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Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva (Doud), 1896-1979 (Sc 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva (Doud), 1896-1979 (Sc 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 579. Letter written to Nellie Virginia Heasley, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Mamie Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower, expressing thanks for Mrs. Heasley’s message of good wishes following Dwight D. Eisenhower’s election as President.


Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 538. Correspondence between Mary T. Leiper, librarian, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Pearle
L. Hendley, Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky, related to Miss Hendley’s uncle, J.A. Hendley, founder of the Farmington Institute. Includes a photograph of J.A. Hendley.


Settle, Simon Dewitt, 1899-1963 (Sc 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Settle, Simon Dewitt, 1899-1963 (Sc 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 529. Typed manuscript titled "Charles Morgan, Early Kentucky Land Agent," written by Simon Dewitt Settle of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Sc 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Sc 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 535. Facsimile of George Washington’s 14 April 1789 letter to John Langdon, president pro tempore of the Senate, accepting the presidential office.Includes a discussion of the events surrounding the occasion written by Paul M. Angle.


Muir, Jasper W., 1823-1907 - Relating To (Sc 537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Muir, Jasper W., 1823-1907 - Relating To (Sc 537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 537. Compilation of writings related to Jasper W. Muir, prominent attorney and banker of Bardstown, Kentucky. Includes a paper written by friend John Michael Cooney, and one by his grandson John Wakefield Muir. Also, an 1896 newspaper article about Muir.


Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 542. Paper entitled “History of the Auburn Baptist Church, 1866-1957,” a holographic copy by Nellie Childress, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, and an explanatory note about the paper written to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library.


Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 546. Letter to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library, from Helen E. (Garvin) Rouse, concerning records from the minutes of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, that relate to the Garvin and Irvin families and an accompanying statement related to the two families.


Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 544. Carbon copies of two 1967 letters written to Brother Thomas Whitaker, South Union, Logan County, Kentucky, by Littleton Groom, Princeton, New Jersey, relating information concerning the history of the Gasper River Presbyterian Church in Logan County.


Porter, John Marion, 1839-1884 (Sc 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Porter, John Marion, 1839-1884 (Sc 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 547. Manuscript book of recollections concerning Porter family written by John M. Porter in 1872; clippings pertaining chiefly to Porter, 1870(?)-1884; certificate of his attendance and his ribbon from The Morgan Encampment, 1883; photo of Porter, lawyer and Commonwealth’s Attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Whitesides, William Franklin, 1827-1905 (Sc 541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Whitesides, William Franklin, 1827-1905 (Sc 541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 541. Letter, 17 August 1871, to C.H. Courts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from William F. Whitesides, president of Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky, asking for a loan, and express receipt from Adams Express Company for the desired loan.


Kirk, Arthur Dale, 1886-1944 (Sc 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Kirk, Arthur Dale, 1886-1944 (Sc 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 534. Photocopy of Arthur Dale Kirk's holographic manuscript entitled "Weaver & Elizabeth Barnes and Their Folks."


Gaines, Samuel Moore, 1815-1906 (Sc 540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Gaines, Samuel Moore, 1815-1906 (Sc 540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 540. Letter, 17 February 1875, to Carrie Alexander, a student at Bowling Green Female College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Samuel Moore Gaines, the president of the college, concerning her outstanding character while in school.


Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 543. Agreement to teach school in Warren County for the 1836-1937 term including the subscribers’ list; also two papers, 1840, pertaining to bill owed Henry Hines by the John McFadin estate for the tuition of one student for one year.


Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 524. Receipt written15 June 1836 by Nathaniel Hardy of Day, Schmitz and Baldwin, Louisville, Kentucky, to Eli McLean, South Union, Kentucky, for payment of $300 on castings for water works for the Shaker Society at South Union.


Brownfield, Warner Carl, 1883-1968 (Sc 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Brownfield, Warner Carl, 1883-1968 (Sc 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 532. Brownfield’s artistic penmanship techniques are displayed in a 1909 resolution of the Kentucky State Medical Association, a 1918 Bowling Green, Kentucky, DAR chapter invitation to William Howard Taft, a 1924 certificate from the Littleford School,Cincinnati, Ohio, and an undated letter to a friend. Brownfield was head of the Penmanship Department, Bowling Green Business University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Thomas, Edison Hugh, B. 1912 (Sc 536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Thomas, Edison Hugh, B. 1912 (Sc 536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 536. Typescript copy with holographic corrections of "The Thomas and Bridges Story, 1540-1840" by Edison Hugh Thomas, Louisville, Kentucky. Includes information about the origin of the Thomas and Bridges families.


Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 527. Photocopies of manuscript entitled “Destiny,” which concerns Alfred Hall Bemis’ five years of residency in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and a brochure used by Bemis to advertise his lecture on the life, philosophy and background of the hill people of Kentucky.


Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 525. Photocopy of an incomplete typescript memoir entitled “The First Fifty Years of Judson Slade Taylor,” a Baptist minister born in Ohio County, Kentucky; and a letter, 20 August 1971, from J.B. Taylor, a relative, to Nell Childress, Auburn, Kentucky, related to the memoir.


Clark, Samuel, 1870-1934 (Sc 526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Clark, Samuel, 1870-1934 (Sc 526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scans of items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 526. Samuel Clark, Bowling Green, Kentucky, was Captain of Co. B, 3rd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish –American War. Papers include muster roll, roll call book, Clark’s discharge and pension papers, photo of Clark in uniform, Clark family genealogy, and miscellaneous items.


Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914 (Sc 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914 (Sc 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 531. Letter from poet Madison Julius Cawein, Louisville, Kentucky, to Fred H. Day, Boston, Massachusetts, a publisher, relative to several of Cawein’s books of poetry and to a book by novelist and poet Alice Brown.


Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 (Sc 530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 (Sc 530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) For Manuscripts Small Collection 530. Letter, 5 April 1886, from Joseph Holt to Darwin C. Pavey(?), editor of The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield,Massachusetts, stating that he was never a member of Lincoln’s cabinet. Holt, a native of Breckinridge County, Kentucky, was Judge-Advocate General, U.S. Army, and prosecuted the conspirators involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Also, 1972 correspondence related to the identity of The Berkshire Eagle’s editor in 1886.


Gibson, Otis Edward, 1930-1959 (Sc 528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Gibson, Otis Edward, 1930-1959 (Sc 528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 528. Letters and postcards from Gibson to his parents, Guy Lyons Gibson and Ruellma (Dowell) Gibson, Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, while he was stationed in Europe with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He describes his ocean crossing and relates his impressions of post-war Germany and England.


Gillette, Mary Gurley (Sc 508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Gillette, Mary Gurley (Sc 508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 508. Album of poetry extracts and some essays compiled by owner, possibly in 1832. Contains notes from subsequent owners of the album.


Campbell, May E. (Sc 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Campbell, May E. (Sc 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 510. Autograph album of May E. Campbell, Newport, Kentucky, 1883-1885, which contains autographs of Bowling Green, Kentucky friends. Also, a 1972 letter from Florence Cooksey, Madison, Wisconsin, a relative of Miss Campbell.


Washington, William Armstead, 1800-1883 (Sc 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Washington, William Armstead, 1800-1883 (Sc 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 506. Memory album containing poetry written by William Armstead Washington, Logan County, Kentucky, some of which was written for his sisters, Sarah Virginia and Louisa Fairfax. Also, a poem written by J.A.C. Boyer which he dedicated to Sarah V. Washington, and holographic notes (2) are included.


Burnam, Mattie, 1865-1924 (Sc 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Burnam, Mattie, 1865-1924 (Sc 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 509. Autograph album, 1879-1881, of Miss Burnam of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes sentiments written by Lida Calvert who later published under the name Eliza Calvert Hall.


Banks, Nancy (Huston), 1850-1934 (Sc 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Banks, Nancy (Huston), 1850-1934 (Sc 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 516. Letter, 8 June 1902, from Nancy Banks, Morganfield, Kentucky, to Mr. Parker, inquiring as to whether he had received a copy of her book "Oldfield" which she sent him because of his assistance to her in the writing of it.


Yeager, Lyn Allison (Antrobus), 1915-2012 (Sc 522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Yeager, Lyn Allison (Antrobus), 1915-2012 (Sc 522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 522. Typescript copy of a paper entitled "Illinois and Alabama Meet in Kentucky" written by Lyn Allison Yeager while a resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Anderson, Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813-1845 (Sc 521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Anderson, Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813-1845 (Sc 521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 521. Photocopy of letter, 21 December 1842, from Oliver Hazard Perry Anderson, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, to Orlando Brown, Frankfort, Kentucky, in which he relates his experiences as a patient dwelling in the cave as a treatment for consumption. The original letter is owned by The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, and was published in The Filson Club Quarterly, vol. 20, p. 302-307.


Lewis, John Alexander, B. 1841 (Sc 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Lewis, John Alexander, B. 1841 (Sc 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 520. Printed pamphlets and typescripts, one with holographic corrections, or speeches and papers read before the Kentucky State Medical Association and the Kentucky State Medical Society by John Alexander Lewis, a physician of Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky.