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Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 382. Correspondence, account books, receipts, sermons, drawings, and diaries of the Venable family of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, chiefly John Wesley Venable, Sr. and his wife Fannie and son John, Jr. Of particular interest is an 1839-1839 travel journal kept by John, Sr. while in Florida. Also includes John, Sr.’s sermons and sermon preparation material as well as thirty-nine small diaries documenting his career as an Episcopal priest in Versailles and Hopkinsville. Includes one of John, Sr.’s art sketch books.
Shakers (Sc 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers (Sc 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 358. Typed copy of letter written by Urban E. Johns, South Union, Kentucky, to Honorable McLean, Washington, D.C., regarding sheep husbandry in Logan County and South Union; a hymn (with words and music); reward certificates given to deserving pupils by teachers; and a list of members of the Brick House and the Square House, Union Village, Ohio, during the 1837-1867 period.
Petition - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Petition - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 295. Petition signed by taxpayers in Bowling Green, Kentucky, requesting the Board of Trustees to construct a needed footway near the market house.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 357. Letters and postcard, 1893-1922 (3); words (2) and words and music to Shaker hymns (3); undated receipts (3); and notes about the Shakers compiled by Pauline Smith, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for a speech.
Maxey, John (Sc 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Maxey, John (Sc 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 293. Account book, 1837-1848, of lumber accounts, and lists of employees’ work and pay, by wages and goods, in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky.
Account Book (Sc 291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Account Book (Sc 291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 291. Account book of a general merchant, probably of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Shakers (Sc 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers (Sc 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 356. Letters, 1834-1851 (6), of the Shakers, chiefly of South Union, Kentucky, concerning the seed industry, religious affairs, economic conditions, wagon blueprint, etc., and receipts, 1868, 1870 (2).
Rochester Graded Common School - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rochester Graded Common School - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 292. Minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Rochester Graded Common School, Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky, 1915-1934, at which time the Rochester district was combined with the Butler County school system. Includes miscellaneous items pertaining to the school and the merger.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 355. An incident related by Margie Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding her grandfather, Churchill H. Blakey, and the boyhood experience he had while selling Bibles in Logan County, Kentucky, with friends, David Morton and Eckstein (Ex) Norton.
Ferguson, W. H. (Sc 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, W. H. (Sc 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 354. Photocopy of Ferguson’s note, deposited in the post of a portico then under construction at a house on South Cherry Street, Greenville, Kentucky. It lists his various landlords in Greenville and notes the names of some engaged couples as well as some young ladies he calls his “heart’s treasures.” Also included is information about the construction of the house.
Kentucky Folklore Society (Sc 353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklore Society (Sc 353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 353. Manuscript minute book of the Kentucky branch of the American Folklore Society, 1912?-1953; loose sheets of reports of various meetings and financial reports, letters, etc., 1917-1957.
Minute Books - Sunday Schools (Sc 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Minute Books - Sunday Schools (Sc 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 350. Book of the recording secretaries for Salem Baptist Sunday School, 1856-1857, and for Lebanon Baptist Sunday School, 1859-1862, both of Butler County, Kentucky.
Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 352. Agreement to teach school, 1829; Civil War letter written from camp near Corinth, Mississippi, 1862; manuscript book which contains record of John F. Hines’ estate of which Hay was administrator, 1859 – noted is commissioner’s fee for selling slave, 1861, and writings of Rebecca Hay Gray on various subjects—spiritualism, religion, friendship, etc., and recipes, 1876-1881.
Morehead House Hotel - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morehead House Hotel - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 390. Hotel registers (9) from the final years of the Morehead House Hotel, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Morehead House was one of the city's oldest and longest running hostelries.
Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 - Relating To (Sc 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 - Relating To (Sc 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 255. Photocopies of a notarized statement and two letters concerning the site where the Thomas Lincoln family crossed the Ohio River in 1816 from Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, to Indiana. Also, information related to plans to survey the Lincoln Trail.
Buckner Family Papers (Sc 257), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckner Family Papers (Sc 257), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 257. Letter, 17 November 1847, written by Simon B. Buckner, Mexico, to his cousin Mary E. Leedom, Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, relating some of his activities while serving in the Mexican War; his 1878 condolence letter to his cousin in Elizabethtown; letter, 1914, written by Delia (Claiborne) Buckner, Buckner’s second wife, acknowledging expression of sympathy received after his death; six funeral announcements, 1842-1862, chiefly of the Leedom family; two photographs of Buckner and one of his daughter, Lily.
