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Moss, C. Mcelroy, 1900-1965 (Sc 1583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Moss, C. Mcelroy, 1900-1965 (Sc 1583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1583. Letters, photos, and newspaper clippings documenting Moss's U.S. Navy career. Includes news clipping related to educator, Mary Dishman, and a news clipping about Moss's father John McKenzie Moss.

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Hardin Family Papers (Sc 1595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Hardin Family Papers (Sc 1595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1595. Correspondence of various Hardin family members. Includes a description of an 1898 trip to Florida. Also, 1929 letters from F. B. Green, Evansville, Wisconsin, to Oscar C. Fletcher, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to dairy cattle.

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Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected Civil War material (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1568. Receipts, inventories and letters relating to the business enterprises and travels of merchant Wade Veluzat, Barren County, Kentucky. Civil War letters to Union sympathizer Veluzat, military passes, and letters from his wife Eliza (Clark) Veluzat describing the family's situation at home. Material related to the Veluzat and Pace family genealogies is also included.

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Brown, Claude M., 1905-1978 (Sc 1579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Brown, Claude M., 1905-1978 (Sc 1579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1579. World War II letters from Kentucky native Claude M. Brown, stationed in Italy, to Elizabeth Propes, Louisville and Hodgenville, Kentucky. Letters to Brown from friend Ralph Hurley and Brown's 1945 travel itinerary from Italy to Kentucky.

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Bouldin Family Papers (Mss 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Bouldin Family Papers (Mss 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 195. This collection consists of business and personal correspondence and account books of the Bouldin Family of Cumberland County, Kentucky, and of Walter H. Parks of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Of special interest is an account book kept for Albert J. Armes, a patient at Central Kentucky Hospital in Lakeland, Kentucky.

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Knott Collection (Mss 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Knott Collection (Mss 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 53. Correspondence (business and family), business papers, speeches and drawings of J. Proctor Knott, 1830-1811, lawyer, congressman, and Kentucky governor, of Lebanon; family correspondence and business papers of Sarah (McElroy) Knott, 1833-1915; Civil War diaries and letters of Knott's mother (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts); letters of the Gibbs, McElroy and Chapman families chiefly of Marion and Warren Counties; clippings and photographs.

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Taliaferro Collection (Mss 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Taliaferro Collection (Mss 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 51. Copy of diary kept by Betsy Taliaferro (1800-1850) from 20 March 1838 to 8 April 1839, concerning her trip from Harrisonburg, Louisiana, to New Orleans to Versailles, Kentucky, her native home, by steamboat and stagecoach. Includes correspondence, notes, clippings, etc. of researcher Mary T. Moore regarding the diary.

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Dripping Spring Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Dripping Spring Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1588. Photocopies of the records of Dripping Spring Baptist Church, Olmstead (Logan County), Kentucky, 14 December 1850-31 March 1900; includes name indexes. Also included is a 125th anniversary program for the church, which incorporates a brief church history and a drawing of the building.

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Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 50. Correspondence of David Morton, correspondence concerning Morton Collection, speeches, essays, MSS: "Entries for a Diary," and MSS: "The Amateur Listener" -- diary, poems, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items of Morton, a poet and English professor born in Elkton, Kentucky.

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Kentucky State Penitentiary - Deeds, 1884 (Sc 1586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Kentucky State Penitentiary - Deeds, 1884 (Sc 1586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1586. Copies of fifteen deeds for land in Lyon County, Kentucky near Eddyville on which the Kentucky State Penitentiary was built.

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Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 194. Scrapbooks (3) of manuscript music, chiefly gospel music, written and composed by Arlis Odell Harmon, of Allen County, Kentucky.

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Duncan, Matilda Jane "Mattie" (Backus), 1896-1986 (Sc 1585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Duncan, Matilda Jane "Mattie" (Backus), 1896-1986 (Sc 1585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1585. Duncan's brief remembrances of people, businesses and educational institutions in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She made these comments while looking at a copy of "Do You Remember When?", a small pictorial history of Bowling Green, published in 1970.

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Mcnear, William, 1814-1864 (Sc 1578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Mcnear, William, 1814-1864 (Sc 1578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1578. Marriage license of William McNear and his wife Emily (Harmon) McNear; letter from George W. Craven, commander of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry (Union) notifying Emily of McNear's 1864 death; her widow's application for a U.S. Army pension.

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Thigpen, Lorna Moore (Sc 1581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Thigpen, Lorna Moore (Sc 1581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1581. Transcription of a taped interview with Gale Hudnall, Riverside, Warren County, Kentucky conducted as part of the oral history project "Riverside Remembrances." Hudnall discusses his family and the social life and history of Riverside and Richardsville, Kentucky. Interview conducted by Lorna Moore Thigpen.

