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Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 213. Appointment of Thomas Freeman as sheriff of Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Christopher Greenup and Secretary of State John Rowan, 6 December 1804.

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Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 212.  Notary public commission of Gabriel Tandy, Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor John Adair and Secretary of State Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, 8 November 1821.  The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.

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Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 165. Materials related to education and teaching career of Harry Edgar Thompson. Includes commencement invitation and program of Southern Normal School, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1888; letters of recommendation, 1888-1893; Kentucky and Texas teaching certificates, 1885-1891; clippings; photographs; and autobiographical note, 1958, of Thompson, later a chiropractor in McPherson, Kansas.

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Farnsley, Alexander Pericles, 1832?-1906 (Sc 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Farnsley, Alexander Pericles, 1832?-1906 (Sc 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 208. Facsimiles of courtship letters from Alexander Farnsley, Louisville, Kentucky, to Mary E. E. Thurman, also of Louisville, and one of her replies. They both comment on the growing sectional feeling and the approaching Civil War. Also includes a 1962 newspaper article related to the letters, written by a Farnsley descendant.

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Richardson, Lewis George, 1829-1906 (Sc 207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Richardson, Lewis George, 1829-1906 (Sc 207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 207. Copy of 1 February 1852 letter from Lewis George Richardson, a medical student at the University of Louisville, to his father, Reverend George Richardson, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky. He writes of his schooling, the Louisville winter, and his prospects for the future. Also includes a biographical sketch of Dr. Richardson written by a grandchild.

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Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935 (Sc 2435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935 (Sc 2435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2435. Pre-printed check for a farewell offering, payable to evangelist William Ashley "Billy" Sunday and drawn on Kentucky Bank and Trust Company, Madisonville, Kentucky, 17 October 1928.

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Rust, Jacob Ward, 1819-1890 (Sc 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Rust, Jacob Ward, 1819-1890 (Sc 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 163. Account book, 1874-1877, for students of Bethel Female College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky; undated list of Bethel Female College students; and letters, 1882, to Jacob Ward Rust, president of the college.

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Holstein, Otto, 1883-1934 (Sc 2433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Holstein, Otto, 1883-1934 (Sc 2433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2433. Memorandum, 1 September 1917, to Brigade Commander of 1st Brigade, Kentucky Infantry from Otto Holstein, Captain, Signal Corps, and Provost Marshall of Lexington, Kentucky, reporting on an altercation between military police officers and African Americans. Includes a newspaper clipping about the incident.

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Sing, Sam (Sc 2342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Sing, Sam (Sc 2342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2342.  Account book of Sam Sing, proprietor of a Chinese laundry in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  The book records types of garments and linens cleaned, and includes a price list printed in the 1880s.

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Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and selected full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 58. Correspondence, diaries, papers, and genealogical materials of Joseph Rogers Underwood, U.S. Senator from Bowling Green, Kentucky, his wife Elizabeth Cox Underwood, his brother Warner Lewis Underwood, and his son, John Cox Underwood.

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Nelson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers, 1788-1798 (Sc 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Nelson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers, 1788-1798 (Sc 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 201. Photographs of two bonds, 1788 and 1792, for the administration of the estate of Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln; photograph of executors' bond, 1798, for the settlement of the estate of John Fitch. John Rowan is one of the executors of the Fitch estate.

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Clemens, John Marshall, 1798-1847 (Sc 204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Clemens, John Marshall, 1798-1847 (Sc 204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) For Manuscripts Small Collection 204. Photograph of marriage bond issued to John M. Clemens and Jane Lampton, 6 May 1823, in Adair County, Kentucky. John M. Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens were the parents of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name, Mark Twain. Also included is a letter from Ruth Burdette to Elizabeth Coombs, 2 September 1951, related to the bond photograph.

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Breckinridge Coal And Oil Company (Sc 205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Breckinridge Coal And Oil Company (Sc 205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 205. Photograph of a ledger page from the Breckenridge Coal and Oil Company, Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, April 1852, showing the quantity of coal oil obtained from a ton of coal.

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Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 203.  Photocopy of a contract for a subscription school drawn up 7 November 1800 by David Barrow, a Baptist preacher and teacher in Montgomery County, Kentucky.  The document specifies the length of the school term, compensation for the schoolmaster , and rules of conduct.  Also includes a list of the subscribers.

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Holman, Billy - Collector (Sc 126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Holman, Billy - Collector (Sc 126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 126. Logan County, Kentucky land entries of Ninian Edwards, 1809, Jefferson County, Kentucky; legal brief concerning a lawsuit brought against the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky, 1829-1830.

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Kouwenbergh, Ella, 1871-1965 - Collector (Sc 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Kouwenbergh, Ella, 1871-1965 - Collector (Sc 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 129. Revolutionary War pension papers of Nicholas Carter, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1837; letter of James Carothers written from Bowling Green, Kentucky to his wife Rebecca in Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania describing the construction of the bridge over Barren River (College Street Bridge), 1838 and accompanying 1938 letter; Civil War envelopes; and Jefferson County land abstract, 1877.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Businesses (Sc 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Businesses (Sc 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 128. Pages cut from an account book or books which list various individuals and firms of Bowling Green, Kentucky, with accompanying index.

