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Milliken, Edna Beatrice (Myers) Moore, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Milliken, Edna Beatrice (Myers) Moore, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 571. Typescript of original 1827 indictment for dueling of Samuel Houston in Simpson County, Kentucky; typescript of original letter, September 1865, from Henry Grider, Bristow, Warren County, Kentucky, to his niece, Katherine, Happy Camp, California, commenting on the Civil War and its effects. Original letter housed in Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 573. Two Confederate Civil War letters. Original and typescript of 18 December 1861 letter from “Foster,” Bowling Green, describing army conditions and reports of military actions; copy of original5 August 1863 letter from Martin N. Rogers, Camp Morton, Indianapolis, to his brother R.M. Rogers, Canton, Trigg County, relating conditions at the camp where he is a prisoner of war.
Brown, James Monroe, 1800-1886 (Sc 806), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, James Monroe, 1800-1886 (Sc 806), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 806. Ciphering book, 1822-1827 (40 p.), of James M. Brown, Butler County, Kentucky, which also contains a few pages of account entries and other various notations, (806a). Photocopy of ciphering book is also included. Also letter, 1989, from donor relating family data.
Coffeehouses - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 805), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coffeehouses - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 805), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 805. Coffeehouse keepers’ bonds given by Albert Mitchell as surety for Thompson C. Mitchell, 1887, and George Lehman as surety for W. B. Wood, 1889, of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Yeager, Josiah Harvey, 1785-1860 (Mss 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Yeager, Josiah Harvey, 1785-1860 (Mss 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 420. Chiefly legal and financial papers of Josiah Harvey Yeager, a lawyer, businessman, and minister of Hardin County, Kentucky. Yeager had extensive land holdings, thus the collection includes a number of deeds and survey information. Includes several slave bills of sale, 1817-1859, and a few items related to the Monin family. Also includes a Civil War military pass issued in Hardin County (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).
Mcgown, Hattie Russ (Sc 2656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgown, Hattie Russ (Sc 2656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2656. Letter of Hattie (Mrs. Hugh) McGown, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her sister Burlie Ellis, Richelieu, Kentucky. She reports on her husband’s work as a railroad switchman, the participation of her son Joe in a school play, and her progress in joining a new church. She also describes witnessing efforts to extract a car from a ditch on her family’s return from a visit to her father.
Fulton, William Roy, 1895-1997 (Sc 2655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fulton, William Roy, 1895-1997 (Sc 2655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2655. Letters of William R. Fulton, 18 August and 25 December 1942, to his nephew Donald Howard, Indianapolis, Indiana. Written from Fort Knox, Kentucky during Fulton’s service as a dentist in the Army, the letters describe his military training, dental practice, and Christmas activities.
Botts, William H., 1824-1891 (Sc 801), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Botts, William H., 1824-1891 (Sc 801), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 801. Letters, 1889, to William H. Botts of Glasgow, Kentucky, from Preston Hopkins Leslie, former Kentucky governor and former territorial governor of Montana, chiefly describing Leslie’s finances, and from the cashier of Deposit Bank of Monroe County regarding Trigg family debt. Also includes a 1920 letter of the Jackson family.
Camp Gilmore, Kentucky (Sc 802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Camp Gilmore, Kentucky (Sc 802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 802. Letter written by "Tom," Camp Gilmore, Frankfort, Kentucky, to his sister Sue in New England, discussing military life, the use of horses, and public opinion of Union troops in Frankfort and of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Mcclernand, John Alexander, 1812-1900 (Sc 800), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcclernand, John Alexander, 1812-1900 (Sc 800), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 800. Combat report printed on a field press submitted to Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant by Brigadier General John A. McClernand, Camp Cairo, Illinois. McClernand gives a detailed account of military action at Columbus and Belmont, Kentucky, 7 November 1861.
Edmonson County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 797), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonson County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 797), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 797. Edmonson County court records and Quarterly Court papers including school district report giving a list of parents and number of children, 1854-1861 (29); and general and national election returns which are filed as oversize items located in C1-D2, #10, 1858-1874? (11).
Thomas, Alice F., 1843-1911 - Letters To (Sc 795), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Alice F., 1843-1911 - Letters To (Sc 795), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 795. Letters, 1889 (?) (2), written by sisters Lettie and Maggie, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to their sister, Mrs. Alice F. Thomas, Russellville, Kentucky, in which they chiefly relate family news. Also includes family data, 1986.
Sublett, William P., 1827-1891 (Sc 803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sublett, William P., 1827-1891 (Sc 803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 803. Constable's bond, 5 June 1865, for William Sublett, Warren County, Kentucky.
Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 804. Paper entitled “Early Schools of Bowling Green [Kentucky],” written by Lavinia R. Scott. Includes information about the Southern College of Kentucky, Mary Kendall Jones’ Female Seminary, Samuel Moore Gaines’ Presbyterian School for Young Ladies, and George Edgar’s Bowling Green Female College.
