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Reed, Sheryl Diane (Sc 1333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2001

Reed, Sheryl Diane (Sc 1333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1333. Paper written by WKU student Sheryl D. Reed about Mary Julia Neal, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Neal had a lifelong interest in the South Union Shaker Society located in Logan County, Kentucky. She was director of the Kentucky Library on the campus of Western Kentucky University for a number of years.

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Givan Family (Sc 1363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2001

Givan Family (Sc 1363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1363. Hardin County, Kentucky teachers' certificates issued to Sanford Givan, 1877, and to Mrs. Pallie Givan, 188?

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Rogers, Benjamin Franklin, 1840-1915 - Relating To (Sc 1390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2000

Rogers, Benjamin Franklin, 1840-1915 - Relating To (Sc 1390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1390. Paper compiled by Jack L. Ray, Bowling Green, Kentucky, about Benjamin Franklin Rogers, who was a Church of Christ minister, chiefly in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Save Our Old Neighborhood (Soon) (Mss 131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2000

Save Our Old Neighborhood (Soon) (Mss 131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 131. Administrative papers of Save Our Old Neighborhood (SOON), an organization formed in the College Hill area of Bowling Green, Kentucky, to maintain the area's historic integrity.

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Chenoweth Family Papers, 1796-1993 (Mss 90), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2000

Chenoweth Family Papers, 1796-1993 (Mss 90), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 90. Genealogical materials collected by Shirley and Richard Harris related to the Chenoweth family in the United States. Expecially noteworthy are the military pension records of various Chenoweth family members from the Revolutionary War through World War II.

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Lewis-Starling Collection (Mss 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2000

Lewis-Starling Collection (Mss 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 38. Correspondence, Civil War military and personal papers, business papers, land records, scrapbooks, account books, clippings, and genealogical records of the Lewis and Starling families of Logan and Christian counties in Kentucky, and associated families.

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Warren County - New Deal Programs (Mss 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2000

Warren County - New Deal Programs (Mss 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 129. Administrative files, chiefly applications and correspondence of the Warren County [Kentucky] Relief Committee, a local branch of the Federal Emergency Relief Agency (FERA), which approved families for assistance and referred them to various relief agencies.

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Morgan, Leslie Aaron, B. 1929 (Sc 1392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2000

Morgan, Leslie Aaron, B. 1929 (Sc 1392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1392. Native Kentuckian Leslie Aaron Morgan's genealogical records researched and compiled by Simon Peter Morgan, chiefly concerning the Morgan and Buchanan families.

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Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2000

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1318. Journal (111 p.), kept by Elder John Rees Cooper and others, detailing the daily activities at South Union, Kentucky, 1872-1878. Correspondence regarding the journal and its provenance is included. Pagination refers to the original journal.

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Burgess Moody Funeral Home Records (Mss 139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1999

Burgess Moody Funeral Home Records (Mss 139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 139. Funeral records for individuals and financial records of the Burgess-Moody Funeral Home of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1930-1969.

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Rough Creek Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1999

Rough Creek Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 125. Minutes, 1841-1961, of Rough Creek Baptist Church, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes a small amount of minutes from a Maderson School, a Sabbath School or Sunday School, in Allen County. Minutes includes information about church leadership, governance, discipline and activities.

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Vaughn Family (Sc 1304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1999

Vaughn Family (Sc 1304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1304. Barren County, Kentucky land contract, 1894; letter to M.A. Vaughn, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Governor A.B. Chandler, 1937; and history of Bowling Green Presbyterian Church for 1955 (59p.)

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Hope, Bess Leona, 1896-1991 (Mss 126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1999

Hope, Bess Leona, 1896-1991 (Mss 126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 126. Certificates (veterinary license renewals, 1918-1940 and Democratic Party, 1948) of John J. Hope, Tompkinsville, Kentucky, and papers chiefly about Bess Hope's work with Tompkinsville postal service, 1937-1964; and correspondence with Congressman Tim Lee Carter. Collection includes newspaper clippings and photos.

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Johnston, Jesse Walter, Sr., 1880-1972 (Sc 1337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1999

Johnston, Jesse Walter, Sr., 1880-1972 (Sc 1337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1337. Journal kept by Jesse Walter Johnston, Sr., Sebree, Webster County, Kentucky, concerning the destructive 1937 flood and data about Johnston. He was minister of the First Baptist Church, Sebree from 1929 to 1944.

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Morgan, Martha F., B. 1935 (Sc 1303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1998

Morgan, Martha F., B. 1935 (Sc 1303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1303. Short story (7p.) entitled "Adventure and Romance," written by Martha F. Morgan of Bowling Green, Kentucky concerning a weekend visit with her grandmother Nellie Ada (Jeffords) Fox in Paducah, Kentucky, when Martha was ten years old.

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Eubank, Mildred Olevia, 1895-1985 (Mss 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1997

Eubank, Mildred Olevia, 1895-1985 (Mss 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 86. Genealogical materials collected by Mildred Olevia Eubank, an Allen County, Kentucky native, but long-time resident of Simpson County. Especially noted are the Chiles, Eubank, Harrell, Hunt, Lewis, Page, Potts, Reeder, and Stamps families chiefly in the counties of Allen, Simpson and Warren.

