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Smith, Dennis M. (Mss 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Dennis M. (Mss 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 191. Paper concerning the naming of Bowling Green, Kentucky's elementary schools and cassette tapes of interviews conducted by Smith. Also, scrapbook materials relating to Mackie E. (Smith) Bennett.
Garrott, June Rose, 1932-2024 (Sc 1329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Garrott, June Rose, 1932-2024 (Sc 1329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1329. Newsletter, 1987, from Garrott, Beijing, China, to Sara Tyler, Bowling Green, Kentucky, reporting on her work in China. In 1961 she accompanied her medical missionary husband, Hobson Sinclair, to China, but through the years she taught English to Chinese students. Also associated data, 1961-1987 (3).
Stagner, Virginia Benton, 1907-2002 (Sc 1555), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stagner, Virginia Benton, 1907-2002 (Sc 1555), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1555. Letters from Virginia B. Stagner, Richmond, Kentucky, to Erba Heckel, Vinita, Oklahoma, relating to suitors, fashion, bobbed hair, and other aspects of their friendship. Includes an enclosure letter from Stagner's sister Rowena.
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1566. Record book containing register of pastors, 1905-1925, and church members, 1894-1946, for Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South located in Logan County, Kentucky. Also, original 1823 document conveying land for the meeting house, accounts of church conferences, and certificates of membership.
Guthrie, John James Morris, 1837-1897 (Sc 1554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Guthrie, John James Morris, 1837-1897 (Sc 1554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1554. Letter, 27 July 1866, from J.J. Guthrie, Paducah, Kentucky, to his cousin, Nannie T. Coleman, Cumberland County, Virginia, relating to courtship, family and friends.
Autographs - Musicians (Sc 1321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Autographs - Musicians (Sc 1321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1321. Piece of paper containing autographs of band leader Kay Kyser and some of his band members, who performed at the Bowling Green, Kentucky Armory on 3 July 1936. Includes some biographical data.
Flat Rock Methodist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Flat Rock Methodist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1325. Chiefly membership lists with some research notes, of the Flat Rock Methodist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes copy of speech, about the church's history, given by Marietta Mansfield, 1995.
Slave Register - Warren County, 1853-1865 (Sc 1327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slave Register - Warren County, 1853-1865 (Sc 1327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1327. Warren County, Kentucky “Register of Slaves Owned for Life,” listing name, sex, age, and other information about each slave as provided by the person holding a life interest in said slaves, along with the names of the owners in remainder who would subsequently inherit the slave(s). Includes link to typescript.
Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Sc 1454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Sc 1454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1454. Report of Thomas C. Cherry, Bowling Green, Kentucky's Superintendent of Public Schools, on teacher Margaret Calvert. She is rated on eighteen professional and personal attributes.
Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 1556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 1556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1556. Correspondence between Thomas Awbrey, Fordsville, Kentucky, and President Lyndon B. Johnson relating to Awbrey's completion of an adult education class where he learned to read at age 71. Includes a newspaper clipping about Awbrey and information from the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas.
Winters, Erastus, 1843-1925 (Sc 1553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winters, Erastus, 1843-1925 (Sc 1553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1553. Letter, 17 April 1863, from Erastus Winters, serving with the Union Army at Sulphur Fork Trestle, Kentucky (Fort Sands, Hardin County) to his sister Phebe. He briefly describes his military duties and asks her to send a photograph.
Ferguson, Champ, 1821-1865 (Mss 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, Champ, 1821-1865 (Mss 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 1. An account of Ferguson's military trial for murders committed during the Civil War by him and his band of outlaws, held at Nashville, Tennessee. Transcript compiled from official records by Frank R. McGlasson, U.S. Army surgeon.
Hochstrasser, Maud Adelaide, 1900-1994 (Sc 1552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hochstrasser, Maud Adelaide, 1900-1994 (Sc 1552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1552. Letters to Maud Adelaide Hochstrasser, many concerning the establishment of the Maud Adelaide "Addie" Hochstrasser Fund honoring Jesse Stuart at Western Kentucky University. Includes letters from Naomi Deane Stuart, Jesse Stuart's widow.
Davis, Christopher Larry, B. 1980 (Sc 1531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Christopher Larry, B. 1980 (Sc 1531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1531. Correspondence, chiefly e-mails, between Christopher Larry Davis, stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and family and friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 9. Correspondence, diaries, receipts books, tax receipts, licenses receipts, church membership certificates, and miscellaneous receipts of John G. Durham, a Baptist minister of Warren County, Kentucky. Also legal papers of Allen County and Warren County, Kentucky. Correspondents include A. Broaddus, Samuel Howard Ford, George W. Robertson, and Orson Holland Morrow.
