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Johnson, Arthur Lyle, 1900-1938 (Sc 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Johnson, Arthur Lyle, 1900-1938 (Sc 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 492. Deed, 9 July 1932, of land in Warren County, Kentucky, between Arthur and Bessie Johnson of Kansas City, Missouri and Georgia Johnson of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Griffith, Josh T., 1861-1939 (Sc 2557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Griffith, Josh T., 1861-1939 (Sc 2557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2557. Form letter, 24 March 1903, from Josh T. Griffith, Clerk of the Daviess County (Kentucky) Court, setting out his credentials and seeking support for the Democratic nomination for State Treasurer.

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Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 484. An autographed letter to Mr. Blodgett stating that he never saves his manuscripts, 6 March 1917, and a poem entitled “Silence,” 1 November.

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Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 488. Photocopy of paper entitled “Reminiscences of the Life and Teachings of Mary Kendall Jones while a Resident of this City,” written by a former student, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sometime during the period 1883-1887.

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Johnson, Calvin, 1770-1860 (Sc 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Johnson, Calvin, 1770-1860 (Sc 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 485. Deed, 1813, by which Richard Owings sold 122 acres in Warren County, Kentucky, to Calvin Johnson; and deed, 1851, by which Johnson sold 222 acres in Simpson County, Kentucky, to his son-in-law Henry May.

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Causey, Lewis Kenneth, 1904-1974 (Sc 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Causey, Lewis Kenneth, 1904-1974 (Sc 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan (click on "Additional Files") of speech for Manuscripts Small Collection 487. Speech given by Lewis Kenneth Causey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled "Historical Review of the Bowling Green-Warren County Airport," covering the years 1932 to 1970. Also copy of original, with notations, done by son Robert Causey in 2001.

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United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 481. Charter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Bowling Green Chapter No.194 with a list of the charter members and signed by Katie Cabell Currie, President, and Mrs. John P. Hickman, Secretary.

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Carpenter, Samuel, 1824-1900 (Sc 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Carpenter, Samuel, 1824-1900 (Sc 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 480. Certificate of appointment for Samuel Carpenter as Circuit Judge of the 13th Kentucky Judicial District in place of John W. Helm, who refused to serve. Signed by William Owsley, Governor of Kentucky. Endorsed on back by J. Wood Wilson, Justice of the Peace, Nelson County.

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Goodman, John Jacob, 1784-1880 (Sc 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Goodman, John Jacob, 1784-1880 (Sc 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 483. Certificate of (John) Jacob Goodman’s appointment as Postmaster at Hughes, Monroe County, Kentucky. Signed by W. T. Barry, Postmaster General.

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Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 476. Letters, 1926-1952 (3), sermons and speeches (15), commencement program, 1913, memo books, 1920-1923 (2) of Baxter W. Napier, Sr., Methodist minister, 1882(?)-1971; Masonic tribute and receipt, 1895 (2) of I. S. Napier; and miscellaneous items, 1842, 1951 (8).

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Young Family Papers (Sc 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Young Family Papers (Sc 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 475. Receipt for tobacco transportation, 1817, and diary of river trip from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Natchez, Mississippi, March 14 – April 13, 1817; newspaper article about western travels by father and son, 1850 & 1940, August 29, 1940; and genealogy of
George C. Young family, Barren County (original).

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Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 477. Minute book of the Building Committee of the Reformed Church [Christian], Danville, Kentucky. Fire destroyed the building on 22 February 1860, and the minutes detail an account of the transactions, contributions, and expenses incurred in rebuilding.

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Whitlow, Ruth, 1886-1962 (Sc 2556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Whitlow, Ruth, 1886-1962 (Sc 2556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2556. Notebook of Ruth Whitlow, kept while she was a student at Vanderbilt Training School, containing translations of the Roman poet Virgil.

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Thomas, Walter (Sc 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Thomas, Walter (Sc 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 479. Certificate of appointment for Walter Thomas as Coroner of Warren County, 1812, and certificate of appointment as Justice of the Peace in Warren County, 1814. Both certificates are signed by Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky.

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Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Sc 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Sc 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 478. Photocopy of account book of John Hines, a general merchant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The original account book covered from 1828 to 1835, but was so fragile only a portion was
photocopied.

