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Hill, Waller B., 1857-1942 (Sc 687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hill, Waller B., 1857-1942 (Sc 687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 687. Copy of the 1936 children’s book The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. Waller B. Hill, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, asked various Bowling Green citizens to read it and inscribe their impressions on pages he had added to the front of the book.
Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 700. Minutes of the 18th annual meeting of the Gasper River Bible Society of the Baptist Church, held at Salem meeting house, Butler County, Kentucky in August 1856.
Crump, Benedict Beverly, 1802-1854 (Sc 696), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crump, Benedict Beverly, 1802-1854 (Sc 696), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 696. Photocopy of letter, 19 February 1828, of Benedict B. Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Haiden Trigg Curd, Glasgow, Kentucky, relating to a confidential matter.
Tucker, James Harvey, 1865-1962 (Sc 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tucker, James Harvey, 1865-1962 (Sc 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 698. Sketch map and key, prepared by James H. Tucker, of Oakland, Warren County, Kentucky, showing the community as it existed in 1875.
Vincent, Sarah Ann (Orrahood), B. 1953 (Sc 697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vincent, Sarah Ann (Orrahood), B. 1953 (Sc 697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 697. Photocopy of paper on the California gold rush entitled “From the Heaven of the West,” written for a history course at Western Kentucky University. Letters of Warren County, Kentucky resident William Harris to his wife Louranah, found in the Mabel Mercer Gingles Collection (SC 114) in WKU’s Special Collections Library, were used in writing this paper.
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Sc 691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Sc 691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 691. Letter, 16 May 1831, of President Andrew Jackson to his adopted son, Andrew Jackson, Jr., in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He requests that his son relay a message to Major William Lewis in that city.
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 694. Letter, 7 April 1866, of Robert E. Lee, Lexington, Virginia, to Mrs. S. C. P. Miller of Petersburg, Virginia. Lee returns photographs with his signature as requested, and encloses others which his wife has recommended as better likenesses. Includes one photograph.
Kentucky Military Institute - Lyndon, Kentucky - Alumni (Sc 686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Military Institute - Lyndon, Kentucky - Alumni (Sc 686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and sample scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 686. Letters from alumni or family members of alumni of the Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Kentucky, to the Alumni Association, providing information about their military service and other activities. A 1901 graduate includes his reminiscences of KMI.
Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 695. Letter of John Adair , 8 July 1803, to attorney Thomas Todd concerning various legal matters in Mercer Circuit Court, Mercer County, Kentucky.
Caudill, Rebecca, 1899-1985 (Sc 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Caudill, Rebecca, 1899-1985 (Sc 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 991. Letters (2), written to Evelyn Thurman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Rebecca Caudill, Urbana, Illinois, discussing her and her husband’s writings and day-to-day activities and showing her friendship with Thurman, who later wrote a biography of Caudill.
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan, 1824-1863 (Sc 693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan, 1824-1863 (Sc 693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 693. Letter of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, 17 August 1861, from First Brigade headquarters near Manassas, Virginia to Governor John Letcher of Virginia. Clarifying a recommendation of promotion he had desired for Major William Baylor, Jackson denies an intention to have Baylor replace the current incumbent in his old regiment as colonel.
Hubbard, Sam R., 1906-1973 (Sc 683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hubbard, Sam R., 1906-1973 (Sc 683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 683. Papers of Sam R. Hubbard, State Senator from Russell Springs, Kentucky, in which the writers seek his support relating to issues and bills that will come before the state legislature. Includes letters from individuals and organizations, draft legislation, and a brochure with a pictorial roster of the 1960 General Assembly.
Burke, Harry Taylor, 1909-2011 (Sc 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burke, Harry Taylor, 1909-2011 (Sc 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 992. Presentation by Harry Taylor Burke, at Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to the devastation of the Philippines by the Japanese during World War II, and especially to the Episcopal church building. Burke had preciously been minister at the Bowling Green church. Includes letter about the paper, 1995.
Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 690. Letter, 20 September 1792, from Kentucky Governor Isaac Shelby to Major General Charles Scott of Woodford County, Kentucky, forwarding extracts from a letter to Shelby from United States Secretary of War Henry Knox requesting an account of the scouts or spies employed in Kentucky under Scott’s direction. Shelby authorizes their continued employment and advises that copies of state laws relative to the militia are forthcoming for distribution.
