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Morton & Griswold - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morton & Griswold - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 470. Statement from Morton & Griswold, booksellers and publishers, of Louisville, Kentucky, to Hinch & McDaniel for books and associated supplies.
Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 473. Typed copies of letters written by Nathaniel Hardy of Louisville to his sister, Caroline Weston of Massachusetts, which relate family news and personal views about slavery, temperance and steamboat travel. Also, letter written by Caroline Sherrill to J.E. Hardy pertaining to these early letters and containing some family history written by a descendant in 1938.
Harding, M. (Mrs. John) (Sc 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harding, M. (Mrs. John) (Sc 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 467. Letter, 22 June 1838, from Mrs. John Harding, Audley, England, addressed to her father, Mr. Dicken, Hat Manufacturer, Birks Villa (Burkesville), Cumberland County, Kentucky, containing family news, discussion of economic conditions, and preparations being made for the coronation of Queen Victoria.
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 466. Letter to George W. Burchette, Burkesville, Kentucky, from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., which mentions that Burchette was a member of the funeral guard of Abraham Lincoln in Chicago, and which also expresses best wishes to him.
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1937 (Mss 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1937 (Mss 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 415. This collection includes eight interviews with various people around the world that were associated with the United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO) during World War II. Interviews were conducted by Nancy Disher Baird.
Jones, Lane D., B. 1883? (Sc 2555), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Lane D., B. 1883? (Sc 2555), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2555. Form letter, 12 February 1918, from Lane D. Jones, County Chairman, National War Savings Committee, Monticello, Kentucky, to Calvin Koger, Parmleysville, Kentucky. The letter solicits investment in the American war effort through the purchase of War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps, and outlines prices, rates of return and redemption methods.
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 463. Photocopy of letter written by Robert Penn Warren, from France, to Addie Hochstrasser, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling her request for an inscription of his to place in a copy of his biography of Theodore Dreiser.
Autographs (Sc 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Autographs (Sc 460), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 460. Photostat of signatures of prominent early Kentuckians, found in the records of Nelson County, Kentucky. Names have been dated and clipped from documents and pasted on a single sheet.
Schickel, Joseph Herman, 1913-1992 (Mss 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Schickel, Joseph Herman, 1913-1992 (Mss 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 416. This collection contains Dr. Joseph Schickel’s personal papers and files. The majority of the collection regards Dr. Schickel’s medical practice in Burkesville, Kentucky, and his extensive community work throughout Cumberland County, Kentucky.
M'Er F'Ing History: Speaking In Our Audience's Language, John M. Rudy
M'Er F'Ing History: Speaking In Our Audience's Language, John M. Rudy
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
I was talking to Jake the other night about Cookie Monster. Really, we were talking about the theory behind Cookie Monster's latest strategic move and how we could all learn a thing or two from him. Which move was that? The short, furry blue monster's brilliant foray into pop culture with "Share It Maybe," the music video parody of Carly Rae Jepsen's song "Call Me Maybe." In one day, Cookie has racked up 2.3 million hits on the less-than-four-minute video. [excerpt]
Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 455. Emancipation agreement made between Thomas McClean and the trustees of the United Society of Shakers, South Union, Kentucky, regarding the manumission of a black family (Joseph, Chloe, and George).
Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 162. This collection contains a paper entitled “Going Hog Wild in Logan County,” about William Warren Morton Sr. and his work in the swine industry. This paper was written by Samantha Pillar as a part of a class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1994. Several photocopied images are included in the paper.
Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 161. This collection contains a master’s thesis entitled “Hillbilly Music and Early Live Radio Programming In Bowling Green and Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon,” written by James Nelson in January 1994 for the department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Western Kentucky University. Also included is a cassette tape of old-time music from south central Kentucky entitled “Railroad Through the Smoky Mountains,” by Jim Bowles, as well as an obituary for Jonell F. Simunick.
Fitzgerald, Annamary (Fa 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fitzgerald, Annamary (Fa 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 158. This collection contains a paper entitled “Yours truly, Bruno Gernt: A Glimpse At The Development Of A Small Town Through The Eyes Of Its Developer,” written by Annamary Fitzgerald as a part of an independent study class she took at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1993 with Dr. Lynwood Montell. The paper transcribes the letters Bruno Gernt wrote to James Clarke regarding the development of Allardt, Tennessee from 1882-1891.
Harbison, Robert Glen (Fa 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harbison, Robert Glen (Fa 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 160. This collection contains a paper entitled “The Strange Little Stone House: The History Of The Underwood Home – 1529 State Street,” written by Robert Harbison as a part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1992. Also included is a Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory sheet detailing the Underwood Home.
