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Ritter Daybook (Mss 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Ritter Daybook (Mss 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 98. A photocopy of an account book (432 pages), detailing the activities of a boarding house/tavern and large stable in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, owned by Burwell Clark Ritter.


Richardson, Sarah "Sally" Pickett, 1944-2023 (Sc 2653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Richardson, Sarah "Sally" Pickett, 1944-2023 (Sc 2653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2653. Miscellaneous items relating to the childhood of Sarah Richardson: birth announcement clippings, a congratulatory card to her mother, a church school certificate, high school report card, and a letter from a friend.


King, Stephen Lynn, B. 1954 - Collector (Sc 769), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

King, Stephen Lynn, B. 1954 - Collector (Sc 769), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 769. Letters, 1981-1984 (10 items); research data, mostly photocopies, 1898-1982 (14); photocopies of Civil War records of John L. Beard, Edward A. Cook, Benjamin Herald, and R. S. Weir, 1861-1864 (4); tombstone rubbings (4); and photographs, 1979-1984 (92), which Stephen L. King amassed as documentation for the project of upgrading the Confederate section of Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Taliaferro, Lucy, 1844?-1893? (Sc 828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Taliaferro, Lucy, 1844?-1893? (Sc 828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 828. Letter, 19 October 1892, from Lucy Taliaferro, Nashville, Tennessee, to Harriet “Hattie” Taliaferro and Nannie regarding her plans for returning to the Shaker community at South Union, Kentucky. Includes biographical data on Harriet Taliaferro compiled by her grandson, Clem L. Pope.


Gerard, Camilla Herdman, 1895-1977 - Letters To (Sc 826), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Gerard, Camilla Herdman, 1895-1977 - Letters To (Sc 826), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 826. Original unsigned letter written to Camilla Herdman Gerard, Bowling Green, Kentucky, describing the 1937 Louisville, Kentucky flood as the female writer experienced it. She expresses her thanks for Gerard’s hospitality in bringing her to Bowling Green to provide for her. Also included are a typed copy of the letter and a photocopy of two photographs showing the flood’s damage (original photographs are housed in the Gerard Photo Collection).


Ragland, Florence, 1861-1949 (Sc 827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Ragland, Florence, 1861-1949 (Sc 827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 827. Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky, lot certificate of A. J. Ragland estate, 6 April 1906. Also included is a typescript copy of Florence Ragland’s obituary, 1949.


Martin, Charles Roy, 1892-1984 (Sc 770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Martin, Charles Roy, 1892-1984 (Sc 770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 770. World War I letters, 2 August 1918-9 June 1919 (31), written by Sergeant Charles Roy Martin, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Fort Houston, Texas; Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and France, to his hometown friends, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Cossey, Duenweg, Missouri. Also included are a photo of Martin in uniform and biographical data.


Green County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 775), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Green County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 775), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 775. Photocopies of Kentucky state militia captaincy commission of Daniel Williams, which was signed by Governor Christopher Greenup, 1805; and broadside informing slave owners to enroll their slaves in Greensburg, Kentucky, 1863.


Kuykendall, William S., 1821-1888 (Sc 774), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Kuykendall, William S., 1821-1888 (Sc 774), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 774. Account book kept by William S. Kuykendall, Butler County, Kentucky, from 25 May 1852 to 29 November 1853, which records his transactions as a cobbler and includes the names of his customers.


Ground, Frankie, 1930-2020 (Sc 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Ground, Frankie, 1930-2020 (Sc 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 822. Three autograph albums of Frankie Ground, Warren County, Kentucky, containing signatures of classmates, teachers, friends, and family from Three Forks Schools, 1941-1944 (two separate albums), and North Warren High School, 1949.


A Short History Of Asbury Theological Seminary, Howard Fenimore Shipps Jan 2013

A Short History Of Asbury Theological Seminary, Howard Fenimore Shipps

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.


Henry Clay Morrison “Crusader Saint”, Percival A. Wesche Jan 2013

Henry Clay Morrison “Crusader Saint”, Percival A. Wesche

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.


Halls Aflame: An Account Of The Spontaneous Revivals At Asbury College In 1950 And 1958, Robert E. Coleman, Henry C. James, Paul Rader Jan 2013

Halls Aflame: An Account Of The Spontaneous Revivals At Asbury College In 1950 And 1958, Robert E. Coleman, Henry C. James, Paul Rader

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.


One Divine Moment: The Account Of The Asbury Revival Of 1970, Robert E. Coleman, David J. Gyertson Jan 2013

One Divine Moment: The Account Of The Asbury Revival Of 1970, Robert E. Coleman, David J. Gyertson

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.


Middleton, Amanda (Sc 817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Middleton, Amanda (Sc 817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 817. Letter, 10 December 1865, of Amanda Middleton of Smiths Grove, Kentucky, a student at the Russellville Female Academy, to Charlie R. Bagby of Smiths Grove. She comments on school life and anticipated Christmas activities while at home during the holidays.


Fulcrum Of The Union: The Border South And The Secession Crisis, 1859-1861, Michael Dudley Robinson Jan 2013

Fulcrum Of The Union: The Border South And The Secession Crisis, 1859-1861, Michael Dudley Robinson

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri spurned secession in 1860-61, which has led scholars to conclude that these four slaveholding states were safely ensconced in the Union column from the beginning of the crisis that drew the other slaveholding states into the Confederacy. Historians have often simplified the secession crisis in the Border South, minimizing the likelihood that these states with smaller concentrations of enslaved persons and a more diversified economy and society than the Upper and Lower South would ever leave the Union. This work seeks to add contingency to the story of the Border …