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Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 - Collector (Sc 936), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 - Collector (Sc 936), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 936. Letters kept by Henry Lewis Underwood, 1848-1925, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native, which include an 1800 letter of Henry Clay written to Robert Craddock; an 1875 letter of Jefferson Davis addressed to Underwood; an 1894 letter of Theodore Roosevelt addressed to C.R. Breckinridge; letters, 1885 (15), pertaining to a National Soldiers Reunion and Encampment; and miscellaneous items.

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Clark, William T. (Sc 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Clark, William T. (Sc 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 939. Letter, 28 November 1861, written by William T. Clark, Camp Nolin, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his aunt, Elisabeth Thompson, East Nottingham, Pennsylvania. He describes the setting up and moving out of a camp; estimates there are about 40,000 to 50,000 troops in the area; and mentions Simon Bolivar Buckner’s presence in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Godby, Allen Fogle, 1920-2004 (Sc 934), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Godby, Allen Fogle, 1920-2004 (Sc 934), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 934. Paper by Allen Fogle Godby titled, “W.W.II – Fifty Years Later” given to a Bowling Green, Kentucky High School assembly. Godby relates world conditions of that time period and records brief data about time spent in the Pacific Theater as a U.S. Army Air Corps sergeant. Godby did not see action on the fighting front.

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Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 938. Letters, 1986, 1987 (2), written by William Huston Natcher, Washington D.C., to Dr. and Mrs. William R. McCormack, Bowling Green, Kentucky; photocopy of letter from Ann Landers to Natcher, 1988; photocopies of letters Natcher wrote to his grandsons 1985-1987; and newspaper clippings, 1987-1988.

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Murdoch, Louise Saunders, 1872-1918 - Letters To (Sc 937), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Murdoch, Louise Saunders, 1872-1918 - Letters To (Sc 937), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 937. Congratulatory letters, 1918, written to Louise Saunders Murdoch, Buckhorn, Kentucky, concerning her recently published book, Almetta of Gabriel’s Run.

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Strode, Wendell Kay, B. 1948 (Sc 926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Strode, Wendell Kay, B. 1948 (Sc 926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 926. Letter, 16 April 1969, to Charles Arterburn, Flippin, Monroe County, Kentucky, thanking him for his letter which Strode received in Japan while recuperating from an injury suffered in Vietnam. He further relates that he will be returning to Vietnam in thirty days. The stationery is imprinted with a military cartoon.

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Speed, John Orville, 1871-1970 (Sc 933), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Speed, John Orville, 1871-1970 (Sc 933), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 933. Two poems; excerpt from Who’s Who in Poetry that included one of John Orville Speed’s poems; 1970 newspaper clipping about Speed, all found in an autographed copy of his 1962 book Anecdotes and Tall Tale in Rhyme. Speed was originally from Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, and was called the “Pennyrile Poet Laureate.”

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Social Life And Customs, 1904 (Sc 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Social Life And Customs, 1904 (Sc 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 928. Letter, 20 January 1904, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Katie Love, Gallatin, Tennessee, chiefly relating family news. The writer also mentions a visit to the local Morehead House Hotel and comments on two local churches.

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Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 943. Unsigned picture postcard, postmarked Cumberland, Maryland, and addressed to Rose Mehler, Lexington, Kentucky. The writer relates that their carnival was very successful and that their production of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was quite a “unique feature.” Picture on postcard is of the cast and scenery of the play.

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Barren County, Kentucky - History (Sc 930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Barren County, Kentucky - History (Sc 930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 930. Notes related to the early history of Barren County, Kentucky, and the establishment of the county seat, Glasgow. Also, copy of the record of the organizational meeting of Barren County’s Confederate Aid Society, 8 June 1872. Includes a list of the veterans and citizens who joined that day.

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Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 942. Compilation of papers titled “History of the Churches of Bowling Green, KY.,” by Sallie Atkins McElroy, which includes data about Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Church of Christ, Church of God, Episcopal, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Seventh-Day Adventist churches.

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Hines, Jason P., B. 1969 (Sc 932), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Hines, Jason P., B. 1969 (Sc 932), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 932. Four letters written by Jason P. Hines, stationed in Saudi Arabia, to his mother Kathleen Riley, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating his experiences in Operation Desert Shield, 1990, and Operation Desert Storm, 1991.

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Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 940), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 940), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 940. Copies of receipts, 1800-1806 (4), of early Warren County citizens, including Bowling Green co-founder, George Moore. Receipts pertain to property taxes, 1800; payment for building jail, 1802; gambling settlement, 1804; and request for James Brown to give a coat to an individual, 1806. Includes a 1966 newspaper article about the discovery of the documents.

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Teachers And Teaching - Powell County, Kentucky (Sc 927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Teachers And Teaching - Powell County, Kentucky (Sc 927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 927. Agreement of Fannie Hanks to teach school in Powell County, Kentucky for a six-month term beginning 5 July 1909. The contract lists the number of pupils and the responsibilities of the teacher.

