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Full-Text Articles in United States History
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1863), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 1863), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1863. Travel diary kept by Nancy Disher Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky of a trip to Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia in the summer of 1990.
Richardson, Charles Baker, 1917-2000 And Charlotte Wright (Thomas) Richardson, 1913-1998 (Sc 1856), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richardson, Charles Baker, 1917-2000 And Charlotte Wright (Thomas) Richardson, 1913-1998 (Sc 1856), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1856. Travel diary kept by Charlotte Wright (Thomas) Richardson on various trips to Texas in the 1980s and a 1997 Christmas letter from both Richardsons.
Riggs, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1930 (Sc 1857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Riggs, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1930 (Sc 1857), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1857. Memoir written by Benjamin Franklin Riggs, with particular emphasis on his Civil War service in Arkansas with Confederate forces. Also, a copy of his surrender document, 7 June 1865.
Young, Sibert, 1903-1981 (Sc 1854), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Young, Sibert, 1903-1981 (Sc 1854), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1854. List of funeral expenses for Sibert Young, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Bush, John Lafayette, 1877-1961 (Mss 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bush, John Lafayette, 1877-1961 (Mss 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 246. Notebooks, surveys, and field notes compiled by Warren County, Kentucky native John Lafayette Bush who was elected County Surveyor in 1917.
Pelly, Donald Evans, B. 1950 (Sc 1855), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pelly, Donald Evans, B. 1950 (Sc 1855), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1855. Photocopy of 17 July 1991 letter from Donald Evans Pelly, Harrodsburg, Kentucky to Dianne Watkins, Bowling Green, Kentucky regarding Janice Holt Giles's comments about his relatives in her book "Around Our House."
Bradburn, Ethel (Huffines), 1889-1954 - Collector (Sc 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bradburn, Ethel (Huffines), 1889-1954 - Collector (Sc 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 98. A collection of papers of related families consisting mainly of tax receipts, 1791-1846, of Andrew Hodges; receipts, 1839-1875, and militia notices, 1847, chiefly for Andrew Kellis; will of Robert Reynolds, 1814, all of Warren County, Kentucky; and agreement and receipts to teach school in Simpson County, Kentucky, 1842, 1846. Also miscellaneous items and research notes.
Arterburn, Charles Royce, B. 1952 (Sc 1817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Arterburn, Charles Royce, B. 1952 (Sc 1817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1817. Letters and cards from friends while Charles Royce Arterburn of Monroe County, Kentucky is serving in the Army. Also, cards and letters to Arterburn after his discharge, chiefly from friends who remained in the service.
Campbell Family - Deeds (Sc 100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Campbell Family - Deeds (Sc 100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 100. Deeds for land in Christian County, Kentucky, 1834, 1872, and 1881 related to the Campbell family.
Scottsville Baptist Church - Scottsville, Kentucky (Mss 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scottsville Baptist Church - Scottsville, Kentucky (Mss 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscript Collection 248. Record books of Scottsville Baptist Church, 12 May 1841 to 5 January 1908. Entries consist chiefly of minutes of church business meetings.
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1851), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1851), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1851. Photocopies of two documents placed in the cornerstone of First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1913. One document was written by W.H. Mitchell for the encouragement of future generations. The other lists the names of the men involved in laying the stone.
Frazer Family Papers (Sc 111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Frazer Family Papers (Sc 111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 111. Letters to James Frazer, Barren County, Kentucky, from his brothers, Jeremiah, 1824-1849 (9 items), and Martin, 1833-1848 (4). Other papers include legal receipts and notes of James, who served as sheriff, county treasurer and county court member of Barren County, 1822-1846 (2) and an inventory of James Frazer's estate, 1797.
Jenkins, William Marshall, Jr., 1918-2002 (Sc 1852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, William Marshall, Jr., 1918-2002 (Sc 1852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1852. Paper: "The Kentucky Science and Technology Commission" written by William Marshall Jenkins, Jr. for a National Science Foundation grant.
Parker, Elvis Brooks, 1841-1862 (Sc 1853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parker, Elvis Brooks, 1841-1862 (Sc 1853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of all material (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1853. Information gathered by an unnamed genealogist related to Elvis Brooks Parker's Civil War service. Parker, from Tennessee, was apparently court-martialed and shot for deserting the Confederate army and fighting for the Union army. His execution occurred after the Battle of Hartsville, Tennessee.
Ellis, James Tandy, 1868-1942 (Sc 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ellis, James Tandy, 1868-1942 (Sc 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 110. Letters, 1897-1939 (16 items), written to James Tandy Ellis, poet, humorist, columnist, and lecturer of Ghent, Kentucky. Also includes Ellis' poems and writings, 1891 (5); printed items; clippings; commissions as Assistant Adjutant and Adjutant General of Kentucky; and miscellaneous items.
