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Stephens, Everett James, B. 1971 (Sc 2075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Stephens, Everett James, B. 1971 (Sc 2075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Fidning aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2075. Journal kept by Everett James Stephens, a U.S. Marine and Western Kentucky University student, during his service in the Persian Gulf War. He records his experiences of the war, as well as his training and leisure activities while at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 2094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 2094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2094. Photocopied letters from Cale Young Rice to Henry Watterson, 1906-1917 (11), chiefly thank you notes and letters asking for the support of the 'Courier-Journal' for various causes; to Benjamin W. Huebsch, 1918 and response 1919 (2), about publishing some of his poems; and letter to William Orton Tewson, 1926 (1) in which he discusses literary criticism. Originals are held in the Library of Congress.

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Procter Family (Sc 2077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Procter Family (Sc 2077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2077. Genealogical notes and correspondence relating to the Procter, Carson and Dinwiddie families. Includes a certified copy of the will of Evan Shelby, father of Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky.

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Pope, Leemon (Sc 2085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Pope, Leemon (Sc 2085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2085. Partial courtship letter, written from Galveston, Texas, possibly by Leemon Pope. He writes of his church attendance, his business associates and his success in his work at an insurance company.

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Chapman-Hagerman Families (Sc 2082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Chapman-Hagerman Families (Sc 2082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2082. Deeds and a power of attorney relating primarily to divisions of land in Warren County, Kentucky among heirs of the Chapman and Hagerman families. Includes a deed of land in Simpson County from Skiles family heirs.

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Simmons, James Madison, 1842-1905 & Josephus Simmons, 1844-1911 (Sc 2080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Simmons, James Madison, 1842-1905 & Josephus Simmons, 1844-1911 (Sc 2080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2080. Order granting a ten-day furlough to James Madison Simmons and his cousin Josephus Simmons, serving in the First Tennessee Cavalry, in order to return home to Sumner County, Tennessee, to obtain horses.

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Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 - Photos (Sc 2092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 - Photos (Sc 2092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2092. Slides (and pictures made from the slides) of Janice Holt Giles and her husband, Henry E. Giles, friends, and interiors of their house in Knifley, Kentucky.

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Mcconnell, Addison Mitchell "Mitch," Jr., B. 1942 (Sc 2081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Mcconnell, Addison Mitchell "Mitch," Jr., B. 1942 (Sc 2081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2081. Letter from U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell to Sue Lynn Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky, responding to her concerns about cancer research and expressing support for funding the National Institutes of Health.

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Korean Manuscript (Sc 2091), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Korean Manuscript (Sc 2091), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2091. Brief manuscript written in Korean on one side of paper, approximately 9x14 inches. Untranslated.

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Baird, Henry Herring, 1902-1991 - Collector (Mss 279), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Baird, Henry Herring, 1902-1991 - Collector (Mss 279), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 279. Account books and other financial records related to Jenkins-Ryan Tobacco Company of Adairville, Kentucky. Also includes financial records associated with the farms and businesses operated by Thomas Henry Baird, Jr., as well as the 1941 monthly financial reports and a label from Scott Tobacco Company of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Pope, Jo Reba (Sc 2071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Pope, Jo Reba (Sc 2071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2071. Photocopies of items from scrapbook kept by Pope, chiefly pertaining to the World War II service of Robert Fred Cope. Includes photos, birthday cards, Valentines, and information related to the light cruiser "U.S.S. Richmond."

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Oates, William C. (Sc 2088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Oates, William C. (Sc 2088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2088. Autograph album kept by William C. Oates, 1827-1933; appraisal information related to the Gerard-Bradley Funeral Home, 1988-1989; information about the apartment building at 1322-1324 Chestnut Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Joiner, Sandra (Sc 2089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Joiner, Sandra (Sc 2089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2089. Scholarly papers (3) written by Sandra Joiner about Kentucky author, Janice Holt Giles. One paper is untitled; the others are titled; "Janice Holt Giles: Woman of Contradictions" and "The Concept of 'Place' in the Fiction of Janice Holt Giles." Also includes two photographs of conference attendees.

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Young Family (Sc 2068), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Young Family (Sc 2068), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2068. Receipt for hauling tobacco to the New Orleans market, 1817; retail licenses granted to Young & Co., Placer County, California, 1854; lists of taxable property in Barren County, Kentucky, 1861 and 1864; tax receipt, Barren County, 1876.

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Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2073. Book taken from Iraqi soldier during Operation Desert Storm; written in Arabic with some photos attached.

