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Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 612. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and family papers of Richard Vance, a Warren County, Kentucky native and U.S. Army officer. After his Civil War service, Vance spent his career at several posts in the South and on the frontier until his retirement in 1892.
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 561. Personal diaries of Clara (Wright) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, kept during her marriage to food critic Duncan Hines and after his death. Includes some correspondence, travel itineraries, and miscellaneous papers.
Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 493. Correspondence, chiefly from the Fort and Flowers families of Logan County, Kentucky, which includes prisoners of war correspondence from the Civil War. Also includes cemetery, church, and funeral home records, as well as news clippings about historic sites, people and events in Logan County.
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods. Includes a World War I scrapbook created for and about Mildred's brother John (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Battey Family Letters (Sc 2840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Battey Family Letters (Sc 2840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2840. Letters of brothers Peter, Alfred and George Battey to a sister and a brother James, written during their Civil War service in the Union Army. From the “Colo Barracks” in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Peter describes his duties as a teamster, criticizes the length of the war, and relays news of the killing of John Hunt Morgan by one “Gillman” and the capture of his men. Alfred writes from a hospital in New Orleans, and George writes from Bowling Green, where he and Peter continue on …
Buckner, Lily, 1858-1893 (Sc 1289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckner, Lily, 1858-1893 (Sc 1289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1289. Pages from the record of baptisms at Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, recording the baptism of Lily Buckner, daughter of Simon Bolivar Buckner and Mary (Kingsbury) Buckner, on 21 April 1869.
Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 680. Two letters to James Jenkins, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from New Orleans commission merchants, discussing terms of sale of lard, hams, grease, pork, tobacco and beef consigned by Jenkins.
Tobacco (Sc 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tobacco (Sc 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 422. Printed circular letter from Campbell, McKee and Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, 4 January 1860, regarding tobacco, etc., on the New Orleans market; market circular, New Orleans, 26 May 1860; and circular letter from Pickett Tobacco Warehouse, Spratt, Bourn and Company, Louisville, Kentucky, December 1858, regarding an exhibition of tobacco for premiums.
Coolidge, William, Jr. (Sc 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coolidge, William, Jr. (Sc 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 241. Original and typescript of diary and account book kept by Coolidge, chiefly of his trip from Baltimore to New Orleans and back, 4 November 1822 to 14 May 1823. Homesick for his family, he describes his sometimes tedious, sometimes terrifying travels by stagecoach, steamboat and schooner. He offers unflattering comments about his time in Kentucky.
Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and selected full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 58. Correspondence, diaries, papers, and genealogical materials of Joseph Rogers Underwood, U.S. Senator from Bowling Green, Kentucky, his wife Elizabeth Cox Underwood, his brother Warner Lewis Underwood, and his son, John Cox Underwood.
Mcclanahan Family Papers (Sc 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcclanahan Family Papers (Sc 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 194. Photocopies of legal papers such as deeds, surveys, land grants, slavery bills of sale, and other miscellaneous documents related to the McClanahan family of Simpson County, Kentucky.
Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 356. Correspondence, photographs, sketches and drawings, writings, journals and clippings of or relating to Ivan Wilson, an artist and faculty member in the Art Department at Western Kentucky University from 1920 to 1958. Includes some materials related to other artists.
Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 192. Chiefly letters to Albrittain Drake and his wife, Ruth (Collins) Drake, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Most of the letters are from Drake and Collins family members, primarily their sons, James Perry, a land agent in Indiana, and Benjamin Michael, a Methodist minister in Mississippi. Also includes biographical and genealogical information related to the two families.
Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and photograph (additional file) for Manuscript Collection 265. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, genealogical material, and photographs of the Lucas family of Warren County, Kentucky. Most of the material relates to Nathaniel Lucas (d. 1807 in Warren County), his children, and one of his descendants, Miss Nancy Clyde Lucas.
Hurricane Katrina (Sc 2098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hurricane Katrina (Sc 2098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2098. E-mails sent by Beverly Pitts to friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to a mission trip to New Orleans, Louisiana to aid in the clean up following Hurricane Katrina. The trip included thirteen people from First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (Sc 1669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (Sc 1669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1669. E-mails related to the personal and governmental response to Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana.
Taliaferro Collection (Mss 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taliaferro Collection (Mss 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 51. Copy of diary kept by Betsy Taliaferro (1800-1850) from 20 March 1838 to 8 April 1839, concerning her trip from Harrisonburg, Louisiana, to New Orleans to Versailles, Kentucky, her native home, by steamboat and stagecoach. Includes correspondence, notes, clippings, etc. of researcher Mary T. Moore regarding the diary.
Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 143. Shaker journal, 1891-1893 (184p.) kept by James Carr, South Union, Kentucky, giving daily activities within the Shaker community. Includes hymnals, 1836-1856 (9), compiled by Shaker society members. A name index is available.