Hobson, Margaret Morehead, 1890-1987 (Sc 1551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson, Margaret Morehead, 1890-1987 (Sc 1551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1551. Application of Margaret Hobson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, and a copy of her obituary.
Rankin, Frank Gilbert, Jr., 1906-1994 (Mss 176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rankin, Frank Gilbert, Jr., 1906-1994 (Mss 176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 176. Copies of Civil War remembrances of John S. Jackman and John M. Porter. Also, copies of materials related to other Civil War activities and to service in the Orphan Brigade and in Morgan's Cavalry.
Smith, Edward J. (Sc 1550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Edward J. (Sc 1550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1550. Graduate Western Kentucky University geography paper by Edward J. Smith in which he examines the history of the buildings in the 100 block of Main Street and the 800 block of Adams Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Tinsley, Warren Landrum, 1922-1987 (Sc 1549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tinsley, Warren Landrum, 1922-1987 (Sc 1549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 1549. A typescripted reminiscence about Warren Landrum Tinsley's World War II experiences in the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a typescript of a diary kept during his military service , and a typescripted reminiscence about his early church experiences in Logan County, Kentucky.
Graham, Vere, 1897-1971 (Mss 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Graham, Vere, 1897-1971 (Mss 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 189. Appointment books and financial records relating to Graham's Bowling Green, Kentucky dental practice in the 1930s. Includes information about his education, Kiwanis club activities, and copies of family photographs.
Honaker, Marion Earl, 1914-2006 (Sc 1510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Honaker, Marion Earl, 1914-2006 (Sc 1510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1510. Letters, 1985-1997 (19); military papers, 1942-1990 (14); photos (21); newspapers clippings, 1942, 1992-2006 (5); of Marion Earl Honaker, Bowling Green, Kentucky, a Navy pharmacist mate stationed in the Pacific Area during World War II.
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1512. Telegram sent by the Bowling Green Public Library Board refusing the resignation of Jane (Hines) Morningstar from the Board.
Hills, Henry E., 1917-1975 (Sc 1511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hills, Henry E., 1917-1975 (Sc 1511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1511. World War II letter written by Henry E. Hills from Italy to his cousin, William P. Stamps, Jr., in which he describes a battle that took place in Sicily. He makes some deprecatory remarks about the Italians and notes the fierce and smart fighting of the Germans.
Edwards & Cobb Collections (Mss 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edwards & Cobb Collections (Mss 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 35. Account books, 1857-1858, of G.W. Edwards and T.W. Cobb, general merchants at East Fork, Metcalfe County, Kentucky.
Outcault, Richard Felton, 1863-1928 (Sc 1540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Outcault, Richard Felton, 1863-1928 (Sc 1540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1540. Letter from Richard Felton Outcault of Outcault Advertising Company, Chicago, Illinois to Bud Crewdson. The letter incudes a drawing of Buster Brown and his dog Tige, with a caption referring to the illness of Crewdson's daughter.
Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Mss 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Mss 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 28. Correspondence, poems, lyrics for songs, newspaper marine columns, and royalty and copyright contracts related to William Shakespeare Hays, a poet, composer, and newspaper columnist of Louisville, Kentucky. Many clippings of a biographical nature and of his works. Attached (Click on "Additional Files" below) is full text scan of a diary kept by Hayes from 1864 to 1865 and titled "My Leisure Moments to Belle McCullough." This diary is found in Box 3, Folder 4 of the collection.
Mchenry Coal Company - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 29), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mchenry Coal Company - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 29), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 29. Mine production records, employee records, and account books of the company stores in Ohio County, Kentucky, 1892-1905.
Thomas Collection (Mss 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas Collection (Mss 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 31. Manuscripts, letters, writings, etc., of the Thomas family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, including sermons and speeches of Frank Morehead Thomas, Methodist minister (1868-1921); and poems, essays and newspaper articles written by his mother, Elizabeth (Wright) Thomas (1842-1931). Full-text scans are available (Click on "Additional Files" below) for the Spanish-American War letters that Frank Thomas sent home to his family.
Strahm, Victor Herbert, 1897-1957 (Mss 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strahm, Victor Herbert, 1897-1957 (Mss 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 27. Correspondence, clippings, photographs, etc., covering Bowling Green native Victor Herbert Strahm's U.S. Air Force career. There are over 100 letters written to his parents in Bowling Green, Kentucky, describing his World War I activities and 27 letters to his mother detailing his participation in the early days of World War II.
Settle, Margery Lucille, 1899-1980 (Mss 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Settle, Margery Lucille, 1899-1980 (Mss 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 7. Letters written by various armed forces personnel during World War I (7 items), World War II (77), and police duty afterward (6). The letters were written to Margery Lucille Settle, a secondary teacher and administrator in the McLean County and Daviess County, Kentucky school systems.