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Full-Text Articles in United States History
Hanna, John Harris, 1787?-1861 (Sc 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hanna, John Harris, 1787?-1861 (Sc 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 559. Form book owned and probably kept by John Harris Hanna, of Frankfort, Kentucky, as a law student. Contains examples of how to conduct various legal actions such as oaths, writs, and court proceedings. Index in back. Handwriting varies.
Harrison, James Orlando, 1804-1888 (Sc 556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harrison, James Orlando, 1804-1888 (Sc 556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 556. Letter from James Orlando Harrison, 13 July 1833, Lexington, Kentucky, to his brother, Jilson P. Harrison, Vicksburg, Mississippi, which describes the cholera epidemic in Lexington. Original in Micajah Harrison Collection, Kentucky Historical Society.
Potter, Clinton C., 1849-1934 (Sc 557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Potter, Clinton C., 1849-1934 (Sc 557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 557. Original and typescript of the diary of Clinton C. Potter, businessman and farmer, of Warren County,Kentucky, chiefly covering the years 1870-1873. He comments on many aspects of everyday life, records local marriages and deaths, and includes information related to his tobacco trade, 1879-1889. The typescript contains a proper name index but excludes various pages of the original. Page numbers indicated in the subject analytics below refer to the original diary.
Hoover, Herbert Clark, 1874-1964 (Sc 581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hoover, Herbert Clark, 1874-1964 (Sc 581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 581. Facsimile of letter written by Herbert Clark Hoover, New York City, to J. Mitchel Thorsen of Cosmopolitan Magazine, commending a story concerning the eastern European famine that was
written by Philip Gibbs, and which was published in Cosmopolitan.
May, George (Sc 582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
May, George (Sc 582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 582. Letter written to Robert Craddock at Danville, Kentucky from George May in regards to land litigation, mentioning that May was acting on behalf of Robert Bolling.
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 (Sc 580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 (Sc 580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collectin 580. Letter to John G. Woods, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Cordell Hull, concerning Southern Normal School and Business College of Bowling Green, which Hull attended in 1886-1887.
Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva (Doud), 1896-1979 (Sc 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva (Doud), 1896-1979 (Sc 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 579. Letter written to Nellie Virginia Heasley, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Mamie Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower, expressing thanks for Mrs. Heasley’s message of good wishes following Dwight D. Eisenhower’s election as President.
Jared Brown, Jared Brown, Meg Miner
Jared Brown, Jared Brown, Meg Miner
All oral histories
Emeritus Professor, School of Theater Arts Jared Brown was director of School of Theater Arts from 1989-1999 and taught full time at IWU from 1989-2002. Dr. Brown still teaches at IWU occasionally today.
Good Morning To The Night: Requiem For My Battlefield, John M. Rudy
Good Morning To The Night: Requiem For My Battlefield, John M. Rudy
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
The fireflies have started to appear around Gettysburg. We have a new sliding glass door in the kitchen that I can press my face against and see them. I did it the other night when Jess mentioned they're out there. [excerpt]
Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 538. Correspondence between Mary T. Leiper, librarian, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Pearle
L. Hendley, Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky, related to Miss Hendley’s uncle, J.A. Hendley, founder of the Farmington Institute. Includes a photograph of J.A. Hendley.
Settle, Simon Dewitt, 1899-1963 (Sc 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Settle, Simon Dewitt, 1899-1963 (Sc 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 529. Typed manuscript titled "Charles Morgan, Early Kentucky Land Agent," written by Simon Dewitt Settle of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Sc 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Sc 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 535. Facsimile of George Washington’s 14 April 1789 letter to John Langdon, president pro tempore of the Senate, accepting the presidential office.Includes a discussion of the events surrounding the occasion written by Paul M. Angle.
Muir, Jasper W., 1823-1907 - Relating To (Sc 537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Muir, Jasper W., 1823-1907 - Relating To (Sc 537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 537. Compilation of writings related to Jasper W. Muir, prominent attorney and banker of Bardstown, Kentucky. Includes a paper written by friend John Michael Cooney, and one by his grandson John Wakefield Muir. Also, an 1896 newspaper article about Muir.
Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 542. Paper entitled “History of the Auburn Baptist Church, 1866-1957,” a holographic copy by Nellie Childress, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, and an explanatory note about the paper written to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library.
Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 546. Letter to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library, from Helen E. (Garvin) Rouse, concerning records from the minutes of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, that relate to the Garvin and Irvin families and an accompanying statement related to the two families.
Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 544. Carbon copies of two 1967 letters written to Brother Thomas Whitaker, South Union, Logan County, Kentucky, by Littleton Groom, Princeton, New Jersey, relating information concerning the history of the Gasper River Presbyterian Church in Logan County.
