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Gordon, Griffith Lewis - Collector (Sc 2786), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gordon, Griffith Lewis - Collector (Sc 2786), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2786. Examples of musical scores executed by students in a class titled "A Short Course in Vocal Harmony" held at Western Kentucky University and led by Professor Griffith Lewis Gordon. Critical remarks by Mr. Gordon accompany each student's work.
Casebier, Gertrude, 1901-1996 (Sc 2785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Casebier, Gertrude, 1901-1996 (Sc 2785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2785. Two-page essay written by Gertrude Casebier titled "History of Shakertown in Mercer County, Kentucky." Includes brief bibliography.
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 (Sc 1201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 (Sc 1201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1201. Brief note from Robert Todd Lincoln, Chicago, Illinois, to Major J.W. Powell thanking him for sending a copy of a requested ethnological report.
Gates, Thomas Minor, 1820-1860 (Sc 1204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gates, Thomas Minor, 1820-1860 (Sc 1204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1204. Letter, 16 November 1853, of Thomas Gates to his brother Oliver from Steamport, Kentucky with business and family news, including the birth of a daughter; and satirical letter, 31 January 1859, written by Thomas and Lloyd W. Gates, Calhoun, Kentucky, to Messrs. Spratt, Bourn & Co., Louisville, Kentucky, discussing the state of the tobacco market.
Odell, John William, 1875-1965 - Relating To (Sc 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Odell, John William, 1875-1965 - Relating To (Sc 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1202. Letter, 26 December 1895, written to Odell, Oaks, Ohio County, Kentucky, by A. W. McDonald describing his efforts to secure students for a school in Ohio County. Also includes Odell’s 1896 teaching contract with the trustees of a school in Haynesville, Ohio County, Kentucky.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Soldiers From - Tennessee (Sc 1203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Soldiers From - Tennessee (Sc 1203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1203. Applications for John Dill Paschal and Elisha Paschal for the Confederate States of America Roll of Honor and an application for Will J. Harris for the United Daughters of the Confederacy Cross of Honor.
Clark, Tim (Sc 1208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark, Tim (Sc 1208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1208. Desert Storm letters from Tim Clark to his cousin, Rebecca Louise Spencer, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which tell of his military experiences.
Hunter, Sam (Sc 1207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hunter, Sam (Sc 1207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1207. Desert Storm letters from Sam Hunter to his grandparents, Robert N. and Lillian Pace, Bowling Green, Kentucky, describing his military experiences. Also includes a letter from Angela Lindsay to Lillian Pace telling about the war.
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 (Sc 1206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 (Sc 1206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1206. Letters to Mildred Lissauer, Louisville, Kentucky, chiefly concerning an heirloom cradle she purchased; and letters to Lissauer’s son, Eugene R. Lissauer, Louisville, dealing with the results of an aptitude test.
Peace Corps (U.S.) - Slovakia (Sc 1214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Peace Corps (U.S.) - Slovakia (Sc 1214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1214. Letter written by Greg Powers, serving as a Peace Corps member in Slovakia, to Van McCormack, describing the country and the people.
Whitfield, Jon A. (Sc 1219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitfield, Jon A. (Sc 1219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1219. Letter written by Jon A. Whitfield, Brandenburg, Kentucky, to Connie Foster, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in reaction to an article she prepared for Kentucky Libraries. He related his experiences as a librarian at the American Community School in Cobham, Surrey, England, in 1984.
Cumberland College Association - Princeton, Kentucky (Sc 2787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cumberland College Association - Princeton, Kentucky (Sc 2787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2787. Minutes for the Cumberland College Association, the governing board that operated Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky. The school was later moved to Lebanon, Tennessee.
Guthrie, Margaret, 1800-1892 (Sc 2784), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Guthrie, Margaret, 1800-1892 (Sc 2784), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2784. Essay of Margaret Guthrie, Louisville, Kentucky titled "Treatise on Temperance" in which she explains her reasons for supporting temperance. Originally found in an old store account book, the essay was typescripted in 1939. All original punctuation and spelling was kept intact.
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc 1222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc 1222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1222. Letter, 5 September 1840, written by Henry Clay, Ashland, Kentucky, to Henry Henion, Rushville, New York. Clay responds to a letter received from the Rushville Tippecanoe Club asking his opinion of the prospects of Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison in the upcoming presidential election.
Paul, Linda (Smith) (Sc 1211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Paul, Linda (Smith) (Sc 1211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collecction 1211. “The Life of Jessie Smith,” written by Jessie Marie (Trowbridge) Smith and compiled by Jessie’s granddaughter Linda (Smith) Paul, detailing Jessie’s life including information about traveling round trip in a covered wagon from Missouri to Oklahoma, frontier life, and life in Trask, Missouri.
