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Franks Collection (Sc 1731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Franks Collection (Sc 1731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1731. World War II military correspondence, chiefly Christmas greetings, to Union county, Kentucky native Harold Franks. Also certificates, news clippings, photos, and funeral notices of Franks and his wife Anna Louise (Schaaf) Franks. Includes an unusual rolled letter sent to Franks containing notes from 64 Morganfield, Kentucky citizens.

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Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Sc 1721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Sc 1721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1721. Correspondence related to the archaeological excavation of Fort Williams, a Civil War fortification at Glasgow, Kentucky. Includes report of archaeologist Jack M. Schock, news clipping from the Glasgow Daily Times, 14 July 1977, and photos.

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Warren County, Kentucky Garden Club - Scrapbook, 1933-1956 (Sc 1740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Warren County, Kentucky Garden Club - Scrapbook, 1933-1956 (Sc 1740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1740. Scrapbook compiled by Ethel Alma Folllin containing minutes, news clippings, programs, etc. related to the activities of the Warren County Garden Club and its members.

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Garrett, Leon, 1928-2017 (Sc 3737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Garrett, Leon, 1928-2017 (Sc 3737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3737. Interview, 3 September 2008, with Leon Garrett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing his career and his collection of color slides of Bowling Green, Kentucky, made in the 1940s and 1950s. Digital copies of the slides are held in WKU’s Special Collections Library (CD-035 and CD-036).

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Akers, Sammie D., 1918-2002 (Mss 229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Akers, Sammie D., 1918-2002 (Mss 229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 229. This collection consists almost exclusively of World War II correspondence of Sammie D. Akers, a Logan County, Kentucky native. Approximately two-thirds of the correspondence is with his mother, Betty A. Akers, with whom he discusses the home farm, potential land purchases, church news, and local events.

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Carman, William, 1790-1841 (Mss 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Carman, William, 1790-1841 (Mss 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Ciphering books (2) of William Carman, a teacher in Mayfield, Kentucky. One book is dated 1815-1816; the other one is undated, but evidently of the same period. The ciphering used is the British pound system. The title page of one volume is by Gavin G. Craig of WKU's Penmanship Department.

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Duncan, Wand Bolivar, 1884-1970 (Mss 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Duncan, Wand Bolivar, 1884-1970 (Mss 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 57. Wand and Duncan family correspondence, 1863-1917 (8); informational letters about "Sue Mundy" and the disaster of the steamboat Bowling Green, 1940-1960 (7); receipts, printed items, clippings, etc., and account book of general store at Paradise, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 1858-1860.

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Prowse, George Odom, 1840-1884 (Sc 1718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Prowse, George Odom, 1840-1884 (Sc 1718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1718. Pension requests made by George O. Prowse and his widow, Nannie C. Prowse, related to his Civil War service with the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry. Includes his 1864 commission as a captain in the Kentucky militia.

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Pleasant Hill [Christian] Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Pleasant Hill [Christian] Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1737. Church records of Pleasant Hill [Christian] Church, Warren County, Kentucky, chiefly membership lists. Also includes subscription lists for church maintenance and repair.

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Pleasant Hill [Christian] Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1738), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Pleasant Hill [Christian] Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1738), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1738. Church records of Pleasant Hill [Christian] Church, Warren County, Kentucky, chiefly lists of members who agreed to pay a portion of the preacher's salary. Also, subscription lists to fund special services and missions.

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Garvin, Frank (Sc 1705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Garvin, Frank (Sc 1705), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1705. Contract between Frank Garvin and his wife Kate and J.D. Duncan of Warren County, Kentucky in which the Garvins agree to work for Duncan as a farm hand and a cook and house hand, respectively.

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Courtship Letters (Sc 1704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Courtship Letters (Sc 1704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1704. Two 1910 letters to Lucy Ann Boucher of Settle, Allen County, Kentucky from two admirers. One is in answer to a personal ad.

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Lancaster, Lennie Young, 1893-1980 (Sc 1715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Lancaster, Lennie Young, 1893-1980 (Sc 1715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1715. Correspondence of Lennie Young Lancaster related to three organizations: Kentucky Academy of Science, 1937-1940; Kiwanis Club, 1937-1940; Pennyrile Conservation Club, 1937-1939.

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Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1717. Memorandum book containing names, addresses, and notes to be sent with flower orders collected by William Perry Stamps, Jr. while serving in the military during World War II. The orders were sent to Deemer Floral Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Stamps's former employer.

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Lucas, Marion Brunson, B. 1935 (Sc 1733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Lucas, Marion Brunson, B. 1935 (Sc 1733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1733. Research notes (saved on CD-ROM) used in the compilation of "History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891" (first published in 1992; paperback in 2003). Includes an index with eighteen specialized topics.

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Lane, John E., 1841-1919 (Sc 1745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Lane, John E., 1841-1919 (Sc 1745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1745. Letter, 10 March 1862, from John E. Lane, serving with the 17th Ohio in Nashville, Tennessee, to an unnamed uncle describing skirmishes near Somerset, Kentucky and his regiment's meandering progress from Ohio to Nashville.

