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Hubbard, Sam R., 1906-1973 (Sc 683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hubbard, Sam R., 1906-1973 (Sc 683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 683. Papers of Sam R. Hubbard, State Senator from Russell Springs, Kentucky, in which the writers seek his support relating to issues and bills that will come before the state legislature. Includes letters from individuals and organizations, draft legislation, and a brochure with a pictorial roster of the 1960 General Assembly.


Burke, Harry Taylor, 1909-2011 (Sc 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Burke, Harry Taylor, 1909-2011 (Sc 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 992. Presentation by Harry Taylor Burke, at Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to the devastation of the Philippines by the Japanese during World War II, and especially to the Episcopal church building. Burke had preciously been minister at the Bowling Green church. Includes letter about the paper, 1995.


Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 690. Letter, 20 September 1792, from Kentucky Governor Isaac Shelby to Major General Charles Scott of Woodford County, Kentucky, forwarding extracts from a letter to Shelby from United States Secretary of War Henry Knox requesting an account of the scouts or spies employed in Kentucky under Scott’s direction. Shelby authorizes their continued employment and advises that copies of state laws relative to the militia are forthcoming for distribution.


Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 (Sc 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 (Sc 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 689. Receipt, 1 November 1781, given to David Davis by Daniel Boone for expenses incurred for land warrants.


Logan, Benjamin, 1743-1802 And Ann (Montgomery) Logan, 1752-1825 (Sc 692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Logan, Benjamin, 1743-1802 And Ann (Montgomery) Logan, 1752-1825 (Sc 692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 692. Deed, 18 February 1785, from Benjamin Logan and his wife Ann Logan of Lincoln County, Virginia, to Richard Jackman of the same place, for one hundred acres in Lincoln County. In 1792, the county became part of Kentucky.


Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 684. Holograph poem entitled "Look With Love," by David Morton, a native of Elkton, Kentucky.


Bowling Green, Kentucky - Parks And Playgrounds (Sc 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Parks And Playgrounds (Sc 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 993. Ordinance, 1942, establishing a System of Parks and Playgrounds for the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The ordinance designates seven parcels of property to constitute the system and sets out the responsibilities of the Board of Parks and Playgrounds.


Wells, George M., Sr., 1887-1956 (Sc 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Wells, George M., Sr., 1887-1956 (Sc 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 994. Teacher’s certificates issued to George M. Wells by Metcalfe County, Kentucky, for two years in 1907, and one issued by Monroe County, Kentucky, for four years in 1909; Wells’ grade card from Loyola University Medical School, 1914-1915; and obituaries of Wells (2).


Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 (Sc 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 (Sc 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 685. Letter written from Sea Girt, New Jersey, by Woodrow Wilson, to John A. Turpin, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing thanks for Turpin’s letter and check for $1.00.


Phelps Family Papers (Sc 995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Phelps Family Papers (Sc 995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 995. Slave bills of sale, 1831-1854 (5); contract to hire slave, 1848; and receipt for the return of a runaway slave, 1856; of Julian River Phelps (father) and James Melvin Phelps (son), Butler County, Kentucky. Includes a broadside about the upcoming sale of Julian’s Butler County estate, 1856.


Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 680. Two letters to James Jenkins, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from New Orleans commission merchants, discussing terms of sale of lard, hams, grease, pork, tobacco and beef consigned by Jenkins.


Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 997. Letter, 11 May 1919, written by William Swan Van Meter, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his mother while stationed in Germany serving with the American Expeditionary Forces. He notes General John J. Pershing’s request that every soldier write his mother that day (Mother’s Day), and describes military life as a soldier awaiting his next orders. Includes a photocopy of a photograph of Van Meter in uniform.


Garrison, Lucien, 1874-1957 (Sc 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Garrison, Lucien, 1874-1957 (Sc 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 998. Based on stories of Lucien Garrison’s father, Calvin A. Garrison (1800-1895) and his uncle Samuel Crosthwait (1823?-1912), Garrison’s manuscript emphasizes the location of Bowling Green residences, schools and businesses.


Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 681. Letter, 1 January 1864, of Union Army General Jeremiah Tilford Boyle, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, to Captain Alexander C. Semple, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding changes of command in the state.


Word, Elizabeth, 1914-1995 (Sc 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Word, Elizabeth, 1914-1995 (Sc 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 996. Letters (19) to Elizabeth Word, Warren County, Kentucky, Home Demonstration Agent, from N. F. Elliott, University of Kentucky landscape professor; outlines for landscape presentations (13) by Word, and sundry materials related to landscape gardening.


Thomas, Richard Curd, 1838-1879 (Sc 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Thomas, Richard Curd, 1838-1879 (Sc 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 675. Statement of Richard Curd Thomas, a Bowling Green, Kentucky physician, to George Stayton, itemizing charges for visits, overnight stays, prescriptions and an obstetrics case.


Fremont, Jessie (Benton), 1824-1902 (Sc 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Fremont, Jessie (Benton), 1824-1902 (Sc 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and sample scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 679. Letter of Jessie (Benton) Frémont, Los Angeles, California, to a cousin, Letitia Hart Alexander of Louisville, Kentucky, relating some Hart and Gooch family relationships. Includes photo of Mrs. Fremont made in 1899.


Duncan, Benjamin, 1772-1809 (Sc 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Duncan, Benjamin, 1772-1809 (Sc 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 678. Cipher book kept by Benjamin Duncan, of Culpeper County, Virginia and Fayette County, Kentucky. Includes samples of legal forms and letters.


Wallis, Richard (Sc 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Wallis, Richard (Sc 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of a sample (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 677. Pages from a copybook containing penmanship samples of Richard Wallis.


Elections And Election Campaigns - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Elections And Election Campaigns - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 676. Certified election return of the Rosemead Precinct, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, showing candidates and number of votes received in the election held on 8 November 1892.


Cleveland, Frances (Folsom), 1864-1947 (Sc 671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Cleveland, Frances (Folsom), 1864-1947 (Sc 671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 671. Letter written by Frances (Folsom) Cleveland, from the White House, Washington, D.C., to Henry J. Payne, Morganfield, Kentucky, expressing her appreciation for a gift and the good wishes Mr. Payne had sent to her and President Grover Cleveland.


Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 672. Printed copy of the will of Mary Washington, mother of President George Washington, as registered in the Clerk’s Office at Fredericksburg, Virginia.


Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

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.


Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2679. Military orders, reports and correspondence of or to Colonel Benjamin Covington Grider, commander of the Ninth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The reports and Grider’s letter to his father detail action during the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Includes a memorial tribute to Grider’s son, Judge Loving Grider, with some family information.


Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 901. World War I discharge certificate of Frank Young Patterson of Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky.


Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 904. Visitors’ recollections of where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination. These recollections were recorded in connection with an exhibit in the Kentucky Library commemorating the 30th anniversary of Kennedy’s death.


Cox, Robert Mickle, 1831-1917 (Sc 903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Cox, Robert Mickle, 1831-1917 (Sc 903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 903. A journal compiled by Robert M. Cox listing Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky Confederate veterans and those who are deceased; items of the Bowling Green United Confederate Veterans, 1915, 1923; and newspaper clipping of Cox’s obituary.


Russell, William Allen, 1902-1990 & Geneva Russell, 1906-2008 (Sc 905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Russell, William Allen, 1902-1990 & Geneva Russell, 1906-2008 (Sc 905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 905. Promotional letter, 17 August 1933, sent by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Russell, owners of Irene’s Beauty Shop, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to their customers advising them of classes they have taken in St. Louis in the care of hair and skin and inviting their customers to visit them.


Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 669. History of the Current Events Club, formed in 1902, written by Mrs. Margaret (Nicholls) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a typescripted 1931 newspaper article with club history.


Tolle Family (Sc 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Tolle Family (Sc 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan representative of items in copybook (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 674. Copybook pages containing penmanship specimens of various members of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky.