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Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 552. Personal and professional correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian. Includes ancestral and family correspondence and papers, photographs, and genealogical research on the Helm, Carson, Porter, Blakey and related families.

Bowling Green Country Club, Inc. - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2983. Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the Bowling Green, Country Club, Inc., together with notice of members meeting and proxy for voting thereon, 1953; by-laws and membership rules, 1958; rules governing club guests, n.d.

Parent Teacher Association - Austin Tracy Elementary School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2985. Lists of presidents, officers and committees for the Austin Tracy Elementary School Parent Teacher Association. Includes summaries of programming for 1964-1966 and 1971-1972.

Payne Family - Bible Records (Sc 2984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2984. Genealogical records removed from the Bible of the Payne family, Barren County, Kentucky.

Logan County, Kentucky - Motor Operators' License Register, 1940-1946 (Mss 568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 568. Register listing in alphabetical order the people who registered for a drivers license in Logan County, Kentucky, from 1940 to 1946. Most entries contain the following information: name, address, date of birth, sex, race, physical features (color of eyes and hair, weight and height), original license number and dates of renewals for each individual.

Denny, John, 1750-1834 (Sc 2979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2978. Power of attorney, 25 May 1824, of John Denny, Mercer County, Kentucky, appointing John Guthrie, also of Mercer County, his agent and attorney for the purpose of pursuing, regaining possession of, and disposing of six slaves seized by James Denny and Asher Labertew. Includes detailed physical descriptions of the slaves. Denny and Labertew biographical data is also included.

Manning, Will Paul, Jr., 1928-2018 (Sc 2980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2980. Sketch by Will Paul Manning of stone chimneys constructed by Confederate forces during the Civil War, as he remembered seeing them on his family farm near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes explanatory notes, which also mention a “pest house” in the vicinity of the farm.

Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 567. Correspondence, speeches and scrapbooks related to the life of Rodes Kirby Myers, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1939 to 1943. Includes clippings and speeches from political campaigns. Also includes three scrapbooks of clippings related to the trial of Henry Herman Denhardt for the murder of Verna Garr Taylor in 1936.

Gates, Lloyd W., 1830-1890 (Sc 2971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2971. Business and political postcards, chiefly sent to attorney Lloyd W. Gates, Calhoun, Kentucky. Topics range from political patronage to debt collection.

Griffin Family Papers (Sc 2969), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2969. Newspaper clipping of school children at the Weir School in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 1933; WWII chapel program dated 26 August 1945 with a note written by Clifford Griffin; and an address book listing contact information for friends "in service" during the World War II which belonged to Elmer Lee Griffin.

Sargent, George Henry, 1828-1917 (Mss 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of a portion of a diary (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 564. Diary kept by George Henry Sargent from 1 May 1851 to 10 January 1853. The Harvard student writes on a variety of subjects, including education, religion, historical events, travel, etc. Of particular interest is a three-month sojourn in 1852 with his sister, Lucy Baldwin (Sargent) Rupert in Louisville, Kentucky. While in Kentucky, he also visits Henderson and Mammoth Cave.

American Party - Kentucky (Sc 2972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2972. Founding documents, press releases, forms, and announcements related to the American Party in Kentucky. Includes a sermon denouncing the National Council on Churches.

Morse, Alexander Porter, 1842-1921 (Sc 2967), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text transcription (Click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 2967. Letter, 9 December 1861, of A. P. Morse, serving with the First Louisiana Cavalry. Writing to his father from camp near Bowling Green, Kentucky, he describes troop numbers, movements and fortifications in the area. He also refers to an outbreak of measles and to dining with an officer involved in the Battle of Belmont near Columbus, Kentucky.

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Jan. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive": Using Fx's Justified To Form A Cultural Understanding Of Crime In Harlan County, Kentucky, Morgan Stone

Online Theses and Dissertations

Rural southern violence has long been a sensationalized issue. From the Hatfield and McCoy feud to Deliverance, social issues unique to the rural south have received a significant amount of focus within modern popular culture. One of the most recent and popular examples of southern culture and violence is the television network FX’s Justified, set in Harlan County, Kentucky. The storyline follows US Marshal Raylan Givens as he is sent back to Kentucky after a misstep during his tenure in Miami. After arriving in his home state, he finds himself constantly drawn back to his hometown of Harlan, Kentucky, whether …

Ua1c11/89 Jim Burton Photo Collection, Wku Archives

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Photographs and negatives taken by Jim Burton documenting life in western Kentucky primarily between the years 1975 and 1980. Venues include Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Owensboro, Madisonville, Cumberland County and Scott County.

