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Full-Text Articles in History
Moss Family - Bible Records (Sc 3484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moss Family - Bible Records (Sc 3484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3484. Genealogical pages related to the Moss family and several related families: Burnett, Layne, Matthews, and Rountree, removed from the Moss family Bible, 1828-1966; undated illuminated drawings executed by J. P. Gibbs and an undated solicitation for students in which he guaranteed “great improvement” or “no charge will be made.”
Jennings, Donna - Compiler (Sc 3481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jennings, Donna - Compiler (Sc 3481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3481. Compilation titled “Kentucky Memories: Gladys Pernie Washer and her sister Mamie Ethel Washer Dalbotten.” Includes a reminiscence written by Gladys Washer in 1961 titled “To My Grandchildren Sketches of My Childhood” enhanced with family photos and “Memories of My Kentucky Home” by Mamie Dalbotten, also composed in 1961 and enhanced with family photos. Includes three digital images of family members.
Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection 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.
Cherry, Laura B. (Render), 1881-1942 (Sc 3480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cherry, Laura B. (Render), 1881-1942 (Sc 3480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3480. Letter, 8 January 1915, written by Laura B. Cherry, Indianapolis, Indiana, to John Marion Stahl, Jr., Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which she states her desire “to make your life happy and sweet.” It includes a facsimile of a $7 postal money order from Cherry to Stahl. In April 1915, Cherry sent a promissory note for thirty dollars to be drawn on Bowling Green’s American National Bank. She did not sign the note, so also included is a short letter to Stahl from J. Whit Potter, President …
Prosperity Club (Sc 3479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Prosperity Club (Sc 3479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3479. “Prosperity Club” chain letter with a list of six addressees in Tennessee and Oklahoma and instructions to the recipient to send ten cents to the person at the top of the list, replace the name with his or hers at the bottom, and send copies of the letter to five friends. The letter promises eventual receipt of $1,562.50.
Parker, Elizabeth (Elwell), 1809-1848 (Sc 3478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parker, Elizabeth (Elwell), 1809-1848 (Sc 3478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3478. Letter, 18 August 1837, to Samuel Elwell and his wife in care of Henry Elwell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Samuel’s sister E. E. Parker, Louisville, Kentucky. She expresses hope for the education and success of Samuel’s newborn son and advises that she and her husband are doing well at “the best business place on the river.” She notes amenities in Louisville such as “large handsome stores,” an abundance of berries and other foodstuffs, steam and flatboats on the river, and good blacksmithing, despite a shortage of …
Teachers And Teaching (Sc 3477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Teachers And Teaching (Sc 3477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3477. Letter, postmarked 31 October 1933, from "S. I." to her friend "Annie Laurie." Both women have connections to Bowling Green, Kentucky, but "S.I." is currently teaching in a one-room schoolhouse at a location she references as Sassafras Bushes." She laments her routine existence, the trials of teaching 28 students with dispositions "from bland to ferocious" and "intelligence from imbecility to genius," and their "brilliant answers" on a recent test. She refers to some of her and Annie's mutual friends and expresses her intention to attend "Western" …
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 - Relating To (Sc 3476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 - Relating To (Sc 3476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3476. “Builders of Destiny,” a radio script written by V. Jay dramatizing the life of composer Stephen Foster, for broadcast on WLW radio, Cincinnati, Ohio, on 12 January 1952.
Bate Family Papers (Mss 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bate Family Papers (Mss 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 673. Correspondence, business, and legal papers of various members of the Bate family of Sumner County, Tennessee. Some of the children are located in San Augustine, Texas. Most of the correspondence centers around the mother, Ann Franklin (Weatherred) Bate and her children, particularly Eugenia Patience (Bate) Bass Bertinatti and Humphrey Howell Bate, and to a lesser degree their siblings. Includes extensive documentation about the financial and legal condition of Bertinatti after the Civil War. The originals are in the Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
Bradsher, Frances Willard (Cherry) Cartwright, 1899-1995 (Sc 3475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bradsher, Frances Willard (Cherry) Cartwright, 1899-1995 (Sc 3475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3475. “The 1913 Green River Flood,” a reminiscence by Frances (Cherry) Bradsher about her community’s experience of the flood in Calhoun, Kentucky. She also includes some general memories of her childhood in Calhoun, Kentucky.
Slinker, Florra C., 1863-1945 (Sc 3474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slinker, Florra C., 1863-1945 (Sc 3474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Autograph album kept by Florra Slinker of Barren County, Kentucky, with entries dating from 1881 to 1902. Besides poems and autographs, the album contains recipes ranging from how to tan skins to how to bake a white cake. It also contains some prescriptions and remedies as well as some genealogical information on the Clark, Reynolds, and Covington families.
Buffalo Club Of Northern Kentucky (Sc 3473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buffalo Club Of Northern Kentucky (Sc 3473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3473. Directories of male teachers in northern Kentucky for 1937 and 1941-1942, made for the use of teachers with compliments of the Northern Kentucky Buffalo Club. Data on teachers includes name, position, school, and home address.
Holland, Danny (Fa 1331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Holland, Danny (Fa 1331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1331. Information related to “Second Monday,” court day in Scottsville, Kentucky, collected by Danny Holland for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Holland gives a brief introduction to his research methods followed by information collected from Second Monday participants. He includes name of informant, age, and place of residence.
Smith, Zachariah Frederick, 1827-1911 (Sc 3472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Zachariah Frederick, 1827-1911 (Sc 3472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3472. Letter, 15 August 1875, of Zachariah F. Smith, Eminence, Kentucky, in reference to a report and map of the Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company. The letter outlines some steps to be taken, in Smith's opinion, for the development of this intended trunk line south from Cincinnati, Ohio, including the need to secure additional financing. The report and map are not included.
Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection 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.
Baxter, William, 1820-1880 (Sc 3471), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baxter, William, 1820-1880 (Sc 3471), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3471. Letter, 1 September 1848, of William Baxter to Reverend John Allen Gano, Centerville (Bourbon County), Kentucky. From Biloxi Bay, Mississippi, he writes of a throat condition affecting his voice, his intention to visit Kentucky, his teaching and reading, and his shell collecting on nearby islands. He also notes the lack of preaching in the area, recently improved by the return of “Brother Martin” from a “great misfortune.”
Evans, Ray Estil, 1913-1981 (Sc 3469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Evans, Ray Estil, 1913-1981 (Sc 3469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3469. Military service records for Roy Estil "Sarge" Evans, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Included is a calendar from the "War Prisoner's Aid of the Young Men's Christian Association" in which he marked off the days he was imprisoned as a POW in a German stalag. (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan.) In pencil he wrote "Stalag Luft One Room Four" and marked off days in January - April of 1945. Also includes photocopies of two photographs in the Kentucky Library Research …
Morrow, Edwin Porch, 1877-1935 (Sc 3470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morrow, Edwin Porch, 1877-1935 (Sc 3470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3470. Letter, 25 October 1920, of Kentucky Governor Edwin P. Morrow to Sim Smith, Albany, Kentucky. Written on letterhead of the Republican State Central Committee, the letter declares that the upcoming election in Kentucky “hangs by a thread” and will be won “if the mountain women come to the polls.” The letter pleads for efforts “above all” to “fire every man so that he will bring his women out” in order to thwart the stated intention in the Bluegrass of outvoting this constituency.
Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 675. Papers and photographs of James Proctor Knott, Lebanon, Kentucky, and his wife Sarah "Sallie" (McElroy) Knott. Includes two journals of Sallie Knott covering the first eight years of their marriage (Click on "Additional Files" below to view typescripts), and miscellaneous papers of a related family, the Clarks.
Cemeteries - Horse Cave, Kentucky (Sc 3467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cemeteries - Horse Cave, Kentucky (Sc 3467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3467. Deed, 15 July 1911, from the Trustees of the Town of Horse Cave, Kentucky to Mrs. Minnie Hendrick of Lot No. 168 in the “public white cemetery” of Horse Cave. Includes an endorsement giving two grave sites on the lot to the grantee’s sister and brother-in-law.
Shanks Family Papers (Sc 3468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shanks Family Papers (Sc 3468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3468. Family Bible marriage record for George W. Shanks and Catherine Johnson, Galloways Mill, Warren County, Kentucky, 25 December 1881; photocopy and typescript of will of Catherine’s mother Eliza Jane (Smith) Johnson, Warren County, Kentucky, 12 September 1899.
