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Cox, Robert Mickle, 1831-1917 (Sc 903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Cox, Robert Mickle, 1831-1917 (Sc 903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 903. A journal compiled by Robert M. Cox listing Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky Confederate veterans and those who are deceased; items of the Bowling Green United Confederate Veterans, 1915, 1923; and newspaper clipping of Cox’s obituary.

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Russell, William Allen, 1902-1990 & Geneva Russell, 1906-2008 (Sc 905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Russell, William Allen, 1902-1990 & Geneva Russell, 1906-2008 (Sc 905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 905. Promotional letter, 17 August 1933, sent by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Russell, owners of Irene’s Beauty Shop, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to their customers advising them of classes they have taken in St. Louis in the care of hair and skin and inviting their customers to visit them.

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Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 669. History of the Current Events Club, formed in 1902, written by Mrs. Margaret (Nicholls) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a typescripted 1931 newspaper article with club history.

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Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 902), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 902), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 902. Letter written by Jesse Hilton Stuart, Greenup, Kentucky, to Elizabeth Cossey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, thanking her for her letter and stating that he has no materials to send her for a classroom display. Also envelope.

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Folklorist In The Parks - Jenny Wiley State Resort Park (Fa 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Folklorist In The Parks - Jenny Wiley State Resort Park (Fa 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 603. Materials documenting "Folklorist in the Parks,” a project conducted In Floyd, Johnson and Pike counties and Jenny Wiley State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include informant data sheets, field notes, audio interviews, photograph negatives and slides with indices and administrative papers.

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Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 898. Research notes from journals of the South Union, Kentucky, Shakers concerning entries about trees and plants, compiled by Shaker historian Mary Julia Neal.

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Carson, Charles Clifton, 1918-2004 (Sc 900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Carson, Charles Clifton, 1918-2004 (Sc 900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 900. Letter, 1 December 1970, written by Charles C. Carson, United States Consul General in Seville, Spain, to Beulah C. Ellis, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He recalls his boarding school days at Mrs. Ellis’, talks about his work, comments on American drug smugglers, and mentions family matters. Also related news article and clipping, greeting card and photograph.

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Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 105. Miscellaneous papers collected by Ethel Roark, Franklin, Kentucky. Includes a World War II letter; personal letters (4); Knights of Pythias certificate; general store ledger with a 1929 inventory; 1954 letter promoting legal alcohol sales in Simpson County; and 1965 farm diary.

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Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 897), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 897), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 897. Letter, 8 September 1993, written by Congressman William H. Natcher in response to a request by the Bowling Green Historical Preservation Board, giving detailed data about historic houses located on East Main Street, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where Natcher maintained his home. Also included is a photocopy of the letter with minor comments added by Irene Sumpter and Cora Jane Spiller.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fortifications (Sc 899), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fortifications (Sc 899), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 899. Photocopies and documentation of plans of Civil War forts in Bowling Green, Kentucky. While these may have all been drawn in 1865, the plans have earlier dates on them.

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Barnett, Morris Harper, 1830-1873 (Sc 892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Barnett, Morris Harper, 1830-1873 (Sc 892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 892. Records of gallons of spirits gauged by M. H. Barnett, Hartford, Kentucky, for Thomas J. Monarch and filed with the United States Internal Revenue Office; 1873 expense account of Barnett for gauging spirits in Ohio and Butler counties in Kentucky.

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Edmonson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 895), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Edmonson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 895), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 895. Chiefly Edmonson County, Kentucky, deeds of the Hawkins, 1845-1930 (8), Pardue, 1900, 1913 (2), and Rountree, 1888, 1893 (2) families. Also deed of Alex Lancaster to the Methodist Church trustees, 1872, and Isaac Cross family record.

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

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

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Matlock Family Papers (Mss 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Matlock Family Papers (Mss 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 450. Personal papers, mostly tax receipts and deeds, of the Matlock family of Logan County, Kentucky. Includes some genealogical data and a journal of a trip to London kept by an Englishwoman whose relation to the family is unknown.

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Duncan And Hines Family Papers (Mss 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Duncan And Hines Family Papers (Mss 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 447. Correspondence, accounts, deeds, clippings, and miscellaneous papers, primarily of Joseph Dillard Duncan and Jane (Covington) Duncan of Warren County, Kentucky, and their children and grandchildren in the Duncan and Hines families. Includes notes on the Civil War military service of Edward Ludlow Hines and Hiram Woodford Dulaney (click on "Additional Files" below for scans).

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Boats And Boating (Sc 909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Boats And Boating (Sc 909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 909. Material related to four Bowling Green, Kentucky teenaged boys who built a houseboat costing $75.00, and made a safe, month-long, voyage from Bowling Green to New Orleans, tying up there on 3 July 1948.

