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Logan County, Kentucky - Tax Receipts (Sc 142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Logan County, Kentucky - Tax Receipts (Sc 142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 142. Tax receipts, 1825-1834, issued to John P. Mize and William Mize, Logan County, Kentucky.


Cavanah, David (Lg 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Cavanah, David (Lg 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 426. Original land grant, 31 December 1816, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to David Cavanah 100 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Howel, Henry (Lg 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Howel, Henry (Lg 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 428. Original land grant, 7 June 1824, by which John Adair, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Henry Howel 20 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky. Identified as "Kentucky Land-Office Warrant no. 5127."


Lindley, Sarah (Lg 429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Lindley, Sarah (Lg 429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 429. Original land grant, 30 May 1849, by which John J. Crittenden, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Sarah Lindley 300 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Warren County, Kentucky - Deeds (Sc 139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Warren County, Kentucky - Deeds (Sc 139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 139. Deeds for land in Warren County, Kentucky, involving the Jenkins and Mitchell families. One deed includes a certificate of privy examination for Susan Jenkins.


Barnett, Alexander, Sr., 1745-1819 (Sc 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Barnett, Alexander, Sr., 1745-1819 (Sc 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 138. Response and counterproposal of Alexander Barnett, Sr., to an 1816 Ohio County, Kentucky Court subpoena to explain his objection to the establishment of a road through his land. Includes typescript of a 1934 newspaper article about a commemorative marker at Barnett's Station in Ohio County.


Mcknight, James (Lg 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Mcknight, James (Lg 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 435. Original land grant, 20 November 1866, by which Thomas E. Bramlette, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James McKnight, assignee in part of B. Q. Hewlett, 150 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Owens, Joshua (Lg 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Owens, Joshua (Lg 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 433. Original land grant, 7 July 1834, by which James T. Morehead, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Joshua Owens, assignee of A. G. Gordon, 50 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Givins, John C. And Y. M. Johnson (Lg 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Givins, John C. And Y. M. Johnson (Lg 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 431. Original land grant, 3 February 1883, by which Luke P. Blackburn, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John C. Givins and Y. M. Johnson 100 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Browning, Robert (Lg 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Browning, Robert (Lg 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 432. Original land grant, 14 October 1859, by which Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Browning 185 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Edmiston, John (Lg 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Edmiston, John (Lg 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 430. Original land grant, 26 April 1842, by which Robert P. Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Edmiston, assignee of A. Townes, 150 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Simpson County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Simpson County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 102. Deeds for land in Simpson County, Kentucky, 1845-1876, deed of gift for African American woman and child, 1847, and will of E. N. Mitchell, 1872.


Beshears, Isaac (Lg 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Beshears, Isaac (Lg 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 434. Original land grant, 1 April 1839, by which James Clark, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Isaac Beshears 300 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.


Wiggins, Howard (Sc 2420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Wiggins, Howard (Sc 2420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2420.  Letter from Howard Wiggins, manager of Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to R. L. Wolfe, Cerulean, Kentucky.  The letter advises that the addresse's proposed electric line has been staked and that he may proceed with house wiring.  A schedule of agreed contractor's rates for the work is included.


Royden, Cynthia Ann (Fa 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Royden, Cynthia Ann (Fa 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 21. Interviews conducted by Cindy Royden with Oscar Tittle, Charles and Rosey Woolbright and Ivan H. Key, members of Pentecostal churches in Bowling Green, Kentucky, about their religious beliefs and practices. Includes taped services at Seventh Street Full Gospel Church and First United Pentecostal Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Claybrook-Doswell Papers (Sc 101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Claybrook-Doswell Papers (Sc 101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 101. Letters, 1806, and deed of gift for enslaved African American girl, 1814, of the Doswell family of Virginia, and letters, 1816, 1862 and Civil War pass, 1863, of the Claybrook family of Washington County, Kentucky.


Wronski, Genevieve Elissa, B. 1980 (Fa 556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Wronski, Genevieve Elissa, B. 1980 (Fa 556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 556.  Ethnography project focused on three tattoo artists and their art in Glasgow, Kentucky.  Focuses on skills, training, procedures, machinery, aesthetics, and artist inspiration.  Also provides a brief history of tattooing.  Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Threlkeld, Matthew Kohl, B. 1985 (Fa 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Threlkeld, Matthew Kohl, B. 1985 (Fa 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text paper (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 552.  Ethnography project focused on Prince’s Hookah Lounge in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  The cultural and social aspects of a hookah lounge are explored, with particular focus on its importance to Saudi Arabian students at Western Kentucky University.  Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Milligan, R. A., B. 1849 (Sc 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Milligan, R. A., B. 1849 (Sc 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 137. Diary kept by R. A. Milligan, superintendent of the East family farm of the Shaker Society at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. The diary records acreage cultivated, crop yields, planting and harvesting times, and general farm work. Includes some weather observations.


