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Howard, Flora O., (Sc 638), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Howard, Flora O., (Sc 638), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 638. Compositions (2) written by Florence O. Howard, Beaver Dam, Kentucky, entitled “Triumphs of Perseverance” and “Morality, A Nation’s Safeguard.”


Carver, Gayle Raymond, 1913-2005 (Sc 634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Carver, Gayle Raymond, 1913-2005 (Sc 634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 634. Working copy of outline of “An Illustrated History of Kentucky” by Thomas Dionysius Clark, associate editor. The book was published in 1971 under the title, Kentucky: A Pictorial History. Penciled notes by Gayle Carver, curator of the Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Knott, James Proctor, 1830-1911 (Sc 640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Knott, James Proctor, 1830-1911 (Sc 640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 640. Letter from James Proctor Knott, Washington, D.C., to Adolph Sutro, (Virginia City, Nevada?) the mining engineer who directed the construction of a tunnel for more efficient mining into the Comstock Lode after receiving the right of way through public lands by an act of Congress. Knott, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, affirms that Sutro has his support.


Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 618. Record book of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Hartford Baptist Church of Ohio County, Kentucky, which contains the constitution, by-laws and amendments, treasurer’s records, lists of members, and minutes. Also includes letters from ministers’ wives, 1899, 1929 (2), and Sunday School lessons printed in Chinese, 1929 (2).


Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 624. Photocopy of letter written by Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her great-niece, Ellen Hartnett of St. Paul, Minnesota, in which she answers an inquiry about the Civil War and its relationship to the Helm and Blakey families who resided in Kentucky, and an explanatory note about the letter, 1973.


First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 629. Associational letter sent by the First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to the Warren Association of Baptists, containing the following lists: representatives at council meeting, ministers, membership, officers, Sunday School records, and financial table.


Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 628. Correspondence of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., of Munfordville, Kentucky, with Mary Leiper Moore, librarian of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, while he was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II in Alaska and Okinawa.


Ward, Williamson Dixon, 1841-1917 (Sc 627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Ward, Williamson Dixon, 1841-1917 (Sc 627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 627. Photocopy of Civil War journal of Williamson Dixon Ward of Deer Creek, Indiana, who was in the 8th Indiana Cavalry Regiment, Company D. The journal relates his experiences of camp life in Indiana and Kentucky, with the majority of his time being spent in Kentucky – 22 September 1861 to 7 February 1862 and described on pages 8-60.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 631. Photocopies of legal papers pertaining to lawsuit brought by Sally Boles in which she sought and obtained a divorce from her husband William, who united with the Shakers in 1808 and left her and their three children to join the Shaker settlement at South Union, Kentucky, in 1811. The case was first tried in Logan County, then in Barren County.


Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 644. Photocopies of notes compiled by Milton L. Baughn while writing his book A People Called Cumberland Presbyterians, which was published in 1972. The notes concern the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (African American) in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Clay, Thomas Hart, 1843-1907 (Sc 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Clay, Thomas Hart, 1843-1907 (Sc 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 643. Typed copy of letter to W. W. Hines from Thomas Hart Clay, Lexington, Kentucky, relating desired information about the children of Henry Clay, who was the grandfather of Thomas Hart Clay.


Nelson, William D., 1824-1862 (Sc 642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Nelson, William D., 1824-1862 (Sc 642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 642. Letter, 28 March 1862, to John M. Stockton, Postmaster, Maysville, Kentucky, from William Nelson, his brother-in-law and a Union General with the Army of the Ohio, Columbia, Tennessee. Nelson directs Stockton to pay a debt for him and also comments on a possible battle with the Confederate army at Corinth, Mississippi.


Lowther, Charles Ernest, B. 1951 (Sc 649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Lowther, Charles Ernest, B. 1951 (Sc 649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 649. Photocopies of letters written to Charles Ernest Lowther, of Nortonville, Kentucky, and a history student at Western Kentucky University, from various members of the U.S. Congress in reply to Lowther’s letter regarding the Nixon-Cox incident.


Agnes Gough, 1902-1988 (Sc 648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Agnes Gough, 1902-1988 (Sc 648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of sample item (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 648. Letters to Mary Taylor Moore, librarian of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Miss Agnes Gough, an artist and a teacher, originally from Benton, Kentucky, but living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Anchorage, Alaska, when these letters were written.


Pain, William (Sc 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Pain, William (Sc 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 425. Original and typescript copy of a ballad, “Lovly Molie,” composed by William Pain, Logan County, Kentucky.


Lancaster, Lennie Young, 1893-1980 (Sc 645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Lancaster, Lennie Young, 1893-1980 (Sc 645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 645. Typescript copy of article written by Lennie Young Lancaster of Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled “The Rifle Makers of Bowling Green, Kentucky Area”. The Stephens Family Papers in the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Library were used in writing the paper.


Mcdowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830 - Relating To (Sc 2551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Mcdowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830 - Relating To (Sc 2551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2551. First day of issue cover for stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first successful ovariotomy, performed by Ephraim McDowell. Includes a brief printed history of the surgery, as well as a printed letter from the Danville, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce announcing the commemorative stamp.


Henderson, Wallace W. (Sc 2645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Henderson, Wallace W. (Sc 2645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2645. Bound typescript copy of “Christian County, Kentucky Sketches,” by Wallace W. Henderson, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, tracing the history of Christian County. Includes sub-categories such as the Civil War, the Robert Hollowell Case, and notable Christian County figures.


Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 (Sc 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 (Sc 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 636. Letter to Thomas Crittenden Cherry, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Hamlin Garland, New York City, in which he agrees to exchange a copy of his book, Trail-Makers of the Middle Border, for a copy of Cherry’s book, Kentucky: Pioneer State of the West.


Greathouse Family Papers (Sc 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Greathouse Family Papers (Sc 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts 635. Papers of the Greathouse family of Hancock County, Kentucky. The papers include surveys, deeds, receipts, wills, business letters, etc., 1825-1869, and are chiefly of R.B., Susan, John, and William. Includes some papers of the Lewis family, 1823-1847.


Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 639. Typescript notice issued by the Warren County Klan of the Ku Klux Klan of the realm of Kentucky concerning a scheduled meeting of their organization in the Opera House at Bowling Green that was canceled because of influence exerted by the Catholics and Jews in Bowling Green.


Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and sample of correspondence for Manuscripts Small Collection 633. Correspondence of John Wakefield Muir, Bardstown, Kentucky, and Mary (Taylor) Moore, Librarian of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which contains much information about
the history of Bardstown and Nelson County.


Clark, W. M. (Sc 2554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Clark, W. M. (Sc 2554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2554. W. M. Clark's record book detailing his purchases and finances, including daily entries of purchases made and items sold. Items listed include hay, gasoline, animals, and food.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letter - Union Soldier (Sc 2550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letter - Union Soldier (Sc 2550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2550. Holographic letter from Union soldier named “Hank” at Camp Wood, Hart County, Kentucky, written to his brother and sister. Discusses his living conditions and asks about people he knows. Includes a printed image of General George B. McClellan.


Johnson, Marjorie (Brown), 1911-2001 (Sc 2553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Johnson, Marjorie (Brown), 1911-2001 (Sc 2553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2553. Marjorie Johnson’s autograph book containing messages, reminiscences, and signatures from friends, acquaintances, and classmates from Rochester High School. Includes a few news clippings and a short list of teachers from Rochester High School, 1926-1929.


Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2546. Laura Elizabeth Richardson’s notebook containing holographic notes about the history of quilting. Notebook includes hand executed quilt pattern images in ink, poems, definitions of quilting terms, and textile descriptions. Includes notes about the provenance of Richardson’s quilt collection and her furniture.


Clark, William B., B. 1797? (Sc 632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Clark, William B., B. 1797? (Sc 632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and one scanned page (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 632. Ciphering book kept by William B. Clark of Christian County, Kentucky, 25 August 1813 to 22 August 1814, and intermittently by others to 1819. Other entries include business accounts of Clark, a blacksmith, and family genealogy. The book was bound
with sheets from the Western Eagle, a newspaper printed in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and dated 12 February 1813. It was removed and added to the Special Collections Library. A loose item found in the book, 1834-1846, contains accounts of Clark.


Green, Jennie Scott, 1879-1965 (Sc 637), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Green, Jennie Scott, 1879-1965 (Sc 637), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 637. Photocopies of letters to Ellis Ford Hartford, Lexington, Kentucky, from Miss Jennie Scott Green, Falls of Rough, Kentucky, relative to her aiding Dr. Hartford with his historical research. She mentions the problems of invasion of privacy which she encounters and some incidents about the Sebastian family.


Causey, Alonzo M., 1870-1972 (Sc 622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Causey, Alonzo M., 1870-1972 (Sc 622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 622. Correspondence and clippings of letters written to newspaper editors and various people by Alonzo M. Causey of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1935-1972 (39) and letter and press conference summary written in French and sent in reply to letter of Causey’s to Charles de Gaulle, 1966 (4). Click on "Additional Files" below to see Spanish-American War related material in this small collection.


Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Sc 625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Sc 625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 625. Photocopies of records – letters, lists, autobiographies – pertaining to Ivan Wilson of Hazel, Kentucky, an art teacher at Western Kentucky University for years and an artist, whose paintings were sold through the Kentucky Museum from 1955-1973. These transactions were handled and the records kept by Gayle Carver, Kentucky Museum curator.