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Larue County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Larue County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2666. Deposition of Amos Rhodes, given at Brownsville, Kentucky, 25 September 1852, in connection with Henry Carlyle and William M. Gilkey v. Philip P. Phillips and Josiah Phillips, acase pending before the Circuit Court, LaRue County, Kentucky. The case involved a dispute over title to land in Hardin County, Kentucky that Rhodes had deeded to Philip P. Phillips.

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Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2662. Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of Cora Jane (Morningstar) Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Included are letters to her and family members. A letter from retired dentist X. Elwood Sanders provides personal reminiscences, and another letter includes photos of Ford’s Farm Cave.

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Gee, John Sanford, 1777-1853 (Sc 880), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Gee, John Sanford, 1777-1853 (Sc 880), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 880. Letter, 29 September 1812, written by John and Susannah Gee, Barren County, Kentucky, to uncle John Sanford, Madison County, Kentucky, with news of family members. Included are comments on earthquakes and on War of 1812 volunteers from Barren County.

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Thomas, William Guy, 1889-1987 (Sc 838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Thomas, William Guy, 1889-1987 (Sc 838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 838. Typescript copy of "Biographical Sketch of W. G. Thomas," written by William Guy Thomas about his life growing up in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Dunlap, John (Lg 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Dunlap, John (Lg 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 16. Original land grant, 4 February 1788, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted John Dunlap and Michael Willegas, assignees of William McWilliams, 98,000 acres in Nelson County, Virginia.

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Funeral Invitations - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Funeral Invitations - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 839. Original invitations to the funerals of John L. Norton and Reverend Richard Bibb. Also included is a photocopied excerpt from “The Nortons of Russellville, Kentucky: Reminiscences,” by David Morton.

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Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Correspondence, deeds, legal and other personal papers of the Edmunds family of North Carolina and Caldwell County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data and papers of associated families, primarily the Cameron family of North Carolina.

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Potter College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Potter College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 655. Request for partial payment of a subscription made to Potter College, 1889, and an invitation to Miss Sallie Drake from the faculty of Potter College, 1903.

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Lost River Cave - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Lost River Cave - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 846. Correspondence, news clippings, and research notes made by Raymond L. Cravens related to Jesse James and Lost River Cave, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes other promotional materials related to the cave.

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Riggs Refining Company - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Riggs Refining Company - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 442. Chiefly financial records from the Riggs Refining Company of Delafield, Warren County, Kentucky, 1922-1925. Records include check registers, bank statements, receipts, account books, and checkbook stubs

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Ford, Bess (Sc 2664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Ford, Bess (Sc 2664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2664. Paper titled "Outlaws of Kentucky" by Bess Ford which examines individual outlaws from Kentucky history.

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

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

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”

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Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of original and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 831. Letter, 24 May 1847, from Richard Mentor Johnson to Secretary of the Treasury Robert James Walker regarding the removal of Creek Indian students from Johnson’s school in White Sulphur, Scott County, Kentucky. Also included are notes relating to White Sulphur, Johnson, and Walker.

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Lyle, Allene P., 1919-2010 (Sc 2663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Lyle, Allene P., 1919-2010 (Sc 2663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2663. Autograph book kept by Allene P. Lyle while a student at College High School, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1933; and a small notebook containing holographic and printed remedies and prescriptions,

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Hines, Thomas Collier "Tommy," Jr., - Collector (Sc 2661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Hines, Thomas Collier "Tommy," Jr., - Collector (Sc 2661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2661. County and railroad tax receipts of Merrit Bennett, Logan County, Kentucky (1873-1885), a letter of thanks to Margaret Y. Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky (1901), and one-page histories of the First Presbyterian Church, Auburn, Kentucky and the Auburn Missionary Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Mss 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Mss 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 102. World War II correspondence of William Perry Stamps, Jr., a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, which chiefly includes letters (99) to Sallie Hills, Bowling Green, and Laura H. Savard (37), Lakeland, Florida. Stamps was stationed at military bases in Indiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Italy. Also includes letters of George L. Smith, a native of Bowling Green, to Sallie Hills.

