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Harrodsburg, Kentucky - Petition (Sc 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Harrodsburg, Kentucky - Petition (Sc 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 30. Petition, containing signatures of several citizens, for the sinking of a cistern in the public square of Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky.


Hassman, Drusilla (Hand), 1875-1971 (Mss 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Hassman, Drusilla (Hand), 1875-1971 (Mss 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 413. Chiefly courtship letters addressed to Drusilla (Hand) Hassman, Evansville, Indiana from various male admirers. Also correspondence with her husband, Fred Hassman, and letters sent to them as a married couple from friends and family.


Grafton, Sue Taylor, B. 1940 (Sc 2601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Grafton, Sue Taylor, B. 1940 (Sc 2601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2601. Letter from author Sue Taylor Grafton, Santa Barbara, California, to Kim Nicholson, Franklin, North Carolina, enclosing autographed bookplates (not included), and commenting on her current work on her “alphabet series” of Kinsey Millhone crime novels.


Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2608. Photostat copy of a memorial to Valentine Cook, and a “Celebration of the Rise of Camp Meetings Beginning On Muddy River, Logan County, Ky.” Also includes a paper by Walter Irvin Munday, Russellville, Kentucky, titled “Logan County’s Contribution to Methodism” read at the Valentine Cook Celebration.


Woolfolk, Dorothy (Gregory) (Sc 713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Woolfolk, Dorothy (Gregory) (Sc 713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 713. Letter written to Marjorie Clagett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Dorothy (Gregory) Woolfolk, Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky, in which she describes the tornado that devastated the town on 3 April 1974.


Atkinson Collection (Sc 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Atkinson Collection (Sc 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of 19th Century materials (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 715. Copies of letters written by John and Jane Atkinson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to friends and relatives in England, 1866-1879 (4 items), which contain family news, information about Bowling Green during the Civil War, description of their return trip from England, 1873, correspondence concerning these letters, 1960-1961 (12), and a photograph.


Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 717. Letter written to Margaret Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Beverly Mills Vincent, Washington, D.C. Vincent, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, thanks her for her letter in which she expressed her choice for the postmaster appointment to be filled in Bowling Green.


Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956 (Sc 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956 (Sc 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 716. Letter written to Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Otto Arthur Rothert, Louisville, Kentucky, in which he thanks her for a recent letter and invites her to visit him when she next comes to Louisville.


Halleck, Annie Jeanette (Ainslie), 1839-1915 (Sc 719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Halleck, Annie Jeanette (Ainslie), 1839-1915 (Sc 719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 719. Letter written to Bessie Oates, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Annie (Ainslie) Halleck, Louisville, Kentucky, replying to an inquiry for information for a research paper about her grandfather, Hew Ainslie.


Thomas, B. W. And Edward Davis (Sc 721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Thomas, B. W. And Edward Davis (Sc 721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 721. Writ of fi. fa., 1840, against the estate of B. W. Thomas and Edward Davis of McCracken County, Kentucky, for a debt owed to James Brown. Property sold at an auction included two enslaved persons.


Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 726. Letter to Frances Richards, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Dallas, Texas, an author and native of Bowling Green, stating that her publishers will send copies of two of her books for the Kentucky Library Collection. Also she relates her concern for the collection of textiles for the Kentucky Museum.


Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Sc 714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Sc 714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 714. Photocopy of letter written to J. Porter Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Courtney M. Ellis, Nashville, Tennessee, regarding mutual friends and their mutual interest in steamboating.


Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 718. Memoir of Learner B. Davison, a Methodist clergyman, originally of Grayson County, Kentucky, taken from the minutes of the 1898 Louisville Annual Conference; and a photocopy of a letter he wrote to a relative on the day he was killed by a train in Louisville, Kentucky, 29 June 1898.


Mather, Otis May, 1868-1950 (Sc 2609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Mather, Otis May, 1868-1950 (Sc 2609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2609. Photostat copy of a memorial to Valentine Cook, and a “Celebration of the Rise of Camp Meetings Beginning On Muddy River, Logan County, Ky.” Also includes a paper by Walter Irvin Munday, Russellville, Kentucky, titled “Logan County’s Contribution to Methodism” read at the Valentine Cook Celebration.


Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932 (Sc 723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932 (Sc 723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 723. Two letters written by Young Ewing Allison, journalist and author, Louisville, Kentucky, to Edward A. Jonas, editor, Louisville, thanking Jonas for his kind remarks.


Logan County, Kentucky - Surveys And Surveying (Sc 722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Logan County, Kentucky - Surveys And Surveying (Sc 722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 722. Photocopies of survey taken for 666 2/3 acres for George Washington in 1785 in Logan County, Kentucky, which he never claimed, and survey done for 1500 acres for one of his relatives, Burgess Ball, in 1796.


