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Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 515. Letter, 17 January 1926, from Cale Young Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to Mrs. Grayot? giving permission to reprint some of his poetry in the magazine "The Club Woman." Also includes some of his comments concerning poetry.

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Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text of diary (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 517. Photocopy of a typescript diary kept by David Barrow, a pioneer Baptist minister, during his trip to Kentucky and the Northwest Territory of Ohio. He visited family members, often preached at religious gatherings, and observed peace negotiations between the United States and various Indian tribes at Fort Greenville. Beginning in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, he traveled through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, the Northwest Territory, Eastern Tennessee, and North Carolina, before returning to his home in Virginia.

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Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2585. Teacher’s register and gradebook of Nell Bohannon Carter, believed to be from a Smiths Grove, Kentucky or Barren County, Kentucky school. Includes absence note from the mother of a student.

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Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 166. Project titled “African American education in south central Kentucky, 1920-1960.” Interviews with twenty-nine African Americans regarding their experiences as students and teachers in fourteen Kentucky counties.

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Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 431. Sundry items from Lillian Iona Tynes’s childhood and adolescence in Russellville, Kentucky, including greeting and holiday cards, correspondence, diaries, report cards, programs from school functions, news clippings, church programs, and more.

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Grave Robbing In Lexington And Elsewhere, Charles T. Ambrose Oct 2012

Grave Robbing In Lexington And Elsewhere, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

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Owens, Philip, 1925-1944 (Sc 2614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Owens, Philip, 1925-1944 (Sc 2614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2614. Two letters from Philip Owens, of Russell Springs, Kentucky, to his sisters, written during Owens’ Army service in World War II. He comments on a rigorous march, warns about mail censorship, and asks them to keep his mother from worrying. Includes typescripts of the letters and of local newspaper articles published after Owens was killed in action in Germany.

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Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 511. Autograph album covering the period that Gardner was a student at Southern Normal School and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also, copy of 1962 newspaper interview with the 97 year old Gardner.

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Wade, Frances Ann, 1927-2008 (Sc 2599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Wade, Frances Ann, 1927-2008 (Sc 2599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2599. World War II letters to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, teenager Frances Ann Wade from James T. Smith and David W. Kerr. Smith, a Kentuckian serving in the Navy, writes about his training in Vermont and his service in the Pacific. Kerr, a soldier from Ohio, writes from nearby Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and from France after his deployment. The letters describe their daily activities and reveal their plans for the future.

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Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers (Mss 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers (Mss 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and images (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 66. Original, bound folio hotel registers and bound typescript copies of the same for the Mammoth Cave Hotel, located near the famed subterranean tourist attraction in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Entries include the name and hometown of the visitor as well as the date. One wag signed in as Abraham Lincoln on 30 May 1863.

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Eads, Harvey Lauderdale, 1807-1892 (Sc 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Eads, Harvey Lauderdale, 1807-1892 (Sc 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 741. Holograph inscription by Harvey Lauderdale Eads to Thomas C. Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in a copy of Condition of Society; and Its Only Hope, In Obeying the Everlasting Gospel, as Now Developing Among Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Union Village, Ohio, 1847).

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Peers, Benjamin Orr, 1800-1842 (Sc 2618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Peers, Benjamin Orr, 1800-1842 (Sc 2618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2618. Typescript copy of letter, 20 December 1833, from Transylvania University president Benjamin O. Peers, Lexington, Kentucky, to the Board of Trustees regarding additional appointments to the University.

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Warren County, Kentucky - Maps (Sc 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Warren County, Kentucky - Maps (Sc 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 732. Original holographic maps of the towns of Jeffersonville, 1805? and Bowling Green, 1807, in Warren County, Kentucky. Also holographic copies of early plans of Bowling Green, n.d., and of an order which designates prison bounds for the county, 1814.

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Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 731. Letter concerning a debt owed to the Shakers, 1839; indenture binding Eli McLean to teach the spinning trade to Eliza Janes, age 12, 1842; and letters pertaining to the Shakers' seed trade, 1861, 1878.

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Youngs, Benjamin Seth, 1774-1855 (Sc 730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Youngs, Benjamin Seth, 1774-1855 (Sc 730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small collection 730. Copies of a letter written by Benjamin Seth Youngs, South Union, Kentucky to the Ministry, New Lebanon, New York, concerning the design and construction of buildings at South Union.

