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Hoffman, Marvin G., 1878-1907 (Sc 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hoffman, Marvin G., 1878-1907 (Sc 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 222. Photocopy of diary kept by Marvin G. Hoffman, Tiffin, Ohio while serving in the Ohio National Guard and the 2nd Ohio Infantry, chiefly during the period of the Spanish American War. Hoffman gives a good picture of his training and of life in the Ohio, Georgia, and Tennessee camps where he was stationed.
Wilkerson, William D., 1831-1893 (Sc 170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilkerson, William D., 1831-1893 (Sc 170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 170. Kentucky militia commission certifcate, 1851, inspirational essay, 1852, and oath of allegiance, 1863, of William D. Wilkerson, Simpson County, Kentucky; receipts issued at Military Prison, Louisville, Kentucky, for prisoner William Gladish, 1864; and a remedy for cancer.
Payne Collection (Sc 169), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Payne Collection (Sc 169), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below)for Manuscripts Small Collection 169. Letter of James M. Payne, Pikeville, Kentucky, to his brother, William Payne in Randolph County, Illinois, 1823, with news of family, land prices and economic conditions; letter written by Cathern Pain, Polk County, Missouri, to her mother, Nancy Pain, Fountain Run, Kentucky, with news of her husband’s death and her remarriage; and a weaving draft with some Payne names noted thereon.
Stephens Family Papers (Sc 221), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stephens Family Papers (Sc 221), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 221. Chiefly business and legal papers of William S. Stephens and his sons, Brown County, Ohio and Butler County, Kentucky. Includes tax receipt, deed, and bill for gunsmith supplies from Brown County. Also, receipts for household goods, freight, and peddlers’ license from Butler County. Includes 1828 letter written by Stephens to his wife describing his voyage from England to America and 1842 letter to Stephens from his father-in-law giving news of the family remaining in England and the prices of gun making supplies.
Hendricks, John, D. 1814 (Sc 168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hendricks, John, D. 1814 (Sc 168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 168. Certified transcripts (1856), of Warren (County, Kentucky) Circuit Court records for two lawsuits involving title to land: James Bell v. John Hendrick (1815, commenced 1806) and George M. Bibb v. John Hendrick (1816, commenced 1815 against Hendrick's heirs).
Trevathan, Ben Lomond, 1894-1967 (Sc 2445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trevathan, Ben Lomond, 1894-1967 (Sc 2445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2445. Letter of Ben Lomond Trevathan, cashier of the Bank of Marshall County, Benton, Kentucky, to members of the Dark Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association. The letter refers to the bank’s financing of a proposed warehouse and its lending practices to growers, and solicits growers’ patronage.
Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 167. Civil War disability exemption certificate of Felix Crady, LaRue County, Kentucky, 1864; Simpson County, Kentucky deed, 1868; statement of Nazareth College, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1868; and an agreement concerning construction of the foundation for Franklin Female College, Franklin, Kentucky.
Mckenzie, George Anna (Duncan), B. 1935 (Sc 2442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckenzie, George Anna (Duncan), B. 1935 (Sc 2442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2442. Reminiscences of George Anna (Duncan) McKenzie from her early childhood in Bowling Green, Kentucky to 2010. Includes information about her parents and husband and her work in catering and fashion merchandising. Eventually she and her husband returned to Bowling Green and restored an old family home and operated it as a bed and breakfast.
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 - Collector (Sc 2443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 - Collector (Sc 2443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2443. Letter, 17 October 1863, to Ellen Fort from two Confederate soldiers imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Illinois; correspondence of Nell Bate Baird regarding her membership in the American Federation of Musicians, 1930; and 1936 federal income tax return of H. H. Baird and Nell Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Heckscher, Robert Valantine, 1883-1928 (Sc 2444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Heckscher, Robert Valantine, 1883-1928 (Sc 2444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2444. Letter of English poet Robert Valantine Heckscher, postmarked 5 January 1914, to Curtis H. Page, a professor of English at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He thanks Page for praise of his book of poems, Rose Windows, and contrasts its favorable reception by the public and literary community with that of the general press.
Jennings, Oscar Ben, 1907-1996 (Mss 366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jennings, Oscar Ben, 1907-1996 (Mss 366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 366. Personal correspondence, news clippings, estate video, event programs, and sundry materials collected by Oscar Ben Jennings of Henderson, Kentucky. Several folders of material relate to the 50th reunion of the Barret Manual Training High School class of 1925. Also includes information about the Henderson Rotary Club.
Stark Family Papers (Sc 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stark Family Papers (Sc 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 166. Letter from Elizabeth Stark Alvis, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Alfred Leland Crabb, Nashville, Tennessee, with biographical information on her father, John W. Stark, and his descendants. Includes biographical and genealogical material on the Stark family of Allen County, Kentucky and Pike County, Missouri.
