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Elections And Election Campaigns - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Elections And Election Campaigns - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 676. Certified election return of the Rosemead Precinct, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, showing candidates and number of votes received in the election held on 8 November 1892.

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Cleveland, Frances (Folsom), 1864-1947 (Sc 671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Cleveland, Frances (Folsom), 1864-1947 (Sc 671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 671. Letter written by Frances (Folsom) Cleveland, from the White House, Washington, D.C., to Henry J. Payne, Morganfield, Kentucky, expressing her appreciation for a gift and the good wishes Mr. Payne had sent to her and President Grover Cleveland.

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Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 672. Printed copy of the will of Mary Washington, mother of President George Washington, as registered in the Clerk’s Office at Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan representative of material in the collection (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 670. Correspondence of Miss Estella T. Weeks of Washington, D.C., with Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to Weeks’s research on the Shakers and the holdings of Shaker material in the Kentucky Library.

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Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2679. Military orders, reports and correspondence of or to Colonel Benjamin Covington Grider, commander of the Ninth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The reports and Grider’s letter to his father detail action during the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Includes a memorial tribute to Grider’s son, Judge Loving Grider, with some family information.

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Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 901. World War I discharge certificate of Frank Young Patterson of Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky.

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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 904. Visitors’ recollections of where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination. These recollections were recorded in connection with an exhibit in the Kentucky Library commemorating the 30th anniversary of Kennedy’s death.

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Cox, Robert Mickle, 1831-1917 (Sc 903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Cox, Robert Mickle, 1831-1917 (Sc 903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 903. A journal compiled by Robert M. Cox listing Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky Confederate veterans and those who are deceased; items of the Bowling Green United Confederate Veterans, 1915, 1923; and newspaper clipping of Cox’s obituary.

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Russell, William Allen, 1902-1990 & Geneva Russell, 1906-2008 (Sc 905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Russell, William Allen, 1902-1990 & Geneva Russell, 1906-2008 (Sc 905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 905. Promotional letter, 17 August 1933, sent by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Russell, owners of Irene’s Beauty Shop, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to their customers advising them of classes they have taken in St. Louis in the care of hair and skin and inviting their customers to visit them.

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Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 669. History of the Current Events Club, formed in 1902, written by Mrs. Margaret (Nicholls) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a typescripted 1931 newspaper article with club history.

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Tolle Family (Sc 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Tolle Family (Sc 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan representative of items in copybook (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 674. Copybook pages containing penmanship specimens of various members of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky.

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Lawson, Marjorie C. (Barker), 1905-1991 (Sc 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Lawson, Marjorie C. (Barker), 1905-1991 (Sc 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 673. Letter of Mrs. Marjorie (Barker) Lawson, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to Julia Neal, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning her grandfather, John W. Barker, and a photostat of his account of his Civil War service in the Confederate Army.

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Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 902), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 902), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 902. Letter written by Jesse Hilton Stuart, Greenup, Kentucky, to Elizabeth Cossey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, thanking her for her letter and stating that he has no materials to send her for a classroom display. Also envelope.

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Barr, Berenice (Owens), 1885-1977 And Lockwood Anderson Barr, 1883-1969 - Compilers (Mss 452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Barr, Berenice (Owens), 1885-1977 And Lockwood Anderson Barr, 1883-1969 - Compilers (Mss 452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 452. “Hines, Winter[s], Thomas, Underwood, Owens and Allied Families of Kentucky and Virginia,” a collection of genealogy and family history compiled by Berenice and Lockwood Barr of Pelham Manor, New York for the descendants of Warner Underwood Hines, son of HaroldK. Hines, Jr. and Beulah (Winters) Hines of Frankfort, Kentucky. Includes genealogical charts, notes, clippings and correspondence.

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Cleaver, Oscar Payne, 1905-1996 (Mss 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Cleaver, Oscar Payne, 1905-1996 (Mss 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 106. Miscellaneous papers related to the military and civilian careers of Hart County, Kentucky, native Oscar Payne Cleaver, who was a lighting expert and was instrumental in the development of night vision equipment. Includes a brief reminiscence about his lighting work on the film “Gone With the Wind.”

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Underwood, Warner Lewis, 1808-1872 (Sc 2678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Underwood, Warner Lewis, 1808-1872 (Sc 2678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2678. Letters of Warner Lewis Underwood of Bowling Green, Kentucky, written to his family from Texas, Washington, D. C., Scotland, and Frankfort, Kentucky. He writes to his wife of business and household matters,and of political affairs during his service in the Kentucky Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. A letter to his son-in-law from Scotland, where Underwood was serving as consul, praises his Civil War service. Correspondence with his son discusses the younger Underwood’s law studies in Albany, New York.

