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Allen, Edward (Sc 870), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 870. Letter, 21 October 1865, written to “Mon Ami" by Edward Allen, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, advising that he is sending her a lady’s tool chest which he crafted from woods from the rocky cliffs of Kentucky, “the dark and bloody ground” of tradition.

Leeds, Steven, B. 1968 (Sc 864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 864. Letter, 24 May 1996, written by Steven Leeds, Lantana, Florida, to Kentucky Library and Museum, Bowling Green, Kentucky, detailing the finding of Indian burial sites in Bracken County, Kentucky, and giving other data about the burial sites. May be viewed by administrative permission only.

Cadiz Railroad Company - Cadiz, Kentucky (Mss 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 354. Business records of the Cadiz Railroad Company, Cadiz, Kentucky. Includes correspondence and memoranda, directors minutes, annual reports, passenger, freight, and mail reports, invoices, receipts, loss and damage claim records, and industry and government publications.

Meredith, Nette Arterberry, 1900-1985 (Sc 2673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2673. Paper titled "An Old Kentucky Home" about the home of E.D. Garrison in Allen County, Kentucky. The paper describes the design and construction of the home and its furnishings, and includes photographs.

Land - Lotteries (Sc 663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 663. Printed lottery ticket, numbered and signed by William McClain, issued in the “great land sale” in Henderson County, Kentucky, approved by an act of the legislature on 5 February 1868. The drawing took place on 7 July 1870.

Banks And Banking (Sc 664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 664. Notes, 1821-1822, and notice of note due, 1822, issued by the Bank of Kentucky at its Glasgow and Bowling Green branches; stock certificate issued by the Bank of Kentucky, 1850; and stock certificate issued by the Germania Safety Vault and Trust Company, Louisville, Kentucky, 1895.

Fletcher And Company - Covington, Kentucky (Sc 662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 662. Advertising letter mailed from the office of Fletcher and Company, general lottery agents, Covington, Kentucky, offering 16 tickets on the “Royal Havana or Cuba Plan Lottery” for $10.00.

Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 445. Correspondence, published and unpublished writing, and research of Alexander Gordon Wilson, faculty member in the English department of Western Kentucky University from 1915-1959. Includes genealogical and autobiographical material as well as extensive research data and writing on the ornithology of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky, on folklore and linguistics, and on the ornithology and folkways of the Mammoth Cave region of Edmonson County, Kentucky.

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) For Manuscripts Small Collection 665. Facsimile of letter written to Brigadier General Walter Husted Stevens by General Robert E. Lee regarding the reasons for and terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, and thanking him for his service.

Hay Family Letters (Sc 1288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1288. Letters of the Hay and Ferguson families, Butler County, Kentucky. Many are written by Rebecca (Hay) Gray to her Texas relatives concerning family matters. Includes data about the correspondents added by the typescripters, Tim K. Ferguson and Dorothy Olinger Range.

Shackleford, William (Lg 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 80. Original land grant, 4 April 1818, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Shackleford, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Davis, John (Lg 77), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 77. Copy of land grant, 3 December 1827, by which Joseph Desha, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Davis, 100 acres in Cumberland County, Kentucky.

Shackleford, William (Lg 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 79. Original land grant, 5 November 1819, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Shackleford, 150 acres in Warren County, Kentucky. Signed by Gabriel Slaughter.

Shackleford, William (Lg 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 78. Original land grant, 5 November 1819, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Shackleford, 150 acres in Warren County. Signed by Gabriel Slaughter.

Hunt, Moses (Lg 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 84. Original land grant, 2 December 1816, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Moses Hunt, assignee of E. M. Covington, who was assignee of William McGinnis, 100 acres in Warren County. Signed by Gabriel Slaughter.

Westerman, Robert Vaughn, B. 1948 - Collector (Sc 2675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2675. Letters, 1908-1979, relating mostly to political campaigns for U S. president, Kentucky governor, and other offices. Includes letters soliciting support for developing the Abraham Lincoln birthplace farm into a national park. Also includes several letters and documents related to political affairs in Daviess County.

Pack, Larry J., 1932-2023 (Sc 2670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2670. Biographical data relating to Larry J. Pack, a native of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes birth and military certificates, diplomas, an oral history interview about Pack’s military service, and photos of Pack while in the Army and in his dental office. Also includes genealogical data, primarily in .ftw files on a USB flash drive.

Self, Hazel Ruth, B. 1918 (Sc 660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 660. Certificate issued to Hazel Self, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for passing an examination on “Alcohol in Experience and Experiment” given by the Young People’s Branch of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

Bowling Green Female College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 661. Certificates of proficiency in various subjects awarded to Mattie and Kate Sumpter, Bowling Green, Kentucky, by the Bowling Green Female College and signed by its president, George M. Edgar.

Shearer, Guy Cooper, 1909-1982 (Sc 2669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2669. Speech titled “Long Runs’ Pioneer Heritage” written and delivered by Guy C. Shearer at the Long Run Historical Cemetery on 28 June 1966. Speech discusses pioneer life in the Long Run area of Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Burgess, Sarah Edward, 1876-1924 - Letters To (Sc 2667), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2667. Letters to Sarah “Sally” Burgess, addressed to her in Davis (Scott County), Kentucky, Georgetown, Kentucky, and Newton, Illinois. Young men extend invitations, a niece writes of her social activities, and her sister Ella invites her to a “cantata” in Georgetownand describes her clothing needs. Another friend writes of social activities, including attendance at “negro minstrel”

shows, for which she was “ashamed.”

Shirley, W. E. (Mrs.) (Sc 2671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2671. Paper written by Mrs. W.E. Shirley titled “Political Material in Kentucky Prior to 1835” in which she chronicles the early political history of Kentucky prior to 1835.

Cherry, James Preston, 1896-1961 (Sc 659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 659. Report cards for second and third grade of James Preston Cherry, issued by Bowling Green Public Schools, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Sc 658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 658. Certificate of attendance awarded by Auburn Seminary, Auburn, Kentucky, to Harold Holmes Helm for not being absent or tardy during the quarter ending 4 June 1909.

Crabb, Opal Cline, 1905-1995 (Sc 2668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2688. “Henry Skeggs, Longhunter, and the Captain Cader Edwards Family, 1765-1820,” a book by Opal Cline Crabb (unpublished, 87 pp., copyright 1979).

Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of diploma (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 656. Mistress of Science diploma conferred upon Mollie B. Robinson by Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky. Mollie was the niece of the college's president, William F. Whitesides.

Self, Sarah Elizabeth, B. 1915 (Sc 657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 657. Report card issued by Bowling Green High School to Sarah Elizabeth Self, daughter of Ada (Mrs. J. Presley) Self.

Larue County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2666. Deposition of Amos Rhodes, given at Brownsville, Kentucky, 25 September 1852, in connection with Henry Carlyle and William M. Gilkey v. Philip P. Phillips and Josiah Phillips, acase pending before the Circuit Court, LaRue County, Kentucky. The case involved a dispute over title to land in Hardin County, Kentucky that Rhodes had deeded to Philip P. Phillips.

Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2662. Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of Cora Jane (Morningstar) Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Included are letters to her and family members. A letter from retired dentist X. Elwood Sanders provides personal reminiscences, and another letter includes photos of Ford’s Farm Cave.

Duncan, Joseph Dillard, 1814-1905 (Sc 881), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 881. Letter, 11 October 1837, written by Joseph Dillard Duncan, Clinton, Louisiana, to James M. Covington, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing horse trading and an attempted hanging.