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Cosby, Lorene (Moulder), 1920-2008 - Collector (Sc 1843), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Cosby, Lorene (Moulder), 1920-2008 - Collector (Sc 1843), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1843. Materials related to the Moulder family, chiefly letters written to Valentine Moulder, Warren County, Kentucky. Many are post-Civil War letters from his former Union comrades. Also, information concerning Friendship Community Church and Friendship Methodist Church, Warren County.

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Marcilliat, Gene (Fa 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Marcilliat, Gene (Fa 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of collection (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 354. "Books by Lucy Furman: [Folk Elements in Furman's Writings]" collected by Gene Marcilliat for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Robertson, Cindy (Fa 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Robertson, Cindy (Fa 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 341. Paper: "From One Generation to the Next" written by Cindy Robertson for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Leach, Rebecca - Compiler (Sc 1839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Leach, Rebecca - Compiler (Sc 1839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1839. Research on the departure and readmission of members at the South Union, Kentucky Shaker community, 1812-1892. Some material was copied from journals kept by Harvey Lauderdale Eades. People with multiple admissions were often referred to as "Winter Shakers."

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Martin, Anna Katherine (Flege), 1902-1976 (Sc 1841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Martin, Anna Katherine (Flege), 1902-1976 (Sc 1841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1841. Diary kept from 1 January 1923 to 14 August 1923 by Anna Katherine Flege, Grant County, Kentucky. She relates details of her life as a teacher in the one-room Round Top School. She also comments about the weather, her family and home life, and her participation in community social and religious activities.

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Lois-Glyn School Of Beauty Culture - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1842), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Lois-Glyn School Of Beauty Culture - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1842), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1842. Postcards sent in 1934 to one of the co-owners of the school, Edna Fisher in Hot Springs, Arkansas from her students in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also, information about Fisher, her husband and co-owner Glenn Fisher and their school.

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Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1702. News clippings and copies of documents related to the history of Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcoal Church, South located in Logan County, Kentucky.

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General Store - Account Book (Sc 1837), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

General Store - Account Book (Sc 1837), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1837. Account book, 1848-1849, for an unidentified general store in Warren County, Kentucky with a daily listing of customers and the specific merchandise they purchased, generally dry goods. Also lists items credited to customers' accounts such as butter and eggs.

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Claggett, David Mckee, 1835-1869 (Sc 1827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Claggett, David Mckee, 1835-1869 (Sc 1827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1827. Typescript of Civil War diary kept by David McKee Claggett from 1 October 1861 to 1 January 1865. Collection also includes associated research data.

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Wright, D. Wynne (Fa 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Wright, D. Wynne (Fa 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 365. Paper: "Kentucky Cuisine" written by D. Wynne Wright for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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General Store - Account Book, 1832-1834 (Sc 1838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

General Store - Account Book, 1832-1834 (Sc 1838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1838. Account book for an unidentified general store in Warren County, Kentucky. Includes an alphabetical index to account holders in the front. Accounts do not specify types of merchandise purchased.

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Bowling Green Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 89), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Bowling Green Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 89), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 89. Receipts for work done on the church building, subscriptions, and note of the Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1832), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1832), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1832. Holographic program book containing information from the club's programs from 3 September 1915 to June 1916.

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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 (Sc 1833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 (Sc 1833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1833. Signature of presidential candidate John Fitzgerald Kennedy obtained by a Bowling Green, Kentucky resident during a campaign trip to the city in 1960. The signature is on a small scrap of paper torn from a larger sheet. Includes the resident's 2009 reminiscence of the incident.

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Goff, William Lee, 1883-1965 (Mss 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Goff, William Lee, 1883-1965 (Mss 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 233. Chiefly letters from family and friends to Lee Goff, a Green County, Kentucky native, while he was working as a farm laborer in the Mid-West. The collection includes many courtship letters from various women.

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Saxton, Lashanda (Fa 359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Saxton, Lashanda (Fa 359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 359. Paper: "Home vs. College" written by LaShanda Saxton for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Townson Family Papers (Sc 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Townson Family Papers (Sc 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 85. Travel pass of Light Townson and family from South Carolina to Kentucky, 1788, and Townson's will, 1817; business papers of James Townson, 1835-1853 (4); slave bills of sale (2), 1802-1803; and miscellaneous items.

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Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 1830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 1830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1830. Letter, 24 July 1861, from Thomas Elliott Bramlette, Columbia, Kentucky to William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. in which he condemns U.S. District Court Judge Thomas B. Monroe and others as traitors and offers J.T. Boyle, who is loyal to the Union, as a replacement.

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Taylor, Richard F. (Sc 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Taylor, Richard F. (Sc 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan and photograph of commission (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 86. Richard F. Taylor's commission received as a member of the Middle Green River Battalion Volunteer Militia, 1865. Also promissory notes, 1875 (3), and blank affidavit regarding voter qualification, ca. 1900.

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Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 84. Teacher's certificate of Miss Jane Hunt issued by the Common School Commissioner, Butler County, Kentucky.

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Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 82. Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb's original manuscript of an editorial, "A Leaf From a Memory Book," which appeared in "Kentucky Progress Magazine" (Spring 1933), and two letters concerning the manuscript.

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Taxation - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Taxation - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 83. Holographic copy, 4 May 1822, of aggregate statement of federal taxes paid within the 6th District of Kentucky, which evidently included Logan County, accompanied by a certificate affirming Stephen Pleasonton as acting Commissioner of Revenue and signed by John Quincy Adams, U.S. Secretary of State, 21 October 1822.

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Plain, Sarah W. (Sc 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Plain, Sarah W. (Sc 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 81. Deed conveying 74 acres of land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, by Sarah W. Plain and others, to Samuel P. Wilkins.

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Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898 (Sc 333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898 (Sc 333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 333. Photocopy of a letter written by Dr. David Wendel Yandell to General Albert Sidney Johnston, concerning projected Confederate hospital facilities at Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1861. Explanatory note about the item from William Roberts Wood to Margie Helm.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 79. Letter, 21 November 1932, written by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Martha Washington Jackson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which expresses his thanks for her loyalty to the Democratic party; also notes given on the history of Bowling Green by Jackson.

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Freemasons - Greenville, Kentucky (Sc 71), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Freemasons - Greenville, Kentucky (Sc 71), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 71. Official Circular No. 5 of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky Knights of Honor issued by the office of the Grand Dictator, William H. Yost, Jr., Greenville, Kentucky, urging the recruitment of new members.

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Cowan, Jane, 1829-1909 (Sc 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Cowan, Jane, 1829-1909 (Sc 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 75. Postcard written by Jane Cowan, South Union, Kentucky, to Alex Duvall, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which she expresses her thanks for some magazines he has sent to her.

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Ua1c10 Non Wku Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2009

Ua1c10 Non Wku Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Non-WKU images. University faculty, staff, students or alumni may appear in these images that occur outside the scope of the university's administration.

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Once Was Lost, Or Turtles All The Way Down, Evan Gribbins Jan 2009

Once Was Lost, Or Turtles All The Way Down, Evan Gribbins

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

These are seven stories set in the rural, Central Kentucky Town of Lebanon. These stories, besides the intermission, may or may not chronicle the life of one young man. They revolve around the young man’s life and friends during his time living in the area and his sense of loss upon his return.

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Sexton, Edward Vernon, 1925-2007 (Sc 1825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2008

Sexton, Edward Vernon, 1925-2007 (Sc 1825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1825. Documents, news clippings, ephemera, and correspondence related to Edward Vernon Sexton's military service in Word War II.

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