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Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Sc 2134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Sc 2134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2134. Letter written by Nancy Elam Moore, a Shaker at South Union, Kentucky, to her brother James Moore. She discusses her father's estate, particularly a piece of property located in Warren County, Ohio.

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Brown-Hammer-Bryant Collection (Sc 2132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Brown-Hammer-Bryant Collection (Sc 2132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2132. Legal documents, chiefly deeds, from Monroe County, Kentucky relating to the Brown, Hammer and Bryant families. Also includes tax receipts and religious material.

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Moore, Levi A. (Sc 2133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Moore, Levi A. (Sc 2133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2133. Certificates appointing Levi A. Moore, of Warren County, Kentucky, a corporal in Company K, 52nd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, and discharging Moore from service.

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Miller, Emmitt E., 1907-1985 (Sc 2130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Miller, Emmitt E., 1907-1985 (Sc 2130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2130. Miscellaneous deeds, will, tax receipts, stock certificate, and school trustee's report relating primarily to the Miller family of Muhlenberg County.

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Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 242. Letters to John Dudley Cosby, Muhlenberg County, and his family, from other family members in Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi. Includes genealogical data, some of Cosby's personal papers, and his estate inventory.

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"Is Kentucky A Southern State?", Leah Dale Pritchett Jan 2010

"Is Kentucky A Southern State?", Leah Dale Pritchett

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

his paper explores the cultural identity of Kentucky. Many people have asked, “Is Kentucky as Southern State?” Being the borderland between the North and the South, the Commonwealth has been viewed as Southern, as part of the Midwest, and something completely unique. To define Kentucky as Southern, I have examined the literary works of different regional authors. Looking at the character traits those authors have relegated to their manufactured people, I have decided, from the evidence provided, whether that author considers his or her setting as part of the South. One can tell whether the author identifies with the South …

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Ua100/2/7 Training School & College High Student Projects, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua100/2/7 Training School & College High Student Projects, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Projects created by students at the training school.

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Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2125. Letter, 14 August 1876, from John Cox Underwood, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Thomas E. Moss, Kentucky State Attorney General, Frankfort, Kentucky, in which he relates information about the condition of the locks and dams on the Green and Barren Rivers.

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Thomas, Peter (Mrs.) (Sc 2127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Thomas, Peter (Mrs.) (Sc 2127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2127. Letter, 10 August 1889, from Mrs. Peter Thomas, Bowling Green, Kentucky to the Mayor & Board of Councilmen protesting a finding that she is located outside the city for the purposes of water service, but inside the city for purposes of taxation.

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Scraps To Quilts (Exhibition) (Fa 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Scraps To Quilts (Exhibition) (Fa 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Materials collected by Western Kentucky University folk studies students for an exhibition titled "Scraps to Kentucky Quilts." Includes meeting minutes, publicity material, label information, data sheets for submitted quilts, negatives and proof sheets, and interviews with quiltmakers.

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Stout-Middleton Collection (Mss 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Stout-Middleton Collection (Mss 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 297. Album from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, kept by Samuel S. Templeton, 1836-1838; diary of Margarette Middleton, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1896-1899; diary of Margaret L. Herdman Stout, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1896-1901; information related to the Stout and Middleton families.

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Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2123. Correspondence of Ernest Hubert Canon relating mainly to his service as secretary and president of the Bowling Green, Kentucky's Kiwanis Club and as a member of various committees of Bowling Green's First Christian Church. Includes correspondence from Congressman William H. Natcher commenting on appropriations for Mammoth Cave National Park and on the growing federal budget.

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Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2115. Miscellaneous Warren County, Kentucky court records. Includes a will, apprenticeship indenture, manumission papers, bonds, etc.

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Mcneel, John (Sc 2121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcneel, John (Sc 2121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2121. Bond of John McNeel, given to Justices of the County Court of Warren County, Kentucky for performance of his agreement to donate 200 acres of land in consideration of the county seat being fixed thereon.

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Mcfarland, Jonnie, 1873-1953 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcfarland, Jonnie, 1873-1953 (Sc 2120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2120. Autograph album of Jonnie McFarland, Bristow, Kentucky. Includes part of a menu from J. A. Rabold, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Mcchesney, Gene (Sc 2116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcchesney, Gene (Sc 2116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2116. Class paper about the history of Bowling Green, Kentucky titled "The City Founded." The paper was written by Gene McChesney as a senior theme at the Western Kentucky State Teachers College Training School, when McChesney was 15 years old.

