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Edmiston, John (Lg 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Edmiston, John (Lg 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 430. Original land grant, 26 April 1842, by which Robert P. Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Edmiston, assignee of A. Townes, 150 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Simpson County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Simpson County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 102. Deeds for land in Simpson County, Kentucky, 1845-1876, deed of gift for African American woman and child, 1847, and will of E. N. Mitchell, 1872.


Barnett, Alexander, Sr., 1745-1819 (Sc 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Barnett, Alexander, Sr., 1745-1819 (Sc 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 138. Response and counterproposal of Alexander Barnett, Sr., to an 1816 Ohio County, Kentucky Court subpoena to explain his objection to the establishment of a road through his land. Includes typescript of a 1934 newspaper article about a commemorative marker at Barnett's Station in Ohio County.


Wiggins, Howard (Sc 2420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Wiggins, Howard (Sc 2420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2420. Letter from Howard Wiggins, manager of Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to R. L. Wolfe, Cerulean, Kentucky. The letter advises that the addresse's proposed electric line has been staked and that he may proceed with house wiring. A schedule of agreed contractor's rates for the work is included.


Claybrook-Doswell Papers (Sc 101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Claybrook-Doswell Papers (Sc 101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 101. Letters, 1806, and deed of gift for enslaved African American girl, 1814, of the Doswell family of Virginia, and letters, 1816, 1862 and Civil War pass, 1863, of the Claybrook family of Washington County, Kentucky.


Milligan, R. A., B. 1849 (Sc 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Milligan, R. A., B. 1849 (Sc 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 137. Diary kept by R. A. Milligan, superintendent of the East family farm of the Shaker Society at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. The diary records acreage cultivated, crop yields, planting and harvesting times, and general farm work. Includes some weather observations.


Patterson, J. (Sc 2415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Patterson, J. (Sc 2415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2415. Letter from J. Patterson, Louisville, Kentucky. Patterson writes of her children, her hopes to move to Covington or Newport, Kentucky, asks about Terrell's family, and complains of the number, poverty and ignorance of free blacks in Louisville.


Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 184. Photographs of a $500 bond posted by Thomas Lincoln as constable of Cumberland County, Kentucky. In addition to Lincoln, bond signed by Jesse Gee and Moses Kirkpatrick. Scholars disagree as to whether the signer of this bond was President Abraham Lincoln's father or a cousin.


Curd, Spencer, 1788-1832 (Sc 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Curd, Spencer, 1788-1832 (Sc 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 966. Ciphering book (94 p.), focusing chiefly on surveying and navigating rules for solving problems as well as giving specific problems, of Spencer Curd, Logan County, Kentucky, with accompanying genealogical data.


Webster, William Stewart Cross, 1844-1922 (Sc 135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Webster, William Stewart Cross, 1844-1922 (Sc 135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 135. Letter from William Stewart Cross Webster, Paris, Kentucky, to G. Fred Ziegler in London, England. Writing to his former Princeton classmate, Webster, a Presbyterian minister, tells of his pastorate in Paris, speculates on his future plans, including his hopes to marry, and gives news of other school friends.


Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 136. Papers of the Payne family of Warren County, Kentucky, including letter from Civil War prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois; letter describing the death of Halley Payne; 1874 letter from a Glasgow teacher referring to unrest among African Americans; promissory note; remedies for piles and rheumatism; and a letter detailing with the prevention and treatment of cholera.


Eddington, Rachel (Sc 134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Eddington, Rachel (Sc 134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scans of letter and typescripts for Manuscripts Small Collection 134. Letters (1857-1863) of a freed slave, Rachel Eddington of Clay Ashland, Liberia, written to Charlotte Belt, her former owner in Ohio County, Kentucky, Belt’s brother Henry Stevens, and her husband Sandy. She writes of her and her children’s illnesses and the lack of sufficient food, housing and employment in Liberia. Includes Barren County, Kentucky, slave bill of sale (1843) for Sandy; script for a radio drama (1936) based on Rachel’s letters; and correspondence (1936-1947) with the donor of the letters, who was a descendant of …


Mcwhirter, James S., 1837-1862 (Sc 181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Mcwhirter, James S., 1837-1862 (Sc 181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 181. Three letters written by James S. McWhirter from Bowling Green, Kentucky, January and February, 1862, to his sister Zellora near Gallatin, Tennessee, relating war activities and personal matters. McWhirter was stationed in Bowling Green with the 24th Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteers. Also, letter 10 April 1952, from Harry Jackson, Cleveland, Ohio, concerning his family relationship with the McWhirters.


Hobson, William Edward, 1844-1909 (Sc 180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Hobson, William Edward, 1844-1909 (Sc 180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 180. Petition, including typescript, signed by 21 citizens of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 16 October 1864, addressed to Major General Burbridge, requesting that Colonel William Hobson retain command of the Union troops stationed there.


Mcclean, Roberta - Collector (Sc 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Mcclean, Roberta - Collector (Sc 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 133. Emancipation deeds for three slaves signed by Henry Fisk, Montgomery County, Kentucky; letters from W. M. Perkins, New Orleans, Louisiana, to his cousin Rebecca Fisk, Russellville, Kentucky, with family news; and a blank check of the Southern Bank of Kentucky, Russellville, which was robbed by Jesse James in 1868. Includes information on the subsequent fate of Fisk’s emancipated slaves.


