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Theobald, Harriett Byron (Mcallister) Blanton, 1798-1888 (Sc 1591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Theobald, Harriett Byron (Mcallister) Blanton, 1798-1888 (Sc 1591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1591. Letter from Harriett B. Theobald, Frankfort, Kentucky, to her sons, Orville and William Blanton, Baltimore, Maryland, in which she discusses leaving Kentucky to be with them. Also includes discussions of Frankfort news and family matters.
Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1590. Letter to the editor (Park City Daily News?) by Charles Davenport, reminiscing about growing up in the Warren County, Kentucky community of Greencastle. Includes photos of James Ford and Thomas L. Stephens, builders of the Greencastle lock and dam on Barren River.
Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 43. Account books of different firms and individuals in Greensburg, Kentucky, including records of general merchandise stores, a hotel, a tailoring shop, the Kentucky Stage Company, and a lodging stable.
Knight, Lillian Eleanor, 1919-2003 (Sc 1580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knight, Lillian Eleanor, 1919-2003 (Sc 1580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and digital copy of original for Manuscripts Small Collection 1580, a reminiscence written by Lillian Eleanor Knight concerning the 1937 Flood in Louisville, Kentucky.
Barret Family Papers (Mss 46), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barret Family Papers (Mss 46), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 46 and full text of European travel diary from 1883 (Click on "Additional Files" below). Collection includes World War I letters; European travel diary, 1883; notebooks; pictures; and miscellaneous papers of the Barret family of Louisville, Kentucky. Persons represented are Richard Montfort, 1854-1931; Henri (Barret) Montfort, 1861-1900; and their son, Barret Montfort, 1890-1962.
Barton, Joshua (Lg 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barton, Joshua (Lg 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 419. Original land grant, 24 March 1816, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Joshua Barton 30 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Walker, John (Lg 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Walker, John (Lg 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 420. Original land grant, 2 April 1816, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Walker 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Woods, Elizabeth Moseley, 1865-1967 (Mss 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woods, Elizabeth Moseley, 1865-1967 (Mss 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 25. Correspondence related to travel of Elizabeth Moseley Woods (1865-1967). Also includes Woods family correspondence, 100th birthday congratulations, Woods and Hall families genealogies, a household account book kept by Woods on a stay in Paris, 1901, and a script of a 1938 radio broadcast related to a South American cruise taken by Woods. Also includes clippings related to the retirement of Dr. John D. Woods as editor of the "Glasgow Times." An original and two copies of 1862 Civil letters (Confederate) are also included.
Maxwell, David (Lg 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Maxwell, David (Lg 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 422. Original land grant, 29 June 1818, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to David Maxwell 50 acres in Warren County.
Maxwell, David (Lg 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Maxwell, David (Lg 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 421. Original land grant, 29 April 1816, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to David Maxwell, assignee of Joal Watson, assignee of John Painter, 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.
Boatman, John, 1842-1916 (Sc 1611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boatman, John, 1842-1916 (Sc 1611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1611. Letter dated 10 September 1861 from Union soldier John Boatman, Paducah, Kentucky, to his family in Paris, Illinois describing conditions in Paducah. Envelope imprinted with red and blue patriotic image of clasped hands and the phrase "Our hearts and hands for the Union."
Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 40. Fifty-three diaries (1859-1918) and other writings of Henry Clay Northcott, 1822-1918, Methodist circuit preacher and farmer of northern Kentucky; correspondence (1870-1883) of his daughter, music teacher Kate N. Thomas, 1850-1889; and her husband, Bruce F. Thomas, 1853?-1882, lawyer of Vanceburg, Kentucky.
Freeman, John & Hamilton Freeman (Lg 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Freeman, John & Hamilton Freeman (Lg 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 412. Copy land grant, 21 June 1799, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John and Hamilton Freeman, 666-2/3 acres on the west fork of the middle fork of Bays Creek in Kentucky.
Pirkey, Henry S., D. 1827 (Lg 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pirkey, Henry S., D. 1827 (Lg 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 416. Original land grant, 8 June 1815, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Henry S. Pirkey 200 acres in Livingston County, Kentucky.
Ewing, Robert, 1760-1832 (Lg 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ewing, Robert, 1760-1832 (Lg 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 415. Original land grant, 17 June 1797, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Ewing 200 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.
Richey, James (Lg 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richey, James (Lg 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 413. Copy of land grant, 12 June 1806, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James Richey 100 acres in Livingston County, Kentucky.
