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Schultz, Hattie Neil (Scates) Coraine, 1878-1966 (Sc 917), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Schultz, Hattie Neil (Scates) Coraine, 1878-1966 (Sc 917), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 917. Two items of correspondence by William Coraine, South Union, Logan County, Kentucky; 1897 certificate of Hattie’s marriage to Coraine; Coraine’s 1903 funeral card; 1905 certificate of Hattie’s marriage to August Schultz; photograph of Hattie and William Coraine; genealogical information and miscellaneous items.


Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 918. Photocopies of the Civil War enlistment, promotion, and discharge papers of Henry Peyton Bledsoe, Logan County, Kentucky. He was a member of Company E, 26th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.


Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 972. Paper titled “African American Education in Kentucky: An Overview,” presented at the Kentucky Building, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in observance of Black History Month by history professor John Hardin.


Third District, Kentucky Branch Of The National Congress Of Parents And Teachers - Minutes (Sc 2687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Third District, Kentucky Branch Of The National Congress Of Parents And Teachers - Minutes (Sc 2687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts 2687. Minutes of the Third District, Kentucky Branch of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Minutes were kept in a notebook in chronological order.


Horse Theft - Insurance Policies (Sc 919), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Horse Theft - Insurance Policies (Sc 919), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 919. Horse theft insurance policy issued to James M. Matlock, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky by The Kentucky Insurance Company, Louisville. Descriptions of the two horses insured is noted.


Sutton Family (Sc 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Sutton Family (Sc 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 973. A page from the Bible of the Sutton family, Logan County, Kentucky, listing births and deaths.


Giesy, Henry Hensel, 1836-1864 (Sc 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Giesy, Henry Hensel, 1836-1864 (Sc 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 975. Civil War letters, 1862-1863 (3), written by Henry H. Giesy of Company F, 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, discussing military actions, especially battles at Shiloh, Tennessee and in the Vicksburg, Mississippi area, during the Civil War. Giesy was a brigadier general for the Union. Includes related research data.


World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 971. Photocopies of letters (2), written to Milwaukee, Wisconsin residents, chiefly concerning naval life in South America, 1944, and including comments about bombing devastation and V-E Day celebrations in Europe.


Geeslin, Robert H. (Sc 974), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Geeslin, Robert H. (Sc 974), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 974. Report titled “Caves of the Warren County, Kentucky area,” submitted by Robert H. Geeslin to the Cave Research Foundation, 1965? Includes holographic maps.


Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 2686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 2686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2686. Letter of Jesse Stuart, 16 April 1960, to Elizabeth Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University (then Western Kentucky State College). He recalls his first meeting with the college’s late president, Paul L. Garrett, and praises Garrett’s personal qualities and the breadth of his reading.


Bruce, Horatio Washington, 1830-1903 (Sc 2685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Bruce, Horatio Washington, 1830-1903 (Sc 2685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2685. Handbill of H. W. Bruce announcing his candidacy to represent the 7th Congressional District of Kentucky in the Congress of the Confederate States, and outlining his objectives if elected. Includes an endorsement from the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier, 2 January 1862.


Meador, Isabel (Sarver), 1832-1912 (Sc 2683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Meador, Isabel (Sarver), 1832-1912 (Sc 2683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2683. Letter, 31 January 1874, of Isabel Meador, Bristow, Warren County, Kentucky, to her son A. G. Meador, Union City, Tennessee (redirected to Bowling Green, Kentucky). She writes of health problems and visitors, and asks his assistance in drawing up a note for a relative who wishes to borrow money from her on the security of land near the family home.


Mckay, Silas Harland, 1807-1884 (Sc 2682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Mckay, Silas Harland, 1807-1884 (Sc 2682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2682. Promissory note dated 23 April 1857 of S. H. McKay of Warren County, Kentucky to Samuel Worthington for $1655 in payment for land. A credit notation of $1000 was made on the note in 1859 by Joseph Rogers Underwood. Also includes a survey sketch of the land.


Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, 1852-1943 (Sc 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, 1852-1943 (Sc 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 999. Recollections of Elizabeth Gaines about her life in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky. She discusses residents, schools, and businesses. Gaines includes a detailed account of Civil War incidents in Bowling Green that she recalls from her childhood.


