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Sullivan, Betty A. - Letters To (Sc 1159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Sullivan, Betty A. - Letters To (Sc 1159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1159. Desert Storm letters (25) by several servicemen to Betty A. Sullivan, Falls of Rough, Kentucky. Also included are examples of newsletters (3) and copies of letters sent by Sullivan to servicemen during the Persian Gulf War.

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Radford, A. Todd (Sc 1151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Radford, A. Todd (Sc 1151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1151. Desert Storm letters (26) written by A. Todd Radford to this father Robert Radford and family in Louisville, Kentucky, discussing his war service in Saudi Arabia.

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Gordon, Tom (Sc 1138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Gordon, Tom (Sc 1138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1138. Desert Storm pictorial postcard with message from Tom Gordon to B.J. Senior of LaGrange, Kentucky.

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Mize, Melinda - Letters To (Sc 1149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Mize, Melinda - Letters To (Sc 1149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1149. Desert Storm letters (8) and postcard sent to Melinda Mize, Bowling Green, Kentucky, by her brother Charles Wayne Mize and a friend James H. Davis. Also included are clippings with information about Charles W. Mize.

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Rothman, Michael C. (Sc 1153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Rothman, Michael C. (Sc 1153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1153. Desert Storm letter written about the U.S.S. Saratoga by Michael C. Rothman to his mother, Betty Gardner, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Barnett, Charles Wesley (Sc 1131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Barnett, Charles Wesley (Sc 1131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1131. Christmas card, photo of Charles Wesley Barnett, letters (2) written by Barnett, who was serving in the Persian Gulf War, to Michael Foster, a fourth grader of Bowling Green and his family, and an explanatory note from Connie L. Foster, Michael’s mother.

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Goad, Kelly Parker (Sc 1139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Goad, Kelly Parker (Sc 1139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1139. Desert Storm letter from Kelly Parker Goad to his aunt, Pansy Page Allison and family, Ooltewah, Tennessee, describing living conditions at Saudi National Guard Compound; and letters from Allison providing biographical information about Goad.

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Mccullough, Crystal - Letters To (Sc 1148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Mccullough, Crystal - Letters To (Sc 1148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1148. Desert Storm letters (8) and Christmas card written by three servicemen to Crystal McCullough, Tullahoma Tennessee, and photographs (2) of two of the men. Also included is an outgoing letter from McCullough to an unnamed serviceman and a letter of explanation about the letters (11).

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Damron, Danny Lee (Sc 1133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Damron, Danny Lee (Sc 1133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1133. Letters and a postcard sent from Damron to Becky Spradlin of Nicholasville, Kentucky. Also included is a photo of Damron, a water bottle label with Arabic captions and a riyal bill from Saudi Arabia.

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Headrick, Victor Delano, 1921-2010 (Sc 1122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Headrick, Victor Delano, 1921-2010 (Sc 1122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1122. Letter, 26 May 1945, from Headrick, a Monroe County, Kentucky native, to his sister Eva Ream, relating his World War II experiences as a transportation specialist in Europe. Includes genealogical data sheet.

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Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1123. Postcard about a Bowling Green High School 1934 class meeting, 1937; newsletters (3), from the 87th Depot Repair Squadron, 1945; army ration card, 1945; miscellaneous papers related to Stamps’ release from the army, 1945; and a letter from a Moroccan friend, 1948.

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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Soldiers From - Tennessee (Sc 1119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Soldiers From - Tennessee (Sc 1119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1119. Telegrams (7), 1971, to Susan E. Powell, Martin, Tennessee, informing her of her husband's war injuries and his well-being; telegram from husband Lt. William E. Powell, Jr., to Susan; and clipping expressing the couple's thanks to their friends for kindnesses shown them.

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Walton, Charles Potter, 1876-1971 (Sc 1120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Walton, Charles Potter, 1876-1971 (Sc 1120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1120. Sermon notes and Spanish-American War discharge certificate of Simpson County, Kentucky native, Charles Potter Walton, who served as a Methodist minister in the south central Kentucky area. Several items related to the Spanish-American War can be viewed in full-text (Click on "Additional Files" below).

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Keirns, Harry Austin, 1917-2000 - Collector (Sc 1199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Keirns, Harry Austin, 1917-2000 - Collector (Sc 1199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1199. Stories collected by Harry A. Keirns from American prisoners of war in Germany, describing the downing of their planes in German occupied areas during World War II.

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Caley, Charles C., 1839-1901 (Sc 1181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Caley, Charles C., 1839-1901 (Sc 1181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1181. Letter, 18 December [1862], written by Union soldier Charles Caley, stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his wife in Mentor, Lake County, Ohio. He discusses his illness, his arrival in Bowling Green Green from Louisville with six hundred troops, and their encampment in an old sawmill.

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Haynes, James Pleasant, 1843-1919 (Mss 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Haynes, James Pleasant, 1843-1919 (Mss 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 477. Civil war diaries (1864-1865), service and pension records of James Pleasant Haynes of Warren County, Kentucky, who served with the 26th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.