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Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 898. Research notes from journals of the South Union, Kentucky, Shakers concerning entries about trees and plants, compiled by Shaker historian Mary Julia Neal.

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Carson, Charles Clifton, 1918-2004 (Sc 900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Carson, Charles Clifton, 1918-2004 (Sc 900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 900. Letter, 1 December 1970, written by Charles C. Carson, United States Consul General in Seville, Spain, to Beulah C. Ellis, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He recalls his boarding school days at Mrs. Ellis’, talks about his work, comments on American drug smugglers, and mentions family matters. Also related news article and clipping, greeting card and photograph.

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Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 105. Miscellaneous papers collected by Ethel Roark, Franklin, Kentucky. Includes a World War II letter; personal letters (4); Knights of Pythias certificate; general store ledger with a 1929 inventory; 1954 letter promoting legal alcohol sales in Simpson County; and 1965 farm diary.

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Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 897), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 897), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 897. Letter, 8 September 1993, written by Congressman William H. Natcher in response to a request by the Bowling Green Historical Preservation Board, giving detailed data about historic houses located on East Main Street, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where Natcher maintained his home. Also included is a photocopy of the letter with minor comments added by Irene Sumpter and Cora Jane Spiller.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fortifications (Sc 899), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fortifications (Sc 899), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 899. Photocopies and documentation of plans of Civil War forts in Bowling Green, Kentucky. While these may have all been drawn in 1865, the plans have earlier dates on them.

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Hines, Warner Underwood, 1896-1949 (Sc 2680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hines, Warner Underwood, 1896-1949 (Sc 2680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2680. Certificate of appointment as Ensign in the U.S. Navy, issued to Warner Underwood Hines, 6 June 1919.

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Barnett, Morris Harper, 1830-1873 (Sc 892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Barnett, Morris Harper, 1830-1873 (Sc 892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 892. Records of gallons of spirits gauged by M. H. Barnett, Hartford, Kentucky, for Thomas J. Monarch and filed with the United States Internal Revenue Office; 1873 expense account of Barnett for gauging spirits in Ohio and Butler counties in Kentucky.

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St. Clair, Arthur, 1737-1818 (Sc 894), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

St. Clair, Arthur, 1737-1818 (Sc 894), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 894. Proclamation issued by Arthur St. Clair, governor of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River, for the legislature of that area to meet at Marietta on 10 March 1795 to consider matters pertaining to the welfare and prosperity of the people living in that region.

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Edmonson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 895), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Edmonson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 895), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 895. Chiefly Edmonson County, Kentucky, deeds of the Hawkins, 1845-1930 (8), Pardue, 1900, 1913 (2), and Rountree, 1888, 1893 (2) families. Also deed of Alex Lancaster to the Methodist Church trustees, 1872, and Isaac Cross family record.

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Thomas, Mary (Sc 896), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Thomas, Mary (Sc 896), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 896. Original drawings (2) of wildflowers by Mary Thomas of Ursuline Academy, Louisville, Kentucky. Also photocopies of related data, 1966 (13).

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Matlock Family Papers (Mss 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Matlock Family Papers (Mss 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 450. Personal papers, mostly tax receipts and deeds, of the Matlock family of Logan County, Kentucky. Includes some genealogical data and a journal of a trip to London kept by an Englishwoman whose relation to the family is unknown.

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Mitchell, Bernice Margaret, 1903-2000 (Sc 893), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Mitchell, Bernice Margaret, 1903-2000 (Sc 893), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 893. Correspondence of Bernice Mitchell, Burnside, Kentucky, concerning the book Burnside, Kentucky, 1890-1990: The First One Hundred Years, and her acquaintance with author Harriette Simpson Arnow.

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Duncan And Hines Family Papers (Mss 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Duncan And Hines Family Papers (Mss 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 447. Correspondence, accounts, deeds, clippings, and miscellaneous papers, primarily of Joseph Dillard Duncan and Jane (Covington) Duncan of Warren County, Kentucky, and their children and grandchildren in the Duncan and Hines families. Includes notes on the Civil War military service of Edward Ludlow Hines and Hiram Woodford Dulaney (click on "Additional Files" below for scans).

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Boats And Boating (Sc 909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Boats And Boating (Sc 909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 909. Material related to four Bowling Green, Kentucky teenaged boys who built a houseboat costing $75.00, and made a safe, month-long, voyage from Bowling Green to New Orleans, tying up there on 3 July 1948.

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