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Hodes, Jane Ellen (Sachs), 1918-2009 (Sc 1633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodes, Jane Ellen (Sachs), 1918-2009 (Sc 1633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1633. Correspondence between Jane Ellen (Sachs) Hodes, Oakland, California and librarians at the Kentucky Library & Museum related to photos and papers in the manuscript collection of Hodes's mother and author, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling Philips. Includes a 1940s letter from Philips to Hodes.
Autograph Album (Sc 1664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Autograph Album (Sc 1664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1664. Autograph album kept by a girl named "Nellie" and signed by a number of her friends in Carterville, Missouri.
Jones, Edwina Chandler, 1911-2002 (Sc 1661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Edwina Chandler, 1911-2002 (Sc 1661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1661. Correspondence between Edwina Chandler Jones and Betty Boyd Lyne, chiefly related to their families and mutual friends, Jones's travel and church activities, and her move from Bowling Green to Lakewood Manor Baptist Retirement Home in Richmond, Virginia.
Alford, Florence (Marshall), 1920-2001 (Sc 1662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Alford, Florence (Marshall), 1920-2001 (Sc 1662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1662. Copy of letter to Florence Alford, Bowling Green, from Larry H. Embry, Bowling Green, related to his illness. Also, her written account of the 1991 fire at Bowling Green's First Baptist Church where she was a member.
Blair Family - Ciphering Book (Sc 1659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blair Family - Ciphering Book (Sc 1659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1659. Ciphering book created by Blair family member in Fleming County, Kentucky. Although undated, the book contains several mathematical problems with dates ranging from 1792 to 1796. Fleming County, which is noted in one of the problems, was established in 1798.
Boyd, Gilbert, Jr., B. 1950 (Sc 1657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyd, Gilbert, Jr., B. 1950 (Sc 1657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1657. Letters from Gilbert "Randy" Boyd, Jr., serving as a Chief Warrant Officer in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, to his wife Reba in Bowling Green. He comments on his fellow soldiers, the beginning of the war and a trip to Kuwait.
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Mss 18), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Mss 18), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 18. Correspondence (10 items) between Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and WKU's Kentucky Building director, Mary Leiper Moore, and handwritten manuscripts for five Cobb short stories.
Helm, Virginia Stockton (Beck), 1900-1992 (Sc 1647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Virginia Stockton (Beck), 1900-1992 (Sc 1647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1647. Letters, programs, and clippings related to musical events in Warren County and information related to musicians and composers Franz Joseph Strahm, Roy Harris, and John Vincent, who had all been faculty members at Western Kentucky University.
Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 1660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 1660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1660. Letters from Joseph Dudley "Joe" Downing to "friends at the Kentucky Museum"; one discusses at length a Downing painting titled "Saint Francis of Assisi Uside Down, and Several Colleagues Agape."
Helm, David Maury, 1927-1994 (Sc 1649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, David Maury, 1927-1994 (Sc 1649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1649. Three deeds of conveyance related to pieces of property in Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky that were owned by the Helm family. Also includes two plat maps.
Austin - Letters Of (Sc 1656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Austin - Letters Of (Sc 1656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1656. Letters from “Austin,” Louisville, Kentucky, to his brother in Mississippi. He laments their shared poor health as well as that of their father and mourns their recently deceased mother, but expresses pleasure at receiving letters from the place where he was born and raised. He indicates his intention to go to Tennessee for a month or two to make some money in the practice of dentistry.
Agnew, William Walter, 1903-1990 (Sc 1646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Agnew, William Walter, 1903-1990 (Sc 1646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1646. "Delayed Issue" of The Quill, published for the 1980 reunion of the 1918-1924 classes of Barrett Manual Training High School in Henderson, Kentucky. It is comprised of short autobiographies of the graduates.
Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 1648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 1648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1648. Copy of John Helm's appointment as Second Lieutenant in the Bedford County, Virginia militia. Signed 22 November 1779 in Williamsburg, Virginia by Governor Thomas Jefferson.
Elrod, Pamela Jean, B. 1959 (Sc 1652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elrod, Pamela Jean, B. 1959 (Sc 1652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1652. Girl Scout autograph book and membership card for Pamela Jean Elrod, Valley Station, Kentucky. Also includes a card indicating completion of a basic canoeing course with the Red Cross and an "Eagle Guardian Pledge" issued by the Florida Audubon Society.
Mcdaniel, Sue Lynn (Stone), B. 1959 (Sc 1651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcdaniel, Sue Lynn (Stone), B. 1959 (Sc 1651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1651. E-mails sent from Sue Lynn McDaniel to various correspondents related to a Caribbean cruise impacted by Hurricane Wilma in October 2005. McDaniel was aboard the cruise ship "Enchantment of the Seas" with friend Pamela Jean Elrod.
