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Gott Collection, 1922-1952 (Sc 1609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Gott Collection, 1922-1952 (Sc 1609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1609. Chiefly post-World War II letters from Peggy Purves, London, England, to Warren County native John C. Gott in which she reveals working conditions, food shortages and her feelings for him; other Gott family correspondence included. Also, letter to Purves from a friend in New York, 1946, relating her impressions of the city.

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Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 201. Correspondence and research notes relating to biographical information compiled for labels attached to portraits of Warren County, Kentucky Circuit Court judges. Copies of the labels and photos of five of the portraits are included. Detailed information about Judge John B. Rodes is included.

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Grider, John Hobson, 1822-1884 (Sc 1605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Grider, John Hobson, 1822-1884 (Sc 1605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1605. Military records of Union soldier Grider who served as a staff officer with the 9th Kentucky Infantry and the 52nd Kentucky Infantry. Also, documents relating to pension requests made by Grider and his widow, Kittie A. Grider.

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Ratliff, Amelia Ellen (Edelen) Bosley, 1918-2002 (Sc 1613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Ratliff, Amelia Ellen (Edelen) Bosley, 1918-2002 (Sc 1613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1613. Letter, 7 September 1978, from Amelia E. Ratliff, Lebanon, Kentucky to Irene Moss Sumpter, Bowling Green, Kentucky about Sumpter's book and the McElroy and Skiles families.

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Harper, J. (Sc 1612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Harper, J. (Sc 1612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1612. Letter, 12 September 1862, from Harper, Cincinnati, Ohio to William Single discussing conditions in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. He expresses fervent pro-Union and anti-slavery sentiments.

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Jones, William Forest, 1891-1975 (Sc 1601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Jones, William Forest, 1891-1975 (Sc 1601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1601. Copy of William Forest Jones's 1918 naval enrollment record and 1921 naval discharge; copy of 1924 certificate of marriage between Jones and Lizzie Kathleen Harlan. Also, information on the Jones and Harlan families.

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Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1608. Deed for sale of Green Brackin's Allen County, Kentucky land to G.B. Woodcock, dated 30 August 1859.

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Beula Villa Hotel, 1940-1968 (Sc 1606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Beula Villa Hotel, 1940-1968 (Sc 1606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1606. Reservation requests, receipts, and miscellaneous business correspondence related to the Beula Villa Hotel, Sulphur Well, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Also, 1968 news clipping featuring the hotel.

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Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1604. Copy of speech given by Charles Snow Guthrie, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, to the Kentucky Philological Association, Morehead, Kentucky, 4 March 1988, entitled "Eighteenth Century Kentucky Writing."

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Kentucky - Cavalry - 25th Regiment (Sc 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Kentucky - Cavalry - 25th Regiment (Sc 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 11. List of volunteers to serve under Isaac Shelby in the War of 1812 in the 25th Regiment of the Kentucky militia from Warren County, Kentucky. Signed by Colonel George Hudspeth, Commandant, 25th Regiment Kentucky Militia (R.K.M.)

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Antrim, John (Sc 1589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Antrim, John (Sc 1589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1589. Letter, 20 June 1848, from John Antrim, Concordia, Meade County, Kentucky to Elizabeth Gage, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, commenting on his dry goods job and the community's social activities.

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Downing, H. H. (Sc 1573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Downing, H. H. (Sc 1573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1573. Letter dated 21 January 1862, written by H. H. Downing, serving with the Union army near Somerset, Kentucky, to his brother and sisters. He relates events concerning the fighting around Somerset and the death of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer, and sends a piece of Zollicoffer's coat as a souvenir.

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Poak, David W., 1842-1879 (Sc 1584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Poak, David W., 1842-1879 (Sc 1584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1584. Civil War letter, Union, from David W. Poak, of the 30th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Camp McClernand near Cairo, Illinois, to his sister Sadie J. Poak, New Castle, Pennsylvania. He discusses some maneuvers in western Kentucky, near Columbus and Paducah.

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Cushing, Nathaniel, 1762-1827 (Sc 1594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Cushing, Nathaniel, 1762-1827 (Sc 1594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1594. Two business letters, 16 July 1817 and 27 April 1818, from Leonard Wheeler, Lexington, Kentucky to Nathaniel Cushing, Pembroke Massachusetts. Invoices contained in letters concern tobacco prices and sales.

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Thomas, Mazie Lee (Allen), 1906-2001 (Mss 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Thomas, Mazie Lee (Allen), 1906-2001 (Mss 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Scrapbook of artwork created by Mazie Lee (Allen) Thomas, an African American folk artist from Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky. The scrapbook was compiled by Thomas's niece, Vicki Lawrence. Also includes a biographical sketch, slides of four oil paintings, news clippings and a short videotape.

