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Cornette, Elmer (Sc 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Cornette, Elmer (Sc 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 491. Typed copy of biographical sketches of Albert and Charles Wing of Greenville, Kentucky, written by Elmer Cornette, and a letter to Elizabeth Coombs of the Kentucky Library.


Davis Family Papers (Sc 489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Davis Family Papers (Sc 489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 489. Letters (4) written to T.P. or Leagralda (Mercer) Davis, Buras, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, containing family news and Mercer family genealogical sheet.


Johnson, Arthur Lyle, 1900-1938 (Sc 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Johnson, Arthur Lyle, 1900-1938 (Sc 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 492. Deed, 9 July 1932, of land in Warren County, Kentucky, between Arthur and Bessie Johnson of Kansas City, Missouri and Georgia Johnson of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Chapman, Virgil Munday, 1895-1951 (Sc 2560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Chapman, Virgil Munday, 1895-1951 (Sc 2560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2560. Letter, 17 July 1935, of U.S. Congressman Virgil Chapman to White House Executive Clerk Rudolph Forster, Washington DC, introducing Miss Fanny Summers Halley and party and asking for courtesies to be extended on a tour of the White House.


Cassell, J. Frank, 1872-1925 (Sc 2559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Cassell, J. Frank, 1872-1925 (Sc 2559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2559. Letter, 20 June 1921, from Frank Cassell, Chairman, Louisville, Kentucky Legislative District, to Pearl Smith (Mrs. Stuart A.), Louisville, informing her of her selection as a delegate to the Democratic nominating convention to be held on 22 June 1921.


Griffith, Josh T., 1861-1939 (Sc 2557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Griffith, Josh T., 1861-1939 (Sc 2557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2557. Form letter, 24 March 1903, from Josh T. Griffith, Clerk of the Daviess County (Kentucky) Court, setting out his credentials and seeking support for the Democratic nomination for State Treasurer.


Payne, William R., 1781-1847 (Sc 486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Payne, William R., 1781-1847 (Sc 486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 486. Notes pertaining to Revolutionary War service of various members of the Payne family and settlements made by the government for their service.


Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 484. An autographed letter to Mr. Blodgett stating that he never saves his manuscripts, 6 March 1917, and a poem entitled “Silence,” 1 November.


Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 488. Photocopy of paper entitled “Reminiscences of the Life and Teachings of Mary Kendall Jones while a Resident of this City,” written by a former student, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sometime during the period 1883-1887.


Hughes, Rose Anna (Sc 2558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Hughes, Rose Anna (Sc 2558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2558. Letter, 21 March 1844, from Rose Anna Hughes, Louisville, Kentucky, to Samuel Jacob, Wellsburgh, Virginia (now Wellsburg, West Virginia). She proposes extending repayment terms on a note due her and reports on the health of various family members and friends.


Johnson, Calvin, 1770-1860 (Sc 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Johnson, Calvin, 1770-1860 (Sc 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 485. Deed, 1813, by which Richard Owings sold 122 acres in Warren County, Kentucky, to Calvin Johnson; and deed, 1851, by which Johnson sold 222 acres in Simpson County, Kentucky, to his son-in-law Henry May.


Causey, Lewis Kenneth, 1904-1974 (Sc 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Causey, Lewis Kenneth, 1904-1974 (Sc 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan (click on "Additional Files") of speech for Manuscripts Small Collection 487. Speech given by Lewis Kenneth Causey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled "Historical Review of the Bowling Green-Warren County Airport," covering the years 1932 to 1970. Also copy of original, with notations, done by son Robert Causey in 2001.


United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 481. Charter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Bowling Green Chapter No.194 with a list of the charter members and signed by Katie Cabell Currie, President, and Mrs. John P. Hickman, Secretary.


Carpenter, Samuel, 1824-1900 (Sc 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Carpenter, Samuel, 1824-1900 (Sc 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 480. Certificate of appointment for Samuel Carpenter as Circuit Judge of the 13th Kentucky Judicial District in place of John W. Helm, who refused to serve. Signed by William Owsley, Governor of Kentucky. Endorsed on back by J. Wood Wilson, Justice of the Peace, Nelson County.


