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Cuppy, John W. (Sc 1080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Cuppy, John W. (Sc 1080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1080. Letter, 19 December 1862, from John W. Cuppy, serving in Bowling Green with an Illinois regiment, to Dr. Samuel Wiley in Earlville, Illinois. Cuppy writes of his illness and describes conditions in Bowling Green, particularly respecting hospitals and patients. He also comments on Confederate sympathies in the city and troop readiness for an attack. Includes a summary of another letter by Cuppy to Wiley dated 19 September 1862 describing his regiment’s activities near Louisville.

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Siddens Family Collection (Sc 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Siddens Family Collection (Sc 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 156. Allen County, Kentucky tax receipts, 1872-1925 (26), chiefly of the Siddens and Long families; Bowling Green, Kentucky tax receipts, 1910, 1919 (2); Cumberland & Ohio Railroad tax receipts, 1878, 1880 (3); and receipt for coffin, 1899.

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Hagerman, Bettie (Robertson), 1867-1926 (Sc 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Hagerman, Bettie (Robertson), 1867-1926 (Sc 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 116. Papers of Bettie Hagerman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, City Food Chairman of the Red Cross of Warren County, Kentucky, which relate to an endeavor to raise $10,000 by combining with the Fair Association and serving food contributed by donors.

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Eubank, Frank - Letters To (Sc 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Eubank, Frank - Letters To (Sc 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 115. Letters to Frank and Nancy Eubank, Temple Hill, Barren County, Kentucky, from various relatives which contain chiefly family news.

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Gingles, Mabel (Mercer), 1891-1970 - Collector (Sc 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Gingles, Mabel (Mercer), 1891-1970 - Collector (Sc 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 114. Chiefly letters written by William Harris to his wife, Louranah Harris, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he details his experiences as a California Gold Rush adventurer, 1850-1852 (9 items); other letters describe Texas in 1855 and Civil War activities at Corinth, Mississippi, 1862. Also Bowling Green Home Telephone Company stock certificate, 1913.

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Simpson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers, 1820 (Sc 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Simpson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers, 1820 (Sc 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 197. Photocopy and typescript of agreement between Simpson County commissioners and Micajah Clark, Jr., Abraham North, and Micajah Clark, Sr. for the construction of a county clerk's office. The document provides specifications for the building, including location, dimensions, and materials.

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Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 198. Copy of marriage bond issued to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks in Washington County, Kentucky, and the minister’s return of the marriage. Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks are the parents of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Lybarger, Shaunn Maree (Fa 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Lybarger, Shaunn Maree (Fa 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 41.  Interviews conducted by Shaunn Maree Lybarger with Langdon Dyer about his gardening and marketing of produce at the Bowling Green farmers market.  Also includes biographical data, including information about Dyer’s service as an Army Air Corps pilot during World War II.

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Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Initial Announcement, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Initial Announcement, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Fox, Henry J., 1812-1899 (Sc 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Fox, Henry J., 1812-1899 (Sc 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 113. A typed manuscript entitled "Recollections of Henry Fox, Aged 86" that was given orally by Fox, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to friends in 1898 and which chiefly pertains to the history of Bowling Green.

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Maddox, Larry (Sc 2429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Maddox, Larry (Sc 2429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2429.  A typed manuscript titled "Walton's Creek Baptist Church" which is a history of that Ohio County, Kentucky church.  Includes footnotes and references.

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Pulliam Collection (Sc 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Pulliam Collection (Sc 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 152. School tuition invoices to James D. Pulliam, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, 1865-1869; letter written on behalf of the Baptist Church in Petersburg, Illinois, 1867, regarding preacher Moses Akin's commerce in whiskey; and dry goods receipt, 1856.

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Puckett, William - Collector (Sc 151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Puckett, William - Collector (Sc 151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 151. Deeds for land in Hart County, Kentucky, 1852, 1859 (2), and notary public commission of Thomas W. Cobb for Green and Hart Counites, signed by Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner, 1890. An image of the commission can be seen by clicking on "Additional Files" below.

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Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 360.  Minutes and yearbooks of the Severance Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Baker, Samuel, 1812-1888 (Sc 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Baker, Samuel, 1812-1888 (Sc 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 195. Letters and certificates of Samuel Baker, a Baptist minister who came to America from England in 1834, eventually holding pastorates in Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, Indiana, and Illinois . He was instrumental in establishing Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky, and Bethel Female College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The materials from the 18th century and early 19th century are facsimiles.

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Calloway County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Calloway County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 150. Docket book, April 1831-August 1837; miscellaneous documents including promissory note, surety bond, receipts, and writs of execution, 1832-1837.

