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Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 1781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 1781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1781. Paper titled "Bowling Green's Literary History," presented by WKU English teacher Frances Richards to the Samuel Davies Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 8 October 1938.


Houston Family Papers, 1821-1883 (Sc 1764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Houston Family Papers, 1821-1883 (Sc 1764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1764. Chiefly the legal papers of the Houston family of Daviess, later McLean County, Kentucky. Includes deeds in Daviess, McLean, and Muhlenberg Counties and slavery bills of sale.


Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 1787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 1787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1787. Photocopy of will of prominent Kentucky jurist and Congressman John Rowan, written 28 June 1840 in Louisville, Kentucky.


Rodes, John Barret, 1870-1970 (Sc 1785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Rodes, John Barret, 1870-1970 (Sc 1785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1785. Letter, 29 July 1944, from lawyer John Barret Rodes, Bowling Green, Kentucky to his daughter Mary (Rodes) Helm in which he discusses instances of lynching and mob violence in Warren and Logan counties. Includes an explanatory letter from Mary Helm.


Bank Of Rocky Hill - Rocky Hill Station, Kentucky (Sc 1784), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Bank Of Rocky Hill - Rocky Hill Station, Kentucky (Sc 1784), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1784. Stock certificate issued to Vivian Sturgeon on 2 January 1939 for five shares in the Bank of Rocky Hill, Edmonson County, Kentucky.


Reynolds, Charles H., 1924-1996 (Sc 1778), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Reynolds, Charles H., 1924-1996 (Sc 1778), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1778. Tributes to Charles H. Reynolds, justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court, on his death. Includes eulogy by Chief Justice Robert F. Stevens, funeral homily by his son Rev. James Patrick Reynolds, and a resolution adjourning the Kentucky State Senate in his memory. Also includes a subsequent tribute by his son Mike Reynolds at the unveiling of his portrait at the Warren County Justice Center.


Shacklett, Warner, J., D. 1959 (Sc 1756), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Shacklett, Warner, J., D. 1959 (Sc 1756), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1756. Class notes from Warner J. Shacklett's medical studies at State College, Lexington, Kentucky, 1897-1899; his expenses, June-October, 1899; 1 January 1916 receipt from Farmer's Telephone Exchange, Glendale, Hardin County, Kentucky; order forms for drugs containing opium, etc., 1917-1918.


Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 1790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 1790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1790. Research material, including news clippings and several letters, related to William Shakespeare Hays, a Kentucky musician and journalist. Also includes typescripts of poems written by Hays under the pseudonym Hayseed.


James, George D., 1871-1940 (Sc 1770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

James, George D., 1871-1940 (Sc 1770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1770. Account book of George D. James's grocery store in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky, 1914-1929, and copy of first bill he received when he opened the store in 1913.


Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 1786), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 1786), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1786. Signature of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Governor of New York on unknown official document dated 18 June 1930. Collection contains lower portion of document only.


Ritter, George Kinslow, 1866-1947 (Sc 1782), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Ritter, George Kinslow, 1866-1947 (Sc 1782), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1782. Certified tally of votes cast in the Sartain Precinct, Barren County, Kentucky for all the candidates running in the statewide election of November 1899. Signed by George K. Ritter, one of the election judges.


Russellville Institute - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 1789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Russellville Institute - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 1789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1789. Register of the Russellville Institute, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky listing names of students, a conduct report for each, and tuition payment. Also birth, death, and marriage records of the Goucher family.


Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1780. Brief letter, 9 June 1917, from author Alice Hegan Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to a Miss Stearns complimenting her on the attractiveness of her book plate.


Sampson, Flemon Davis, 1875-1967 (Sc 1792), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Sampson, Flemon Davis, 1875-1967 (Sc 1792), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1792. Correspondence with family members of Flemon D. Sampson, former governor of Kentucky, and a deed for a large tract of land in eastern Kentucky.


Altrusa International - Bowling Green (Mss 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Altrusa International - Bowling Green (Mss 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 702. Chiefly financial reports, minutes, yearbooks, newsletters, and correspondence of the Altrusa International Club in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1954 until dissolution in 2004.


Creel, Milton Pinckney, 1851-1913 (Sc 1793), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Creel, Milton Pinckney, 1851-1913 (Sc 1793), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1793. Two 1898 political letters from Dr. Milton P. Creel, Central City, Kentucky announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the state's Third District U.S. Congressional seat.


