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Mcclister Family Papers (Sc 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcclister Family Papers (Sc 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 330. Three photocopied letters of the McClister family of Adair County, Kentucky, which deal chiefly with family news.
Crump, Malcolm Hart, 1849-1925 (Sc 331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crump, Malcolm Hart, 1849-1925 (Sc 331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 331. Letters, 1886-1889 (15), telegrams, 1886-1889 (9), and receipts, 1886-1889 (10), which relate to Crump’s activities as an officer in the Kentucky State Guard and to his interest in constructing the proposed Bowling Green and Northern Railroad.
Jordan, Milton Ray, B.1925 - Collector (Mss 247), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jordan, Milton Ray, B.1925 - Collector (Mss 247), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 247. Chiefly correspondence, family group sheets, vital statistics, and other genealogical material related to the Beals and Reeves families. Of interest are documents concerning the Civil War service of Jeremiah Beals, Monroe County, Kentucky, in the Union Army.
Westerman, Robert - Collector (Sc 2491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Westerman, Robert - Collector (Sc 2491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2491. Summons to sheriff of Washington County, Kentucky from Mercer County Court of Quarter Sessions regarding Elijah Faris, 28 March 1799. Includes photo of the summons on display and award ribbon (First Premium, Antiques) from Kentucky State Fair, 2008.
Cloud, Emma Lily (Barnes), B. 1929 (Sc 2490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cloud, Emma Lily (Barnes), B. 1929 (Sc 2490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2490. School autograph books (2), correspondence, and substitute teacher reports of Emma (Barnes) Cloud of Ohio County, Kentucky. Includes a letter and Christmas card from her future husband, Allen C. Cloud, written during his Air Force service.
Baird, Nell Thompson (Bate), 1901-1988 - Collector (Sc 2489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nell Thompson (Bate), 1901-1988 - Collector (Sc 2489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2489. Correspondence, wills, slave bills of sale, and genealogical data relating to the Bate family of Sumner County, Tennessee, and associated families. Includes a photostat of a letter of introduction for Eugenia P. (Bate) Bass written by Jefferson Davis, and a list of her assets held separately from her husband. Also includes a loyalty oath, 1865, sworn in Tennessee by H. Bate (click on "Additional Files" below for scan).
Cooper, Thomas Poe, 1881-1958 (Sc 2488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cooper, Thomas Poe, 1881-1958 (Sc 2488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2488. Letter from Thomas Cooper, Dean and Director, Agricultural Extension Division, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, University of Kentucky, to Emma L. Barnes, Carlisle, Kentucky. He confirms her appointment to the University’s Agricultural Extension Division as an Assistant Home Demonstration Agent in Nicholas County at an annual salary of $2,700.
Perguson, Dee Carl, Jr., 1921-2010 (Mss 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perguson, Dee Carl, Jr., 1921-2010 (Mss 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 8. Correspondence and diaries of Deel Carl Perguson, Jr., Horse Branch (Ohio County), Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington. Of interest are his letters written while serving in World War II in the United States, North Africa, and Italy, and his later memoirs of this period. Also of interest are diaries of his years as a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, 1939-1943. The collection also includes his recollections of growing up in Horse Branch in the 1920s and 1930s.
Prentis Papers (Mss 32), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Prentis Papers (Mss 32), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and transcription of one 1865 letter (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 32. Letters to James Prentis, 1836-1869; family letters to Lucy Prentis, Petersburg, Virginia, 1838-1842; family letters to Margaret Prentis, 1867-1909; 26 letters and essays of James Prentis written to friends and newspaper editors expressing his views as a Union supporter, 1861-1867; and miscellaneous items.
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 375. Correspondence, photographs, diaries, and personal and professional writing of Virginia Wood Davis, a Smiths Grove, Kentucky native and a reporter and editor, 1943-1985, for newspapers in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and McCreary County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data as well as correspondence and miscellaneous papers of her family, especially her mother, Virginia Wood (Cox) Davis.
Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society (Mss 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society (Mss 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 374. Administrative papers, board minutes, correspondence, project files, and publications of the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society, a state-wide membership organization of quilters that promotes better understanding of historic quilts and the design and construction of new quilts. Major projects include a collection of oral histories with Kentucky quilters and a survey of historic quilts from Kentucky.
Swango, John V. (Sc 2487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Swango, John V. (Sc 2487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2487. Letter from John V. Swango, Director, Regional Development Division, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), to Dr. Daniel J. Hays, praising him for his service as Chief of the organization's Education Branch. Includes biographical information of Hays. Also includes two recorded audio reel to reel tapes of Hays visiting a school in Vietnam.
Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 2486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 2486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2486. Letter from Jesse Stuart to Riley Handy, 8 February 1975, confirming Lee and Joy Pennington as the subjects of a work which he names as "Which Tree Would You Rather Be," and its suitability as a morality tale for children.
Helm, Richard (Sc 2485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Richard (Sc 2485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2485. Family pedigree chart created by Henry M. Underwood, 1948. Includes Richard Helm's notes (2006) on Rogers family genealogy research by John Cox Underwood.
Walker, Josephine, 1864-1944 (Sc 2484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Walker, Josephine, 1864-1944 (Sc 2484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2484. Diary kept by 19 year-old Josephine Walker, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky from 5 October 1883 to 1 December 1884. She faithfully comments on the weather and records her domestic activities, her overnight visits with relatives and friends, and her church and school attendance. She also writes of community events such as a hanging and the county fair.