Rhoton, Fred, B. 1946 (Sc 1198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rhoton, Fred, B. 1946 (Sc 1198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1198. Vietnam War letters, written by Fred Rhoton (of Clay County, Tennessee), to his aunt Ina Davis and family, Rockfield, Kentucky, describing his military experiences.
Mckinney, John, 1760?-1825 (Sc 1225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckinney, John, 1760?-1825 (Sc 1225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1225. Letter, 20 April 1785, written by John McKinney, Lexington, Kentucky (at that time still a part of Virginia,) to Captain John Brown, Augusta County, Virginia. He relates that he is recovering from a shot in his breastbone inflicted by Indians and discusses his land surveying activities.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 1223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 1223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1223. Civil War certificate signed by President Abraham Lincoln appointing Herbert M. Enos to the position of First Lieutenant in the regiment of mounted riflemen.
Webster, Pauline (Martin) Tabor, 1905-1992 (Sc 1192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Webster, Pauline (Martin) Tabor, 1905-1992 (Sc 1192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1192. Card from former Bowling Green, Kentucky madam Pauline Tabor Webster to David Helm in Bowling Green, promising to look for a catalog of her 1973 antiques sale and offering to send him an antique item as a gift.
Newman, George (Sc 1224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Newman, George (Sc 1224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1224. Signed acknowledgement of George Newman (no date, no place), but addressed to James Scrivner, Barren County, Kentucky. Newman admits in a case before the church (unnamed) that he drank liquor and spoke and acted in anger. He asks for forgiveness and to retain fellowship with the church.
Monroe County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 1217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Monroe County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 1217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1217. Docket book, Monroe County, Kentucky, December 1832 - November 1838, listing judgments and warrants.
Oak Forest Union Church Cemetery - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oak Forest Union Church Cemetery - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1205. Trust agreement between Naomi Davenport Willis, Bowling Green, Kentucky, “others interested in the preservation and upkeep of the Oak Forest Union Church Cemetery,” in Warren County, Kentucky, and the church trustees.
Chyle, Walter, Jr., B. 1918 (Sc 1210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chyle, Walter, Jr., B. 1918 (Sc 1210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1210. World War II prisoner of war letter, 1943, from Walter Chyle, Jr. in Germany, to parents in Auburn, Kentucky, stating that he is fine; and newspaper article, 1984, about Chyle’s World War II experience and his many contributions to Butler County, Kentucky society.
Rainey, Granville Phillip, 1890-1945 (Sc 1212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rainey, Granville Phillip, 1890-1945 (Sc 1212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1212. World War I letters, 1918-1919, written by Granville Rainey to his sister Mrs. Samuel D. Parker and her family in Evansville, Indiana. He especially describes military actions in France.
Jriles, Benjamin Edward (Sc 1218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jriles, Benjamin Edward (Sc 1218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1218. "Christmas 1893," a poem written by Benjamin Edward Jriles, of Henderson County, Kentucky, detailing his adventure of driving a buggy from his home in Cairo, Kentucky to Ridgway, Kentucky, to eat Christmas dinner.
Page, Leonard, 1762-1836 (Sc 1191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Page, Leonard, 1762-1836 (Sc 1191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1191. Receipts and sundry papers related to the estate of Leonard Page of Logan County, Kentucky.
Oliver, Michael, B. 1959 (Sc 1194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oliver, Michael, B. 1959 (Sc 1194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1194. Desert Storm letters (2) from Michael Oliver to his wife Peggy Oliver, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also included is a poem by Oliver regarding his military experiences in Desert Storm and war photos (2).
Dorris, Riley Wilson, 1923-1960 (Sc 1196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dorris, Riley Wilson, 1923-1960 (Sc 1196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1196. Letters from Riley W. Dorris, serving on board the USS Harry E. Hubbard, to his sister Eva Wilkerson, Nashville, Tennessee, which describe his military experiences in the Korean War.
Breckinridge, Mary Carson, 1881-1965 (Sc 1193), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Breckinridge, Mary Carson, 1881-1965 (Sc 1193), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1193. Letter, 14 December 1956, from Mary Carson Breckinridge, Leslie County, Kentucky, to Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris of Dallas, Texas, responding to a request for information for a talk Mrs. Morris was giving and citing sources and enclosures (not included with this collection). She writes on letterhead of the Frontier Nursing Service, which lists the organization's Executive Committee members and officers.
Peter's Creek Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Peter's Creek Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 487. Minutes, membership lists, constitution and rules of decorum for Peter’s Creek Baptist Church in Barren County, Kentucky. This material was typescripted by Eva Coe Peden, Glasgow, Kentucky, and bound into two volumes.