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Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 (Sc 3446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3446. “First Warren County Soldier to Die on D-Day,” a paper by Ray Buckberry describing known details of the death of Lieutenant James Lee Durham, Bowling Green, Kentucky on 6 June 1944 during the invasion of Normandy, France. A member of the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division, Durham participated in a nighttime parachute drop early on D-Day. Includes a photograph of Durham’s gravestone in Bowling Green’s Fairview Cemetery.

Wagon Tracks Volume 33, Issue 2 (February 2019), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

2 On the Cover: Winter at Fort Larned

4 President: As I See It

5 Manager: Joanne's Jottings

6 Symposium 2019

9 Trail News

10 DAR Legislation Names Fines

13 SFTA 2018 Hall of Fame Inductees

16 Dedication of Marker at Dry Route Crossing of Pawnee Fork and Boyd's Ranch

19 Taking the Leap Forward

20 Las Vegas Transformed: Under Military Occupation 1846-1851

26 Winter on the Plains

27 Books: The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble

28 Chapter Reports

29 Membership Form

32 Calendar

Young Dairymen, Mammoth Cave Chapter (Mss 662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scans of scrapbooks (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 662. Scrapbooks (scanned copies only) and newsletters for the Young Dairymen, Mammoth Cave Chapter which was located in south central Kentucky and organized byH. Bland Dorris, Jr. The scrapbooks chiefly contain photographs of the group’s activities. Also included are the Chapter’s newsletters, 1982-1986.

Johnson, Samuel F. (Sc 3442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3442. Telegram, 17 October [1864], from Hopkinsville, Kentucky of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel F. Johnson to Colonel Cicero Maxwell in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He advises that Confederate General Hylan B. Lyon’s troops are in Providence, Kentucky “sweeping every horse mule & man in their course.” Johnson asks for mounted troops and a supply of ammunition to be sent to him at Russellville, Kentucky, failing which Lyon’s troops “will get out with their plunder & hundreds of recruits.”

Newcomb, Horatio Dalton, 1809-1874 (Sc 3437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3437. Letter, 9 March 1863, from H. D. Newcomb, Louisville, Kentucky, to Sumner(?) Wells, Chicopee, Massachusetts, asking for help in locating a suitable house for his sister in nearby Springfield. Newcomb also offers his thoughts on the Civil War: his proximity to its “desolating influences” in contrast to New England; the disunion perpetrated by the “imbecile abolitionists” of the Lincoln Administration; the corruption of the government; the financial perils of the war; and the necessity for a negotiated peace with the Confederacy.

Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 3436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3436. Bible records and photographs from various families, including Gates, Ballenger, Hines, Nicholls, Gossom, Duncan and Spiller, chiefly of Kentucky. Includes a few other items found in the Bibles such as genealogical notes and obituaries.

Proof Of Claim Form: John Doe 134b, Hall & Monagle, Llc

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Proof Of Claim Form: John Doe 157b, Hall & Monagle, Llc

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Proof Of Claim Form: John Doe 95b, Hall & Monagle, Llc

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Proof Of Claim Form: John Doe 145b, Hall & Monagle, Llc

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Proof Of Claim Form: John Doe 161b, Hall & Monagle, Llc

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Proof Of Claim Form: Jane Doe P-B, Hall & Monagle, Llc

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Proof Of Claim Form: John Doe 152b, Hall & Monagle, Llc

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Wagon Tracks Volume 33, Issue 3 (May 2019), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

2 On the Cover: Rock Creek Camping

4 President: As I See It

5 Manager: Joanne's Jottings

6 Trail News

7 Symposium 2019

10 Symposium 2021

12 SFTA 2019 Board of Directory Nominees

15 New Mexico Daughters Sent to School in St. Louis

20 St. Louis, the Santa Fe trade, and the Great Flood of 1844

27 Books: Coast to Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands

28 Chapter Reports

29 Membership Form

32 Calendar

Beware The Cat In The Hat: How Children's Literature Is The Modern Form Of Segregation, Lucy Kebler

