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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Sc 1768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Sc 1768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1768. Letter, 26 April 1825, from Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee to A. P. Maury, also of Nashville, in which he declines to act as guardian for the children of the late Major John Reid owing to ill health and increased responsibilities.


Mayer, James Andrew (Sc 1775), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Mayer, James Andrew (Sc 1775), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1775. World War II letters from James Andrew Mayer, serving as a doctor with U.S. forces in the Pacific, to his sister Marthanna (Mayer) Melton, Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky and to his parents in Hazel, Calloway County, Kentucky.


Clayton, Chad (Fa 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Clayton, Chad (Fa 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 294. Paper: "The Use of Advertising and the Kentucky State Fair" written by Chad Clayton for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Dowell, John Alan (Fa 311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Dowell, John Alan (Fa 311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 311. Paper: "[Barren River Comprehensive Care Center: Conflict Between Folk and Scientific Beliefs]" written by John Alan Dowell for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Gossom, Cora Eliza, 1866-1926 (Sc 1741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Gossom, Cora Eliza, 1866-1926 (Sc 1741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1741. Letter to Cora Eliza Gossom, 12 November 1884, from her mother Mildred (Ballenger) Gossom, Glasgow Junction, Kentucky; photocopy of photograph of Gossom home; obituary for Mary (Mrs. Charles A.) Gossom.


Button, Anna (Jewell), 1894-1979 (Sc 1763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Button, Anna (Jewell), 1894-1979 (Sc 1763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1763. Letter, 11 May 1940, from Anna Jewell Button, Secretary of the Barren County Poultry Association, Glasgow, Kentucky to J. B. Guthrie, Scottsville, Kentucky inquiring for a cousin, Ida Johnson, about ordering eggs.


Caveny, Lynn (Daniel), B. 1964 (Sc 1760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Caveny, Lynn (Daniel), B. 1964 (Sc 1760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1760. Copies of e-mails from Lynn Daniel Caveny and Dennis Caveny relating to their missionary service in Uganda.


Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1826-1842 (Sc 1761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1826-1842 (Sc 1761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1761. Record book of William G. Howard documenting his duties as a Justice of the Peace. It includes stray notices, legal judgments, and marriages performed (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripted list of marriages.)


Boyd, George Robert, 1906-1993 (Sc 1759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Boyd, George Robert, 1906-1993 (Sc 1759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1759. Poetry by George Robert Boyd, a Simpson County, Kentucky native and educator; also, material related to the Boyd family.


Folk Medicine (Fa 306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Folk Medicine (Fa 306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 306. Collection of Kentucky and North Carolina folk beliefs concerning the healing properties of herbs and plants.


Bate, Aaron, 1846-1863 (Sc 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Bate, Aaron, 1846-1863 (Sc 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 48. Awards of merit in grammar and arithmetic, 1860-1861, presented to Aaron Bate by Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. They are printed and written in Latin.


Alfred Russel Wallace, Journalist, Charles H. Smith Oct 2008

Alfred Russel Wallace, Journalist, Charles H. Smith

DLPS Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Stevenson, James, 1764-1857 (Sc 45), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Stevenson, James, 1764-1857 (Sc 45), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 45. Power of attorney authorization signed by James Stevenson, Logan County, Kentucky, 1857, by which his Revolutionary War pension which he was granted in 1832 is to be received by his attorney, Jonas H. Rhorer.


Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds Vol. 7, No. 7, Wku Provost Oct 2008

Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds Vol. 7, No. 7, 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.


Traces Volume 36, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections Oct 2008

Traces Volume 36, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.


But Never Of The Now: Creatively Nonfiction Women, Tiffany Renee Davidson Oct 2008

But Never Of The Now: Creatively Nonfiction Women, Tiffany Renee Davidson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.


Ua1b5 New Faculty 2008-2009, Western Kentucky University Oct 2008

Ua1b5 New Faculty 2008-2009, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

List of new WKU faculty.


