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Fox Family Papers, 1918-1986 (Mss 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Fox Family Papers, 1918-1986 (Mss 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 459. Chiefly military personnel records of Arthur Smith Fox, Hopkins County, Kentucky. Also includes information related to Mr. Fox’s father-in-law, William Bugg Kerr, and brief genealogical information about the Bowman Coffelt, and Hope families.

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Hodge, Iris, B. 1947 (Sc 1027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Hodge, Iris, B. 1947 (Sc 1027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1027. Paper titled “A History of Longview Methodist Church in Hardin County, Kentucky,” written by Iris Hodge for a Western Kentucky University history class.

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Civil War, 1861-1865 - Loyalty Oaths (Sc 2705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Loyalty Oaths (Sc 2705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2705. Blank oath of allegiance and United States bond, to be sworn by residents of Warren County, Kentucky.

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Tabor, Sharon - Collector (Sc 2704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Tabor, Sharon - Collector (Sc 2704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of contents (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2704. Calendar of events, historic walking tour information, and Pioneer Cemetery Lantern Tour scripts and supporting research, all relating to Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorations in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information on Civil War-era burials in Pioneer Cemetery.

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Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Bill Lowe And The Music Of Eastern Appalachia, Heidi Mckee May 2013

Bill Lowe And The Music Of Eastern Appalachia, Heidi Mckee

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As the twentieth century progressed with radio and communications technology, the culture of the Appalachian mountains became an unexplored resource of vast cultural proportions. The Old Regular Baptist faith of the mountains had influenced creative thinkers in the area for generations, and the coming of settlement schools brought secular evaluation from outside the culture. As the people living in the mountains began to understand the uniqueness of their musical heritage, radio technology was becoming available on a much larger scale than ever before. Singers and songwriters from the mountains found eager audiences on a national level.
One of these musicians …

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Evans Family Papers (Sc 1022), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Evans Family Papers (Sc 1022), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1022. Letters, 1890-1892 (3), to Sallie (Barclay) Evans, Bowling Green, Kentucky from husband John W. Evans, and items related to his estate. Also included are letters, 1937-1946 (13), confirming charge accounts for the Evans’ daughter, Annie May (Evans) Ervin, photographs of the Ervin family’s servants, and related items.

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Noe, James Thomas Cotton, 1864-1953 (Sc 1021), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Noe, James Thomas Cotton, 1864-1953 (Sc 1021), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1021. Published copy of James Thomas Cotton Noe’s poem, “Tip Sams of Kentucky, Patriot,” with added comments by Noe. Noe was honored as a Poet Laureate of Kentucky.

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Dumarey?, J. R. (Sc 1017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Dumarey?, J. R. (Sc 1017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan of transcription (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1017. Civil War letter written by J. R. DuMarey?, Lexington, Kentucky, to his father in Delta (Fulton County, Ohio), relating camp news. Mentions an owner reclaiming his enslaved African American who had been working for one of the army captains.

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Marquess, Kathleen Caroline (Perkins), 1895-1973 (Sc 1018), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Marquess, Kathleen Caroline (Perkins), 1895-1973 (Sc 1018), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1018. Booklet (39 pages) of poems and brief prose, Moments of Gladness, Madness and Sadness, published by Kathleen Caroline Perkins Marquess, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She records comments about many of her writings and includes letter written to Allan Trout, 1961. In letter she discusses the details of getting the booklet published.

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Artists In Residence - Boyd County (Fa 611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Artists In Residence - Boyd County (Fa 611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 611. Project conducted in Boyd County, Kentucky to identify and utilize local folk artists in a county elementary school. Project coordinator Julia Morgan interviewed local folk artists and performers. Afterwards she made presentations in schools about the information she collected and invited some of the artists to perform and/or demonstrate.

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J. W. Cardwell & Company (Sc 2702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

J. W. Cardwell & Company (Sc 2702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2702. Blank agreements for the services of J.W. Cardwell & Company to procure contracts and make out claims of sundry persons for slaves in the military service of the United States. Includes the terms of compensation. One agreement is undated; the other is dated 1865 and references claims to be made in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Civil War, 1861-1965 - Military Service (Sc 2703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Civil War, 1861-1965 - Military Service (Sc 2703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2703. Circuit judge’s order, affidavit and statement relating to applications for discharge or exemption from military service in the U. S. Army. An underaged apprentice is discharged for enlisting without the consent of his master, one of three sons seeks exemption to care for aged parents, and an unnamed officer seeks a discharge due to poor health.

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Cochran, Benjamin F. (Lg 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Cochran, Benjamin F. (Lg 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Land Grant 439. Original land grant, 17 August 1836, by which James T. Morehead, Lieutenant and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin F. Cochran 160 acres west of the Tennessee River (now part of Graves County).

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Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 455. Correspondence, accounts, land surveys, and miscellaneous business and legal papers of Orlando C. Bowles, a Civil War veteran, lawyer, farmer, and timber trader of Pike County, Kentucky. Includes some material relating to the Cecil family of Floyd and Pike counties.