Celebration of Learning

Every person grows up exposed to children’s literature. Unfortunately, much of the children’s literature that is published is racially discriminatory, historically inaccurate, blatantly offensive, or pure propaganda. The research for this presentation began in Augustana College’s library and has transitioned to a much broader space: The Saint Louis Country Library. Through this research, it has become obvious that diverse literature is hard to find and is often marketed as only readable for those in the minority race depicted. Many libraries mark literature that contains African Americans, as to help “guide” readers in their selections. Books labeled in this way make …

Mary H. To James H. Meredith (Undated), Author Unknown

Correspondence: Pro-integration

Signed by "Mary H."

Howell, Ray, 1893-1977 (Sc 3440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3440. Personal papers of Ray Howell, Bowling Green, Kentucky: postcards sent during his military service in World War I and bearing his image; a 1931 certificate confirming his 1919 discharge from the U.S. Army; a certified copy of his birth certificate; a postcard from California advising of a death; and Howell’s funeral instructions. Also includes the 1919 reply of another “Ray Howell,” then serving in Germany, to whom Howell’s sister Maud’s letter was sent by mistake; he also encloses a postcard bearing his image.

N/A To "Hi James" (Undated), Author Unknown

Correspondence: Pro-integration

No abstract provided.

Chuck Hassol To "Dear Sirs" (Undated), Chuck Hassol

Correspondence: Pro-integration

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Cargile, Georgia Love (Hendrick), 1904-2002 (Sc 3441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3441. Postcards to Georgia Love Cargile, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from friends vacationing in Germany, Japan, England, Norway and France.

Photograph - Steve And Elizabeth Virostko (Colorized), Unknown

The 1210th S.T.U. at Fort Ontario, 1943-1944

Photographs of Steve and Elizabeth Virostko that were used for their passports. Steve served at Fort Ontario in 1943. The photographs were digitally colorized by the Special Collections and Archives at Morehead State University.

Government Document – Steve Virostko And Alzbeta Kutalekova, Unknown

The 1210th S.T.U. at Fort Ontario, 1943-1944

Steve and his wife Alzbeta's passports and naturalization paperwork. The letter at the end is a translation of the proceeding letter witch was written in Czech. Steve served at Fort Ontario in 1943.

Griffin, Lowell M., B. 1941 (Mss 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 669. Civil War related material, chiefly recorded audio presentations to the Louisville Civil War Round Table of which Lowell Griffin was a member. Also includes some news clippings about the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln as well as transcripts of several presentations on Civil War topics.

Proof Of Claim Form: Jeanette Segura (Janed Aa-B), Hall & Monagle, Llc

Proofs of Claims

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Proof Of Claim Form: Jeffrey M. Smith (Jd158b), Hall & Monagle, Llc

Proofs of Claims

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Wittman, Dorothy M., 1917-2010 (Sc 3438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3438. Materials related to 2nd Lieutenant Dorothy M. Wittman’s service as a U.S. Army nurse with the 32nd Station Hospital during World War II. Includes a letter to her parents in Canal Fulton, Ohio, from Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky describing a review of the 98th Infantry Division; photographs of her and fellow nurses; a nurses roster; meal tickets; and a whimsical “Dishonorable Discharge” from the Army. Also includes a medical history of the 32nd Station Hospital Unit written by Chief Nurse Helen W. Brammer.

Hamlin, Thurman Jerome, 1924-2010 (Sc 3439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3439. Letter, 1 October 1979, to news services and voters from Thurman Jerome Hamlin, London, Kentucky, promoting his election as a write-in candidate for Governor of Kentucky. He lists his qualifications and personal attributes, and offers to pay “you in communications” a daily fee of $100.00 to elect him, with an advisory position afterward. A frequent office-seeker, Hamlin includes some obscure references about local taxes and the election of past governors.

Proof Of Claim Form: John Doe 129b-Tex, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Proofs of Claims

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Law Library Blog (June 2019): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Amjambo Africa! (June 2019), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

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