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Ewing Family - Logan County, 1813-1888 (Sc 1572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Ewing Family - Logan County, 1813-1888 (Sc 1572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1572. Deeds, wills, and other business papers of the Ewing family, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes two letters, 1813 & 1814, from Henry S. Pirkey, Rockingham County, Virginia, to Robert Ewing, Logan County, related to land sales. also, information about Ewing family genealogy, and a memorial sermon given for George Washington Ewing by David Morton at Red River Church, 1888.

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Davis, Ezra (Sc 1571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Davis, Ezra (Sc 1571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1571. Miscellaneous papers, including notes and receipts relating to the business affairs of Ezra Davis and J. C. Burbage/Burbridge. Includes receipts from tobacco warehouses in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes letters of Kitty McGehee, Irvington, Kentucky, to Virginia Hensley, and yearbook-style biographies by four schoolgirls.

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Theobald, Harriett Byron (Mcallister) Blanton, 1798-1888 (Sc 1591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Theobald, Harriett Byron (Mcallister) Blanton, 1798-1888 (Sc 1591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1591. Letter from Harriett B. Theobald, Frankfort, Kentucky, to her sons, Orville and William Blanton, Baltimore, Maryland, in which she discusses leaving Kentucky to be with them. Also includes discussions of Frankfort news and family matters.

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Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1590. Letter to the editor (Park City Daily News?) by Charles Davenport, reminiscing about growing up in the Warren County, Kentucky community of Greencastle. Includes photos of James Ford and Thomas L. Stephens, builders of the Greencastle lock and dam on Barren River.

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Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 43. Account books of different firms and individuals in Greensburg, Kentucky, including records of general merchandise stores, a hotel, a tailoring shop, the Kentucky Stage Company, and a lodging stable.

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Knight, Lillian Eleanor, 1919-2003 (Sc 1580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Knight, Lillian Eleanor, 1919-2003 (Sc 1580), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and digital copy of original for Manuscripts Small Collection 1580, a reminiscence written by Lillian Eleanor Knight concerning the 1937 Flood in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Barton, Joshua (Lg 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Barton, Joshua (Lg 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 419. Original land grant, 24 March 1816, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Joshua Barton 30 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Walker, John (Lg 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Walker, John (Lg 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 420. Original land grant, 2 April 1816, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Walker 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Maxwell, David (Lg 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Maxwell, David (Lg 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 422. Original land grant, 29 June 1818, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to David Maxwell 50 acres in Warren County.

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Boatman, John, 1842-1916 (Sc 1611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Boatman, John, 1842-1916 (Sc 1611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1611. Letter dated 10 September 1861 from Union soldier John Boatman, Paducah, Kentucky, to his family in Paris, Illinois describing conditions in Paducah. Envelope imprinted with red and blue patriotic image of clasped hands and the phrase "Our hearts and hands for the Union."

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Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 40. Fifty-three diaries (1859-1918) and other writings of Henry Clay Northcott, 1822-1918, Methodist circuit preacher and farmer of northern Kentucky; correspondence (1870-1883) of his daughter, music teacher Kate N. Thomas, 1850-1889; and her husband, Bruce F. Thomas, 1853?-1882, lawyer of Vanceburg, Kentucky.

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Freeman, John & Hamilton Freeman (Lg 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Freeman, John & Hamilton Freeman (Lg 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 412. Copy land grant, 21 June 1799, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John and Hamilton Freeman, 666-2/3 acres on the west fork of the middle fork of Bays Creek in Kentucky.

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Pirkey, Henry S., D. 1827 (Lg 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Pirkey, Henry S., D. 1827 (Lg 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 416. Original land grant, 8 June 1815, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Henry S. Pirkey 200 acres in Livingston County, Kentucky.

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Ewing, Robert, 1760-1832 (Lg 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Ewing, Robert, 1760-1832 (Lg 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 415. Original land grant, 17 June 1797, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Ewing 200 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.

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Richey, James (Lg 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Richey, James (Lg 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 413. Copy of land grant, 12 June 1806, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James Richey 100 acres in Livingston County, Kentucky.

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Totty, Leonard, 1812?-1863? (Mss 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Totty, Leonard, 1812?-1863? (Mss 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 36. Account books consisting of a journal of customer's account, 1848-1854, and a ledger, 1848-1858, of Leonard Totty, a general merchant of Doughty's Creek, Warren County, Kentucky.

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