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Lamkin, Kathrine Porter (Russell), 1926-2009 - Collector (Mss 359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Lamkin, Kathrine Porter (Russell), 1926-2009 - Collector (Mss 359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and several full-text items (click on "Additional Files" below) from Manuscripts Collection 359. Genealogical research material collected by Kathrine Porter (Russell) Lamkin and her husband John "Jack" Tucker Lamkin about the Porter family. Includes a typescript and annotated copies of John M. Porter's 1872 history of the Porter family. Also includes information about auxiliary families including: Blacklock, Dobbins, Hein, Beard, Carson, Chapman and Helm.

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Mcdonald, Dan Allyn, 1905-1974 - Collector (Mss 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Mcdonald, Dan Allyn, 1905-1974 - Collector (Mss 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 343. Correspondence, legal papers, financial records and sundry other documents related to Eugene Scott Brown and his father-in-law, Gilbert Marshall Mulligan, attorneys of Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky. Also includes stray Allen County court records, research notes related to the Civil War, and records about early telephone service in Allen County.

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Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Dunn, James L. (Sc 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Dunn, James L. (Sc 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 160. Miscellaneous receipts, primarily for taxes paid by James L. Dunn in Breckinridge (1893-1908), Grayson (1862-1887) and Ohio (1891) counties in Kentucky. Includes railroad tax receipts (1870-1881) and notice to J. D. Dunn regarding delinquent taxes in Breckinridge County (1918).

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Herdman Collection (Sc 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Herdman Collection (Sc 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 124 and full text of Camilla Herdman's 1897 diary (Click on "Additional Files" below. Collection includes diary, 1897, kept by Camilla Herdman, proprietress of the Morehead House, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and unpublished essays, 1926, titled "Spotlights on Life" written by her son, Carl D. Herdman.

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Sloss Family Papers (Sc 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Sloss Family Papers (Sc 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 159. Deed of division among heirs of Thomas L. Sloss involving lands in Simpson County and Warren County, Kentucky, 1845; writ of execution to Logan County, Kentucky sheriff, 1868; power of attorney regarding administration of estate of Edward E. Sloss.

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Holder, R. D. - Collector (Sc 124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Holder, R. D. - Collector (Sc 124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 124. Letters, 1864, written by John P. Hill, Civil War prisoner at Rock Island, Illinois, to his uncle, John Meadows, Tompkinsville, Kentucky, concerning his imprisonment, and his miscellaneous family letters, 1861.

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Forgy, James Newton, Sr., 1825-1923 (Sc 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Forgy, James Newton, Sr., 1825-1923 (Sc 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 123. Business papers, 1852-1919 (103 items), mainly receipts and chiefly of James Newton Forgy, Sr., a blacksmith of Butler County, Kentucky; a few family letters, primarily from his son, Thomas Jefferson Forgy, a Church of Christ minister of Texas, 1881-1899 (5); and Forgy biographical material.

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Walker Family Papers (Sc 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Walker Family Papers (Sc 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 158. Papers relating to U. S. Representative David Walker (1763-1820) of Logan County, Kentucky, including partial text of speeches, ca. 1804-1809 (3); 1816 broadside regarding his candidacy for Congress; plat of land on Drakes Creek in Allen County, Kentucky; and excerpts from published biographical sketches. Also includes wills of John, James and Lucy Hawkins, 1778-1835; Walker genealogy chart; published biographical sketches of Walker family members; and correspondence with Walker’s descendant concerning the papers, 1942-1953.

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Hays, L. M. (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Hays, L. M. (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 120. Slave bill of sale, 1822, and incoming letters, 1852, 1854 (2), of the Allen family of Warren County and Edmonson County, Kentucky; and letter and receipts, 1829, 1845 (3), of the Mallory family of Warren County, Kentucky.

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Fennell-Disher Collection (Mss 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Fennell-Disher Collection (Mss 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 362.  Letters of Mary Whitlock (Fennell) Disher, a teacher from Harrison County, Kentucky, and Isaac Clinton Disher, an engineer from Mason County, Kentucky, written in the 1930s during their courtship and marriage.  Includes typescripts with family data, photos and other illustrative information.  Also includes miscellaneous Fennell family correspondence.

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Hardcastle, Paul (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Hardcastle, Paul (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 119. Listing of notes owed to estate of Robert Craddock, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1837, and survey for Mordecai Cole for 1 1/2 acres of land in Warren County, Kentucky, 1905.

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Slinker Family Papers (Sc 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Slinker Family Papers (Sc 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 157. Papers relating mainly to the Slinker family of Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Includes Metcalfe County deeds, 1868-1905 (8) and survey, 1871; tax receipt, 1870; and mortgage of livestock, 1875. Also includes Hart County survey, 1821; request for deposition, 1819; minutes of trial testimony, 1880; three letters, 1881-1903; and an undated declaration against aliens and Catholics.

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