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 (Sc 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 (Sc 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 689. Receipt, 1 November 1781, given to David Davis by Daniel Boone for expenses incurred for land warrants.
Logan, Benjamin, 1743-1802 And Ann (Montgomery) Logan, 1752-1825 (Sc 692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan, Benjamin, 1743-1802 And Ann (Montgomery) Logan, 1752-1825 (Sc 692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 692. Deed, 18 February 1785, from Benjamin Logan and his wife Ann Logan of Lincoln County, Virginia, to Richard Jackman of the same place, for one hundred acres in Lincoln County. In 1792, the county became part of Kentucky.
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 684. Holograph poem entitled "Look With Love," by David Morton, a native of Elkton, Kentucky.
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Parks And Playgrounds (Sc 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Parks And Playgrounds (Sc 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 993. Ordinance, 1942, establishing a System of Parks and Playgrounds for the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The ordinance designates seven parcels of property to constitute the system and sets out the responsibilities of the Board of Parks and Playgrounds.
Wells, George M., Sr., 1887-1956 (Sc 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wells, George M., Sr., 1887-1956 (Sc 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 994. Teacher’s certificates issued to George M. Wells by Metcalfe County, Kentucky, for two years in 1907, and one issued by Monroe County, Kentucky, for four years in 1909; Wells’ grade card from Loyola University Medical School, 1914-1915; and obituaries of Wells (2).
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 (Sc 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 (Sc 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 685. Letter written from Sea Girt, New Jersey, by Woodrow Wilson, to John A. Turpin, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing thanks for Turpin’s letter and check for $1.00.
Phelps Family Papers (Sc 995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phelps Family Papers (Sc 995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 995. Slave bills of sale, 1831-1854 (5); contract to hire slave, 1848; and receipt for the return of a runaway slave, 1856; of Julian River Phelps (father) and James Melvin Phelps (son), Butler County, Kentucky. Includes a broadside about the upcoming sale of Julian’s Butler County estate, 1856.
Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 680. Two letters to James Jenkins, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from New Orleans commission merchants, discussing terms of sale of lard, hams, grease, pork, tobacco and beef consigned by Jenkins.
Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 997. Letter, 11 May 1919, written by William Swan Van Meter, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his mother while stationed in Germany serving with the American Expeditionary Forces. He notes General John J. Pershing’s request that every soldier write his mother that day (Mother’s Day), and describes military life as a soldier awaiting his next orders. Includes a photocopy of a photograph of Van Meter in uniform.
Garrison, Lucien, 1874-1957 (Sc 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Garrison, Lucien, 1874-1957 (Sc 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 998. Based on stories of Lucien Garrison’s father, Calvin A. Garrison (1800-1895) and his uncle Samuel Crosthwait (1823?-1912), Garrison’s manuscript emphasizes the location of Bowling Green residences, schools and businesses.
Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 681. Letter, 1 January 1864, of Union Army General Jeremiah Tilford Boyle, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, to Captain Alexander C. Semple, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding changes of command in the state.
Word, Elizabeth, 1914-1995 (Sc 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Word, Elizabeth, 1914-1995 (Sc 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 996. Letters (19) to Elizabeth Word, Warren County, Kentucky, Home Demonstration Agent, from N. F. Elliott, University of Kentucky landscape professor; outlines for landscape presentations (13) by Word, and sundry materials related to landscape gardening.
Thomas, Richard Curd, 1838-1879 (Sc 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Richard Curd, 1838-1879 (Sc 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 675. Statement of Richard Curd Thomas, a Bowling Green, Kentucky physician, to George Stayton, itemizing charges for visits, overnight stays, prescriptions and an obstetrics case.
Fremont, Jessie (Benton), 1824-1902 (Sc 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fremont, Jessie (Benton), 1824-1902 (Sc 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and sample scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 679. Letter of Jessie (Benton) Frémont, Los Angeles, California, to a cousin, Letitia Hart Alexander of Louisville, Kentucky, relating some Hart and Gooch family relationships. Includes photo of Mrs. Fremont made in 1899.
Duncan, Benjamin, 1772-1809 (Sc 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan, Benjamin, 1772-1809 (Sc 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 678. Cipher book kept by Benjamin Duncan, of Culpeper County, Virginia and Fayette County, Kentucky. Includes samples of legal forms and letters.
Wallis, Richard (Sc 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wallis, Richard (Sc 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of a sample (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 677. Pages from a copybook containing penmanship samples of Richard Wallis.