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Park City Hotel Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Park City Hotel Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans for Manuscripts Small Collection 1015. Promotional letter written by Park City Hotel owner, W. G. Thomas, related to the hotel and a listing of hotel guests for 1940.
Williams Family Papers, 1923-1929 (Sc 2715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Williams Family Papers, 1923-1929 (Sc 2715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2715. Correspondence between James Barbour Williams, Michigan, with his parents, Margaret P.B. Williams and James H. Williams, Hartford, Kentucky. Letters discuss family matters and social activities in Hartford, as well as a mention of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan.
Martin, Grace Lee 1883-1968 (Sc 2718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Grace Lee 1883-1968 (Sc 2718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2718. Paper titled “Brief History of David’s Fork Baptist Church,” dated 1876, and transcribed by Grace Lee Martin, historian of the Bryan Station Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Lexington, Kentucky.
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1767-1845 (Sc 2713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1767-1845 (Sc 2713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2713. Typescript of a diary kept by Benjamin McReynolds about a trip taken with his wife Sarah “Sally” from Logan County, Kentucky to Bedford County, Virginia in 1823. Introductory material, maps, photos and annotations supplied by Raymond Dixon Stapleton.
Bush, William T. And William Thompson (Lg 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bush, William T. And William Thompson (Lg 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 440. Land grant, 12 December 1826, by which Joseph Desha, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William T. Bush and William Thompson 800 acres in Hart County, Kentucky. Includes a survey of the land dated 26 November 1822.
Melton Family Papers (Mss 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Melton Family Papers (Mss 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 123. Letters, receipts, legal and financial papers of the Melton family of Henderson County, Kentucky. Also includes data about the Lively, Poole, and Strum families of Henderson County.
Carter, Tim Lee, 1910-1987 (Mss 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Tim Lee, 1910-1987 (Mss 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 80. Correspondence, photographs, audiotapes, film, clippings, general office files, and records of legislative proceedings relating to the political career of Tim Lee Carter, U.S. Representative (Republican) for Kentucky's Fifth Congressional District, 1965-1981.
Baker, Walter Arnold, 1937-2010 (Sc 2716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baker, Walter Arnold, 1937-2010 (Sc 2716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2716. Correspondence of Kentucky State Senator Walter A. Baker with colleagues and constituents about various political issues.
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Sc 2714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Sc 2714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2714. Correspondence, news clippings, reference letters, and other miscellaneous research material related to prominent architects from Bowling Green, Kentucky, several of whom practiced elsewhere.
Kentucky Federation Of Music Clubs (Mss 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Federation Of Music Clubs (Mss 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 461. Constitution and by-laws, programs from annual conventions, news clippings, and a “traveling” scrapbook from 1946-1947 that documents activities of the Federation’s affiliate clubs.
Bowling Green Warren County Bicentennial Commission (Mss 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Warren County Bicentennial Commission (Mss 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 122. Correspondence, minutes, calendars, financial reports, and promotional material of the Commission which was created to oversee the bicentennial celebrations of Warren County, Kentucky (1 March 1997) and Bowling Green (1 March 1998).
Mary Reed Cooke Music Club - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mary Reed Cooke Music Club - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2712. Yearbooks, programs and news clippings related to the activities of the Mary Reed Cooke Music Club of Smiths Grove, Kentucky.
Pace Family Papers (Mss 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pace Family Papers (Mss 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 458. Pace family documents (chiefly related to land transactions) including deeds, land grants, mortgages; as well as Bible records for the Pace and related families (click on "Additional Files" below for scans), and probate records. A significant portion of the collection documents the garden club activities of Lillian (Tynes) Pace and her efforts to have the Viceroy butterfly designated as the Kentucky state butterfly.
Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Sc 2711), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Sc 2711), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2711. Envelope, postmarked 1 July 1947, printed “From Duncan Hines To” and addressed to Manager, The Elms Guest House, Jessup, Maryland. Includes Hines’s printed return address of P.O. Box 548, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Price, Sarah Frances "Sadie," 1849-1903 (Sc 2709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Price, Sarah Frances "Sadie," 1849-1903 (Sc 2709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2709. “Conscience Money,” by Sarah “Sadie” Price, a story about the recovery of money belonging to the narrator’s father, a Union sympathizer, and hidden while he was a refugee from Kentucky during the Civil War. Price adds a postscript to an editor, calling it an “o’er true tale” that may be more appropriate for a psychological journal. Copied from unpublished notes in Sadie F. Price’s scrapbook at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Missouri.
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 2710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 2710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2710. Three letters written by “Tom” to his brother Summers, mother and “Mary,” from May-July 1942. He describes his work at an unnamed location constructing a galley, mess hall and housing, and the hauling of building materials up a hillside using a cable car system called a “kah-vall-ee.” Includes another soldier’s whimsical story about mishaps with the contraption, titled “Kah-vall-ee: The First in a Series of Battery ‘L’ Incidents.”
