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Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 (Sc 1291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 (Sc 1291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1291. Copyright registration certificates, contract assigning copyright in songs, and sheet music of lyricist Lassie (Taylor) Moates, Warren County, Kentucky.
Whitley, Evelyn Marie, 1925-1998 (Sc 1297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitley, Evelyn Marie, 1925-1998 (Sc 1297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1297. Autograph book of Evelyn Marie Whitley, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, 1939-1940; her composition book containing verses for use in autograph books; and scrapbook pages on which she records social activities, 1940-1942.
Richmond, Emeline Holden, 1807-1893 (Sc 1298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richmond, Emeline Holden, 1807-1893 (Sc 1298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1298. Typescripted diary of Emeline Holden Richmond, Newark, New Jersey, kept from 14 August through 10 October 1826 during her journey to Mississippi, where she planned to serve as a teacher of Indian children and Presbyterian missionary. Includes family and biographical data and information about the mission.
Webb, Johnny D. (Sc 1295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Webb, Johnny D. (Sc 1295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1295. Letter, 19 February 1998, of Johnny D. Webb, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Riley Handy, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Webb asks Handy to join a group of donors called “The Mighty 500,” and describes the Habitat for Humanity program.
Kentuckiana Camp And Hospital Council (Sc 2812), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentuckiana Camp And Hospital Council (Sc 2812), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2812. Minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Kentuckiana Camp and Hospital Council, held In Louisville, Kentucky on 22 October 1945. Includes a list of gifts from various Council chapters and a discussion about the continuing need for postwar assistance to hospitalized soldiers.
Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2813. Meeting minutes of Bundles for America, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from 24 January to 14 March 1945. Includes a draft thank-you letter to a sponsor summarizing the organization’s accomplishments since 1941; also includes a 1943 clipping outlining the history and work of the organization in knitting garments, salvaging metal and clothing, and making up toiletry kits for British and American soldiers and their families.
Ewing, Todd (Sc 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ewing, Todd (Sc 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1293. Letters written by Todd Ewing to his parents, Bill and Geraldine Ewing, Greenville, Kentucky, describing his daily activities while in military service during the Persian Gulf War.
Chaffin, Cyndi M. (Sc 1290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chaffin, Cyndi M. (Sc 1290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1290. Research paper, written 1981 or later, by WKU student Cyndi Chaffin, titled “Russell Miller and His Contributions to the Theatre in Bowling Green [Kentucky] from 1947-1968.” Miller taught drama and speech and directed theater productions at WKU.
Oates, William C. "Billy" - Collector (Sc 2811), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oates, William C. "Billy" - Collector (Sc 2811), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2811. Miscellaneous documents relating mainly to real property in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes deeds, sketch of lots in 1300 block of Chestnut Street, and commercial property record for 1039 College Street (the G. D. Milliken Building). Also includes 1987 appraisal report for 250 Franklin Road, Scottsville, Kentucky, a photograph of the collector’s great grandfather Hale, and a handwritten narrative (author unknown) on the birth of the U.S. Democratic Party.
Mills, Constance Ann, 1944-2013 (Sc 1307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mills, Constance Ann, 1944-2013 (Sc 1307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1307. Letter, 22 May 1987, written by Constance Ann Mills, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Congressman William Natcher, Washington, D.C., asking him to support funding for small libraries as proposed in the Higher Education Act. Also, Natcher’s response to Mills.
Buckner, Lily, 1858-1893 (Sc 1289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckner, Lily, 1858-1893 (Sc 1289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1289. Pages from the record of baptisms at Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, recording the baptism of Lily Buckner, daughter of Simon Bolivar Buckner and Mary (Kingsbury) Buckner, on 21 April 1869.
Mastin Family - Letters To (Sc 1287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mastin Family - Letters To (Sc 1287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1287. Four letters, 1901, n.d., to members of the Mastin family, Frankfort, Kentucky, from Caleb Powers, acknowledging kindnesses extended during his incarceration for alleged involvement in the assassination of Governor William J. Goebel. Includes two letters to J. C. Mastin from political friends thanking him for support.
Stockholm United Baptist Church - Edmonson County, Kentucky (Sc 1286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stockholm United Baptist Church - Edmonson County, Kentucky (Sc 1286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1286. An account of the formation of the Stockholm United Baptist Church, written by Thelma Strange. The church was formed in 1910 in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Includes a list of charter members and ministers.
Kentucky Dam - Benton, Kentucky (Sc 1285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Dam - Benton, Kentucky (Sc 1285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1285. Color postcard of Kentucky dam near Benton, Kentucky, autographed by President Harry S. Truman, probably in connection with his dedication of the dam in 1945.
Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 1284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 1284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1284. Letters and greeting cards, 1963-1976, written by author Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Kentucky, to young Memphis, Texas admirer Mike Hughes. Mike initiated the correspondence, which developed into a friendship. Includes three of Mike’s letters, 2000.
Vertrees, Peter, 1840-1926 (Sc 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vertrees, Peter, 1840-1926 (Sc 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1282. Autobiography of Peter Vertrees, an African-American native of Edmonson County, Kentucky, who served as a cook in the Confederate Army, 6th Kentucky Cavalry. Afterward, he was an educator and Baptist minister, chiefly in Sumner County, Tennessee. Includes associated biographical data, and the autobiography of his third wife Diora.
Darden, Amelia Adaline "Addie," 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Darden, Amelia Adaline "Addie," 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1283. Graduation speech delivered at Cedar Bluff Female College in Woodburn, Kentucky by salutatorian Addie Darden on 7 June 1877. Includes an essay read in Latin.
