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Kentucky State Penitentiary - Deeds, 1884 (Sc 1586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Kentucky State Penitentiary - Deeds, 1884 (Sc 1586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1586. Copies of fifteen deeds for land in Lyon County, Kentucky near Eddyville on which the Kentucky State Penitentiary was built.


Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 194. Scrapbooks (3) of manuscript music, chiefly gospel music, written and composed by Arlis Odell Harmon, of Allen County, Kentucky.


Duncan, Matilda Jane "Mattie" (Backus), 1896-1986 (Sc 1585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Duncan, Matilda Jane "Mattie" (Backus), 1896-1986 (Sc 1585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1585. Duncan's brief remembrances of people, businesses and educational institutions in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She made these comments while looking at a copy of "Do You Remember When?", a small pictorial history of Bowling Green, published in 1970.


Mcnear, William, 1814-1864 (Sc 1578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Mcnear, William, 1814-1864 (Sc 1578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1578. Marriage license of William McNear and his wife Emily (Harmon) McNear; letter from George W. Craven, commander of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry (Union) notifying Emily of McNear's 1864 death; her widow's application for a U.S. Army pension.


Thigpen, Lorna Moore (Sc 1581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Thigpen, Lorna Moore (Sc 1581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1581. Transcription of a taped interview with Gale Hudnall, Riverside, Warren County, Kentucky conducted as part of the oral history project "Riverside Remembrances." Hudnall discusses his family and the social life and history of Riverside and Richardsville, Kentucky. Interview conducted by Lorna Moore Thigpen.


Ewing Family - Logan County, 1813-1888 (Sc 1572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Ewing Family - Logan County, 1813-1888 (Sc 1572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1572. Deeds, wills, and other business papers of the Ewing family, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes two letters, 1813 & 1814, from Henry S. Pirkey, Rockingham County, Virginia, to Robert Ewing, Logan County, related to land sales. also, information about Ewing family genealogy, and a memorial sermon given for George Washington Ewing by David Morton at Red River Church, 1888.


Davis, Ezra (Sc 1571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Davis, Ezra (Sc 1571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1571. Miscellaneous papers, including notes and receipts relating to the business affairs of Ezra Davis and J. C. Burbage/Burbridge. Includes receipts from tobacco warehouses in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes letters of Kitty McGehee, Irvington, Kentucky, to Virginia Hensley, and yearbook-style biographies by four schoolgirls.


Theobald, Harriett Byron (Mcallister) Blanton, 1798-1888 (Sc 1591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Theobald, Harriett Byron (Mcallister) Blanton, 1798-1888 (Sc 1591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1591. Letter from Harriett B. Theobald, Frankfort, Kentucky, to her sons, Orville and William Blanton, Baltimore, Maryland, in which she discusses leaving Kentucky to be with them. Also includes discussions of Frankfort news and family matters.


Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1590. Letter to the editor (Park City Daily News?) by Charles Davenport, reminiscing about growing up in the Warren County, Kentucky community of Greencastle. Includes photos of James Ford and Thomas L. Stephens, builders of the Greencastle lock and dam on Barren River.


Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 43. Account books of different firms and individuals in Greensburg, Kentucky, including records of general merchandise stores, a hotel, a tailoring shop, the Kentucky Stage Company, and a lodging stable.


Knight, Lillian Eleanor, 1919-2003 (Sc 1580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Knight, Lillian Eleanor, 1919-2003 (Sc 1580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and digital copy of original for Manuscripts Small Collection 1580, a reminiscence written by Lillian Eleanor Knight concerning the 1937 Flood in Louisville, Kentucky.


Barton, Joshua (Lg 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Barton, Joshua (Lg 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 419. Original land grant, 24 March 1816, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Joshua Barton 30 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.


Walker, John (Lg 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Walker, John (Lg 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 420. Original land grant, 2 April 1816, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Walker 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.


Maxwell, David (Lg 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Maxwell, David (Lg 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 422. Original land grant, 29 June 1818, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to David Maxwell 50 acres in Warren County.


Boatman, John, 1842-1916 (Sc 1611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Boatman, John, 1842-1916 (Sc 1611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1611. Letter dated 10 September 1861 from Union soldier John Boatman, Paducah, Kentucky, to his family in Paris, Illinois describing conditions in Paducah. Envelope imprinted with red and blue patriotic image of clasped hands and the phrase "Our hearts and hands for the Union."


Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 40. Fifty-three diaries (1859-1918) and other writings of Henry Clay Northcott, 1822-1918, Methodist circuit preacher and farmer of northern Kentucky; correspondence (1870-1883) of his daughter, music teacher Kate N. Thomas, 1850-1889; and her husband, Bruce F. Thomas, 1853?-1882, lawyer of Vanceburg, Kentucky.


Freeman, John & Hamilton Freeman (Lg 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Freeman, John & Hamilton Freeman (Lg 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 412. Copy land grant, 21 June 1799, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John and Hamilton Freeman, 666-2/3 acres on the west fork of the middle fork of Bays Creek in Kentucky.


Pirkey, Henry S., D. 1827 (Lg 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Pirkey, Henry S., D. 1827 (Lg 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 416. Original land grant, 8 June 1815, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Henry S. Pirkey 200 acres in Livingston County, Kentucky.


Ewing, Robert, 1760-1832 (Lg 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Ewing, Robert, 1760-1832 (Lg 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 415. Original land grant, 17 June 1797, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Ewing 200 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.


Richey, James (Lg 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Richey, James (Lg 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 413. Copy of land grant, 12 June 1806, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James Richey 100 acres in Livingston County, Kentucky.


Totty, Leonard, 1812?-1863? (Mss 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Totty, Leonard, 1812?-1863? (Mss 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 36. Account books consisting of a journal of customer's account, 1848-1854, and a ledger, 1848-1858, of Leonard Totty, a general merchant of Doughty's Creek, Warren County, Kentucky.


Horton, George Lewis, 1894-1957 (Sc 1569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Horton, George Lewis, 1894-1957 (Sc 1569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1569. Letter, 24 July 1923, from George L. Horton, Ashland, Kentucky to Clare Anderson, Cleveland, Ohio, concerning her upcoming visit to Ashland. Includes a colorful handkerchief printed with the nursery rhyme "Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross" that was enclosed with the letter.


Gingles Collection (Mss 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Gingles Collection (Mss 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 21. Dr. John Thomas Gingles, Kirksey, Calloway County, Kentucky, account books, 1866-1870, 1872-1875, 1880, 1884-1885; account book, 1851-1878, probably his father's, James A. Gingles; typescript of 1946 paper entitled "Vitamin Therapy" by his son Dr. Hunter W. Gingles, Hardburly, Perry County, Kentucky; University of Louisville Medical School commencement booklet, 1915; and letters and receipts. Includes four copies of The Murray Weekly News, 1886-1887 (see "Additional Files" below for scans).


Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1846 (Sc 1258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1846 (Sc 1258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1258. Coroner’s inquest, 11 June 1846, into the death of Fielding Bettersworth, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The commissioners made a finding of intoxication leading to death by drowning.


New Friendship Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

New Friendship Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 178. This collection consists chiefly of membership lists and minutes of the New Friendship Baptist Church of Logan, Kentucky, 1834-1877, 1898-1988. Also included is an 1895 history of the church, Articles of Faith, and Rules of Decorum for the congregation.


Follin, Ethel Alma, 1912-1989 (Sc 1829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Follin, Ethel Alma, 1912-1989 (Sc 1829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1829. Paper: "A Study of Economic Conditions of Bowling Green, Kentucky" written by Ethel Alma Follin.


Jones, George - Letters To (Sc 1564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Jones, George - Letters To (Sc 1564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1564. Two letters to George Jones from Merlin (last name not given) describing life at Camp Taylor, a World War I training facility in Louisville, Kentucky. Includes a photo of Jones in uniform.


Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of diary (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 1561. Civil War diary, 1861-1864, of Robert Allen Dearmin. He served with the 2nd Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, which saw service in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Also includes correspondence of the Dearmin and Lowry families. Associated data about the collection included.


Umberger, Eugene B., Jr. (Sc 1565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Umberger, Eugene B., Jr. (Sc 1565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1565. Paper titled "The York Farm: A Contribution to Folk Housing Documentation" written by Eugene B. Umberger, Jr. for a geography class at Western Kentucky University. Includes photos and diagrams of various farm structures.


Clagett, John Henry, 1916-2013 (Mss 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Clagett, John Henry, 1916-2013 (Mss 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 10. Typed manuscript copy of John Henry Clagett's novel "Cradle of the Sun", published in 1952 by Crown Publishers, New York. Also includes clippings about Clagett and two short stories by him.