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Jones, Lane D., B. 1883? (Sc 2555), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Jones, Lane D., B. 1883? (Sc 2555), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2555. Form letter, 12 February 1918, from Lane D. Jones, County Chairman, National War Savings Committee, Monticello, Kentucky, to Calvin Koger, Parmleysville, Kentucky. The letter solicits investment in the American war effort through the purchase of War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps, and outlines prices, rates of return and redemption methods.

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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 463. Photocopy of letter written by Robert Penn Warren, from France, to Addie Hochstrasser, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling her request for an inscription of his to place in a copy of his biography of Theodore Dreiser.

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Autographs (Sc 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Autographs (Sc 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 460. Photostat of signatures of prominent early Kentuckians, found in the records of Nelson County, Kentucky. Names have been dated and clipped from documents and pasted on a single sheet.

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Schickel, Joseph Herman, 1913-1992 (Mss 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Schickel, Joseph Herman, 1913-1992 (Mss 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 416. This collection contains Dr. Joseph Schickel’s personal papers and files. The majority of the collection regards Dr. Schickel’s medical practice in Burkesville, Kentucky, and his extensive community work throughout Cumberland County, Kentucky.

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Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 455. Emancipation agreement made between Thomas McClean and the trustees of the United Society of Shakers, South Union, Kentucky, regarding the manumission of a black family (Joseph, Chloe, and George).

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Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 414. Photocopies of Baptist minister Jacob Tol Miller’s original journal, as well as an annotated typescript. The journal details many aspects of a minister’s life during the period of camp meeting revivalism in the antebellum west from 1856-1887.

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Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 453. Letter, 9 February 1868, from Howell and John Edmonds, South Union, Kentucky, to their parents, in Tennessee, regarding their welfare. Howell and John were both enrolled at the school at South Union. Also a note informing the parents of the death of John, age 15, of spotted fever.

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Anderson, James Patton, 1822-1872 (Sc 452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Anderson, James Patton, 1822-1872 (Sc 452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 452. Order given by General James Patton Anderson of the Army of Tennessee for the reassignment of four dismounted cavalrymen to Water’s Battery. Two of the men were from the Confederate 9th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment. It is noted that after the order was made out, all four men deserted.

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Lotteries - Kentucky - Research Notes (Sc 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Lotteries - Kentucky - Research Notes (Sc 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 450. Notes about local lottery grants in Kentucky and general lottery laws of Kentucky copied from notes of Colonel Reuben Thomas Durrett, first president of the Filson Club. Originals in the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 454. Four letters from Franz Joseph Strahm, professor of music, Western Kentucky University, and his secretary to Virginia Helm regarding concerts, piano lessons, and musical compositions. Also one from Alice Strahm in 1950, and a photograph of Strahm at the piano.

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Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 449. Letter written by David Morton, Amherst, Massachusetts, replying to an admirer, Mr. Goodrum. Morton was an author originally of Elkton, Kentucky.

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Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files) below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 442. Letters from James Lane Allen, Atlantic City, New Jersey, summer 1906, and New York City, 30 September 1906, to cousin Helen inquiring as to the illness of her father, his uncle John, and expressing sorrow at his death.

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Prisons - Administration - Florida (Sc 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Prisons - Administration - Florida (Sc 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 446. Letter written by Miss Daniels, Hardinsburg, Kentucky, to the mayor of Lakeland, Florida, inquiring as to the local jail’s conditions after becoming concerned about them by reading a book written by a former prisoner. Also, carbon copy of mayor’s reply, inviting Daniels to visit the jail and stating that the jail’s conditions would compare favorably with those in Kentucky.

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Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 447. Letter from Walter Shepherd, Mount Lebanon, New York, to Roy G. Cooksey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in reply to inquiry. Shepherd is sending materials about the Shakers for Cooksey’s use in preparing a talk on them, and also, he expresses his views on various aspects of Shakerism.

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Perry, George Brown, 1854-1936 (Sc 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Perry, George Brown, 1854-1936 (Sc 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 448. Letters from George Brown Perry, Waurika, Oklahoma, to H.F. Mount, Bowling Green, Kentucky, giving historical data of Lynnland College, Hardin County, Kentucky. His father, General William Flank Perry, was the first president of the college, 1867-1879, and George was the last president, 1912-1914.

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Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Legal papers setting the execution date of Jim Buckner, African American, Marion County, Kentucky, as 9 June 1911, and stay of execution by Acting Governor William Hopkinson Cox until 8 July 1911, because of the incompletion of the installation of the electrocution apparatus. Henry Thomas Hagerman, warden of Kentucky Penitentiary, Eddyville, attested to Buckner’s death.

