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York, George D., B. 1876 (Sc 2572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2572. Manuscripts for a short book titled “Sweet Memories of Long Ago” written by Sergeant George D. York, Hartford, Kentucky. The book is based on real occurrences and memories at West Kentucky College, South Carrollton, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. York describes the town and its inhabitants in this story.

Interview With Pearl Perguson Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Pearl Perguson conducted by Kevin Eans for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Perguson discusses her life and times, including information about social life and reactions to national events in the small town of Horse Branch, Ohio County, Kentucky.

Smith, Leslie Shively, 1908-1997 (Sc 2568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2568. Paper titled “An Abridged History of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky,” written by Leslie Shively Smith on 12 July 1962. This paper was written for a history class at Western Kentucky State College, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Wilson, John B., 1861-1943 (Sc 2571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2571. Letter from John B. Wilson, Hartford, Kentucky to Mary Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, enclosing an article he wrote, titled “Lest We Forget”. This article covers the early settlement of Ohio County, including its early buildings, churches, and roadways. Also included is an article written by Wilson, titled “Fort Hartford”, concerning the settlement of Fort Hartford in Ohio County and complications with land titles.

Board Of Trustees - Bardstown, Kentucky (Sc 2567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2567. Bound copy of the Board of Trustees record from Bardstown, Kentucky from 1782-1826. Copied from original papers by Sisters of Nazareth, Nazareth, Kentucky.

Fox, John William, Jr., 1862-1919 (Sc 2600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2600. Bound volume of letters chiefly from John W. Fox, Jr., New York City, to Micajah Fible, Louisville, Kentucky. Fox writes of topics including his career in journalism and mutual friends.

Mccullock, Sue R. (Sc 2566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2566. Bound copy of “History of Owensboro, Kentucky,” compiled by Sue R. McCullock. This history includes the early settlement of Daviess County, important citizens, industry, organizations, and general information about Owensboro in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Miller, Harold Asher, B. 1939 (Sc 2564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2564. Letter of Harold A. Miller, Mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Frances Jones Mills, Kentucky Secretary of State, providing statutorily required information about the City of Bowling Green, namely its incorporation date (1812), its present classification as a Second Class city, and its present boundaries (detailed on a map which is not included). The date of incorporation presumably references Laws of Kentucky 1811, ch. 308 (approved 6 January 1812), which directed the town’s free white male inhabitants to assemble on the first Saturday in May 1812 …

Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Sc 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 17. Receipt stating that John Hines’ account has been paid in full, 1814; deed for land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky; which Hines bought from Thomas Anderson, 1826; and undated statement signed by James Patterson attesting to Hines’ ownership of a slave.

Denason, Benjamin & Zachariah Denason (Sc 18), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 18. A page, probably from a docket book, which relates to the collection of a debt owed to Samuel Doyle by the Denasons of Edmonson County, Kentucky.

Homemakers Club - Metcalfe County, Kentucky (Sc 2562), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2562. Manuscript paper titled “History of Metcalfe County” compiled by the Homemakers Club and presented by Virginia Depp, Summer Shade, Kentucky, on 6 November 1950. The paper includes historical information about the towns in Metcalfe County, including Center, Sulphur Well, Knob Lick, Wisdom, Edmonton, Curtis, and Summer Shade. Also includes information about Crail Hope, Green County, Kentucky.

County Clerk - Edmonson County, Kentucky (Sc 2563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2563. Typescript copy (2 pages) of selected abstracts from sundry documents found in the Edmonson County Clerk’s office which explains the establishment of county government including those proffering bonds for elected positions such as sheriff, justices of the peace, etc. (1825). Also includes information about early land transactions, building projects, licenses granted, and information about the emancipation of a slave. Collected by John B. Rodes.

Thomas, Frank Morehead, 1868-1921 (Sc 500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 500. Paper written by Frank Morehead Thomas in 1898 titled "The Early Exploration of Warren County, Kentucky."

Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 710. Manuscript book of 30 poems written by Dr. Lewis H. Averitt physician of Caledonia, Trigg County, Kentucky, between 1840-1872. Several of the poems are about the Whig Party in Kentucky, 1842-1843.

