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Tolle Family Papers (Sc 2211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2211. Genealogical information related to the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes copies of Roger Tolle’s 1778 Fauquier County, Virginia will, William Tolle’s journal of his overland trip from Barren County to Clay County, Missouri in 1834, and an 1864 letter from William Mansfield serving with the 21st Kentucky Infantry (Union) to his wife Elizabeth (Tolle) Mansfield.

Page, Benjamin H., 1859-1916 - Letter To (Sc 2223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2223. Letter to Benjamin H. Page, in Mud Lick, Monroe County, Kentucky, from Lou Ann Nichols, Randolph, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. She discusses their individual living and economic situations in the absence of any firm decision to marry, and asks him to keep her letters confidential.

Ground Family - Deeds, 1800-1920 (Sc 2221), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2221. Deeds, chiefly for property owned by the Ground and Lowery families of Kentucky. Most the later deeds are for property owned by Robert Ground in Warren County, Kentucky.

Thomas-Stiles Families (Sc 2208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2208. Letters (1851-1946) of the Thomas and Stiles families of Nelson County and McLean County, Kentucky. They write of family news, illnesses and deaths, farm matters and local Civil War-related incidents, including guerrilla activity and the emancipation of their slaves. Includes a deed of gift for slaves. Also includes typescripts of the documents by John B. Thomas, Jr. with notes, annotations, maps, and other background information relating to the content and writers of the letters.

That Other Club, 1966-2010 (Sc 2222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2222. Minutes, brief history by James D. Harris, Jr., and sundry correspondence related to That Other Club, a men's literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1966. Minutes are brief and generally include those in attendance and the program topic.

Page, J. C. (Sc 2224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2224. Letter, 15 April 1928, to J. C. Page, in Bloomington, Indiana, from Raymond Propes, Glasgow, Kentucky. He writes of work and of his interest in a young lady, and asks to be sent some "cowboy books."

Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Sc 2213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2213. Letter, 15 December 1975, from Anne Pence Davis to Dorothy Edwards Townsend responding to her request for biographical material, probably for inclusion in Kentucky in American Letters, vol. III, 1913-1975. Includes two news clippings about Davis' novel The Top Hand of Lone Tree Ranch.

Toomey, Lawrence Otto, 1903-1992 (Sc 2212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2212. Lawrence Otto Toomey's memoir titled "Duty in the Medical Corps Reserves, May 11, 1942-January 30, 1966," dealing chiefly with his service in the Pacific during World War II. Also includes a copy of his obituary.

Thompson, John Quincy, 1831-1927 (Sc 2209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan, and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2209. Letter, 9 June 1924, from J. Q. Thompson, Troy, Texas, to Hattie B. Hale, Nashville, Arkansas. He relates the names of several officers and volunteers in an Arkansas Civil War regiment organized in 1862 and in which he and Dr. Andrew Hale served.

Tyler, Sara Elizabeth, 1910-2001 (Sc 2215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2215. Paper: "Pleasant J. Potter College for Young Ladies" written for a journalism class at Western Kentucky State Teachers College; also a reminiscence about Bowling Green's First Christian Church as well as Tyler's obituary.

United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Louisville, Kentucky (Mss 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 315. Minute book and membership roster of the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Louisville, Kentucky, 18 June 1897 to 9 May 1899.

Thornton, Theresa Boyd (Sc 2210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2210. Paper: "A Church of Their Own", a history of Cecilia Memorial Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes a photograph of the church and notes from Thornton's interviews.

Traughber, John, 1793-1867 - Letters To (Sc 2214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2214. Three letters from family members in Lincoln County, North Carolina to John Traughber and his wife in Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky. The writers discuss the health of family members, crop prices, the discovery of gold, and, in a 17 March 1861 letter, the possibility of war.

Ground Family Graveyard - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2203. Record book listing burials of Ground and related family members in Ground family graveyard, Three Forks, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes diagram of graveyard and genealogical material about those buried within.

Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2206. Correspondence relating to the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, a Bowling Green, Kentucky dressmaking firm. Includes letters from customers and a measurement questionnaire. A letter by an unidentified writer recommends the wages paid by Mrs. Taylor. Includes transcriptions of the letters made by Western Kentucky University student Theresa L. Jureka for her 1983 thesis on Taylor, and one unrelated letter from a father to his son.