Bowdon, Travis, 1773-1862 (Sc 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowdon, Travis, 1773-1862 (Sc 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 256. Document by which a thirteen-year-old African-American enslaved girl was deeded by Travis Bowdon, Graves County, Kentucky, to his granddaughter, Julian Jones and her husband, Robert. Signature of John Anderson, first clerk of Graves County, is on the deed.
Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 258. Letter written by Franz Joseph Strahm, music department faculty member, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mrs. Joe Bryant Helm, Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky, declining an opportunity to play the piano in Louisville owing to his ill health.
Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 260. Three letters of Joseph I. Younglove, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brothers, David and James, and sister, Jane, New York state, relating news of his drugstore, of his upcoming marriage to Sarah Morehead, and the effect of the Civil War on conditions in Bowling Green; a candy order for the drugstore, 1847; and a certificate attesting to his business integrity, presented by the Merchants Protective Association.
Bullitt County, Kentucky (Sc 259), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bullitt County, Kentucky (Sc 259), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 259. Photocopy of a post note issued by the Bank of Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky, to J. Gore, 1819, for $5.00; photocopy of ledger pages detailing the salt made and sold by John Graham, 1 January 1824 to 1 January 1825, at the furnaces of Joseph A. Brooks, Bullitt County.
Leslie, Preston Hopkins, 1819-1907 - Relating To (Sc 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Leslie, Preston Hopkins, 1819-1907 - Relating To (Sc 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 254. Photocopies of sketch written about Preston Hopkins Leslie in 1910, and a letter, 16 August 1969, written by Mary (Leslie) Ford, Helena, Montana, to Tim Cantrell, Henderson, Kentucky, related to Cantrell’s interest in writing a book about Preston Hopkins Leslie, Ford’s grandfather. Leslie was governor of Kentucky from 1871 to 1875, and governor of Montana from 1887 to 1889.
Jeffries & Myers (Sc 289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jeffries & Myers (Sc 289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 289. Daybook, 1834-1840, of James Jeffries and Harvey Myers, leather dealers at Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky. Also includes a booket of notes due labeled, “Jeffries & Bush, Note Book, Nov. 4th, 1837.”
Mcreynolds Store (Sc 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcreynolds Store (Sc 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 290. Account book, 1883-1888, of a general store at Lewisburg, Logan County, Kentucky. Some pages have been used as a scrapbook and include clippings of poems and essays, and colored cards.
Fairleigh Family Papers (Sc 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fairleigh Family Papers (Sc 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 349. Class book, 1839-1844, of the Methodist Church, Brandenburg, Kentucky, containing membership list, 1843-44, and some notations of contributions. Also, it contains law and minutes of the Belles Lettres Society, 1849-1850, and of the Union Debating Society, October 1852. The book was kept by Thomas Fairleigh and other Fairleigh family members.
Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 385. Letters written chiefly by Herman Frederick Wilhelm Volkerding, of Louisville, Kentucky, to his wife Mary Elizabeth (Hauber) Volkerding while traveling as a salesman for the John T. Barbee distillers. Volkerding pines for home and describes the scenery, hotels, amusements and rail travel in the western United States.
Beech Grove, Kentucky - Records (Sc 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beech Grove, Kentucky - Records (Sc 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 348. Letters, legal papers, and receipts, 1902-1916 (52), of Beech Grove, McLean County, Kentucky; and journal containing the town’s ordinances, 1894-1901, minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1894-1901, accounts received and expended, and listing of road hands, 1895.
Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 346. Circular letter written by in behalf of Henry E. Youtsey who was imprisoned for his actions in the murder of Governor William Justus Goebel. Signatures on a petition were to be obtained with petition being returned to Mr. Donaldson, Newport, Kentucky.
Southern Normal School And Business College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Southern Normal School And Business College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 253. Unsigned letter written 7 June 1885 on the stationery of the Southern Normal School and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Joe E. Rudolph, Hazelwood, Ballard County, Kentucky, relating students’ activities while the writer was enrolled in the college.
Bowling Green And Northern Railway Company (Sc 249), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green And Northern Railway Company (Sc 249), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 249. Warren County, Kentucky Court proceedings, January to March, 1889, concerning a proposed subscription for capital stock in the Bowling Green and Northern Railway Company. Includes the results of the vote by the legal voters of Warren County on the proposal.
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 251. Correspondence of Mrs. Sachs, writer, and native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly with Mary T. Moore, librarian, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, related to a book on the history of Kentucky that Sachs was researching.