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Shannon Family Letters, 1784-1968 (Sc 563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Shannon Family Letters, 1784-1968 (Sc 563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 563. Three letters, 1784-1788, of Samuel and Jean Shannon, English’s Station, in what is now Lincoln County, Kentucky, and Nashville County, North Carolina, to son, Thomas, in Montgomery County, Virginia. The letters comment on travel difficulties, Native Americans, and the health of family members. Also Includes two letters giving Shannon family genealogy.

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Dillard, Lewis (Sc 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Dillard, Lewis (Sc 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 282. Photostat of letter, 3 November 1822, written by Lewis Dillard, editor of The Backwoodsman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to U.S. Secretary of State John Q. Adams soliciting an appointment as a public printer of Kentucky. Dillard objects to other patronage appointments and contrasts his paper favorably with the (Russellville, Kentucky) Weekly Messenger. Original in National Archives.

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Furman, Lucy Salome, 1869-1958 (Sc 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Furman, Lucy Salome, 1869-1958 (Sc 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 564. Chiefly letters, 1914-1938, written by Lucy Furman, author and educator, who taught and worked at Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, Knott County, Kentucky. Twenty-one of the letters, to Julia Neal, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, are collected in a separate subfolder. Miss Neal wrote her 1933 master’s thesis on Miss Furman. Also includes other letters and printed materials used in Miss Neal’s thesis.

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Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 239. Letter written by Alben Barkley, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, to J. Marion Robertson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing his gratitude for Robertson’s work in Warren County during the recent primary election.

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Pusey, William Allen, 1865-1940 (Sc 238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Pusey, William Allen, 1865-1940 (Sc 238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 238. Chiefly letters from Dr. William Pusey’s widow to Mary T. Moore, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, related to Dr. Pusey’s published works. Includes typescripts of letters commenting on Dr. Pusey’s efforts to prevent the spread of venereal diseases during World War I.

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Bush Family Papers (Sc 2495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Bush Family Papers (Sc 2495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2495. Correspondence, pedigree charts and sundry other items relating to the Bush family genealogy, particularly members from Barren County, Kentucky.

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Jenkins, Greg (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Jenkins, Greg (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 33. [Prison ministry] Interviews conducted with Overt Ray Rich by Greg Jenkins about his work with prison ministries for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky Univeristy. Contains index, tape summary, transcirpts, comments.

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Gilbert, Mary C. (Sc 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Gilbert, Mary C. (Sc 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 339. Letter written by Mary Gilbert, Binghamton, New York, to fellow poet, Lima Canon, Bowling Green, Kentucky, complimenting her writings and informing her of a new poetry group organization.

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Henry Clay Memorial Foundation (Sc 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Henry Clay Memorial Foundation (Sc 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 341. Letter written by Raymond F. McLain, Lexington, Kentucky, to Marvin Moorman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning the Henry Clay Foundation and its program involving Ashland, Clay’s Lexington home. Foundation members are listed, and there is a related letter of Moorman.

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Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2494. Letter, 15 March 1874, written from Hopkinsville, Kentucky by “Abby L.” to “Annie,” possibly her sister. In addition to various witty observations and gossip, she supplies news on her health and disposition and comments about the family members with whom she is staying.

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Lehman, George, 1812-1889 (Sc 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Lehman, George, 1812-1889 (Sc 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 338. Typescript of legal brief of Congressional Case No. 2310, which concerns Civil War claims of George Lehman of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Application was originally filed 18 August 1871 and resume of case was dated 30 June 1888.

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Paxton, Garland, B. 1919 (Sc 2493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Paxton, Garland, B. 1919 (Sc 2493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collecction 2493. Documents relating to Garland Paxton’s military service in the U.S. Army’s 319th Infantry Regiment during World War II.

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Whites, Pierce Butler (Fa 32), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Whites, Pierce Butler (Fa 32), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 32. Contemporary marijuana cultivation andusage: interviews and documents. Project completed by Pierce Butler Whites concerning illicit marijuana growth and construction of marijuana paraphernalia. Completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Contains transcriptions, tape logs, photographs and cassette tapes.

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Martin, Elbridge Gerry, 1834-1909 (Sc 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Martin, Elbridge Gerry, 1834-1909 (Sc 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 336. Legal papers – deeds mortgages, etc., of the Pulliam Family of Allen County, Kentucky, 1845-1851 (4) and of Mr. Martin of Allen and Barren Counties, 1875-1882 (3), and business papers, 1888-1893 (10), receipts, 1874-1893 (11), and small account books, 1880-1888 (9).

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Baker, L. Alleyne, 1858-1916 (Sc 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Baker, L. Alleyne, 1858-1916 (Sc 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 234. Two letters written to L. Alleyne Baker, a school teacher In Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky. An 1898 letter, from a cousin, contains family news; a 1907 letter pertains to educational matters. Also includes an undated essay by a female high school student entitled, “Woman’s Sphere.”

