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Tyler, Sara Elizabeth, 1910-2001 (Sc 1376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2002

Tyler, Sara Elizabeth, 1910-2001 (Sc 1376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1376. Paper entitled "Growing Up on State Street," in which Sara E. Tyler recalls her childhood days in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In addition to social life and customs, she relates much about the houses in the neighborhood. Also copy of a 2002 published article based on the paper.

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Ku Klux Klan (Sc 1354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2002

Ku Klux Klan (Sc 1354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1354. Paper titled "The Kloran, New Order Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...", which was found in an unoccupied Bowling Green, Kentucky house. It lists the procedures to become a member of the order.

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Underwood, Henry Morehead, 1893-1960 (Sc 1339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Underwood, Henry Morehead, 1893-1960 (Sc 1339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1339. Letter, 30 October 1936, written by Underwood from the American Embassy in Berlin, Germany, to Henry Bradley, Sr. Underwood details his work as Foreign Buildings Inspector for the U.S. State Department in Europe, northern Africa and Turkey. Includes two unused post cards.

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Torreyson, Charles Hail, 1902-1973 (Sc 1340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Torreyson, Charles Hail, 1902-1973 (Sc 1340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1340. World War II letters, 1944-1945, (27) written by Charles Torreyson to his wife Betsy, in Scottsville, Kentucky. He describes life in the Seabees, in Camp Pearcy, Virginia, and in New Guinea.

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Teachers And Teaching - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Teachers And Teaching - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1356. Teacher's class book kept by Frances Hart, for the 1924-1925 school year, evidently as a Hartford [Kentucky] High School faculty member. The book lists domestic and social science classes taught as well as students' names.

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Rau, Ernest, 1874-1962 (Sc 1366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Rau, Ernest, 1874-1962 (Sc 1366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1366. Chiefly incoming business papers of Ernest Rau, a Bowling Green, Kentucky doctor, who served in World War I. Includes items relating to his service at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, and associated items, 1962, 1974 about Rau.

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Wilson, Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 1357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Wilson, Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 1357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1357. Letter, 2 January 1966, written by Gordon Wilson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to L. Y. Lancaster, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which Wilson extols their friendship that will soon celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.

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Baker, Jane Stark (Helm), B. 1942 (Sc 1355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Baker, Jane Stark (Helm), B. 1942 (Sc 1355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below" for Manuscripts Small Collection 1355. Letter, 19 January 2000, written by Jane S. Baker, Glasgow, Kentucky, in which Baker recalls her aunt Margie Helm, who was an outstanding Western Kentucky University librarian.

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Kentucky - Cavalry - 5th Regiment (Sc 1361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Kentucky - Cavalry - 5th Regiment (Sc 1361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1361. Record of the 5th Kentucky Cavalry, including its itinerary and officers. Includes a letter (first page only) pertaining to the document.

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Ellsworth, Oliver Carnell, 1842-1864 (Sc 1359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Ellsworth, Oliver Carnell, 1842-1864 (Sc 1359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1359. Correspondence of Civil War soldier Oliver C. Ellsworth, Marion, Michigan, with family and friends. He served with the 22nd Michigan Infantry in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Also includes a tintype of Ellsworth.

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Warren County, Kentucky - Justices Of The Peace (Sc 1342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Warren County, Kentucky - Justices Of The Peace (Sc 1342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Small Collection 1342. Notice, 25 February 1808, of the removal of John Bailey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, as Warren County Justice of the Peace by Kentucky governor Christopher Greenup.

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Smith, Robert Lee, 1913-1998 (Sc 1306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Smith, Robert Lee, 1913-1998 (Sc 1306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1306. Letter, 21 March 1945, written by Robert L. Smith, Philippine Islands, to his sister Mrs. Layton Blick, Logan County, Kentucky. Smith mentions the many Japanese that have been slain in the Philippines. Includes V-mail advising of Smith's new address.

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Oakley, Bethel Beulah, 1903-1995 (Sc 1338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Oakley, Bethel Beulah, 1903-1995 (Sc 1338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1338. Business papers, letters (including some written by her elementary students), printed materials, etc., of Bethel B. Oakley, originally from Hopkins County, Kentucky. She taught in Webster County and Owensboro, Kentucky, and at Oakland City College, Oakland City, Indiana.

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Gilchrist, Ellen Louise, 1935-2024 (Sc 1336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Gilchrist, Ellen Louise, 1935-2024 (Sc 1336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Small Collection 1336. Letter written to Kentucky author Ellen L. Gilchrist from Paula Quinn, WKU journalism professor, after a scheduled interview did not materialize. Gilchrist's response is handwritten on the letter. Includes newspaper clipping about Gilchrist's presentation at WKU, and Quinn's explanatory letters, 2001.

