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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Procter, Lila (Pendleton), 1850-1932 (Sc 2620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Procter, Lila (Pendleton), 1850-1932 (Sc 2620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2620. Speech for a Daughters of the American Revolution meeting titled “John F. Perry, C.S.A.”, information on William F. Perry, and a letter from Willie Perry Simpson to Lila (Pendleton) Procter.
Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 739. An invitation to a centennial party for the Adelphian Society on 26 February 1886 at the home of J.D. Hines, Circuit Clerk, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Tunks, Floyd Mckinley, 1896?-1959 (Sc 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tunks, Floyd Mckinley, 1896?-1959 (Sc 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 729. Livestock receipts (2) of Floyd McKinley Tunks, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, from Montgomery and Company, livestock dealers, Louisville, Kentucky, listing prices paid for cattle sold for Tunks.
Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of one document only (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 734. Minutes kept by the Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee composed of ladies' auxiliaries from the Kentucky counties of Logan, Simpson and Warren.
Mammoth Cave - Deeds (Sc 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mammoth Cave - Deeds (Sc 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 733. Photocopies of Warren County, Kentucky, deeds, 1799-1814, pertaining to Mammoth Cave, beginning with the original 200 acres entered by Valentine Simon by virtue of a Commissioner’s Certificate.
Blackburn, William, 1808-1870 (Sc 32), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blackburn, William, 1808-1870 (Sc 32), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 32. Letter written by William and Jane Blackburn, Allen County, Kentucky, to their brother and sister, Mr. & Mrs. A.D. Billingsley, Ladoga, Indiana, concerning family news, the local political situation and the growth, trade and export of tobacco.
Cloyd, Mary (Sc 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cloyd, Mary (Sc 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 31. Loom weaving drafts for Nine Snowballs and Pea Patch designs. On the back a notation from Washington County, Tennessee states: “This is the Cass and Butler drafts.”
Using Federal Documents To Dispel A Myth About Ellis Island, Rosemary L. Meszaros, Katherine Pennavaria
Using Federal Documents To Dispel A Myth About Ellis Island, Rosemary L. Meszaros, Katherine Pennavaria
DLPS Faculty Publications
Government workers at New York’s Ellis Island have been accused of murdering ancestral names to serve their own purposes and prejudices. Despite zero evidence to support this accusation, the myth stubbornly persists. They did not change names. They worked from manifests, which were governed by law.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Administration Documents
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Johnson, Keen, 1896-1970 (Sc 2607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Johnson, Keen, 1896-1970 (Sc 2607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2607. Typescript copy of the last will and testament of Fielding Lewis, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Lewis was a brother-in-law to George Washington. This document contains information about Lewis’ land, slaves, and debts.
Lewis, Fielding, 1725-1781 (Sc 2606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lewis, Fielding, 1725-1781 (Sc 2606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2606. Typescript copy of the last will and testament of Fielding Lewis, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Lewis was a brother-in-law to George Washington. This document contains information about Lewis’ land, slaves, and debts.
Todd, George Davidson, 1856-1929 (Sc 2604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Todd, George Davidson, 1856-1929 (Sc 2604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2604. Typescript copy of a speech given by George Davidson Todd, Louisville, Kentucky, before the Filson Club in May 1894. The title of the speech is “A Sketch of Judge Harry Innes,” and details Innes’ life as an attorney, judge, and a leader in the early development of Kentucky.
Harrodsburg, Kentucky - Petition (Sc 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harrodsburg, Kentucky - Petition (Sc 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 30. Petition, containing signatures of several citizens, for the sinking of a cistern in the public square of Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Administration Documents
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Hassman, Drusilla (Hand), 1875-1971 (Mss 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hassman, Drusilla (Hand), 1875-1971 (Mss 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 413. Chiefly courtship letters addressed to Drusilla (Hand) Hassman, Evansville, Indiana from various male admirers. Also correspondence with her husband, Fred Hassman, and letters sent to them as a married couple from friends and family.
