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Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 382. Correspondence, account books, receipts, sermons, drawings, and diaries of the Venable family of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, chiefly John Wesley Venable, Sr. and his wife Fannie and son John, Jr. Of particular interest is an 1839-1839 travel journal kept by John, Sr. while in Florida. Also includes John, Sr.’s sermons and sermon preparation material as well as thirty-nine small diaries documenting his career as an Episcopal priest in Versailles and Hopkinsville. Includes one of John, Sr.’s art sketch books.

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Shakers (Sc 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Shakers (Sc 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 358. Typed copy of letter written by Urban E. Johns, South Union, Kentucky, to Honorable McLean, Washington, D.C., regarding sheep husbandry in Logan County and South Union; a hymn (with words and music); reward certificates given to deserving pupils by teachers; and a list of members of the Brick House and the Square House, Union Village, Ohio, during the 1837-1867 period.

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Petition - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Petition - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 295. Petition signed by taxpayers in Bowling Green, Kentucky, requesting the Board of Trustees to construct a needed footway near the market house.

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Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 357. Letters and postcard, 1893-1922 (3); words (2) and words and music to Shaker hymns (3); undated receipts (3); and notes about the Shakers compiled by Pauline Smith, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for a speech.

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Maxey, John (Sc 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Maxey, John (Sc 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 293. Account book, 1837-1848, of lumber accounts, and lists of employees’ work and pay, by wages and goods, in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky.

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Account Book (Sc 291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Account Book (Sc 291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 291. Account book of a general merchant, probably of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Shakers (Sc 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Shakers (Sc 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 356. Letters, 1834-1851 (6), of the Shakers, chiefly of South Union, Kentucky, concerning the seed industry, religious affairs, economic conditions, wagon blueprint, etc., and receipts, 1868, 1870 (2).

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Rochester Graded Common School - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Rochester Graded Common School - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 292. Minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Rochester Graded Common School, Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky, 1915-1934, at which time the Rochester district was combined with the Butler County school system. Includes miscellaneous items pertaining to the school and the merger.

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Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 355. An incident related by Margie Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding her grandfather, Churchill H. Blakey, and the boyhood experience he had while selling Bibles in Logan County, Kentucky, with friends, David Morton and Eckstein (Ex) Norton.

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Davis, Courtney Hogan (Fa 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Davis, Courtney Hogan (Fa 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 64. [Lone Oak Restaurant] This collection documents the building, food, and owners of the Lone Oak Restaurant found on Old Scottsville Road in southern Warren County. The informant also describes the establishment’s history and future. This project was completed by Courtney Hogan Davis for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Cox, Linda Walker (Fa 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Cox, Linda Walker (Fa 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 63. “Is This A Playback?” A project documenting bluegrass, country, and gospel music being performed at Ray Walker’s Allen County home. Music was collected during a session with several participating musicians. The items were collected by Linda Cox for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Welch, Johnny Earl (Fa 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Welch, Johnny Earl (Fa 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 60. Paper: “The Mysterious Death of Jack Brown,” written by Johnny Earl Welch for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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

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

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Ferguson, W. H. (Sc 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Ferguson, W. H. (Sc 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 354. Photocopy of Ferguson’s note, deposited in the post of a portico then under construction at a house on South Cherry Street, Greenville, Kentucky. It lists his various landlords in Greenville and notes the names of some engaged couples as well as some young ladies he calls his “heart’s treasures.” Also included is information about the construction of the house.

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Minute Books - Sunday Schools (Sc 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Minute Books - Sunday Schools (Sc 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 350. Book of the recording secretaries for Salem Baptist Sunday School, 1856-1857, and for Lebanon Baptist Sunday School, 1859-1862, both of Butler County, Kentucky.

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Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 352. Agreement to teach school, 1829; Civil War letter written from camp near Corinth, Mississippi, 1862; manuscript book which contains record of John F. Hines’ estate of which Hay was administrator, 1859 – noted is commissioner’s fee for selling slave, 1861, and writings of Rebecca Hay Gray on various subjects—spiritualism, religion, friendship, etc., and recipes, 1876-1881.

