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Nazro, Johanna Louisa (Underwood), 1840-1923 (Sc 1709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Nazro, Johanna Louisa (Underwood), 1840-1923 (Sc 1709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1709. Paper: "The Early History of Bowling Green," presented by Johanna Louisa "Josie" Nazro at a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Mcgown, Thomas Neal, 1909-1966 (Sc 1708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Mcgown, Thomas Neal, 1909-1966 (Sc 1708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1708. Post cards, Christmas card, and telegram from Thomas Neal McGown, serving with the U.S. Marine Corps, to his wife Marguerite, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes other items and news clippings related to his World War II service.

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Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 1686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 1686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1686. Copies of letters from William H. Natcher, U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 2nd district, Washington, D.C., to his four grandsons in Cambridge, Ohio. He comments about historical people and incidents and gives his views on the Panama Canal treaty.

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Mcreynolds Family Papers (Mss 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Mcreynolds Family Papers (Mss 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 56. Correspondence of Susannah and Thomas Phillips, and Mary J. (Phillips) McReynolds of Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky; McReynolds papers; manuscript booklets and autograph album; correspondence of Mary T. Moore and J.C. McReynolds relating to the collection; and biographical material.

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Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Mss 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Mss 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 227. Correspondence related to Ernest Hubert Canon's positions as secretary of the Kiwanis Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky and chairman of the Committee on Kiwanis Education for the Kentucky-Tennessee District.

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Watkins, Samuel Houston, 1914-1999 - Collector (Sc 1736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Watkins, Samuel Houston, 1914-1999 - Collector (Sc 1736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1736. Two items related to the Felts family of Logan County, Kentucky. Also certificates and correspondence related to Samuel Houston Watkins' service in the Merchant Marine during World War II.

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Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 59. Papers chiefly of Hezekiah and Richard Ward of Ohio County, Kentucky. Promissory notes, 1857-79 (14 items); tax receipts, 1864-68 (4); telephone receipts, 1913-34 (44); and miscellaneous receipts, 1824-1937 (40); legal papers, 1873-1939 (14); essay and play, 189?; and genealogical data (2).

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Cayce, Delbert Durwood, Iii, 1924-2014 (Sc 1712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Cayce, Delbert Durwood, Iii, 1924-2014 (Sc 1712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1712. Copies of two letters related to the Quarles family, Christian County, Kentucky; copies of two letters written by Delbert Durwood Cayce III to the Edgar Cayce Foundation concerning the production of a movie based on the life of Edgar Cayce, a Christian County native. Also, Rabold and Quarles family genealogical notes.

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Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1682. Three letters to Ford, Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, from John H. Blue, Brunswick, Missouri, related to land owned there by ancestor John Bright, and a letter of information from Bright’s daughter in Texas. Also, the answer of defendants to a petition filed in Barren County, Kentucky Circuit Court by C. C. Stark, administrator of James Stark, disputing the value of three slaves stated to have been mortgaged to James Stark by Ford on 4 May 1865. With respect to one enslaved woman, the defendants claim …

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Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 1697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 1697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1697. Teacher's register, 1883-1897, kept by Tandy Thomas Gardner, Green Hill School, Warren County, Kentucky. Also, printed examination questions for teachers, 1905; news clippings about Gardner; and his obituary.

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Farley, Seth, 1917-1999 (Sc 1701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Farley, Seth, 1917-1999 (Sc 1701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1701. Correspondence related to Seth Farley's varied educational, civic, religious, and political interests. The Henderson County native was a professor in the Educational Leadership Department, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Aviation - Accidents - Sioux City, Iowa (Sc 1684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Aviation - Accidents - Sioux City, Iowa (Sc 1684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1684. Letter, 26 July 1989, from Sister Kevin Cummings, Archivist, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, to Sue Lynn Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating her efforts to minister to victims of a plane crash that took place there on 19 July 1989.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Building Permits, 1895-1898 (Sc 1695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Building Permits, 1895-1898 (Sc 1695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1695. Copies of building permits numbered 2 to 58 issued by the Bowling Green, Kentucky clerk's office between 1 May 1895 and 18 April 1898. Permits signed by G.S. Hollingsworth, clerk.

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Burch, Benjamin D., 1808-1886 (Sc 1694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Burch, Benjamin D., 1808-1886 (Sc 1694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1694. Indenture for Benjamin D. Burch, Warren County, Kentucky to William M. Haner, 6 January 1827, to learn the saddler trade. Also, an order to Burch for militia training, 18 March 1836.

