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Mammoth Cave, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Mammoth Cave, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 325. Letter from a gentleman in Bowling Green, Kentucky to a friend in Russellville, Kentucky, relating his explorations of Mammoth Cave. The letter was printed in The Enquirer, Richmond, Virginia, vol. 6, no. 109, 20 April 1810.


Brown, Eugene Scott, 1846-1892 - Letters To (Sc 2519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Brown, Eugene Scott, 1846-1892 - Letters To (Sc 2519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2519. Letters of a political nature addressed to Eugene Scott Brown, a prominent attorney and Republican from Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky. Several contain precinct election results for Allen and contiguous counties.


Yeager, Lyn Allison (Antrobus), 1915-2012 (Sc 324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Yeager, Lyn Allison (Antrobus), 1915-2012 (Sc 324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 324. Research materials and notes of Lynn A. Yeager, Bowling Green, Kentucky, including biographical data and photocopies of photos pertaining to Richmond Pearson Hobson and John D. Miley.


Missionary Societies - Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Missionary Societies - Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 323. Typed copy of “The History of the Logan Presbyterial [sic] Missionary Auxiliary Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1796-1955,” written by Mrs. Joseph Rogers and Mrs. Henry A. Reeder; and of auxiliary notes compiled by Margaret Hampton for 1955-1958.


Grider, Charles J., 1905-1987 (Mss 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Grider, Charles J., 1905-1987 (Mss 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 401. Collection contains materials related to Charles J. Grider's part-time career as a music manager. Includes band advertisements, dance invitations, letters and telegrams from music corporations, lists of patrons underwriting for bands, and Grider's personal reminiscences of Bowling Green dances.


James, Addison Davis, 1849-1910 (Mss 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

James, Addison Davis, 1849-1910 (Mss 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Mansucripts Collection 400. Photocopy of a letter press book kept by Addison Davis James during the time he was U.S. Marshal for Western Kentucky. James was a physician and a prominent Republican from Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.


Louisville Medical School - Louisville, Kentucky - Notes (Sc 321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Louisville Medical School - Louisville, Kentucky - Notes (Sc 321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 321. Notebook kept by an unidentified student at the Louisville (Kentucky) Medical School. Includes notes of lectures given by professors Yandell, Miller, Gross, Palmer, Rogers, Flint and Smith.


Rupard, William, 1825-1904 (Sc 2518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Rupard, William, 1825-1904 (Sc 2518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2518. Letter, 21 March 1883, from William Rupard, postmarked Hedges, Clark County, Kentucky, to W. W. Thomas, Harrisburg, Indiana. He reports on the health of mutual friends, “Brother” and “Sister” Lampton, and mentions his preaching activities.


Lipscomb, John, D. 1820 (Sc 319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Lipscomb, John, D. 1820 (Sc 319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 319. Photocopy of journal kept by John Lipscomb of his trip to Nashville and the Cumberland Settlements from southwest Virginia. Part of the journal is in typescript with an explanatory introduction and is entitled “Pease Supe, Milk and Clabber,” and the remainder is a photocopy of the original.


David, Isaac, 1841-1900 (Sc 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

David, Isaac, 1841-1900 (Sc 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 318. Letter of Isaac David, secretary of St. George Lodge, Louisville, Kentucky, to Dr. Oscar E. Bloch, Louisville, arranging Bloch’s examination for his Masonic degree.


Whig Party (Sc 320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Whig Party (Sc 320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 320. Typescript of an open letter from sixteen citizens to the voters of Warren County, Kentucky concerning the issues in the 1844 presidential election and the Whig party platform.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 317. Photocopies of miscellaneous business papers of the Shakers, including letters, 1884, 1915 (2);an agreement with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for the location of a depot at South Union, 1860; deeds, 1883, 1893 (2); bond, 1883; and receipts, 1884, 1906 (2). Originals are housed at the Shaker Museum, South Union.


Manire, Lucy (Sc 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Manire, Lucy (Sc 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 316. Letter written by Lucy Manire, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, to Lucy Shannon, South Union, Kentucky, expressing thanks for hospitality extended to her.


Ayles, Amanda Belle (Richards), 1870-1963 (Sc 2517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Ayles, Amanda Belle (Richards), 1870-1963 (Sc 2517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2517. Histories of the Richards and Orange families of Butler and Warren counties in Kentucky, written by Amanda Belle (Richards) Ayles. Includes biographical data on Ayles.


Clark, William, 1770-1838 (Sc 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Clark, William, 1770-1838 (Sc 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 315. Portion of diary kept by William Clark when he passed through Kentucky during his trip from St. Louis, Missouri to Washington D.C. He mentions Hopkinsville, Russellville, Bowling Green and other places as he travels through central and east Kentucky and into East Tennessee.