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Kerr Memorial Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Kerr Memorial Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and selected full scan documents (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 133. Historical materials about Kerr Memorial Methodist Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, including list of donors for original building (1891); printed histories; correspondence and commemorative programs from church anniversary celebrations; account book of the church's Young Adult Fellowship (1947-48); and deeds.

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Hines & Porter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Hines & Porter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1334. Lawyers' combined collection record book and docket book kept by the law firm of Hines and Porter, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Byrd, Mary Rebecca, 1845-1935 (Sc 1362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Byrd, Mary Rebecca, 1845-1935 (Sc 1362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1362. Autograph book belonging to Mary Byrd, Fredonia, Kentucky, which has names and addresses of several Fredonia residents. Includes attractive printed engravings.

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First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1388. Annals of First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which consist of brief entries about significant activities or events. These records began to be kept at the time of the church's sesquicentennial celebration.

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Richardson, Harry Blair, Sr., 1915-2002 - Letters To (Sc 1368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Richardson, Harry Blair, Sr., 1915-2002 - Letters To (Sc 1368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1368. Letters, 1930, written to Missouri native Harry Richardson concerning the initiation rites of the high school fraternity Phi Lambda Epsilon.

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Taulman, James (Sc 1358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Taulman, James (Sc 1358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1358. Letter, postcards, photos, clippings, etc., sent to James Taulman from Bowling Green, Kentucky childhood pen pal Carolyn Williams.

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Cain, Frank D., Jr. (Mss 132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2001

Cain, Frank D., Jr. (Mss 132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 132. Correspondence, office files, project scrapbooks, and project files of Bowling Green, Kentucky architect, Frank D. Cain, Jr. The projects include schools, churches and homes in Bowling Green and the surrounding region.

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Jackson, William Neel, 1899-1993 (Mss 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2001

Jackson, William Neel, 1899-1993 (Mss 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 136. Papers and collected materials of William Neel Jackson, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native. The collection contains his personal and business correspondence and autobiographical materials. Also includes Warren Association of Baptists, 1890-1978 draft, Jackson family genealogy, and Warren County history.

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Middleton, Anna R., 1866?-1888 (Sc 1320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2001

Middleton, Anna R., 1866?-1888 (Sc 1320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1320. Autograph book kept by Annie Middleton, Louisville, Kentucky, while attending the Baltimore Conservatory of Music. Also includes family data.

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Mount Zion United Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2001

Mount Zion United Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 111. Minute books of Mount Zion United Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky, which originally was known as the Delafield First United Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1958-1989.

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Woman's Missionary Society Of Salem Baptist Church (Mss 67), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2001

Woman's Missionary Society Of Salem Baptist Church (Mss 67), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 67. Minute books of the Woman's Missionary Society (WMS) at Salem Baptist Church in Butler County, Kentucky, 1914-1966 (6 items); treasurer's book of the WMS, 1922-1953; Girl's Auxilliary minute book, 1935-1936; and miscellaneous papers found loose in the minute books, 1916-1933 (7 items).

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White And Roach Store - Greensburg, Kentucky (Mss 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2001

White And Roach Store - Greensburg, Kentucky (Mss 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 33. Account books, ledgers, and journal recording sales made from 1854 to 1867 by the White and Roach general merchandise store in Greensburg, Kentucky.

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Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1838-1857 (Mss 61), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2001

Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1838-1857 (Mss 61), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 61. Docket books, 1838-1876 (3), kept by J. Gee, justice of the peace of Monroe County, Kentucky; miscellaneous papers found in books, 1838-post 1952 (20). Includes record book kept by B. C. Maxey of Barren County, Kentucky, which contains Gee family history, Maxey cemetery records, etc., 1925-1957 (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

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Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Mss 34), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2001

Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Mss 34), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 34. Account books, 1858-1866, of a merchant at Bowling Green, Kentucky. One, undated, with author uncertain, contains records of goods bartered; two dated ones contain accounts of work done by employees as well as store accounts.

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Lucas Collection (Mss 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2001

Lucas Collection (Mss 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 41. Journals, 1839, 1840-1843, 1854, (3); scrapbooks, ca. 1860s-1870s (3); Negro account book which lists purchases and sales of slaves, 1859; receipts, 1875-1897, concerning illness and funeral expenses, etc., of the Lucas family of Warren County, Kentucky.

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Robertson, Clara Louise, 1908-2004 (Mss 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2001

Robertson, Clara Louise, 1908-2004 (Mss 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 87. Diary kept by Clara Louise Robertson of Louisville, Kentucky, detailing schools, church and club activities and amusements. Vivid description of a 1921 Washington, D.C. family vacation. Associated letter, 1991. A copy of Robertson "Little Colonel’s Good Times Book" diary is included as an "Additional File" below. Click on it to see the diary in its entirety.

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