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Smith, Howard, 1922-1944 (Sc 1001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Smith, Howard, 1922-1944 (Sc 1001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1001. World War II correspondence, chiefly written by Howard Smith to his family in Hart and Larue counties in Kentucky. Smith was a munitions carrier in Company C, 133rd Infantry Division. Also contains letters from friends and family, and information about his death in Italy in 1944 and his reburial in Smith Cemetery (Priceville, Kentucky) in 1949.

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Long Brothers Realtors - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1000), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Long Brothers Realtors - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1000), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1000. Correspondence of Luther Long related to land transactions in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts of selected material for Manuscripts Collection 112. Correspondence, chiefly written by Monroe County, Kentucky native Chillon Conway Carter, to his wife, Lucinda E. and his two daughters Nancy G. and Louisa A., during the Civil War. Also includes letters written to Carter by his brother, John B. Carter, who lived in White County, Illinois.

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Mothers Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Mothers Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 113. Organizational records including minutes, financial and attendance reports, yearbooks, and newspaper clippings related to the Mothers Club, a group of concerned mothers who formed the Bowling Green club in 1925 for educational purposes. The group formally dissolved in 1998.

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Howell, Bessie (Sc 2674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Howell, Bessie (Sc 2674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2674. Paper written by Bessie Howell titled "Kentucky Pioneers and Their Contributions, 1792-1820" for a class at Western Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College.

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Folklorist In The Parks - Pine Mountain State Resort Park (Fa 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Folklorist In The Parks - Pine Mountain State Resort Park (Fa 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archves Project 607. Project conducted in Bell County, Kentuky and Pine Mountain State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include field notes, a daily activity log, and audio interviews on cassette tapes with traditional artists.

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Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 - Collector (Sc 936), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 - Collector (Sc 936), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 936. Letters kept by Henry Lewis Underwood, 1848-1925, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native, which include an 1800 letter of Henry Clay written to Robert Craddock; an 1875 letter of Jefferson Davis addressed to Underwood; an 1894 letter of Theodore Roosevelt addressed to C.R. Breckinridge; letters, 1885 (15), pertaining to a National Soldiers Reunion and Encampment; and miscellaneous items.

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Clark, William T. (Sc 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Clark, William T. (Sc 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 939. Letter, 28 November 1861, written by William T. Clark, Camp Nolin, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his aunt, Elisabeth Thompson, East Nottingham, Pennsylvania. He describes the setting up and moving out of a camp; estimates there are about 40,000 to 50,000 troops in the area; and mentions Simon Bolivar Buckner’s presence in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Godby, Allen Fogle, 1920-2004 (Sc 934), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Godby, Allen Fogle, 1920-2004 (Sc 934), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 934. Paper by Allen Fogle Godby titled, “W.W.II – Fifty Years Later” given to a Bowling Green, Kentucky High School assembly. Godby relates world conditions of that time period and records brief data about time spent in the Pacific Theater as a U.S. Army Air Corps sergeant. Godby did not see action on the fighting front.

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Strode, Wendell Kay, B. 1948 (Sc 926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Strode, Wendell Kay, B. 1948 (Sc 926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 926. Letter, 16 April 1969, to Charles Arterburn, Flippin, Monroe County, Kentucky, thanking him for his letter which Strode received in Japan while recuperating from an injury suffered in Vietnam. He further relates that he will be returning to Vietnam in thirty days. The stationery is imprinted with a military cartoon.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Social Life And Customs, 1904 (Sc 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Social Life And Customs, 1904 (Sc 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 928. Letter, 20 January 1904, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Katie Love, Gallatin, Tennessee, chiefly relating family news. The writer also mentions a visit to the local Morehead House Hotel and comments on two local churches.

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Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 943. Unsigned picture postcard, postmarked Cumberland, Maryland, and addressed to Rose Mehler, Lexington, Kentucky. The writer relates that their carnival was very successful and that their production of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was quite a “unique feature.” Picture on postcard is of the cast and scenery of the play.

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Barren County, Kentucky - History (Sc 930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Barren County, Kentucky - History (Sc 930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 930. Notes related to the early history of Barren County, Kentucky, and the establishment of the county seat, Glasgow. Also, copy of the record of the organizational meeting of Barren County’s Confederate Aid Society, 8 June 1872. Includes a list of the veterans and citizens who joined that day.

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Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 942. Compilation of papers titled “History of the Churches of Bowling Green, KY.,” by Sallie Atkins McElroy, which includes data about Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Church of Christ, Church of God, Episcopal, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Seventh-Day Adventist churches.

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Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 940), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 940), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 940. Copies of receipts, 1800-1806 (4), of early Warren County citizens, including Bowling Green co-founder, George Moore. Receipts pertain to property taxes, 1800; payment for building jail, 1802; gambling settlement, 1804; and request for James Brown to give a coat to an individual, 1806. Includes a 1966 newspaper article about the discovery of the documents.

