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Young, Asher Leon (Mss 19), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Young, Asher Leon (Mss 19), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 19. Genealogical material collected by Asher Leon Young, a Warren County, Kentucky, native. Especially noted are the Phipps, Simpson, and Young families of the Richardsville area of Warren County, Kentucky.


Porter Family (Mss 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Porter Family (Mss 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 15. Genealogical material (typed copy) collected by John A. Porter for a book. Correspondence pertaining to same topic, 1906-1957. Legal papers of Butler (32), Livingston (1), and Logan (13) Counties--deeds, surveys, etc., 1799-1857. Typed copy of the Civil War experiences of John M. Porter.


Allmond Collection (Mss 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Allmond Collection (Mss 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 12. Genealogical material collected by Allen E. Allmond, Louisville, Kentucky, pertaining to the Allmond and Meade families. Letters, photostats, maps, newspaper clippings and notebook. Also includes information about the Louisville Commercial Club.


Collins, Russell - Collector (Mss 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Collins, Russell - Collector (Mss 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 16. Genealogical records of the Duncan, Browning, and Hines families of Logan County, Kentucky. Family letters of the Duncans and Palmers (Christian County, Kentucky mainly), 1822-1858 (66 items). Chief correspondents include Ann M. Palmer, Elihu J. Palmer, Isaac N. Palmer, and Elizabeth Duncan.


Hobson, Margaret Morehead, 1890-1987 (Mss 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Hobson, Margaret Morehead, 1890-1987 (Mss 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 174. Includes personal and business correspondence of Margaret Morehead Hobson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to oil and gas exploration in south-central Kentucky. Collection also includes nature notebook containing flora and fauna sketches done by Hobson as a child, Hobson family genealogy, some small artwork done for interior decorating, and information about Riverview at Hobson Grove.


Bennett, Mackie E. (Smith), 1880-1966 (Mss 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Bennett, Mackie E. (Smith), 1880-1966 (Mss 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 5. Center Street Elementary School (Bowling Green, Kentucky) grade books and various club records kept by Mackie E. (Smith) Bennett, a Warren County, Kentucky native. Includes a large group of records related to the Sue Young Sewing Circle of Bowling Green's State Street Methodist Church, 1915-1948. Full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) have been made of the material related to the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary (Box 1, Folder 7).


Warren County - Historic Houses (Sc 1324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Warren County - Historic Houses (Sc 1324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1324. Listing of thread colors used in a handwoven carpet woven for use in the Merritt-Hardin house located on 31-W near Woodburn in Warren County, Kentucky. Also data about the house from Irene Moss Sumpter’s Our Heritage: An Album of Early Warren County Kentucky Land Marks.


Humphreys, John Alsop Yarborough, 1802-1873 (Sc 1319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Humphreys, John Alsop Yarborough, 1802-1873 (Sc 1319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1319. Subscribers' names for John A. Y. Humphreys, Bardstown, Kentucky, to teach a proposed school for twelve months beginning December 1, 1831. Also lists the subjects to be taught.


Kerr, William Bugg, 1894-1993 (Sc 1317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Kerr, William Bugg, 1894-1993 (Sc 1317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1317. William Bugg Kerr, a Bowling Green, Kentucky educator, businessman and farmer, records his philosophy and his reminiscences, for his family, in his paper titled "The High Road."


Hinton, John Littleton, 1844-1920 (Sc 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Hinton, John Littleton, 1844-1920 (Sc 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1311. Civil War discharge for John L. Hinton, a member of Company A, 52nd Regiment, of Kentucky Mounted Infantry Volunteers. Hinton was from Allen County, Kentucky.


Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 1313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 1313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1313. Letter written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., to clergyman H.F. McChesney, Bowling Green, Kentucky, commenting on the newly enacted Social Security Act and asking for data about his community's needs.


Vanmeter, Wilburn S., 1920-1996 (Sc 1528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Vanmeter, Wilburn S., 1920-1996 (Sc 1528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1528. Letters from Wilburn S. Vanmeter, while serving in World War II, to his mother Emma Vanmeter in Bee Spring, Kentucky, and his brother, Junior Vanmeter of Annetta, Kentucky. Also includes several typed reminiscences (6 p.) of Vanmeter's World War II experience.


Dunbar, Elijah, 1821-1911 (Sc 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Dunbar, Elijah, 1821-1911 (Sc 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1335. Letter written by Elijah Dunbar from Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brother in Canton, Massachusetts. Evidently he and an associate were traveling piano salesmen. Dunbar vividly describes the terrible road conditions between Bowling Green and Elkton, Kentucky.


Jewell, George Raleigh, 1898-1993 (Sc 1519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Jewell, George Raleigh, 1898-1993 (Sc 1519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1519. Correspondence between George Raleigh Jewell, Louisville, Kentucky, and George Franklin Dasher. Jewell was a student at Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky, when Dasher was president. The letters reminisce about the school and its alumni, and address various contemporary Baptist educational issues.