Boaz, Peggy Bradley, B. 1951 (Sc 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Boaz, Peggy Bradley, B. 1951 (Sc 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 979. Thesis titled, “The Oral Folk History Surrounding the Life of William Bernard ‘Big Six’ Henderson,” written by Peggy Bradley Boaz for Western Kentucky University’s Folk Studies Program, 1976. Also associated newspaper clippings, 1978, 1987 (2).


Kinney, Grover, 1885-1963 (Sc 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Kinney, Grover, 1885-1963 (Sc 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 976. Letters to and receipts of Lewis County, Kentucky farmer, Grover Kinney.


Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 977. Telegrams, 1945 (5), discharge papers, 1945-1948 (3), broadside, newspaper clipping. and photographs (2), pertaining to Muhlenberg County native Marvin Ellis Morphew’s World War II service, especially as a German prisoner of war.


Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2681. Charges and specifications preferred under a general court martial of William H. Herbert, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery, for acts of disrespect to an officer, disobedience of orders, and mutiny committed at Fort College Hill near Bowling Green, Kentucky on 10 November 1863.


Gardler, Francis Vincent, B. 1966 (Sc 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Gardler, Francis Vincent, B. 1966 (Sc 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 978. Paper written by Francis Vincent Gardler for a Western Kentucky University history class based on an interview with Lowell Hayes Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The paper focuses on Harrison’s World War II experiences.


Vail, Carmen, B. 1959? (Sc 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Vail, Carmen, B. 1959? (Sc 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 986. Project titled “Welcome to Woolco,” done by Carmen Vail for a Distributive Education class at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Woolco was a retail store located in Bowling Green’s Greenwood Mall for a number of years.


Taylor, Lee Arnold, 1893-1961 (Sc 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Taylor, Lee Arnold, 1893-1961 (Sc 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 984. Business contract regarding a tombstone for Joel H. Gregory, 1913, and papers, March 1919 of Lee Arnold Taylor, Henderson County, Kentucky, regarding military leave.


Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 983. Letter written from France by Cooper Ray Smith to his sister Mackie Bennett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing his trip to France, the end of World War I, and inquiring about events in Bowling Green.


Page, Evelyn Ellis (Pulliam), 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Page, Evelyn Ellis (Pulliam), 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 982. Affectionate letters from her sons to Evelyn Page of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1905, 1913; letter regarding son Foster Page’s religious conversion; letter discussing rural life; and invitation to an egg fair, 1895.


Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 988. Wills of Janice (Holt) and Henry Giles, Knifley (Adair County), Kentucky, including rights to Janice's books, royalties, papers, etc.


Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 981. Receipts, marriage records, and notes collected by William C. Skaggs of Edmonson County, Kentucky.


Loving, John, 1770-1827 (Sc 985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Loving, John, 1770-1827 (Sc 985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 985. Letter written by John Loving, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brother Samuel, Lovingston, Virginia, encouraging Samuel and relatives to emigrate to his region which he calls “the flower of the western country.” Loving also discusses the raising of cattle and the financial gain therefrom. Also family data.


Montjoy, John L. "Pete," 1914-1937 (Sc 990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Montjoy, John L. "Pete," 1914-1937 (Sc 990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 990. Form letter, 24 August 1936, distributed by the Montjoy Fair Trial Committee of Covington, Kentucky, regarding the case of John “Pete” Montjoy. The Committee claims that his trial was “farcical” and requests that the public urge Governor Chandler to commute the death sentence by hanging. Includes excerpt from George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky 1865-1940 concerning the trial.


Runner, William Taylor, 1890-1969 (Sc 989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Runner, William Taylor, 1890-1969 (Sc 989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 989. Certificate, 1 December 1915, investing William Taylor Runner with authority as a 2nd Lieutenant, Co. A, 3rd Infantry, Kentucky National Guard, effective 23 February 1914. Signed by Governor James B. McCreary.


Ketcham, Jennie B. (Brown) (Sc 987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Ketcham, Jennie B. (Brown) (Sc 987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 987. Autograph album of Jennie B. (Brown) Ketcham, probably of New London, Ohio. There are also entries of friends and family from Bridgeport, Connecticut, and New York City.


Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 980. Letter written by Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to a Miss Symmes, regarding Bowling Green’s participation in the planned Kentucky Room at the 1893 World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) in Chicago.