Louisville And Nashville Railroad Company (Mss 399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Louisville And Nashville Railroad Company (Mss 399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 399. Ledger book containing information about road repairs and construction projects on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad line, chiefly in Tennessee and Kentucky. The ledger includes tools and materials used in these projects, a brief account of the work, and information about employees used during the projects.


Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 396. Correspondence to family, friends, and acquaintances of Tandie Lewis McIntire, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Collection contains educational material related to McIntire's career as a teacher in Edmonson County. Also includes tracts and pamphlets related to McIntire's involvement in religious organizations, particularly Baptist entities.


Korn, Mike (Sc 2516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Korn, Mike (Sc 2516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text transcription (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2516. Interview conducted by Mike Korn and a Mr. Starks with Reverend Earl J. Jackson, Bowling Green, Kentucky in reference to the religious and educational work of Reverend Henry David Carpenter.


Smith, Zachariah Frederick, 1827-1911 (Sc 270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Smith, Zachariah Frederick, 1827-1911 (Sc 270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection. Letter book of a wholesale grocer in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes transactions of Lehman & Grafulla, merchants, and “Notes of Lehman, Rabold & Co.”


Winlock, Joseph F. (Sc 269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Winlock, Joseph F. (Sc 269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 269. Account book of Dr. Joseph F. Winlock, physician of Greensburg, Kentucky, containing accounts of patients, some ailment cures and a small notebook probably carried by the doctor with entries to be copied into account book.


Hook, Elizabeth Henrietta (Schmaltz), 1787-1846 - Letter To (Sc 268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Hook, Elizabeth Henrietta (Schmaltz), 1787-1846 - Letter To (Sc 268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 268. Letter, 26 October 1844, written by her daughter Louisa and niece Kate in Schenectady, New York to Elizabeth (Mrs. Josiah C.) Hook in White Lake, New York. In addition to family news, they report on local support for Henry Clay’s Whigs and for the Locofocos as reflected in a Clay Club at school and in the flying of flags made from colored muslin.


Education (Sc 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Education (Sc 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 267. Teachers’ certificates, 1874-1875 (3), issued to Amanda L. and C. S. Arnold for the first and second grades in the Kentucky counties of Henry and Oldham; and school essays written by Wanda Lee Arnold at Eminence College, 1871 (1), and by Bell Mason (1) and Essica Maye Ransdell(1).


Garrison, Kathryn (Topmiller), 1917-2012 - Collector (Sc 1002), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Garrison, Kathryn (Topmiller), 1917-2012 - Collector (Sc 1002), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1002. Wedding book, wedding invitation and calling card of Alma Elizabeth (Kister) Topmiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1912; poem, “Reflections Cast by the Harman Cabin,” written by Alfred Leland Crabb, 1941; and letter, 1991, written by Luther Martin Wilson to “Dear Nancy,” describing the Barren River as it was in 1941.


Stubbins & Lucas Pork House - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Stubbins & Lucas Pork House - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 265. Account book of R. S. Griffith, clerk to Stubbins & Lucas pork merchants, at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes accounts of sales to river steamboats.


Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 395. Minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other records of the LARTHS Club, a literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1925.


Settle, B. C. (Mrs.) (Sc 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Settle, B. C. (Mrs.) (Sc 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 265. Teacher’s composition book of Mrs. B. C. Settle, presumably of Warren County, Kentucky.


Fairleigh, William, 1797-1865 (Sc 264), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Fairleigh, William, 1797-1865 (Sc 264), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 264. Account book, 1830-1835, of William Fairleigh, a general merchant at Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky. Also contains a list of fines collected as first clerk of Meade County and Circuit Courts.


Dickinson, W. H. (Sc 263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Dickinson, W. H. (Sc 263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 263. Receipt book of W. H. Dickinson, Sheriff of Barren County, Kentucky.


Thruston, Rogers Clark Ballard, 1858-1946 (Sc 312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Thruston, Rogers Clark Ballard, 1858-1946 (Sc 312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 312. Letter to Mrs. C. W. Thompson, Glasgow, Kentucky, from Thruston, President of the Filson Club, Louisville, requesting information about Rogers family genealogy and the precise location of a stream, salt lick and buffalo trace in the region of Kentucky known as the Barrens.


Wooten, William H. (Sc 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Wooten, William H. (Sc 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 262. Two account books of William H. Wooten, carpenter and blacksmith in Bowling Green, Kentucky. One, 1857-1862, contains orders and lists work of hired hands. The second, 1857-1861, is a customer account book, 313p.