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Besten & Langen - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Besten & Langen - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3003. Letter to Camilla H. Gerard, Bowling Green Kentucky, from the Fur Storage Department of Besten & Langen, Louisville, Kentucky, advertising its storage and cleaning services for furs.

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Upton, Larry Thurman, B. 1940 (Mss 553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Upton, Larry Thurman, B. 1940 (Mss 553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 553. Letters from Stella Minton to her daughter, Elizabeth Allen “Betty” Minton, about family matters, local happenings in Bowling Green and Warren County, church affairs in the local Mormon congregation, quilting, gardening, and cooking. Includes research notes by Larry Thurman Upton for his book Memory is a Wonderful Thing that goes over the history of the Upton family. In addition the collection contains information about the beginning of stock car racing at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Burch, Kelly Calvert, B. 1964 (Sc 3001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Burch, Kelly Calvert, B. 1964 (Sc 3001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3001. Script for a one-act play titled “Allen County: A Work in Progress” written by Kelly C. Burch in commemoration of the bicentennial of Allen County’s formation in 1815. Includes script, program, DVD, and news clipping about the play’s performance on 28 June 2015 at Allen County-Scottsville High School.

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Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collections 2999. Photocopied typescript of a report by Joseph Rogers Underwood dated 13 February 1868 regarding business and tourist activity at Mammoth Cave in 1867. Submitted to the beneficiaries of a trust created after the death of the property’s last private owner, the report covers income and expenditures, the status of leases, and a plan to acquire land with a spring for water supply. Underwood also discusses the necessity of appointing his successor as trustee and finding lessees with management skills, or selling the property. The original typescript is in the Janin Collection, Huntington …

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Barr, Edward Wallace, 1887-1962 (Mss 576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Barr, Edward Wallace, 1887-1962 (Mss 576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 576. Papers, lecture notes and appointment book relating to Dr. E. Wallace Barr’s training and service as a dentist with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I; includes a few items of family correspondence.

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Womi Radio - Owensboro, Kentucky (Ct 2042), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Womi Radio - Owensboro, Kentucky (Ct 2042), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Cassette Tape 2042. Recording of an online observation of the tenth anniversary of the WOMI radio station in Owensboro, Kentucky. Includes greeting from the mayor, county judge executive and WOMI’s president as well as the reading of congratulatory telegrams and letters from other dignitaries.

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Durbin Family Papers (Sc 2998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Durbin Family Papers (Sc 2998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2998. Includes a Durbin family genealogy compiled in 1989; digital photos of Durbin family members and of the Durbin department store in downtown Bowling Green, Kentucky. The digital photographs are stored in the Photo Archives.

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Hanes, Dorothy Louise (Taylor), 1928-2021 - Collector (Sc 2997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Hanes, Dorothy Louise (Taylor), 1928-2021 - Collector (Sc 2997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2997. Miscellaneous papers consisting of a 1919 subscription solicitation from the Louisville (Kentucky) Herald; a 1932 letter from their daughter to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Board, Rockfield, Kentucky; and an uncorrected transcript of a 1973 interview with Mrs. Ruby Taylor, Laurinburg, North Carolina, regarding her husband Otis B. Taylor, his family, and his career as an agronomist, biologist and wildlife technician with the National Park Service.

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Fulkerson, Joseph Gerald, 1923-2013 And Josephine (Woodward) Fulkerson, 1926-2016 (Sc 2995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Fulkerson, Joseph Gerald, 1923-2013 And Josephine (Woodward) Fulkerson, 1926-2016 (Sc 2995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2995. Autograph album of Josephine (Woodward) Fulkerson, 1937; and “Memories West Louisville High School 1942-1992,” a souvenir booklet belonging to Joseph G. Fulkerson, with biographical data on the members of his 1942 high school graduating class.

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Anderson, Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813-1845 (Sc 2996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Anderson, Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813-1845 (Sc 2996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2996. Letter, 25 July 1841, of Oliver Hazard Perry Anderson to his sister Penelope Wingate, Frankfort, Kentucky, describing his arrival at Marseilles, France, his travel to Paris, and the sights there. A second letter, 18 September 1844, written from Frankfort, Kentucky to Penelope’s son Reuben Wingate in Louisville, Kentucky, describes a banquet in honor of ex-Governor Robert P. Letcher. Reuben’s sister Sarah adds a page asking Reuben for sundries, including marrow to treat her thinning hair, and refers to the birth of another grandchild to their father.

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Parsons, James T., 1835-1875 (Sc 2990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Parsons, James T., 1835-1875 (Sc 2990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2990. Letters of James T. Parsons to his parents, written during his service with the 17th Ohio Infantry. He details his regiment’s arduous marches through Kentucky, especially Boyle and Pulaski counties, and remarks on bad roads, picket duty, and high prices charged by the sutler. He criticizes Kentucky soldiers as both braggarts and cowards. In December 1861, he speculates on the “great Battle to come” at Bowling Green but, in hospital at Nashville in August 1862, doubts the prospects for victory over the South. He …

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Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 (Sc 2994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 (Sc 2994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2994. “Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Overview of Six Quiet Walkways,” by Ray Buckberry and Arnold Franklin, a guide, with maps and color illustrations, to six walking trails in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Agricultural And Industrial Development Board (Sc 2993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Agricultural And Industrial Development Board (Sc 2993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2993. Summary report for 1948 on the activities of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board, an agency created by the Kentucky General Assembly in February, 1948 to survey, study and promote the state’s natural and man-made resources for future development.