Porter, D. J. (Sc 47), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Porter, D. J. (Sc 47), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 47. Letter, 15 March 1860, written by D.J. Porter at Anderson County, Texas, to his brother S.F. Porter, evidently of Kentucky, which contains chiefly family news.


Script To Screen: "Wicked Like The Chaff", Robert J. Deignan Oct 2008

Script To Screen: "Wicked Like The Chaff", Robert J. Deignan

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.


Manning, Allen, 1864-1950 (Sc 1762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Manning, Allen, 1864-1950 (Sc 1762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1762. Journal of farm work done by Allen Manning and his co-workers for Mrs. Underwood of Warren County, Kentucky. He makes note of the weather and its effect on the crops.


Evans, John Wooten, 1862-1894 (Sc 1754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Evans, John Wooten, 1862-1894 (Sc 1754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1754. Three letters from John W. Evans, New York City, to his wife Sallie Evans, Russellville, Kentucky, while he was on buying trips for his dry goods store. One letter from Evans, Russellville, to Sallie, visiting in Bowling Green, Kentucky; another is from a brother.


Groves, James (Sc 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Groves, James (Sc 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 39. Bill of sale for three slaves, Edy, about five years old, Cyntha, about two years old, and Stepen, about seven months old, sold for $600 to W.W. Milliken, Simpson County, Kentucky, and letter concerning the bill of sale, 1948.


Hanor, Elizabeth Jane, 1850-1927 (Sc 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Hanor, Elizabeth Jane, 1850-1927 (Sc 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 38. Loom weaving draft, "Nine Snowball Draft," made by E. Jane Hanor, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Coverlet draft.


Political Conventions - Democratic, 1852 (Sc 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Political Conventions - Democratic, 1852 (Sc 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 40. Letter to Dr. W.P. Reyburn from four Louisiana state delegates to the National Democratic Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, June 1852, appointing him their representative and instructing him to vote for General Lewis Cass for President.


Moore Collection (Sc 37), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Moore Collection (Sc 37), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 37. Copy of the will of Samuel Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written 29 September 1846 and recorded 6 December 1850 in Hickman County Court, and an incomplete, undated and unsigned deed for land in Allen County, Kentucky, conveying land to David A. Porter by Robert Moore.


Morning Collection (Sc 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Morning Collection (Sc 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 36. Deeds conveying land in Anderson County, Kentucky, to Robert Carlton by John and Nancy Morning, 1847, and by Thomas and Mary J. Morning, 1856.


Hale, Louise (Brown), 1917-2001 (Sc 1623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Hale, Louise (Brown), 1917-2001 (Sc 1623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1623. In her unpublished account, "Memories," Louise (Brown) Hale describes rural life in the Daviess County, Kentucky, community of Whitesville between the world wars. She recalls family and community members, farm and home chores, her marriage, and her eventual move to California. Also includes two New Years letters to her grandchildren.


Biggers, Covella (Houchens), 1921-2022 (Sc 1610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Biggers, Covella (Houchens), 1921-2022 (Sc 1610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1610. Three handwritten sermons by Episcopalian clergyman John Wesley Venable, and one early nineteenth-century ciphering book (unbound) executed by Burrell Adams.


Adams, George Bradley, 1819-1854 (Sc 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Adams, George Bradley, 1819-1854 (Sc 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 35. Incoming business letters of George B. Adams, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from various firms and individuals, including one from George B. Kinkead, Kentucky Secretary of State, 1846.


Rodes Collection (Sc 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Rodes Collection (Sc 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 33. Letter (facsimile) written by Andrew Jackson, U.S. President, 1845, Hermitage, Tennessee, to Major William B. Lewis, regarding national politics, and an invitation to Mr. & Mrs. John G. Barrett, Louisville, Kentucky, to a reception for President and Mrs. Hayes at the Galt House, Louisville, Kentucky, 1877.