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Miller Family Papers (Mss 324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Miller Family Papers (Mss 324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 324. Collection consists of a physician's daybook kept by David Griffin Miller, Jr. in Butler County, Kentucky, 1937-1938, and some other material related to Miller's medical career. Also included are numerous photographs from the Miller and Hudson families and a memoir by David Griffin Miller III.


Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 352. Material related to Cecil Murray Elrod, chiefly about his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-21. Includes notes on planes and guns discussed during training, aviators flight log books, and other military papers. Also includes information about reunions of the Valley High School (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Class of 1943.


Cloud Family Papers (Mss 351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Cloud Family Papers (Mss 351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 351. Correspondence, news clippings, and sundry other material related to the Cloud family of Louisville, Kentucky. The bulk of the collection concerns the estates of Willis J. Cloud and Lillian Lee Cloud.


Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2402. Letters of Louis Arnold Rich, a U. S. Army private from Tompkinsville, Kentucky, written to his wife and in-laws during his military training and while hospitalized for a long illness that resulted in his death on 3 August 1944. He writes of his medical condition and mentions other soldiers from home. Includes letters from his wife, Martha, to her parents and grandmother discussing his medical treatment. Also includes an unidentified soldier’s letter and a child’s letter to her father.


Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 49. Correspondence of the Green family, Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky, including business papers and account books, and correspondence for several generations of the Robert Wilmot Scott family, originally of Frankfort, Kentucky.


Tanner, James Freeman, B. 1906 (Sc 2367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Tanner, James Freeman, B. 1906 (Sc 2367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2367. "The Louisville and Nashville Railroad to 1866" by James Freeman Tanner, a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1932.


West Kentucky Coal Company - Sturgis, Kentucky (Sc 2401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

West Kentucky Coal Company - Sturgis, Kentucky (Sc 2401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2401. Letter, 17 August 1927, from T.E. Jenkins, vice president of West Kentucky Coal Company, Sturgis, Kentucky, thanking him for his rescue and recovery work after a mine explosion near Clay, Kentucky, on 3 August 1927.


Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 345. Correspondence, legal documents, and sundry material related to the Meador, Richards, and Johnson families chiefly of Simpson County and Logan County, Kentucky. Also includes documents and correspondence from the King and Garrett families of Robertson and Sumner County, Tennessee. The attached 1842 letters are from R. M. Latimer to Caroline Garrett reporting the death and burial of her brother, George King, in Cuba; and to Caroline Garrett from another brother, John, discussing tensions with Mexico.


Muncy, William Mckinley, 1894-1963 (Sc 2400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Muncy, William Mckinley, 1894-1963 (Sc 2400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2400. Two letters from William M. "Mack" Muncy to Eliza Ranson, written from Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky while serving with the 159th Depot Brigade. He writes of drills, vaccinations and social activities. He also refers to desertion and suicide among his comrades and to the treatment of conscientious objectors by the military.


Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 281. Chiefly personal and professional correspondence, speeches, journal articles, reminiscences, and news clippings of noted educator Chester Coleman Travelstead. Of particular interest are the materials related to his 1955 dismissal from the University of South Carolina owing to his support of racial integration. Also includes correspondence and diaries of his mother Nelle (Gooch) Travelstead, long-time Western Kentucky University faculty member.


Woman's Christian Temperance Union Of Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Woman's Christian Temperance Union Of Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 344. Correspondence, membership and financial information of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, formed to promote abstinence from alcohol and enforcement of prohibition laws. Includes some materials from the state and national WCTU.


Petersen, Albert Jepmond, Jr., 1937-2022 (Mss 203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Petersen, Albert Jepmond, Jr., 1937-2022 (Mss 203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 203. Research material, National Register nomination forms, Historic Resources inventory forms, photographs, slides and negatives documenting historic vernacular architecture in Kentucky, assembled by WKU geography professor Albert J. Petersen and students. Also includes National Register nominations for prehistoric art sites in Kentucky.


Warren County Bar Association - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Warren County Bar Association - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2399. Memorial resolution of Warren County Bar Association on the death of William H. Sterrett, an officer of the county court.


Sampson, Flemon Davis, 1875-1967 (Mss 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Sampson, Flemon Davis, 1875-1967 (Mss 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 342. Family correspondence of Flemon Davis "Flem" Sampson, attorney, judge, and governor of Kentucky from 1927-1931. Includes correspondence of Sampson, his wife, daughter and their families, and miscellaneous papers.