Shaw, Henrietta Fannie, 1839-1917 - Letters To (Sc 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shaw, Henrietta Fannie, 1839-1917 - Letters To (Sc 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 112. Chiefly letters from girl friends of Henrietta Fannie Shaw, Logan County, Kentucky, 1863-1867, a slave bill of sale, 1863, and miscellaneous writings.
Gold Rush Period (Sc 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gold Rush Period (Sc 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 106. Letters, receipts, legal papers, etc., which pertain mainly to Kentuckians who went to Alaska and the Yukon Territory in search of gold. The principal person involved was Abram H. Bowman, Jr., of Louisville, Kentucky.
Lyon-O'Hara Papers (Sc 107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lyon-O'Hara Papers (Sc 107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 107. Business and personal letters of the Lyon and O'Hara families of Louisville and Eddyville, Kentucky, which chiefly concern army life (Union and Confederate), tobacco sales, and family matters. James O'Hara and Hylan B. Lyon are the principal correspondents.
Brashear, Kathleen Hope, 1895-1986 (Sc 1873), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brashear, Kathleen Hope, 1895-1986 (Sc 1873), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1873. Two reminiscences written by Kathleen Hope Brashear titled "Remembrances" in which she recalls people and places in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Cole, Jennie Bryant, 1872-1957 (Sc 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cole, Jennie Bryant, 1872-1957 (Sc 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 103. Letters (3), 1933-1951, to Mary Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and papers (4), 1933-1941, written by Cole and titled: Cedar Bluff College," "Oakland's First Baseball Team," "The Oakland Country," and "Some Name Places of Warren County, Kentucky."
Jackson Family Papers (Sc 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson Family Papers (Sc 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 105. Papers of the Jackson family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, which include: letter from W. C. Jackson, Lexington, Kentucky, to John S. Jackson, telling of his medical studies at Transylvania, 1825; blacksmithing bill, 1831; statement that B.J. Jackson paid his 1863 taxes; letter to F.W. Jackson relative to the Great Western Star Band's fees for playing at the Bowling Green Fair, 1872.
Smith, Henry F. (Sc 1850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Henry F. (Sc 1850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1850. Business correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the interests of Henry F. Smith of Paducah, Kentucky, particularly the transport of railroad ties via steamboats in western Kentucky and Tennessee.
Stowers-Shaw Family Papers (Sc 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stowers-Shaw Family Papers (Sc 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 96. Deeds for land in Daviess County, Kentucky, 1839, 1840; tax and tuition receipts, transfer of a patent, two letters, and miscellaneous papers of the Stowers and Shaw families.
Spence, Ruth Potts, 1894-1988 (Sc 1840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spence, Ruth Potts, 1894-1988 (Sc 1840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1840. Letters from Alice Hegan Rice (4), Cale Young Rice (13) and Laban Lacy Rice (1) to Ruth Potts Spence, who met the Rices at Camp Nakanawa in Mayland, Tennessee and maintained a friendship with the couple. The letters discuss writing, current events, family matters, and grief.
Mccay, Kelly Matthew, B. 1978 (Sc 1844), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccay, Kelly Matthew, B. 1978 (Sc 1844), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1844. Letters from students at Muhlenberg North High School, Greenville, Kentucky, as well as e-mails, greeting cards, etc. sent to Kelly Matthew McCay while he served with the U.S. Army in Iraq.
Ashcraft Family Papers (Sc 93), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ashcraft Family Papers (Sc 93), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 93. Deeds, 1843 1870 (4), surveys, 1846, 1867 (2); receipt in connection with a damage award for the “unsoundness of three slaves,” 1841, and other receipts, 1840-1871 (13), chiefly of the Ashcraft family of Meade County, Kentucky; certificates of exemption from military service in favor of a substitute, 1864 (2); and sundry items.
Jackson, Martha Washington, 1837-1938 (Sc 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Martha Washington, 1837-1938 (Sc 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 95. Reminiscences of Martha W. Jackson, sister of Mary Frances (Jackson) Grider, 1829-1909, and sister-in-law of Tobias Smith Grider, 1824-1882. An account of affairs in Bowling Green, Kentucky during her lifetime, with emphasis on the Civil War period.
Baker, E. S. (Sc 94), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baker, E. S. (Sc 94), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 94. Letters, 1854-1855, written by E. S. Baker to his Kentucky parents, while seeking his fortune in Mississippi, which include comments on filibustering in Cuba. Also, letters, 1856, concerning his experiences as a member of Colonel Titus's unit which went to Nicaragua to aid William Walker in the Filibuster War.
Webb, Frank, 1906-1950 (Sc 1846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Webb, Frank, 1906-1950 (Sc 1846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1846. Letter, 3 February 1930, from Frank Webb, a chiropractor in Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky, to an unnamed recipient discussing the death of a Mr. Chaney, a booster of chiropractic treatment.
Barnett, John, 1816-1855 (Sc 1848), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barnett, John, 1816-1855 (Sc 1848), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1848. Letter, 23 June 1843, from John Barnett to David Lowry discussing politics within the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and at Cumberland College in Lebanon, Tennessee.