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Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee (Bouvier), 1929-1994 (Sc 2166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of card (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2166. Printed card of thanks sent to A. C. Wareham, Bowling Green, Kentucky from Mrs. Kennedy, New York, expressing her appreciation for an expression of sympathy after her husband's assassination. The card and envelope were laminated.

Kentucky Building - Guest Book (Sc 2167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2167. Guest book kept for the Kentucky Building at its opening in 1939 and for special events. The book was donated by the Western Kentucky State Teachers College class of 1935. It is housed in a tooled leather slipcover featuring the seal of Kentucky and inscribed "Distinguished Guests, The Kentucky Building."

Koger, Sara Jane (Crabtree), 1890-1991 - Collector (Sc 2172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2172. Pastor's report from Charles Driver, "preacher in charge of Byrdstown Circuit" in Tennessee, 1900; family photographs (2); and incomplete letter from G.W. Franklin to Sara Jane Koger, his niece, giving information about his family.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Wilson, Laurel. Bill to Help Transfer Credits – Legislation
• Jenkins, Spencer. Bowling Green Blanketed – Winter, Weather, Snow
• Jenkins, Spencer. WKU Police to Train New Officers – Brandon Bryan
• Wilson, Laurel. Tate Page Hall’s Future Likely But Uncertain
• Harrison, Blake. Men’s Relay Peaks at Kentucky – Track & Field
• Lintner, Jonathan. Willie Taggart’s Next Task: Coaching – Football
• Lintner, Jonathan. Changing of the Guards – Jamal Crook, Caden Dickerson, Basketball
• Greenwell, Zach. Amy McNear Ready to Make the Big Play – Basketball
• Brown, Jeremy. Toppers Make Most of …

Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 (Sc 2173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2173. Materials related to Clifton Wallace Lampkin, the mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1953-1959. Includes correspondence, award certificates and appreciations of his philanthropy, a photograph, and a resolution passed on his death by American National Bank and Trust Company. Also includes letters from two post-World War II refugees thanking him for aid packages.

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 2149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2149. Letter from Robert Edward Lee to Colonel Robert P. Blount, Provost Marshal at Guiney Depot [Guiney's Station], Virginia. Lee instructs him to hold the position, declines to provide artillery support, and refers to the transportation of prisoners. Includes copies of Confederate postage stamps and currency. Poor quality photostatic copy.

Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds Vol. 7, No. 14, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs to highlight the activities of faculty, staff and alumni.

Kinney, Annie Margaret (Coffee), 1859-1944 (Sc 2168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2168. Letter from Annie (Mrs. Charles) Kinney, Glen Springs, Lewis County, Kentucky to Sears, Roebuck and Company, ordering one dozen needles for a Singer sewing machine.

Brown, Anna Murl (Fisher), 1911-1989 (Sc 2164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2164. Letters to Anna Murl Fisher Brown, an Ohio County, Kentucky teacher, from local residents and parents. They approve of her taking her pupils to church and to a funeral without having to make up the time in class, and support her reappointment.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 27, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Wilson, Laurel. Salaries Approved
• Kriz, Lindsay & Mandy Simpson. Running Room – Preston Health & Activities Center
• Wilson, Laurel. Western Rakes in Record Donations – Institutional Advancement
• Duvall, Tessa. Housing Program Offers Students More Choie – Housing & Residence Life
• Harris, Shakia. Regents Approve American Sign Language Certificate – Communication Disorders
• What Else is New? – Construction, WKU Owensboro, College High
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Texting While Driving
• Eyes on the Road: Banning Texting While Driving a Good Start to End Distractions
• Wadley, Emily. Institute for Citizenship …

Pleasant Grove Baptist Church - Daviess County, Kentucky (Mss 299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 299. Minute books of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Daviess County. Includes minutes of meetings, 1838-1959, membership lists, and histories of the church.

Liberty Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 688. Minute book of Liberty Baptist Church, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes rules of decorum, minutes of meetings, and lists of white and African American members.

Johnston, Annie Fellows, 1863-1931 (Sc 2163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of letters (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2163. Letters of Annie Fellows Johnston to Ruth Clement in Tokyo, Japan. Johnston responds to Clement's praise of "The Little Colonel" and her gift of a Japanese book, and sends Clement a copy of her story "The Three Weavers."

Ebenezer Presbyterian Church - Dade County, Missouri (Sc 935), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 935. Church register of Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Dade County, Missouri. Includes register of pastors, elders, deacons, and members. Also includes register of marriages 1844-1885 and deaths 1843-1903.