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Rowan Family Papers (Mss 418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Rowan Family Papers (Mss 418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 418. Correspondence and papers of Kentucky lawyer and politician John Rowan, Sr., and relatives in the Rowan, Lytle, Steele, Boone and Buchanan families. Several letters have been typescripted and can be viewed here (click on "Additional Files" below).

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Morton & Griswold - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Morton & Griswold - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 470. Statement from Morton & Griswold, booksellers and publishers, of Louisville, Kentucky, to Hinch & McDaniel for books and associated supplies.

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Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 157. This collection includes cassette tapes of interviews with eight women used as research for Jimmy D. Browning’s paper “A Tie That Binds: Contemporary Funeral Foodways In A Rural, Central Kentucky Community.” Two copies of the paper are also included in the collection.

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Harding, M. (Mrs. John) (Sc 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Harding, M. (Mrs. John) (Sc 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 467. Letter, 22 June 1838, from Mrs. John Harding, Audley, England, addressed to her father, Mr. Dicken, Hat Manufacturer, Birks Villa (Burkesville), Cumberland County, Kentucky, containing family news, discussion of economic conditions, and preparations being made for the coronation of Queen Victoria.

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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 463. Photocopy of letter written by Robert Penn Warren, from France, to Addie Hochstrasser, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling her request for an inscription of his to place in a copy of his biography of Theodore Dreiser.

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Autographs (Sc 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Autographs (Sc 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 460. Photostat of signatures of prominent early Kentuckians, found in the records of Nelson County, Kentucky. Names have been dated and clipped from documents and pasted on a single sheet.

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Schickel, Joseph Herman, 1913-1992 (Mss 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Schickel, Joseph Herman, 1913-1992 (Mss 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 416. This collection contains Dr. Joseph Schickel’s personal papers and files. The majority of the collection regards Dr. Schickel’s medical practice in Burkesville, Kentucky, and his extensive community work throughout Cumberland County, Kentucky.

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Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 455. Emancipation agreement made between Thomas McClean and the trustees of the United Society of Shakers, South Union, Kentucky, regarding the manumission of a black family (Joseph, Chloe, and George).

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Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 162. This collection contains a paper entitled “Going Hog Wild in Logan County,” about William Warren Morton Sr. and his work in the swine industry. This paper was written by Samantha Pillar as a part of a class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1994. Several photocopied images are included in the paper.

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Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 161. This collection contains a master’s thesis entitled “Hillbilly Music and Early Live Radio Programming In Bowling Green and Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon,” written by James Nelson in January 1994 for the department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Western Kentucky University. Also included is a cassette tape of old-time music from south central Kentucky entitled “Railroad Through the Smoky Mountains,” by Jim Bowles, as well as an obituary for Jonell F. Simunick.

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Harbison, Robert Glen (Fa 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Harbison, Robert Glen (Fa 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 160. This collection contains a paper entitled “The Strange Little Stone House: The History Of The Underwood Home – 1529 State Street,” written by Robert Harbison as a part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1992. Also included is a Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory sheet detailing the Underwood Home.

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Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 414. Photocopies of Baptist minister Jacob Tol Miller’s original journal, as well as an annotated typescript. The journal details many aspects of a minister’s life during the period of camp meeting revivalism in the antebellum west from 1856-1887.

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Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 453. Letter, 9 February 1868, from Howell and John Edmonds, South Union, Kentucky, to their parents, in Tennessee, regarding their welfare. Howell and John were both enrolled at the school at South Union. Also a note informing the parents of the death of John, age 15, of spotted fever.

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Lotteries - Kentucky - Research Notes (Sc 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Lotteries - Kentucky - Research Notes (Sc 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 450. Notes about local lottery grants in Kentucky and general lottery laws of Kentucky copied from notes of Colonel Reuben Thomas Durrett, first president of the Filson Club. Originals in the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 454. Four letters from Franz Joseph Strahm, professor of music, Western Kentucky University, and his secretary to Virginia Helm regarding concerts, piano lessons, and musical compositions. Also one from Alice Strahm in 1950, and a photograph of Strahm at the piano.

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