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Carty, Wesley (Mss 187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Carty, Wesley (Mss 187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 187. Correspondence, research, bibliography and notes of Wesley Carty, Chicago, related to a proposed biography of John C. Breckinridge. Includes correspondecne with John Winston Coleman, Jr., Avery Odelle Craven, and Jonathan Truman Dorris, as well as poetry by Virgie Hudson.

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Gorin, Sandra Kaye (Laughery) (Mss 181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Gorin, Sandra Kaye (Laughery) (Mss 181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 181. Research material for Gorin's book, "Blood Runs in the Barrens", which examines murders that took place in Barren County, Kentucky, from 1817 to 1909. Includes copies of court documents and newspaper clippings.

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Cluskey, Michael Walsh, 1833?-1873 (Mss 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Cluskey, Michael Walsh, 1833?-1873 (Mss 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 23. Correspondence and writings of Michael Walsh Cluskey, who was postmaster of the National House of Representaitves, 1851-1859; editor of Memphis Avalanche and Louisville Daily Ledger; and a Confederate soldier. The materials mainly relate to politics, published books, and newspaper work.

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Oakland, Kentucky - Incorporation (Sc 1537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Oakland, Kentucky - Incorporation (Sc 1537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1537. Motion and judgment, Warren Circuit Court, to incorporate the City of Oakland, Kentucky. Includes a petition listing the names of those requesting the incorporation, a metes and bounds description of the corporate limits, and a sketch map. Also includes correspondence identifying the documents.

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Obenchain, Josephine (Stephenson), 1864-1953 (Sc 1536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Obenchain, Josephine (Stephenson), 1864-1953 (Sc 1536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1536. Whimsical paper written in dialect by Josephine Obenchain titled "History of the Kentucky Club of Dallas, Inc."

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Thornberry, Martine (Calhoun), 1905-1972 (Mss 179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Thornberry, Martine (Calhoun), 1905-1972 (Mss 179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 179. Chiefly correspondence related to government service for the Works Progress Administration and as Indian reservation school teacher, and as postmistress at Livermore, Kentucky. Includes materials related to Thornberry's military service and artwork from her Indian students.

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Jones, Edgar - Collector (Mss 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Jones, Edgar - Collector (Mss 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 17. Letters and papers of the Burnett family, (many Civil War letters), 1855-1920; the McKnight family; the Lamb family, 1863-1906; and the Flynn family, 1787-1897. These letters were in the possession of the Burnett family of Rising Sun, Indiana.

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Young, Asher Leon (Mss 19), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Young, Asher Leon (Mss 19), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 19. Genealogical material collected by Asher Leon Young, a Warren County, Kentucky, native. Especially noted are the Phipps, Simpson, and Young families of the Richardsville area of Warren County, Kentucky.

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Porter Family (Mss 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Porter Family (Mss 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 15. Genealogical material (typed copy) collected by John A. Porter for a book. Correspondence pertaining to same topic, 1906-1957. Legal papers of Butler (32), Livingston (1), and Logan (13) Counties--deeds, surveys, etc., 1799-1857. Typed copy of the Civil War experiences of John M. Porter.

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Allmond Collection (Mss 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Allmond Collection (Mss 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 12. Genealogical material collected by Allen E. Allmond, Louisville, Kentucky, pertaining to the Allmond and Meade families. Letters, photostats, maps, newspaper clippings and notebook. Also includes information about the Louisville Commercial Club.

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Collins, Russell - Collector (Mss 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Collins, Russell - Collector (Mss 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 16. Genealogical records of the Duncan, Browning, and Hines families of Logan County, Kentucky. Family letters of the Duncans and Palmers (Christian County, Kentucky mainly), 1822-1858 (66 items). Chief correspondents include Ann M. Palmer, Elihu J. Palmer, Isaac N. Palmer, and Elizabeth Duncan.

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Hobson, Margaret Morehead, 1890-1987 (Mss 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Hobson, Margaret Morehead, 1890-1987 (Mss 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 174. Includes personal and business correspondence of Margaret Morehead Hobson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to oil and gas exploration in south-central Kentucky. Collection also includes nature notebook containing flora and fauna sketches done by Hobson as a child, Hobson family genealogy, some small artwork done for interior decorating, and information about Riverview at Hobson Grove.

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Bennett, Mackie E. (Smith), 1880-1966 (Mss 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Bennett, Mackie E. (Smith), 1880-1966 (Mss 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 5. Center Street Elementary School (Bowling Green, Kentucky) grade books and various club records kept by Mackie E. (Smith) Bennett, a Warren County, Kentucky native. Includes a large group of records related to the Sue Young Sewing Circle of Bowling Green's State Street Methodist Church, 1915-1948. Full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) have been made of the material related to the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary (Box 1, Folder 7).

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Lewis, Ronald E., B. 1946 (Sc 1326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Lewis, Ronald E., B. 1946 (Sc 1326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1326. Christmas card of U.S. Representative Lewis, 2nd Congressional District of Kentucky, sent to Leo and Betty Yambrek, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Card contains a collage of photos of family and associated images.

