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Griffin, Samuel Allen, 1892-1979 (Mss 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Griffin, Samuel Allen, 1892-1979 (Mss 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 208. Collection includes two memoirs related to the boyhood of Samuel Allen Griffin in Sumner County, Tennessee and his railroad career: "A Country Boy" and "My 50 Years Service with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company." Also, a magazine article about Griffin.

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South Central Kentucky Audubon Society (Mss 205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

South Central Kentucky Audubon Society (Mss 205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Papers, newsletters, minutes and yearbooks of the South Central Kentucky Audubon Society. Also includes correspondence related to the establishment of the Society in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Howell Collection, 1906-1935 (Mss 193), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Howell Collection, 1906-1935 (Mss 193), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Postcards received by members of the Howell family, chiefly Charlie Howell, Bowling Green, Kentucky and his future wife Maud Howell, Cassaday, Warren County, Kentucky.

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Venable, John Wesley, 1823-1908 (Sc 1638), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Venable, John Wesley, 1823-1908 (Sc 1638), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1638. Handwritten sermon "Knowledge of Holy Scripture the Best Wisdom," delivered by John Wesley Venable at Grace Episcopal Church, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 1892.

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Deering, George, 1841-1884 (Sc 1636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Deering, George, 1841-1884 (Sc 1636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1636. Letter, 21 July 1876, from George Deering, Louisville, Kentucky, to his sister-in-law Alice in Russellville, Arkansas. He comments on the health and social activities of friends and family and on the unusually hot weather.

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New Union Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

New Union Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 78. Photocopies of minutes, membership records, and Ladies Missionary and Aid Society records of New Union Baptist Church, Logan County, Kentucky.

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Warren County Historical Society (Mss 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Warren County Historical Society (Mss 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 206. This collection consists chiefly of administrative papers related to the Society, including minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, and clippings. Also includes historical essays written by Warren County students.

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Mcafee, Robert Breckinridge, 1784-1849 (Mss 204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Mcafee, Robert Breckinridge, 1784-1849 (Mss 204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 204. Two of McAfee's handwritten journals from 1803-1807 and typescripts of the same. Also, his "The Life and Times of Robert B. McAfee and His Family and Connections, 1845", published in the "Register of the Kentucky Historical Society" in 1927 is included.

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Fleischman, Adolf John, 1889-1987 (Sc 1632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Fleischman, Adolf John, 1889-1987 (Sc 1632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1632. Letter, 8 November 1918, from Fleischman, Corbin, Kentucky to his wife, Edna, in Louisville, Kentucky. He inquires about the end of the war, declares that he is coming home and requests that his wife buy several items.

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Hardin, Amanda Leeann, B. 1983 (Sc 1635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Hardin, Amanda Leeann, B. 1983 (Sc 1635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1635. Copy of a diary kept by Amanda LeeAnn Hardin while a first-grade student at Bristow Elementary School, Warren County, Kentucky. Entries include comments about her pets, her family, and the Persian Gulf War.

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Mcwherter, Henry Newton, 1858-1923 (Sc 1627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Mcwherter, Henry Newton, 1858-1923 (Sc 1627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1627. Copy of letter, 6 December 1918, from H. N. McWherter, Persimon, Monroe County, Kentucky to his son James M. McWherter, with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He mentions family, friends, the end of the war, and the influenza outbreak.

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Bradley, Henry Walter, Sr., 1894-1988 (Sc 1624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Bradley, Henry Walter, Sr., 1894-1988 (Sc 1624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1624. Copy of a notarized statement by Henry Walter Bradley, Sr., 23 July 1969, giving information related to the Chaffin family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in support of an application to have Hugh G. Chaffin released from active military service.

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Duckett, Edward Austin, 1920-2008 (Sc 1620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Duckett, Edward Austin, 1920-2008 (Sc 1620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Cards and letters sent to architect and Bowling Green native Edward Austin Duckett while he was a resident of Hopkins Nursing Facility, Woodburn, Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes copies of his will and obituary.

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Furrie, T. E. V. Eugene A. Gerard (Sc 1631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Furrie, T. E. V. Eugene A. Gerard (Sc 1631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1631. Correspondence, receipts and legal documents related to a 1919 automobile accident between T.E. Furrie and Eugene A. Gerard and the resulting Jefferson County Circuit court case.

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Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Mss 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Mss 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and several representative photographs for Manuscripts Collection 48. Photographs and informational material collected by Courtney M. Ellis relating to steamboats which operated in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, including correspondence with other collectors and steamboatsmen, and publications of steamboating. To see a copy of "History of Steamer, J.C. Kerr, Chaperone, Choctaw" click on "Additional Files."

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Payne, William P., 1797-1880 (Sc 1629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Payne, William P., 1797-1880 (Sc 1629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1629. Photocopy of letter 26 May 1846 from Payne, Bowling Green, Kentucky to evangelist John A. Gano, Centerville, Bourbon County, Kentucky regarding the re-establishment of a Christian church in the city.

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Marshall, Florence (Sc 1614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Marshall, Florence (Sc 1614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1614. Notebook kept by Florence Marshall containing instructions for group games, relays,and dances for young people. Compiled in 1939.