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Richey, Nancy Carol, B. 1959 - Collector (Sc 2660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Richey, Nancy Carol, B. 1959 - Collector (Sc 2660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2660. Miscellaneous items pertaining to the Preston, Marshall, and Bryant families of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes documents relating to James D. Preston’s bonus payment for World War I service, marriage and birth certificates and school records of the Bryant family, a family record with data on Marshall, Preston and Bryant family members, and a funeral guest register for Mrs. Eva Wilson.

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Meek And Milam - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Meek And Milam - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 915. Business form letters used by Meek and Milam, the famous fishing reel company of Frankfort, Kentucky. Also, correspondence and newspaper clippings related to the reels and the men who made them.

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Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project (Sc 912), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project (Sc 912), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 912. The Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project was part of a national project, coordinated in Warren County by Jonathan Jeffrey. Included are correspondence; completed questionnaires about Warren County sculptures; less detailed listing of other sculptures in state; news release; and newspaper article.

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Whitmer, Dudley Robert, 1899-1993 (Sc 916), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Whitmer, Dudley Robert, 1899-1993 (Sc 916), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 916. Record book, 1917-1918, of attendance and grades kept by Muhlenberg County elementary school teacher Dudley Whitmer. Includes monthly and term summaries.

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Reed, William Langely (Sc 859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Reed, William Langely (Sc 859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 859. Paper titled “World War II” and written by William Langely Reed for a Western Kentucky University U.S. history class in November 1990 based on an interview with his grandfather, Leslie E. Reed of Hodgenville, Kentucky. Leslie Reed, an army staff sergeant, installed communication systems at air bases in England and Russia.

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Ohio County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Ohio County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 825. Miscellaneous accounts and receipts relating to the Ohio County Court, 1873-1927; some are for the work on the courthouse and jail.

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Hudson, Cynthia Gail (Sc 857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Hudson, Cynthia Gail (Sc 857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 857. Paper titled “The Experiences of William Robert Hudson in the German Occupation” and written by Cynthia Gail Hudson for a Western Kentucky University U.S. history class and based on an interview with Hudson, November 1990.

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Rhoades, Lisa Jo (Sc 858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Rhoades, Lisa Jo (Sc 858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 858. Paper titled “World War II: World Events, The United States…,” written by Lisa Jo Rhoades for a Western Kentucky University U.S. history class in November 1990. Based on Harry Young’s experiences in France and Germany, 1944-1945, the paper includes photocopies of six photographs and two maps.

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Adairville Methodist Episcopal Sunday School - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 823), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Adairville Methodist Episcopal Sunday School - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 823), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 823. Record book of the Adairville Methodist Episcopal Sunday School, Logan County, Kentucky, 1886-1888. Volume includes Adairville Lodge Number 301 of the Independent Order of the Good Templar minutes, November 1884 to September 1885 and related records.

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Oliver, James Earl (Sc 874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Oliver, James Earl (Sc 874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 874. Letters, 1967 (12), written chiefly by Private James Earl Oliver from Fort Polk, Louisiana, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to his wife Elizabeth, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He describes his day-to-day military life.

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Hinton, Merri Lynne (Sc 852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Hinton, Merri Lynne (Sc 852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 852. Paper titled “A Story about John Hunt: World War II Kentucky Veteran” written by Merri Lynne Hinton for a Western Kentucky University United States history class, November 1990. Based on interviews with Hunt of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

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Poteet, Penny Lynne, B. 1971 (Sc 847), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Poteet, Penny Lynne, B. 1971 (Sc 847), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 847. Research paper written by Penny Lynne Poteet for a United States history class at Western Kentucky University in 1990 titled,” The Great Depression: A Recollection of the Past” based on an interview with her grandfather, Samuel Junior Poteet.

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Barrow, Merrill Alan, B. 1953? (Sc 863), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Barrow, Merrill Alan, B. 1953? (Sc 863), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 863. Paper titled “George Freas: Portrait of a Soldier,” written by Merrill Alan Barrow for a Western Kentucky University United States history class in November 1990. Freas, a native of Simpson County, served as a United States Army bomber pilot, parachuted from his plane in the Marne Forest, March 1945, and attempted to escape via the French Underground, but was captured and imprisoned until May 1945.

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