Grafton, Sue Taylor, B. 1940 (Sc 2601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grafton, Sue Taylor, B. 1940 (Sc 2601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2601. Letter from author Sue Taylor Grafton, Santa Barbara, California, to Kim Nicholson, Franklin, North Carolina, enclosing autographed bookplates (not included), and commenting on her current work on her “alphabet series” of Kinsey Millhone crime novels.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Administration Documents
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2608. Photostat copy of a memorial to Valentine Cook, and a “Celebration of the Rise of Camp Meetings Beginning On Muddy River, Logan County, Ky.” Also includes a paper by Walter Irvin Munday, Russellville, Kentucky, titled “Logan County’s Contribution to Methodism” read at the Valentine Cook Celebration.
Woolfolk, Dorothy (Gregory) (Sc 713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woolfolk, Dorothy (Gregory) (Sc 713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 713. Letter written to Marjorie Clagett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Dorothy (Gregory) Woolfolk, Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky, in which she describes the tornado that devastated the town on 3 April 1974.
Atkinson Collection (Sc 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Atkinson Collection (Sc 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of 19th Century materials (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 715. Copies of letters written by John and Jane Atkinson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to friends and relatives in England, 1866-1879 (4 items), which contain family news, information about Bowling Green during the Civil War, description of their return trip from England, 1873, correspondence concerning these letters, 1960-1961 (12), and a photograph.
Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 717. Letter written to Margaret Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Beverly Mills Vincent, Washington, D.C. Vincent, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, thanks her for her letter in which she expressed her choice for the postmaster appointment to be filled in Bowling Green.
Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956 (Sc 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956 (Sc 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 716. Letter written to Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Otto Arthur Rothert, Louisville, Kentucky, in which he thanks her for a recent letter and invites her to visit him when she next comes to Louisville.
Halleck, Annie Jeanette (Ainslie), 1839-1915 (Sc 719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Halleck, Annie Jeanette (Ainslie), 1839-1915 (Sc 719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 719. Letter written to Bessie Oates, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Annie (Ainslie) Halleck, Louisville, Kentucky, replying to an inquiry for information for a research paper about her grandfather, Hew Ainslie.
Thomas, B. W. And Edward Davis (Sc 721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, B. W. And Edward Davis (Sc 721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 721. Writ of fi. fa., 1840, against the estate of B. W. Thomas and Edward Davis of McCracken County, Kentucky, for a debt owed to James Brown. Property sold at an auction included two enslaved persons.
Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 726. Letter to Frances Richards, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Dallas, Texas, an author and native of Bowling Green, stating that her publishers will send copies of two of her books for the Kentucky Library Collection. Also she relates her concern for the collection of textiles for the Kentucky Museum.
Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Sc 714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Sc 714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 714. Photocopy of letter written to J. Porter Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Courtney M. Ellis, Nashville, Tennessee, regarding mutual friends and their mutual interest in steamboating.
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 718. Memoir of Learner B. Davison, a Methodist clergyman, originally of Grayson County, Kentucky, taken from the minutes of the 1898 Louisville Annual Conference; and a photocopy of a letter he wrote to a relative on the day he was killed by a train in Louisville, Kentucky, 29 June 1898.
Mather, Otis May, 1868-1950 (Sc 2609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mather, Otis May, 1868-1950 (Sc 2609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2609. Photostat copy of a memorial to Valentine Cook, and a “Celebration of the Rise of Camp Meetings Beginning On Muddy River, Logan County, Ky.” Also includes a paper by Walter Irvin Munday, Russellville, Kentucky, titled “Logan County’s Contribution to Methodism” read at the Valentine Cook Celebration.
Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932 (Sc 723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932 (Sc 723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 723. Two letters written by Young Ewing Allison, journalist and author, Louisville, Kentucky, to Edward A. Jonas, editor, Louisville, thanking Jonas for his kind remarks.
Logan County, Kentucky - Surveys And Surveying (Sc 722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan County, Kentucky - Surveys And Surveying (Sc 722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 722. Photocopies of survey taken for 666 2/3 acres for George Washington in 1785 in Logan County, Kentucky, which he never claimed, and survey done for 1500 acres for one of his relatives, Burgess Ball, in 1796.