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Edwards, George W. (Sc 1587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1587. Correspondence between George W. Edwards, Jackson, Tennessee, and Lowell Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to the name "D. Boone" and the date 1776 carved on a tree in Jackson.

Brown, Claude M., 1905-1978 (Sc 1579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1579. World War II letters from Kentucky native Claude M. Brown, stationed in Italy, to Elizabeth Propes, Louisville and Hodgenville, Kentucky. Letters to Brown from friend Ralph Hurley and Brown's 1945 travel itinerary from Italy to Kentucky.

Drake, Leah Bodine, 1904-1964 (Sc 1575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1575. Letters from poet Leah Bodine Drake, Evansville, Indiana, to Fletcher and Grace Stewart, Santa Ana, California, related to the publication of her poetry, awards for her poetry, and possible television appearances.

Bouldin Family Papers (Mss 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 195. This collection consists of business and personal correspondence and account books of the Bouldin Family of Cumberland County, Kentucky, and of Walter H. Parks of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Of special interest is an account book kept for Albert J. Armes, a patient at Central Kentucky Hospital in Lakeland, Kentucky.

Knott Collection (Mss 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 53. Correspondence (business and family), business papers, speeches and drawings of J. Proctor Knott, 1830-1811, lawyer, congressman, and Kentucky governor, of Lebanon; family correspondence and business papers of Sarah (McElroy) Knott, 1833-1915; Civil War diaries and letters of Knott's mother (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts); letters of the Gibbs, McElroy and Chapman families chiefly of Marion and Warren Counties; clippings and photographs.

Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1592. Typescript of the membership list and minutes of congregational meetings from 30 August 1831 to 17 October 1852, for the Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church located in Sumner County, Tennessee. The papers also contain a "Family Record" in which births, baptisms, marriages, and beginning/ending church membership dates are registered.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 33, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Brown, Holly. Departments Deal with Budget Cuts
• Capillo, Greg. For Rand Paul Grassroots Are Bowling Green
• Hale, Marianna. Legislators Look at Raising Revenue – Taxation, Tobacco
• Booze, Alex. The Real World Seeks New Faces
• Isbell, Eric. Local Author Hosts Writing Workshop – Jennie Brown
• Rowell, Larry. Campus Campaign Designed to Reward Designated Drivers
• Johnson, Jeanne & Kevin Smiley. Student Government Association Wants You in Frankfort – Protests
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon – Big Red Cupid
• Bah, Lovebug: We’re Valentine Scrooges, But We Love You
• Glore, James. Traditional Respect …

Durbin, Susan (Hayden), B. 1953 (Sc 1593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1593. Paper written for a library science class at George Peabody College, Nasvhille, Tennessee, entitled "John Filson: First Historian of Kentucke."

Taliaferro Collection (Mss 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 51. Copy of diary kept by Betsy Taliaferro (1800-1850) from 20 March 1838 to 8 April 1839, concerning her trip from Harrisonburg, Louisiana, to New Orleans to Versailles, Kentucky, her native home, by steamboat and stagecoach. Includes correspondence, notes, clippings, etc. of researcher Mary T. Moore regarding the diary.

Dripping Spring Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1588. Photocopies of the records of Dripping Spring Baptist Church, Olmstead (Logan County), Kentucky, 14 December 1850-31 March 1900; includes name indexes. Also included is a 125th anniversary program for the church, which incorporates a brief church history and a drawing of the building.

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 50. Correspondence of David Morton, correspondence concerning Morton Collection, speeches, essays, MSS: "Entries for a Diary," and MSS: "The Amateur Listener" -- diary, poems, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items of Morton, a poet and English professor born in Elkton, Kentucky.

Monroe, James D., B. 1980 (Mss 188), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 188. Correspondence between James D. Monroe, in Kuwait, and his wife Helen, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, while he was serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Also includes letters to Monroe from other relatives and friends.

Kentucky State Penitentiary - Deeds, 1884 (Sc 1586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1586. Copies of fifteen deeds for land in Lyon County, Kentucky near Eddyville on which the Kentucky State Penitentiary was built.

Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 194. Scrapbooks (3) of manuscript music, chiefly gospel music, written and composed by Arlis Odell Harmon, of Allen County, Kentucky.

