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Jackson, James Herschel, 1883-1957 (Sc 3067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Jackson, James Herschel, 1883-1957 (Sc 3067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3067. Typescript of entries from 1 January to 23 November 1911 in the diary of James Herschel Jackson, a farmer of Drake, Kentucky. He writes of farm work, visitors, family, and local births and deaths, including the killing of two men by persons unknown. Includes Jackson’s obituary and information about persons mentioned in the diary and about the Jackson family.

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Scioto (Steamboat) (Mss 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Scioto (Steamboat) (Mss 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 593. Receipts for various goods and services for the crew of the steamboat Scioto which ran between Hartford in Ohio County, Kentucky, to Evansville, Indiana, via the Rough, Green, and Ohio Rivers. The receipts are chiefly fromEvansville with a few from Hartford and Calhoun, Kentucky.

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Bank Of Kentucky (Sc 3063), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Bank Of Kentucky (Sc 3063), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3063. Certificate for 100 shares of stock in the Bank of Kentucky, issued to May Humphreys on 1 February 1858. Signed by Virgil McKnight, President, and S. H. Bullen, Cashier.

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Mcgown, Joe (Fa 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Mcgown, Joe (Fa 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 991. Project titled: “"Funeral Customs" compiled by Joe McGown for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes individual survey sheets listing a single funeral custom, the informant, date, and location. A large number of photographs, documenting tombstones, are included in the collection. The location of the tombstones is not included, but most of the survey work was done in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Point Pleasant Store - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Point Pleasant Store - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 594. Ledger books containing transactions from the Point Pleasant Store in Ohio County, Kentucky. Because of this store’s location on the Green River, ledgers also include information about shipment of tobacco from that site. Also includes wages for labor performed for the store owner.

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Lightfoot, Robert Karl, 1923-2002 - Collector (Sc 3061), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Lightfoot, Robert Karl, 1923-2002 - Collector (Sc 3061), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3061. Correspondence, accounts, receipts, contracts and papers of the Gladish family of Warren County, Kentucky and the Pendley family of Butler County, Kentucky. Includes letters from Gladish family members in Missouri, discharge of J. I. Gladish from Confederate Civil War service, and letters from Pendley family members in Texas.

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Ashby, J. S. (Sc 3062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Ashby, J. S. (Sc 3062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3062. Letter, 9 February 1843, of J. S. Ashby, Daviess County, Kentucky, to James M. Howard, Wayne County, Illinois. He replies to Howard’s request for money with a description of poor local economic conditions, including low prices for crops and horses, difficulty collecting debts, and even lack of money to pay for marriage licenses. He expresses his wish to marry and relates an anecdote about three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter, the last referring to bachelors.

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Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 577. Funeral records, correspondence, account books and other financial papers related to various undertaking establishments run by the Gerard and Bradley families, including Gerard and Gerard Funeral Home, Eugene Gerard Company Mortuary and the Gerard and Bradley Funeral Chapel in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes financial records related to an earlier furniture making business operated by John C. Gerard, a French immigrant.

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Quisenberry, Frank E., 1892-1985 (Sc 3058), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Quisenberry, Frank E., 1892-1985 (Sc 3058), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3058. Letter, December 1970, and Christmas card, December 1974, of Frank Quisenberry, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He writes of his health, friends and local citizens; he also remarks on Bowling Green’s growth and the demolition and replacement of two “Negro districts” with low rent housing.

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South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

South Union Shaker Village - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 3059), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3059. Letter, 1 September 2016, to friends of the South Union Shaker Village, South Union, Kentucky, soliciting funds for the purchase of two acres of land and a building, known as the 1854 Wash House or Sisters Shop, for preservation and interpretation by the Village. An enclosure provides a history of the Wash House and includes photographs.

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Tapley, Corinne Rachel, 1892-1945 (Sc 3060), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Tapley, Corinne Rachel, 1892-1945 (Sc 3060), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3060. The Little Colonel’s Good Times Book (Boston: L. C. Page, 1909) containing birthday records and diary entries of Corinne R. Tapley, Watertown, New York, from January 1910 to September 1912. She writes of social occasions, travel to New York City, graduating from high school, and participation in a wedding party.

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Miller, Winfield, 1852-1947 (Sc 3056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Miller, Winfield, 1852-1947 (Sc 3056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3056. Letter, 26 March 1910, to Ridgely B. Hilleary, Indianapolis, Indiana, from Winfield Miller, chairman of a committee charged with welcoming home former Vice President and Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks from a trip around the world. Miller thanks him for his assistance at the reception held for the couple on 24 March.

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Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3057. Certificate no. 1653 dated 21 August 1890 for ten shares of stock in the Louisville Bridge Company, issued to J. S. Bell. The certificate is endorsed by Bell and bears a cancellation stamp of 4 April 1896. Includes an engraving of the bridge spanning the Ohio River and the canal at Louisville, Kentucky.

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Traces Volume 44, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections Oct 2016

Traces Volume 44, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.

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South Union Messenger (Fall 2016), Kentucky Library Research Collections Oct 2016

South Union Messenger (Fall 2016), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

No abstract provided.

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Boone, Joy (Field) Bale, 1912-2002 (Mss 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Boone, Joy (Field) Bale, 1912-2002 (Mss 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 588. Papers of poet, editor and activist Joy Bale Boone, Elkton, Kentucky, relating primarily to her service as chair of the Committee for the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University. Includes correspondence, Committee records, collected data on Robert Penn Warren, and photographs. Also includes audio and video interviews of Boone and colleagues.

