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Martin Family Papers (Sc 2152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin Family Papers (Sc 2152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2152. Letters, receipts, legal documents, bills, and notes of the Elbridge G. Martin family of Allen County, Kentucky. A number of the items relate to the settlement of the Benjamin Pulliam estate.
Manley Collection (Sc 2146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manley Collection (Sc 2146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2146. Undertaking account book, undertaker's licenses (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans), and other related items from the Philip R. Manley & Brother Funeral Home in Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky.
Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2147. Paper: "Jennie Green: Portrait of a Progressive Kentucky Woman" written by Karen Wolford for a Western Kentucky University history class.
Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2145. Three letters regarding the Civil War pension of Ansel Wilson, Grayson County, Kentucky, who served with the 17th Kentucky Infantry (Union).
Bowling Green High School - Reunions, 1960 (Sc 2150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green High School - Reunions, 1960 (Sc 2150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2150. Correspondence related to the 1960 reunion of the Bowling Green High School class of 1940. The letters were chiefly written to one of the organizing committee members, Frances (Robinson) Russell of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a list of class members.
Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), B. 1941 (Sc 2142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), B. 1941 (Sc 2142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2142. Typed biography titled "Julia Neal," which discusses the professional career of Mary Julia Neal (7 p.); two oral interviews with Neal conducted by Watkins which discuss Neal's career and particularly her work related to the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky; photocopy of Neal's first article on the South Union Shakers in 1926 also included.
Middleswarth, Victoria (Sc 2129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Middleswarth, Victoria (Sc 2129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2129. Abridged index compiled from Shaker Record A, 1804-1836; Shaker Record B, 1836-1864; and Journal of the North and East Families, 1888-1897, for a "Lunchtime Learning" program about Shaker food held at the Kentucky Library & Museum, Western Kentucky University.
Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2131. Receipt book kept by George Mitchell, deputy clerk of the Warren County Court [Kentucky]; entries list amount paid to record deeds and to copy deeds, mortgages, and other documents. payments were also received by C.E. Blewett, clerk.
Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2138. Copies of clippings from a late-nineteenth century Warren County, Kentucky scrapbook, probably kept by a member of Moates's family. Includes obituaries, poems, recipes, and essays.
Morris, Hiram Chesterfield, 1880-1949 (Sc 2124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morris, Hiram Chesterfield, 1880-1949 (Sc 2124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2124. Legal papers, chiefly deeds and mortgages, related to land transfers among the Mitchell, Buckner, and Morris families of Simpson and Warren Counties. Also includes genealogical information concerning the Buckner, Morris, and Hegewald families.
Gray, John H. (Sc 2136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gray, John H. (Sc 2136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2136. Typewritten paper by John H. Gray, "Brief History of the Coal Industry in Western Kentucky and West Kentucky Coal Company." Includes a 1963 clipping relating to Gray's son.
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water-Sewer-Sanitation Commission (Sc 2135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water-Sewer-Sanitation Commission (Sc 2135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2135. Letter from Allen A. Ball, Commission engineer, to Mayor James H. Topmiller, and minutes of meeting between Commission and contractor to discuss citizen complaints over inconveniences caused by sewer expansion project.
Miller, Emmitt E., 1907-1985 (Sc 2130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Emmitt E., 1907-1985 (Sc 2130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2130. Miscellaneous deeds, will, tax receipts, stock certificate, and school trustee's report relating primarily to the Miller family of Muhlenberg County.
Brown-Hammer-Bryant Collection (Sc 2132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown-Hammer-Bryant Collection (Sc 2132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2132. Legal documents, chiefly deeds, from Monroe County, Kentucky relating to the Brown, Hammer and Bryant families. Also includes tax receipts and religious material.
Moore, Levi A. (Sc 2133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Levi A. (Sc 2133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2133. Certificates appointing Levi A. Moore, of Warren County, Kentucky, a corporal in Company K, 52nd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, and discharging Moore from service.
Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Sc 2134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Sc 2134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2134. Letter written by Nancy Elam Moore, a Shaker at South Union, Kentucky, to her brother James Moore. She discusses her father's estate, particularly a piece of property located in Warren County, Ohio.
Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 242. Letters to John Dudley Cosby, Muhlenberg County, and his family, from other family members in Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi. Includes genealogical data, some of Cosby's personal papers, and his estate inventory.
"Is Kentucky A Southern State?", Leah Dale Pritchett
"Is Kentucky A Southern State?", Leah Dale Pritchett
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
his paper explores the cultural identity of Kentucky. Many people have asked, “Is Kentucky as Southern State?” Being the borderland between the North and the South, the Commonwealth has been viewed as Southern, as part of the Midwest, and something completely unique. To define Kentucky as Southern, I have examined the literary works of different regional authors. Looking at the character traits those authors have relegated to their manufactured people, I have decided, from the evidence provided, whether that author considers his or her setting as part of the South. One can tell whether the author identifies with the South …