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Kington, Donald Mason, B. 1928 (Mss 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Kington, Donald Mason, B. 1928 (Mss 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 475. Typewritten draft, with corrections, of Donald M. Kington’s book Forgotten Summers: The Story of the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, 1921-1940. The book chronicles the one-month-long camps run every summer by the U.S. Army to give young volunteers the experience of soldiering. The book was published in 1995.

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Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2762. Letter, 30 April 1898, to Colonel Robert Morningstar, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Walter S. Forrester, Assistant Adjutant General of Kentucky, regarding the possibilities of Kentucky troops seeing combat in the Spanish-American War; letter to Mrs. T. J. Peay and notes of Jane Morningstar regarding Barbre cemetery, Warren County, Kentucky; notes of Elise Dulaney on members of the Covington and Dulaney families of Warren County, Kentucky; printed pamphlet titled “Supplement Mulkey Genealogy.” You may access the Forrester letter about Spanish-American War service by clicking on "Additional Files" below.

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Doughty, Kyllie (Sc 1103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Doughty, Kyllie (Sc 1103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1103. Paper: "Remembrances of Summer 1944,” written by Doughty for a Western Kentucky University class. She based her paper on her interview with her Louisville, Kentucky, grandmother, concerning life after her husband enlisted in the U.S. Navy, during World War II, and before he was sent overseas.

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Civil War, 1861-1965 - Pensions (Sc 1102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Civil War, 1861-1965 - Pensions (Sc 1102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1102. Materials related to Civil War pension claim of Thomas J. Winfrey, Russell County, Kentucky, and his widow, Mary (Sharp) Winfrey. Also includes document certifying the death of Corporal Hugh A. Sharp on 18 July 1863 in a hospital in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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Wiltse, Jason S., 1843-1874 (Sc 2760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Wiltse, Jason S., 1843-1874 (Sc 2760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2760. Diary of Jason S. Wiltse, kept while serving as a corporal with the 23rd Michigan Infantry. He describes the countryside, weather and conditions during his tour of duty in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, and notes the names of his correspondents. He also describes the battle of Campbell’s Station near Knoxville, Tennessee, and refers (p. 68) to having been in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Christmas Day 1862. Includes a photograph of Wiltse in uniform.

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Blake, Rufus George, 1846-1929 (Sc 1095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Blake, Rufus George, 1846-1929 (Sc 1095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1095. Letter, 17 July 1927, by Rufus George Blake, Crossett, Arkansas, to his granddaughter Maxine (Blake) Walker. Relates briefly his and his father Hiram Blake's Civil War experiences, which resulted in Hiram being killed near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes 1997 letter related to earlier document.

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Wall Family Papers (Sc 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Wall Family Papers (Sc 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1094. Documents mainly of Wall family members of Cynthiana (Harrison County), Kentucky, and Dallas, Texas. The family correspondence includes three Civil War era letters. The financial receipts include one for the cost of an 1841 servant’s coffin.

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Diamond, George Oliver, 1925-1998 (Sc 1097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Diamond, George Oliver, 1925-1998 (Sc 1097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1097. George Oliver Diamond's autobiography, written for his children and grandchildren and focusing on his experiences as a member of the 559th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion in Europe during World War II. He received a portion of his military training in Bowling Green, Kentucky, returning to the city after the war to work and raise his family. He saw combat duty during the final months of the war.

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Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.

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Civil War, 1861-1865 - Draft (Sc 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2013

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Draft (Sc 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1090. Commutation money receipt given to Henry J. McLean, Owensboro, Kentucky. McLean, a colonel drafted into the Union army from Kentucky’s 2nd Congressional District, paid $300 to receive a discharge from further liability for the draft. Receipt signed by George D. Blakey.

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Simons, J. R. (Sc 1092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2013

Simons, J. R. (Sc 1092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1092. Three letters, June-December 1863, from J. R. Simons, serving with the Union army near Vicksburg, Mississippi, to his cousins Harriet and Nancy Trout, Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky. He describes the fighting at Vicksburg as well as conditions before and after the battle.

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Burch, James W., B. 1808? (Sc 1088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2013

Burch, James W., B. 1808? (Sc 1088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1088. Letter, 23 November 1862, written by Burch, Henry County, Tennessee to his brother, Benjamin D. Burch, relating the economic impact of the war and describing guerrilla activities in his home area. Includes photo of Burch and his wife.

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Flood, Edwin Warren, 1921-1944 (Sc 1081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2013

Flood, Edwin Warren, 1921-1944 (Sc 1081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1081. Six World War II V-Mail letters from Edwin Warren Flood, serving aboard the U.S.S. St. Louis in the Pacific area, to his parents and sister in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also, three letters from his parents and sister, written before Flood’s death on 14 February 1944. Collection includes materials related to his posthumous awards, a photo of Flood in his U.S. Navy uniform, and negatives.

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Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850 (Sc 1038), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2013

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850 (Sc 1038), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1038. Document signed by Zachary Taylor acknowledging receipt of clothing, guns and other supplies in accordance with his request as captain of the 7th Regiment of United States Infantry, Louisville, Kentucky.

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