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Hagerman, Bettie (Robertson), 1867-1926 (Sc 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Hagerman, Bettie (Robertson), 1867-1926 (Sc 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 116. Papers of Bettie Hagerman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, City Food Chairman of the Red Cross of Warren County, Kentucky, which relate to an endeavor to raise $10,000 by combining with the Fair Association and serving food contributed by donors.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 41, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2011

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 41, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


Eubank, Frank - Letters To (Sc 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Eubank, Frank - Letters To (Sc 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 115. Letters to Frank and Nancy Eubank, Temple Hill, Barren County, Kentucky, from various relatives which contain chiefly family news.


Lewis Family Papers (Sc 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Lewis Family Papers (Sc 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 155. Memorandum of Waller Lewis, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, itemizing property given periodically to his children and to be taken into account upon division of his estate, 1790-1817; letter written by Sam Hill, Fincastle, Virginia to his wife, Nancy in Henrico County, Virginia, while traveling, 1810.


Reynolds Family Papers (Sc 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Reynolds Family Papers (Sc 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 154. Legal documents relating to the Reynolds and Wolford families of Berkeley and Jefferson Counties in Virginia, including land lease, 1777; deeds of trust, 1842; agreements, 1843-1844; deed, 1844; power of attorney, 1853; and promissory notes, 1855. Also includes deed to land in Texas, 1876.


Gingles, Mabel (Mercer), 1891-1970 - Collector (Sc 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Gingles, Mabel (Mercer), 1891-1970 - Collector (Sc 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 114. Chiefly letters written by William Harris to his wife, Louranah Harris, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he details his experiences as a California Gold Rush adventurer, 1850-1852 (9 items); other letters describe Texas in 1855 and Civil War activities at Corinth, Mississippi, 1862. Also Bowling Green Home Telephone Company stock certificate, 1913.


Beckwith, Louise (Taylor), 1882-1959 (Sc 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Beckwith, Louise (Taylor), 1882-1959 (Sc 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 200. Letter, 10 September 1941, from Louise Beckwith, Pasadena, California, to Camilla Gerard, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating information about Beckwith's mother, Carrie (Burnam) Taylor, who had a well-known dress-making establishment in Bowling Green from 1878 until her death in 1917. Also includes copy of a 1914 newspaper article about Mrs. Taylor and her business.


Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 199. Copy of John Helm's appointment as an ensign in the Bedford County, Virginia militia. Signed, 17 November 1775, in Williamsburg, Virginia by members of the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia.


Be True To Yourself ... Be Confidently You, Amber Ford Mar 2011

Be True To Yourself ... Be Confidently You, Amber Ford

Women's Empowerment Week

No abstract provided.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 40, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2011

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 40, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


Wright, George H. (Sc 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Wright, George H. (Sc 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 196. Oath of allegiance to the United States taken 12 June 1865 by Confederate soldier George H. Wright of McLean County, Kentucky, upon his release from the Union prison at Fort Delaware, Delaware.


Simpson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers, 1820 (Sc 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Simpson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers, 1820 (Sc 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 197. Photocopy and typescript of agreement between Simpson County commissioners and Micajah Clark, Jr., Abraham North, and Micajah Clark, Sr. for the construction of a county clerk's office. The document provides specifications for the building, including location, dimensions, and materials.


Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 198. Copy of marriage bond issued to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks in Washington County, Kentucky, and the minister’s return of the marriage. Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks are the parents of President Abraham Lincoln.


Lybarger, Shaunn Maree (Fa 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Lybarger, Shaunn Maree (Fa 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 41.  Interviews conducted by Shaunn Maree Lybarger with Langdon Dyer about his gardening and marketing of produce at the Bowling Green farmers market.  Also includes biographical data, including information about Dyer’s service as an Army Air Corps pilot during World War II.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Initial Announcement, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Initial Announcement, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Fox, Henry J., 1812-1899 (Sc 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Fox, Henry J., 1812-1899 (Sc 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 113. A typed manuscript entitled "Recollections of Henry Fox, Aged 86" that was given orally by Fox, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to friends in 1898 and which chiefly pertains to the history of Bowling Green.