Totty, Leonard, 1812?-1863? (Mss 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Totty, Leonard, 1812?-1863? (Mss 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 36. Account books consisting of a journal of customer's account, 1848-1854, and a ledger, 1848-1858, of Leonard Totty, a general merchant of Doughty's Creek, Warren County, Kentucky.
Horton, George Lewis, 1894-1957 (Sc 1569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Horton, George Lewis, 1894-1957 (Sc 1569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1569. Letter, 24 July 1923, from George L. Horton, Ashland, Kentucky to Clare Anderson, Cleveland, Ohio, concerning her upcoming visit to Ashland. Includes a colorful handkerchief printed with the nursery rhyme "Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross" that was enclosed with the letter.
Devries, Virginia Hope (Posey), 1911-1998 (Mss 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Devries, Virginia Hope (Posey), 1911-1998 (Mss 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 192. Correspondence and research related to the Posey and Callis families. Includes a copy of a 1949 letter from Vice President Alben W. Barkley acknowledging his relationship to the Posey family.
Gingles Collection (Mss 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gingles Collection (Mss 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 21. Dr. John Thomas Gingles, Kirksey, Calloway County, Kentucky, account books, 1866-1870, 1872-1875, 1880, 1884-1885; account book, 1851-1878, probably his father's, James A. Gingles; typescript of 1946 paper entitled "Vitamin Therapy" by his son Dr. Hunter W. Gingles, Hardburly, Perry County, Kentucky; University of Louisville Medical School commencement booklet, 1915; and letters and receipts. Includes four copies of The Murray Weekly News, 1886-1887 (see "Additional Files" below for scans).
Harris, Edward, 1840?-1862 (Sc 1570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harris, Edward, 1840?-1862 (Sc 1570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1570. Letter, 1 January 1862, to his father from Harris, serving with the 19th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers near Muddy Branch, Maryland. He makes comments about the war, the Southern states, and his commander, Colonel Hincks. Written on letterhead with portrait of General George B. McClellan and the words “We have beat our last retreat!” in red and blue ink.
Short, Drucilla Jane (Harris), 1878-1952 (Sc 1567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Short, Drucilla Jane (Harris), 1878-1952 (Sc 1567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1567. Two letters, 25 September and 27 October 1918, from Franklin, Kentucky native Drucilla Jane Short to her brother, George D. Harris, serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Letters contain comments about family, business, the influenza epidemic, and the impending overseas deployment of their brother Downey. The letters were returned after George's death on 13 October 1918.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1846 (Sc 1258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1846 (Sc 1258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1258. Coroner’s inquest, 11 June 1846, into the death of Fielding Bettersworth, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The commissioners made a finding of intoxication leading to death by drowning.
New Friendship Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
New Friendship Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 178. This collection consists chiefly of membership lists and minutes of the New Friendship Baptist Church of Logan, Kentucky, 1834-1877, 1898-1988. Also included is an 1895 history of the church, Articles of Faith, and Rules of Decorum for the congregation.
Follin, Ethel Alma, 1912-1989 (Sc 1829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Follin, Ethel Alma, 1912-1989 (Sc 1829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1829. Paper: "A Study of Economic Conditions of Bowling Green, Kentucky" written by Ethel Alma Follin.
Jones, George - Letters To (Sc 1564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, George - Letters To (Sc 1564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1564. Two letters to George Jones from Merlin (last name not given) describing life at Camp Taylor, a World War I training facility in Louisville, Kentucky. Includes a photo of Jones in uniform.
Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text of diary (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 1561. Civil War diary, 1861-1864, of Robert Allen Dearmin. He served with the 2nd Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, which saw service in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Also includes correspondence of the Dearmin and Lowry families. Associated data about the collection included.
Umberger, Eugene B., Jr. (Sc 1565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Umberger, Eugene B., Jr. (Sc 1565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1565. Paper titled "The York Farm: A Contribution to Folk Housing Documentation" written by Eugene B. Umberger, Jr. for a geography class at Western Kentucky University. Includes photos and diagrams of various farm structures.
Clagett, John Henry, 1916-2013 (Mss 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clagett, John Henry, 1916-2013 (Mss 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 10. Typed manuscript copy of John Henry Clagett's novel "Cradle of the Sun", published in 1952 by Crown Publishers, New York. Also includes clippings about Clagett and two short stories by him.
Reeder Family (Sc 1563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reeder Family (Sc 1563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1563. Genealogy records, 1830, removed from the Joshua Reeder family Bible, includes notes and an affidavit verifying ownership of the Bible.