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Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1707. Diary kept by Thomas D. Whitehead, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, from 29 November 1862 to 12 October 1863 while traveling with his company to Port Hudson, Louisiana then back home to Wayne County, Tennessee. He comments on camp life, the weather, his own failing health, and his hopes for peace.

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Anderson, William, 1766-1856 (Sc 1685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Anderson, William, 1766-1856 (Sc 1685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1685. Deed, 22 March 1850, conveying a tract of land in Grayson County, Kentucky from William and Sarah Anderson to their son Joseph Anderson.

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Winstead, Joe Everett, 1938-2019 - Collector (Sc 1690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Winstead, Joe Everett, 1938-2019 - Collector (Sc 1690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1690. Correspondence between Western Kentucky University students and members of Kentucky's congressional delegation related to air pollution and its potential effects on the state's agricultural economy.

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Napier, Cora Jewell (Claypool) - Collector (Mss 228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Napier, Cora Jewell (Claypool) - Collector (Mss 228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscript Collection 228. Courtship letters (8) to Ermine Frazer, Adair County, Kentucky from Edmund Curd, Calloway County, Kentucky, 1833-1835; letters (7) to Ermine (Frazer Page, Barren County from her sisters, 1848-1852; letters (2) from John F. F. Jewell, Louisville to his wife Ann Elizabeth (Page) Jewell.

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Gossom, Lelia Emmaline, 1865-1937 (Sc 1700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Gossom, Lelia Emmaline, 1865-1937 (Sc 1700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1700. Photocopy of a daily diary kept by Lelia Emmaline Gossom, Bowling Green, Kentucky. She discusses shopping excursions downtown, courtship, fashion, and general community events. The handwriting is quite difficult to read.

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Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Shaker scholar and English professor, Mary Julia Neal, a native of Auburn, Kentucky. Neal served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1964 to 1972. Includes photos and correspondence with twentieth century eastern Shakers.

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Rocky Spring Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Rocky Spring Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1689. Letter of dismissal in good standing of Elisabeth Hendrick from United Baptist Church of Christ at Rocky Spring, Warren County, Kentucky, 14 August 1852.

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Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1688. Four letters of dismissal in good standing for members from three Baptist churches in Allen County, Kentucky. Three of the letters are signed by minister Mordecai F. Ham.

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Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 (Mss 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 (Mss 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 72. Photocopies of correspondence, diary, legal papers, speeches, poems, photographs, and newspaper clippings of the Underwood family of Warren County, Kentucky, chiefly concerning Henry Lewis Underwood.

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Edmonson County, Kentucky - New Deal Program Files (Mss 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Edmonson County, Kentucky - New Deal Program Files (Mss 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and list of Civilian Conservation Corps applicants (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 95. Administrative files, chiefly applications and correspondence, for three Edmonson County, Kentucky New Deal programs: the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, and the Works Progress Administration.

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Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 226. Chiefly courtship correspondence between Robert Yancy Price, Rockfield, Kentucky and his girlfriend and future wife, Virginia Eva Dalton, Scottsville, Kentucky. Also includes information about Price's death and subsequent letters sent to Virginia by friends and family members.

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First Christian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

First Christian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1683. Dedication service program, 11 May 1913, for a new building for Bowling Green's First Christian church and a brief biography of former pastor A. C. Hanes.

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Thomas, William (Sc 1680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Thomas, William (Sc 1680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1680. Letter, 11 November 1864, from William Thomas, Jacksonville, Illinois to H. C. Mitchell, [Kentucky], relating to his father's estate and the support of Thomas's widowed mother.

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Wilson, Fredonia Francis, 1821-1850 (Sc 1679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Wilson, Fredonia Francis, 1821-1850 (Sc 1679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1679. Letter, 9 March 1846, from Fredonia F. Wilson, Campbell County, Virginia, to her uncle Dr. Thomas T. Watson, Empire Iron Works, Trigg County, Kentucky. She provides information about family members and urges him to come to Virginia for a visit.

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Muller, Fannie (Sc 1681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Muller, Fannie (Sc 1681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1681. Humorous letter, 4 February 1866, from Fannie Muller to her grandmother in Poughkeepsie, New York. She comments on her activities and her plans for a future visit from her grandmother.

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Old Blue Spring Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Old Blue Spring Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 149. Church registers, 1931-1944 (4 registers), of Old Blue Spring [Baptist] Church, Barren County, Kentucky. Includes minute book of youth missionary group, 1958-1960 (20 p.)

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