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Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company (Sc 231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company (Sc 231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 231. Letter, 24 May 1938, containing information about the proposed Cumberland & Ohio Railroad through Taylor County, Kentucky, which was never constructed. Also Cumberland & Ohio Railroad tax receipt, 31 July 1873.

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Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 236. Photocopies and typescript of 2 March 1862 letter written by Mrs. Josephine (Wells) Covington, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her father, Judge Robert William Wells of Missouri. She relates happenings in Bowling Green during its occupation and later evacuation by Confederate troops (18 September 1861-14 February 1862). Also includes information about Mrs. Covington and the Covington family. The original 2 March 1862 letter is housed at the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Mckinney, Collin, 1766-1861 (Sc 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Mckinney, Collin, 1766-1861 (Sc 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 232. Photocopy and typescript of dismissal in good standing of Collin McKinney and his wife, Betsy, from Hurricane Creek Meeting House, Baptist Church of God, Southern Kentucky Association of Separate Baptists, Casey County, Kentucky. Also includes photocopy of a picture of Collin McKinney and photocopy of a picture of his home in Texas.

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Davis, Jacob Weaver, 1819-1862 (Sc 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Davis, Jacob Weaver, 1819-1862 (Sc 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of letter (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 235. Photocopy of letter 11 April 1862 written by Jacob Weaver Davis, serving in the Union Army, to his brother, George, in McLean County, Kentucky, concerning the fighting at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. Also, 1969 letter from the donor giving information pertaining to Davis and the 1862 letter.

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Hodges, Jack Preston, Ii (Fa 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Hodges, Jack Preston, Ii (Fa 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 25. [Folklore material classified by genre] Information collected by Jack Hodges related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Woodson, Chip (Fa 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Woodson, Chip (Fa 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 27. [Folklore material classified by genre] Information collected by Chip Woodson related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Truman, Lee C., Jr. (Sc 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Truman, Lee C., Jr. (Sc 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 332. Photocopy of a speech titled “Telephone History—Bowling Green, Ky.,” which Lee C. Truman, Jr. delivered on 17 November 1970 at the Warren County Historical Society about telephone service in Bowling Green from 1880 to 1967.

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

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

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Anti-Slavery And Church Schism Among Protestants In Antebellum Central Kentucky, Lance Justin Hale Jan 2012

Anti-Slavery And Church Schism Among Protestants In Antebellum Central Kentucky, Lance Justin Hale

Online Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an examination of the effects of anti-slavery and church schism among Protestant Christians in the Bluegrass region of antebellum Kentucky. A variety of secondary and primary sources are utilized, including books and journal articles from current scholarship, journals kept by historical actors, books, letters, and articles, written during or some years after the time under consideration, as well as publications of churches and denominations. Throughout the antebellum years, churches and denominations in the United States fractured over disagreements on slavery and theology. Pastors, such as James Pendleton and Peter Cartwright, endeavored to keep Christianity vibrant and relevant …

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A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 2 From 1820 To 1846, William Erastus Arnold Jan 2012

A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 2 From 1820 To 1846, William Erastus Arnold

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.

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Autobiography Of John Wesley Hughes, John Wesley Hughes, Andrew Johnson Jan 2012

Autobiography Of John Wesley Hughes, John Wesley Hughes, Andrew Johnson

Heritage Material

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“The Pastime Of Millions”: James B. Haggin’S Elmendorf Farm And The Commercialization Of Pedigree Animal Breeding, 1897-1920, Amber Fogle Sergent Jan 2012

“The Pastime Of Millions”: James B. Haggin’S Elmendorf Farm And The Commercialization Of Pedigree Animal Breeding, 1897-1920, Amber Fogle Sergent

Theses and Dissertations--History

Called “The Pride of the Bluegrass,” Elmendorf Farm changed the style and substance of commercial pedigree breeding in early twentieth-century America. Between 1897 and 1914, James B. Haggin readily transformed the Kentucky farm first as a nationally preeminent horse stud, famous for its bloodlines and scales, and second as a premier dairy operation, exceptional for its sanitation, science, and size. Here rested the large-scale production of the world’s fanciest Thoroughbreds and finest milk. At the same time, Haggin’s farm reflected a lifestyle that has come to be celebrated and cherished as the ideal Kentucky landscape. A factory-style plant of large …

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A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 1 From 1783 To 1820, William Erastus Arnold Jan 2012

A History Of Methodism In Kentucky: Vol 1 From 1783 To 1820, William Erastus Arnold

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.

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Mcclister Family Papers (Sc 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2011

Mcclister Family Papers (Sc 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 330. Three photocopied letters of the McClister family of Adair County, Kentucky, which deal chiefly with family news.

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Crump, Malcolm Hart, 1849-1925 (Sc 331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2011

Crump, Malcolm Hart, 1849-1925 (Sc 331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 331. Letters, 1886-1889 (15), telegrams, 1886-1889 (9), and receipts, 1886-1889 (10), which relate to Crump’s activities as an officer in the Kentucky State Guard and to his interest in constructing the proposed Bowling Green and Northern Railroad.

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