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Full-Text Articles in United States History
Pearson, Virginia Earl (Venable), 1919-1990 (Sc 1847), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearson, Virginia Earl (Venable), 1919-1990 (Sc 1847), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1847. Paper: “Kentucky Land Grants,” written by Pearson for a Western Kentucky University history class.
Brashear, Robert L., 1894-1954 (Sc 1849), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brashear, Robert L., 1894-1954 (Sc 1849), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1849. Survey book, 1939-1940, kept by Robert L. Brashear, a Bowling Green, Kentucky, civil engineer. Also, loose items found within pages of the book.
Richardson, Sarah "Sally" Pickett, 1944-2023 (Sc 1835), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richardson, Sarah "Sally" Pickett, 1944-2023 (Sc 1835), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1835. News clippings, handmade greeting cards for family members, and other ephemera related to Richardson, particularly during her childhood and adolescence in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Mss 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Mss 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text of most correspondence (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 239. Letters, photographs and scrapbooks belonging to quilt collector Laura Richardson. Includes letters and research materials from noted authorities Florence Peto and William Rush Dunton.
Brashear Family Papers (Sc 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brashear Family Papers (Sc 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 91. Letter, 6 September 1830, written by Camilla L. Brashear, Port Gibson, Mississippi, to her sister, Sarah F. Brashear, Russellville, Kentucky, containing family news, 1830; two poems, 1829; and genealogical information about the Brashear family.
Blaney Family Papers (Sc 92), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blaney Family Papers (Sc 92), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 92. Civil War discharge, 1865, pension certificate, 1931, and news clipping, 1933? of Henry C. Blaney, who served in the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment. Also genealogical information about the Blaney family, 1919-1963.
Gerard Family Papers (Mss 240), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gerard Family Papers (Mss 240), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 240. Correspondence, financial and legal papers related to the Gerard family's undertaking business in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes receipts for burial plots in Mt. Moriah Cemetery and St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery.
Cosby, Lorene (Moulder), 1920-2008 - Collector (Sc 1843), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cosby, Lorene (Moulder), 1920-2008 - Collector (Sc 1843), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1843. Materials related to the Moulder family, chiefly letters written to Valentine Moulder, Warren County, Kentucky. Many are post-Civil War letters from his former Union comrades. Also, information concerning Friendship Community Church and Friendship Methodist Church, Warren County.
Leach, Rebecca - Compiler (Sc 1839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Leach, Rebecca - Compiler (Sc 1839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1839. Research on the departure and readmission of members at the South Union, Kentucky Shaker community, 1812-1892. Some material was copied from journals kept by Harvey Lauderdale Eades. People with multiple admissions were often referred to as "Winter Shakers."
Martin, Anna Katherine (Flege), 1902-1976 (Sc 1841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Anna Katherine (Flege), 1902-1976 (Sc 1841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1841. Diary kept from 1 January 1923 to 14 August 1923 by Anna Katherine Flege, Grant County, Kentucky. She relates details of her life as a teacher in the one-room Round Top School. She also comments about the weather, her family and home life, and her participation in community social and religious activities.
Lois-Glyn School Of Beauty Culture - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1842), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lois-Glyn School Of Beauty Culture - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1842), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1842. Postcards sent in 1934 to one of the co-owners of the school, Edna Fisher in Hot Springs, Arkansas from her students in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also, information about Fisher, her husband and co-owner Glenn Fisher and their school.
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1702. News clippings and copies of documents related to the history of Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcoal Church, South located in Logan County, Kentucky.
General Store - Account Book (Sc 1837), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
General Store - Account Book (Sc 1837), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1837. Account book, 1848-1849, for an unidentified general store in Warren County, Kentucky with a daily listing of customers and the specific merchandise they purchased, generally dry goods. Also lists items credited to customers' accounts such as butter and eggs.
Claggett, David Mckee, 1835-1869 (Sc 1827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Claggett, David Mckee, 1835-1869 (Sc 1827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1827. Typescript of Civil War diary kept by David McKee Claggett from 1 October 1861 to 1 January 1865. Collection also includes associated research data.
