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Wade, Charles Gilbert, Iii, B. 1986 (Sc 1524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Wade, Charles Gilbert, Iii, B. 1986 (Sc 1524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1524. Letters (18) written by Charles G. Wade, III to his parents, Charles G. Wade, Jr. and Judy Wade of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The letters discuss the younger Wade's U.S. Marine Corps basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina.

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Walnut Street Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky - History, 1949-1965 (Sc 1521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Walnut Street Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky - History, 1949-1965 (Sc 1521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1521. Manuscript copy with corrections of "The History of Walnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky", 1949-1965. This was intended to be an addition to an earlier history of the church written by Bradley Thomas Kimbrough, Sr. in 1949.

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Douglas, Albert Ray, 1916-2009 (Mss 185), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Douglas, Albert Ray, 1916-2009 (Mss 185), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 185. Correspondence, clippings, programs, and directories collected by Douglas and his wife, Grace Fields Douglas, related to the Bowling Green High School classes of 1934 and 1935 and their respective 50th reunions in 1984 and 1985. Also included is a 1928 autograph album kept by Mr. Douglas.

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Rhea, Thomas Stockdale, 1871-1946 (Sc 1520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Rhea, Thomas Stockdale, 1871-1946 (Sc 1520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1520. Letter from "Headquarters of Thomas S. Rhea for Governor" in Bardstown, Kentucky, to constituents in Nelson County addressing the issue of what sales taxes had done for that particular county.

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Holland, Daniel Edward, 1918-2009 (Sc 1518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Holland, Daniel Edward, 1918-2009 (Sc 1518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1518. Short note from Ed Holland, a cartoonist born in Guthrie, Kentucky, to a collector named Barton. The note, sent on Chicago Tribune stationery, explains Holland's tardiness in sending a requested cartoon.

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Moore, Charles Minor, 1859-1940 (Sc 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Moore, Charles Minor, 1859-1940 (Sc 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1387. Reminiscences of C. Minor Moore, who came to Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1879 or 1880 to work for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He describes the town and lists many railroad employees.

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Sixty-First U.S. Colored Infantry (Sc 1515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Sixty-First U.S. Colored Infantry (Sc 1515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1515. Partial account book (pp. 13-20, 170-184, 187-262) containing General Orders and Special Orders for the 61st U.S. Colored Infantry and the 2nd West Tennessee Infantry of African Descent. Also includes a letter written by Nellie Evans (Nov. 1865) to her cousin Jeff.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 1348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 1348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1348. Church register kept for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Woodburn, Kentucky, 1864-1935.

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Read, Emily Jane, 1839-1916 (Sc 1497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Read, Emily Jane, 1839-1916 (Sc 1497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1497. Letter from Emily J. Read, Rich Pond, Kentucky, to an unnamed friend. she discusses peoplein the neighboring region and her husband's mercantile operation in Rich Pond.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Rich Pond, Kentucky (Sc 1349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Rich Pond, Kentucky (Sc 1349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1349. Church register kept for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rich Pond, Kentucky, 1874-1935.

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Thurman, Lindsey B. (Sc 1507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Thurman, Lindsey B. (Sc 1507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1507. WKU honors thesis written by Thurman and entitled "A Boy from Decatur: A Posthumous Memoir." Using letters sent by Ernest C. Robertson to his family in Russell County, Kentucky, the author discusses how one young man's military service and his eventual death during the Korean War affected his family. Includes typescripts of several of the letters.

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Martin, Mary P. (Sc 1347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Martin, Mary P. (Sc 1347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1347. Legal response of those charged by the sheriff of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, to appraise land owned by the Green River Coal, Iron & Manufacturing Company as ordered by the Warren County Circuit Court, to satisfy a judgment against the company in favor of Mary P. Martin.

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Kimbrough, William Joseph, Jr., 1930-2007 (Sc 1346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Kimbrough, William Joseph, Jr., 1930-2007 (Sc 1346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1346. Chiefly letters written by William Joseph Kimbrough, Jr., to his Bowling Green, Kentucky parents, while serving in the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army in California and Japan. Also associated family data.

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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc1343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc1343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1343. Facsimile of letter, 13 September 1842, written by Henry Clay, "Ashland," Lexington, Kentucky to Jacob Stratton. Clay outlines his views on the principal objectives of the Whig Party.

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Hatchett, Louis B., Jr. (Sc 1344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Hatchett, Louis B., Jr. (Sc 1344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1344. Letter, 11 March 1950, written by Duncan Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mrs. L. R. Groves, Darien, Connecticut, relative to the birth of her granddaughter Patricia Groves. Also, audio interview by Hatchett of Paul Ford Davis, Bowling Green, in which Davis discusses his association with Hines.