Spears, John Ulysses, 1873-1947 (Sc 2398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Spears, John Ulysses, 1873-1947 (Sc 2398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2398. Receipts to John Ulysses Spears from E. M. House and Son, Franklin, Kentucky, and J. H. Herrington, Gold City, Kentucky, relating to an estate account and burial expenses for his mother, Mary Julia Spears.


Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Collector (Sc 2397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2397. Correspondence primarily to Jane (Hines) Morningstar of Bowling Green, Kentucky, responding to her providing of historical and genealogical information. Includes a letter from Detrex Chemical Industries thanking her for her cooperation during a labor controversy.


Wise Family Papers (Mss 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Wise Family Papers (Mss 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 341. Correspondence of the Wise family of Ohio County, Kentucky, and related families. Includes letters of Levi Franklin Wise, serving with Union forces in Bowling Green, Kentucky 1864. A few letters have been typescripted. Click on "Additional Files" to see several of the typescripts.


Hill, James Emmett, B. 1926 (Sc 2388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Hill, James Emmett, B. 1926 (Sc 2388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2388. "James Madison Pendleton's Theology of Baptism," by James Emmett Hill, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Theology degree, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1948.


Gilliam, William D. (Sc 2386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Gilliam, William D. (Sc 2386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2386. "The Public Career of Robert Perkins Letcher," by William D. Gilliam, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1941.


Nunn, Louie Broady, 1924-2004 (Sc 2396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Nunn, Louie Broady, 1924-2004 (Sc 2396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2396. Letter, 12 January 1968, from Kentucky Governor Louie B. Nunn to Dr. Thomas H. Baird in Bowling Green, Kentucky, nominating him for appointment as Medical Advisor, Local Selective Service Board No. 95, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes envelope with postage due stamp.


Hale, Robert Earl, B. 1894 (Sc 2387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Hale, Robert Earl, B. 1894 (Sc 2387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2387. "The Successors of the Whig Party in Kentucky," by Robert Earl Hale, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1925.


Ayer, Hugh Mason, B. 1924 (Sc 2364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Ayer, Hugh Mason, B. 1924 (Sc 2364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2364. "Joseph Rodes Buchanan, Physician, Philosopher, and Neurological Anthropologist" by Hugh M. Ayer, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1950.


Ritchie, William (Sc 2376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Ritchie, William (Sc 2376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2376. “The Public Career of Cassius M. Clay,” a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, 1934. Includes author’s note that this is “a rough draft and contains repetitions and other imperfections which do not truly represent the finished draft.”


Coffman, Edward Mckenzie (Sc 2391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Coffman, Edward Mckenzie (Sc 2391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2391. "The Civil War Career of Thomas Henry Hines," a thesis presented by Edward M. Coffman in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1955.


Beeler, Andrew J., Jr. (Sc 2362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Beeler, Andrew J., Jr. (Sc 2362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 2362. "Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Her Interpretation of LIfe" by Andrew J. Beeler, Jr., a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, University of Louisiville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1940.


Mccalister, Virginia May (Sc 2365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Mccalister, Virginia May (Sc 2365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2365. "The Political Career of Ollie M. James" by Virginia M. McCalister, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1933.


Sublett, Metta Maurine (Sc 2378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Sublett, Metta Maurine (Sc 2378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2378. “The Role of the Confederate Veteran in the Industrial Development of Kentucky,” a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Philosophy degree, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1945.


Goodwin, Lora (Sc 2390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Goodwin, Lora (Sc 2390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collecction 2390. “Bookkeeping Units for a High School Boy, a Family, and High School Funds as Worked Out in Brackenridge High School, San Antonio, Texas,” presented by Lora Goodwin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, San Marcos, Texas.


Egbert, Ercell Jane, 1895-1974 (Sc 2392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Egbert, Ercell Jane, 1895-1974 (Sc 2392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2392. "Kentucky's Interest in the Pacific Railroad Question From 1830 to 1865," a thesis presented by Ercell Egbert in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, 1929.


Taylor, Marie (Sc 2374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Taylor, Marie (Sc 2374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2374. "Night Riders of the Black Patch" by Marie Taylor, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1934.