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Horton, George Lewis, 1894-1957 (Sc 1569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Horton, George Lewis, 1894-1957 (Sc 1569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1569. Letter, 24 July 1923, from George L. Horton, Ashland, Kentucky to Clare Anderson, Cleveland, Ohio, concerning her upcoming visit to Ashland. Includes a colorful handkerchief printed with the nursery rhyme "Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross" that was enclosed with the letter.

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Gingles Collection (Mss 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Gingles Collection (Mss 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 21. Dr. John Thomas Gingles, Kirksey, Calloway County, Kentucky, account books, 1866-1870, 1872-1875, 1880, 1884-1885; account book, 1851-1878, probably his father's, James A. Gingles; typescript of 1946 paper entitled "Vitamin Therapy" by his son Dr. Hunter W. Gingles, Hardburly, Perry County, Kentucky; University of Louisville Medical School commencement booklet, 1915; and letters and receipts. Includes four copies of The Murray Weekly News, 1886-1887 (see "Additional Files" below for scans).

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Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1846 (Sc 1258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1846 (Sc 1258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1258. Coroner’s inquest, 11 June 1846, into the death of Fielding Bettersworth, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The commissioners made a finding of intoxication leading to death by drowning.

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New Friendship Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

New Friendship Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 178. This collection consists chiefly of membership lists and minutes of the New Friendship Baptist Church of Logan, Kentucky, 1834-1877, 1898-1988. Also included is an 1895 history of the church, Articles of Faith, and Rules of Decorum for the congregation.

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Follin, Ethel Alma, 1912-1989 (Sc 1829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Follin, Ethel Alma, 1912-1989 (Sc 1829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1829. Paper: "A Study of Economic Conditions of Bowling Green, Kentucky" written by Ethel Alma Follin.

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Jones, George - Letters To (Sc 1564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Jones, George - Letters To (Sc 1564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1564. Two letters to George Jones from Merlin (last name not given) describing life at Camp Taylor, a World War I training facility in Louisville, Kentucky. Includes a photo of Jones in uniform.

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Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of diary (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 1561. Civil War diary, 1861-1864, of Robert Allen Dearmin. He served with the 2nd Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, which saw service in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Also includes correspondence of the Dearmin and Lowry families. Associated data about the collection included.

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Umberger, Eugene B., Jr. (Sc 1565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Umberger, Eugene B., Jr. (Sc 1565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1565. Paper titled "The York Farm: A Contribution to Folk Housing Documentation" written by Eugene B. Umberger, Jr. for a geography class at Western Kentucky University. Includes photos and diagrams of various farm structures.

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Clagett, John Henry, 1916-2013 (Mss 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Clagett, John Henry, 1916-2013 (Mss 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 10. Typed manuscript copy of John Henry Clagett's novel "Cradle of the Sun", published in 1952 by Crown Publishers, New York. Also includes clippings about Clagett and two short stories by him.

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Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1534. Church register for the Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church, South, located in southern Logan County, Kentucky, from December 1925 to April 1973. Register includes list of members, marriages, and baptisms. Also includes several news clippings.

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Xv Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Xv Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 190. Chiefly minute books of this Bowling Green, Kentucky literary club. Also includes administrative and miscellaneous papers related to the club's organization, history, membership, and programs.

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Henry, W. W. (Sc 1526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Henry, W. W. (Sc 1526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1526. Letter, 3 June 1830 from Henry, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to J. Speed Smith, a U.S. Attorney, Richmond, Kentucky, which relays information about an affray in which several slaves were taken from his stagecoach while he was delivering the mail.

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Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1557. Letter, 10 March 1976, from Kentucky author Jesse Hilton Stuart, W-Hollow, Greenup, Kentucky, to John Howard Spurlock, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to "He Sings for Us", Spurlock's book about Stuart's writings.

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Mccowen, William (Sc 1517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Mccowen, William (Sc 1517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript of letter from William McCowen in Madison County, Kentucky, to his family in Pluckemin, Somerset County, New Jersey, related to his trip to Kentucky. His journey was related to his interests in saltpeter mining. He discusses being lost and letting his horse navigate to civilization.

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Drakes Creek Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Drakes Creek Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1576. Membership list of Drakes Creek Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky, 4 April 1906.