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Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 1714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 1714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1714. Letter from Mary Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Ben Johnson, Bardstown, Kentucky, 27 September 1938, related to covered bridges at Bowling Green and Bardstown. Includes copy of an act passed by the Kentucky General Assembly authorizing reconstruction of bridges destroyed by Confederate guerrilla Billy Magruder.

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Fairleigh, David William, Jr., 1896-1967 (Sc 1719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Fairleigh, David William, Jr., 1896-1967 (Sc 1719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1719. Letter from David William Fairleigh, Jr., Louisville, Kentucky, 30 September 1949, to Harold H. Helm, New York, related to an enclosed 26 August 1819 letter from Ben Helm, Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky to Presley Edwards, [Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky]. Fairleigh explains the 1819 letter in the context of Kentucky's early banking history.

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Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 1722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 1722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1722. Diary kept 10 December 1860 to 8 September 1862 by Johanna "Josie" Louisa Underwood, eldest daughter of a prominent pro-Union family in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She vividly records her thoughts and activities about Bowling Green's occupation by Confederate troops, the harassment of her family, strained friendships, and the destruction of her home. The diary was edited by Nancy Disher Baird and published as Josie Underwood’s Civil War Diary (University Press of Kentucky, 2009).

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Beard, Mary Atwood (Hobson), 1884-1962 (Sc 1716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Beard, Mary Atwood (Hobson), 1884-1962 (Sc 1716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1716. Letter to Mary Atwood Beard, 17 April 1947, from Lue A. Kress; also, letter 26 April 1947 from Margaret T. Dickerson. Both letters contain information about historic family homes in Bowling Green, Kentucky: the "Adams home" on State Street and "Stony Lonesome," home to the Robinson family.

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Cochran, Robert Gilmore, 1919-1971 (Sc 1724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Cochran, Robert Gilmore, 1919-1971 (Sc 1724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1724. Chiefly correspondence with the U.S. Army and Robert Gilmore Cochran's attorney related to his mother's eligibility to receive an allotment check while he was serving in the military. Also, correspondence related to Cochran's National Guard responsibilities in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Temple Collection (Mss 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Temple Collection (Mss 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 55. Correspondence, 1931-1970 (33 items), chiefly of William Montgomery Temple, originally of Bowling Green, Kentucky, an autograph collector; his collection of papers of Kentucky governors, 1805-1951 (50); other autograph letters, 1715-1941 (17); and articles about Bowling Green, etc., (23).

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Masters, John Post, 1885-1973 (Sc 1654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Masters, John Post, 1885-1973 (Sc 1654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1654. Warrant of arrest from the Bowling Green, Kentucky Police Court for John Post Masters, manager of a theater in Bowling Green owned by the Crescent Amusement Company. The offense was "maintaining a public nuisance."

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Nazro, Johanna Louisa (Underwood), 1840-1923 (Sc 1709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Nazro, Johanna Louisa (Underwood), 1840-1923 (Sc 1709), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1709. Paper: "The Early History of Bowling Green," presented by Johanna Louisa "Josie" Nazro at a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Mcgown, Thomas Neal, 1909-1966 (Sc 1708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Mcgown, Thomas Neal, 1909-1966 (Sc 1708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1708. Post cards, Christmas card, and telegram from Thomas Neal McGown, serving with the U.S. Marine Corps, to his wife Marguerite, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes other items and news clippings related to his World War II service.

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Mcreynolds Family Papers (Mss 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Mcreynolds Family Papers (Mss 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 56. Correspondence of Susannah and Thomas Phillips, and Mary J. (Phillips) McReynolds of Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky; McReynolds papers; manuscript booklets and autograph album; correspondence of Mary T. Moore and J.C. McReynolds relating to the collection; and biographical material.

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Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Mss 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Canon, Ernest Hubert, 1887-1978 (Mss 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 227. Correspondence related to Ernest Hubert Canon's positions as secretary of the Kiwanis Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky and chairman of the Committee on Kiwanis Education for the Kentucky-Tennessee District.

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Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 59. Papers chiefly of Hezekiah and Richard Ward of Ohio County, Kentucky. Promissory notes, 1857-79 (14 items); tax receipts, 1864-68 (4); telephone receipts, 1913-34 (44); and miscellaneous receipts, 1824-1937 (40); legal papers, 1873-1939 (14); essay and play, 189?; and genealogical data (2).

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Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1682. Three letters to Ford, Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, from John H. Blue, Brunswick, Missouri, related to land owned there by ancestor John Bright, and a letter of information from Bright’s daughter in Texas. Also, the answer of defendants to a petition filed in Barren County, Kentucky Circuit Court by C. C. Stark, administrator of James Stark, disputing the value of three slaves stated to have been mortgaged to James Stark by Ford on 4 May 1865. With respect to one enslaved woman, the defendants claim …

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Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 1697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 1697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1697. Teacher's register, 1883-1897, kept by Tandy Thomas Gardner, Green Hill School, Warren County, Kentucky. Also, printed examination questions for teachers, 1905; news clippings about Gardner; and his obituary.

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