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Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 - Collector (Sc 2992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 - Collector (Sc 2992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2992. Newspaper clippings, model press releases and other materials collected by Mary Leiper Moore, chairman of the publicity committee for a drive to recruit Warren County, Kentucky women for the Women’s Army Corps (WACs). Includes Moore’s letter to the commander of Louisville’s Bowman Field complaining of the Army’s poor planning of a publicity event held at Western Kentucky University on 12 November 1943.

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Smith, Mary Woodrow (Wilson), 1913-2005 (Sc 2991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Smith, Mary Woodrow (Wilson), 1913-2005 (Sc 2991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2991. “Random Meanderings: The Rural School Years,” Mary W. Smith’s reminiscence of teaching in the rural schools of Butler County, Kentucky. Includes the author’s obituary.

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Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2989. Items related to native Kentuckian and expatriate (France) artist Joe Downing collected by Benjamin L. and Louise Pritz of Cincinnati, Ohio. Items include notes and cards from Joe, correspondence with his brother, Dero Downing, numerous invitations and programs for Downing exhibitions, and a number of New Year cards featuring photographs of Joe and his art.

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Carter, Lillie Mae (Bland), 1919-1982 (Mss 558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Carter, Lillie Mae (Bland), 1919-1982 (Mss 558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 558. This collection documents native Kentuckian Lillie Mae (Bland) Carters’ work as a poet and public school teacher in Toledo, Ohio. It includes correspondence, publications, unpublished poems, and printed material pertinent to her educational career and achievements. Of particular note is a folder of letters and autographs from African American poet Langston Hughes.

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Durston, James Marion, 1920-2011 (Mss 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Durston, James Marion, 1920-2011 (Mss 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 571. Letters of James M. “Brandy” Durston, a Bowling Green, Kentucky chiropractor and later a resident of Southaven, Mississippi, with copious reminiscences of people and places in Bowling Green. Includes material relating primarily to Durston’s church in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 2988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 2988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2988. Letter, 20 March 1952, of Robert Penn Warren, New Haven, Connecticut, to Mrs. Carl P. Rollins. He refers to his “wandering loquacity about the sadistic Lewises” (an apparent reference to his poem Brother to Dragons) being included in certain minutes, but observes that the entry will be “much shorter” than the poem itself.

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Eqb Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Eqb Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 569. Minutes, financial records, publications, correspondence, historical data, and miscellaneous materials of the EQB Club, a men's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Leichhardt, Maxwell Mitchell, 1923-2015 (Mss 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Leichhardt, Maxwell Mitchell, 1923-2015 (Mss 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of photos (Click on "Additional Files" below for Manuscripts Collection 570. Correspondence, military records, photographs and scrapbooks of Bowling Green, Kentucky, landscape architect Mitchell Leichhardt. Also includes information about his work hybridizing daylilies, breeding and showing of boxer dogs, and genealogical information about the Leichhardt, Perkins, and Sublett families.

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Runner, Etta Jane, 1894-1971 (Sc 2987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Runner, Etta Jane, 1894-1971 (Sc 2987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2987. Certificates and commendation letters to Etta J. Runner, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for her studies at the Bowling Green Business University and her volunteer work with the American Red Cross and Warren County United Givers Fund; contribution receipt from the Order of the Eastern Star; manuscript sheet music for song “Kentucky,” by Etta J. Runner.

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Edwards, Jerome Cyrus, 1854-1931 (Sc 2986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Edwards, Jerome Cyrus, 1854-1931 (Sc 2986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2986. Certificate, 26 October 1880, issued to Jerome C. Edwards, qualifying him to teach in the common schools of Barren, County, Kentucky; letter, 23 December 1921, to Jerome C. Edwards from his cousin Cyrus Edwards, Horse Cave, Kentucky, asking for data to complete a family history.

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Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 554. Personal and professional correspondence of Auburn, Kentucky native and New York banker Harold H. Helm. Includes biographical materials, speeches, miscellaneous papers and photographs.

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Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 552. Personal and professional correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian. Includes ancestral and family correspondence and papers, photographs, and genealogical research on the Helm, Carson, Porter, Blakey and related families.

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Mcgregor Collection (Mss 566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Mcgregor Collection (Mss 566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 566. Correspondence, accounts, and lists of materials relating to the acquisition by the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, of rare books, periodicals and manuscripts with funding provided by the McGregor Plan.

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Bowling Green Country Club, Inc. - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Bowling Green Country Club, Inc. - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2983. Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the Bowling Green, Country Club, Inc., together with notice of members meeting and proxy for voting thereon, 1953; by-laws and membership rules, 1958; rules governing club guests, n.d.

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Parent Teacher Association - Austin Tracy Elementary School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Parent Teacher Association - Austin Tracy Elementary School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2985. Lists of presidents, officers and committees for the Austin Tracy Elementary School Parent Teacher Association. Includes summaries of programming for 1964-1966 and 1971-1972.

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Payne Family - Bible Records (Sc 2984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Payne Family - Bible Records (Sc 2984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2984. Genealogical records removed from the Bible of the Payne family, Barren County, Kentucky.

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Harris, William, 1772-1845 - Relating To (Sc 2981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Harris, William, 1772-1845 - Relating To (Sc 2981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2981. Research notes of Mary Leiper Moore, director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University, related to William Harris, an important early minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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