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Steen Family Papers (Mss 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steen Family Papers (Mss 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 502. Correspondence, deeds, receipts, family photographs and business and personal papers of the Steen family, principally Isaac Newton Steen, his son Thomas W. Steen, and Thomas’s family, of Barren and Monroe counties in Kentucky.
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2852. Letter to Cora Jane Spiller, 29 April 2014, from Ronnie Doyle, Park City, Kentucky, with reminiscences about Ford's Farm and Ford's Farm Cave in Barren County, Kentucky.
Miller, Russell Hale, 1905-1968 (Mss 498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Russell Hale, 1905-1968 (Mss 498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 498 and full text of "Shakertown Revisited" (click on "Additional File" below). Working copies of scripts for two plays, “This Fair Land” and “Shakertown” by Russell Miller, a faculty member of WKU’s Department of Speech and Theater. Also includes working copies of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Herbert Kanzell and “The Boor” by Anton Chekhov, two plays that were staged by Miller.
Watson, Mary Verda, 1887-1981 (Mss 499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watson, Mary Verda, 1887-1981 (Mss 499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 499. Postcards sent to school teacher Mary Verda Watson of Grayson County, Kentucky, by family, friends and students. Includes Kentucky scenes, as well as holiday and novelty cards.
Kentucky Folklore Society (Mss 497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklore Society (Mss 497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 497. Records of the Kentucky Folklore Society, primarily correspondence of president Janet Gilmore and of Dr. Camilla A. Collins, editor of the Society’s journal, the Kentucky Folklore Record. Also includes some financial and organizational information.
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Mss 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Mss 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 496. Indentures, deeds and financial records chiefly of John Hines of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes material related to the settlement of his extensive estate that was executed by his son, Pleasant Hines. Contains many receipts from Bowling Green businesses in the 1870s and an undated plat map of the city showing owners of lots 71-122.
Moore, Robert B., 1860-1937 (Sc 2851), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Robert B., 1860-1937 (Sc 2851), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2851. Letter, 13 November 1896, of Robert B. Moore, Bowen, Kentucky, to Frank Powers, Grayson, Kentucky. Moore, a lumber dealer, reports an increase in business. He also describes himself as a “sound money” man who voted for William McKinley in the recent presidential election. Despite anticipating a “hot time,” he reports finding no disturbances at his local polling place.
Beauchamp, Hiram Jett, 1833-1881 - Relating To (Sc 2849), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beauchamp, Hiram Jett, 1833-1881 - Relating To (Sc 2849), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2849. Resolution of sympathy, 5 January 1881, by officers and members of the Bowling Green, Kentucky bar on the death of Hiram J. Beauchamp on 1 January 1881. Includes a sketch of Beauchamp’s life.
Chelf, Frank Leslie, 1907-1982 (Mss 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chelf, Frank Leslie, 1907-1982 (Mss 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 492. Correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, audiotapes, film and miscellaneous material relating primarily to the political career of Democrat Frank L. Chelf, who represented Kentucky’s Fourth District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1944-1966. Includes Chelf’s voting record and bills, research and speeches related to his legislative interests.
Bates, James Preston, 1810-1877 - Relating To (Sc 2850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bates, James Preston, 1810-1877 - Relating To (Sc 2850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2850. Resolution of sympathy of a committee of the Bowling Green, Kentucky bar on the death of James P. Bates on 30 November 1877. Includes a sketch of Bates’s life.
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2848), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2848), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2848. Letter, 5 July 1926, of O. A. Roup to Roy Morningstar regarding a meeting with one L.T.Henderson who seeks to start a building trade journal in Louisville, Kentucky; also letter, 1 July 1946, to Jane Morningstar, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding membership in the Bowling Green Country Club, dues notice, and her check.
Mcivor, Wilfred J., B. 1897? (Mss 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcivor, Wilfred J., B. 1897? (Mss 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 506. Personal patient ledger (1931-1932) of Dr. W.J. McIvor, a physician practicing at Moseley Hospital in Henderson, Kentucky. Includes an unidentified photograph of a woman and the cover of an 1897 book on writing and engrossing.
