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Cole, Marshall (Sc 1726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cole, Marshall (Sc 1726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1726. Copies of two letters from Marshall Cole, one dated 25 December 1944, written to family members while he was serving in the military during World War II. He describes his Christmas in the Philippines and his return to a base in the United States.
Crump, Malcolm Hart, 1849-1925 (Sc 1725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crump, Malcolm Hart, 1849-1925 (Sc 1725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1725. Two letters sent by Malcolm Hart Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky to the Royal Society of Arts, London, England paying dues. Also includes a pamphlet encouraging universal military training.
Runner, Harold Wayne, B. 1930 (Sc 1727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Runner, Harold Wayne, B. 1930 (Sc 1727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1727. Two letters to family members from Warren County native Wayne Runner, serving in the military during the Korean War. He writes about his promotion to corporal and his plans for his return home.
Franks Collection (Sc 1731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Sc 1721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
West, James George, 1892-1979 (Sc 1734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
West, James George, 1892-1979 (Sc 1734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1734. Letters to James G. West, Moulton, Iowa, from Arthur C. Jones and D. D. Dooley, serving in the armed forces during World War I. They describe camp life in the United States and France, mention mutual friends, and relate what they hope to do when the war ends.
Akers, Sammie D., 1918-2002 (Mss 229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Carter, Clarence, B. 1897 (Sc 1625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Clarence, B. 1897 (Sc 1625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1625. Transcript of interview with Clarence Carter conducted by James Bennett and J. Crawford Crowe. He relates his experiences serving with the African American 10th Cavalry Regiment during the 1916 expedition into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa.
Prowse, George Odom, 1840-1884 (Sc 1718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Lane, John E., 1841-1919 (Sc 1745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Cochran, Robert Gilmore, 1919-1971 (Sc 1724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Mcgown, Thomas Neal, 1909-1966 (Sc 1708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1707. Diary kept by Thomas D. Whitehead, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, from 29 November 1862 to 12 October 1863 while traveling with his company to Port Hudson, Louisiana then back home to Wayne County, Tennessee. He comments on camp life, the weather, his own failing health, and his hopes for peace.
Wilson, William Michael, B. 1956 (Mss 224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, William Michael, B. 1956 (Mss 224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 224. Unedited draft of Wilson's book, "History of the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Regiment," a Union regiment consisting chiefly of soldiers from southcentral Kentucky. They participated in numerous engagements in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Felts, Archibald, 1758-1825 (Sc 1699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Felts, Archibald, 1758-1825 (Sc 1699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1699. Typescripts of Felts's 1817 will, 1825 estate inventory, and family Bible records. A scanned copy of the Felts family Bible record as well as the supporting material for his pension petition can be accessed by clicking on the "Additional Files" links. Also includes an article about Felts's grandson Daniel Boler, who became an elder of the Mount Lebanon, New York Shaker community.
Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Mss 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Mss 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 196. Letters sent to Stone and his mother, Nelle Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky, during World War II from friends in armed service around the world. Includes letters, holiday greeting cards, telegrams, V-mail and postcards. Almost all correspondents were members of a local fraternal club known as the Senators which was composed of graduates of Bowling Green High School.
Bingham, Charles Edward, 1944-1997 (Sc 1672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bingham, Charles Edward, 1944-1997 (Sc 1672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1672. Journal, notes, and scrapbook kept by Butler County, Kentucky native Charles Edward Bingham pertaining to his military service in Vietnam in 1968.
Duncan-Ponvert, Annie Franchot, 2001-2004 (Mss 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan-Ponvert, Annie Franchot, 2001-2004 (Mss 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 218. Duncan-Ponvert's thesis "The Stories of Eleven Who Served in World War II from Lewisburg, Kentucky" and the cassette tapes of the interviews she conducted as part of the research.
Howard, William Barnett, 1837?-1863 (Sc 1668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Howard, William Barnett, 1837?-1863 (Sc 1668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1668. Letters from William Barnett Howard, serving with the 3rd Kentucky Regiment (C.S.A.) in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi to his family in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky. He provides a private's observations of daily camp life. Includes correspondence related to the letters and associated data.
Hudkins, Edgar Fernando, 1893-1977 (Sc 1670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hudkins, Edgar Fernando, 1893-1977 (Sc 1670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1670. Letter from Edgar Fernando Hudkins, Toul, France to his sister Vera (Hudkins) Pigue commenting on his plans to return home after completing his military service. Includes biographical and genealogical information.
Smith, Rhonda L. (Sc 1666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Rhonda L. (Sc 1666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1666. Paper titled "Death on the Rails" written by Rhonda L. Smith for a history class at Western Kentucky University. Relays the World War I story of how members of the 113th Engineer Battalion and the 138th Field Artillery, which included many Kentuckians, were killed in a rail accident in France.
Boyd, Gilbert, Jr., B. 1950 (Sc 1657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyd, Gilbert, Jr., B. 1950 (Sc 1657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1657. Letters from Gilbert "Randy" Boyd, Jr., serving as a Chief Warrant Officer in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, to his wife Reba in Bowling Green. He comments on his fellow soldiers, the beginning of the war and a trip to Kuwait.
Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 1648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 1648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1648. Copy of John Helm's appointment as Second Lieutenant in the Bedford County, Virginia militia. Signed 22 November 1779 in Williamsburg, Virginia by Governor Thomas Jefferson.
Mayberry, Gerald Wayne, 1948-1968 (Sc 1655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mayberry, Gerald Wayne, 1948-1968 (Sc 1655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1655. Letters written by Gerald Wayne Mayberry to "Lula" and "Sally," Franklin, Kentucky, while Mayberry was serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam.
Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 222. Correspondence of the Pearson family, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly letters from Carroll Pearson to his wife Patricia while he is in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The collection also contains letters sent to Carroll from his parents and letters sent to Patricia from her parents and friends.
Civil Defense - Ordinance - Kentucky, [1943] (Sc 1643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil Defense - Ordinance - Kentucky, [1943] (Sc 1643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1643. Template for the use of municipal governments in adopting a Civil Defense ordinance in Kentucky during World War II.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Sc 1626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1626. Copies of letters exchanged in an attempt to identify four Confederate soldiers killed in Hopkins County, Kentucky in 1865 and interred in an unmarked grave in the Madisonville Odd Fellows Cemetery in Hopkins County.
Kleiderer, Charles W., D. 1999 (Sc 1628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kleiderer, Charles W., D. 1999 (Sc 1628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1628. Letters from Henderson native Charles W. Kleiderer, Silver Spring, Maryland to his aunt Mary Moore, Bowling Green related to his development of the Variable Time (VT) Fuze. Accompanying photographs show how this fuze, used in artillery shells, contributed to the Allied vicotry in World War II.
Stone, Eva Mae, 1918-1977 (Sc 1639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stone, Eva Mae, 1918-1977 (Sc 1639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1639. Letters sent to Bowling Green, Kentucky native Eva Mae Stone by cousins George and Charles Shanks and friend John Mullins who were serving in the armed forces during World War II. Includes photograph of Mullins in uniform standing before the U.S. Capitol.
Houchin, Roy Franklin, Ii, B. 1954 (Sc 1602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Houchin, Roy Franklin, Ii, B. 1954 (Sc 1602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1602. Typescripts of interviews conducted by Roy Franklin Houchin, II with: Joe Richardson regarding early aviation and the aerospace industry, Douglas Campbell regarding his World War I aerial combat experience, and Bob Ford regarding World War I military uniforms. Includes Houchin family information.