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Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2870), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2870), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscipts Small Collection 2870. “A Morning Walk,” by Dr. Jerry W. Martin, a descriptive and contemplative essay about an outdoor excursion in winter at Sally’s Rock in Warren County, Kentucky.


Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2871. “A Dark and Bloody Ground: A Synopsis of the Lives of Micajah and Wiley Harpe,” by Dr. Jerry W. Martin. The illustrated paper, the basis for a presentation to the E.Q.B. Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky, recounts the lives of Kentucky outlaws Micajah and Wiley Harpe.


Campbell, John O., D. 1865 (Sc 2866), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Campbell, John O., D. 1865 (Sc 2866), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2866. Letter, 9 April 1863, of John O. Campbell, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry, written from Paris, Kentucky to friends. He comments on both the beauty and destruction in the area, on Confederate sympathies, especially among the women, and how they should be punished, and on camping at the Bourbon County fairgrounds. He also comments on local members of the Clay and Bacon families and on U.S. Senator Garrett Davis’s support of reprisals for disloyalty to the Union. Includes associated data on Campbell and his regiment.


Dowsman, George B. (Sc 2867), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Dowsman, George B. (Sc 2867), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of letter (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2867. Letter, 24 September 1862, of George B. Dowsman, Company H, 75th Indiana Infantry. Writing from camp in Louisville, Kentucky, he describes conditions preceding a possible attack by Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s army, his company’s readiness, and its recent movements in Kentucky.


Wilson, John W. (Sc 2865), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Wilson, John W. (Sc 2865), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2865. Letter, 2 July 1864, of John W. Wilson, Company B, 2nd Kentucky Battalion Cavalry, written from Bristol, Virginia to the father of Private James Minter informing him that his son was killed at the 2nd Battle of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky and praising his character. Includes associated data on Wilson and Minter.


Mcdaniel, Paul William, 1916-2004 (Mss 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Mcdaniel, Paul William, 1916-2004 (Mss 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 515. Writings and awards of Paul William McDaniel, nuclear physicist and graduate of Western Kentucky University. Includes typescripts of lectures delivered at Queensland University, a journal he kept while serving in World War II, and a copy of his Arthur F. Fleming Award. Also includes many letters of congratulations to him and a copy of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.


Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2864. Correspondence, promotional material and planning notes for a quilt registry in Logan County, Kentucky, sponsored by the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society and a subsequent exhibit at the Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University.


Horse Cave, Kentucky - City Minutes (Mss 22 Box 1 Folder 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Horse Cave, Kentucky - City Minutes (Mss 22 Box 1 Folder 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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The minutes of the Caverna (later Horse Cave), Kentucky Board of Trustees from 1871 to 1892. Full text of the minutes, in 50-page increments, can be seen by clicking on "Additional Files" below. The community was known as Horse Cave, but changed its name to Caverna in 1869 and later changed its name back to Horse Cave in 1880. Stray material was scanned where it was found in the minute book; blank pages were not scanned. A short index was typescripted from the original minute book and is also included as an "Additional File." This minute book is part of …


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Henderson, Wathen Board, 1877-1957 (Mss 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Henderson, Wathen Board, 1877-1957 (Mss 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 516. Typescripts of “‘Old Timer’s’ Timely Topics,” a column by Wathen B. Henderson that appeared in the Breckinridge (Kentucky) News. The columns chiefly look back on the people, families and history of Breckinridge County and include Henderson’s own reminiscences.


Miller, John A., Sr., 1840-1905 (Mss 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Miller, John A., Sr., 1840-1905 (Mss 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 514. Receipts, correspondence, bills of lading ledger, 1870-1874, and account book, 1864-1866, for Miller’s jewelry businesses in Alton, Illinois and Paducah, Kentucky. Miller later operated a jewelry store in Cairo, Illinois.


Fridy, Wilford Eugene, B. 1934 (Mss 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Fridy, Wilford Eugene, B. 1934 (Mss 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 384. Correspondence, class materials, published and unpublished papers, and research material collected by Dr. Wilford E. Fridy in his study of Robert Penn Warren and his writings. Includes an untitled and unpublished novel by Robert Penn Warren, correspondence between Fridy and Warren, and photos of Warren and Guthrie, Kentucky, Warren’s hometown.


Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Mss 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Mss 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 512. Writings of Thomas Crittenden Cherry, a Bowling Green, Kentucky educator. Includes manuscript drafts of his books Kentucky, the Pioneer State of the West and The Story of Kentucky, other historical monographs, and correspondence relating to the publication and sales of Kentucky, the Pioneer State of the West. Also includes a 1912 reunion program for the Orphan Brigade (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).


Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - Relating To (Sc 2859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - Relating To (Sc 2859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2859. Correspondence, documents, and secondary sources collected by Price Kirkpatrick and related to the “real” birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Material speculates that Lincoln could have been born in Monroe or Cumberland counties in Kentucky.


Foster, Richard Wesley, 1879-1969 (Sc 2858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Foster, Richard Wesley, 1879-1969 (Sc 2858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2858. Letter, 2 February 1906, written by Wesley Foster, Shelbyville, Kentucky, to his mother Mrs. J. R. Foster, Matthews. Virginia, in which he expresses his disappointment in Mammoth Cave after a tour. Includes original envelope illustrated with an H.C. Ganter photograph of the Cave's "Olives Bower."


Francis Family (Sc 2856), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Francis Family (Sc 2856), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2856. Genealogy of the Francis Family by Charles W. Francis, 1928; and correspondence of various Francis family members in Connecticut.


Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 2857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 2857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2857. Typescripts and a few photocopies of a printed newspaper column titled “Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore” written by WKU English professor Gordon Wilson, Sr. This grouping includes columns that were not incorporated into the bound volumes of his work found in the Kentucky Library Research Collections (GR110 .K4 W542)


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Chambers, John B., 1852-1930 (Sc 2855), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Chambers, John B., 1852-1930 (Sc 2855), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2855. Invitation to Miss Virgie Talbert, Nicholasville, Kentucky, asking her to attend a watermelon party.


Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 510. Correspondence, business records, account books, and miscellaneous personal papers of members of the Allen, Barner, Savage and Mallory families of Edmonson, Hart and Warren counties in Kentucky.


Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only Manuscripts Collection 505. Correspondence, business and estate papers, deeds and miscellaneous records of the Alexander, Fontaine, Lucas, Graham and associated families, principally of Henry County, Virginia; Cumberland, Metcalfe and Warren counties in Kentucky; and Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Includes letters of Martha (Lucas) Graham written from Bowling Green, Kentucky during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers, 1858-1860, 2008 (Mss 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers, 1858-1860, 2008 (Mss 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 509. Printouts of a database containing information from the Mammoth Cave Hotel registers owned by the Department of Library Special Collections at WKU (MSS 66); one is arranged chronologically and the other is arranged alphabetically by guest name. Compact disc containing the sorted information in a Microsoft Access database.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Aug. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Aug. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Funeral Ledgers - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Funeral Ledgers - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 508. Index of deaths (1 vol.) in the Ohio County, Kentucky region from 1914 to 1962 kept by an unnamed funeral home in Ohio County. Also four account books for the same unnamed funeral home, listing payer, itemized costs, and payment information for funerals from 1914 to 1939. The deceased’s name is rarely mentioned.


Kentucky Folklore Record (Mss 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Kentucky Folklore Record (Mss 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 501. Correspondence, manuscripts, and subscription and financial records relating to the content, editing, publication and management of the Kentucky Folklore Record, a quarterly journal of the Kentucky Folklore Society.


Bowman, Johnston & Company - New York, New York (Sc 2853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Bowman, Johnston & Company - New York, New York (Sc 2853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2853. Letter, 1 July 1840, of Bowman, Johnston & Company, New York, to P. W. Vaughan and Son, Greensburg, Kentucky commenting on the tobacco market; also letter, 20 November 1840 with particulars of a recent sale of 35 hogsheads of tobacco on account.


Deweese Family Papers (Mss 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Deweese Family Papers (Mss 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 504. Materials collected by Ray Paul DeWeese and Carolyn DeWeese, a brother and sister. Most of the collection is photocopied material of writings about the DeWeese family and Butler County, Kentucky history.


Mammoth Cave National Park Association - Land Acquisition (Mss 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Mammoth Cave National Park Association - Land Acquisition (Mss 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 503. Records related to the formation of the Mammoth Cave National Park Association and the acquisition of certain lands for Mammoth Cave National Park. Includes deeds, title abstracts, summaries of land acquisition, correspondence, and financial records. Click "Additional Files" below for an acreage map (Box 2, Folder 11).


Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of remembrances (Click on Additional Files), photographs, and oral history interviews for Manuscripts Collection 491. Materials collected during a commemorative project related to a campaign visit John F. Kennedy made to Bowling Green, Kentucky in October 1960 and to his November 1963 assassination. The core of the collection is a set of remembrances that were sent into the Department of Library Special Collections, WKU about both events. Other items include oral history interviews (8), photos (36), contemporary news clippings as well as clippings about the project, a scrapbook of post-assassination clippings, and assorted other ephemera …


Steen Family Papers (Mss 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Steen Family Papers (Mss 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 502. Correspondence, deeds, receipts, family photographs and business and personal papers of the Steen family, principally Isaac Newton Steen, his son Thomas W. Steen, and Thomas’s family, of Barren and Monroe counties in Kentucky.