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Full-Text Articles in United States History
Dickey, Robert Wallace, 1933-2017 (Sc 3089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickey, Robert Wallace, 1933-2017 (Sc 3089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3089. Letter, 8 August 2016, from Bob Dickey, St. Augustine, Florida, to Bob & Cora Jane Spiller, Oakland, Kentucky, in which he discusses his recent activities and reminisces about his years in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Bates, Georgia, 1916-1986 - Collector (Sc 3087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bates, Georgia, 1916-1986 - Collector (Sc 3087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection SC 3087. Correspondence, documents and news clippings relating to the Bates family of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Veitschegger, Rodney Dean, 1931-2013 (Mss 596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Veitschegger, Rodney Dean, 1931-2013 (Mss 596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 596. Genealogical correspondence of Rodney Dean Veitschegger, Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a number of individual across the country. Veitschegger was particularly interested in the following surnames from West Virginia: Mullins, Roberts, Caudill, Lee and Wallin.
Brown, Michael R. - Collector (Sc 3088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Michael R. - Collector (Sc 3088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3088. Correspondence of Janice Holt Giles related to the “White Caps,” the Brethren in Christ church, and collected by Michael R. Brown for a scholarly article he produced on the topic. Also includes a chronology of Giles’ life compiled by Brown as well as a copy of his completed article. Giles used the information she gleaned about the “White Caps” in one of her books, Tara’s Healing.
Jones, Thomas Laurens, 1819-1887 (Sc 3080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Thomas Laurens, 1819-1887 (Sc 3080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3080. Papers of Thomas L. Jones of Campbell County, Kentucky, a state representative and member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Letters to him praise two of his speeches concerning the U.S. Centennial and the 1876 amnesty bill restoring citizenship to ex-Confederates. Fellow Democratic Party members write with invitations to various functions, to encourage him in seeking the gubernatorial nomination, and to discuss political matters. Friend Thomas B. Chaplin relates his fortunes in South Carolina during and after the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below). Includes a few letters and telegrams to wife …
Emerson, Jemima (Burnham), 1783-1868 And Romanus Emerson, 1782-1852 (Sc 3086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Emerson, Jemima (Burnham), 1783-1868 And Romanus Emerson, 1782-1852 (Sc 3086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3086. Letter, 2 September 1822, from Jemima and Romanus Emerson, Boston, Massachusetts, to Fanny Goodridge, Lexington, Kentucky, in which they express their concern about Goodridge’s move from Boston to Kentucky and her religious experience.
Edge, John Thomas, Jr., B. 1962 (Sc 3085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edge, John Thomas, Jr., B. 1962 (Sc 3085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3085. Letter from John Thomas Edge, Jr., Oxford, Mississippi, to Cora Jane Spiller, Oakland, Kentucky, thanking her for her confidence in his writing and a former visit.
Lincoln Farm Association (Sc 3084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln Farm Association (Sc 3084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3084. Certificates documenting membership for H.H. Seldomridge and Louis Hall Comstock in the Lincoln Farm Association. Certificates include an image of Lincoln’s bust, his birth place cabin, and the White House.
Kentucky Council For Community Education (Sc 3081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Council For Community Education (Sc 3081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3081. Memos and agenda for a meeting to be held to discuss a statewide coalition to support community education.
Lane, Thomas Sylvester, 1858-1942 (Sc 3083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lane, Thomas Sylvester, 1858-1942 (Sc 3083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3083. Memo book containing information about singing schools[?] established in Edmonson and Warren counties in Kentucky. Includes a photograph of Thomas Sylvester Lane and his wife Ella Zade (Houchin) Lane.
Deeds - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Deeds - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3082. Deed, 1874, transferring "less than 30 acres" from Reuben and Mary Howell to John E. Howell in Warren County, Kentucky.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 600. Typescript of the South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Necropolis, a compilation of deaths at the colony from 1810-1918. The deceased’s name, place and date of birth, date of death and age at death are provided. An index of men's and women's names is included.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 599. Shaker Record D, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. The journal has been typescripted from the original, held at the Shaker Museum at South Union. Click on "Additional Files" below for an index of names.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 598. Shaker Record B, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. The journal has been typescripted from the original, held at the Shaker Museum at South Union. Click on "Additional Files" below for an index of names.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 597. Shaker Record A, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. Includes a record of the missionary trip to Kentucky from the east, and the 1830 constitution and covenant of the South Union colony. An index of names and a full-text scan of John Rankin's autobiography has been added to this record (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 64. Ledger volume containing fulling mill records, (1814-1815), accounts (1843-1844), and journal (1909-1911) of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 62. Diary of Shaker eldress Nancy E. Moore, and a journal, probably kept by Shaker eldress Lucy Shannon. The diary and journal record life in the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, with Moore’s diary focused on the Civil War years 1863-1864.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 63. Business records, deeds, notes, receipts, surveys, agreements, bill of complaint, etc., 1800-85; account books, 1843-89; journals, 1865-1916; agreement book of probationary members, 1858-1904; and manuscript hymnals, 1844-86 (6) of the Shaker Society of South Union, Kentucky. Journals include censuses of members. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of deaths at South Union "from the beginning to the present date January 1st, 1879," with addenda to 1892; a name index to Shaker Record C; and a name index of probationary members signing Articles of Agreement.
