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Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Fa 3), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2010

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Fa 3), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 3. Interviews conducted by Dianne Watkins with Earl Hamilton Berkley about Berkley family reunions (1929-1984), and the family farm and service station located on Morgantown Road in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes cassette tapes, originals, typescripts and photocopies.

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Dowell, John Alan (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2010

Dowell, John Alan (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 2. Interviews conducted by John Alan Dowell with George M. Carter which provide bigraphical data about Carter and highlight his storytelling talent. Includes interviews with Carter on cassette tapes, transcriptions, tape summaries, glossary, bibliography and photographs.

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Sumpter, Virginia Carter (Ward), 1866-1933 (Sc 2335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2010

Sumpter, Virginia Carter (Ward), 1866-1933 (Sc 2335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2335. Paper: "[Warren County, Kentucky History]" written by Virginia Carter (Ward) Sumpter, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for a literary club program.

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Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2010

Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1. Project titled "White Gospel Music in Logan County" conducted by Donald Andre Beisswenger for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes interviews with Jeff and Gwen McKinney and Chester Whitescarver about singing schools and white gospel music. Transcript of McKinney interview included as well as a tape summary for the Whitescarver interview.

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Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 225. Correspondence, chiefly of the Covington family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, particularly that of Dr. Albert G. and Josephine (Wells) Covington. Also includes reference letters written to Jane (Hines) Morningstar about local history topics, including steamboats and the Hobson House Association.

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Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2310. Sundry papers, including letters written by Albert L. Stevens from a military hospital in Russellville, Kentucky, to his brother William J. Stevens during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans and typescripts). The bulk of the collection consists of deeds and indentures of various Stevens family members, particularly William J., Robert W., and William W. Stevens of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Also includes fifty Bowling Green, Kentucky city operational licenses for the Broadway Roller Mills, 1923-1974.

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Rorie, Wendell H. (Sc 2322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Rorie, Wendell H. (Sc 2322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2322. Paper by Wendell H. Rorie titled "The Diary: My Legal Journey with Herman Southall" and presented to the Athenaeum Society in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The paper describes Rorie's personal and professional relationship with Southall, a Hopkinsville attorney, and includes anecdotes about other local attorneys and legal matters.

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Mcchord, William Caldwell, 1850-1928 (Sc 2323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Mcchord, William Caldwell, 1850-1928 (Sc 2323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2323. Paper by William Caldwell McChord titled "Memoirs of William Caldwell McChord, Springfield, Kentucky." The paper details McChord's upbringing, education, experience in the Civil War, and legal and political career in Washington County, Kentucky. Includes an account of the claim that Washington County was Abraham Lincoln's true birthplace. Also includes genealogical information on the McChords and related families.

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Interview With Opal Cline Crabb Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Interview With Opal Cline Crabb Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Opal Cline Crabb conducted by Joe Adams for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Crabb discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in McLean County, Kentucky, education, her teaching experience in a one-room school, food preservation at home including hog butchering and meat processing, the introduction of radios and televisions, the Green River and steamboats.

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Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2299. Chiefly incoming letters which concern an estate settlement for Abraham Smith and family news. Civil War-era letters written by William Riley Smith (Click on "Additional Files" below) contain comments about the war and contain expressions of his attitudes toward African Americans. Also includes a church letter of transfer for Furman Smith and his wife and a small amount of genealogical information about the Smith family.

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Johnson & Hardin, Attorneys (Sc 2321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Johnson & Hardin, Attorneys (Sc 2321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2321. Memorandum, 22 June 1866, of Johnson & Hardin, Attorneys, explaining the procedure for bringing an indictment against three men for "outrages committed on persons of color" in Nelson County, Kentucky.

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Smiths Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Smiths Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2306. Letter of recommendation for Thomas H. Beard from Smiths Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, 7 February 1898.

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Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2302. Chiefly letters from Barnett Smith, Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory and Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Alabama to his mother in Hadley, Warren County, Kentucky, 1898. He describes his military training and ponders being shipped to Cuba. Also includes (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans) an 1865 letter from Union soldier James W. Howard of Butler County, Kentucky, Howard’s discharge certificate, an 1863 slavery bill of sale, and an 1873 receipt for a coffin.

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Stewart, J. A. (Sc 2311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Stewart, J. A. (Sc 2311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2311. Partial enrollment and grade book kept by teacher [J.A. Stewart] from October 1895 to February 1896. Item found in Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky.

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Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2318. Chemistry notebook of Ward Cullin Sumpter, probably kept about 1930 while he was a doctoral student at Yale University. Includes other miscellaneous documents: a tribute to a church's departing pastor, a draft petition in support of an anti-cigarette law, and a poem relating to the 1928 presidential election.

