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Geralds, Bettie Mae (Miller), 1897-1992 (Sc 2182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Geralds, Bettie Mae (Miller), 1897-1992 (Sc 2182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files") of letters written to Bettie Mae Geralds in Louisville, Kentucky, from family members and friends in Kentucky as well as in Omaha, Nebraska, and Bloomington and Evansville, Indiana. Topics include family news, fruit and vegetable canning, and difficulties finding work. Geralds’ son writes of his prosecution at Fort Knox for an offense committed while on military duty. Includes a 1967 letter from a Navy serviceman in Texas.


Lowther, Edgar M., 1916-1973 (Sc 2179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Lowther, Edgar M., 1916-1973 (Sc 2179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2179. By-laws for Local Union No. 862, Madisonville, Kentucky, of the United Mine Workers (n.d.); copy of an agreement between the Western Kentucky Coal Operators' Association and UMW members, 1939; copies of Lowther's pay receipts, 1943-1950, from the Williams Coal Mine in Christian County and Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Little Barren United Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Little Barren United Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 451. Minute book of Little Barren United Baptist Church, Barren County, Kentucky. Includes articles of faith, rules of decorum, minutes of meetings and membership lists.


Green River Union Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Green River Union Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan ("Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 545. Minute book (some pages missing) of Green River Union Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes membership and pastors lists and church conference minutes 1879-1894. Also includes list of homecoming attendees 1958-1966, solicitation of contributions for upkeep, historical information and clippings.


Klapheke, Dorothy Davis, 1921-1992 (Sc 2170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Klapheke, Dorothy Davis, 1921-1992 (Sc 2170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2170. Materials relating mainly to the career of Dorothy Klapheke, a Western Kentucky University graduate, as a middle school teacher in Stamford, Connecticut. Includes poetry, a performance assessment, retirement mementoes, reminiscences, photos, and an obituary.


Zimmerman, Heidi (Sc 2171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Zimmerman, Heidi (Sc 2171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2171. Biographical sketch of James Proctor Knott, Kentucky lawyer, politician, and governor, based on the original documents housed in the Knott family manuscript collection, Kentucky Library & Museum, Western Kentucky University.


Franklin Church Of Christ - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Franklin Church Of Christ - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 743. Membership roll of Franklin Church of Christ, Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes some information on church officers and miscellaneous finances.


Baird, Nell Thompson (Bate), 1901-1988 (Sc 2181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Baird, Nell Thompson (Bate), 1901-1988 (Sc 2181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2181. Postcard, 1947, to Nell (Mrs. Henry H.) Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from the Panama Canal Zone, picturing a native village and describing a trip to the interior.


Mt. Vernon Church - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Mt. Vernon Church - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 724. Minute book of Mt. Vernon Church, Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes articles of faith, rules of decorum, minutes of meetings, and membership lists.


Drakes Creek Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Drakes Creek Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 613. Minute book of Drakes Creek Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes constitution, rules of decorum, minutes of meetings, and membership lists. Also includes two 1895 letters of recommendation.


Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 228. Minute book of Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Ohio County, Kentucky. Includes articles of faith, minutes of meetings, and registers of elders, deacons, members, baptisms and marriages.


Keith, Jean E. (Sc 2165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Keith, Jean E. (Sc 2165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2165. Paper: "The Whig Party in Kentucky, 1847-1851: Whig Against Whig, North Against South, East Against West" written by Jean E. Keith while she was a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes an eight-page annotated bibliography.


Green River Baptist Church - Hart County, Kentucky (Sc 929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Green River Baptist Church - Hart County, Kentucky (Sc 929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 929. Minute book of Green River Baptist Church, Hart County, Kentucky. Includes articles of faith, rules of decorum, minutes of meetings, and membership lists.


Logan County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Logan County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2176. Writ of fi. fa., 10 May 1804, from Clerk of the Circuit Court, Logan County, Kentucky to the Sheriff of Warren County, Kentucky directing execution against the estate of Gasper Butcher, Samuel Cox and Elkin Taylor to satisfy a judgment obtained by John and James M. Mahan.


Smiths Grove Presbyterian Church - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Smiths Grove Presbyterian Church - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 304. Minute books of Smiths Grove Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings (1857-1974) and registers of deacons, elders, members, baptisms, marriages and deaths. Also includes a special 1924 edition of the "Smiths Grove Times."


South, Lillian Harreld, 1879-1966 (Sc 2180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

South, Lillian Harreld, 1879-1966 (Sc 2180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2180. Application to secure historical highway marker for Bowling Green, Kentucky native Lillian H. South, a female physician with a distinguished career as State Bacteriologist with the Kentucky State Board of Health. Includes application and supporting material.


Logan County, Kentucky - Election Certificates (Sc 2177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Logan County, Kentucky - Election Certificates (Sc 2177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2177. Two election certificates from different precincts in Logan County, Kentucky, verifying tallied votes for election of state and local officials held on 9 May 1903. The totals are filled in and the certificates are signed by election officials.


Kirby, Jacob Quince, Sr., B. 1875 (Sc 2169), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Kirby, Jacob Quince, Sr., B. 1875 (Sc 2169), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2169. Letter from Jacob Quince Kirby, Sr., a former city clerk, to Mary (Taylor) Moore, describing his efforts to transfer old records of the City of Bowling Green to the Kentucky Library. Includes some incidents of Kirby family history.


Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee (Bouvier), 1929-1994 (Sc 2166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee (Bouvier), 1929-1994 (Sc 2166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of card (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2166. Printed card of thanks sent to A. C. Wareham, Bowling Green, Kentucky from Mrs. Kennedy, New York, expressing her appreciation for an expression of sympathy after her husband's assassination. The card and envelope were laminated.


Kentucky Building - Guest Book (Sc 2167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Kentucky Building - Guest Book (Sc 2167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2167. Guest book kept for the Kentucky Building at its opening in 1939 and for special events. The book was donated by the Western Kentucky State Teachers College class of 1935. It is housed in a tooled leather slipcover featuring the seal of Kentucky and inscribed "Distinguished Guests, The Kentucky Building."


Koger, Sara Jane (Crabtree), 1890-1991 - Collector (Sc 2172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Koger, Sara Jane (Crabtree), 1890-1991 - Collector (Sc 2172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2172. Pastor's report from Charles Driver, "preacher in charge of Byrdstown Circuit" in Tennessee, 1900; family photographs (2); and incomplete letter from G.W. Franklin to Sara Jane Koger, his niece, giving information about his family.


Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 (Sc 2173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 (Sc 2173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2173. Materials related to Clifton Wallace Lampkin, the mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1953-1959. Includes correspondence, award certificates and appreciations of his philanthropy, a photograph, and a resolution passed on his death by American National Bank and Trust Company. Also includes letters from two post-World War II refugees thanking him for aid packages.


Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 2149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 2149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2149. Letter from Robert Edward Lee to Colonel Robert P. Blount, Provost Marshal at Guiney Depot [Guiney's Station], Virginia. Lee instructs him to hold the position, declines to provide artillery support, and refers to the transportation of prisoners. Includes copies of Confederate postage stamps and currency. Poor quality photostatic copy.


Kinney, Annie Margaret (Coffee), 1859-1944 (Sc 2168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Kinney, Annie Margaret (Coffee), 1859-1944 (Sc 2168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2168. Letter from Annie (Mrs. Charles) Kinney, Glen Springs, Lewis County, Kentucky to Sears, Roebuck and Company, ordering one dozen needles for a Singer sewing machine.


Brown, Anna Murl (Fisher), 1911-1989 (Sc 2164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Brown, Anna Murl (Fisher), 1911-1989 (Sc 2164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2164. Letters to Anna Murl Fisher Brown, an Ohio County, Kentucky teacher, from local residents and parents. They approve of her taking her pupils to church and to a funeral without having to make up the time in class, and support her reappointment.


Pleasant Grove Baptist Church - Daviess County, Kentucky (Mss 299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Pleasant Grove Baptist Church - Daviess County, Kentucky (Mss 299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 299. Minute books of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Daviess County. Includes minutes of meetings, 1838-1959, membership lists, and histories of the church.


Liberty Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Liberty Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 688. Minute book of Liberty Baptist Church, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes rules of decorum, minutes of meetings, and lists of white and African American members.


Johnston, Annie Fellows, 1863-1931 (Sc 2163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Johnston, Annie Fellows, 1863-1931 (Sc 2163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of letters (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2163. Letters of Annie Fellows Johnston to Ruth Clement in Tokyo, Japan. Johnston responds to Clement's praise of "The Little Colonel" and her gift of a Japanese book, and sends Clement a copy of her story "The Three Weavers."


Ebenezer Presbyterian Church - Dade County, Missouri (Sc 935), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Ebenezer Presbyterian Church - Dade County, Missouri (Sc 935), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 935. Church register of Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Dade County, Missouri. Includes register of pastors, elders, deacons, and members. Also includes register of marriages 1844-1885 and deaths 1843-1903.


Ebenezer Presbyterian Church - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 808), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Ebenezer Presbyterian Church - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 808), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 808. Session minutes and church register of Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Butler County, Kentucky. Includes minutes, membership register, early group photo, and a certificate from the Presbyterian Wartime Service Commission.