Ray, Andrew W., 1830-1865 (Sc 799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ray, Andrew W., 1830-1865 (Sc 799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 799. Letter, 19 May 1862, to his wife from Ray, a Confederate soldier imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indiana. He expresses concern that his children be properly educated and socialized if he does not return from the war.
Chapline, Abraham (Lg 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chapline, Abraham (Lg 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 51. Original land grant, 15 July 1786, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Abraham Chapline, assignee of Christopher Roan, 1000 acres on Beaver Creek.
Reynolds, William (Lg 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reynolds, William (Lg 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 7. Original land grant, 24 May 1792, by which Henry Lee, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted William Reynolds, 1,000 acres.
Mcguire, Robert (Sc 784), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcguire, Robert (Sc 784), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 784. Original artwork for pp. 20-21 of The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby, by Crystal Hubbard, with illustrations by Robert McGuire (New York: Lee & Low Books, Inc., 2008). The book was awarded WKU Libraries’ Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award in 2010.
Sloan, Melissa Jean, B. 1965? (Sc 791), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sloan, Melissa Jean, B. 1965? (Sc 791), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 791. Paper entitled “The Amish Way of Life,” written by Melissa Jean Sloan for a Kentucky History class at Western Kentucky University, 31 March 1986.
Williams, Camilla Reynolds, 1923-2005 (Sc 790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Williams, Camilla Reynolds, 1923-2005 (Sc 790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 790. Photocopies of story written by Camilla Reynolds Williams entitled, “Ma Motley’s Robbery Tale,” 1863?, which supposedly occurred in Warren County, Kentucky. She won second place in the 1971 Kentucky Woman’s Club Folklore Contest for this entry. Also Hays family genealogical chart prepared by Joseph S. Hays.
Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 792), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 792), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 792. Letters, 1916-1929, written by Lida (Calvert) Obenchain (“Eliza Calvert Hall”), Bowling Green, Kentucky and Dallas, Texas, to Mrs. W.A. Lee, Russellville, Kentucky regarding suffrage work; and to Lee’s daughter Sophie providing information to assist in writing her master’s thesis on Obenchain. Includes a 1986 letter of Sophie (Lee) Anderson relating to the items.
Hay, Charles (Sc 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hay, Charles (Sc 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 651. Compilation by Charles Hay of a chronology of events in the life of William Preston of Louisville, Kentucky, a congressman, minister to Spain, and brigadier general in the Confederate Army.
Turnpikes - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Turnpikes - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 654. Stock certificates of various turnpike companies in Warren County, Kentucky, issued to Warren County.
Includes typescript of 1891 newspaper article describing the state of turnpike construction in the county.
Enochs, Charles J., 1881-1945 (Sc 794), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Enochs, Charles J., 1881-1945 (Sc 794), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 794. Embalmer’s license issued in Missouri, 12 May 1906, and renewable certificate receipts, 1909, 1910 (2); and Kentucky embalmer’s license, 20 October 1908, and renewable certificate receipts, 1910-12 (3), of Charles J. Enochs.
Bibb, George Motier, 1776-1859 (Sc 789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bibb, George Motier, 1776-1859 (Sc 789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 789. Letter written to a doctor by George Motier Bibb, Logan County, Kentucky, 26 August 1810, describing some Logan County, Kentucky farm land and buildings.
Shearer, Guy Cooper, 1909-1982 (Sc 566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shearer, Guy Cooper, 1909-1982 (Sc 566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 566. Correspondence of Guy Cooper Shearer, lawyer and writer of Louisville, Kentucky, with the librarians of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to his publications. Also, handwritten manuscript and typescript of his essay “The Intranational War of the United States of America.”
Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 785. Incoming letters, clippings, etc., 1965(?)-1969(?) (54 items), of Thomas Awbrey, Fordsville, Kentucky, who was learning to read and write at age 71. His story received national press coverage in January 1966, which resulted in him hearing from people from throughout the nation. Also correspondence concerning collection, 1976-1986 (5 items).
Johnston, Josiah Stoddard, 1833-1913 (Sc 565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Johnston, Josiah Stoddard, 1833-1913 (Sc 565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 565. Letter written 16 June 1902 by Johnston, Louisville, Kentucky, to Mrs. J.H. Mallory, Bowling Green, concerning an article that he wrote about her first husband, Samuel Lawrence, for The Confederate Veteran, May 1902. Also includes biographical information from printed sources about Samuel Lawrence and John Helm Mallory.
Dean, Sophia Leona, 1855-1948 (Sc 788), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dean, Sophia Leona, 1855-1948 (Sc 788), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 788. Letters, 1934-1941 (7), cards (2), and photos (5), chiefly from Mormon missionaries to Sophia Leona Dean, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Bowling Green Industrial Foundation - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Industrial Foundation - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 787. Promissory note, signed 1 April 1940, by Emmons O. Pearson, Jr., and stock certificate issued by Bowling Green Industrial Foundation, 13 May 1943, to Pearson (1 share). Also included are newspaper clippings about the Bowling Green Industrial Foundation and its plans
concerning building and highway constructions.