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Butram, Almon V., 1910-1993 (Mss 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1997

Butram, Almon V., 1910-1993 (Mss 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 109. Includes correspondence, legal and financial papers of Almon V. Butram, who operated a farm in northern Warren County, Kentucky.

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Hooks, Malinda (Cunningham), 1853-1948 (Sc 1440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1997

Hooks, Malinda (Cunningham), 1853-1948 (Sc 1440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1440. "Recollections and Thoughts", 1930, written for her family by Malinda Hooks, Trigg County, Kentucky. She writes of her childhood, family, and the Civil War. Includes her poetry and two unidentified photographs.

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Smithey, Talmadge A., 1910-1999 (Sc 1410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1997

Smithey, Talmadge A., 1910-1999 (Sc 1410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1410. Paper entitled "Experiences of a Prisoner of War in Japan and the Philippines" written by Talmadge A. Smithey for a class at the University of South Carolina. Smithey was a prisoner of war from April 18, 1941 until August 15, 1945.

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Manar, Edna Earl, 1887-1972 (Mss 117) - Collector, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 1996

Manar, Edna Earl, 1887-1972 (Mss 117) - Collector, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscript Collection 117. Letters and genealogical materials related to the Green and Moore families of Simpson and Warren counties, Kentucky. Also includes research notes about Bowling Green's history. Of special interest is a reminiscence recorded by Manar of a meeting between Jesse James and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Moore of Russellville, Kentucky.

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Roemer, Sarah Gentry (Sears), 1868-1943 (Mss 99), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 1996

Roemer, Sarah Gentry (Sears), 1868-1943 (Mss 99), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 99. Correspondence of Warren County, Kentucky native, Sarah Gentry (Sears) Roemer. Most of the correspondents are her family members. The collection includes a number of courtship letters and notes (1890-1891) from Charles Roemer, her future husband.

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Neel, James Lucellus, 1849-1922 (Mss 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1996

Neel, James Lucellus, 1849-1922 (Mss 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 108. Account book of James Lucellus Neel, a physician at Madison Mills, Warren County, Kentucky, which contains accounts of patients, 1874-1878; money and equivalent received, 1884-1891; birth records, 1874-1892 (pp. 308-323); and monthly records of his practice, 1874-1894. Also contains photos, n.d. (7), chiefly of male members of the Neel family.

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Wells, Vernon Paul, 1914-2001 (Sc 1322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1996

Wells, Vernon Paul, 1914-2001 (Sc 1322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1322. Cassette tape and transcription of a narrative by Vernon P. Wells, who was a Mammoth Cave park ranger from 1933-1942. He especially describes the problems encountered in securing property for the park to become a national one.

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Mutersbaugh, Bert Marsh, Jr., 1933-2023 (Sc 1323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1996

Mutersbaugh, Bert Marsh, Jr., 1933-2023 (Sc 1323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1323. Presentation entitled "Send Money...," given by Mutersbaugh, based upon World War II letters written by his brother-in-law Douglas Bales, Eminence, Missouri, while stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and in Europe. Includes correspondence and other related data.

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Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1996

Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1341. Letter, 1 October 1947, by Kentucky author, Jesse Stuart, Riverton, Kentucky, to Ann Cade, Morgantown, Kentucky. He relates that he has written ten books and suggests that she write his publisher about the availability of the books.

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Order Of The Eastern Star - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1996

Order Of The Eastern Star - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 104. Includes applications and transfer papers (238) for members of the Park City Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also included is a brief, undated history of the chapter, lyrics to an anniversary song, a few yearbooks, and miscellaneous programs.

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Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 (Mss 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1995

Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 (Mss 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Manuscripts, galley proofs and research material for janice Holt Giles's books; published and unpublished articles and short stories; poems; reviews and clippings relating to Giles's work; correspondence of Giles, her husband (Henry Earl Giles) and daughter (Elizabeth Moore Hancock); correspondence of Giles, her literary agent, and publisher; Holt and Giles family material.

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Beard, Mary Atwood (Hobson), 1884-1962 (Mss 97), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1995

Beard, Mary Atwood (Hobson), 1884-1962 (Mss 97), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Draft of Beard's book "Old Homes in and Near Bowling Green, Kentucky", c1964, which was published following her death. Some buildings are included also, as well as photographs (57).

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Jones, Howard Malcolm And Frances (Young) Jones Collection (Mss 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1995

Jones, Howard Malcolm And Frances (Young) Jones Collection (Mss 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 103. Papers collected by Howard Malcolm Jones and his wife Frances (Young) Jones of Glasgow, Kentucky. The collection contains the papers of several families from Barren County, Kentucky, including: Eubanks, Huggins, Jones, Smith, Warder, White and Young. Collection also contains information about Barren County history and includes some Barren County court records.

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Lewis County, Kentucky - Teachers And Teaching (Sc 1315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1994

Lewis County, Kentucky - Teachers And Teaching (Sc 1315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1315. Teacher's register (63 p.) kept by various teachers in Lewis County, Kentucky. Lists students, their ages, and other data, including information about facilities. Also loose leaf sheet with similar information found in book.

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