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Lewis, Margie Juliene (Ellis), 1893-1986 (Sc 1882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Lewis, Margie Juliene (Ellis), 1893-1986 (Sc 1882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1882. Typescript of her memoir "The Perils and Joys of a Small Town Green River Lass"; photo of her brother Courtney M. Ellis; two photos of Woodbury, Butler County, Kentucky family home and family members.

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Bristow, James Ernest, 1898-1976 (Sc 1884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Bristow, James Ernest, 1898-1976 (Sc 1884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1884. Appointment certificate, honorable discharge certificate with enlistment record, and disability allowance award relating to the World War I service of James Bristow, an Owensboro, Kentucky native.

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Wheeler, Ernest Eugene, 1921-1944 (Mss 210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Wheeler, Ernest Eugene, 1921-1944 (Mss 210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 210. Correspondence between Ernest Eugene "Gene" Wheeler and his fiance and future wife, Alma Blancett of Calhoun, Kentucky. The correspondence begins while Wheeler was a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College and continues when he enters the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed on D-Day. Also contains Alma's 1945 diary.

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Baker, James Thomas, B. 1940 (Sc 1801), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Baker, James Thomas, B. 1940 (Sc 1801), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1801. Typescript titled "Christ and Anti-Christ[:] Reciprocal Excommunication in North Carolina" analyzing the controversy surrounding a 1924 Elizabeth City, North Carolina revival conducted by Mordecai F. Ham.

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Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 1804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 1804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1804. Court documents and ancillary material related to Commonwealth v. Hiram Smedley, a criminal case brought against a former county court clerk when Barkley was county attorney. Includes the text of Barkley's announcement of his candidacy for Governor of Kentucky, 1923.

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Gossadge, William Frederick, 1903-1987 (Sc 1800), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Gossadge, William Frederick, 1903-1987 (Sc 1800), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1800. Note from Gossadge, Louisville, Kentucky, to “Professor and Family” reporting on the birth of his daughter Donna Lee Gossadge and his “sad lot” that she was not a boy.

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Marshall, Nancy Carol (Richey), B. 1959 (Sc 1653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Marshall, Nancy Carol (Richey), B. 1959 (Sc 1653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1653. Paper titled: "The Higher Road" about the life of long-time Western Kentucky University music professor Nelle Gooch Travelstead. The paper was written by Nancy Marshall for a history class at Western Kentucky University.

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Becker, Mary Catherine, 1836-1907 (Sc 1803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Becker, Mary Catherine, 1836-1907 (Sc 1803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and selected scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1803. Social invitations sent to Misses Mary Catherine and Louisa Becker, Russellville, Kentucky. The majority of the invitations to Mary are from Churchill Haden Blakey, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, whom she later married.

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Bevier-Cleaton High School, 1931 (Sc 1802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Bevier-Cleaton High School, 1931 (Sc 1802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1802. School stationery with 1931 class list, Bevier-Cleaton High School, Cleaton, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

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World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 1870), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Sc 1870), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1870. Letters written by "Chet" to his girlfriend "Dottie" discussing military life in Italy during the last years of World War II. The letter writer may have come from the Henderson, Kentucky area as several letters make references to places in that community.

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Bush, Brendan David (Fa 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Bush, Brendan David (Fa 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 421. Interview: "Dr. F. O. Moxley: Trailblazer" conducted by Bendan David Bush for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Denton, Richard (Fa 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Denton, Richard (Fa 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 384. Project entitled "Virginia Petty: Woodcarver from Oakland, Kentucky," with an interview conducted by Richard Denton with Petty.

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Hobson Family Papers (Mss 121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Hobson Family Papers (Mss 121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 121. Correspondence, legal papers, and news clippings about the Hobsons, a prominent family of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The correspondence and reminiscences of Civil War veteran William E. Hobson; a diary kept by Mary Elizabeth Van Meter during the evacuation of Bowling Green, 1861; and correspondence of George Anna (Hobson) Duncan, an award winning trapshooter, are of particular significance. Also includes genealogical information about the Hobson and related families.

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Orendorf, Jo Tilden, 1910-2003 (Sc 1874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Orendorf, Jo Tilden, 1910-2003 (Sc 1874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1874. Transcription of a speech about the Red River Church, Logan County, Kentucky given by Jo Tilden "Top" Orendorf to the Russellville Woman's Club, 27 February 1988.