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World War Ii, 1939-1945 - D-Day Reminiscences (Sc 913), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - D-Day Reminiscences (Sc 913), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 913. Three May 1994 letters, written by D-Day invasion veterans from Warren County, Kentucky in response to a request from the Bowling Green (Kentucky) Daily News for first-hand accounts of the operation. Also, photocopy of the newspaper article based on these accounts, published 5 June 1994.

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World War Ii, 1939-1945 - D-Day Reminiscences (Sc 908), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - D-Day Reminiscences (Sc 908), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 908. Letters, 1993-1994, written by Kentucky veterans or family members and submitted to Kentucky Living magazine concerning the 6 June 1944 Normandy invasion. An article based on some of these letters was published in the June 1994 issue of the magazine. The collection does not include photographs, which were returned to the letter writers, and is also missing some enclosures.

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Beller, William Young, 1834-1892 (Sc 889), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Beller, William Young, 1834-1892 (Sc 889), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 889. Papers, 1881-1892 (8), of William Y. Beller, Butler County, Kentucky; his wife Rachel, 1893-1894 (3); and guardian of their son Alonzo, 1897 (1) concerning claims for a Civil War pension because of an illness contracted by Beller while serving in the war.

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Armitage Family Papers (Sc 668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Armitage Family Papers (Sc 668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 668. Letters of Valerius Armitage, 1853, Delphi, Indiana, written to his sister Mary during and after his emigration to the west; poems, 1857, copied by Valerius with comments; cemetery lot deed of Julia A. Hess, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1866; recipe book of Camilla Herdman, Bowling Green, 1877; letters to Mary Armitage, Bowling Green, 1910-1935, and Sunday School administration certificate, 1933; family obituaries; and funeral invitations, 1859-1888.

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Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 887. Letter written by Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mina Weber, Los Angeles, California, in response to Weber’s request that she write a supporting letter to radio host Ralph Edwards of “This is Your Life,” concerning Bowling Green's Ida Hodges and her contributions to society. Also carbon copy of Weber’s letter to Edwards.

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Baptists - Hart & Larue Counties, Kentucky (Sc 907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Baptists - Hart & Larue Counties, Kentucky (Sc 907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 907. Church papers consisting of 1825 constitution of the Boiling Springs United Baptist Church, Hart County, listing founding members; a history of the Boiling Springs church,1825-1865; request of Bethabara (?) Baptist Church, Hart County, for ordination assistance, 1877; letter of dismissal given by Oak Hill Baptist Church, Larue County, Kentucky, to James Brooks, 1886.

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Jones, Virginia, 1861-1937 - Letters To (Sc 890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Jones, Virginia, 1861-1937 - Letters To (Sc 890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 890. Letters, 1885-1889 (13), written to Virginia “Jennie” Jones, New York City, from suitor lawyer Robert Scott Bevier, Owensboro, Kentucky, discussing their relationship, family, political aspirations, and timely topics. Also, letter, 1901, from future husband Peter Chapman Ritchie and letters, 1992-1993 (2) containing data about the letters.

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Henderson County Historical Society - Henderson County, Kentucky (Sc 2672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Henderson County Historical Society - Henderson County, Kentucky (Sc 2672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2672. Minutes, financial records, program information and other material related to the Henderson County Historical Society.

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Davis, Andrew Pickens, 1797-1881 (Sc 878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Davis, Andrew Pickens, 1797-1881 (Sc 878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 878. Recommendation letter for Andrew P. Davis, 1872; biographical sketch and letters, 1930, (2) about Davis and his work as a Church of Christ minister, especially in Butler County, Kentucky.

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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 883. Letters, 1978-1984 (17), written by Robert Penn Warren in response to Kentucky poet Charles Semones’ letters, discussing mainly the poetry. Also letter, 1993, giving data about the Warren letters.

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Jeffrey, Jonathan David, B. 1960 (Sc 882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Jeffrey, Jonathan David, B. 1960 (Sc 882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 882. Page proof of Growing with Bowling Green: A History of the Bowling Green Public Library, 1938-1988, c.1991 and written by Jonathan Jeffrey.

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Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 884. Circuit Court of Barren County, Kentucky, Memoranda Book, 5 June 1819-December 1821.

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Green, Frank (Sc 885), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Green, Frank (Sc 885), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 885. Letter, 11 April 1886, written by Frank Green, Galveston, Texas, to Mrs. Rachel Williams, Hill Grove (Meade County, Kentucky), relating his life’s experiences since being sold in Louisville in 1858. His Kentucky memories are positive and he longs to visit his former owner.

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Geary, William Estil, 1924-2006 (Sc 875), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Geary, William Estil, 1924-2006 (Sc 875), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 875. Photocopies of letter, 25 November 25, and telegrams, 8 and 24 December 1945, written by William Estil Geary from Europe to his wife Genevieve in Central City, Kentucky. He relates that he soon will be returning home after being away for almost three years.

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