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Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 352. Material related to Cecil Murray Elrod, chiefly about his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-21. Includes notes on planes and guns discussed during training, aviators flight log books, and other military papers. Also includes information about reunions of the Valley High School (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Class of 1943.
Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 345. Correspondence, legal documents, and sundry material related to the Meador, Richards, and Johnson families chiefly of Simpson County and Logan County, Kentucky. Also includes documents and correspondence from the King and Garrett families of Robertson and Sumner County, Tennessee. The attached 1842 letters are from R. M. Latimer to Caroline Garrett reporting the death and burial of her brother, George King, in Cuba; and to Caroline Garrett from another brother, John, discussing tensions with Mexico.
Arnold, Grace S., 1893-1983 (Mss 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Arnold, Grace S., 1893-1983 (Mss 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 338. Correspondence, clippings and programs of Grace S. Arnold, curator of Federal Hill in Bardstown, Kentucky. Inlcudes information and correspondence about Stephen Collins Foster and Federal Hill, said to have inspired Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home." Also includes correspondence and information about the Rowan family, owners of Federal Hill.
Bere, Jenny Rose, D. 1987 (Sc 2371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bere, Jenny Rose, D. 1987 (Sc 2371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2371. "Cale Young Rice[:] A Study of His Life and Work" by Jenny Rose Bere, "a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts," University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1939.
Chaney, Thomas Peyton (Sc 2395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chaney, Thomas Peyton (Sc 2395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2395. "An Analysis of the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren for Oral Interpretation," a thesis presented "in partial fulfillment of the requirements [for the] degree of Master of Arts," Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 1966.
Vogel, Mary Katherine, 1857-1945 (Sc 2381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vogel, Mary Katherine, 1857-1945 (Sc 2381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2381. Letters to Mary Katherine Vogel, Bowling Green, Kentucky from Queenie M. Coke, Russellville, Kentucky, related to consolation over family deaths; list of horses sired, 1871-1919; postcards and poetry.
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 334. Correspondence, clippings and genealogical data relating to the Dickerson and Venable families of Warren County, Kentucky, and related families. Includes military papers from the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Nahm, Max Brunswick, 1864-1958 (Mss 329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nahm, Max Brunswick, 1864-1958 (Mss 329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 329. Correspondence of Max B. Nahm relating mainly to his involvement with the Mammoth Cave National Park Association and the Kentucky National Park Commission in the establishment of Mammoth Cave National Park, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Includes some Association and Commission minutes. Also includes some of Nahm's speeches, writings, personal photographs, and material relating to the Nahm family.
Tolle, Donald James, 1918-1993 (Sc 2344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle, Donald James, 1918-1993 (Sc 2344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Typescripted World War II diary of Donald James Tolle, kept 1942-1945 while serving in England, Italy and North Africa with the Army Air Corps, 47th Bombardment Group (Light). Includes diary annotations made in 1988, materials from a 1979 reunion of the Bombardment Group, biographical data on Tolle, his obituary, and a colleague's remarks at his memorial service.
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 225. Correspondence, chiefly of the Covington family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, particularly that of Dr. Albert G. and Josephine (Wells) Covington. Also includes reference letters written to Jane (Hines) Morningstar about local history topics, including steamboats and the Hobson House Association.
Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2310. Sundry papers, including letters written by Albert L. Stevens from a military hospital in Russellville, Kentucky, to his brother William J. Stevens during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans and typescripts). The bulk of the collection consists of deeds and indentures of various Stevens family members, particularly William J., Robert W., and William W. Stevens of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Also includes fifty Bowling Green, Kentucky city operational licenses for the Broadway Roller Mills, 1923-1974.
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 330. Letters written to parents, friends, faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University by students during their service in Word War II. Includes some press releases, newspaper articles and photos. Also includes a history and travel log of the USS Stevens.
Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2318. Chemistry notebook of Ward Cullin Sumpter, probably kept about 1930 while he was a doctoral student at Yale University. Includes other miscellaneous documents: a tribute to a church's departing pastor, a draft petition in support of an anti-cigarette law, and a poem relating to the 1928 presidential election.
Hall, Betty Kathleen, 1908-1995 (Sc 2298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hall, Betty Kathleen, 1908-1995 (Sc 2298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2298. "From Childhood Through the White House: Ronald and Nancy Reagan," a biography written by Betty Kathleen Hall in the form of a narrative poem and illustrated by John Warren Oakes. Inlcudes sheet music for "The Voice of the National Rose" with lyrics by Hall, and an autographed photo of the Reagans.