Band Formations - Burton was hired by WKU band director to photograph half time performances. It was a freelance job paying $250 per winter semester which allowed him to pay his car insurance.

Bobby Sandige - Bobby was from Burton's hometown of Madisonville and was married in college. Besides being a full-time student, he worked full-time at an underground coal mine. Burton did a feature story on …

Northside, Jesse L. Houk

Theses and Dissertations--English

The Northside of Lexington, Kentucky is an area with its own culture, community and art. While living in this community I was able to learn, grow and develop alongside this newly renovated area. The people and their lives intersect in such a way that creates a tension at times. However, many social awareness advocates vie for the success of this neighborhood for many years to come. The objective of studying such an area as the Northside in Lexington is to focus on the similarites rather than the differences in culture, community and artistic endeavor. With a collection of essays and …

Bank Of The United States (Sc 2963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2963. Deed, 11 May 1827, from the Bank of the United States to William Ray, Louisville, Kentucky, of a tract of land in Louisville. Signed by Nicholas Biddle, President of the Bank of the United States, in the presence of Joseph Watson, Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Harrod, James, 1746?-1792? - Relating To (Sc 2962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2962. Inventory of the personal estate and slaves of the late James Harrod, Mercer County, Kentucky, as appraised on 5 February 1794; and accounts of the estate, 19 May 1798, showing payments and settlements by Anna Harrod, executrix.

Bath County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 2958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2958. Correspondence of two related Bath County, Kentucky families. A lonesome Sarah L. Boyd writes to her mother, Elizabeth A. “Lizzie” Rogers, from boarding school in Fleming County, Kentucky in 1865, where she discusses having her photograph taken, “hateful” schoolmates, and provisions from her family of clothing, whiskey and bitters. In the 1880s, Ida Lee Bell receives letters from cousins, friends and suitors with family news and local gossip. One of her letters voices disapproval of young men who drink when calling on ladies. The letters mention many family members by first name.

Elections And Election Campaigns - Gallatin County, Kentucky (Sc 2960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2960. Certification of vote results in an election in Gallatin County, Kentucky on 3 November 1868 for electors for President and Vice President of the United States and for Member of Congress for Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District. Includes names and the number of votes received.

Roberts, Samuel F., B. 1823? (Sc 2956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2956. Mortgage of a one-third interest in a steam sawmill in Lewis County, Kentucky, given by Samuel F. Roberts to Leonard B. Cox and James Bowman, his securities on a peace bond given to the Fleming County, Kentucky Circuit Court, and as security for a promissory note for the legal services of L.M. Cox and L.B. Cox.

Felts Log House (Mss 551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 551. Photos, transcripts, design plans, and education materials about the Felts Log House, a log structure originally built in Logan County, Kentucky, in the early nineteenth century and moved to the campus of Western Kentucky University in 1978. Contains a variety of worksheets for children, furnishing plans by WKU, and news clippings about the house. It also contains transcripts of interviews about the house from Felts descendants and Sam Watkins.

Howell Family (Sc 2953), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2953. Farm ledger belonging to the Howell family of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes a letter, 26 April 1925, drafted in Alvaton, Kentucky, to Clarence Howell and family.

Louisville And Nashville Railroad - Horse Cave, Kentucky (Sc 2951), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2951. Correspondence, sketches, blueprints and drawings relating to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad depot at Horse Cave, Kentucky, the adjacent tracks, roads and properties, and licenses for use of railroad rights-of-way. Blueprints and drawings have been catalogued as AD 1515.

Wiggins, Otis Lee, B. 1905 (Sc 2949), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2949. Two cassette tapes which include an interview conducted by Robert H. McGaughey with Otis Lee Wiggins about the resettlement program undertaken by the Resettlement Administration Project 14 in Christian County, Kentucky. Wiggins was an administrator for the U.S. Resettlement Administration and discusses the Christian County program in great detail.

Mccurdy, Thomas (Lg 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 461. Land grant, 8 May 1805, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas McCurdy 40 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.

Mccurdy, Thomas (Lg 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 460. Land grant, 11 June 1797, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas McCurdy 200 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.

Mckinney, William (Lg 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 459. Original land grant, 16 May 1823, by which John Adair, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William McKinney 17 acres on Richland Creek in Butler County, Kentucky.