Duncan, Matilda Jane "Mattie" (Backus), 1896-1986 (Sc 1585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1585. Duncan's brief remembrances of people, businesses and educational institutions in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She made these comments while looking at a copy of "Do You Remember When?", a small pictorial history of Bowling Green, published in 1970.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 32, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Rowell, Larry. Warning Alert Test Succeeds – Text Messages
• Hunton, Ryan. School Officials: Western Complies with Title IX
• Wilson, Laurel. Commission Votes to Fund Redevelopment – Downtown Redevelopment
• Brown, Holly. College Heights Herald Complaint to be Reviewed by Attorney General – Open Meetings
• Rowell, Larry. Pearce-Ford Tower Resident Charged with Burglary, Voyeuristic Intent – Jarred Bray
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon. Regents: Masters of Illusion, Magicians
• Public Issues Should be Public – Regents, Open Meetings
• Capillo, Greg. Resident Assistants Need to Get a Grip & I Need to Get …

Ua12/2/1 Frame By Frame, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special Valentine's Day edition of the College Heights Herald.

• Laun, Susie & Evan Sisley. Frame by Frame – Valentine’s Day
• Natural Attraction – Dan Casagrande & Kelli Rush
• Different Memories – Tim Nelson & Adrianna Jackson
• Pretty Dull – Bryan Anselm & Emily Fox
• Everything Fell Together – Jason Lee & Carolin Schroder
• Undeniable Charm – Michael Mason & Bailey Squires
• Cuddle With Anything – Jake Short & Rachel Usleaman
• It Was Nice – Matt Sheffield & Katie Lewis

Mcnear, William, 1814-1864 (Sc 1578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1578. Marriage license of William McNear and his wife Emily (Harmon) McNear; letter from George W. Craven, commander of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry (Union) notifying Emily of McNear's 1864 death; her widow's application for a U.S. Army pension.

Thigpen, Lorna Moore (Sc 1581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1581. Transcription of a taped interview with Gale Hudnall, Riverside, Warren County, Kentucky conducted as part of the oral history project "Riverside Remembrances." Hudnall discusses his family and the social life and history of Riverside and Richardsville, Kentucky. Interview conducted by Lorna Moore Thigpen.

Ewing Family - Logan County, 1813-1888 (Sc 1572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1572. Deeds, wills, and other business papers of the Ewing family, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes two letters, 1813 & 1814, from Henry S. Pirkey, Rockingham County, Virginia, to Robert Ewing, Logan County, related to land sales. also, information about Ewing family genealogy, and a memorial sermon given for George Washington Ewing by David Morton at Red River Church, 1888.

Davis, Ezra (Sc 1571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1571. Miscellaneous papers, including notes and receipts relating to the business affairs of Ezra Davis and J. C. Burbage/Burbridge. Includes receipts from tobacco warehouses in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes letters of Kitty McGehee, Irvington, Kentucky, to Virginia Hensley, and yearbook-style biographies by four schoolgirls.

Theobald, Harriett Byron (Mcallister) Blanton, 1798-1888 (Sc 1591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1591. Letter from Harriett B. Theobald, Frankfort, Kentucky, to her sons, Orville and William Blanton, Baltimore, Maryland, in which she discusses leaving Kentucky to be with them. Also includes discussions of Frankfort news and family matters.

Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1590. Letter to the editor (Park City Daily News?) by Charles Davenport, reminiscing about growing up in the Warren County, Kentucky community of Greencastle. Includes photos of James Ford and Thomas L. Stephens, builders of the Greencastle lock and dam on Barren River.

Ua35/11 Arête February 2008, Honors College

Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter

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Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 43. Account books of different firms and individuals in Greensburg, Kentucky, including records of general merchandise stores, a hotel, a tailoring shop, the Kentucky Stage Company, and a lodging stable.

Knight, Lillian Eleanor, 1919-2003 (Sc 1580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and digital copy of original for Manuscripts Small Collection 1580, a reminiscence written by Lillian Eleanor Knight concerning the 1937 Flood in Louisville, Kentucky.

Barret Family Papers (Mss 46), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 46 and full text of European travel diary from 1883 (Click on "Additional Files" below). Collection includes World War I letters; European travel diary, 1883; notebooks; pictures; and miscellaneous papers of the Barret family of Louisville, Kentucky. Persons represented are Richard Montfort, 1854-1931; Henri (Barret) Montfort, 1861-1900; and their son, Barret Montfort, 1890-1962.

Barton, Joshua (Lg 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 419. Original land grant, 24 March 1816, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Joshua Barton 30 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Walker, John (Lg 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 420. Original land grant, 2 April 1816, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Walker 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Woods, Elizabeth Moseley, 1865-1967 (Mss 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 25. Correspondence related to travel of Elizabeth Moseley Woods (1865-1967). Also includes Woods family correspondence, 100th birthday congratulations, Woods and Hall families genealogies, a household account book kept by Woods on a stay in Paris, 1901, and a script of a 1938 radio broadcast related to a South American cruise taken by Woods. Also includes clippings related to the retirement of Dr. John D. Woods as editor of the "Glasgow Times." An original and two copies of 1862 Civil letters (Confederate) are also included.