopy of a picture of Collin McKinney and photocopy of a picture of his home in Texas.
Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 230. Miscellaneous papers of Benjamin Franklin Procter and his wife, Lila Pendleton Procter, chiefly regarding disposal of thier property; includes letters, memoranda, and joint will.
Martin, Elbridge Gerry, 1834-1909 (Sc 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Elbridge Gerry, 1834-1909 (Sc 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 336. Legal papers – deeds mortgages, etc., of the Pulliam Family of Allen County, Kentucky, 1845-1851 (4) and of Mr. Martin of Allen and Barren Counties, 1875-1882 (3), and business papers, 1888-1893 (10), receipts, 1874-1893 (11), and small account books, 1880-1888 (9).
Truman, Lee C., Jr. (Sc 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Truman, Lee C., Jr. (Sc 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 332. Photocopy of a speech titled “Telephone History—Bowling Green, Ky.,” which Lee C. Truman, Jr. delivered on 17 November 1970 at the Warren County Historical Society about telephone service in Bowling Green from 1880 to 1967.