Guest Post: John Rambo Fights The Civil War, Aaron Urbanski
Guest Post: John Rambo Fights The Civil War, Aaron Urbanski
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
Today we offer another of our “Guest Post Wednesday” extras, with some meditations on Rambo from Aaron Urbanski. Yeah, we’re not kidding... Rambo. Aaron is a graduate of the GMU American History Masters program and alumnus Ranger of the NPS. [excerpt]
Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 414. Photocopies of Baptist minister Jacob Tol Miller’s original journal, as well as an annotated typescript. The journal details many aspects of a minister’s life during the period of camp meeting revivalism in the antebellum west from 1856-1887.
Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 453. Letter, 9 February 1868, from Howell and John Edmonds, South Union, Kentucky, to their parents, in Tennessee, regarding their welfare. Howell and John were both enrolled at the school at South Union. Also a note informing the parents of the death of John, age 15, of spotted fever.
Anderson, James Patton, 1822-1872 (Sc 452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Anderson, James Patton, 1822-1872 (Sc 452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 452. Order given by General James Patton Anderson of the Army of Tennessee for the reassignment of four dismounted cavalrymen to Water’s Battery. Two of the men were from the Confederate 9th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment. It is noted that after the order was made out, all four men deserted.
Lotteries - Kentucky - Research Notes (Sc 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lotteries - Kentucky - Research Notes (Sc 450), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 450. Notes about local lottery grants in Kentucky and general lottery laws of Kentucky copied from notes of Colonel Reuben Thomas Durrett, first president of the Filson Club. Originals in the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.
Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 454. Four letters from Franz Joseph Strahm, professor of music, Western Kentucky University, and his secretary to Virginia Helm regarding concerts, piano lessons, and musical compositions. Also one from Alice Strahm in 1950, and a photograph of Strahm at the piano.
Lally, Kelly A. (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lally, Kelly A. (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 81. A history of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) work at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Paper and interviews with twenty former CCC enrollees from the four camps at Mammoth Cave and five other related people.
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 449. Letter written by David Morton, Amherst, Massachusetts, replying to an admirer, Mr. Goodrum. Morton was an author originally of Elkton, Kentucky.
Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files) below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 442. Letters from James Lane Allen, Atlantic City, New Jersey, summer 1906, and New York City, 30 September 1906, to cousin Helen inquiring as to the illness of her father, his uncle John, and expressing sorrow at his death.
Prisons - Administration - Florida (Sc 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Prisons - Administration - Florida (Sc 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 446. Letter written by Miss Daniels, Hardinsburg, Kentucky, to the mayor of Lakeland, Florida, inquiring as to the local jail’s conditions after becoming concerned about them by reading a book written by a former prisoner. Also, carbon copy of mayor’s reply, inviting Daniels to visit the jail and stating that the jail’s conditions would compare favorably with those in Kentucky.
Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 447. Letter from Walter Shepherd, Mount Lebanon, New York, to Roy G. Cooksey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in reply to inquiry. Shepherd is sending materials about the Shakers for Cooksey’s use in preparing a talk on them, and also, he expresses his views on various aspects of Shakerism.
Perry, George Brown, 1854-1936 (Sc 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perry, George Brown, 1854-1936 (Sc 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 448. Letters from George Brown Perry, Waurika, Oklahoma, to H.F. Mount, Bowling Green, Kentucky, giving historical data of Lynnland College, Hardin County, Kentucky. His father, General William Flank Perry, was the first president of the college, 1867-1879, and George was the last president, 1912-1914.
Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Legal papers setting the execution date of Jim Buckner, African American, Marion County, Kentucky, as 9 June 1911, and stay of execution by Acting Governor William Hopkinson Cox until 8 July 1911, because of the incompletion of the installation of the electrocution apparatus. Henry Thomas Hagerman, warden of Kentucky Penitentiary, Eddyville, attested to Buckner’s death.
Mccreary, James Bennett, 1838-1918 (Sc 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccreary, James Bennett, 1838-1918 (Sc 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 445. Appointment of Henry Thomas Hagerman of Eddyville, Kentucky as a delegate to the Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tennessee. Signed by Governor James Bennett McCreary.
Obenchain, William Alexander, 1841-1916 (Sc 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Obenchain, William Alexander, 1841-1916 (Sc 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 444. Letters from William Alexander Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Clifton Rodes, Louisville, Kentucky, enclosing prospectus of book about genealogy (Van Meter family) which Obenchain thinks will interest him, 17 August, and regarding Rodes’ order of the book and copies of some Van Meter family records, 22 August.