Dick, Harriet Hoadley "Hattie" (Cochran), 1890-1975 (Sc 3078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dick, Harriet Hoadley "Hattie" (Cochran), 1890-1975 (Sc 3078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3078. Black-and-white, 3 in. X 5 in. photograph of “The Little Colonel’s Cottage,” a house in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, autographed on the reverse by Hattie Cochran Dick, the model for the character of Lloyd Sherman in Annie Fellows Johnston’s Little Colonel series of books.
Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863 (Sc 3077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863 (Sc 3077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3077. Letter, 7 August 1847, of Elisha Whittlesey to Nathan F. Williams, Baltimore, Maryland. He expresses high praise for Zachary Taylor, the likely candidate of the Whig Party in the 1848 presidential campaign, but fears that Taylor’s Southern origins will allow a Democratic Party candidate to gain the support of abolitionist Whigs, Whigs in non-slaveholding states, and members of the Liberty Party. The letter is written on manuscript letterhead of the Washington National Monument Office.
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 590. Personal and professional papers of Christian County, Kentucky teacher and administrator Erleen (Joiner) Rogers, and novels, poems, skits, epigrams and witticisms written by her father, Robert Tinnon Joiner. Includes a collection of Joiner’s writings titled Nonsense and Wisdom From Flat Lick, Rogers’ family history titled Seven Generations in and From Flat Lick, other family data, and photographs.
Gunther, L. W., B. 1822? (Sc 3075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gunther, L. W., B. 1822? (Sc 3075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3075. Letter, 12 March 1848, of L. W. Gunther, Cadiz, Kentucky, to Charles H. Blake, Blandville, Kentucky. He refers to Blake taking delivery of goods from the steamboat Tennessee, reports correspondence from England and France concerning their stave business, and discusses the specifications for the English customer. He also makes reference to a “shipbuilding enterprise.”
Meador, Thomas (Sc 3074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meador, Thomas (Sc 3074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3074. Agreement, 25 February 1854, between O. S. Warner and Thomas Meador setting out the terms of Meador’s employment on Warner’s farm in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. The agreement provides for payment, the provision of housing and produce from an orchard, and the use of pasture by Meador. Meador’s 12-month, full-time engagement makes allowances for his family and business, and for “unnecessary exposure” to “wet weather or heavy dews.”
Sorgen, Vinton Grant, 1894-1968 (Sc 3073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sorgen, Vinton Grant, 1894-1968 (Sc 3073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3073. Letter, 28 May 1918, of Grant Sorgen, stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to his family in Kenton, Ohio. He describes settling in at camp, receiving vaccinations, and the likelihood of moving to different quarters.
Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3076. Two letters to Brent Price, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to his preparation of an article on Eastwood Baptist Church, also in Bowling Green. William H. Rogers, Director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, writes on 22 November 1978 of the principles followed during his pastorship there, and Sam Todd writes on 6 December 1978 with a historical sketch of the church.
Boucher Family Papers (Sc 3071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boucher Family Papers (Sc 3071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3071. Miscellaneous papers and photographs of the Boucher family of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes promissory notes, tax and other receipts, deeds, Civil War military passes and slave indentures.
Cook, George Washington 1865-1928 (Sc 3072), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cook, George Washington 1865-1928 (Sc 3072), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3072. Article of agreement allowing G.W. Cook, Snowville, Barren County, Kentucky, free use of subscribers’ telephone line if he provides reciprocal access to lines running from Fountain Run, Monroe County, Kentucky, to his property.
Monroe, Quincy Adams, 1841-1928 (Sc 3070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Monroe, Quincy Adams, 1841-1928 (Sc 3070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3070. Letter, 30 December 1861, to “Orissa,” from Quincy A. Monroe, serving with the 1st Ohio Light Artillery. Writing on “Cotter’s Battery” letterhead while at Camp Wood on the Green River in Kentucky, he describes troop strength in the area, the topography, Confederate fortifications at Bowling Green, and his expectations of battle.
Mcgrath, Wallace, 1844-1909 (Sc 3064), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgrath, Wallace, 1844-1909 (Sc 3064), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text transcriptions (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3064. Three letters of Wallace McGrath to George D. Freeman, Columbus, Ohio, written in December 1861-February 1862 while serving with with the 15th Ohio Infantry near Bowling Green, Kentucky. He describes recent and anticipated marches, visiting Mammoth Cave, his duties as a clerk, and the difficulty of making a photograph to send to George. He also writes of the escort of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer’s body through the area, noting that his own commanding General and staff “took dinner with Genl Hindman of the Rebels.”
Matherly, Mary Ruth (Hinton), 1893-1985 (Sc 3068), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Matherly, Mary Ruth (Hinton), 1893-1985 (Sc 3068), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3068. Autobiographical sketch and diary entries by Mary Ruth (Hinton) Matherly, composed from 1972-1979. Orphaned at a young age, the Logan County, Kentucky native describes her youth, extended family and wedding, and reflects on growing older.