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Sandidge, Hattie Mcmillan (Williams), 1876-1942 (Sc 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Sandidge, Hattie Mcmillan (Williams), 1876-1942 (Sc 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 742. Typescript of 1941 letter written by Hattie McMillan (Williams) Sandidge, Burkesville, Kentucky, to school friend Bessie McMillan (whose father, J. P. McMillan, was president of Alexander College in Burkesville), reminiscing and relating information about Burkesville and mutual friends.

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Kennedy, Jesse, 1787-1863 (Sc 744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Kennedy, Jesse, 1787-1863 (Sc 744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 744. Letter, 3 September 1837, from Jesse Kennedy, Bourbon County, Kentucky, to brother-in-law George Waugh of Cabell County, Virginia, after the death of Kennedy’s first wife. He writes of his children, servants, and other relatives. Kennedy was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.

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Johnson, Sylvanus, 1779-1856 (Sc 34), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Johnson, Sylvanus, 1779-1856 (Sc 34), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) . for Manuscripts Small Collection 34. Letter written by Sy Johnson, Mount Pinia, Edmonson County, Kentucky, to John H. White, Warren County, Kentucky concerning the hiring of slaves.

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Miller, John Goodrum, Sr., 1853-1936 (Sc 2613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Miller, John Goodrum, Sr., 1853-1936 (Sc 2613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2613. Bound typescript volume of the “Memoirs of John Goodrum Miller” which details Miller’s relocation to Murray, Kentucky to practice law. Also includes commentary about the history of Kentucky, particularly the Pennyrile region. He relates historical events that impacted his life and his opinions on a variety of topics.

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Lafferty, Maude (Ward), 1869-1962 (Sc 2616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Lafferty, Maude (Ward), 1869-1962 (Sc 2616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2616. Typescript copies of "A Brief Sketch of Rafinesque and the Transylvania Botanic Garden" and the "Journal of Samuel Constantine Ranfiesque," by Maud (Ward) Lafferty, Lexington, Kentucky.

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Stubblefield, Nathan Bowman, 1860-1928 (Sc 2636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Stubblefield, Nathan Bowman, 1860-1928 (Sc 2636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2636. Ledger for a grocery run by Nathan Bowman Stubblefield, Murray, Kentucky, which includes brief information related to the Stubblefield Wireless Telephone Company, 1904-1907. Also includes a letter and clipping providing background on Stubblefield.

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Donan, John Gillaspy, 1826-1905 (Sc 740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Donan, John Gillaspy, 1826-1905 (Sc 740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 740. Mexican War letter of John Gillaspy Donan, Barren County, Kentucky, to his brother, Fountain, 29 December 1847 from Jalapa regarding conditions in Mexico, morale, yellow fever, etc. Also Mustering-Out List of Co. K, 4th Regiment Kentucky Foot Volunteers, and Mason’s Diploma, 13 October 1847.

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O'Hara Records (Sc 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

O'Hara Records (Sc 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of selected items (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 735. Shipping records book evidently kept by R. R. O’Hara and Son or Gracey & O’Hara, commission merchants, Eddyville, Kentucky, and two advertisements of the firms. The bills of lading concern goods shipped from Eddyville and include information as to shipper, destination, name of steamboat carrying goods, etc.

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Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 739. An invitation to a centennial party for the Adelphian Society on 26 February 1886 at the home of J.D. Hines, Circuit Clerk, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Tunks, Floyd Mckinley, 1896?-1959 (Sc 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Tunks, Floyd Mckinley, 1896?-1959 (Sc 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 729. Livestock receipts (2) of Floyd McKinley Tunks, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, from Montgomery and Company, livestock dealers, Louisville, Kentucky, listing prices paid for cattle sold for Tunks.

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Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of one document only (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 734. Minutes kept by the Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee composed of ladies' auxiliaries from the Kentucky counties of Logan, Simpson and Warren.

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Mammoth Cave - Deeds (Sc 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Mammoth Cave - Deeds (Sc 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 733. Photocopies of Warren County, Kentucky, deeds, 1799-1814, pertaining to Mammoth Cave, beginning with the original 200 acres entered by Valentine Simon by virtue of a Commissioner’s Certificate.

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Blackburn, William, 1808-1870 (Sc 32), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Blackburn, William, 1808-1870 (Sc 32), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 32. Letter written by William and Jane Blackburn, Allen County, Kentucky, to their brother and sister, Mr. & Mrs. A.D. Billingsley, Ladoga, Indiana, concerning family news, the local political situation and the growth, trade and export of tobacco.

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Harrodsburg, Kentucky - Petition (Sc 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Harrodsburg, Kentucky - Petition (Sc 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 30. Petition, containing signatures of several citizens, for the sinking of a cistern in the public square of Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky.

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