Buchanon, Michael O., B. 1953? (Sc 1794), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Buchanon, Michael O., B. 1953? (Sc 1794), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1794. Letter 22 October 2001 from Warren County Judge Executive Michael O. Buchanon related to "Bowling Green Salutes America" Day, held in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks.


Schlegel, Kathleen K. (Sc 1757), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Schlegel, Kathleen K. (Sc 1757), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1757. Chiefly e-mails from Kathleen K. Schlegel, Ulsan, South Korea, to family and friends in the United States regarding the four years she and her husband spent in that country.


Read, Samuel James, 1808-1889 (Sc 1678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Read, Samuel James, 1808-1889 (Sc 1678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1678. Letter to Dr. A. S. Walker, Allen County, Kentucky, 9 November 1862, from Samuel James Read relating to military supplies during the Civil War.


Mason, John Robert Lee, 1865-1956 (Sc 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Mason, John Robert Lee, 1865-1956 (Sc 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 70. Handmade, heart-shaped school award presented to John Robert Lee Mason when he was about nine years old and a pupil of Harrison L. Gary at Snider School, Spring Lick, Grayson County, Kentucky.


Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 69), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 69), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 69. Letter, 2 October 1812, written by Isaac Shelby, Frankfort, Kentucky to Colonel George Thompson, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in which he discusses the conditions of the U.S. Army and then remarks about the Kentucky Volunteers of which Thompson's son was a member.


Allen, William Hugh, 1906-1990 (Sc 1687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Allen, William Hugh, 1906-1990 (Sc 1687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1687. Two letters, January 1945, from William Hugh Allen in France to his brother Gillys W. Allen in Henderson, Kentucky in which he describes his participation in the Battle of the Bulge. Includes a copy of Gillys W. Allen's 1954 obituary and other family data and photos.


Logan County - Contracts (Sc 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Logan County - Contracts (Sc 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 68. Agreement between Adam S. Winlock and J.R. Cobb for work to be done on the Winlock farm in Logan County, Kentucky.


Goodhue, Grace Beecher, 1872-1958 (Sc 1758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Goodhue, Grace Beecher, 1872-1958 (Sc 1758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1758. Grace Beecher Goodhue's 1893 diary containing information related to her trips to Florida, Cuba and Chicago. Also, corollary information related to her father, Charles L. Goodhue; and minutes of the Wednesday Morning Club of Springfield, Massachusetts, of which she was a member, 1896-1901.


Lewis, Fred (Sc 1777), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Lewis, Fred (Sc 1777), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1777. Musical scores for songs transcribed by Fred Lewis for the Hawaiian guitar.


Boyd Family Papers (Sc 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Boyd Family Papers (Sc 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 53. Photostats of receipt for slaves and money to be transported to George and James Boyd in Texas, 1862; oath of allegiance, 1862; and Union military pass, Graves County, Kentucky, 1865.


Slave Trade - Jefferson County, Kentucky (Sc 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Slave Trade - Jefferson County, Kentucky (Sc 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 49. Two bills of sale for enslaved persons purchased by Sallie W. Harris (Mrs. Josiah), Louisville, Kentucky.


Jouett, George Payne, 1813-1862 (Sc 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Jouett, George Payne, 1813-1862 (Sc 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 52. Letters (2) written by George P. Jouett, Lieutenant Colonel U.S.A., to his mother, Mrs. Matthew H. Jouett, Lexington, Kentucky from Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee. He writes of Confederate fortifications abandoned in Bowling Green (“a Gibraltar which could not be taken by an assault”), and of family matters. Also letters (2), 1944-1945, concerning the earlier letters.


Armitage, Valerius, 1827-1888 (Sc 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Armitage, Valerius, 1827-1888 (Sc 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 51. Confederate military pass issued to Valerius Armitage at Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Edens, William Jeptha, 1898-1969 (Mss 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Edens, William Jeptha, 1898-1969 (Mss 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 232. This collection contains Edens' unpublished theses related to agriculture pedagogy (1930) and the development of the national farm loan associations in Warren County, Kentucky (1937), as well as a paper on the development and amenities of Bowling Green, Kentucky (1937). The collection also contains scrapbooks about Edens' work as an agricultural advisor in Saudi Arabia (1952), Indonesia (1956), and South Africa (1958). Also included are Edens' master's and doctorate diplomas from Cornell University.