Phillips, Clem Benjamin, 1894-1970 (Mss 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phillips, Clem Benjamin, 1894-1970 (Mss 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 365. Letters of Clem Benjamin Phillips of St. Peters, Missouri, written during his World War I military training in Kansas and New Jersey and while serving in France. Includes correspondence of other Phillips family members and relatives.
Baer, Levi W., 1839-1905 (Sc 2441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baer, Levi W., 1839-1905 (Sc 2441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2441. Letter from Levi W. Baer, serving with an Indiana regiment in the Union Army, to his cousin Benjamin Kenaga. Baer writes of his regiment’s expected movements, his anticipation of action at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and of conditions in his regiment, including the lack of food.
Scott, Charles, 1739-1813 (Sc 217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scott, Charles, 1739-1813 (Sc 217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 217. Appointment of Reuben Leach as Justice of the Peace for Lincoln County, Kentucky signed by Governor Charles Scott 15 July 1811. The seal of the state of Kentucky is affixed.
Breathitt, John 1786-1834 (Sc 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Breathitt, John 1786-1834 (Sc 216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 216. Appointment of Charles F. Burton as Justice of the Peace for Mercer County, Kentucky signed by Governor John Breathitt, 18 November 1833. The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.
Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 218. Document signed by Christopher Greenup, clerk of the Mercer County court, 17 December 1788, to the sheriff of Madison County, related to damages awarded Thomas Upshaw against Patrick Joyes. At this time, Mercer and Madison Counties were part of the District of Kentucky of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 501. Certificates of proficiency from the Franklin Female College, 1874 (4), of Maud McCutchen and autograph album of Maud Blair which she had while a student at the college, 1886-1888.
Barkley, William Alben, 1877-1956 (Sc 220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barkley, William Alben, 1877-1956 (Sc 220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 220. Letter, 18 November 1954, from Alben William Barkley, Washington, D.C., to Miss M. E. Dusenberry, Chicago, thanking her for her letter of congratulations upon his election to the U.S. Senate. The letter is signed by Barkley.
Duteil, Alphonse Joseph, 1824-1875 (Sc 2440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duteil, Alphonse Joseph, 1824-1875 (Sc 2440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2440. Letter, 5 January 1872, from Alphonse Duteil, an importer and manufacturer of human hairwork in Louisville, Kentucky, to C. E. Hartung and Company, New York, requesting supplies. Advertisements for various Louisville merchants appear on the reverse.
Browne Family - Account Book, 1872-1948 (Sc 211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browne Family - Account Book, 1872-1948 (Sc 211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 211. Account book that lists expenditures for Edmonia, Susie, and James Harvey Browne of Bardstown, 1872-1884; also, for Mary Marshall and Susie Beauchamp, 1882-1884. Book includes the will of Sue Browne Elliott, recipes, and a tuition receipt from the Bardstown Female Academy, 1873. A 1948 letter relates to the Browne family.
Metcalfe, Thomas, 1780-1855 (Sc 215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Metcalfe, Thomas, 1780-1855 (Sc 215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 215. Appointment of William Guthrie as sheriff of Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Thomas Metcalfe, 13 November 1831? Kentucky state seal is affixed.
Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842 (Sc 214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842 (Sc 214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 214. Appointment of James Harlan as Justice of the Peace for Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Joseph Desha, 28 June 1827. The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.
Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 213. Appointment of Thomas Freeman as sheriff of Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Christopher Greenup and Secretary of State John Rowan, 6 December 1804.
Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 212. Notary public commission of Gabriel Tandy, Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor John Adair and Secretary of State Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, 8 November 1821. The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.
Smith, Cornelia Stanley (Allen), B. 1839? (Sc 2437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Cornelia Stanley (Allen), B. 1839? (Sc 2437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2437. Letters from various magazine editors, literary agents and publishers in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Rochester, New York and Augusta, Maine to Cornelia Stanley (Allen) Smith, who submitted prose and poetry under the pen name "Clio Stanley."
Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 165. Materials related to education and teaching career of Harry Edgar Thompson. Includes commencement invitation and program of Southern Normal School, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1888; letters of recommendation, 1888-1893; Kentucky and Texas teaching certificates, 1885-1891; clippings; photographs; and autobiographical note, 1958, of Thompson, later a chiropractor in McPherson, Kansas.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 (Sc 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 (Sc 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 164. “Love’s Calendar,” handwritten poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The Atlantic Monthly, of which Aldrich would later become editor, published the poem under the title “Snow” in its March 1866 issue.
Allen, C. W. (Sc 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen, C. W. (Sc 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 206. Photocopy of letter, 10 November 1868, written by C.W. and M.E. Allen, Big Coon, Alabama, to their cousin John W. Campbell. They comment on family matters as well as economic and political conditions in Alabama.
Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928 (Sc 2436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928 (Sc 2436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2436. Letter of George Otto Trevelyan to Joseph H. Choate, 18 March 1912, written on the publication in the United States of Trevelyan’s book George the Third and Charles Fox. Trevelyan remarks on the book’s favorable reception in Britain and gives news of his family.