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Lucas, Nelda G., 1924-1991 (Sc 1514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Lucas, Nelda G., 1924-1991 (Sc 1514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1514. Five-year diary (365 p.) kept by Nelda G. Lucas. She describes family events, remodeling a house, work issues, family health matters, purchases, etc., from March 8, 1958 to December 31, 1962.

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Fleu, William Gibson, 1884-1960 - Letters To (Sc 1513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Fleu, William Gibson, 1884-1960 - Letters To (Sc 1513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1513. Letters sent to William G. Fleu chiefly by his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Alfred D. Fleu of Davenport, Iowa. One of the letters mentions trials of "pro German citizens" in Davenport in 1917 and makes deprecatory remarks about Mexico.

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Taylor Collection (Mss 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Taylor Collection (Mss 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 81. Incoming family and courtship letters of Dee Taylor of Butler and Warren Counties, 1880-1888 (38), and her daughter, Dixie Dee Taylor of Warren County, 1903-1913 (48). Also letters and receipt received by other family members and a Warren County rent bond, [1883?].

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Mammoth Cave - Letter (Sc 1509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Mammoth Cave - Letter (Sc 1509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1509. Letter by an unnamed tourist staying at the Hotel Sinnott, Paducah, which talks about her family's tour of Mammoth Cave. She also mentions several other area caves.

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Bush, William Pope Duvall, 1823-1904 (Sc 1508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Bush, William Pope Duvall, 1823-1904 (Sc 1508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1508. Letter from William P. D. Bush, Hawesville, Kentucky, to Annie White, Grandview, Iowa, in which he recounts the conditions under which White purchased a piano from him in 1855.

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Porter, Donald And Janice A. (Insko) Porter (Mss 173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2007

Porter, Donald And Janice A. (Insko) Porter (Mss 173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding Aid only for Manuscript Collection 173. Correspondence between Donald Porter and Janice Insko, his future wife, during and just after the Korean War, while Don was serving in a medical support division in Germany and she was a student at Western. Letters concern military life abroad and the everyday life of a student at Western Kentucky State College.

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Edmunds, John Ray, 1896-1978 (Sc 1505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2007

Edmunds, John Ray, 1896-1978 (Sc 1505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1505. Letter, 6 October 1918, written by John Ray Edmunds from Great Lakes, Illinois to his wife Josie in Barren County, Kentucky. He discusses his bout with influenza and his stay in a military hospital.

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Denton, Judith Darlene (Sc 1506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2007

Denton, Judith Darlene (Sc 1506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1506. Paper titled "History of Glenmore," written by WKU student, Judith Darlene Denton, for a Kentucky history class. The paper is a brief history of the Glenmore Distillery in Owensboro, Kentucky.

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Jackson, C. J. (Sc 1502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2007

Jackson, C. J. (Sc 1502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1502. Diary (46p.) kept by C.J. Jackson of his U.S. Marines boot camp experience at Parris Island, South Carolina from 7 January to 29 March 1993. He describes training exercises, physical conditioning, military personnel, medical care, chapel services, and general living conditions.

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Guffey, Paul Danny (Sc 1498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2007

Guffey, Paul Danny (Sc 1498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1498. "Graham, Kentucky, 1903-1957: A Short History of the W.G. Duncan Coal Company," a paper written by Paul D. Guffey for a Kentucky history class at Western Kentucky University.

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Hodges, Fletcher, Jr., 1905-2006 (Sc 1501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2007

Hodges, Fletcher, Jr., 1905-2006 (Sc 1501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1501. Letter related to a commemorative stamp containing the image of Stephen Collins Foster. Fletcher Hodges, Jr. was the curator of the Foster Hall Collection at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Denton, David Alan, 1915-1977 (Sc 1500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2007

Denton, David Alan, 1915-1977 (Sc 1500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1500. Contract and bills concerning a house built by contractor Alan Denton at 1011 Park Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky, for Edna Enochs Booker.

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Dean, Sophia Leona, 1854-1948 - Letters To (Sc 1499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2007

Dean, Sophia Leona, 1854-1948 - Letters To (Sc 1499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1499. Courtship letters written by John W. Stipes and Mell F. Broeffle to Miss S.L. Dean of Polkville, Kentucky. Contains a reference letter for John W. Stipes written by William H. Hall, an engineer for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.

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Southern Region Baptist Woman's Missionary Union Of Kentucky (Mss 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2007

Southern Region Baptist Woman's Missionary Union Of Kentucky (Mss 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 175. Minute books including minutes, financial records, correspondence, annual reports, programs, by-laws, and constitution of the Southern Region Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union of Kentucky. Also included are minutes of some executive committee meetings.

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Allen, Robert (Sc 1414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2007

Allen, Robert (Sc 1414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1414. Letter, 15 April 1863, written by Robert Allen from the hospital at Camp Dennison, Ohio, to his brother Henry. Allen has just arrived at Camp Dennison and he describes his accommodations.

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