Patterson, J. (Sc 2415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Patterson, J. (Sc 2415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2415.  Letter from J. Patterson, Louisville, Kentucky.  Patterson writes of her children, her hopes to move to Covington or Newport, Kentucky, asks about Terrell's family, and complains of the number, poverty and ignorance of free blacks in Louisville.


Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 184.  Photographs of a $500 bond posted by Thomas Lincoln as constable of Cumberland County, Kentucky.  In addition to Lincoln, bond signed by Jesse Gee and Moses Kirkpatrick.  Scholars disagree as to whether the signer of this bond was President Abraham Lincoln's father or a cousin.


Curd, Spencer, 1788-1832 (Sc 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Curd, Spencer, 1788-1832 (Sc 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 966. Ciphering book (94 p.), focusing chiefly on surveying and navigating rules for solving problems as well as giving specific problems, of Spencer Curd, Logan County, Kentucky, with accompanying genealogical data.


Webster, William Stewart Cross, 1844-1922 (Sc 135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Webster, William Stewart Cross, 1844-1922 (Sc 135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 135. Letter from William Stewart Cross Webster, Paris, Kentucky, to G. Fred Ziegler in London, England. Writing to his former Princeton classmate, Webster, a Presbyterian minister, tells of his pastorate in Paris, speculates on his future plans, including his hopes to marry, and gives news of other school friends.


Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 136. Papers of the Payne family of Warren County, Kentucky, including letter from Civil War prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois; letter describing the death of Halley Payne; 1874 letter from a Glasgow teacher referring to unrest among African Americans; promissory note; remedies for piles and rheumatism; and a letter detailing with the prevention and treatment of cholera.


Eddington, Rachel (Sc 134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Eddington, Rachel (Sc 134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 134. Letters (1857-1863) of a freed slave, Rachel Eddington of Clay Ashland, Liberia, written to Charlotte Belt, her former owner in Ohio County, Kentucky, Belt’s brother Henry Stevens, and her husband Sandy. She writes of her and her children’s illnesses and the lack of sufficient food, housing and employment in Liberia. Includes Barren County, Kentucky, slave bill of sale (1843) for Sandy; script for a radio drama (1936) based on Rachel’s letters; and correspondence (1936-1947) with the donor of the letters, who was a descendant of …


Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 554. Project consists of an ehtnographic study conducted by Luke Fisher with Tom Blumenberg, an artist who creates solid wood and segmented wooden bowls in Hiseville, Kentucky. This project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2011

Fisher, Lucas Samuel, B. 1987 (Fa 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 547.  Paper titled:  "Bowling Lingo," written by Lucas Samuel Fisher about the folk speech of bowlers, gathered in Glasgow, Kentucky, and nationally through an online bowling forum.  This project was a requirement for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Hobson, William Edward, 1844-1909 (Sc 180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Hobson, William Edward, 1844-1909 (Sc 180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 180. Petition, including typescript, signed by 21 citizens of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 16 October 1864, addressed to Major General Burbridge, requesting that Colonel William Hobson retain command of the Union troops stationed there.


Mcwhirter, James S., 1837-1862 (Sc 181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Mcwhirter, James S., 1837-1862 (Sc 181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 181. Three letters written by James S. McWhirter from Bowling Green, Kentucky, January and February, 1862, to his sister Zellora near Gallatin, Tennessee, relating war activities and personal matters. McWhirter was stationed in Bowling Green with the 24th Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteers. Also, letter 10 April 1952, from Harry Jackson, Cleveland, Ohio, concerning his family relationship with the McWhirters.


Mcclean, Roberta - Collector (Sc 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2011

Mcclean, Roberta - Collector (Sc 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 133. Emancipation deeds for three slaves signed by Henry Fisk, Montgomery County, Kentucky; letters from W. M. Perkins, New Orleans, Louisiana, to his cousin Rebecca Fisk, Russellville, Kentucky, with family news; and a blank check of the Southern Bank of Kentucky, Russellville, which was robbed by Jesse James in 1868. Includes information on the subsequent fate of Fisk’s emancipated slaves.