Alley, Jessie Hazel, 1920-2020 (Sc 1369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Alley, Jessie Hazel, 1920-2020 (Sc 1369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1369. Letters, 1944, written to Hazel Alley, Smithland, Kentucky, by Marine Pfc. Louis E. Loper, describing a Solomon Islands battle with the Japanese in which her friend “Pete” was killed. Includes her submission of the letters (under the name Hazel Robertson) to Kentucky Explorer magazine, January 2003. Also includes two 1953 telegrams, a letter and clippings from the (Marion, Ky.) Crittenden Press relating to another friend who was killed in the Korean War.
Hughes, Berta (Brinton), 1868-1947 - Letter To (Sc 2810), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hughes, Berta (Brinton), 1868-1947 - Letter To (Sc 2810), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2810. Letter, 30 November 1918, to Berta B. Hughes (Mrs. Charles Z.), Toledo, Ohio, from “Elliot,” a soldier stationed at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. He expresses condolences on the death of her son Lee, refers to the death of another son, Tom, and praises her and both sons, who he describes as close friends.
Turner, Bedford (Sc 2809), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Turner, Bedford (Sc 2809), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2809. Letter, 2 January 1936, of Bedford Turner, minister of Settle Memorial Methodist Church, Owensboro, Kentucky, to Lawrence W. Hager, editor of the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer. He thanks Hager for providing space in the paper to the church for publication of items of interest during 1935.
Hunter, Hugh B., 1922-2000 (Sc 1281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hunter, Hugh B., 1922-2000 (Sc 1281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1281. Diary kept by Hugh B. Hunter, a native of Jefferson County, Kentucky, during his service as a B-17 bomber pilot, 8th Air Force, during World War II. Stationed in Great Britain, the 8th Air Force conducted air raids into Germany and humanitarian missions into the Netherlands.
Evans, Dorinda R. (Bryan), 1805-1891 (Sc 2808), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Evans, Dorinda R. (Bryan), 1805-1891 (Sc 2808), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2808. Letters of Dorinda R. Evans, Glasgow, Kentucky, to her son John Evans, daughter-in-law Cornelia, and granddaughter Annie in Colorado. She relates news of her other sons and their families and her travel to Louisville, mourns the death of her sister, comments on John’s business-related absences from his family, and welcomes his second daughter Gracie. She also expresses her religious faith and mentions one son’s apparent break with his church.
Shelby County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 2807), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shelby County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 2807), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2807. Letter, 4 March 1839, from Mary Louisa Hall, Shelbyville, Kentucky, to her brother Winchester Hall, Natchez, Mississippi. She mentions a Presbyterian revival in Shelbyville, gives news of family and of acquaintances in Louisville, asks about his marriage prospects, reports the making of a rag carpet, and conveys greetings from two slaves. Includes a postscript in another hand. Also letter, 24 February 1857, from J.E. Hewlett, Shelbyville, Kentucky, to M.L. Hallowell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, explaining the delay in payment of a debt.
Walworth, Reginald Wellington, 1886-1983 (Sc 2806), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Walworth, Reginald Wellington, 1886-1983 (Sc 2806), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2806. Two letters to Rose F. Taylor, Branchland, West Virginia, from Reginald W. Walworth, Georgetown, Maryland. An organizer of the Constitution Party in Maryland, Walworth responds to her request for anti-Communist literature and offers suggestions on distribution. Includes a pamphlet attacking the Federal Reserve, the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations and other public bodies as Communist fronts.
Civil War, 1861-1865 (Sc 2805), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 (Sc 2805), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2805. Materials relating mainly to Civil War pension claims in Allen County, Kentucky. Includes blank application forms, notifications, correspondence, affidavits, and particularly information on the widow’s claim of Mary F. Patton and the invalid’s claim of James C. Wolf. Also includes two Allen Circuit Court summons, 1854, and a Bowling Green-Warren County Civil War Centennial program, 1962.
House, John Moore, 1844-1865 (Sc 1280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
House, John Moore, 1844-1865 (Sc 1280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1280. Letter to John House from his father, S.C. House, Knoxville, Tennessee, and letter of John House to his aunt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letters concern family news and House’s needs as a Confederate prisoner of war at Johnson’s Island, Ohio.
Drake, Robert Spencer, 1918-2009 (Sc 1249), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake, Robert Spencer, 1918-2009 (Sc 1249), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1249. Warren Countian Robert S. Drake's recollections and research concerning the location of McFaddin's Station, an early settlement in Warren County, Kentucky. Also a letter about the topic.
Red Cross - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1243), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Red Cross - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1243), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1243. Paper titled "History of Bowling Green-Warren County Red Cross Chapter in Warren County Kentucky from 1939 through 1945." Includes reports concerning chapter activities.
Stephens, Richard Barber, Jr., B. 1956 (Sc 1247), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stephens, Richard Barber, Jr., B. 1956 (Sc 1247), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1247. Desert Storm letter written by Richard Barber Stephens to Ruth Marie Jerd, Cincinnati, Ohio. Stephens mentions that he and fellow soldiers have been the target of missile attacks which were successfully intercepted.
Kirkland, Jesse C., 1866-1937 (Sc 1248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kirkland, Jesse C., 1866-1937 (Sc 1248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1248. Letter written by Jesse Kirkland, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his cousin John Milstead, Crossland, Kentucky, while attending school at Southern Normal School and Business College in Bowling Green. He describes a trip he took on the Green River and of seeing the landscape lit by electricity.