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Nye, Lena (Kennedy) Covington, 1873-1970 (Sc 931), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Nye, Lena (Kennedy) Covington, 1873-1970 (Sc 931), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 931. Paper, written and evidently presented by Lena Covington Nye, Bowling Green, Kentucky, titled “Women Who Influenced George Washington’s Life.”

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Southern Foundry Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Southern Foundry Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 944. Letter, 7 June 1910, written by M.F. Bransford of the Southern Foundry Company, Owensboro, Kentucky, to C.F. Krider, Paris, Tennessee, inquiring about furnishing ironwork under a contract Krider has received to construct Grove School Dormitory in Paris.

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Dean, Jefferson, 1824-1864 (Sc 941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Dean, Jefferson, 1824-1864 (Sc 941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 941. Civil War letters (5), by Tennessee Confederate Jefferson Dean, to his wife, Sophia. His regiment was stationed in southeastern Kentucky, then Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He describes his company’s activities in preparation for the Battle of Mill Springs and with Felix Zollicoffer’s forces at Johnson’s Island, where he died. Other items include war records and photographs concerning Dean and Johnson’s Island cemetery.

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Gunnon, John (Sc 948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Gunnon, John (Sc 948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 948. Pension certificate issued to John Gunnon, a private in Company F, 34th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers. Dated 28 January 1883, the certificate awards $4.00 per month to Gunnon commencing on 28 March 1865, and $6.00 per month from 22 March 1882, the pension being “for piles.”

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Allison, Samuel C. (Sc 945), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Allison, Samuel C. (Sc 945), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 945. Letter, 10 February 1852, written by Samuel C. Allison to his mother. He details his river trip, from Cincinnati past the falls at Louisville to Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, to Chestnut Bluffs (Dyer County), Tennessee. He is evidently in a small boat and is beset by trials encountered in river travel, including cold weather and ice.

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Ahart, Frances (Shaw), 1850-1894 (Sc 946), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Ahart, Frances (Shaw), 1850-1894 (Sc 946), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 946. Letter, 30 September 1877, written by Frances (Shaw) Ahart, Hico, Calloway County, Kentucky, to "Brother & Sister" in LaGuardo, Wilson County, Tennessee relating family news. She signs as F.A. Shaw.

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Pace, Langston (Lg 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Pace, Langston (Lg 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Land Grant 437. Original land grant, 15 February 1819, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Langston Pace, assignee of William Nunn, 50 acres in Cumberland County, Kentucky.

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Patrick, William, 1763-1835 (Sc 947), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Patrick, William, 1763-1835 (Sc 947), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 947. Augusta County, Virginia citizen William Patrick’s will, written in anticipation of his travel to Kentucky. His siblings are listed.

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Watt Family Deeds (Sc 949), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Watt Family Deeds (Sc 949), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 949. Deeds, 1855-1858, of the Watt family of Warren and Edmonson counties, Kentucky. Deeds are chiefly of John and Felix Washington Watt.

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Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 954. Teacher’s certificate issued for the period 1909-1911, to J.M. Hill, Hardin County, Kentucky. Included are grades he earned in various subjects.

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Taylor, Isaac (Lg 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Taylor, Isaac (Lg 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Land Grant 438. Original land grant, 16? September 1814?, by which Richard Hickman, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Isaac Taylor, assignee of James Galloway, 200 acres in Cumberland County, Kentucky.

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Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2695. Invitations to the 1886, 1887 and 1888 commencement exercises of Cedar Bluff College, a school for young ladies in Woodburn, Kentucky. The members of the graduating classes are listed, and the 1888 invitation includes the program for the event.

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Thornton, James Bankhead, 1806-1867 (Sc 2696), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Thornton, James Bankhead, 1806-1867 (Sc 2696), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2696. Letter, 9 February 1847, of lawyer James B. Thornton, Memphis, Tennessee, to John M. Thornton, Newport, Kentucky. He asks John to deliver a circular and notice about a book he has written to a bookseller in Cincinnati, Ohio. He also provides an update on the search for an estate heir and mentions his poor health.

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Women's Monumental Fund (Sc 2694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Women's Monumental Fund (Sc 2694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2694. Certificate of The Women’s Monumental Fund Fund (no recipient named) acknowledging a contribution for the erection of a monument in Frankfort, Kentucky honoring Governor William J. Goebel. The monument was dedicated in 1910.

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Burnam Family Papers (Sc 953), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Burnam Family Papers (Sc 953), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 953. Letters, chiefly from John Q. Burnam, 1804-1891, to his son, James H. Burnam, 1840-1906, and wife Victoria Burnam in Fayetteville, Tennessee, discussing family genealogy. Also contains information about John’s connection with Freemasonry, and an advertisement pamphlet for an unusual gun used to attach signs to buildings.

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Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Sc 952), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Sc 952), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 952. Photocopy of script (31 p.) used from radio program “Our America” broadcast on WLW Cincinnati about John Hunt Morgan. Also original letter regarding script.

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