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Stith, Mary Emma, 1892-1979 (Sc 2312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Stith, Mary Emma, 1892-1979 (Sc 2312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2312. Photocopy of household furnishings inventory done by Mary Emma Stith when she resided at 533 East Main Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Sprowl, Wilson (Sc 2308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Sprowl, Wilson (Sc 2308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2308. Brief World War I letters from Wilson Sprowl to family members in Monroe County, Kentucky while he was stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky and Camp Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan. Also, a welcoming letter from King George V to American troops, and a billet for a bunk on the U.S.S. Florida that includes instructions for troop conduct.

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Snell, Commodore Perry, 1821-1881 (Sc 2307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Snell, Commodore Perry, 1821-1881 (Sc 2307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2307. Divorce decree for Commodore Perry Snell and Ellen A. Snell, granted 13 February 1866 in Warren County, Kentucky. The certified copy was made from Warren Circuit Court Record Book 23.

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Interview With Alice Triplett (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Interview With Alice Triplett (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Alice Triplett conducted by Genie Sullivan for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Triplett discusses her life and times, including information about her life in Ohio County, Kentucky, and her teaching experience. The original tape does not have good sound quality, thus the transcription is spotty.

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Smith, Harriett (Sc 2301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Smith, Harriett (Sc 2301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2301. Master Commissioner's deed of lands in Warren County, Kentucky, conveyed on behalf of Junius Frances Jones, J. W. Petty and M.A. Petty to Lanes Hendrick and William Hendrick pursuant to an order of partition of the lands of Betsy Lancaster made in the case of Harriett Smith, et al. v. W. B. Smith, et al.

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Cooke, Bess Miller, 1889-1977 (Sc 2305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Cooke, Bess Miller, 1889-1977 (Sc 2305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2305. Paper: "The History of Smiths Grove Baptist Church, 1812-1972" by Bess Miller Cooke. Includes typewritten and handwritten drafts.

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Smith, Rebecca M. (Sc 2304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Smith, Rebecca M. (Sc 2304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2304. Paper by Rebecca M. Smith, “Informational Outline of Simpson County Schools,” written for a Kentucky History class at Western Kentucky State Teachers College. The paper includes data on various nineteenth-century educational institutions in the county.

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Warren County, Kentucky - World War Ii Servicemen (Mss 326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Warren County, Kentucky - World War Ii Servicemen (Mss 326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 326. Data and newspaper clippings on U.S. military personnel from Warren County, collected during their service in World War II. The seventy pages of names includes women and African Americans.

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White, Arthur Carlton, Jr. (Sc 2314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

White, Arthur Carlton, Jr. (Sc 2314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2314. Paper: "Professor Franz Joseph Strahm" written by Arthur Carlton White, Jr. for an "American Music" class at Western Kentucky University.

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Sublett, William (Sc 2315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Sublett, William (Sc 2315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2315. Certificate confirming William Sublett's appointment as a justice of the peace in Warren County, Kentucky, "occasioned by the death of John Heard." Signed by Governor William Owsley, Secretary of State Ben Hardin, and Assistant Secretary of State S.A. Mitchell.

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Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Mss 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Mss 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 323. Chiefly letters to Gabrielle Robertson, History Department faculty member, Western Kentucky University, 1916 to 1960. Of particular interest are those letters from former students serving in the military during World War II. Also includes genealogical materials and family photographs.

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Pruitt, Lamond, 1865-1957 (Sc 2293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Pruitt, Lamond, 1865-1957 (Sc 2293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2293. Miscellaneous legal documents from Allen County, Kentucky collected by Lamond Pruitt, chiefly deeds and indentures.

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Page, Walter E., Ii (Sc 2283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Page, Walter E., Ii (Sc 2283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2283. Paper: "Oil in Cumberland County: From the Salt Wells to the First American Gusher," sometimes referred to as the Old American Well, written for a class at the University of Kentucky.

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Plemmons, Florence Williams, B. 1936 (Sc 2286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Plemmons, Florence Williams, B. 1936 (Sc 2286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2286. Thesis: "Janice Holt Giles: A Bio-Bibliography with Evaluations of the Kentucky Frontier Books as Historical Fiction," written by Florence Williams Plemmons in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Science degree from the University of Tennessee.

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Peel, Fred Welch, 1892-1979 (Sc 2287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Peel, Fred Welch, 1892-1979 (Sc 2287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2287. Fred Welch Peel's reminiscences of growing up in rural Boyle County, Kentucky during the early part of the twentieth century. He writes of farm work, one-room schools, and community life. An appendix lists local properties in the county and in Danville.

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