Long, Juliette Blanche (Underwood) Western, 1835-1909 (Mss 361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Long, Juliette Blanche (Underwood) Western, 1835-1909 (Mss 361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 361. “‘Betwixt,’ or A Story of the War, by a Kentucky Woman,” an unpublished memoir (290 pp.) by Bowling Green native Juliette Blanche (Underwood) Western Long of her experiences during the Civil War. The daughter of a Unionist family, Juliette married a supporter of the South who served in the Confederate Army.


Mcgoodwin, Henry Kerr, 1871-1927 (Sc 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Mcgoodwin, Henry Kerr, 1871-1927 (Sc 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 153. Letter to Florence Ragland from Henry Kerr McGoodwin, a Boston, Massachusetts architect and Bowling Green, Kentucky native, praising her and women in general. Includes a manuscript booklet compiled by McGoodwin consisting of verses of published sons with his remarks.


Maddox, Larry (Sc 2429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Maddox, Larry (Sc 2429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2429.  A typed manuscript titled "Walton's Creek Baptist Church" which is a history of that Ohio County, Kentucky church.  Includes footnotes and references.


Pulliam Collection (Sc 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Pulliam Collection (Sc 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 152. School tuition invoices to James D. Pulliam, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, 1865-1869; letter written on behalf of the Baptist Church in Petersburg, Illinois, 1867, regarding preacher Moses Akin's commerce in whiskey; and dry goods receipt, 1856.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 39, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2011

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 39, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


Ua12/2/1 Housing Guide, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2011

Ua12/2/1 Housing Guide, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special housing edition of the College Heights Herald.


Puckett, William - Collector (Sc 151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Puckett, William - Collector (Sc 151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 151. Deeds for land in Hart County, Kentucky, 1852, 1859 (2), and notary public commission of Thomas W. Cobb for Green and Hart Counites, signed by Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner, 1890. An image of the commission can be seen by clicking on "Additional Files" below.


Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 360.  Minutes and yearbooks of the Severance Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Baker, Samuel, 1812-1888 (Sc 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Baker, Samuel, 1812-1888 (Sc 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 195. Letters and certificates of Samuel Baker, a Baptist minister who came to America from England in 1834, eventually holding pastorates in Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, Indiana, and Illinois . He was instrumental in establishing Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky, and Bethel Female College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The materials from the 18th century and early 19th century are facsimiles.


Calloway County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Calloway County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 150. Docket book, April 1831-August 1837; miscellaneous documents including promissory note, surety bond, receipts, and writs of execution, 1832-1837.


Murphy, Robert Lee, 1870-1942 - Collector (Sc 147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Murphy, Robert Lee, 1870-1942 - Collector (Sc 147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 147. Surveys for lands in Kentucky (Fayette, Jefferson and Kentucky County), 1780-1785; land entries, 1780-1783; and U.S. Circuit Court summons, 1822.


Page, Auguston Alvin, 1899-1981- Collector (Sc 149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Page, Auguston Alvin, 1899-1981- Collector (Sc 149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 149. Papers evidently sent to the County Court Clerk, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Includes a letter from John C. Underwood regarding his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 1874; a nominating certificate for John S. Rhea as Democratic candidate for Congress from Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District, 1898; a request for tobacco crop figures, 1898; letters and forms relating to delivery (1888) and printing (1898) of public documents; and statements relating to the free silver controversy, 1898.


Varlie, Margaret (Roemer), 1896-1976 (Sc 148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Varlie, Margaret (Roemer), 1896-1976 (Sc 148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 148. Christmas letter written by Margaret Roemer Varlie, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which she briefly recounts trips she took to New England and to the Orient during 1963.


Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2419. Miscellaneous Barren County, Kentucky legal and court records, including administration bonds and renunciations, estate accounts, deeds of sale and mortgage, marriage contract, power of attorney, and bastardy suit.