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Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935, Et Al (Sc 2106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935, Et Al (Sc 2106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2106. Galley proof of "Bowling Green: A Pictorial History" written by Nancy D. Baird, Carol Crowe-Carraco, and Michael L. Morse; published in a limited edition by the Donning Company in 1983.

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Swann, James H., 1869-1965 (Sc 2113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Swann, James H., 1869-1965 (Sc 2113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2113. Sales contract for Lot 37 in the "College View" development, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for James H. Swann and his wife Bessie; a letter from the developer, National Development Company of Bowling Green, is included.

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Mcclary, Herbert Brent, 1881-1952 (Sc 2117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mcclary, Herbert Brent, 1881-1952 (Sc 2117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2117. Brief history of Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, and related correspondence.

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Pioneer Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Pioneer Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2107. Sexton's book for the cemetery, recording interments of both whites and African Americans from 1860-1863. Most entries state name, date of death, sex, age at death, and cause of death. A typescript is included, together with notes on the genealogy of the book owner's family.

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Shirley, James Kelly (Fa 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Shirley, James Kelly (Fa 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 474.  A term project prepared by James Kelly Shirley on Cora Mae Howard for a Western Kentucky University history class titled "The Negro in American History."

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Taylor, John Burnam, 1906-1982 (Sc 2104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Taylor, John Burnam, 1906-1982 (Sc 2104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2104. Letter, 8 May 1981, from John Burnam Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to Lowell H. Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky providing information related to members of the Burnam family.

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Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Sc 2109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2109. Miscellaneous correspondence and certificates related to Ernest Hubert Canon's community, club and church activities. He served for many years as an officer of the Bowling Green Kiwanis Club.

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Hamlett, Barksdale, 1908-1979 (Mss 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Hamlett, Barksdale, 1908-1979 (Mss 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 292. Transcriptions of five interviews conducted with retired four-star general Barksdale Hamlett in which he reflects on his 34-year military career, including service in World War II, the Korean War, and on the Army's General Staff in Washington, D.C.

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Andress, Bruce K. (Fa 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Andress, Bruce K. (Fa 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 472. Project conducted by Andress concerning Wayman Hayes, a Bowling Green, Kentucky toymaker. Project includes some toys made by Hayes, patterns for the toys, as well as information about marketing them.

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Porter, Eugene A., 1841-1922 (Mss 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Porter, Eugene A., 1841-1922 (Mss 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 294. Two letter press books containing outgoing letters from the firm, E. A. Porter & Bros. of Bowling Green, Kentucky. These letters deal almost exclusively with the manufacture and marketing of a piece of agricultural equipment called the "corn cob crusher." A small amount of correspondence also documents Mr. Porter's personal agricultural pursuits.

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Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Barr, Lawrence L. (Sc 2103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text paper (click on Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2103. Paper: "A New Look at the History of Soldier's Retreat" produced by Lawrence L. Barr for an adult education class at Senior House, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky. Soldier's Retreat was built around 1789 in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Smith, Mona Gayle (Fa 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Smith, Mona Gayle (Fa 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 473. Folk studies project in which Smith collected information about carpenter Charles Browning of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes paper material related to his work as well as wood samples.

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Thompson, Mary Helen, 1875-1962 (Sc 2097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Thompson, Mary Helen, 1875-1962 (Sc 2097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2097. Diary kept by Mary H. Thompson, a physician's daughter living near Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky, from February to November 1902. She writes of social events, home life, teaching school, church attendance, family and friends.

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Jefferson, Belinda Coombs (Mcginley) - Collector (Mss 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Jefferson, Belinda Coombs (Mcginley) - Collector (Mss 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts for two diaries from Manuscript Collection 244. Diary of Elizabeth Belle Coombs, 1904; diary of Pearl Coombs Moore, 1926-1927, while a student at Western Kentucky State Normal School; 1852-1853 Jefferson Medical College notes and thesis of Samuel W. Coombs; miscellaneous correspondence, receipts, and documents related to the Moore, Coombs, and Potter families of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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