Logan, Della (Haydon), 1873-1951 - Collector (Sc 132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Logan, Della (Haydon), 1873-1951 - Collector (Sc 132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 132. Miscellaneous documents relating mostly to the Haydon family, including a Barren County, Kentucky tax receipt, 1869; promissory notes; and an agreement to purchase a gravestone, 1873. Also includes an agreement to sell land in Edmonson County, Kentucky, 1830.


Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), B. 1924 (Sc 2412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), B. 1924 (Sc 2412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2412. Three Christmas cards to Patricia M. Hodges from Elizabeth Ann "Libby" Hancock, Santa Fe, New Mexico, daughter of the author Janice Holt Giles. One includes a letter with family news. Also included is a Christmas card to Hodges from The Giles Society Board of Directors.


Owen, Jordan, 1793-1876 (Sc 130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Owen, Jordan, 1793-1876 (Sc 130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 130. Photocopy and typescript of memoir by Jordan Owen, a Virginia native and Church of Christ minister of Green and Hart County, Kentucky, outlining his early life and religious views. Includes a published biographical sketch.


Bell Family - Correspondence (Sc 97), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Bell Family - Correspondence (Sc 97), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 97. Letters, 1831-1871, mostly incoming from relatives and friends, written chiefly to Caleb N. Bell, Methodist minister of Todd County, Kentucky. The letters contain mainly family news and religious comments. Also biographical information.


Bowling Green-Warren County [Kentucky] Junior Chamber Of Commerce (Sc 2411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Bowling Green-Warren County [Kentucky] Junior Chamber Of Commerce (Sc 2411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2411. Directory of 1957-1958 officers and active members of the Bowling Green-Warren County, [Kentucky] Junior Chamber of Commerce. Includes the "Jaycee Creed" and procedure for nomination of new members.


Mammoth Cave National Park Association (Mss 296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Mammoth Cave National Park Association (Mss 296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 296. Correspondence, financial papers, administrative papers including minutes of annual meetings, reports, maps and other sundry records of the Mammoth Cave National Park Association. The Association was established to obtain options for land purchases in the region and to oversee the day-to-day operation of the cave prior to its being designated a national park in 1941. Afterwards, it operated in more of an advisory/advocacy capacity. A scan of an early MCNPA membership application has been included as an Additional File (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Authors Correspondence (Mss 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Authors Correspondence (Mss 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 337. Correspondence between authors and researchers and staff of the Kentucky Library & Museum, primarily regarding historical and genealogical resources. Correspondents also write about their work and publications.


Sant, John, 1846-1914 (Sc 2410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Sant, John, 1846-1914 (Sc 2410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2410. Letter, 4 August 1897, from John Sant, secretary and treasurer of The Mansion Pottery Company, Canton, Ohio. He asks to renegotiate two notes owing for the purchase of clayworking machinery, due to retooling expenses and the failure of the machinery to meet production expectations.


Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2409. Letter of Louis Arnold Rich, a U.S. Army private from Tompkinsville, Kentucky, written to his wife from Winter General Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, during a long illness that resulted in his death in 1944. He complains about his surroundings, mentions his reading, and expresses his wish to be reunited with her.


Trout, Allan Mitchell, 1903-1972 (Mss 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Trout, Allan Mitchell, 1903-1972 (Mss 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 346. Correspondence and writings relating to the career of Allan Mitchell Trout, political reporter and columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Includes letters from readers, written mostly on the occasion of his retirement, collections of Trout's "Greetings" columns, speeches and articles, historical memorabilia, correspondence relating to the Allan M. Trout Collection at Western Kentucky University, and messages of sympathy to his wife after Trout's death.


Warren County Citizens For Managed Growth (Mss 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Warren County Citizens For Managed Growth (Mss 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 355. By-laws, minutes, newsletters, correspondence and other material related to WCCMG, an organization founded to deter development of the Kentucky Trimodal Transpark, located near the rural community of Oakland in Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes information about Oakland, Kentucky. A bibliography of newspaper articles about the Kentucky Trimodal Transpark is included. To access the bibliography click on "Additional File" below.


Fisher, H. Lee, B. 1867? (Sc 2408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Fisher, H. Lee, B. 1867? (Sc 2408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2408. Letters written from Kentucky by H. Lee Fisher to his wife Adah in Vineland, New Jersey and Sioux City, Iowa, while employed on a government survey. He writes from Floyd County of the progress of his work and local conditions (4 June); his wife’s purchase of a cow, and his job prospects (2 September); family matters and prices (24 October); and the hardships of women in Floyd County (25 October). Letters from Johnson County discuss local fruit crops (1 June) and his future plans (24 September), and a letter from Martin County …


Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2405. A letter regarding the genealogy of the Hall and Hines families, and a letter to Jane (Hines) Morningstar regarding fundraising for the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra.


Courting Toyota, Selling Kentucky: Conflict And Relationship Building In The Establishment Of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Of Kentucky, 1984-1989, Eric Shea Bailey Jan 2011

Courting Toyota, Selling Kentucky: Conflict And Relationship Building In The Establishment Of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Of Kentucky, 1984-1989, Eric Shea Bailey

Online Theses and Dissertations

This study is an examination of the social, economic, and governmental factors that surrounded the establishment of Toyota Motor Corporation's first wholly owned automobile plant in the United States. After a lengthy negotiation with several states, the plant was built in Scott County, Kentucky, near the city of Georgetown. The collected and archived correspondence of Governor Martha Layne Collins as well as contemporary media accounts and interviews with Governor Collins, Larry Hayes, Jiro Hashimoto, and Bill Londrigan served as the evidentiary basis for the research for this thesis. Previous interpretations have regarded the establishment of the factory as both a …