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Bowling Green Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 89), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 89. Receipts for work done on the church building, subscriptions, and note of the Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Irvine, Marie Louisa "Loula," 1864-1887 (Sc 1739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1739. Teacher’s grade book kept from September 1889 to January 1890 for an unidentified Kentucky school. Also includes some notes on elocution. The first page is inscribed “M. Loula Irvine, S. F. College, Hallow eve Oct. 31, 1886.”

Niles, John Jacob, 1892-1980 (Sc 1831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1831. Letter 12 May 1978 to a Mr. Moody discussing a piece of music. Typed letter is signed by Niles.

Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1832), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1832. Holographic program book containing information from the club's programs from 3 September 1915 to June 1916.

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 (Sc 1833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1833. Signature of presidential candidate John Fitzgerald Kennedy obtained by a Bowling Green, Kentucky resident during a campaign trip to the city in 1960. The signature is on a small scrap of paper torn from a larger sheet. Includes the resident's 2009 reminiscence of the incident.

Brooks, Deronda (Lindsey) (Sc 1834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1834. Letter, 15 June 1977, to Tim Lee Carter, U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 5th district, from Deronda (Lindsey) Brooks, one of his constituents. She opposes federal money for programs she believes to be anti-family.

Goff, William Lee, 1883-1965 (Mss 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 233. Chiefly letters from family and friends to Lee Goff, a Green County, Kentucky native, while he was working as a farm laborer in the Mid-West. The collection includes many courtship letters from various women.

Townson Family Papers (Sc 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 85. Travel pass of Light Townson and family from South Carolina to Kentucky, 1788, and Townson's will, 1817; business papers of James Townson, 1835-1853 (4); slave bills of sale (2), 1802-1803; and miscellaneous items.

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 1830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1830. Letter, 24 July 1861, from Thomas Elliott Bramlette, Columbia, Kentucky to William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. in which he condemns U.S. District Court Judge Thomas B. Monroe and others as traitors and offers J.T. Boyle, who is loyal to the Union, as a replacement.

Pickett, Sarah Nell, 1915-2000 (Sc 1836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1836. Autograph album given to Sarah Nell Pickett, 18 June 1927, by Bartlett Allen and signed by family and friends in Joplin, Missouri.

Taylor, Richard F. (Sc 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and photograph of commission (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 86. Richard F. Taylor's commission received as a member of the Middle Green River Battalion Volunteer Militia, 1865. Also promissory notes, 1875 (3), and blank affidavit regarding voter qualification, ca. 1900.

Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 84. Teacher's certificate of Miss Jane Hunt issued by the Common School Commissioner, Butler County, Kentucky.

Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 82. Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb's original manuscript of an editorial, "A Leaf From a Memory Book," which appeared in "Kentucky Progress Magazine" (Spring 1933), and two letters concerning the manuscript.

Taxation - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 83. Holographic copy, 4 May 1822, of aggregate statement of federal taxes paid within the 6th District of Kentucky, which evidently included Logan County, accompanied by a certificate affirming Stephen Pleasonton as acting Commissioner of Revenue and signed by John Quincy Adams, U.S. Secretary of State, 21 October 1822.

Plain, Sarah W. (Sc 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 81. Deed conveying 74 acres of land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, by Sarah W. Plain and others, to Samuel P. Wilkins.

Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898 (Sc 333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 333. Photocopy of a letter written by Dr. David Wendel Yandell to General Albert Sidney Johnston, concerning projected Confederate hospital facilities at Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1861. Explanatory note about the item from William Roberts Wood to Margie Helm.

Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text of letter and typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 72. Letter, 24 April 1886, written by Jefferson Davis at Beauvoir, Mississippi, to John D. Woods, Frankfort, Kentucky, refuting a report that he once offered to resign as President of the Confederate States of America provided Albert Sidney Johnston was appointed as his successor.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 79. Letter, 21 November 1932, written by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Martha Washington Jackson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which expresses his thanks for her loyalty to the Democratic party; also notes given on the history of Bowling Green by Jackson.

Freemasons - Greenville, Kentucky (Sc 71), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 71. Official Circular No. 5 of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky Knights of Honor issued by the office of the Grand Dictator, William H. Yost, Jr., Greenville, Kentucky, urging the recruitment of new members.

Mcguire, James (Sc 73), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 73. Receipt for homestead claim of James McGuire filed at Receiver's Office, Chadran, Nebraska.

Moorman, Clifford (Sc 76), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 76. Letter written by Clifford Moorman, Hillsboro, Texas, to a relative, Miss Annie Kennerly, Lewisburg, Kentucky, which contains chiefly Moorman family genealogical information.

Allison, Young Ewing, Jr., 1890-1965 (Sc 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 80. Letter written by Young Ewing Allison, Jr., Louisville, Kentucky, to Miss Julia Neal, Auburn, Kentucky, in reply to an inquiry concerning Lucy Furman.

Cowan, Jane, 1829-1909 (Sc 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 75. Postcard written by Jane Cowan, South Union, Kentucky, to Alex Duvall, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which she expresses her thanks for some magazines he has sent to her.

Wilson, Mayme C., 1877-1895 (Sc 1828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1828. "Resolutions of Respect" upon the death of Mayme Wilson; also, a copy of her obituary.

Kirby, John Quincy, 1875-1957 - Letters To (Sc 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 78. Letters, 2 and 14 November 1930, written to J. Quince Kirby, Bowling Green, Kentucky, one by Joe S. Kirby, the other by “Joda” Kirby. The letters relate genealogical information about the Boone and Kirby families.

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Strobel, Robert Nelson, B. 1988 - Collector (Sc 1826), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1826. Business letter, 17 January 1846, from Benjamin Warfield, Lexington, Kentucky to Micajah Smith, Harrison County, Kentucky; 18 September 1865 letter from "Dan," New Orleans, to his sister Olive in Massachusetts discussing his military service; letter from J. Stoddard Johnston, Kentucky Secretary of State to his counterpart in Illinois, 9 August 1877.

Sexton, Edward Vernon, 1925-2007 (Sc 1825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1825. Documents, news clippings, ephemera, and correspondence related to Edward Vernon Sexton's military service in Word War II.

Kirk, Ola Lee, 1902-1983 - Letters To (Sc 1816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1816. Two letters written to Ola L. Kirk, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher, Washington, D.C. Also, one letter to Kirk from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Washington, D.C., related to a speaking engagement.

Meng, Yu (Sc 1823), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, full-text scan of paper, and interview (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1823. Project documenting the historic Scott Tobacco Company building in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Documentation includes photos, slides, and a taped interview with Danny Howell, president of Scott Tobacco. Also includes copy of a Scott Tobacco Company pocket notebook with facts about tobacco and the company's products.

Hill Hardware Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1822. Business papers that include a balance sheet for the company as of 1 June 1922 and a tentative budget for 1923 that outlines employee responsibilities and salaries.