Moseley, Douglas D. (Sc 2482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moseley, Douglas D. (Sc 2482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2482. Eulogy written by Douglas D. Moseley and delivered at the funeral of Lowell Hayes Harrison in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 15 October 2011.
Bowling Green-Hopkinsville Bus Company, Inc. (Sc 2481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green-Hopkinsville Bus Company, Inc. (Sc 2481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2481. Schedules, business forms, strips of blank tickets, and a company profile of the Bowling Green-Hopkinsville Bus Company, Inc., Russellville, Kentucky.
Phelps, Lilburn, 1870-1956 (Sc 699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phelps, Lilburn, 1870-1956 (Sc 699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 699. Papers of Lilburn Phelps, a lawyer and State Representative of Jamestown, Ky., which chiefly relate to his professions. They mainly include speeches and letters to the editor that he penned. See Scrapbook Collection for additional material.
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2480. Brief notes of an interview conducted by Nancy Disher Baird on 11 December 1975 with Dr. Zacharia Keele Jones, an African American physician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Jones mentions his family, early life, education and influences. He also names other African American physicians who practiced in Bowling Green.
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2480. Brief notes of an interview conducted by Nanch Disher Baird on 11 December 1975 with Dr. Zacharia Keele (Z.K.) Jones, an African American physician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Jones mentions his family, early life, education and influences. He also names other African American phyicians who practiced in Bowling Green.
Rising, Clara Lucille, 1923-2010 (Sc 2479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rising, Clara Lucille, 1923-2010 (Sc 2479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2479. Letter from Clara Lucille Rising, Irvine, Kentucky to Sandy Griffin, Louisville, Kentucky, 8 Septemer 1987. She thanks Griffin for her hospitality during a recent visit and reports on her purchase of a cemetery plot in Lexington, Kentucky near the graves of the family of John Hunt Morgan, the subject of her recent novel.
Shuler, Evelyn (Sc 2478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shuler, Evelyn (Sc 2478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2478. Letter to Henry H. Denhardt, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Evelyn Shuler, a reporter for the Philadelphia Ledger. She forwards clippings and photographs (not included) of Kentucky Day exercises at the U.S. Sesquicentennial exposition held in Philadelphia, and comments on the event.
Fleming, Rose Ellen (Cottrell), 1917-1984 (Sc 2477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fleming, Rose Ellen (Cottrell), 1917-1984 (Sc 2477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2477. Letter of Rose Ellen (Cottrell) Fleming, Jackson, Mississippi, to Jane (Hines) Morningstar, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 22 December 1969. She relates news of family and mutual friends.
Fennell Collection, 1869-1957 (Mss 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fennell Collection, 1869-1957 (Mss 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 348. Account books of Cynthiana Horse Boot Company; materials related to Kentucky Hemp Brake Company of Cynthiana, Kentucky; correspondence of Cynthiana attorneys Chester M. Jewett, J. J. Osborne, William J. Osborne, McCauley C. Swinford, and William Wilson Van Deren.
Brashear, William Helm, 1855-1942 (Mss 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brashear, William Helm, 1855-1942 (Mss 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 14. Manuscripts of William Helm Brashear's poems, essays, play, and eulogy of Clarence Underwood McElroy. A few letters (6) and many clippings of his published works are included. Also scrapbooks have published poems pasted in them (3). Brashear was from Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Night Riders (Sc 1030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Night Riders (Sc 1030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1030. Anonymous note left on behalf of "six hundred night riders" at the farm of Jefferson G. Greer, Livingston County, Kentucky. The note asserts the Night Riders' intention to control the tobacco business and warns Greer to cease selling his tobacco outside of their association.
Wilson, Gust Emanuel, 1898-1963 (Sc 1100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Gust Emanuel, 1898-1963 (Sc 1100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1100. World War I letters (2) written by Wilson in France to Mary Evelyn Kerr, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Wilson arrived in France as the war was ending, and he chiefly discusses non-military matters such as letter writing.
Bond Family Papers (Mss 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bond Family Papers (Mss 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 378. Correspondence and records relating primarily to the assets and estates of Oscar Stephen Bond and his wife Mary (Baird) Bond of Louisville, Kentucky. Includes family photos. Also included are historical data and photos relating to Bond Brothers, Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky, a manufacturer and supplier of railroad cross ties and and other lumber products.
Estes, Joseph R., 1925-1999 (Sc 2476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Estes, Joseph R., 1925-1999 (Sc 2476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2476. "The Plight of Moral Perversion," a sermon delivered on 11 September 1960 by Dr. Joseph R. Estes, pastor of First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky and president of the Warren County Anti-Liquor Association. The sermon was given in anticipation of a 24 September 1960 local option referendum in Bowling Green in which the prohibitionists were defeated.
Marshall, Kenneth Alvin (Sc 2474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Marshall, Kenneth Alvin (Sc 2474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2474. Miscellaneous material collected by Kenneth Alvin Marshall of Bowling Green, Kentucky related to his work as a home builder. Also includes some information about the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce from 1965; letterhead from the Marshall's Wrestling Attractions operation, and some promotional material about fencing.