Jeffrey, Jonathan David, B. 1960 (Sc 2847), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jeffrey, Jonathan David, B. 1960 (Sc 2847), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2847. Historic Farms Certificate Application, Kentucky Historic Resources Abbreviated Survey Form and supporting material, prepared by Jonathan D. Jeffrey to designate the Paschal Howell Farm, Warren County, Kentucky, a centennial farm. This designation is bestowed on farms that have been owned by the same family for one hundred years or more. Includes compact disc with 13 photographs.
Slavery - Kentucky (Mss 45), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slavery - Kentucky (Mss 45), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 45. Photocopy of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves (1941), transcriptions of oral interviews which recount many aspects of being a slave in nineteenth century Kentucky. The interviews were conducted during the 1930s, part of a Federal Writers’ Project funded by the Works Progress Administration project and administered by the Library of Congress.
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Lg 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Lg 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 447. Original land grant, 5 June 1818, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Hines, assignee of David Young, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Mcgown, Samuel & Gilbert Marshall (Lg 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgown, Samuel & Gilbert Marshall (Lg 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 453. Original land grant, 6 July 1816, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Samuel McGown and Gilbert Marshall 135 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Taylor, Richard (Lg 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Richard (Lg 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 446. Original land grant, 16 October 1798, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Richard Taylor, assignee of Richard Farrell, assignee of Tarlton Woodson, 500 acres in the Gasper River district in Kentucky. Original land grant, 16 October 1798, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Richard Taylor, assignee of Richard Farrell, assignee of Tarlton Woodson, 500 acres in the Gasper River district in Kentucky.
Marshall, William (Lg 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Marshall, William (Lg 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 450. Original land grant, 30 November 1838, by which James Clark, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Marshall 90 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Marshall, William (Lg 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Marshall, William (Lg 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 456. Original land grant, 30 November 1838, by which James Clark, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Marshall 10 acres in Warren county, Kentucky.
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Lg 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Lg 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 457. Original land grant, 9 July 1834, by which James T. Morehead, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Hines 23 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Jackson, Burwell (Lg 451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Burwell (Lg 451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 451. Original land grant, 20 June 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Burwell Jackson 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Lg 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Lg 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 455. Original land grant, 16 June 1817, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Hines 50 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Wilson, Constant A. (Lg 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Constant A. (Lg 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 448. Original land grant, 2 September 1817, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Constant A. Wilson, assignee of Singletary Allen, 40 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.
Jackson, Burwell (Lg 449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Burwell (Lg 449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 449. Original land grant, 23 February 1820, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Burwell Jackson 165 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Harrison, William (Lg 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harrison, William (Lg 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 454. Original land grant, 30 April 1816, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Harrison 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Jackson, Burwell (Lg 452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Burwell (Lg 452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 452. Original land grant, 20 June 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Burwell Jackson, assignee of John McGown, 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Kingsolver, Barbara, B. 1955 (Sc 2846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kingsolver, Barbara, B. 1955 (Sc 2846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2846. Letter, 10 December 1996, of Barbara Kingsolver, Tucson, Arizona, to Gil Moody of Moody Books Inc., Johnson City, Tennessee. She expresses her support of independent bookstores and her willingness to sign books and bookplates for readers, but places high priority on reserving time for her writing and family life.
Gold, Clarence Oldham, 1861-1920 (Sc 2845), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gold, Clarence Oldham, 1861-1920 (Sc 2845), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2845. Letter, 31 July 1889, of tobacco broker Clarence O. Gold, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to his wife in New Providence, Tennessee. He declares his love, reports that he has rented a home, and urges her and their children to join him. The letter alludes to a separation caused by his drinking and other misconduct, and to the maligning influence of others who are urging his wife to leave him.
Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939 (Sc 2844), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939 (Sc 2844), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2844. Letter, 16 May 1884, of journalist and humorist Opie P. Read, written from Little Rock, Arkansas, to an unnamed addressee. Read accepts an offer to exchange magazines (probably his Arkansas Traveler) for a publication called the Voice, congratulates the addressee on a story published in Chicago’s The Current, and acknowledges knowing his name although they have never met.
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 495. Letters written by Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Clara Gregory and Mildred (Gregory) Pugh, Nashville, Tennessee, related to a rental property owned by Clara Gregory at 720 State Street in Bowling Green. The newsy letters contain information about maintenance to the property and remarks about current events in Bowling Green as well as comments about national affairs.