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Murphy, Robert Lee, 1870-1942 - Collector (Sc 147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Murphy, Robert Lee, 1870-1942 - Collector (Sc 147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 147. Surveys for lands in Kentucky (Fayette, Jefferson and Kentucky County), 1780-1785; land entries, 1780-1783; and U.S. Circuit Court summons, 1822.

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Page, Auguston Alvin, 1899-1981- Collector (Sc 149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Page, Auguston Alvin, 1899-1981- Collector (Sc 149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 149. Papers evidently sent to the County Court Clerk, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Includes a letter from John C. Underwood regarding his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 1874; a nominating certificate for John S. Rhea as Democratic candidate for Congress from Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District, 1898; a request for tobacco crop figures, 1898; letters and forms relating to delivery (1888) and printing (1898) of public documents; and statements relating to the free silver controversy, 1898.

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Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2419. Miscellaneous Barren County, Kentucky legal and court records, including administration bonds and renunciations, estate accounts, deeds of sale and mortgage, marriage contract, power of attorney, and bastardy suit.

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Pillar, Samantha R. (Sc 2426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Pillar, Samantha R. (Sc 2426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2426.  "'It Wasn't Elaborate, But It Was Modern':  The Cardinal Motel," paper written by Samantha R. Pillar for a history of architecture class at Western Kentucky University.

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Composers - Kentucky (Sc 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Composers - Kentucky (Sc 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 109. Letters and forms received by Clara Elledge, member of the Music Department, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in response to her inquiries concerning Kentucky composers and their works and includes listing of both.

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Sublett Family (Sc 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Sublett Family (Sc 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 146. Bill of Charles Sublett for tanning calf skin, 1808; tax receipt (fragment) to Charles Sublett, Warren County, Kentucky, 1817; promissory note signed by William Sublett, 1826; three notes on religious doctrine; scrapbook of articles and poems about Kentucky and Kentuckians compiled by Paul H. Murphy, 1932.

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Mcclanahan Family Papers (Sc 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Mcclanahan Family Papers (Sc 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 194. Photocopies of legal papers such as deeds, surveys, land grants, slavery bills of sale, and other miscellaneous documents related to the McClanahan family of Simpson County, Kentucky.

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Morgan, Joseph Underwood, 1835-1892 (Sc 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Morgan, Joseph Underwood, 1835-1892 (Sc 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 145. Correspondence of Joseph Underwood Morgan, Logan County, Kentucky. He writes to Maria D. Noel (whom he would marry in 1866) of their families, mutual friends, and his social activities. While serving in the Confederate Army, he writes of military life, including the derailment of his troop train, and of the restrictions placed on him while aprisoner at Rock Island, Illinois. A final letter discusses their intentions to marry.

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Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 356.  Correspondence, photographs, sketches and drawings, writings, journals and clippings of or relating to Ivan Wilson, an artist and faculty member in the Art Department at Western Kentucky University  from 1920 to 1958.  Includes some materials related to other artists.

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Jones & Stevens - Account Book (Sc 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Jones & Stevens - Account Book (Sc 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 248. Account book for the Jones & Stevens general store located in Greencastle, Warren County, Kentucky. Index of accounts is located in the front of the volume, followed by the full accounts of the store’s customers. A label affixed to the ledger’s cover indicates that the volume was originally intended for recording information about Warren County court cases, but this was never done. The label is signed by James D. Hines.

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Sharp, Solomon Pollux, 1787-1825 (Sc 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Sharp, Solomon Pollux, 1787-1825 (Sc 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 190. Notice, 30 January 1821, sent by Sharp to John M. Roberson [sic], paymaster of the 25th Regiment of the Kentucky Militia, directing him to settle his accounts with the commanding officers of the regiment at Vance’s Tavern in Bowling Green.

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Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 192. Chiefly letters to Albrittain Drake and his wife, Ruth (Collins) Drake, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Most of the letters are from Drake and Collins family members, primarily their sons, James Perry, a land agent in Indiana, and Benjamin Michael, a Methodist minister in Mississippi. Also includes biographical and genealogical information related to the two families.

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Rose, John W. (Sc 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Rose, John W. (Sc 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 191. Letter, 6 February 1862, of Confederate soldier John W. Rose, encamped near Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his mother and his cousin?, W. B. Mooningham, near Dixon Springs, Smith County, Tennessee. He relates information about food, food prices, and the fall of Fort Henry. Includes a printed poem, "To the Soldiers and Freemen of the South."

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Land - Transactions (Sales, Purchases, Transfers, Etc.), 1861-1890 (Sc 104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Land - Transactions (Sales, Purchases, Transfers, Etc.), 1861-1890 (Sc 104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 104. Deeds and papers for land in the Kentucky counties of Butler, 1877 (1 item), Warren, 1861-1886 (4), and Edmonson, 1890 (1). William P. Beard and the Porter family are involved in many of these transactions.

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