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Morehead House Hotel - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Morehead House Hotel - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 390. Hotel registers (9) from the final years of the Morehead House Hotel, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Morehead House was one of the city's oldest and longest running hostelries.

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Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 - Relating To (Sc 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 - Relating To (Sc 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 255. Photocopies of a notarized statement and two letters concerning the site where the Thomas Lincoln family crossed the Ohio River in 1816 from Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, to Indiana. Also, information related to plans to survey the Lincoln Trail.

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Bowdon, Travis, 1773-1862 (Sc 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Bowdon, Travis, 1773-1862 (Sc 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 256. Document by which a thirteen-year-old African-American enslaved girl was deeded by Travis Bowdon, Graves County, Kentucky, to his granddaughter, Julian Jones and her husband, Robert. Signature of John Anderson, first clerk of Graves County, is on the deed.

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Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 260. Three letters of Joseph I. Younglove, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brothers, David and James, and sister, Jane, New York state, relating news of his drugstore, of his upcoming marriage to Sarah Morehead, and the effect of the Civil War on conditions in Bowling Green; a candy order for the drugstore, 1847; and a certificate attesting to his business integrity, presented by the Merchants Protective Association.

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Bullitt County, Kentucky (Sc 259), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Bullitt County, Kentucky (Sc 259), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 259. Photocopy of a post note issued by the Bank of Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky, to J. Gore, 1819, for $5.00; photocopy of ledger pages detailing the salt made and sold by John Graham, 1 January 1824 to 1 January 1825, at the furnaces of Joseph A. Brooks, Bullitt County.

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Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Fa 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Fa 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 55. “Those Old Calliopes,” a paper and interview by Dianne Watkins executed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes recording of calliopes and other related materials.

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Peterson, Susan (Fa 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Peterson, Susan (Fa 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 54. "The Witch of Railton, Barren County, Kentucky," a paper written for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Little, Roger A. (Fa 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Little, Roger A. (Fa 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 56. Paper: "Urban Legends," written by Roger A. Little for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 53. “A History of the Logan County Tobacco Festival” Paper written about an annual festival celebrating tobacco culture held in Russellville, Kentucky. Paper was written for a history class at Western Kentucky University.

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Mcreynolds Store (Sc 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Mcreynolds Store (Sc 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 290. Account book, 1883-1888, of a general store at Lewisburg, Logan County, Kentucky. Some pages have been used as a scrapbook and include clippings of poems and essays, and colored cards.

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Fairleigh Family Papers (Sc 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Fairleigh Family Papers (Sc 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 349. Class book, 1839-1844, of the Methodist Church, Brandenburg, Kentucky, containing membership list, 1843-44, and some notations of contributions. Also, it contains law and minutes of the Belles Lettres Society, 1849-1850, and of the Union Debating Society, October 1852. The book was kept by Thomas Fairleigh and other Fairleigh family members.

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Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 385. Letters written chiefly by Herman Frederick Wilhelm Volkerding, of Louisville, Kentucky, to his wife Mary Elizabeth (Hauber) Volkerding while traveling as a salesman for the John T. Barbee distillers. Volkerding pines for home and describes the scenery, hotels, amusements and rail travel in the western United States.

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Beech Grove, Kentucky - Records (Sc 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Beech Grove, Kentucky - Records (Sc 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 348. Letters, legal papers, and receipts, 1902-1916 (52), of Beech Grove, McLean County, Kentucky; and journal containing the town’s ordinances, 1894-1901, minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1894-1901, accounts received and expended, and listing of road hands, 1895.

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Southern Normal School And Business College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Southern Normal School And Business College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 253. Unsigned letter written 7 June 1885 on the stationery of the Southern Normal School and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Joe E. Rudolph, Hazelwood, Ballard County, Kentucky, relating students’ activities while the writer was enrolled in the college.

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