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Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 678. Correspondence, papers and photographs of the Tichenor family of McLean County, Kentucky, and related families, especially Cherry, Short, and Hutchison. Much relates to the home front during World War II during the Navy service of high school teacher Thomas Cherry Tichenor.
Eagles, Annabelle Deane, 1873-1967 (Sc 3495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eagles, Annabelle Deane, 1873-1967 (Sc 3495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3495. Family letters to Annabelle (Mrs. Hawes B.) Eagles, Owensboro, Kentucky. Her widowed mother describes her sewing, household decorating, illness outbreaks, and the activities of mutual friends. Her husband writes to her while she is in Michigan, Illinois, New Jersey, and Buena Vista Springs in Logan County, Kentucky. He also writes to her from Dawson Springs, Kentucky and from hospital in Louisville. Annabelle’s sister-in-law writes from East Orange, New Jersey, with family news and urges her to visit; she also quizzes Annabelle about her bowel ailment in order to secure recommendations for treatment. …
Mcconnell, Harry Claude, 1879-1973 (Sc 3490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcconnell, Harry Claude, 1879-1973 (Sc 3490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3490. Letters of H. C. McConnell, proprietor of Valley View Stock Farm, Princeton, Kentucky, to his wife Sudie in St. Louis, Missouri. A letter of 14 November 1915[?] refers to family and their young daughter Josephine, and evaluates photographs made by Sudie; a letter of 3 March[?] 1919 mentions several family members, the prevalence of influenza in Cadiz, Kentucky, his work on another “plant bed,” and the weights of their two children.
Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 677. Chiefly courtship letters written by Edward Daniel Covington while teaching high school industrial arts classes at St. Petersburg High School in Florida to his girlfriend and future wife, Evelyn Reynolds, Cave City, Kentucky. The 1933 letters mention the financial effects of the Great Depression and the difficulty of paying teachers.
Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 676. Letters, papers, photographs and scrapbooks of the Perry family, principally Gideon Babcock Perry, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Hopkinsville, Kentucky and his children, Reverend Henry G. Perry, Chicago, Illinois, and Emily B. Perry, Hopkinsville.
Smith, Sudie H., 1892-1973 - Letters To (Sc 3454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Sudie H., 1892-1973 - Letters To (Sc 3454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3454. Letter, 14 December 1912, from a beau named Claude at Princeton, Kentucky, to Miss Sudie Smith, Cerulean, Kentucky in which he discusses their friendship and correspondence and a recent illness he has experienced. On Princeton Hotel stationery.
Stewart, Robert Lee, 1873-1963 (Sc 3415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stewart, Robert Lee, 1873-1963 (Sc 3415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3415. Letters, 30 May 1956 and 15 May 1957, to Mary Ellen Richards, Franklin, Kentucky, from Lee Stewart, Morehead, Kentucky. He encloses poems and song lyrics relating to Kentucky history, and comments on the Rowan County, Kentucky centennial celebrations. He also encloses his newspaper article about a Fayette County, Kentucky judge, legislator and poet.
Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks (Sc 3383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks (Sc 3383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3383. Correspondence, news clippings, documents, photos, certificates, and other ephemera related to the Kentucky state Elks and the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Lodge (#320). Much of this revolves around leadership roles played by William P. Stamps, Jr. of Bowling Green. Also includes constitution and by-laws as well as minutes of the Bowling Green auxiliary, 1986-1987.
Hill, Ruth Elizabeth (Phillips), 1894-1980 (Sc 3340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hill, Ruth Elizabeth (Phillips), 1894-1980 (Sc 3340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3340. Typescript, with handwritten notations, of a speech by Ruth Hill, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled “Some of ‘My Favorite Things.’” First given at the Chautauqua Club, a Bowling Green, Kentucky literary club, in 1965 and thereafter to several women’s clubs, the speech reviews Mrs. Hill’s appreciation for theater, scientific progress, and other aspects of life that “shut out the winds of pessimism and depression.”
Smith, Ruth R., 1907-1992 - Letters To (Sc 3320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Ruth R., 1907-1992 - Letters To (Sc 3320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3320. Invitation to a children’s party on 19 October 1912 sent to Ruth Smith, postmarked Johnston City, Illinois; also letter, 18 August 1922, to Ruth in Sebree, Kentucky, regarding graduation ceremonies for Webster County schools. The letter includes the program for the ceremony on 30 August 1922 and recommends attire for graduates.
Cunningham, Alice Evelyn, 1890-1943 (Sc 3319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cunningham, Alice Evelyn, 1890-1943 (Sc 3319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 3319. Letter, 27 February 1909, of Alice E. Cunningham, Louisville, Kentucky, to her cousin Earle Cunningham. The letter is addressed to Georgia, but Earle appears to be in Florida. Alice teases him with a description of a “Southern beauty” visiting her home and asks him to write with news of his “numerous love affairs” with Southern girls. She also describes attending a church social “overrun” with seminary students attracted by the food, a Martha Washington Tea held by her Young Ladies Society, and a show at Louisville’s …