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Hess, Nelson Irvin, 1795-1869 (Sc 1451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Hess, Nelson Irvin, 1795-1869 (Sc 1451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1451. Bond given by N. I. Hess, Cumberland Presbyterian minister, and L.B. Gilchrist, both of Gibson County, Tennessee, to secure a judgment obtained against Hess by Watt Renick, Hickman County, Kentucky. The bond requires the obligors to deliver four enslaved persons, the property of Hess, to be sold to satisfy the judgment.

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Public Library Of Kentucky - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 1453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Public Library Of Kentucky - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 1453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1453. Materials concerning lotteries held to establish and operate a free public library in Louisville, Kentucky. Includes enabling legislation and documents relating to litigation over the scheme.

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Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church - Fountain Run, Kentucky (Sc 1456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church - Fountain Run, Kentucky (Sc 1456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1456. Monroe County Circuit Court case involving members of the Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church. The injunction enjoined certain members (or ex-members) from threatening, etc., those in the majority.

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Smith, Dennis M. (Mss 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Smith, Dennis M. (Mss 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 191. Paper concerning the naming of Bowling Green, Kentucky's elementary schools and cassette tapes of interviews conducted by Smith. Also, scrapbook materials relating to Mackie E. (Smith) Bennett.

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Garrott, June Rose, 1932-2024 (Sc 1329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Garrott, June Rose, 1932-2024 (Sc 1329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1329. Newsletter, 1987, from Garrott, Beijing, China, to Sara Tyler, Bowling Green, Kentucky, reporting on her work in China. In 1961 she accompanied her medical missionary husband, Hobson Sinclair, to China, but through the years she taught English to Chinese students. Also associated data, 1961-1987 (3).

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Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1566. Record book containing register of pastors, 1905-1925, and church members, 1894-1946, for Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South located in Logan County, Kentucky. Also, original 1823 document conveying land for the meeting house, accounts of church conferences, and certificates of membership.

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Autographs - Musicians (Sc 1321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Autographs - Musicians (Sc 1321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1321. Piece of paper containing autographs of band leader Kay Kyser and some of his band members, who performed at the Bowling Green, Kentucky Armory on 3 July 1936. Includes some biographical data.

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Flat Rock Methodist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Flat Rock Methodist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1325. Chiefly membership lists with some research notes, of the Flat Rock Methodist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes copy of speech, about the church's history, given by Marietta Mansfield, 1995.

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Slave Register - Warren County, 1853-1865 (Sc 1327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Slave Register - Warren County, 1853-1865 (Sc 1327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1327. Warren County, Kentucky “Register of Slaves Owned for Life,” listing name, sex, age, and other information about each slave as provided by the person holding a life interest in said slaves, along with the names of the owners in remainder who would subsequently inherit the slave(s). Includes link to typescript.

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Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Sc 1454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Sc 1454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1454. Report of Thomas C. Cherry, Bowling Green, Kentucky's Superintendent of Public Schools, on teacher Margaret Calvert. She is rated on eighteen professional and personal attributes.

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Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 1556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 1556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1556. Correspondence between Thomas Awbrey, Fordsville, Kentucky, and President Lyndon B. Johnson relating to Awbrey's completion of an adult education class where he learned to read at age 71. Includes a newspaper clipping about Awbrey and information from the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas.

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Winters, Erastus, 1843-1925 (Sc 1553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Winters, Erastus, 1843-1925 (Sc 1553), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1553. Letter, 17 April 1863, from Erastus Winters, serving with the Union Army at Sulphur Fork Trestle, Kentucky (Fort Sands, Hardin County) to his sister Phebe. He briefly describes his military duties and asks her to send a photograph.

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Ferguson, Champ, 1821-1865 (Mss 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Ferguson, Champ, 1821-1865 (Mss 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 1. An account of Ferguson's military trial for murders committed during the Civil War by him and his band of outlaws, held at Nashville, Tennessee. Transcript compiled from official records by Frank R. McGlasson, U.S. Army surgeon.

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Davis, Christopher Larry, B. 1980 (Sc 1531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Davis, Christopher Larry, B. 1980 (Sc 1531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1531. Correspondence, chiefly e-mails, between Christopher Larry Davis, stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and family and friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 9. Correspondence, diaries, receipts books, tax receipts, licenses receipts, church membership certificates, and miscellaneous receipts of John G. Durham, a Baptist minister of Warren County, Kentucky. Also legal papers of Allen County and Warren County, Kentucky. Correspondents include A. Broaddus, Samuel Howard Ford, George W. Robertson, and Orson Holland Morrow.

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