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Bruton, Mary Virginia (Guess), 1907-1978 (Sc 3119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3119. Photos (3) and a reminiscence about chenille bedspreads sold by the Bruton family at their Hart County, Kentucky, Pine Ridge Gift Shop. Besides bedspreads, the shop sold locally made baskets, chalk figurines, cider,and Mammoth Cave souvenirs. Scans of the photographs are stored in the Photo Archives.

Loving, Hector Voltaire, 1839-1913 (Sc 3123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3123. Letter, 31 July 1862, of Hector V. Loving, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Harlan P. Lloyd, Angelica, New York. He tells his former schoolmate of his law study and practice since graduation from New York’s Hamilton College, and particularly describes the uproar in his home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War: secessionist “treason,” the Confederate occupation, and the rebuilding of the city afterward. He also refers to their classmate and law student Daniel Webster Wright as a “violent” secessionist.

Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3118. Letter, 23-24 May 1862 [sic], of George Messer, 107th Illinois Infantry, to his wife Lottie in DeWitt County, Illinois. From Camp Hobson, Glasgow, Kentucky, he reports on his health and the possibility of battle, and mockingly describes the two-men “dogtents” issued to the troops. He also discusses recent promotions and the prospects for a military draft, notes the arrival of an Indiana regiment decimated at the Battle of Perryville, and criticizes "shoulder strap gentlemen” who take credit for soldiers’ achievements.

Garrison, Kathryn (Topmiller), 1917-2012 (Sc 3117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3117. Two letters of Kathryn Garrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her godchild “Betsy,” regarding hats made by Wilhelmina Howard, a Bowling Green milliner who was Betsy’s grandmother and Kathryn’s cousin.

Ennis, William Franklin, Sr., 1856-1939 (Mss 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 614. Journals with short entries about daily happenings and listings of farm expenses for William F. Ennis, a farmer, quarry owner, and businessman from Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes some poetry, weather information, and data about an unnamed individual conducting a school.

Carpenter, Howard R., 1919-2016 (Mss 613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 613. Manuscript orchestral music for several pieces composed by Howard R. Carpenter, a music professor at Western Kentucky University from 1953 to 1984.

Ragland, Nancy (Stewart), 1861-1948 (Sc 3116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3116. Letters, 22 March 1946 and 14 May 1947, of Nancy (Stewart) Ragland, Warren County, Kentucky, to her granddaughter Gwendolyn and her family in Quality, Kentucky, concerning household and family matters. A nephew’s letter of 29 October 1948 describes his attendance at the funeral of “Aunt Nan” and his return home to Arkansas; he refers to several family members by first name only.

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Sc 3115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3115. Letter, 27 March 1940, of Duncan Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to F. D. Staley of Staley & Crabb, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, an outdoor advertising firm, giving directions to a meeting at Hines’s office at 902 Elm Street. The letter is signed for Hines by a secretary, and the “Adventures in Good Eating, Inc.” letterhead promotes Hines’s books.

Pedigo, James Spenser, 1882-1933 (Sc 3114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3114. Letter, 19 September 1910, to “Mildred” from J. Spenser Pedigo, Bowling Green, Kentucky. A friend of her parents, Pedigo greets the newborn Mildred, praises motherhood and family, and sends his regards to her parents and to one “Kate Carr.”

Pierian Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 610. Minutes, correspondence, yearbooks, and miscellaneous records of the Pierian Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Kitchcart, Mary L., 1837-1925 (Sc 3113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3113. Correspondence of Mary L. Kithcart, Mount Pleasant, Ohio. A letter to her from Ella Hurst and Thornton Moore, 23 October 1862, reports on encounters between Confederates, including John Hunt Morgan, and Union troops near Lexington, Kentucky, Ella’s family’s aid to home guards, and the theft of horses and wagons. A concerned Mary forwards the letter to a cousin with details of one of the stolen horses.

Huenefeld, Earl Warren, B. 1921 And Alvis Marie (Dunaway) Huenefeld, 1922-1994 (Mss 606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 606. Courtship letters of E. Warren Huenefeld, Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and his fiancé and eventual wife, Alvis Marie Dunaway, while she was teaching school in Madison County and Pulaski County, Kentucky. Includes some elementary music teaching Material and a pencil sketch of Alvis Huenefeld.

Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 609. Correspondence, photographs, travel materials, genealogy, and other personal papers of Beulah R. Winchel, a Breckinridge County, Kentucky, native and a teacher and librarian who served in Japan, Germany and France with the U.S. Army Special Services and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools.

Burhans, Rollin S., 1914-2005 - Relating To (Sc 3112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3112. Typescripted account by an unknown author of an intercession by Rollin S. Burhans, pastor of Crescent Hill Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky, which prevented the planned suicide of “Mr. Martin,” a musician traveling with the Ice Capades.