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military Life (Sc 1029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military Life (Sc 1029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1029. Undated letter written by "Tom," from Headquarters of the 1st Regiment, to his father. He discusses the conditions and lack of food within the camp. The location of the camp is unknown.
Burns, Rowland Tiernan, 1794-1833 (Sc 1031), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burns, Rowland Tiernan, 1794-1833 (Sc 1031), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1031. Certificate, 3 June 1822, signed by the elders of the Christian Church affirming the ordination of Rowland Burns as an elder in the Church of Christ. Includes a note relating to the Burns family and the provenance of the 1822 document.
Harris, George Dewitt, 1876-1918 (Sc 1032), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harris, George Dewitt, 1876-1918 (Sc 1032), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1032. Chiefly letters and documents related to the World War I service of George DeWitt Harris, a Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, native. Includes eight letters written to him by his father, mother, and siblings before his death in France. Also includes four 1899 reference letters from his law professors at the University of Michigan, and a business card from his time as an attorney in St. Louis.
Spurlock, Christy Leigh, B. 1963 (Mss 451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spurlock, Christy Leigh, B. 1963 (Mss 451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 451. Paper titled “White Stone Quarry of Bowling Green, KY” written by Christy Leigh Spurlock for a Western Kentucky University history department independent study project. Includes research materials such as maps, deeds, photos, and transcriptions of interviews with former quarry employees and their family members.
Fox Family Papers, 1918-1986 (Mss 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fox Family Papers, 1918-1986 (Mss 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 459. Chiefly military personnel records of Arthur Smith Fox, Hopkins County, Kentucky. Also includes information related to Mr. Fox’s father-in-law, William Bugg Kerr, and brief genealogical information about the Bowman Coffelt, and Hope families.
Hodge, Iris, B. 1947 (Sc 1027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodge, Iris, B. 1947 (Sc 1027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1027. Paper titled “A History of Longview Methodist Church in Hardin County, Kentucky,” written by Iris Hodge for a Western Kentucky University history class.
Coombs, Elizabeth Robertson, 1893-1988 (Sc 2708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs, Elizabeth Robertson, 1893-1988 (Sc 2708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2708. Handwritten memorandum and notes of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs relating to Emanie (Nahm) Sachs and her 1960 book A Pot With Feeling: Flower Paintings, With a Short Autobiography. Coombs compares the paintings in the book unfavorably with those of another local artist, and remarks critically on Emanie’s personality and motivation.
Talbott, John Daniel, 1883-1950 (Sc 2707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Talbott, John Daniel, 1883-1950 (Sc 2707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2707. Letter, 27 October 1939, from J. Dan Talbott to “All Employees of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,” with lists of duties to be performed before and on Election Day, 7 November, including letter-writing, personal contacts, providing transportation to the polls, and handing out sample ballots. The letter urges every employee to “do his duty” to ensure election of the Democratic ticket in the state.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1824-1920 (Sc 2706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Elizabeth, 1824-1920 (Sc 2706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2706. Mimeographed copy (no. 30 of an edition of 55) of “Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith as Seen by a Daughter,” a memorial sketch written for Bishop Alfred Lee of Delaware by Elizabeth “Lizzie” Smith. Includes annotations by Eugene Hester Thompson, Jr. with additional family and biographical information.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Loyalty Oaths (Sc 2705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Loyalty Oaths (Sc 2705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2705. Blank oath of allegiance and United States bond, to be sworn by residents of Warren County, Kentucky.
Tabor, Sharon - Collector (Sc 2704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tabor, Sharon - Collector (Sc 2704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of contents (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2704. Calendar of events, historic walking tour information, and Pioneer Cemetery Lantern Tour scripts and supporting research, all relating to Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorations in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information on Civil War-era burials in Pioneer Cemetery.
Evans Family Papers (Sc 1022), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Evans Family Papers (Sc 1022), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1022. Letters, 1890-1892 (3), to Sallie (Barclay) Evans, Bowling Green, Kentucky from husband John W. Evans, and items related to his estate. Also included are letters, 1937-1946 (13), confirming charge accounts for the Evans’ daughter, Annie May (Evans) Ervin, photographs of the Ervin family’s servants, and related items.
Noe, James Thomas Cotton, 1864-1953 (Sc 1021), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Noe, James Thomas Cotton, 1864-1953 (Sc 1021), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1021. Published copy of James Thomas Cotton Noe’s poem, “Tip Sams of Kentucky, Patriot,” with added comments by Noe. Noe was honored as a Poet Laureate of Kentucky.
Martin, Lanna Gayle, B. 1961 (Sc 1023), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Lanna Gayle, B. 1961 (Sc 1023), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1023. Paper titled “Sadie F. Price: Artist, Botanist, Author, and Naturalist,” written by Lanna Gayle Martin for a Western Kentucky University class.