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Ford, Mrs. Cannon, Collector (Sc 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Ford, Mrs. Cannon, Collector (Sc 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 5. Survey for John Tagart of 200 acres of land in Christian County, Kentucky, 1799, and a medical prescription, 1827?

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Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1916 (Mss 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1916 (Mss 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 198. Three indices for Barren County, Kentucky Quarterly Court records; the actual court records are not part of this collection and are located in the Barren County courthouse. Two of the indices are not dated, and the third one marked "Executions" is dated 1916.

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Garrison Store - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Garrison Store - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 197. Account book kept for John W. Garrison’s store at Polkville in northeastern Warren County, Kentucky. Includes accounts for many county citizens of that region.

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Inter Agency Community Council, 1977-1978 (Sc 1582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Inter Agency Community Council, 1977-1978 (Sc 1582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1582. Minutes of the Inter Agency Community Council, a Bowling Green, Kentucky group composed of members from various community organizations.

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Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1597. Letters to William Perry Stamps and Rosalyn Stamps, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to their leadership in the Elks and its auxiliary. Includes constitution and by-laws of the ladies auxiliary of the Bowling Green lodge.

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Maschak, Jay (Sc 1577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Maschak, Jay (Sc 1577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1577. Letter and postcard from Jay Maschak, Saudia Arabia, to Kelly Butler, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, during the Persian Gulf War. Maschak was in the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division. Includes a news clipping about the correspondence.

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Moss, C. Mcelroy, 1900-1965 (Sc 1583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Moss, C. Mcelroy, 1900-1965 (Sc 1583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1583. Letters, photos, and newspaper clippings documenting Moss's U.S. Navy career. Includes news clipping related to educator, Mary Dishman, and a news clipping about Moss's father John McKenzie Moss.

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Hardin Family Papers (Sc 1595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Hardin Family Papers (Sc 1595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1595. Correspondence of various Hardin family members. Includes a description of an 1898 trip to Florida. Also, 1929 letters from F. B. Green, Evansville, Wisconsin, to Oscar C. Fletcher, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to dairy cattle.

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Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected Civil War material (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1568. Receipts, inventories and letters relating to the business enterprises and travels of merchant Wade Veluzat, Barren County, Kentucky. Civil War letters to Union sympathizer Veluzat, military passes, and letters from his wife Eliza (Clark) Veluzat describing the family's situation at home. Material related to the Veluzat and Pace family genealogies is also included.

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Brown, Claude M., 1905-1978 (Sc 1579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Brown, Claude M., 1905-1978 (Sc 1579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1579. World War II letters from Kentucky native Claude M. Brown, stationed in Italy, to Elizabeth Propes, Louisville and Hodgenville, Kentucky. Letters to Brown from friend Ralph Hurley and Brown's 1945 travel itinerary from Italy to Kentucky.

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Bouldin Family Papers (Mss 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Bouldin Family Papers (Mss 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 195. This collection consists of business and personal correspondence and account books of the Bouldin Family of Cumberland County, Kentucky, and of Walter H. Parks of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Of special interest is an account book kept for Albert J. Armes, a patient at Central Kentucky Hospital in Lakeland, Kentucky.

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Knott Collection (Mss 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Knott Collection (Mss 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 53. Correspondence (business and family), business papers, speeches and drawings of J. Proctor Knott, 1830-1811, lawyer, congressman, and Kentucky governor, of Lebanon; family correspondence and business papers of Sarah (McElroy) Knott, 1833-1915; Civil War diaries and letters of Knott's mother (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts); letters of the Gibbs, McElroy and Chapman families chiefly of Marion and Warren Counties; clippings and photographs.

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Taliaferro Collection (Mss 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Taliaferro Collection (Mss 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 51. Copy of diary kept by Betsy Taliaferro (1800-1850) from 20 March 1838 to 8 April 1839, concerning her trip from Harrisonburg, Louisiana, to New Orleans to Versailles, Kentucky, her native home, by steamboat and stagecoach. Includes correspondence, notes, clippings, etc. of researcher Mary T. Moore regarding the diary.

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Dripping Spring Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Dripping Spring Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1588. Photocopies of the records of Dripping Spring Baptist Church, Olmstead (Logan County), Kentucky, 14 December 1850-31 March 1900; includes name indexes. Also included is a 125th anniversary program for the church, which incorporates a brief church history and a drawing of the building.

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Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 50. Correspondence of David Morton, correspondence concerning Morton Collection, speeches, essays, MSS: "Entries for a Diary," and MSS: "The Amateur Listener" -- diary, poems, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items of Morton, a poet and English professor born in Elkton, Kentucky.

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