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Gee, John Sanford, 1777-1853 (Sc 880), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Gee, John Sanford, 1777-1853 (Sc 880), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 880. Letter, 29 September 1812, written by John and Susannah Gee, Barren County, Kentucky, to uncle John Sanford, Madison County, Kentucky, with news of family members. Included are comments on earthquakes and on War of 1812 volunteers from Barren County.


Thomas, William Guy, 1889-1987 (Sc 838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Thomas, William Guy, 1889-1987 (Sc 838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 838. Typescript copy of "Biographical Sketch of W. G. Thomas," written by William Guy Thomas about his life growing up in Warren County, Kentucky.


Dunlap, John (Lg 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Dunlap, John (Lg 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 16. Original land grant, 4 February 1788, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted John Dunlap and Michael Willegas, assignees of William McWilliams, 98,000 acres in Nelson County, Virginia.


Croghan, William (Lg 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Croghan, William (Lg 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 17. Original land grant, 8 December 1821, by which James Monroe, President of the United States of America granted Samuel Fenley, 160 acres in Arkansas.


Funeral Invitations - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Funeral Invitations - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 839. Original invitations to the funerals of John L. Norton and Reverend Richard Bibb. Also included is a photocopied excerpt from “The Nortons of Russellville, Kentucky: Reminiscences,” by David Morton.


Clifton, John W. (Lg 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Clifton, John W. (Lg 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 12. Original land grant, 25 October 1844, by which Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, granted John W. Clifton, 1/3 league (1476.1 acres) in Harris County, Texas.


Hollensbe, John (Lg 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Hollensbe, John (Lg 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 14. Original land grant, 3 September 1821, by which James Monroe, President of the United States of America granted John Hollensbe of Ripley County, Indiana, 661.79 acres.


Fenley, Samuel (Lg 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Fenley, Samuel (Lg 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 13. Original land grant, 8 December 1821, by which James Monroe, President of the United States of America granted Samuel Fenley, 160 acres in Arkansas.


Oral History Project - History Department - Western Kentucky University (Mss 411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Oral History Project - History Department - Western Kentucky University (Mss 411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 411. Interviews with Kentuckians conducted by students in American and Kentucky history classes at Western Kentucky University. Typical subjects discussed include childhood, rural life, the Great Depression, civil rights, military service, education and work. Most interviews include a summary paper, transcript (complete or partial) and audiocassette.


Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Correspondence, deeds, legal and other personal papers of the Edmunds family of North Carolina and Caldwell County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data and papers of associated families, primarily the Cameron family of North Carolina.


Clothing (Sc 841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Clothing (Sc 841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 841. Letter from "Annie D." of Hardinsburg, [Kentucky?] to "Ell" [of Kansas?], 24 November 1861. Discusses sending calico fabric and a dress pattern by express and includes a fabric sample.


Lyne, John (Lg 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Lyne, John (Lg 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 6. Original land grant, 29 December 1786, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted John Lyne 300 acres.


Seay Family Letters (Sc 653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Seay Family Letters (Sc 653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 653. Photocopies of correspondence of the Seay family of Rockport, Indiana, which concerns freighting on the Mississippi River and Civil War activities in Missouri and Kansas. Includes a Civil War soldier’s letter written from Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee one month after the Battle of Shiloh (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Martin, Robert Green, 1839-1913 (Sc 834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Martin, Robert Green, 1839-1913 (Sc 834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 834. Photocopies of muster roll records, 1863-1865, Grand Army of the Republic reunion badge of Bailey Post Number 67, North Troy, Vermont, n.d., and photo with wife, of Robert Green Martin, Private, Company E, 52nd Regiment Kentucky Infantry.


Potter College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Potter College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 655. Request for partial payment of a subscription made to Potter College, 1889, and an invitation to Miss Sallie Drake from the faculty of Potter College, 1903.


May, John (Lg 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

May, John (Lg 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 9. Original land grant, 1788, June 25, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted John May ??? acres. Water damaged and chiefly illegible.


Craddock, Robert Edward, 1757-1837 (Lg 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Craddock, Robert Edward, 1757-1837 (Lg 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 11. Original land grant, 28 February 1789, by which Beverley Randolph, Governnor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted Robert Edward Craddock, 590 acres.


Garrott, Mark (Lg 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Garrott, Mark (Lg 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Legal Grant 10. Original land grant, 12 January 1788, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted Mark Garrott 1,000 acres on Big Barren River. Also a holographic copy of the original.


Alexander, Fayette W. (Lg 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Alexander, Fayette W. (Lg 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 15. Original land grant, 15 October 1858, by which James Buchanan, President of the United States of America granted Fayette W. Alexander, assignee of James K. Carder, 120 acres in Missouri.


Lost River Cave - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Lost River Cave - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 846. Correspondence, news clippings, and research notes made by Raymond L. Cravens related to Jesse James and Lost River Cave, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes other promotional materials related to the cave.


Atkins, Andrew Ford, Jr., B. 1968 (Sc 835), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Atkins, Andrew Ford, Jr., B. 1968 (Sc 835), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 835. Student paper titled, “Winds of War Seen on a 1938 Trip to Europe,” written by Andrew Ford Atkins, Jr., for United States History class taught by Mary Lucas.


Futrell, Roger (Sc 2665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Futrell, Roger (Sc 2665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2665. Bound typescript of a reminiscence of Roger Futrell about his invitation and visit to the White House to meet President John F. Kennedy in October, 1961.


Riggs Refining Company - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Riggs Refining Company - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 442. Chiefly financial records from the Riggs Refining Company of Delafield, Warren County, Kentucky, 1922-1925. Records include check registers, bank statements, receipts, account books, and checkbook stubs


Ford, Bess (Sc 2664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Ford, Bess (Sc 2664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2664. Paper titled "Outlaws of Kentucky" by Bess Ford which examines individual outlaws from Kentucky history.


Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”


Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of original and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 831. Letter, 24 May 1847, from Richard Mentor Johnson to Secretary of the Treasury Robert James Walker regarding the removal of Creek Indian students from Johnson’s school in White Sulphur, Scott County, Kentucky. Also included are notes relating to White Sulphur, Johnson, and Walker.


Hopkins, Larry Jones, 1933-2021 (Sc 832), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Hopkins, Larry Jones, 1933-2021 (Sc 832), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 832. Remarks of U.S. Representative Larry Jones Hopkins on the occasion of the christening of the submarine USS Kentucky, and accompanying cover letter.


Lyle, Allene P., 1919-2010 (Sc 2663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Lyle, Allene P., 1919-2010 (Sc 2663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2663. Autograph book kept by Allene P. Lyle while a student at College High School, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1933; and a small notebook containing holographic and printed remedies and prescriptions,


Hines, Thomas Collier "Tommy," Jr., - Collector (Sc 2661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Hines, Thomas Collier "Tommy," Jr., - Collector (Sc 2661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2661. County and railroad tax receipts of Merrit Bennett, Logan County, Kentucky (1873-1885), a letter of thanks to Margaret Y. Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky (1901), and one-page histories of the First Presbyterian Church, Auburn, Kentucky and the Auburn Missionary Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.


Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Mss 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Mss 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 102. World War II correspondence of William Perry Stamps, Jr., a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, which chiefly includes letters (99) to Sallie Hills, Bowling Green, and Laura H. Savard (37), Lakeland, Florida. Stamps was stationed at military bases in Indiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Italy. Also includes letters of George L. Smith, a native of Bowling Green, to Sallie Hills.