Mayberry, Gerald Wayne, 1948-1968 (Sc 1655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mayberry, Gerald Wayne, 1948-1968 (Sc 1655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1655. Letters written by Gerald Wayne Mayberry to "Lula" and "Sally," Franklin, Kentucky, while Mayberry was serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam.
Bailey, Jefferson Davis, 1914-2011 (Sc 1650), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bailey, Jefferson Davis, 1914-2011 (Sc 1650), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1650. Detailed memory book created about the life of Jefferson Davis Bailey, who lived most of his life in Owensboro, Kentucky. The book was compiled by his daughter, Brenda (Bailey) Little, Hartford, Kentucky.
Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 222. Correspondence of the Pearson family, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly letters from Carroll Pearson to his wife Patricia while he is in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The collection also contains letters sent to Carroll from his parents and letters sent to Patricia from her parents and friends.
Poe Family Papers (Sc 1641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Poe Family Papers (Sc 1641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1641. Two Warren County, Kentucky deeds, one receipt, and a letter from Alvin Poe, Connersville, Missouri, to his brother Stephen M. Poe, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 25 January 1855 in which he discusses crop and livestock prices and the political situation in Nebraska. A typescript of the letter is attached as an additional file.
Civil Defense - Ordinance - Kentucky, [1943] (Sc 1643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil Defense - Ordinance - Kentucky, [1943] (Sc 1643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1643. Template for the use of municipal governments in adopting a Civil Defense ordinance in Kentucky during World War II.
Mcdonald, Kittie A., 1894-1922 (Sc 1645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcdonald, Kittie A., 1894-1922 (Sc 1645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1645. Three letters to Kittie McDonald, Woodburn, Kentucky and Lafayette, Tennessee concerning work, family and social activities. Also includes a 1904 receipt for eye care and her 1921 photograph.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1626. Copies of letters exchanged in an attempt to identify four Confederate soldiers killed in Hopkins County, Kentucky in 1865 and interred in an unmarked grave in the Madisonville Odd Fellows Cemetery in Hopkins County.
Drake, James Fishback, 1818-1883 (Sc 1644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake, James Fishback, 1818-1883 (Sc 1644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1644. Letter, 19 August 1845, from James F. Drake, Lexington, Kentucky to John Allen Gano, Centerville, Bourbon County, Kentucky, inquiring about a milk cow he has advertised for sale.
Independent Strawberry Growers' Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Independent Strawberry Growers' Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1640. Minutes, membership lists, financial reports and sundry forms from the Independent Strawberry Growers Association, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes picking card with agreement to pick for season on back. Two related photographs from the Kentucky Library & Museum Collection are included as additional files.
Kleiderer, Charles W., D. 1999 (Sc 1628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kleiderer, Charles W., D. 1999 (Sc 1628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1628. Letters from Henderson native Charles W. Kleiderer, Silver Spring, Maryland to his aunt Mary Moore, Bowling Green related to his development of the Variable Time (VT) Fuze. Accompanying photographs show how this fuze, used in artillery shells, contributed to the Allied vicotry in World War II.
Stone, Eva Mae, 1918-1977 (Sc 1639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stone, Eva Mae, 1918-1977 (Sc 1639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1639. Letters sent to Bowling Green, Kentucky native Eva Mae Stone by cousins George and Charles Shanks and friend John Mullins who were serving in the armed forces during World War II. Includes photograph of Mullins in uniform standing before the U.S. Capitol.
Mcgehee, Wilburn Ross, 1900-1971 (Sc 1630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgehee, Wilburn Ross, 1900-1971 (Sc 1630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1630. Paper: "History of Education in Bowling Green," written by W. Ross McGehee.
Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 (Sc 1634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 (Sc 1634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1634. Papers written by Patricia Ann (Morgan) Hodges to fulfill requirements for two library science courses at Western Kentucky University. Titles: "Bibliography of Literary Manuscripts in the Kentucky Library Manuscripts Division" and "Kentucky Library Manuscript Division Policy Manual and Proposed Plan for New Manuscript Division."
Hobday Collection (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobday Collection (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 85. Genealogical materials revolving chiefly around the Hobday family of Tennessee and Kentucky as researched and collected by Bob Law, Nashville, Tennessee.
Logan, Anne, 1921-2008 (Sc 1637), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan, Anne, 1921-2008 (Sc 1637), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1637. Letter from Anne Logan, a U.S. Army sergeant serving in Frankfurt, Germany, to her family detailing a furlough to London during which time she was entertained by Eleanor Roosevelt and attended the unveiling of a statue of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Grosvenor Square.