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Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2145. Three letters regarding the Civil War pension of Ansel Wilson, Grayson County, Kentucky, who served with the 17th Kentucky Infantry (Union).


Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2148. Letters (2) written to George A Brown, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee, from two friends serving overseas during World War II; one was in Germany and the other was in the Pacific.


Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2131. Receipt book kept by George Mitchell, deputy clerk of the Warren County Court [Kentucky]; entries list amount paid to record deeds and to copy deeds, mortgages, and other documents. Payments were also received by C.E. Blewett, clerk.


Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2138. Copies of clippings from a late-nineteenth century Warren County, Kentucky scrapbook, probably kept by a member of Moates's family. Includes obituaries, poems, recipes, and essays.


Williams, Louis P., 1910-1937 (Sc 2143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Williams, Louis P., 1910-1937 (Sc 2143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2143. Paper titled: "Slavery in the Presbyterian Church" written for the class "History of the Lower South." Mr. Williams attended Western Kentucky State Teachers College from 1928 to 1933 and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, 1933.


Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2142. Typed biography titled "Julia Neal," which discusses the professional career of Mary Julia Neal (7 p.); two oral interviews with Neal conducted by Watkins which discuss Neal's career and particularly her work related to the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky; photocopy of Neal's first article on the South Union Shakers in 1926 also included.


Middleswarth, Victoria (Sc 2129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Middleswarth, Victoria (Sc 2129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2129. Abridged index compiled from Shaker Record A, 1804-1836; Shaker Record B, 1836-1864; and Journal of the North and East Families, 1888-1897, for a "Lunchtime Learning" program about Shaker food held at the Kentucky Library & Museum, Western Kentucky University.


Bowling Green High School - Reunions, 1960 (Sc 2150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Bowling Green High School - Reunions, 1960 (Sc 2150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2150. Correspondence related to the 1960 reunion of the Bowling Green High School class of 1940. The letters were chiefly written to one of the organizing committee members, Frances (Robinson) Russell of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a list of class members.


Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2141), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2141), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2141. Oral interviews done with Appalachian writer Verna Mae Slone in which she discusses her life, her family, and her writing. Slone was a dollmaker, quilter, and quintessential storyteller.


Morris, Hiram Chesterfield, 1880-1949 (Sc 2124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Morris, Hiram Chesterfield, 1880-1949 (Sc 2124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2124. Legal papers, chiefly deeds and mortgages, related to land transfers among the Mitchell, Buckner, and Morris families of Simpson and Warren Counties. Also includes genealogical information concerning the Buckner, Morris, and Hegewald families.


Gray, John H. (Sc 2136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Gray, John H. (Sc 2136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2136. Typewritten paper by John H. Gray, "Brief History of the Coal Industry in Western Kentucky and West Kentucky Coal Company." Includes a 1963 clipping relating to Gray's son.


Man O'War (Sc 2137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Man O'War (Sc 2137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Mansucripts Small Collection 2137 and image attached as an additional file. Commemorative envelope in "Kings of Sport" series portraying Man O'War, postmarked Lexington, Kentucky, March 29, 1975. Includes horse racing postage stamp and information sheet on Man O'War.


Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water-Sewer-Sanitation Commission (Sc 2135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water-Sewer-Sanitation Commission (Sc 2135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2135. Letter from Allen A. Ball, Commission engineer, to Mayor James H. Topmiller, and minutes of meeting between Commission and contractor to discuss citizen complaints over inconveniences caused by sewer expansion project.


Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Sc 2134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Sc 2134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2134. Letter written by Nancy Elam Moore, a Shaker at South Union, Kentucky, to her brother James Moore. She discusses her father's estate, particularly a piece of property located in Warren County, Ohio.


Brown-Hammer-Bryant Collection (Sc 2132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Brown-Hammer-Bryant Collection (Sc 2132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2132. Legal documents, chiefly deeds, from Monroe County, Kentucky relating to the Brown, Hammer and Bryant families. Also includes tax receipts and religious material.