Patrons Of Husbandry Lodge #1372 - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Patrons Of Husbandry Lodge #1372 - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 712. Charter for the establishment of lodge #1372 of Patrons of Husbandry at Salome, Barren County, Kentucky.


Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 720. Letter written by Thomas Elliott Bramlette, Louisville, Kentucky, to President Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., concerning recommendation that Bramlette had made for a state political appointment which he wants disregarded as he has learned that the man recommended “is a radical of the negro suffrage and impeachment school.”


Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2598. Letters from artist Joseph Dudley Downing, France, to Elinor Green (later Hunter), who worked for the United States State Department in Bern, Switzerland. They discuss their shared interest in art and discuss upcoming visits. Also includes letters from Joseph’s brother, Dero Downing, to Green discussing the possibility of donating artwork to Western Kentucky University.


Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2594. Miscellaneous letters to Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and to family members. Includes notecards and a postcard with Shaker themes. Also includes a letter to Jane Helm from a friend regarding rooming together in college, and a speech by Margie Helm on the early history of the Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church.


Reid, Josephine Rogers (Rowan), 1838-1911 (Sc 2593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Reid, Josephine Rogers (Rowan), 1838-1911 (Sc 2593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2593. Letters of Josephine Rogers (Rowan) Reid, written from Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky to a friend, “Mary.” She writes in 1860 of treatment for an injured foot and an offer of marriage; reacts to Mary’s marriage to a Mr. Keating, notes the anniversary of her brother John’s death, and reports on her brother Lytle’s Civil War service in 1863; and writes of her own marriage and forthcoming move to New Orleans in 1865.


Miller, Carl Haskell, 1889-1964 (Sc 2587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Miller, Carl Haskell, 1889-1964 (Sc 2587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2587. Daily diary and journal of Carl Haskell Miller, Tompkinsville, Kentucky. A manager on the Chautauqua circuit, Miller writes in a detailed but lighthearted way of his family, his life at home and of his travels in the United States and Mexico. He also reproduces some of his personal and professional correspondence, and writes of his mother’s death in 1927.


Ware, Josiah William, 1802-1883 (Sc 2561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Ware, Josiah William, 1802-1883 (Sc 2561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 2561. Letter of Josiah William Ware, written from Greensburg, Kentucky to his cousin Winnifred Williams, Paris, Kentucky. Ware provides anecdotes relating to his travel, including an acquaintance’s account of a conversation with the guards of accused murderer Jereboam O. Beauchamp about evidence of his guilt.


Maddox Brothers Tobacco Company - Mayfield, Kentucky (Sc 2586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Maddox Brothers Tobacco Company - Mayfield, Kentucky (Sc 2586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2586. Letter, 1920, from Maddox Brothers Tobacco company, Mayfield, Kentucky, soliciting orders for tobacco.


Local Option Election - Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1960 (Sc 2592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Local Option Election - Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1960 (Sc 2592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2592. Handbill and voting precinct information relating to a local option vote in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Morris, Walter B. (Sc 29), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Morris, Walter B. (Sc 29), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 29. Photocopies of letter written by Walter B. Morris, Gallatin, Tennessee, to his brother, Eastin Morris, Fort Pickering, Tennessee, pertaining to a shower of flesh and blood near Lebanon, Tennessee, on 17 August 1841, and of an article from American Journal of Science, 1841, pertaining to the same event. Also a letter to Julia Neal regarding photocopies, 1968.


Davis, Benjamin T., 1870-1929 (Sc 2591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Davis, Benjamin T., 1870-1929 (Sc 2591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2591. Typescript copy of an address titled “The State Line,” delivered by Senator B.T. Davis, Hickman, Kentucky, before the Kentucky State Bar Association at Bowling Green, Kentucky. The address details information about the borders of Kentucky and the history of the borders and territories in America.


Conner, Juliana Margaret (Courtney), 1804-1881 (Sc 2590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Conner, Juliana Margaret (Courtney), 1804-1881 (Sc 2590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2590. Typescripted diary of Juliana Margaret (Courtney) Conner concerning her wedding trip to North Carolina to visit her husband’s family.


Moss, Joe David 1895-1973 (Mss 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Moss, Joe David 1895-1973 (Mss 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 422. Correspondence of Colonel Joe David Moss of Warren County, Kentucky, written mostly during his World War II military service in Europe. Includes material related to Moss’s career as a U.S. Army officer.


Rue, Elizabeth Waitt, 1894-1980 (Sc 2583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Rue, Elizabeth Waitt, 1894-1980 (Sc 2583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2583. Bound holographic copy of a paper titled “History of the Development and Growth of Warren County Kentucky as Recorded in Deed Books I through XVI…”, given by Elizabeth Waitt Rue, Bowling Green, Kentucky, before the Daughters of the American Revolution. Paper highlights the development of business and judicial transactions with individuals and institutions in Warren County, and includes information about marriages, the Shakers, churches, schools, and other miscellaneous information.