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Warren County - Historic Houses (Sc 1324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Warren County - Historic Houses (Sc 1324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1324. Listing of thread colors used in a handwoven carpet woven for use in the Merritt-Hardin house located on 31-W near Woodburn in Warren County, Kentucky. Also data about the house from Irene Moss Sumpter’s Our Heritage: An Album of Early Warren County Kentucky Land Marks.

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Humphreys, John Alsop Yarborough, 1802-1873 (Sc 1319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Humphreys, John Alsop Yarborough, 1802-1873 (Sc 1319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1319. Subscribers' names for John A. Y. Humphreys, Bardstown, Kentucky, to teach a proposed school for twelve months beginning December 1, 1831. Also lists the subjects to be taught.

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Kerr, William Bugg, 1894-1993 (Sc 1317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Kerr, William Bugg, 1894-1993 (Sc 1317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1317. William Bugg Kerr, a Bowling Green, Kentucky educator, businessman and farmer, records his philosophy and his reminiscences, for his family, in his paper titled "The High Road."

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Bullitt, William Grigsby, 1833-1901 (Sc 1533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Bullitt, William Grigsby, 1833-1901 (Sc 1533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1533. Autograph album of the Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, 1890-1891, of delegate W.G. Bullitt of McCracken County. Includes autographs of delegates and stenographic staff. Many delegates include brief biographical information such as date and place of birth.

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Hinton, John Littleton, 1844-1920 (Sc 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Hinton, John Littleton, 1844-1920 (Sc 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1311. Civil War discharge for John L. Hinton, a member of Company A, 52nd Regiment, of Kentucky Mounted Infantry Volunteers. Hinton was from Allen County, Kentucky.

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Stovall, Henry Clay, 1845-1936 (Sc 1532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Stovall, Henry Clay, 1845-1936 (Sc 1532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1532. Typescript (1972) of an interview done with Henry Clay Stovall of Logan County, Kentucky about 1934. He discusses being wounded at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, treatment for his wounds, and his other military service.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 1313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 1313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1313. Letter written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., to clergyman H.F. McChesney, Bowling Green, Kentucky, commenting on the newly enacted Social Security Act and asking for data about his community's needs.

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Boone, George Street, 1918-2004 (Sc 1530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Boone, George Street, 1918-2004 (Sc 1530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1530. Letter, 18 September 1987, from George Street Boone, an attorney In Elkton, Kentucky, to Senator Wendell H. Ford, Washington, D.C., discussing the candidacy of Robert H. Bork, Jr. as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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U.S. Army Air Forces, World War Ii, Pacific Ocean Area, Special Services Division - Scrapbook (Sc 1529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

U.S. Army Air Forces, World War Ii, Pacific Ocean Area, Special Services Division - Scrapbook (Sc 1529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1529. Scrapbook (bound volume; unpaged) related to AAFPAO Special Services Division's activities in 1944-1945, chiefly concerning sports. Contains limited information about entertainers.

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Vanmeter, Wilburn S., 1920-1996 (Sc 1528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Vanmeter, Wilburn S., 1920-1996 (Sc 1528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1528. Letters from Wilburn S. Vanmeter, while serving in World War II, to his mother Emma Vanmeter in Bee Spring, Kentucky, and his brother, Junior Vanmeter of Annetta, Kentucky. Also includes several typed reminiscences (6 p.) of Vanmeter's World War II experience.

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Dunbar, Elijah, 1821-1911 (Sc 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Dunbar, Elijah, 1821-1911 (Sc 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1335. Letter written by Elijah Dunbar from Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brother in Canton, Massachusetts. Evidently he and an associate were traveling piano salesmen. Dunbar vividly describes the terrible road conditions between Bowling Green and Elkton, Kentucky.

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Jewell, George Raleigh, 1898-1993 (Sc 1519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Jewell, George Raleigh, 1898-1993 (Sc 1519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1519. Correspondence between George Raleigh Jewell, Louisville, Kentucky, and George Franklin Dasher. Jewell was a student at Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky, when Dasher was president. The letters reminisce about the school and its alumni, and address various contemporary Baptist educational issues.

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Larmon, Henry, 1809-1882 (Mss 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Larmon, Henry, 1809-1882 (Mss 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 183. Collection consists chiefly of financial records related to Henry Larmon of Warren County, Kentucky. Many of the items relate to timber purchases, land transactions, and purchases of sundry household goods. Larmon owned a saw and grist mill on Trammel Creek in southern Warren County.

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Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 - Letters To (Sc 1330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 - Letters To (Sc 1330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1330. Letters (translated), 1958, of appreciation written to Bowling Green, Kentucky mayor Clifton W. Lampkin by two German women, thanking him for care packages received through the German Red Cross. Also newspaper clippings, 1959, 1989, regarding Lampkin's death and a trust established by his widow.

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Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1522. Farm ledger kept by S. Barker and Daniel Wilcoxson Middleton of Warren County, Kentucky. The farm was located approximately five miles east of Bowling Green on the Louisville Road (Highway 31-W). Records expenses and wages for farm laborers.

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Marks, Mary E. (Sc 1523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Marks, Mary E. (Sc 1523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1523. Dissertation (126 p.; illus.; maps) by Mary E. Marks titled "The Rock Asphalt Industry of Western Kentucky" written for the Department of Geography at the University of Chicago and submitted in December 1931. Discusses several important asphalt rock mining operations in the south central section of Kentucky.

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