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Mccreary, James Bennett, 1838-1918 (Sc 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Mccreary, James Bennett, 1838-1918 (Sc 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 445. Appointment of Henry Thomas Hagerman of Eddyville, Kentucky as a delegate to the Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tennessee. Signed by Governor James Bennett McCreary.

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Obenchain, William Alexander, 1841-1916 (Sc 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Obenchain, William Alexander, 1841-1916 (Sc 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 444. Letters from William Alexander Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Clifton Rodes, Louisville, Kentucky, enclosing prospectus of book about genealogy (Van Meter family) which Obenchain thinks will interest him, 17 August, and regarding Rodes’ order of the book and copies of some Van Meter family records, 22 August.

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Wininger, Charles Richard, 1912-2000 (Mss 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Wininger, Charles Richard, 1912-2000 (Mss 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 421. This collection contains War of 1812 correspondence between James A. Hall and his wife Prudence (Stockton) Hall (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans), as well as World War II correspondence between Charles and Novella (Tillery) Wininger, all of Barren County, Kentucky. Some letters with other correspondents, as well as family photos and genealogical information about the Hall, Stockton, and Wininger families is included.

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Weber, William (Sc 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Weber, William (Sc 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 439. Letter written by Civil War soldier, William Weber, Bardstown, Kentucky, to his brother, Martin Weber, Cincinnati, Ohio. Weber describes time spent in Louisville and their march to Bardstown. Also envelope with Civil War imprint.

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Abert, James W., 1820-1897 (Sc 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Abert, James W., 1820-1897 (Sc 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 437. Letter written by James W. Abert, Newport, Kentucky, to Randal Hagner, Washington, D.C., concerning an article which Abert wrote and which he is enclosing that pertains to Abert’s school days and to those of some of Hagner’s relatives. (The article is not with the letter.)

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Henry, Jefferson, 1849-1927 (Sc 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Henry, Jefferson, 1849-1927 (Sc 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 440. Letter, from Jefferson Henry, Greensburg, Kentucky, to friend John, (place unknown), asking for the name of a company that employs James Dowdy.

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Moore, Gerald Grattan, 1887-1972 (Sc 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Moore, Gerald Grattan, 1887-1972 (Sc 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 438. Letter written by Gerald Grattan Moore, secretary of the Annual Convention of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Chicago, Illinois, to Lee Collins, Cave City, Kentucky, expressing the
Convention’s sympathy for the imprisonment of his son, Floyd, in southcentral Kentucky Cave, and relating that they are praying for his release.

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Murphey, G. N. (Sc 441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Murphey, G. N. (Sc 441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 441. Copy of application, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for a license to practice medicine in Kentucky.

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Burchfield, Alonzo R., 1854-1927 (Sc 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Burchfield, Alonzo R., 1854-1927 (Sc 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 436. Teacher’s certificate, 19 August 1880, Butler County, Kentucky, for second grade, second class, and two certificates for membership in the Woodbury Lodge, Butler County, 28 March 1896.

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Redmon, Chester Calvin, 1921-2012 (Mss 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Redmon, Chester Calvin, 1921-2012 (Mss 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 417. Items chiefly relating to the high schools that Chester Calvin Redmon served at as principal. This includes information about Hopkinsville (Kentucky) High School class reunions, Louisville Male High School, and Vine Grove (Kentucky) High School. Also includes diaries and miscellaneous material relating to Chester Calvin Redmon’s life.

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Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 379. Personal and family correspondence, papers, and genealogical research materials of Nora (Young) Ferguson, a native of Richardsville, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes original land, estate and guardianship records, and other early county records which Mrs. Ferguson was permitted to remove from the Warren County Courthouse for microfilming prior to its renovation in 1957. Click on "Additional Files" below to see receipts from the Warren County "Poor House."

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U.S. Circuit Courts - Kentucky District, Bowling Green (Sc 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

U.S. Circuit Courts - Kentucky District, Bowling Green (Sc 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 434. Warrant issued to the marshal to apprehend William Davis, Edmonson County, Kentucky, for engaging in illegal liquor traffic, and subpoena issued for two witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff. Signed by M.T. Roberts, Commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States, Kentucky District.

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Civil War, 1861-1865 - Claims (Sc 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Claims (Sc 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 435. Printed power of attorney addressed to C.D. Pennebaker and Son, Washington, D.C. The only recorded information on the form is the name of George Givens and the amount of the claim, $150.

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Stevenson, John White, 1812-1886 (Sc 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Stevenson, John White, 1812-1886 (Sc 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 433. Letter from John White Stevenson, Covington, Kentucky, to L.Q. Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding Washington’s candidacy for undesignated office, Kentucky’s Congressional races, and the upcoming national election.

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