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Berry, John M. (Sc 411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Berry, John M. (Sc 411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 411. Certification that Ezra Pering had deposited $100 in a letter directed to C. Pering, Louisville, Kentucky. Signed by J. M. Berry, Postmaster. Letters containing money were sent by this method, with the recipient's postmaster witnessing the opening of the letter.
Dashiell, Henry (Sc 394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dashiell, Henry (Sc 394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 394. Certificate containing oath of Henry Dashiell, Baltimore, Maryland, affirming to the authorities of the Custom-House, London, England, that his ship Venus does not have anyone on board except the crew, and that his crew is composed of foreign seamen.
Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825 (Sc 389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825 (Sc 389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 389. Order, Greenville, Ohio, instructing that bread, pork, and whiskey be given to fifteen Indians--seven Delawares and eight Shawnees. James Wilkinson was commissioner to the Indians.
Hall, Slaughter J. (Sc 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hall, Slaughter J. (Sc 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 386. Bills of sale (2) for slaves purchased by Slaughter J. Hall, Warren County, Kentucky, from William R. Covington, Warren County, 1852, and from John P. Smith of Missouri, 1855.
Shannon Family Papers (Sc 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shannon Family Papers (Sc 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 391. Warren County deeds of Shannon and Reid families, 1821-1872 (6); land lease of Samuel Reid, 1824; agreement for making bricks and erecting a building between Samuel Shannon, Sr. and his son, 1824; deed and miscellaneous papers of the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church near Rockfield, Warren County, 1839-1882 (5); will of James Shannon, 1846; and miscellaneous receipts, 1843-1882 (3)—one for school tuition, 1844.
Weed, Hugh M. (Sc 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weed, Hugh M. (Sc 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 395. Printed invitation to a Christmas ball at Hugh M. Weed's house, Shawneetown, Illinois, sent to Mr. Adrian Davenport and lady.
Finnell, John William, 1821-1888 (Sc 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Finnell, John William, 1821-1888 (Sc 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 405. Printed form letter from John William Finnell to Carlos Coolidge, Governor of Vermont, informing him that copies of statute books of Kentucky for 1849-1850 session have been sent to him. Finnell was Secretary of State.
Jesup, Thomas Sidney, 1788-1860 (Sc 404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jesup, Thomas Sidney, 1788-1860 (Sc 404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 404. Two letters of Jesup, Washington City, to J.C. Spencer and William Wilkins, Secretaries of War, with his opinion of Rouses’ Point, New York, as a military post, and his defense of the Seminole Indians’ claims and his concern for their ill treatment by the U.S. government. Also, an article entitled “Notice of the late Major General Brown, by Major General Jesup, 1828(?).
Hughlett, William H., 1819-1874 (Sc 408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hughlett, William H., 1819-1874 (Sc 408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 408. Letter from William H. Hughlett, Franklin, Kentucky to William E. Graham, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding petition of S. R. Hope, Franklin, for a Masonic degree from the Bowling Green Lodge.
Union Grove Society Of The Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Union Grove Society Of The Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 409. Notice of Union Grove Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church’s formation at Shiloh meeting house, Warren County, Kentucky, which was sent to the moderator and members of the Logan Presbytery, requesting to be under their care. Signed by O.C. Carson, J.S. McCormick, and H.W. Stagner.
Clarke, Beverly Leonidas, 1809-1860 (Sc 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clarke, Beverly Leonidas, 1809-1860 (Sc 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 407. Letter from Beverly Leonidas Clarke, Franklin, Kentucky, to William E. Graham, Bowling Green, Kentucky regarding petition of S.R. Hope, Franklin, for a Masonic degree from the Bowling Green Lodge.
Slaughter Family Papers (Sc 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slaughter Family Papers (Sc 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 402. Will, 1798; slavery bill of sale, 1810; militia commission, 1820; letters concerning Slaughter estate settlement, 1835-1843 (9); Mexican War claim, 1849; letters of recommendations for judicial appointments, 1853-1879 (7); Civil War notes and letters, 1861-1864 (4); and miscellaneous items. Selected items have been typescripted.
Rodgers Family Collection (Sc 2535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rodgers Family Collection (Sc 2535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2535. Letters of the Rodgers family of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. An 1832 letter written from the Conemaugh Salt Works, Indiana County, Pennsylvania by James Rodgers to his parents describes a destructive flood. Letters of James’ brother Michael Rodgers, a printer in Princeton, Kentucky, written to his mother and another brother, William, describe his health, local conditions, and his business prospects. He also finds Kentucky women to be unsuitable as wives and housekeepers. A typescripted 1881 letter of William Rodgers gives biographical and family details.
Philips, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 - Relating To (Sc 2533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Philips, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 - Relating To (Sc 2533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2533. Typewritten remarks, author unknown, about Emanie Nahm’s 1924 novel, Talk. The reviewer speculates on the people and places in Nahm’s home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky on which the novel may have been based, and refers to a reported visit to Nahm in Bowling Green by the author Rebecca West.