Ebenezer Presbyterian Church - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 808), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 808. Session minutes and church register of Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Butler County, Kentucky. Includes minutes, membership register, early group photo, and a certificate from the Presbyterian Wartime Service Commission.

New Salem Baptist Church - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 761. Minute book of New Salem Baptist Church, Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes church covenant, articles of faith, a brief historical sketch, minutes of meetings and membership lists.

Welsh, James, D. 1825 (Sc 2161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2161. Extracts from a letter to the editor by Reverend Welsh of Lexington, Kentucky, as published in the "Connecticut Evangelical Magazine," September 1802, describing a recent religious revival in the Green River country.

Goodhope Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below" for Manuscripts Small Collection 760. Record book of Goodhope Baptist Church, Barren County, Kentucky. Includes constitution, articles of faith, minutes of meetings and membership lists.

Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 612. Record book of Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Butler County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings and lists of white and African American members. A typescript of the record book includes a short historical note and a list of pastors from 1805-1932.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Wilson, Laurel. Budget Talks Loom
• Barczak, Mary. Help for Haiti – American Red Cross, Fund raising, Earthquakes
• Dressler, Danny. Student Refunds Arrive – Student Financial Aid
• Ulber, Emily. Student Survives Earthquake – Haiti, Sophia Sterlin
• Wilson, Laurel. Regents to Discuss Wood Selig & Dean Kahler’s Raises
• Snyder, Kristen. Bowling Green Board of Commissioners Approves TIF District Rezoning – Downtown Redevelopment, Block 12, Tax Increment Financing
• Fryer, Chris. A Thousand Words – Charlie Barkman
• Jenkins, Spencer. Campus Crime Slow Over Winter Break – WKU Police, Martha Richmond aka Bettina, …

Mount Tabor Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2162. Minute book of Mount Tabor Baptist Church, Barren County, Kentucky, 1798-1870. Includes articles of faith, minutes of meetings, and lists of white and African American members.

Davis, Martha Anne, 1936-2010 (Mss 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 303. Three volumes of autobiographical musings, generally in poetic form, related to the life of Martha Anne Davis, the producer of a comedy show titled "2 Funny" which aired on local access cable television in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1991 to 2001. A title index to the writings is available, as well as one of Davis's business cards.

Werst, Lillie Ann (Lyon), 1903-1976 (Sc 2140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of 1918 diary (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2140. Chiefly five diaries kept by Werst from 1918 to 1970. 1918 diary describes her family’s auto trip from Washington state to California to work as agricultural laborers. 1961 diary relates her bus trip from Washington state to Kentucky and back. Also includes letters to Werst from family members related to the care of her son, 1934-1935; account book from an Olympic Peninsula boarding house, 1904-1905.

Cook, Matthew Allen (Mss 302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 302. Matthew Allen Cook's drawings of some architectural elements of the Centre Family Dwelling, South Union, Kentucky. Includes dimensions and details of fireplaces, doors, windows, built-in cupboards, chair rails, and peg rails; also floor plans.

Welborn, Annie E., B. 1869 (Sc 2160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2160. "The Story of My Life," autobiographical essay by Annie E. Welborn, born in Todd County, Kentucky. She describes her early married life, farming, her children and grandchildren, and a trip to Montana and Washington.

Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2159. Letters (some incomplete) to Bertha C. Stephenson, of Milton, Trimble County, Kentucky, from friends, relatives and sweethearts in Kentucky, California and Florida. They write of gifts and photographs exchanged, mutual friends, travel, romances, and Stephenson's upcoming wedding. Includes a handwritten notice from the Board of Health requiring Stephenson and her pupils to be vaccinated in order to conduct school (click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

New Bethel Society - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 763. Class and church book of New Bethel Methodist Society, Allen County, Kentucky. Consists almost exclusively of lists of members.

Statenfield Sabbath School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 1179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1178. Minute book of Statenfield Sabbath School, Barren County, Kentucky, from 1892-1898. Includes minutes of meetings and a list of pupils. Also includes a 1990 newspaper clipping about restoration efforts for Statenfield Black Baptist Church.

Beaver Dam Baptist Church - Edmonson County, Kentucky (Sc 620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 620. Record book of Beaver Dam Baptist Church, Rhoda, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings and membership lists of whites and African Americans. Meetings frequently concern disciplinary actions against members.

Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1016. Record books of Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, 16 August 1895-30 March 1919. Includes minutes of meetings, membership registers, and statistical reports to the Presbytery.