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Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 2076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 2076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2076. Typescript (15 pp.) titled, "Unfinished Autobiography of John Rowan Written in 1841 at Federal Hill, Ky." The text is mainly concerned with his family's emigration to Kentucky from Pennsylvania by boat down the Ohio River.

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Clark Family (Sc 2079), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Clark Family (Sc 2079), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2079. Postcards sent to Mr. and Mrs. Ivo Clark and Mrs. Harriet Mathis in Owensboro, Kentucky. The postcards are photo and novelty cards; one postcard shows the Little Sisters of the Poor Convent in Evansville, Indiana.

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Giles, Janice Holt, 1909-1979 (Sc 2090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Giles, Janice Holt, 1909-1979 (Sc 2090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2090. Photocopies of news clippings and photographs related to Kentucky authors, Janice Holt Giles and Henry Giles. Manuscript note from Pansy Phillips to Pat Hodges; photos taken on a barge related to research for Mrs. Giles's book 'Run Me a River' (1964); and photocopies of Mr. and Mrs. Giles's wills, 1970 & 1985.

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Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2074. Book found on battleground during Operation Desert Storm; written in Arabic and bearing the emblem of Iraq.

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Mckenney, John Oscar, 1879-1946 (Sc 2122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Mckenney, John Oscar, 1879-1946 (Sc 2122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2122. Three notebooks of John Oscar McKenney, a Beaver Dam, Kentucky physician. The books contain notes on physiology and on the characteristics, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses and diseases.

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Woodridge, James & Nancy (Sc 2084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Woodridge, James & Nancy (Sc 2084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2084. Transcript of an interview conducted by Wilford Fridy, a English Department faculty member at Western Kentucky University, with James and Nancy Woolridge, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The interview revolves around the Woolridge's familial connections to characters in Robert Penn Warren's stories in his book "Circus in the Attic."

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Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 (Sc 2066), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 (Sc 2066), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2066. Paper by Patricia Hodges to fulfill a requirement for a library science course at Western Kentucky University: "Preliminary Procedures Involved in the Compilation of a Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Kentucky Library."

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Stephan, Geraldine, 1912-2003 (Sc 2087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Stephan, Geraldine, 1912-2003 (Sc 2087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2087. Outline for a paper: "Social and Economic Problems of Bowling Green" written by Geraldine Stephan. Her only topic was transportation, and she discusses the railroad, bus, steamboat, and trucking lines that serviced Bowling Green, Kentucky as well as upcoming postal airline service. She notes the amount of fuel sold and the number of service stations located within the city in 1929.

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Janice Holt Giles Symposium, May 17-18, 1991 (Sc 2067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Janice Holt Giles Symposium, May 17-18, 1991 (Sc 2067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2067. Miscellaneous items from the Janice Holt Giles Symposium held 17-18 May 1991 at Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky. Includes a cassette tape containing remarks by Giles's daughter Libby Hancock and songs sung by Wig Robinson at the Caldwell Chapel Church, Knifley, Kentucky where Giles and her husband are buried.

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Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 - Letters To (Sc 2065), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 - Letters To (Sc 2065), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2065. Letters from various Kentucky politicians to Patricia and Paul Hodges, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to policies concerning same-sex marriage and immigration.

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Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Sc 2069), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Sc 2069), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2069. Correspondence with Kentucky's senators related to advertising of alcoholic beverages on television; application for a retail beer license.

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Pounds, Dwight Ray, B. 1935 (Sc 2072), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Pounds, Dwight Ray, B. 1935 (Sc 2072), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection SC 2072. “The 1991 Fire[:] First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky,” by Dwight R. Pounds. The writer reflects on his reaction to the fire and to other burned or damaged churches.

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Ratliff, Charles, Sr., 1854-1940 (Sc 2086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Ratliff, Charles, Sr., 1854-1940 (Sc 2086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2086. Stud book kept by Charles Ratliff, Sr., Princeton, Kentucky, in which he records the breeding activities at his horse farm. Most of the entries are associated with these horses: Prince, Starlight, Davy Crockett and Spanish Chief. Includes photocopies of some genealogical material.

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Redmon, Chester C. (Sc 2070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Redmon, Chester C. (Sc 2070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2070. Brief World War II V-mail messges from Redmon, serving in the India-Burma Theater to family in Louisville, Ketnucky. Includes Christmas and Mother's Day greetings as well as two photos.

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Tackett, Kenneth Wayne, 1930-2016 (Sc 2083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Tackett, Kenneth Wayne, 1930-2016 (Sc 2083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2083. Correspondence related to an article about Shakers that appeared in the Western Kentucky University "Alumni" magazine. Kenneth W. Tackett was born at Shakertown at South Union, Kentucky, and later lived in the Centre House (Centre Family Dwelling).

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