Harding, Aaron, 1805-1875 (Sc 3466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harding, Aaron, 1805-1875 (Sc 3466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3466. Letter, 13 February 1863, of Aaron Harding, Washington, D.C., to Dr. Archibald S. Lewis, Greensburg, Kentucky. Serving in Congress as a representative from Kentucky, Harding reports on his efforts to obtain a promotion to brigadier general for Colonel Edward H. Hobson, including his appeal to President Abraham Lincoln in a “private interview.” He fears that Hobson’s nomination will nevertheless be passed over by the “radicals” in the U.S. Senate, who he criticizes for “sinking themselves and the country lower and lower.” He also refers to a …
Green Family Papers (Mss 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green Family Papers (Mss 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 674. Business and personal correspondence, as well as business records (chiefly invoices and statements from Louisville suppliers) for the Green family at Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky. Green operated a number of businesses, including saw mills, a grist mill, woolen mill, and a general store. He also operated a large farm raising tobacco and livestock, as well as a herd of Shetland ponies. Although his businesses are covered extensively in the correspondence and records, politics and local economic development is also discussed.
Nahm, Rosa Brunswick, 1843-1920 - Letter To (Sc 3465), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nahm, Rosa Brunswick, 1843-1920 - Letter To (Sc 3465), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3465. Letter, 4 October 1896, written in old style German from Wurzburg, Bavaria to Rosa (Brunswick) Nahm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, the widow of merchant Emanuel Nahm. Also a calling card of Mrs. E. Nahm. Does not include a translation.
Hardesty, Isaac Ellis, 1841-1917 (Sc 3464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardesty, Isaac Ellis, 1841-1917 (Sc 3464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3464. Letters, 11 September 1862 and 4 April 1863, to his family from Isaac Hardesty, serving with the 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From camp near Covington, Kentucky, he reports on his health and his efforts to have his clothing shipped home; he also describes his fortified camp, the sounds of battle nearby, the dangers posed to pickets, and his pleasure at glimpsing his home state from the nearby hills. From Louisville, Kentucky, he writes of his painful arm and his longing to be at home, but without …
Christopherson, Kathryn Kendall (Donley) "Katy," 1921-2017 (Mss 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Christopherson, Kathryn Kendall (Donley) "Katy," 1921-2017 (Mss 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 672. Correspondence, articles, interviews, photographs, and printed matter relating to the work of Katy Christopherson, Louisville, Kentucky, as a maker, curator, judge, lecturer and writer on quilts and quilting. Includes material relating to her involvement with the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society and the Louisville Nimble Thimbles, Inc.
Globe Searchers Stamp And Coin Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Globe Searchers Stamp And Coin Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3463. Minutes of the Globe-Searchers Stamp and Coin Club (formerly the Globe-Searchers Stamp Club), Bowling Green, Kentucky, a group of stamp and coin collectors. Includes a list of members for 1962-1963.
Adams, Marion Lee, 1930-2013 - Collector (Sc 3462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Adams, Marion Lee, 1930-2013 - Collector (Sc 3462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3462. Revolutionary War pension claim of Richard Wade, Cumberland County, Kentucky; and Civil War military service record of John Crittenden Bolin, Russell County, Kentucky.
Reppert, Charles Kramer, 1842-1921 (Sc 3456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reppert, Charles Kramer, 1842-1921 (Sc 3456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3456. Letter, 24 July 1864, of Charles K. Reppert, Louisville, Kentucky, to his brother William E. Reppert, then serving with a Pennsylvania cavalry company at Nashville, Tennessee. He reports on the progress of their business making and marketing “Silver Pearl Soap,” the difficulty of trade in Kentucky without proof of loyalty to the Union, and his hopes to eventually sell the business. He also remarks on an upcoming military draft and that “the Negro Enlistments have cleared Kentucky.”
Francis, Anne Elizabeth (Mcfarland), 1919-2000 (Sc 3460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Francis, Anne Elizabeth (Mcfarland), 1919-2000 (Sc 3460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3460. News clippings, photographs, programs, biographical sketch, etc. related to Congressman William H. Natcher of Bowling Green, Kentucky.