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Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 977. Telegrams, 1945 (5), discharge papers, 1945-1948 (3), broadside, newspaper clipping. and photographs (2), pertaining to Muhlenberg County native Marvin Ellis Morphew’s World War II service, especially as a German prisoner of war.

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Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2681. Charges and specifications preferred under a general court martial of William H. Herbert, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery, for acts of disrespect to an officer, disobedience of orders, and mutiny committed at Fort College Hill near Bowling Green, Kentucky on 10 November 1863.

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Gardler, Francis Vincent, B. 1966 (Sc 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Gardler, Francis Vincent, B. 1966 (Sc 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 978. Paper written by Francis Vincent Gardler for a Western Kentucky University history class based on an interview with Lowell Hayes Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The paper focuses on Harrison’s World War II experiences.

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Vail, Carmen, B. 1959? (Sc 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Vail, Carmen, B. 1959? (Sc 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 986. Project titled “Welcome to Woolco,” done by Carmen Vail for a Distributive Education class at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Woolco was a retail store located in Bowling Green’s Greenwood Mall for a number of years.

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Taylor, Lee Arnold, 1893-1961 (Sc 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Taylor, Lee Arnold, 1893-1961 (Sc 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 984. Business contract regarding a tombstone for Joel H. Gregory, 1913, and papers, March 1919 of Lee Arnold Taylor, Henderson County, Kentucky, regarding military leave.

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Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 983. Letter written from France by Cooper Ray Smith to his sister Mackie Bennett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing his trip to France, the end of World War I, and inquiring about events in Bowling Green.

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Page, Evelyn Ellis (Pulliam), 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Page, Evelyn Ellis (Pulliam), 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 982. Affectionate letters from her sons to Evelyn Page of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1905, 1913; letter regarding son Foster Page’s religious conversion; letter discussing rural life; and invitation to an egg fair, 1895.

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Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 981. Receipts, marriage records, and notes collected by William C. Skaggs of Edmonson County, Kentucky.

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Loving, John, 1770-1827 (Sc 985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Loving, John, 1770-1827 (Sc 985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 985. Letter written by John Loving, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brother Samuel, Lovingston, Virginia, encouraging Samuel and relatives to emigrate to his region which he calls “the flower of the western country.” Loving also discusses the raising of cattle and the financial gain therefrom. Also family data.

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Montjoy, John L. "Pete," 1914-1937 (Sc 990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Montjoy, John L. "Pete," 1914-1937 (Sc 990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 990. Form letter, 24 August 1936, distributed by the Montjoy Fair Trial Committee of Covington, Kentucky, regarding the case of John “Pete” Montjoy. The Committee claims that his trial was “farcical” and requests that the public urge Governor Chandler to commute the death sentence by hanging. Includes excerpt from George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky 1865-1940 concerning the trial.

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Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 980. Letter written by Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to a Miss Symmes, regarding Bowling Green’s participation in the planned Kentucky Room at the 1893 World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) in Chicago.

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Warren County Kentucky Homemakers Project (Fa 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Warren County Kentucky Homemakers Project (Fa 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 82. These interviews examine the lives of rural women through their membership in the Warren County Homemakers Extension Program. Former extension agents and members recall their experiences in the organization and the significance of the education programs in preparing them to adapt to new technologies and to move from farm life to public work.

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Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 700. Minutes of the 18th annual meeting of the Gasper River Bible Society of the Baptist Church, held at Salem meeting house, Butler County, Kentucky in August 1856.

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Tucker, James Harvey, 1865-1962 (Sc 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Tucker, James Harvey, 1865-1962 (Sc 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 698. Sketch map and key, prepared by James H. Tucker, of Oakland, Warren County, Kentucky, showing the community as it existed in 1875.

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Vincent, Sarah Ann (Orrahood), B. 1953 (Sc 697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Vincent, Sarah Ann (Orrahood), B. 1953 (Sc 697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 697. Photocopy of paper on the California gold rush entitled “From the Heaven of the West,” written for a history course at Western Kentucky University. Letters of Warren County, Kentucky resident William Harris to his wife Louranah, found in the Mabel Mercer Gingles Collection (SC 114) in WKU’s Special Collections Library, were used in writing this paper.

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Kentucky Military Institute - Lyndon, Kentucky - Alumni (Sc 686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Kentucky Military Institute - Lyndon, Kentucky - Alumni (Sc 686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and sample scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 686. Letters from alumni or family members of alumni of the Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Kentucky, to the Alumni Association, providing information about their military service and other activities. A 1901 graduate includes his reminiscences of KMI.