Daughters Of America - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 499. Officers’ bonds of Val Frey as trustee and William Breitenstein as recording secretary of Banner Council, No. 7, Daughters of America, Louisville, Kentucky.

Trago, Vincent T., 1838-1880 (Sc 2500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2500. Letter, 26 February [1862], from Vincent T. Trago, a Union soldier serving with an Ohio regiment, to Milton W. Griffith. Camped on the Barren River outside Bowling Green, Kentucky following its evacuation by the Confederates, Trago describes marching toward the town, being greeted by local women, Confederate positions in the region, and disciplinary action against the troops for misconduct.

Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 60. Correspondence of Thomas V. Ferrell, teacher and businessman, and of his wife, Winnie (58 items), and of their daughter Thelma (94 items), of Somerset, Kentucky; Ferrell family legal papers (7 items); notes of Thelma, who worked for the Somerset Journal for years; and miscellaneous receipts, clippings, etc.

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 410. Materials relating to Duncan Hines and the marketing of the “Duncan Hines” brand of food products. Includes obituary notices for Duncan Hines, ice cream franchise agreement, stock certificate books for related companies, and a study on marketing the brand to consumers, especially women.

Handy, Eldon Riley, 1902-1962 (Sc 705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 705. Correspondence of Eldon Riley Handy (who played with a riverboat band) of Anderson, Indiana, with riverboat acquaintances, 1950-1962 (6 items); a riverboat skit; steamboat tickets, 1938-1946 (4); and related miscellaneous items (3).

Bowling Green Railway Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 703. Records from Warren County Circuit Court Case #2043 pertaining to a lawsuit filed against the Bowling Green Railway Company after a thirteen-year-old boy, Herman Lewis, died on 31 October 1910 when a street railway car ran over him.

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Bowling Green Thespian Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 701. A manuscript broadside advertising a melodrama and an opera that was to be presented at the store of Vaughn & Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Saturday night, 9 March 1833. The list of actors in the productions were local people.

Richardson, Samuel Bainbridge, 1803-1864 (Sc 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 707. Account book, 1848-1859, of a physician at Louisville Kentucky, which contains records, accounts and occupations of patients; a letter regarding debts owed to the doctor, 1855; a photographic negative of one page of the account book, 1850; and a newspaper article about the account book, 1951.

Buell, Don Carlos, 1818-1898 (Sc 709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 709. Photocopies of letters of Don Carlos Buell, who was living in Louisville, Kentucky, written to Joseph and Henry Fox, Paradise, Kentucky, in regard to the management of Buell’s property in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

J. H. Bell Tobacco Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 702. Account book of the J. H. Bell Tobacco Company, Owensboro, Kentucky, which lists amounts paid to employees.

Valentine & Shower - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 706. Two account books, 1851-1855, of tailors Valentine and Shower, at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky. Also included is a letter from John L. Shower asking about auctioning a surplus of goods in Gallatin, Tennessee.

Warren County, Kentucky Court Records - Civil War Indictments (Mss 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 412. Criminal and Equity Court, and Circuit Court records of Warren County, Kentucky relating to the prosecution of Confederate soldiers and sympathizers for conspiracy, treason, theft and property destruction in Bowling Green, Kentucky during the Civil War.

Coles Warehouse - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 493. Receipt from Coles Warehouse, Big Barren River, to the executors of Henry Worthall, for tobacco received. Signed by John Cole and George Russell as inspectors.

B. Douglass And Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 497. Business letter, Louisville, Kentucky to customer of B. Douglass & Co., a mercantile agency, asking for information which will help the agency serve the merchants more efficiently.

Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 - Collector (Sc 490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 490. Butler County tax receipts, 1887, 1890 (2); Presbyterial treasurer’s receipts of Concord Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Logan Presbytery, 1899, 1901 (2); and postcard relating that Kentucky Synod will meet in Madisonville instead of Greenville due to an epidemic in Greenville, 17 September 1900.

Cornette, Elmer (Sc 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 491. Typed copy of biographical sketches of Albert and Charles Wing of Greenville, Kentucky, written by Elmer Cornette, and a letter to Elizabeth Coombs of the Kentucky Library.