Robertson, Jane, 1925-2015 (Sc 3111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3111. Letters sent from Jane Robertson, a nurse in Boston, Massachusetts, to fiancé and future husband Sergeant Luthene G. Kimball, while he was stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during World War II. She discusses their relationship, family life, nursing, and current events.

See also: SC 2976 "Kimball, Luthene G., 1921-1986"

Beard, Mary Atwood (Hobson), 1884-1962 - Collector (Sc 3091), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3091. Letters written to Mary Beard of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and research material collected by the same for her book, Old Homes In and Near Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Hedgeville School - Hedgeville, Kentucky (Sc 3110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3110. Handwritten invitation to Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Anderson promising them "a hearty welcome" at a pie supper to be given at Hedgeville School on 31 October 1916.

Clark, William Elvis, Sr., 1898-1994, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 608. Oral reminiscences of William Elvis Clark, who grew up in Warren County, Kentucky, but spent most of his career in the Chicago area. He discusses at length: people, events, and local historical topics that he recalls from his childhood in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.

Broughton, Bessie (Downing), 1903-1993 (Mss 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 607. Multi-volume diary of Bessie (Downing) Broughton from Holland in Allen County, Kentucky. The diaries include information about Bessie’s daily life, the weather, her involvement in different organizations, comments about her gardening and needlework, her family and church involvement and school activities.

Tennessee Valley Authority, Division Of Forestry (Sc 3100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3100. Report on the forestry reconnaissance of the proposed Gilbertsville, Kentucky, reservoir area. Prepared by the Tennessee Valley Authority, Division of Forestry, November, 1936. Contains black and white photographs.

Davis, Russell Leon, 1933-2004 (Mss 604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 604. Correspondence, photographs, literature, and travel keepsakes related to the 1954 five-month stay in Ireland of Leon Davis of Edmonson County, Kentucky, as a delegate of the International Farm Youth Exchange Program.

Rice, Laban Lacy, 1870-1973 (Mss 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 605. Correspondence, writings, photographs, clippings, and papers of Laban Lacy Rice, a Webster, County, Kentucky native, educator, author, lecturer, poet, and president of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. Includes his scientific writing, principally on astronomy, relativity and cosmology, as well as fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writing. Also includes some correspondence and papers relating to his brother, poet and dramatist Cale Young Rice, and sister-in-law, author Alice Hegan Rice.

Stout, Penelope, 1829-1849 - Relating To (Sc 3108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3108. Certificate, 23 February 1842, signed by 16 citizens of Leesburg, Kentucky regarding curious hair growth on the thumb and fingers of Penelope Stout. Although none had witnessed the hair growth, all believed it to be true based upon the testimony of others and the “character of the family,” the latter observation implying their practice of sorcery or witchcraft.

Napier, Patrick E., B. 1925 (Sc 3109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3109. “Kentucky Mountain Square Dancing,” by Patrick E. Napier, Burgin, Kentucky. This monograph (52 pp.) provides a brief historical background and describes the elements of square dancing including steps, dress, music and caller. Also included are terms and definitions, and descriptions (with diagrams) of many square dances commonly found in eastern Kentucky.

Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 602. Correspondence, research notes, book manuscripts, promotional material, and editorials related to Hugh O. Potter’s career as a radio broadcaster and his interests in Kentucky history, specifically Owensboro and Daviess County, and Abraham Lincoln. Includes one box of original legal documents (1783-1953) related to the Massie family of Daviess County.

Embric, E. P. - Relating To (Sc 3107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3107. Finding signed by 12 jurors on letterhead of a Lebanon, Kentucky law firm adjudging E. P. Embric to be a lunatic. The finding states that Embric exhibited the first symptoms of an unsound mind on 21 April 1880, that his place of birth, residence and parents are unknown, and that he is incapable of laboring for his support.

Purdy, James K., 1857-1929 - Relating To (Sc 3106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3106. Finding signed by 12 jurors adjudging James Purdy of Marion County, Kentucky to be a lunatic. The finding states that Purdy became of unsound mind two years earlier, “supposed to be from self abuse,” that his mother resides in the county, and that he is incapable of laboring for his support.

South Union Messenger (Spring 2017), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

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Traces Volume 45, Number 1, 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.

Waite, Martin Van Buren, 1843-1923 (Sc 3105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3105. Letter, 14 September 1862, of Martin Waite to his brother Jonathan in Hortonville, Wisconsin. Camped with the 1st Wisconsin Infantry near Bowling Green, he refers to aspects of camp life including inspections, procuring honey from bees, and an African-American cook, John Brown, who speaks of his abolitionist namesake. He remarks on how much he has seen of the world since becoming a soldier, expresses confidence in the power of the “blue tailed Yankees,” and asks Jonathan about exchanging greenbacks for gold or silver. Includes envelope imprinted with pro-Union image.