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Yeager, Lyn Allison (Antrobus), 1915-2012 (Sc 522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Yeager, Lyn Allison (Antrobus), 1915-2012 (Sc 522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 522. Typescript copy of a paper entitled "Illinois and Alabama Meet in Kentucky" written by Lyn Allison Yeager while a resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Anderson, Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813-1845 (Sc 521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Anderson, Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813-1845 (Sc 521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 521. Photocopy of letter, 21 December 1842, from Oliver Hazard Perry Anderson, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, to Orlando Brown, Frankfort, Kentucky, in which he relates his experiences as a patient dwelling in the cave as a treatment for consumption. The original letter is owned by The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, and was published in The Filson Club Quarterly, vol. 20, p. 302-307.


Lewis, John Alexander, B. 1841 (Sc 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Lewis, John Alexander, B. 1841 (Sc 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 520. Printed pamphlets and typescripts, one with holographic corrections, or speeches and papers read before the Kentucky State Medical Association and the Kentucky State Medical Society by John Alexander Lewis, a physician of Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky.


Brock, Raymond Audley, 1923-2004 (Sc 2565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Brock, Raymond Audley, 1923-2004 (Sc 2565), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2565. Paper by Raymond Brock on Gallatin County Kentucky, covering such topics as geology, courts, land grants, early settlements, the Ohio River, history of county churches, and the Butler family as related to Gallatin County. The author lists county officers from 1799 to 1934.


Stockdale, Elizabeth Ann, 1821-1840 (Sc 507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Stockdale, Elizabeth Ann, 1821-1840 (Sc 507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 507. Autograph album of Elizabeth Ann Stockdale, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, which contains essays as well as poems. Includes a poem written in 1869 for Miss Stockdale’s mother after Elizabeth Stockdale’s death. Also, a loose holographic copy of one of the album’s poems.


Potter, Blanche Genevieve (Jamison), 1860-1942 (Sc 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Potter, Blanche Genevieve (Jamison), 1860-1942 (Sc 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 512. Autograph album covering the years that Miss Jamison, of Nashville, Tennessee, was a student at Ward Seminary, Nashville, Tennessee. In 1881 Miss Jamison married J. Whit Potter of Bowling Green.


Ginther Collection (Sc 464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Ginther Collection (Sc 464), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 464. Photocopies of typescripted letters written by brothers William A. and Joseph Ginther to their father, George Ginther, brother David, and sister of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while serving in the Union Army with the Department of the Potomac.


Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 465), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Hines, James Davis, 1838-1911 (Sc 465), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 465. Compilation of Hines family genealogical data, 1795-1911; reminiscences of early Kentucky and Warren County history; Civil War participation of Hines family and John Hunt Morgan in the Confederate cause.


Browder Family (Sc 462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Browder Family (Sc 462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 462. Letter from Philip of Virginia to Katie (Sydnor) Hatcher, Trenton, Kentucky. It contains family news; especially that of the Browder family.


Winn, Thomas, Jr., 1824-1908 (Sc 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Winn, Thomas, Jr., 1824-1908 (Sc 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 461. Letter to Thomas Winn, Columbus, Kentucky, from his niece "Sid," Elkton, Kentucky, which contains chiefly family news and one reference to war.


Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936 (Sc 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936 (Sc 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 458. Letter written by John Uri Lloyd, Cincinnati, Ohio, to John Stuart Groves, Wilmington, Delaware, regarding Lloyd’s writings about certain diseases.


Ellison, Thomas Sharp, 1797-1876 (Sc 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Ellison, Thomas Sharp, 1797-1876 (Sc 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 457. Photograph of letter, 15 March 1829, from Thomas Ellison, Burkesville, Kentucky, to Edmund Rogers, Mount Hope, Kentucky, which describes a producing oil well at Burkesville, reputedly the first in the United States.


Barr, Edward Wallace, 1887-1962 (Sc 469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Barr, Edward Wallace, 1887-1962 (Sc 469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 469. “Early History of Bowling Green,” a compilation of information by Edward Wallace Barr of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 468. Typescript paper relating the history of the Catholic Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky written in 1951, guest register used for Centennial Reception, and telegram received from the Vatican noting the occasion, 1959.


