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Dumarey?, J. R. (Sc 1017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan of transcription (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1017. Civil War letter written by J. R. DuMarey?, Lexington, Kentucky, to his father in Delta (Fulton County, Ohio), relating camp news. Mentions an owner reclaiming his enslaved African American who had been working for one of the army captains.

Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Letters (Sc 1020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1020. Letters, 1990-1991 (5), written by two soldiers serving in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, to Lewis and Selma Dickinson, Glasgow, Kentucky. Everyday war activities are discussed with emphasis on weather, food, and an Easter religious service.

Marquess, Kathleen Caroline (Perkins), 1895-1973 (Sc 1018), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1018. Booklet (39 pages) of poems and brief prose, Moments of Gladness, Madness and Sadness, published by Kathleen Caroline Perkins Marquess, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She records comments about many of her writings and includes letter written to Allan Trout, 1961. In letter she discusses the details of getting the booklet published.

J. W. Cardwell & Company (Sc 2702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2702. Blank agreements for the services of J.W. Cardwell & Company to procure contracts and make out claims of sundry persons for slaves in the military service of the United States. Includes the terms of compensation. One agreement is undated; the other is dated 1865 and references claims to be made in Warren County, Kentucky.

Civil War, 1861-1965 - Military Service (Sc 2703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2703. Circuit judge’s order, affidavit and statement relating to applications for discharge or exemption from military service in the U. S. Army. An underaged apprentice is discharged for enlisting without the consent of his master, one of three sons seeks exemption to care for aged parents, and an unnamed officer seeks a discharge due to poor health.

Morgan, John Hunt, 1826-1864 - Relating To, 1863 (Sc 1019), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1019. Special Order Number 44, signed by Major General Wheeler, Confederate States of America Cavalry, 8^th Regiment, near Shelbyville, Tennessee, detailing plans for Morgan to proceed to Kentucky with a force of 2,000 in an attempt to destroy the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and supplies. Impressment authorization is granted to Captain McCarthy and assistants

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Cochran, Benjamin F. (Lg 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Land Grant 439. Original land grant, 17 August 1836, by which James T. Morehead, Lieutenant and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin F. Cochran 160 acres west of the Tennessee River (now part of Graves County).

Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 455. Correspondence, accounts, land surveys, and miscellaneous business and legal papers of Orlando C. Bowles, a Civil War veteran, lawyer, farmer, and timber trader of Pike County, Kentucky. Includes some material relating to the Cecil family of Floyd and Pike counties.

Wiggins, Bobbie Reeves (Sc 2701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2701. Sample copy, with edits, of “The Legacy of Woodland School, Early 1900’s to 1963,” a history of Woodland School, Paducah, Kentucky by Bobbie Reeves Wiggins.

Penn, Anna Ruth (Sc 1013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1013. Receipt signed by school teacher (Anna) Ruth Penn, Gracy, Kentucky, and given to M.S. Hopson, a member of the School Board of Trustees, for payment. She requested payment of $4.50 for three months’ tuition. Penn was the mother of noted author, Robert Penn Warren. Also associated data.

Quirey, Aaron Winston, 1896-1965 (Sc 1014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1014. Bureau of Mines’ first aid training certificate; letters concerning World War I pension and disability claim; Mammoth Cave and Fort Knox civil service employment of Aaron Winston Quirey, Sturgis, Kentucky, 1926-1961 (20); teacher’s certificate of William A. Proctor (maternal grandfather), Logan County, 1884; newspaper clippings and associated items.

Knox County, Kentucky - Motels (Sc 1012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1012. Letter, 1948, written by Maurice G. Howard, Corbin, Kentucky, to George Gosieki, Racine, Wisconsin, concerning Virgil Whyte’s “All Girl Band” staying at Howard’s motel while performing in the region. Also photocopy of recognition certificate, 1995, pertaining to the support Whyte’s band gave to World War II’s 50th anniversary remembrance program.

Green River - Locks And Dams (Sc 1009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1009. Survey for tract of land at southern end of Lock and Dam Number 5 on Green River at Glenmore in Warren County, Kentucky.

Parks, Sherman, B. 1890? (Sc 1006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1006. Letters, 1933 (2), written by Sherman Parks, Madisonville, Kentucky, to Joseph F. Garnett, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Parks, as an officer in the Hopkins County and Kentucky Colored Independent Voters Leagues, requests assistance, including monetary aid to promote the recruitment of African- Americans to Kentucky’s Democratic Party.