Burt, John D., B. 1955 (Mss 325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burt, John D., B. 1955 (Mss 325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 325. Proof copy of a book titled "Democracy and Poetry: Robert Penn Warren and the Fate of Inwardness." (365 p.) This manuscript was adapted and later published as "Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism."
Dickerson, Rosa Belle (Praigg), 1843-1902 (Mss 327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickerson, Rosa Belle (Praigg), 1843-1902 (Mss 327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 327. Stories, poems and lyrics written by Rosa Belle (Praigg) Dickerson, a native of Boyle County, Kentucky and resident of Warren County, Kentucky for magazines and newspapers under her name and the pen name "Violet Woods" or "Violette Woods." Includes unpublished material, correspondence, photographs, biographical information, and speeches she delivered at her college graduation.
Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 2295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 2295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2295. Diary of Johanna Louisa "Josie" Underwood, the daughter of a prominent Bowling Green, Kentucky family. She records her experiences while living in Scotland, where her father was serving as consul, from 1862 to 1864. She also describes her travel through several European countries and her return to the United States in 1864, when the family spent a year in San Francisco. She writes observantly about places and people, news of the Civil War, and family events. The diary includes a few early entries by her mother and summaries of family members's whereabouts …
Bell, Cincinnatus Douglas, 1833-1884 (Mss 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bell, Cincinnatus Douglas, 1833-1884 (Mss 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 234. Letters of Cincinnatus Douglas Bell, written from Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia while serving in Woodward's 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) during the Civil War, and two diaries kept mostly during his service in Tennessee. Also includes other correspondence of Bell, his wife Anne, and members of the Bell family. Several letters extend sympathy on the death of Bell's daughter Minnie.
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 317. Professional correspondence, short stories, book and story manuscripts, author's notes, reviews, and primary and secondary research materials relating to the literary career of Emanie Louise Nahm Philips, a Bowling Green native. Includes some photographs, notices and reviews relating to her work as an artist, family biographical material, and personal correspondence.
Hatfield-Gaines Family, 1834-1981 (Mss 2275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hatfield-Gaines Family, 1834-1981 (Mss 2275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2275. Chiefy receipts, deeds, wills, and other legal and financial documents of the Hatfield and Gaines families of Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes some Civil War-era correspondence of the Hatfield family.
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 2232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 2232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2232. Eighty-six poems by Kentucky poets, copied by hand from the publications in which they were published. The poems were chiefly authored by Elkton, Kentucky native David Morton, but the collection includes works by Kalfus Kurtz Gusling, Anna Blanche McGill, and Robert Burns Wilson.
Padgett, Jay (Sc 1997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Padgett, Jay (Sc 1997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1997. Materials relating to the service of Jay Padgett, a Lincoln County, Kentucky native, in the Iraq War. Includes a newsletter written by Padgett, a Louisville "Courier-Journal" profile, and e-mail correspondence.
Iraq War, 2003 (Sc 2003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Iraq War, 2003 (Sc 2003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2003. A collection of items, chiefly e-mails and letters, sent from participants in the Iraq War to family and friends in the United States. The items are arranged alphabetically by the sender.
Humble Family (Sc 1993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Humble Family (Sc 1993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1993. E-mail correspondence between Brian and Jason Humble, serving in the Iraq War, and their father. Brian writes introspectively of military life and his work training medical personnel, and describes a port of call in Bahrain; Jason writes of his responsibility for men under his command. Includes cruise book of Fleet Hospital 15 detailing its 1991 tour during the Persian Gulf War, and copy of a potato chip bag with "Arabic labeling.
Tina Ramirez Interview, Karina Lopez
Tina Ramirez Interview, Karina Lopez
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with poet Tina Ramirez
Rominna Villasenor Interview, Jamelle Apolinar
Rominna Villasenor Interview, Jamelle Apolinar
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with writer, performer, visual artist Rominna Villasenor by Jamelle Apolinar
Klapheke, Dorothy Davis, 1921-1992 (Sc 2170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Klapheke, Dorothy Davis, 1921-1992 (Sc 2170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2170. Materials relating mainly to the career of Dorothy Klapheke, a Western Kentucky University graduate, as a middle school teacher in Stamford, Connecticut. Includes poetry, a performance assessment, retirement mementoes, reminiscences, photos, and an obituary.
Davis, Martha Anne, 1936-2010 (Mss 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Martha Anne, 1936-2010 (Mss 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 303. Three volumes of autobiographical musings, generally in poetic form, related to the life of Martha Anne Davis, the producer of a comedy show titled "2 Funny" which aired on local access cable television in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1991 to 2001. A title index to the writings is available, as well as one of Davis's business cards.
Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.