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Teachers And Teaching - Powell County, Kentucky (Sc 927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Teachers And Teaching - Powell County, Kentucky (Sc 927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 927. Agreement of Fannie Hanks to teach school in Powell County, Kentucky for a six-month term beginning 5 July 1909. The contract lists the number of pupils and the responsibilities of the teacher.

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Southern Foundry Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Southern Foundry Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 944. Letter, 7 June 1910, written by M.F. Bransford of the Southern Foundry Company, Owensboro, Kentucky, to C.F. Krider, Paris, Tennessee, inquiring about furnishing ironwork under a contract Krider has received to construct Grove School Dormitory in Paris.

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Dean, Jefferson, 1824-1864 (Sc 941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Dean, Jefferson, 1824-1864 (Sc 941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 941. Civil War letters (5), by Tennessee Confederate Jefferson Dean, to his wife, Sophia. His regiment was stationed in southeastern Kentucky, then Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He describes his company’s activities in preparation for the Battle of Mill Springs and with Felix Zollicoffer’s forces at Johnson’s Island, where he died. Other items include war records and photographs concerning Dean and Johnson’s Island cemetery.

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Ahart, Frances (Shaw), 1850-1894 (Sc 946), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Ahart, Frances (Shaw), 1850-1894 (Sc 946), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 946. Letter, 30 September 1877, written by Frances (Shaw) Ahart, Hico, Calloway County, Kentucky, to "Brother & Sister" in LaGuardo, Wilson County, Tennessee relating family news. She signs as F.A. Shaw.

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Pace, Langston (Lg 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Pace, Langston (Lg 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Land Grant 437. Original land grant, 15 February 1819, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Langston Pace, assignee of William Nunn, 50 acres in Cumberland County, Kentucky.

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Watt Family Deeds (Sc 949), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Watt Family Deeds (Sc 949), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 949. Deeds, 1855-1858, of the Watt family of Warren and Edmonson counties, Kentucky. Deeds are chiefly of John and Felix Washington Watt.

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Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Hill, Jesse Murray, 1891-1961 (Sc 954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 954. Teacher’s certificate issued for the period 1909-1911, to J.M. Hill, Hardin County, Kentucky. Included are grades he earned in various subjects.

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Taylor, Isaac (Lg 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Taylor, Isaac (Lg 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Land Grant 438. Original land grant, 16? September 1814?, by which Richard Hickman, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Isaac Taylor, assignee of James Galloway, 200 acres in Cumberland County, Kentucky.

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Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2695. Invitations to the 1886, 1887 and 1888 commencement exercises of Cedar Bluff College, a school for young ladies in Woodburn, Kentucky. The members of the graduating classes are listed, and the 1888 invitation includes the program for the event.

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Burnam Family Papers (Sc 953), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Burnam Family Papers (Sc 953), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 953. Letters, chiefly from John Q. Burnam, 1804-1891, to his son, James H. Burnam, 1840-1906, and wife Victoria Burnam in Fayetteville, Tennessee, discussing family genealogy. Also contains information about John’s connection with Freemasonry, and an advertisement pamphlet for an unusual gun used to attach signs to buildings.

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Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Sc 952), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Sc 952), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 952. Photocopy of script (31 p.) used from radio program “Our America” broadcast on WLW Cincinnati about John Hunt Morgan. Also original letter regarding script.

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Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Sc 950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Sc 950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 950. Letter, 17 March 1959, written by Bowling Green, Kentucky's High Street High School basketball coach Frank Otha Moxley to his basketball players as they prepared for their participation in the state basketball tournament, where they could become the first African-American team to win the state championship.

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Kerr, George Bain, 1874-1965 (Sc 922), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Kerr, George Bain, 1874-1965 (Sc 922), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 922. Carbon copy of letter, 20 April 1961, written by Ruth Thurston, Bowling Green, Kentucky, nominating George Bain Kerr for Kentucky Selective Service Father of the Year. Kerr was chairman of the local board and Thurston was clerk. Also, copy of Kerr’s 1965 obituary.

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Mills, Barbara Ann (Tucker), 1931-2020 (Sc 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Mills, Barbara Ann (Tucker), 1931-2020 (Sc 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 921. Barbara Ann (Tucker) Mills writes of her life growing up in a home in Bowling Green, Kentucky that provided rooms and meals for students at Western Kentucky State Teachers College and Bowling Green Business University during the 1930s and 1940s. Her parents, known and “Ma Tucker” and “Pa Tucker,” operated boardinghouses located on College Street. Also includes two family photographs.

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Parrish, Roger M., 1891-1964 (Sc 958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Parrish, Roger M., 1891-1964 (Sc 958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 958. Advertisements (done on blueprint paper), 1924, hand-drawn and hand-painted by Roger M. Parrish of Economy Car-Parts Co., Inc., Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a listing of automobiles and the parts that his company can provide.

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