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Sweets, Henry Hayes, 1872-1952 (Sc 3055), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Sweets, Henry Hayes, 1872-1952 (Sc 3055), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3055. Mimeographed letter, 20 March 1906, of Henry H. Sweets, Louisville, Kentucky, Secretary, Executive Committee, Ministerial Education and Relief, of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He urges recipients to convey the “crying need” for ministers to parents, teachers and young men in the church, and offers to send literature to interested parties whose names are forwarded to the Committee.

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Drake, Kentucky - Precinct Directory (Sc 3054), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Drake, Kentucky - Precinct Directory (Sc 3054), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscript Small Collection 3054. Precinct Directory and Voting List for Drake Precinct, Warren County, Kentucky. Contains voters’ names, post office, occupation, party affiliation, race and sex. The list appears to have been compiled for an election to be held on 8 November 1927.

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Wedding Family Papers (Sc 3053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Wedding Family Papers (Sc 3053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3053. Miscellaneous papers of the Wedding family of Ohio County, Kentucky: “A Soldier’s Valentine,” a Spanish-American War-era poem by C. L. Wedding; clippings, including article about the poem and obituary of Denver E. Wedding; 1942 Hopkins County Rationing Board notice appointing Christine Wedding as a registrar; and 1942 letter to Christine Wedding from a serviceman’s wife regarding his departure overseas. For Spanish-American War related material in this collection, click on "Additional Files" below.

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Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Owens, Nellie, 1912-2007 (Sc 3051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Owens, Nellie, 1912-2007 (Sc 3051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3051. W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) sewing notebook of Nellie Owens, Louisville, Kentucky, containing fabric swatches and sewing samples.

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Menefee, Richard Hickman, 1809-1841 (Sc 3052), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Menefee, Richard Hickman, 1809-1841 (Sc 3052), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3052. Letter, 16 December 1837, of Congressman Richard Hickman Menefee to attorney W. Rochester Beatty, Greenupsburg, Kentucky. Writing from Washington, D.C., Menefee asks Beatty to assume conduct of a lawsuit for a client in Salvisa, Kentucky. Referring perhaps to the Rebellions of 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada, he also declares the administration of President Martin Van Buren to be “astounded by the events of last month” and predicts its presentation of measures to the new session of Congress “timidly and irresolutely” in the face of strong …

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Election Districts - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3050), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Election Districts - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3050), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3050. Class action complaint filed by five voters in U.S. District Court, Bowling Green, Kentucky, alleging malapportionment of election districts. The complaint seeks declarative and injunctive relief against the current apportionment and against holding a primary election for justices of the peace and constables. Details of the previous and current apportionments are included.

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Ray Family - Bible Records (Sc 3048), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Ray Family - Bible Records (Sc 3048), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3048. Three pages from a family Bible with genealogical data on members of the Ray and associated families.

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Griffin, Basil W., Jr., 1923-1997 (Sc 3049), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Griffin, Basil W., Jr., 1923-1997 (Sc 3049), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3049. Receipts, cancelled checks and lists showing contributions to and disbursements of the election campaign of Basil Griffin, Jr. for the office of Judge-Executive of Warren County, Kentucky.

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Todd, William Rogers, 1837-1924 (Sc 3047), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Todd, William Rogers, 1837-1924 (Sc 3047), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3047. Letter of William Rogers Todd to Thomas F. Mason, 8 March 1866, written from Tompkinsville, Kentucky. Todd describes his efforts to drill for oil there and asks about available positions “on Lake Sup[erio]r” in the event such efforts are not successful.

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Case Study From Inside A Presidential Campaign In The 100th New Hampshire Primary: Analyzing The Hillary For New Hampshire Field Organization, Christopher Mckenna Aug 2016

Case Study From Inside A Presidential Campaign In The 100th New Hampshire Primary: Analyzing The Hillary For New Hampshire Field Organization, Christopher Mckenna

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

On the 100th anniversary of the New Hampshire primary, this case study analyzes a high profile political campaign in order to add to the discussion on the extent to which campaigns matter. The New Hampshire Primary is disproportionately important in the nomination process as the nation’s first primary; therefore, it is vital candidates perform well in the Granite State. I use my experience as a fellow on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the Democratic Primary to critically analyze the campaign organization in New Hampshire. This case study will attempt to answer how Secretary Clinton’s field organization …

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Western's New Deal: The Shaping Of College Heights During The Great Depression, Sean Jacobson Aug 2016

Western's New Deal: The Shaping Of College Heights During The Great Depression, Sean Jacobson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This thesis addresses the Great Depression's impact on public higher education by analyzing developments at Western Kentucky State Teachers College. It also seeks to understand factors leading to the enshrinement of Henry Hardin Cherry as a larger-than-life figure upon his death in 1937. An investigative study into primary materials found that the New Deal projects on campus provided a boost for Cherry's leadership and charisma in his community. The concurrence of his death with the construction of a classroom building funded by the Public Works Administration determined his memorialization for posterity. The building, Cherry Hall, emerged as an institutional symbol …

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Lester Lowe Grocery - Pondsville, Kentucky (Mss 589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Lester Lowe Grocery - Pondsville, Kentucky (Mss 589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 589. Receipts, wholesale grocery ordering forms, correspondence and promotional material from the Lester Lowe Grocery, a small general store in Pondsville, Warren County, Kentucky.

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Rasdall, Lillie F., 1885-1908 (Sc 3045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2016

Rasdall, Lillie F., 1885-1908 (Sc 3045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3045. Letter, 16 January 1907, of Lillie Rasdall, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to S. E. Mantz, Webster, Iowa. In reply to his personal ad, she describes herself and offers to exchange photographs. She remarks that she moved to Bowling Green from the country three years ago, and praises the city’s churches, especially the Roman Catholic church.

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