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Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 431. Title bond to be used before 25 December 1873. Document explains that John Quincy Burnam, Warren County, Kentucky, sold about 202 acres of land to Thomas H. Gaines, Logan County, Kentucky.
Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 430. Teacher’s certificate for Joseph T. Cherry, Warren County, Kentucky, issued for first class, first grade. Renewed 8 October 1880.
Tolle Collection (Sc 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Collection (Sc 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 432. Papers regarding the Patrons of Husbandry, Siloam Grange, Number 1372, Barren County, Kentucky, 1874-1875. Papers include applications and recommendations for membership, chiefly signed or approved by William Daniel Tolle, J. J. Pursley, J. Nichols, and C. G. Ellis.
Harris, M. A. (Sc 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harris, M. A. (Sc 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 623. Letter, 2 January 1973, to Mr. Riley Handy, librarian, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from M. A. Harris, President of Negro History Association, New York City, relative to James Stone, a mulatto who escaped from Kentucky to Ohio and passed as a white man and later lost his life as a soldier in the Civil War. Also, photocopies of pension claim, 1863, and a letter, 1972.
Hubbard, Elbert Green, 1856-1915 (Sc 646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hubbard, Elbert Green, 1856-1915 (Sc 646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 646. Sketch done by Elbert Green Hubbard, a writer, that has a note on it addressed to J.L. Harman and signed by Hubbard.
Mallory, Robert, 1815-1885 (Sc 641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mallory, Robert, 1815-1885 (Sc 641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 641. Letter to President Abraham Lincoln from Robert Mallory, Oldham County, Kentucky and U.S. Representative from Kentucky, relating to the appointment of Dr. L. L. Mathers for the position of regimental surgeon. He is recommended by the entire Kentucky Union delegation in Congress. Mallory congratulates Lincoln on the news from the Kentucky elections.
Barret, Thomas Lowry, 1878-1939 (Sc 2552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barret, Thomas Lowry, 1878-1939 (Sc 2552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2552. Correspondence between Thomas L. Barret of Barret Boats Inc. and Jefferson County, Kentucky officials regarding the condition and sale of one of Barret's boats. The conversation turns to Barret's description of a previous owner of the boat as "a Jew." Subsequent correspondence relates to this comment.
Davis, Samuel Thomas, 1838-1908 (Sc 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Samuel Thomas, 1838-1908 (Sc 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 626. Photocopy of Civil War journal of Samuel Thomas Davis of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was in the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. The journal relates his experiences in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama with the dates of his stay in Kentucky being 21 October 1861-28 February 1862 and 13 September 1862-23 October 1862 and described on pages 1-5 and 16-21.
Howard, Flora O., (Sc 638), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Howard, Flora O., (Sc 638), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 638. Compositions (2) written by Florence O. Howard, Beaver Dam, Kentucky, entitled “Triumphs of Perseverance” and “Morality, A Nation’s Safeguard.”
Carver, Gayle Raymond, 1913-2005 (Sc 634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carver, Gayle Raymond, 1913-2005 (Sc 634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 634. Working copy of outline of “An Illustrated History of Kentucky” by Thomas Dionysius Clark, associate editor. The book was published in 1971 under the title, Kentucky: A Pictorial History. Penciled notes by Gayle Carver, curator of the Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Knott, James Proctor, 1830-1911 (Sc 640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knott, James Proctor, 1830-1911 (Sc 640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 640. Letter from James Proctor Knott, Washington, D.C., to Adolph Sutro, (Virginia City, Nevada?) the mining engineer who directed the construction of a tunnel for more efficient mining into the Comstock Lode after receiving the right of way through public lands by an act of Congress. Knott, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, affirms that Sutro has his support.
Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 618. Record book of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Hartford Baptist Church of Ohio County, Kentucky, which contains the constitution, by-laws and amendments, treasurer’s records, lists of members, and minutes. Also includes letters from ministers’ wives, 1899, 1929 (2), and Sunday School lessons printed in Chinese, 1929 (2).
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 624. Photocopy of letter written by Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her great-niece, Ellen Hartnett of St. Paul, Minnesota, in which she answers an inquiry about the Civil War and its relationship to the Helm and Blakey families who resided in Kentucky, and an explanatory note about the letter, 1973.
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 629. Associational letter sent by the First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to the Warren Association of Baptists, containing the following lists: representatives at council meeting, ministers, membership, officers, Sunday School records, and financial table.
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 628. Correspondence of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., of Munfordville, Kentucky, with Mary Leiper Moore, librarian of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, while he was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II in Alaska and Okinawa.