Reynolds, George, Jr. (Sc 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Reynolds, George, Jr. (Sc 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 482. Land office treasury warrant by which William G. Pendleton, registered land officer of Virginia, granted order for survey of fifty acres for George Reynolds, Jr. The witnesses to the
transaction were James, Samuel, Joseph, and William McMurran.


Goodman, John Jacob, 1784-1880 (Sc 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Goodman, John Jacob, 1784-1880 (Sc 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 483. Certificate of (John) Jacob Goodman’s appointment as Postmaster at Hughes, Monroe County, Kentucky. Signed by W. T. Barry, Postmaster General.


Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 476. Letters, 1926-1952 (3), sermons and speeches (15), commencement program, 1913, memo books, 1920-1923 (2) of Baxter W. Napier, Sr., Methodist minister, 1882(?)-1971; Masonic tribute and receipt, 1895 (2) of I. S. Napier; and miscellaneous items, 1842, 1951 (8).


Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 (Mss 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 (Mss 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 419. Letters and clippings removed from a scrapbook belonging to John T. Scopes or his wife and relating primarily to the 1925 Scopes trial, his subsequent notoriety, and later publicity and commemorations surrounding the controversy.


Young Family Papers (Sc 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Young Family Papers (Sc 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 475. Receipt for tobacco transportation, 1817, and diary of river trip from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Natchez, Mississippi, March 14 – April 13, 1817; newspaper article about western travels by father and son, 1850 & 1940, August 29, 1940; and genealogy of
George C. Young family, Barren County (original).


Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 477. Minute book of the Building Committee of the Reformed Church [Christian], Danville, Kentucky. Fire destroyed the building on 22 February 1860, and the minutes detail an account of the transactions, contributions, and expenses incurred in rebuilding.


Whitlow, Ruth, 1886-1962 (Sc 2556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Whitlow, Ruth, 1886-1962 (Sc 2556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2556. Notebook of Ruth Whitlow, kept while she was a student at Vanderbilt Training School, containing translations of the Roman poet Virgil.


Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 474. Postcard and letter written by Franz Joseph Strahm, while on a visit to Germany, to Walter Pearce, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The picture post card is of Strahm’s birthplace, and the letter concerns opera in Germany. Includes two cards of Pearce showing the grades he received in Strahm’s music classes at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Thomas, Walter (Sc 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Thomas, Walter (Sc 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 479. Certificate of appointment for Walter Thomas as Coroner of Warren County, 1812, and certificate of appointment as Justice of the Peace in Warren County, 1814. Both certificates are signed by Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky.


Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Sc 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Sc 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 478. Photocopy of account book of John Hines, a general merchant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The original account book covered from 1828 to 1835, but was so fragile only a portion was
photocopied.


Rowan Family Papers (Mss 418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Rowan Family Papers (Mss 418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 418. Correspondence and papers of Kentucky lawyer and politician John Rowan, Sr., and relatives in the Rowan, Lytle, Steele, Boone and Buchanan families. Several letters have been typescripted and can be viewed here (click on "Additional Files" below).


Morton & Griswold - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Morton & Griswold - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 470. Statement from Morton & Griswold, booksellers and publishers, of Louisville, Kentucky, to Hinch & McDaniel for books and associated supplies.


Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 473. Typed copies of letters written by Nathaniel Hardy of Louisville to his sister, Caroline Weston of Massachusetts, which relate family news and personal views about slavery, temperance and steamboat travel. Also, letter written by Caroline Sherrill to J.E. Hardy pertaining to these early letters and containing some family history written by a descendant in 1938.


Harding, M. (Mrs. John) (Sc 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Harding, M. (Mrs. John) (Sc 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 467. Letter, 22 June 1838, from Mrs. John Harding, Audley, England, addressed to her father, Mr. Dicken, Hat Manufacturer, Birks Villa (Burkesville), Cumberland County, Kentucky, containing family news, discussion of economic conditions, and preparations being made for the coronation of Queen Victoria.


Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 466. Letter to George W. Burchette, Burkesville, Kentucky, from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., which mentions that Burchette was a member of the funeral guard of Abraham Lincoln in Chicago, and which also expresses best wishes to him.


Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1937 (Mss 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1937 (Mss 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 415. This collection includes eight interviews with various people around the world that were associated with the United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO) during World War II. Interviews were conducted by Nancy Disher Baird.