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Burnett, Laura Jo (Fa 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Burnett, Laura Jo (Fa 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 423. Interview with textile artist Lysbeth Wallace, Hopkinsville, Kentucky conducted by Laura Jo Burnett for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Burnett, Laura Jo (Fa 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Burnett, Laura Jo (Fa 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 422. Interview with Lucile Denton Napier conducted by Laura Jo Burnett for a Western Kentucy University folk studies class.

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Burnett, Laura Jo (Fa 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Burnett, Laura Jo (Fa 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 382. Interview with textile artist Lysbeth Wallace, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, conducted by Laura Jo Burnett.

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Hayden, James H., 1843-1937 (Sc 1010), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Hayden, James H., 1843-1937 (Sc 1010), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1010. Letter, 31 August 1926, written by James H. Hayden, Barren County, Kentucky, to Cora G. Morningstar, Bowling Green, Kentucky in which he discusses family matters and relationships between mutual families.

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Reamer, Ernest D., Jr., 1913-1965 (Sc 1845), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Reamer, Ernest D., Jr., 1913-1965 (Sc 1845), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1845. Correspondence between Ernest D. Reamer, Jr. and his wife, Verna, while he was in the U.S. Army during World War II stationed at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky and Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

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Cary, Mik (Fa 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Cary, Mik (Fa 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 375. Paper: "Local Traditions and Customs Spotlighted in the 'Park City Daily News'" written by Mik Cary for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Carver, Noble, 1896-1978 (Fa 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Carver, Noble, 1896-1978 (Fa 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 372. Copies of two personal songbooks belonging to country musician Noble "Uncle Bozo" Carver of Barren County, Kentucky. They possibly date from the early 1930s.

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Bailey Collection (Sc 1862), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Bailey Collection (Sc 1862), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1862. Information related to the Bailey family of Logan County, Kentucky, chiefly letters to Margaret Bailey, 1865, from her husband J.M. Bailey, U.S. consul in Glasgow, Scotland, and letters [1869?]-1896 from two friends in Great Britain.

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West, Gary Patterson, B. 1943 - Letters To (Sc 1876), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

West, Gary Patterson, B. 1943 - Letters To (Sc 1876), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1876. Letters of support for naming a stretch of road in Bowling Green "Duncan Hines Highway," and letters of appreciation for West's efforts to create the "World's Biggest Brownie" in honor of Hines.

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Tobacco Growers' Associations - Kentucky (Sc 1879), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Tobacco Growers' Associations - Kentucky (Sc 1879), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1879. Blank form for use as a template to prepare Articles of Incorporation for county Tobacco Growers' Associations in Kentucky.

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Hobson Family Papers (Sc 1859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Hobson Family Papers (Sc 1859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1859. Correspondence and documents related to the Union army service of William E. Hobson during the Civil War, including requests for leaves of absence (one to return to his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky to assist in prosecuting local “rebel scoundrels”), recommendations for his promotion to Brigadier General, and his military discharge certificate; deeds related to land owned by William’s great-uncle Jonathan Hobson; will of Jonathan Hobson freeing his slaves; and receipts for the purchase of materials for the construction of William’s father Atwood G. Hobson’s home, …

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Graham, Harvey Butler, 1916-2003 - Collector (Sc 1860), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Graham, Harvey Butler, 1916-2003 - Collector (Sc 1860), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1860. Deeds and receipts related to the sale of land in Warren County, Kentucky; also, one Warren County Circuit Court case related to land disposition.

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Bridges, Richard Wilson, 1943-2015 (Sc 1871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Bridges, Richard Wilson, 1943-2015 (Sc 1871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1871. Paper: "Congressman William H. Natcher: A Minister's Memoir," written by Richard Wilson Bridges about William Huston Natcher, the long-time U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 2nd District.

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Hamilton, Andrew Graff, 1835-1895 (Sc 1858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Hamilton, Andrew Graff, 1835-1895 (Sc 1858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1858. Information, chiefly published items, related to Hamilton's role in the escape of Union prisoners from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia in 1864. Also, details concerning his 1895 death.

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Fair Hop - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Fair Hop - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1698. Paper: "The Social Event of the Year: Bowling Green Kentucky's Annual Fair Hop, 1870s-1940s" written by Betsy Tyrie for a Western Kentucky University history class. Tyrie interviews participants and provides copies of news clippings and photos related to this popular formal dance.

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Buckner, Howard Chandler, 1896-1960 (Sc 1869), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2009

Buckner, Howard Chandler, 1896-1960 (Sc 1869), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1869. Post World War I letter, 5 January 1919, from Buckner, serving in France, to his father and siblings in Mount Olivet, Robertson County, Kentucky, describing his living conditions and the condition of the French community of St. Mihiel after the war.

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