Ward, Williamson Dixon, 1841-1917 (Sc 627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ward, Williamson Dixon, 1841-1917 (Sc 627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 627. Photocopy of Civil War journal of Williamson Dixon Ward of Deer Creek, Indiana, who was in the 8th Indiana Cavalry Regiment, Company D. The journal relates his experiences of camp life in Indiana and Kentucky, with the majority of his time being spent in Kentucky – 22 September 1861 to 7 February 1862 and described on pages 8-60.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 631. Photocopies of legal papers pertaining to lawsuit brought by Sally Boles in which she sought and obtained a divorce from her husband William, who united with the Shakers in 1808 and left her and their three children to join the Shaker settlement at South Union, Kentucky, in 1811. The case was first tried in Logan County, then in Barren County.
Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 644. Photocopies of notes compiled by Milton L. Baughn while writing his book A People Called Cumberland Presbyterians, which was published in 1972. The notes concern the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (African American) in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Clay, Thomas Hart, 1843-1907 (Sc 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clay, Thomas Hart, 1843-1907 (Sc 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 643. Typed copy of letter to W. W. Hines from Thomas Hart Clay, Lexington, Kentucky, relating desired information about the children of Henry Clay, who was the grandfather of Thomas Hart Clay.
Nelson, William D., 1824-1862 (Sc 642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nelson, William D., 1824-1862 (Sc 642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 642. Letter, 28 March 1862, to John M. Stockton, Postmaster, Maysville, Kentucky, from William Nelson, his brother-in-law and a Union General with the Army of the Ohio, Columbia, Tennessee. Nelson directs Stockton to pay a debt for him and also comments on a possible battle with the Confederate army at Corinth, Mississippi.
Lowther, Charles Ernest, B. 1951 (Sc 649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lowther, Charles Ernest, B. 1951 (Sc 649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 649. Photocopies of letters written to Charles Ernest Lowther, of Nortonville, Kentucky, and a history student at Western Kentucky University, from various members of the U.S. Congress in reply to Lowther’s letter regarding the Nixon-Cox incident.
Agnes Gough, 1902-1988 (Sc 648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Agnes Gough, 1902-1988 (Sc 648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of sample item (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 648. Letters to Mary Taylor Moore, librarian of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Miss Agnes Gough, an artist and a teacher, originally from Benton, Kentucky, but living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Anchorage, Alaska, when these letters were written.
Pain, William (Sc 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pain, William (Sc 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 425. Original and typescript copy of a ballad, “Lovly Molie,” composed by William Pain, Logan County, Kentucky.
Lancaster, Lennie Young, 1893-1980 (Sc 645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lancaster, Lennie Young, 1893-1980 (Sc 645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 645. Typescript copy of article written by Lennie Young Lancaster of Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled “The Rifle Makers of Bowling Green, Kentucky Area”. The Stephens Family Papers in the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Library were used in writing the paper.
Mcdowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830 - Relating To (Sc 2551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcdowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830 - Relating To (Sc 2551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2551. First day of issue cover for stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first successful ovariotomy, performed by Ephraim McDowell. Includes a brief printed history of the surgery, as well as a printed letter from the Danville, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce announcing the commemorative stamp.
Henderson, Wallace W. (Sc 2645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Henderson, Wallace W. (Sc 2645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2645. Bound typescript copy of “Christian County, Kentucky Sketches,” by Wallace W. Henderson, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, tracing the history of Christian County. Includes sub-categories such as the Civil War, the Robert Hollowell Case, and notable Christian County figures.
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 (Sc 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 (Sc 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 636. Letter to Thomas Crittenden Cherry, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Hamlin Garland, New York City, in which he agrees to exchange a copy of his book, Trail-Makers of the Middle Border, for a copy of Cherry’s book, Kentucky: Pioneer State of the West.
Greathouse Family Papers (Sc 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Greathouse Family Papers (Sc 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts 635. Papers of the Greathouse family of Hancock County, Kentucky. The papers include surveys, deeds, receipts, wills, business letters, etc., 1825-1869, and are chiefly of R.B., Susan, John, and William. Includes some papers of the Lewis family, 1823-1847.
Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 639. Typescript notice issued by the Warren County Klan of the Ku Klux Klan of the realm of Kentucky concerning a scheduled meeting of their organization in the Opera House at Bowling Green that was canceled because of influence exerted by the Catholics and Jews in Bowling Green.
Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and sample of correspondence for Manuscripts Small Collection 633. Correspondence of John Wakefield Muir, Bardstown, Kentucky, and Mary (Taylor) Moore, Librarian of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which contains much information about
the history of Bardstown and Nelson County.