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Larsh, Abraham (Sc 2965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Larsh, Abraham (Sc 2965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2965. Letter, 3 August 1828, from Abraham Larsh, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his cousin John Gardner, York County, Pennsylvania. He discusses the emboldening of opposition in Tennessee to Andrew Jackson, President John Quincy Adams’s rival, despite a recent assault by Jackson supporters. He also discusses the likelihood of Jackson’s alliance with former Vice President Aaron Burr in a plot to separate western states from the Union. While pleased with local crop yields and an expressed supporter of internal improvements, Larsh looks “with anxiety” to the completion of the railroad at the Ohio River, …
Elections And Election Campaigns - Gallatin County, Kentucky (Sc 2960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elections And Election Campaigns - Gallatin County, Kentucky (Sc 2960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Sawyer, Charles W., 1887-1979 (Sc 2961), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sawyer, Charles W., 1887-1979 (Sc 2961), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2961. “Barkley,” a narrative by Charles Sawyer describing his experiences as a delegate-at-large from Ohio to the 1952 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and particularly his efforts to promote the nomination for President of then-Vice President Alben W. Barkley. He includes an anecdote about attending the 1956 convention as an observer.
Westerman, Robert V., B. 1948 - Collector (Sc 2905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Westerman, Robert V., B. 1948 - Collector (Sc 2905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2905. Letters to Leonard Burchfield, Louisville, Kentucky, from Representative William O. Cowger (3rd District, Kentucky) and from Representative-elect Gene Snyder thanking him for his assistance in their elections. Includes two postcards from Cowger, sent from Venezuela and Cambodia.
Denhardt, Henry Herman, 1876-1937 (Mss 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Denhardt, Henry Herman, 1876-1937 (Mss 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 533. Correspondence, military orders, and instructional materials relating to Henry Herman Denhardt’s World War I service as a field artillery officer and postwar training as an officer in the Kentucky National Guard. Includes a few personal and political items relating to Denhardt’s campaign for Governor of Kentucky.
Brite, Henry Dearing, 1906-1976 (Mss 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brite, Henry Dearing, 1906-1976 (Mss 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Collections 532. Letters, programs, invitations, photographs and other political and social mementoes of Elizabeth Brite and her husband Henry, collected primarily during their years in Washington, D.C. when Elizabeth was secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s press secretary, Jonathan W. Daniels.
Ua3/2/1 President's Office-Garrett Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives
Ua3/2/1 President's Office-Garrett Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
General correspondence and subject files regarding Western Kentucky University.