Larmon, Henry, 1809-1882 (Mss 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Larmon, Henry, 1809-1882 (Mss 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 183. Collection consists chiefly of financial records related to Henry Larmon of Warren County, Kentucky. Many of the items relate to timber purchases, land transactions, and purchases of sundry household goods. Larmon owned a saw and grist mill on Trammel Creek in southern Warren County.


Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1522. Farm ledger kept by S. Barker and Daniel Wilcoxson Middleton of Warren County, Kentucky. The farm was located approximately five miles east of Bowling Green on the Louisville Road (Highway 31-W). Records expenses and wages for farm laborers.


Marks, Mary E. (Sc 1523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Marks, Mary E. (Sc 1523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1523. Dissertation (126 p.; illus.; maps) by Mary E. Marks titled "The Rock Asphalt Industry of Western Kentucky" written for the Department of Geography at the University of Chicago and submitted in December 1931. Discusses several important asphalt rock mining operations in the south central section of Kentucky.


Walnut Street Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky - History, 1949-1965 (Sc 1521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Walnut Street Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky - History, 1949-1965 (Sc 1521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1521. Manuscript copy with corrections of "The History of Walnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky", 1949-1965. This was intended to be an addition to an earlier history of the church written by Bradley Thomas Kimbrough, Sr. in 1949.


Douglas, Albert Ray, 1916-2009 (Mss 185), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Douglas, Albert Ray, 1916-2009 (Mss 185), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 185. Correspondence, clippings, programs, and directories collected by Douglas and his wife, Grace Fields Douglas, related to the Bowling Green High School classes of 1934 and 1935 and their respective 50th reunions in 1984 and 1985. Also included is a 1928 autograph album kept by Mr. Douglas.


Melvin Bragg Oct 2007

Melvin Bragg

African American Funeral Programs

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Rhea, Thomas Stockdale, 1871-1946 (Sc 1520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Rhea, Thomas Stockdale, 1871-1946 (Sc 1520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1520. Letter from "Headquarters of Thomas S. Rhea for Governor" in Bardstown, Kentucky, to constituents in Nelson County addressing the issue of what sales taxes had done for that particular county.


Moore, Charles Minor, 1859-1940 (Sc 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Moore, Charles Minor, 1859-1940 (Sc 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1387. Reminiscences of C. Minor Moore, who came to Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1879 or 1880 to work for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He describes the town and lists many railroad employees.


Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 1348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 1348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1348. Church register kept for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Woodburn, Kentucky, 1864-1935.


Read, Emily Jane, 1839-1916 (Sc 1497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Read, Emily Jane, 1839-1916 (Sc 1497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1497. Letter from Emily J. Read, Rich Pond, Kentucky, to an unnamed friend. she discusses peoplein the neighboring region and her husband's mercantile operation in Rich Pond.


Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Rich Pond, Kentucky (Sc 1349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Rich Pond, Kentucky (Sc 1349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1349. Church register kept for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rich Pond, Kentucky, 1874-1935.


Thurman, Lindsey B. (Sc 1507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Thurman, Lindsey B. (Sc 1507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1507. WKU honors thesis written by Thurman and entitled "A Boy from Decatur: A Posthumous Memoir." Using letters sent by Ernest C. Robertson to his family in Russell County, Kentucky, the author discusses how one young man's military service and his eventual death during the Korean War affected his family. Includes typescripts of several of the letters.


Martin, Mary P. (Sc 1347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Martin, Mary P. (Sc 1347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1347. Legal response of those charged by the sheriff of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, to appraise land owned by the Green River Coal, Iron & Manufacturing Company as ordered by the Warren County Circuit Court, to satisfy a judgment against the company in favor of Mary P. Martin.


Kimbrough, William Joseph, Jr., 1930-2007 (Sc 1346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Kimbrough, William Joseph, Jr., 1930-2007 (Sc 1346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1346. Chiefly letters written by William Joseph Kimbrough, Jr., to his Bowling Green, Kentucky parents, while serving in the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army in California and Japan. Also associated family data.


Lucas, Nelda G., 1924-1991 (Sc 1514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Lucas, Nelda G., 1924-1991 (Sc 1514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1514. Five-year diary (365 p.) kept by Nelda G. Lucas. She describes family events, remodeling a house, work issues, family health matters, purchases, etc., from March 8, 1958 to December 31, 1962.


Taylor Collection (Mss 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Taylor Collection (Mss 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 81. Incoming family and courtship letters of Dee Taylor of Butler and Warren Counties, 1880-1888 (38), and her daughter, Dixie Dee Taylor of Warren County, 1903-1913 (48). Also letters and receipt received by other family members and a Warren County rent bond, [1883?].