Mercer, George, 1733-1784 (Sc 90), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mercer, George, 1733-1784 (Sc 90), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) only for Manuscripts Small Collection 90. Letter written by George Mercer from London, England, to his brother, James, in Virginia, in which he discusses his role as agent for the Ohio Company, the educating of Virginians in London, and a 1758 debt owed to him by George Washington. Mercer served under Washington in the French and Indian War. Includes research notes concerning the letter and the Mercer family.
General Store - Account Book, 1832-1834 (Sc 1838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
General Store - Account Book, 1832-1834 (Sc 1838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1838. Account book for an unidentified general store in Warren County, Kentucky. Includes an alphabetical index to account holders in the front. Accounts do not specify types of merchandise purchased.
Bowling Green Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 89), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 89), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 89. Receipts for work done on the church building, subscriptions, and note of the Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Irvine, Marie Louisa "Loula," 1864-1887 (Sc 1739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Irvine, Marie Louisa "Loula," 1864-1887 (Sc 1739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1739. Teacher’s grade book kept from September 1889 to January 1890 for an unidentified Kentucky school. Also includes some notes on elocution. The first page is inscribed “M. Loula Irvine, S. F. College, Hallow eve Oct. 31, 1886.”
Niles, John Jacob, 1892-1980 (Sc 1831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Niles, John Jacob, 1892-1980 (Sc 1831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1831. Letter 12 May 1978 to a Mr. Moody discussing a piece of music. Typed letter is signed by Niles.
Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1832), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1832), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1832. Holographic program book containing information from the club's programs from 3 September 1915 to June 1916.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 (Sc 1833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 (Sc 1833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1833. Signature of presidential candidate John Fitzgerald Kennedy obtained by a Bowling Green, Kentucky resident during a campaign trip to the city in 1960. The signature is on a small scrap of paper torn from a larger sheet. Includes the resident's 2009 reminiscence of the incident.
Brooks, Deronda (Lindsey) (Sc 1834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brooks, Deronda (Lindsey) (Sc 1834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1834. Letter, 15 June 1977, to Tim Lee Carter, U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 5th district, from Deronda (Lindsey) Brooks, one of his constituents. She opposes federal money for programs she believes to be anti-family.
Goff, William Lee, 1883-1965 (Mss 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Goff, William Lee, 1883-1965 (Mss 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 233. Chiefly letters from family and friends to Lee Goff, a Green County, Kentucky native, while he was working as a farm laborer in the Mid-West. The collection includes many courtship letters from various women.
Townson Family Papers (Sc 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Townson Family Papers (Sc 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 85. Travel pass of Light Townson and family from South Carolina to Kentucky, 1788, and Townson's will, 1817; business papers of James Townson, 1835-1853 (4); slave bills of sale (2), 1802-1803; and miscellaneous items.
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 1830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 1830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1830. Letter, 24 July 1861, from Thomas Elliott Bramlette, Columbia, Kentucky to William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. in which he condemns U.S. District Court Judge Thomas B. Monroe and others as traitors and offers J.T. Boyle, who is loyal to the Union, as a replacement.
Pickett, Sarah Nell, 1915-2000 (Sc 1836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pickett, Sarah Nell, 1915-2000 (Sc 1836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1836. Autograph album given to Sarah Nell Pickett, 18 June 1927, by Bartlett Allen and signed by family and friends in Joplin, Missouri.
Taylor, Richard F. (Sc 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Richard F. (Sc 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and photograph of commission (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 86. Richard F. Taylor's commission received as a member of the Middle Green River Battalion Volunteer Militia, 1865. Also promissory notes, 1875 (3), and blank affidavit regarding voter qualification, ca. 1900.
Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 84. Teacher's certificate of Miss Jane Hunt issued by the Common School Commissioner, Butler County, Kentucky.
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 82. Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb's original manuscript of an editorial, "A Leaf From a Memory Book," which appeared in "Kentucky Progress Magazine" (Spring 1933), and two letters concerning the manuscript.
Taxation - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taxation - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 83. Holographic copy, 4 May 1822, of aggregate statement of federal taxes paid within the 6th District of Kentucky, which evidently included Logan County, accompanied by a certificate affirming Stephen Pleasonton as acting Commissioner of Revenue and signed by John Quincy Adams, U.S. Secretary of State, 21 October 1822.