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Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 695. Letter of John Adair , 8 July 1803, to attorney Thomas Todd concerning various legal matters in Mercer Circuit Court, Mercer County, Kentucky.

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Caudill, Rebecca, 1899-1985 (Sc 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Caudill, Rebecca, 1899-1985 (Sc 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 991. Letters (2), written to Evelyn Thurman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Rebecca Caudill, Urbana, Illinois, discussing her and her husband’s writings and day-to-day activities and showing her friendship with Thurman, who later wrote a biography of Caudill.

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Hubbard, Sam R., 1906-1973 (Sc 683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hubbard, Sam R., 1906-1973 (Sc 683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 683. Papers of Sam R. Hubbard, State Senator from Russell Springs, Kentucky, in which the writers seek his support relating to issues and bills that will come before the state legislature. Includes letters from individuals and organizations, draft legislation, and a brochure with a pictorial roster of the 1960 General Assembly.

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Burke, Harry Taylor, 1909-2011 (Sc 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Burke, Harry Taylor, 1909-2011 (Sc 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 992. Presentation by Harry Taylor Burke, at Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to the devastation of the Philippines by the Japanese during World War II, and especially to the Episcopal church building. Burke had preciously been minister at the Bowling Green church. Includes letter about the paper, 1995.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Parks And Playgrounds (Sc 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Parks And Playgrounds (Sc 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 993. Ordinance, 1942, establishing a System of Parks and Playgrounds for the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The ordinance designates seven parcels of property to constitute the system and sets out the responsibilities of the Board of Parks and Playgrounds.

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Wells, George M., Sr., 1887-1956 (Sc 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Wells, George M., Sr., 1887-1956 (Sc 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 994. Teacher’s certificates issued to George M. Wells by Metcalfe County, Kentucky, for two years in 1907, and one issued by Monroe County, Kentucky, for four years in 1909; Wells’ grade card from Loyola University Medical School, 1914-1915; and obituaries of Wells (2).

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Phelps Family Papers (Sc 995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Phelps Family Papers (Sc 995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 995. Slave bills of sale, 1831-1854 (5); contract to hire slave, 1848; and receipt for the return of a runaway slave, 1856; of Julian River Phelps (father) and James Melvin Phelps (son), Butler County, Kentucky. Includes a broadside about the upcoming sale of Julian’s Butler County estate, 1856.

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Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 997. Letter, 11 May 1919, written by William Swan Van Meter, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his mother while stationed in Germany serving with the American Expeditionary Forces. He notes General John J. Pershing’s request that every soldier write his mother that day (Mother’s Day), and describes military life as a soldier awaiting his next orders. Includes a photocopy of a photograph of Van Meter in uniform.

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Garrison, Lucien, 1874-1957 (Sc 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Garrison, Lucien, 1874-1957 (Sc 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 998. Based on stories of Lucien Garrison’s father, Calvin A. Garrison (1800-1895) and his uncle Samuel Crosthwait (1823?-1912), Garrison’s manuscript emphasizes the location of Bowling Green residences, schools and businesses.

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Word, Elizabeth, 1914-1995 (Sc 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Word, Elizabeth, 1914-1995 (Sc 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 996. Letters (19) to Elizabeth Word, Warren County, Kentucky, Home Demonstration Agent, from N. F. Elliott, University of Kentucky landscape professor; outlines for landscape presentations (13) by Word, and sundry materials related to landscape gardening.

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Thomas, Richard Curd, 1838-1879 (Sc 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Thomas, Richard Curd, 1838-1879 (Sc 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 675. Statement of Richard Curd Thomas, a Bowling Green, Kentucky physician, to George Stayton, itemizing charges for visits, overnight stays, prescriptions and an obstetrics case.

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Elections And Election Campaigns - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Elections And Election Campaigns - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 676. Certified election return of the Rosemead Precinct, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, showing candidates and number of votes received in the election held on 8 November 1892.

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Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan representative of material in the collection (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 670. Correspondence of Miss Estella T. Weeks of Washington, D.C., with Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to Weeks’s research on the Shakers and the holdings of Shaker material in the Kentucky Library.

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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 904. Visitors’ recollections of where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination. These recollections were recorded in connection with an exhibit in the Kentucky Library commemorating the 30th anniversary of Kennedy’s death.

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