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Artists In Residence - Bourbon County (Fa 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Artists In Residence - Bourbon County (Fa 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 610. Project conducted in Bourbon County, Kentucky to identify and utilize local folk artists in a county elementary school. Project coordinator Sue Massek conducted interviews with local folk artists and performers. She then presented information about them at the school and asked some of the folk artists and performers to perform or demonstrate.

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Penn, Anna Ruth (Sc 1013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Penn, Anna Ruth (Sc 1013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1013. Receipt signed by school teacher (Anna) Ruth Penn, Gracy, Kentucky, and given to M.S. Hopson, a member of the School Board of Trustees, for payment. She requested payment of $4.50 for three months’ tuition. Penn was the mother of noted author, Robert Penn Warren. Also associated data.

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Quirey, Aaron Winston, 1896-1965 (Sc 1014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Quirey, Aaron Winston, 1896-1965 (Sc 1014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1014. Bureau of Mines’ first aid training certificate; letters concerning World War I pension and disability claim; Mammoth Cave and Fort Knox civil service employment of Aaron Winston Quirey, Sturgis, Kentucky, 1926-1961 (20); teacher’s certificate of William A. Proctor (maternal grandfather), Logan County, 1884; newspaper clippings and associated items.

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Knox County, Kentucky - Motels (Sc 1012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Knox County, Kentucky - Motels (Sc 1012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1012. Letter, 1948, written by Maurice G. Howard, Corbin, Kentucky, to George Gosieki, Racine, Wisconsin, concerning Virgil Whyte’s “All Girl Band” staying at Howard’s motel while performing in the region. Also photocopy of recognition certificate, 1995, pertaining to the support Whyte’s band gave to World War II’s 50th anniversary remembrance program.

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Green River - Locks And Dams (Sc 1009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Green River - Locks And Dams (Sc 1009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1009. Survey for tract of land at southern end of Lock and Dam Number 5 on Green River at Glenmore in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Parks, Sherman, B. 1890? (Sc 1006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Parks, Sherman, B. 1890? (Sc 1006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1006. Letters, 1933 (2), written by Sherman Parks, Madisonville, Kentucky, to Joseph F. Garnett, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Parks, as an officer in the Hopkins County and Kentucky Colored Independent Voters Leagues, requests assistance, including monetary aid to promote the recruitment of African- Americans to Kentucky’s Democratic Party.

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Smith, Charles Ferguson, 1807-1862 (Sc 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Smith, Charles Ferguson, 1807-1862 (Sc 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1011. General Order Number 32, 11 November 1861, issued at Paducah, Kentucky, by Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith. Order contains reports of the troops under the command of Brigadier General Eleazer Arthur Paine that had recently marched to Milburn, Kentucky. They are described as a “mere armed mob” and reprimanded for looting. Includes data about Smith.

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Mccormack, Joseph Nathaniel, 1847-1922 (Sc 1005), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Mccormack, Joseph Nathaniel, 1847-1922 (Sc 1005), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1005. Letter addressed to “Dear Doctor”, sent by secretary Joseph Nathaniel McCormack of the Kentucky State Board of Health, Bowling Green, Kentucky, extolling the merit of the Rosenow-Mayo vaccine for the prevention of influenza and pneumonia. Dr. Lillian South is noted as the one in charge of the vaccine distribution.

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Bowling Green Gas, Oil And Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Bowling Green Gas, Oil And Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2700. Three certificates for shares of stock in the Bowling Green Gas, Oil and Refining Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a subscription form for stock in the Consolidated Oil Corporation.

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Fox-Walthall Letters (Sc 1007), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Fox-Walthall Letters (Sc 1007), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 1007. Family letters of the Fox and Walthall families, chiefly of Mildred P. (Walthall), Joseph, Rachel M. and William S. Fox of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The collection includes family correspondence, Civil War letters, 1861-1862 (34), and courtship letters.

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South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. (Sc 1004), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. (Sc 1004), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1004. Letters (2) written to South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. member subscribers providing information about telephone service and membership benefits in the Glasgow, Kentucky, area, 1954-1957.

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Hobson House Commission - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Hobson House Commission - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 115. Organizational records including correspondence, minutes, financial reports, annual reports, yearbooks, portions of a policy manual, legal papers, and other miscellaneous papers related to the Hobson House Commission, which oversees the operation and maintenance of Riverview, a historic Bowling Green, Kentucky property.

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Daviess County High School - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 2699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Daviess County High School - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 2699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2699. Last will and testament of the Daviess County High School Class of 1939.

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Folklorist In The Parks (Fa 608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Folklorist In The Parks (Fa 608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 608. Project conducted in communities surrounding Jenny Wiley, Kenlake, Natural Bridge, Pennyrile Forest and Pine Mountain State Resort Parks to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include administrative papers and slides.

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Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Porter, Roger Charles, 1887-1963 (Sc 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1003. Courtship letters (29) written by Roger Charles Porter of Warren County, Kentucky to his future wife, Nan Cole, during a summer she spent at Massey Springs, a Warren County resort operated by her parents. The Porters married 16 March 1911.

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