Tate, W. (Sc 2204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2204. Letter, 15 December 1809, from W. Tate of Abingdon, Virginia, to Ignatius Hazel, Greensburg, Kentucky. He instructs Hazel on the terms and conditions for negotiating the sale of his books.

Christ Episcopal Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2219. Records of Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes lists of members 1867-1914, baptisms 1861-1917, confirmations 1861-1919, marriages and burials 1864-1919. Also includes lists of Russellville members 1880-1886, baptisms 1873-1885, confirmations 1876-1886, and deaths 1877-1885; and lists of Glasgow members 1880, 1893, confirmations and baptisms 1890-1899. Also includes historical notes and extracts from church convention proceedings 1831-1859 that relate to the Bowling Green church.

Trinity Episcopal Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2220. Record book of Trinity Episcopal Church, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes lists of baptisms 1882-1909, confirmations 1876-1909, marriages 1868-1910, deaths 1877-1908, and parishioners 1886-1896. Also includes annual reports 1885-1902, and miscellaneous financial and statistical information 1889-1903.

Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2205. Payroll book of the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, a Bowling Green dressmaking firm, listing names of employees, number of days worked per week, and pay rates. Includes a 1992 letter advising of the death of the donor of the book.

Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 2218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2218. Church register of Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes register of pastors, baptisms and members. Also includes minutes of Church Conference of Chapel Hill, 1924-1925.

Interview With Dennis G. Payne, Jasse Chimuku

Black United Front Oral History Project

Interview with Dennis Payne by Jasse Chimuku on February 23, 2010, in Portland, Oregon.

Dennis discusses his time at Portland State University almost entirely. He gives a detailed description of his family genealogy, including the migration through Montana of his father and mother. The story of his grandparents living in Wyoming and ultimately in Harding, Montana is rich with detail of Black family life in the area during the early twentieth century.

The bulk of the interview highlights the struggle of Black students while he attended college. The Black Power movement on a nationwide basis was in full swing at …

Ewan, Avory Early, 1884-1937 (Sc 2427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2427. Letter from A. Early Ewan, Warren County, Kentucky county agriculture extension agent, to members of the Warren County Corn-Hog Production Control Association relating information about contracts to limit production of the commodities mentioned.

Hunter, Kevin (Sc 2428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2428.  Two papers written by Kevin Hunter in the late-1970s related to the Quigley-Younglove Building, 900 State Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky.  The papers were written for history classes at Western Kentucky University.  Also includes news clippings about the structure.

Bryan's Station Baptist Church - Fayette County, Kentucky (Sc 2216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2216. Record book of Bryan's Station Baptist Church, Fayette County, Kentucky. Includes church covenant, rules of government, and minutes of church meetings, 1786-1898, 1901.

Shady Grove Baptist Church - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 2217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2217. Compilation of membership data in minute book of Shady Grove Baptist Church, Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes member's name, date of admission and dismissal, and miscellaneous information. Both white and African American members are listed.

Moore, Robert And George Moore (Mss 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 318. Documents related to a nineteenth century lawsuit involving members of Bowling Green's prominent Moore family, particularly brothers George and Robert Moore. Information gleaned from Barren County court records by Gladys B. Wilson.

Interview With Joyce Braden Harris, Heather Oriana Petrocelli, Parvaneh Abbaspour

Black United Front Oral History Project

Interview with Joyce Braden Harris by Parvaneh Abbaspour and Heather Oriana Petrocelli on March 10, 2010, in Portland, Oregon.

Joyce discusses her work in education.

Sandy Creek Baptist Church - Butler County, Kentucky (Mss 313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 313. Minute books of Sandy Creek Baptist Church, Butler County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of church meetings and lists of both white and African-American members.

Davis, Christopher Larry, B. 1980 (Sc 2199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2199. Materials related to Christopher Larry Davis's military service in Afghanistan. Includes letter suggesting supplies to be sent to him as well as printouts of online newsletters and web pages relating to the personnel and acitivties of his unit.

Interview With Pauline Bradford, Tasha Triplett

Black United Front Oral History Project

Interview with Pauline Bradford by Tasha Triplett and Patrice Mays, March 9^th, 2010, at Pauline Bradford’s home in Portland, Oregon.

Pauline discusses her continuing involvement with the Harriet Tubman Club, one of many member clubs of the Oregon and National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. These clubs played important roles both locally and nationally in improving interracial relations and promoting civic engagement and uplift within African American communities.