Porter, John Marion, 1839-1884 (Sc 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, John Marion, 1839-1884 (Sc 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 547. Manuscript book of recollections concerning Porter family written by John M. Porter in 1872; clippings pertaining chiefly to Porter, 1870(?)-1884; certificate of his attendance and his ribbon from The Morgan Encampment, 1883; photo of Porter, lawyer and Commonwealth’s Attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Whitesides, William Franklin, 1827-1905 (Sc 541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitesides, William Franklin, 1827-1905 (Sc 541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 541. Letter, 17 August 1871, to C.H. Courts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from William F. Whitesides, president of Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky, asking for a loan, and express receipt from Adams Express Company for the desired loan.
Kirk, Arthur Dale, 1886-1944 (Sc 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kirk, Arthur Dale, 1886-1944 (Sc 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 534. Photocopy of Arthur Dale Kirk's holographic manuscript entitled "Weaver & Elizabeth Barnes and Their Folks."
Gaines, Samuel Moore, 1815-1906 (Sc 540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gaines, Samuel Moore, 1815-1906 (Sc 540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 540. Letter, 17 February 1875, to Carrie Alexander, a student at Bowling Green Female College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Samuel Moore Gaines, the president of the college, concerning her outstanding character while in school.
American Commemorative Panels: Miles Davis & Edith Piaf, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division
American Commemorative Panels: Miles Davis & Edith Piaf, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division
Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection
Informational pages for Miles Davis & Edith Piaf Commemorative Stamp – American Commemorative Panels, includes images of the stamps, information about the physical stamp and biographical information for Miles Davis & Edith Piaf. First issued June 12, 2012.
Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Henry (Sc 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 543. Agreement to teach school in Warren County for the 1836-1937 term including the subscribers’ list; also two papers, 1840, pertaining to bill owed Henry Hines by the John McFadin estate for the tuition of one student for one year.
Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 524. Receipt written15 June 1836 by Nathaniel Hardy of Day, Schmitz and Baldwin, Louisville, Kentucky, to Eli McLean, South Union, Kentucky, for payment of $300 on castings for water works for the Shaker Society at South Union.
Brownfield, Warner Carl, 1883-1968 (Sc 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brownfield, Warner Carl, 1883-1968 (Sc 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 532. Brownfield’s artistic penmanship techniques are displayed in a 1909 resolution of the Kentucky State Medical Association, a 1918 Bowling Green, Kentucky, DAR chapter invitation to William Howard Taft, a 1924 certificate from the Littleford School,Cincinnati, Ohio, and an undated letter to a friend. Brownfield was head of the Penmanship Department, Bowling Green Business University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Thomas, Edison Hugh, B. 1912 (Sc 536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Edison Hugh, B. 1912 (Sc 536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 536. Typescript copy with holographic corrections of "The Thomas and Bridges Story, 1540-1840" by Edison Hugh Thomas, Louisville, Kentucky. Includes information about the origin of the Thomas and Bridges families.
Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 527. Photocopies of manuscript entitled “Destiny,” which concerns Alfred Hall Bemis’ five years of residency in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and a brochure used by Bemis to advertise his lecture on the life, philosophy and background of the hill people of Kentucky.
Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 525. Photocopy of an incomplete typescript memoir entitled “The First Fifty Years of Judson Slade Taylor,” a Baptist minister born in Ohio County, Kentucky; and a letter, 20 August 1971, from J.B. Taylor, a relative, to Nell Childress, Auburn, Kentucky, related to the memoir.
Clark, Samuel, 1870-1934 (Sc 526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark, Samuel, 1870-1934 (Sc 526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans of items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 526. Samuel Clark, Bowling Green, Kentucky, was Captain of Co. B, 3rd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish –American War. Papers include muster roll, roll call book, Clark’s discharge and pension papers, photo of Clark in uniform, Clark family genealogy, and miscellaneous items.
Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914 (Sc 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914 (Sc 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 531. Letter from poet Madison Julius Cawein, Louisville, Kentucky, to Fred H. Day, Boston, Massachusetts, a publisher, relative to several of Cawein’s books of poetry and to a book by novelist and poet Alice Brown.
Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 (Sc 530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 (Sc 530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) For Manuscripts Small Collection 530. Letter, 5 April 1886, from Joseph Holt to Darwin C. Pavey(?), editor of The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield,Massachusetts, stating that he was never a member of Lincoln’s cabinet. Holt, a native of Breckinridge County, Kentucky, was Judge-Advocate General, U.S. Army, and prosecuted the conspirators involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Also, 1972 correspondence related to the identity of The Berkshire Eagle’s editor in 1886.