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Corbin, Elvis G., 1848-1918 (Sc 1621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Corbin, Elvis G., 1848-1918 (Sc 1621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1621. Tax receipts from E.G. Corbin and Nancy (Nannie) Corbin, Logan County, Kentucky; receipts for payment of E.G. Corbin's burial expenses.

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Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 91. War of 1812 letters, 1814-1815 (3), written by James Hines to his wife, also deeds and will; John Hines papers pertaining to selling and employing slaves, 1823-1840 (3); and correspondence, etc., 1856-1879 (27) of John Henry Hines, from Johnson's Island, an Ohio prisoner of war camp. The Hines family migrated from Virginia to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Various other family items are in the collection.

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Lewisburg United Methodist Church - Lewisburg, Kentucky (Mss 94), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Lewisburg United Methodist Church - Lewisburg, Kentucky (Mss 94), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 94. Quarterly conference records of Lewisburg, Kentucky Methodist Episcopal, South Circuit, which includes churches in Logan and Muhlenberg Counties, 1885-1941. Relates to Beechland Methodist Church, Concord Methodist Church, Kennerly’s Chapel Methodist Church, Lewisburg United Methodist Church, Sand Spring Methodist Church, and Union Grove Methodist Church. Includes additional data about churches in the conference; church roll books, 1875-1949; and Woman's Missionary Society minutes, 1883-1968.

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Clark Family Papers (Sc 1619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Clark Family Papers (Sc 1619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1619. Clark family correspondence, chiefly 1864-1865 letters from Confederate soldier Philip G. Clark, serving with the 28th Virginia Infantry, to his wife, Sarah, and children, near Roanoke, Virginia, commenting on the hardships faced by the troops and his desire to return home. Also, 1867 letter to Sarah Clark from her brother, George A. Mullen.

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Pickett, Mary C. (Sc 1622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Pickett, Mary C. (Sc 1622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1622. Letter, 5 April 1885, from Mary C. Pickett, a student at Georgetown Female Seminary, Georgetown, Kentucky to her grandmother Anne E. Bailey, Stanford, Kentucky, commenting about her examinations, her clothes and her school uniform.

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Brown, Murray L., 1894-1980 (Sc 1607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Brown, Murray L., 1894-1980 (Sc 1607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1607. Brown's military service induction order, 18 May 1918, and copy of an undated newspaper article related to a baseball game in which Brown played. Includes correspondence of Brown's former law partner relating to the items.

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Bryan, Fannie Morton, 1870-1965 (Mss 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Bryan, Fannie Morton, 1870-1965 (Mss 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 83. Diaries, 1889-1895, correspondence, 1885-1955, photographs, and related items of Fannie Morton Bryan, a Russellville debutante and school teacher. Includes Logan Female College records, 1860-1869, and Russellville Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1863-1889.

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Covington, William Slaughter, 1897-1985 (Sc 1616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Covington, William Slaughter, 1897-1985 (Sc 1616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1616. Copy of August 1939 letter from Bowling Green native William S. Covington to his mother Lena (Kennedy) Nye, [Bowling Green, Kentucky] describing the difficulties he encountered in Europe just prior to the outbreak of World War II; letter, 30 June 1979, from Covington, Lake Forest, Illinois to Jane Morningstar [Bowling Green, Kentucky] commenting on the 1939 letter.

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Covington, William Slaughter, 1897-1985 (Sc 1618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Covington, William Slaughter, 1897-1985 (Sc 1618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1618. Letters from Bowling Green native William Slaughter Covington, Lake Forest, Illinois, regarding acquisition of a copy of "Bowling Green: A Pictorial History" by Nancy D. Baird, Carol Crowe-Carraco, and Michael L. Morse. The letters relate his observations about Bowling Green history. Includes a copy of Covington's obituary from the (Bowling Green, Ky.) Park City Daily News, 3 December 1985.

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Houchin, Roy Franklin, Ii, B. 1954 (Sc 1602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Houchin, Roy Franklin, Ii, B. 1954 (Sc 1602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1602. Typescripts of interviews conducted by Roy Franklin Houchin, II with: Joe Richardson regarding early aviation and the aerospace industry, Douglas Campbell regarding his World War I aerial combat experience, and Bob Ford regarding World War I military uniforms. Includes Houchin family information.

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Williams, Henry (Sc 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Williams, Henry (Sc 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 25. Statement from Williams, Montgomery County, Tennessee, to Garnett & Lampton, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, for keeping pack and stage horses on the stage line from Hopkinsville to Nashville, Tennessee, and for boarding the driver and packer from January 1, 1836 to January 31, 1837.

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Warner, Sarah (Sc 22), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Warner, Sarah (Sc 22), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 22. Letter written by Sarah Warner, Hanover, Virginia, to her brother, Mansfield Warner, Shelbyville, Kentucky, containing family news only.

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Phillips, William B. (Sc 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Phillips, William B. (Sc 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 24. Typed copy of letter written by Phillips, Maysville, Kentucky, to William Tompkins, Kanawha Saline, Virginia, concerning salt contracts, 1834, and a letter, 1934, containing information about the 1834 letter.

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