Barter, Edwin Henry Steele, D. 1873 (Sc 2698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2698. Letter, 8 August 1865, of Edwin Barter to Benjamin Covington Grider. Writing from Madras Presidency, a province of British India, Barter provides his recollections of the handling by Grider and others of funds used to pay bounties to soldiers enlisting in the 9th Kentucky Regiment during the Civil War. He also describes his business activities and offers his opinions of the local people, conditions in India, and of British attitudes toward residing there.

Smith, Charles Ferguson, 1807-1862 (Sc 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1011. General Order Number 32, 11 November 1861, issued at Paducah, Kentucky, by Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith. Order contains reports of the troops under the command of Brigadier General Eleazer Arthur Paine that had recently marched to Milburn, Kentucky. They are described as a “mere armed mob” and reprimanded for looting. Includes data about Smith.

Mccormack, Joseph Nathaniel, 1847-1922 (Sc 1005), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1005. Letter addressed to “Dear Doctor”, sent by secretary Joseph Nathaniel McCormack of the Kentucky State Board of Health, Bowling Green, Kentucky, extolling the merit of the Rosenow-Mayo vaccine for the prevention of influenza and pneumonia. Dr. Lillian South is noted as the one in charge of the vaccine distribution.

Helm Family Papers (Sc 2697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2697. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Helm family of Bowling Green, Kentucky and Logan County, Kentucky. Includes family letters, 1938 financial information relating to the Morehead House Hotel, family reunion literature, a letter of praise to Walter A. Baker from U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and materials relating to the 1994 drowning death of Thomas Carson Helm.

Bowling Green Gas, Oil And Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2700. Three certificates for shares of stock in the Bowling Green Gas, Oil and Refining Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a subscription form for stock in the Consolidated Oil Corporation.

Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 1008), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1008. Letters (11) and postcards (2) written to Allan and Vicki Harvey, Louisville, Kentucky, from several different Desert Storm soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. Also photo and associated letter.

Fox-Walthall Letters (Sc 1007), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 1007. Family letters of the Fox and Walthall families, chiefly of Mildred P. (Walthall), Joseph, Rachel M. and William S. Fox of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The collection includes family correspondence, Civil War letters, 1861-1862 (34), and courtship letters.

South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. (Sc 1004), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1004. Letters (2) written to South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. member subscribers providing information about telephone service and membership benefits in the Glasgow, Kentucky, area, 1954-1957.

Hobson House Commission - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 115. Organizational records including correspondence, minutes, financial reports, annual reports, yearbooks, portions of a policy manual, legal papers, and other miscellaneous papers related to the Hobson House Commission, which oversees the operation and maintenance of Riverview, a historic Bowling Green, Kentucky property.

Daviess County High School - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 2699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2699. Last will and testament of the Daviess County High School Class of 1939.

Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1003. Courtship letters (29) written by Roger Charles Porter of Warren County, Kentucky to his future wife, Nan Cole, during a summer she spent at Massey Springs, a Warren County resort operated by her parents. The Porters married 16 March 1911.

Smith, Howard, 1922-1944 (Sc 1001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1001. World War II correspondence, chiefly written by Howard Smith to his family in Hart and Larue counties in Kentucky. Smith was a munitions carrier in Company C, 133rd Infantry Division. Also contains letters from friends and family, and information about his death in Italy in 1944 and his reburial in Smith Cemetery (Priceville, Kentucky) in 1949.

Long Brothers Realtors - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1000), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1000. Correspondence of Luther Long related to land transactions in Warren County, Kentucky.

Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts of selected material for Manuscripts Collection 112. Correspondence, chiefly written by Monroe County, Kentucky native Chillon Conway Carter, to his wife, Lucinda E. and his two daughters Nancy G. and Louisa A., during the Civil War. Also includes letters written to Carter by his brother, John B. Carter, who lived in White County, Illinois.

Mothers Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 113. Organizational records including minutes, financial and attendance reports, yearbooks, and newspaper clippings related to the Mothers Club, a group of concerned mothers who formed the Bowling Green club in 1925 for educational purposes. The group formally dissolved in 1998.

Howell, Bessie (Sc 2674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2674. Paper written by Bessie Howell titled "Kentucky Pioneers and Their Contributions, 1792-1820" for a class at Western Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College.