Goodman Family Papers (Sc 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Goodman Family Papers (Sc 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 401. Business papers of Revolutionary soldier, John Jacob Goodman, Sr., and Jr., and John I. Crisp, Monroe County, Kentucky. Deeds—Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1782, Monroe County, 1822-1873 (7); and Allen County, Kentucky, 1882; survey – Barren County, Kentucky, 1799; receipts – tax, Civil War, postmaster, etc., 1818-1863 (24); and miscellaneous papers.
Fisk, Robert (Sc 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fisk, Robert (Sc 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 403. License, Whitley County, to perform marriages as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2. Account (15 pp.) written by Elizabeth (Wright) Thomas, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled “A Week’s Outing in the Tennessee Mountains” describing a trip made after the Civil War. Also includes her obituary.
Moseley, Thomas (Sc 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moseley, Thomas (Sc 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 7. Certificate signed by Thomas Moseley stating that John Ferguson, Ohio County, Kentucky, lost two certificates, one issued to John Galloway in 1804, and one issued to Zachariah Galloway in 1803, for grown wolf scalps.
Twelfth Street Church Of Christ - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Twelfth Street Church Of Christ - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 408. Directories, programs, newsletters, news clippings, and land records of the Twelfth Street Church of Christ, Bowling Green, Kentucky (known after 2002 as Lost River Church of Christ). Also includes information about other Churches of Christ in Warren County, Kentucky, as well as Potter Bible College and Potter Orphan Home in Bowling Green.
Cumberland County, Kentucky - Account Books And Papers (Mss 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cumberland County, Kentucky - Account Books And Papers (Mss 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 409. Account books and business papers for several businesses in Marrowbone, Cumberland County, Kentucky, including Bank of Marrowbone, 1902-1966, Norris & Gray general store, 1870-1874, and Pace & Davis Undertakers, 1895-1920. Also includes photocopies of the articles of incorporation and by-laws for the Bank of Marrowbone.
Cochran, Mary (Sc 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cochran, Mary (Sc 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 4. Certification of membership and good character signed by the ruling elders of a church in Concord, Campbell County, Virginia.
Lewis, John, 1747-1825 (Sc 6), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lewis, John, 1747-1825 (Sc 6), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 6. Letter written by J[ohn] Lewis of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to his son, Gabriel Lewis, Georgetown, Kentucky, discussing business matters relating to the settlement of debts, Kentucky lands purchased by the Lewis’ and prices of flour, cotton and sugar.
Hunt Family Papers (Sc 398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hunt Family Papers (Sc 398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 398. Deed, Warren County, 1817 (1); deeds, Simpson County, 1852-1858 (4); and land mortgage of Thomas Hunt, 1861.
Rice, David, 1733-1816 (Sc 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, David, 1733-1816 (Sc 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 400. Legal papers – bond for land and deed to land in Warren County, Kentucky, 1813 (2); will of David Rice, 1816; deed, Warren County, 1818, made by sons; and papers concerning Warren County Circuit Court Case (Equity Court Case #924) instigated by Martin Mitchell, Warren County, against some of the Rice heirs, 1832-1833 (6). Letters to Mary Leiper Moore, librarian, Kentucky Library, about Rice and his descendants, 1938-1947 (5).
Rodes Family Deeds (Sc 399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rodes Family Deeds (Sc 399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 399. Deeds, Barren County, Kentucky, 1812, 1837, and Hardin County, Kentucky, 1838.
Calhoun, Stella (Fitch), 1914-1993 (Sc 2532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Calhoun, Stella (Fitch), 1914-1993 (Sc 2532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2532. Letter to her “Dearest Son," Gilbert T. Calhoun, Jr., from Stella Calhoun reminiscing about growing up in 1920s Bowling Green, Kentucky, with particular emphasis on Western Kentucky University and her neighbors in the 1300-1400 blocks of College Street.
Selby, Cornelia Frances, 1916-2005 (Sc 2530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Selby, Cornelia Frances, 1916-2005 (Sc 2530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2530. Letters from Cornelia Frances “Fran” Selby to her sister, Mary Agnes Selby in Utica, Ohio, written during Cornelia’s service in the Women’s Army Corps at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. She writes of her activities, her anticipated furlough and their male acquaintances.
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 42. Correspondence, 1864-1878 (8); journal, 1852-1883; scrapbooks (2); Manuscript: “House of Madison and McDowell in Kentucky,” 1888; family genealogical data; slave records; etc., of Agatha (Rochester) Strange, 1832-1896, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Chamberlain, John B. (Sc 2531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chamberlain, John B. (Sc 2531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2531. Letter written from Kaler, Graves County, Kentucky, by John B. Chamberlain to his daughter. He gives a general description of Kaler and its environs, including its low-lying terrain, local businesses, and railroad access.
Treate, Samuel (Sc 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Treate, Samuel (Sc 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 390. Bill of exchange for $150 made in Arkansas payable to Samuel Mosely. Endorsed by several others and presented for payment in Washington County, District of Columbia, 29 August 1812, where funds were insufficient to pay the note.