Moore, Levi A. (Sc 2133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Moore, Levi A. (Sc 2133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2133. Certificates appointing Levi A. Moore, of Warren County, Kentucky, a corporal in Company K, 52nd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, and discharging Moore from service.


Miller, Emmitt E., 1907-1985 (Sc 2130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Miller, Emmitt E., 1907-1985 (Sc 2130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2130. Miscellaneous deeds, will, tax receipts, stock certificate, and school trustee's report relating primarily to the Miller family of Muhlenberg County.


Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 242. Letters to John Dudley Cosby, Muhlenberg County, and his family, from other family members in Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi. Includes genealogical data, some of Cosby's personal papers, and his estate inventory.


Bailey, Winford Green, 1803-1883 (Sc 2243), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Bailey, Winford Green, 1803-1883 (Sc 2243), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, original letter (click on Additional Files below), and typescript (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2243. Letter from Winford Green Bailey, in Stanford, Kentucky, to his brother Hartwell A. Bailey. He expresses concern over news of Hartwell's ill health, reports on financial matters pertaining to the settlement of their father's estate, and reflects at length on his sadness over the sale of the the family homestead.


Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2125. Letter, 14 August 1876, from John Cox Underwood, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Thomas E. Moss, Kentucky State Attorney General, Frankfort, Kentucky, in which he relates information about the condition of the locks and dams on the Green and Barren Rivers.


Thomas, Peter (Mrs.) (Sc 2127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Thomas, Peter (Mrs.) (Sc 2127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2127. Letter, 10 August 1889, from Mrs. Peter Thomas, Bowling Green, Kentucky to the Mayor & Board of Councilmen protesting a finding that she is located outside the city for the purposes of water service, but inside the city for purposes of taxation.


Masters, John Post, D. 1973 (Sc 2126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Masters, John Post, D. 1973 (Sc 2126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2126. Typescript of a paper written by John Post Masters, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1964 and titled "The Start of Silent Moving Pictures in the United States."


Hall, Dorthie A. (Mss 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Hall, Dorthie A. (Mss 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 295. Letters written to Dorthie A. Hall, student and editor of the College Heights Herald at Western Kentucky Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, during World War II. The male correspondents are all former students from Western, and they describe military life in their specific locations around the world. They all express devotion to Western and ask for details and comment about the school, sports teams, and the Bowling Green community.


Stout-Middleton Collection (Mss 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Stout-Middleton Collection (Mss 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 297. Album from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, kept by Samuel S. Templeton, 1836-1838; diary of Margarette Middleton, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1896-1899; diary of Margaret L. Herdman Stout, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1896-1901; information related to the Stout and Middleton families.


Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2123. Correspondence of Ernest Hubert Canon relating mainly to his service as secretary and president of the Bowling Green, Kentucky's Kiwanis Club and as a member of various committees of Bowling Green's First Christian Church. Includes correspondence from Congressman William H. Natcher commenting on appropriations for Mammoth Cave National Park and on the growing federal budget.


Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2115. Miscellaneous Warren County, Kentucky court records. Includes a will, apprenticeship indenture, manumission papers, bonds, etc.


Mcneel, John (Sc 2121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcneel, John (Sc 2121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2121. Bond of John McNeel, given to Justices of the County Court of Warren County, Kentucky for performance of his agreement to donate 200 acres of land in consideration of the county seat being fixed thereon.


Mcfarland, Jonnie, 1873-1953 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcfarland, Jonnie, 1873-1953 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2120. Autograph album of Jonnie McFarland, Bristow, Kentucky. Includes part of a menu from J. A. Rabold, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Mcdaniel, John W., 1849-1904 (Sc 2119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcdaniel, John W., 1849-1904 (Sc 2119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2119. Copy of scrapbook kept chiefly by John W. McDaniel, Warren County, Kentucky, which includes obituaries and other news clippings.


Mcchesney, Gene (Sc 2116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcchesney, Gene (Sc 2116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2116. Class paper about the history of Bowling Green, Kentucky titled "The City Founded." The paper was written by Gene McChesney as a senior theme at the Western Kentucky State Teachers College Training School, when McChesney was 15 years old.