Potter College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 471), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Potter College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 471), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 471. Introduction of speaker, Richmond Pearson Hobson, at Potter College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, by unidentified individual. Also, partial response by Hobson.


Jonson, Jeptha Crawford, 1833-1912 (Sc 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Jonson, Jeptha Crawford, 1833-1912 (Sc 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 503. Autograph album of Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, 1890-1891, of delegate Jeptha Crawford Jonson of McLean County.


Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Collector (Sc 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Collector (Sc 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 502. Autographs and biographical sketches of the members of the Constitutional Revision Assembly of Kentucky, 1964-1965 solicited by Mary Julia Neal.


Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid,scan of typescript and and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 505. Autograph album of Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Wright) Thomas of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 459. Letter from Cale Young Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to Stuart McKenzie, of Florida, in which Rice discusses some of his own writings. Also printed book reviews (3).


Express Companies (Sc 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Express Companies (Sc 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 496. Receipt, 1854, to Wallace Hight, Bloomington, Indiana, from Adams and Company for one package of bank bills ($300), and receipt, 1855, to James P. Luse, Lafayette, Indiana, from American Express Company, for one book.


Anderson, Joseph, 1757-1837 (Sc 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Anderson, Joseph, 1757-1837 (Sc 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 456. Original letters (3) of Joseph Anderson, and original and holographic copies of letters, notes, etc. (11) written by William Meredith, Philadelphia, to Anderson, Washington, D.C. Anderson’s correspondence with Meredith pertains to a debt owed by Anderson since 1790. Anderson was a Tennessee Senator and first Comptroller of the Treasury.


Turnley, William H. (Sc 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Turnley, William H. (Sc 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 472. Statement from William H. Turnley, Elephant Tobacco Warehouse, Clarksville, Tennessee, to Joe Hatcher, Trenton, Kentucky, for tobacco sold for Hatcher. Turnley notes reason for selling some of the tobacco and for holding the rest until later.


Rodes, Robert, 1824-1913 (Sc 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Rodes, Robert, 1824-1913 (Sc 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 504. Autograph album of Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, 1890-1891, of delegate Robert Rodes of Warren County. Also includes a typescript of the album’s contents.


College Kids With Guns: Hidden In Plain Sight, John M. Rudy Jun 2012

College Kids With Guns: Hidden In Plain Sight, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

Sunday morning found me out in the field with a stalwart group of Gettysburg devotees: the Gettysburg Discussion Group's annual spring Muster. When the coordinator of this year's Muster put out the call for something a bit different, perhaps something in town for Sunday, my ears perked up. I've been looking for groups to test out the nuggets of the College's Civil War story on and the GDG seemed like the perfect group of guinea pigs. [excerpt]


Underground Railroad, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus Jun 2012

Underground Railroad, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

Ethnic History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Oklahoma State University.


Clack, Ellen (Stone), 1907-1973 (Sc 2543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Clack, Ellen (Stone), 1907-1973 (Sc 2543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2543. Letter, 13 May 1946, from Ellen Clack (Mrs. Roy Clack), Arlington, Texas, to Paul W. Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky. She provides information about her family and the family of her uncle, James Clay Stone.


Dawson, Ella Mai (Randolph), 1892-1991 (Mss 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Dawson, Ella Mai (Randolph), 1892-1991 (Mss 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 397. Family correspondence, church materials, greeting cards and other personal papers of Ella Mai (Randolph) Dawson, a native of Logan County, Kentucky and resident of Clarksville, Tennessee. Includes voter registration and urban renewal materials relating to African Americans.


Durrett, Reuben Thomas, 1824-1913 (Sc 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Durrett, Reuben Thomas, 1824-1913 (Sc 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 383. Photocopy of letter from Reuben Thomas Durrett, Louisville, Kentucky to Lyman C. Draper, Madison, Wisconsin, relative: to death date of Hancock Lee, Versailles, 1820, to Draper’s mailing of Governor Isaac Shelby’s papers to Durrett so that they could be used for writing a paper on Shelby for the Filson Club, and permission from the owner of the papers for their use.


Shelby, Edmund P., 1833-1917 (Sc 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Shelby, Edmund P., 1833-1917 (Sc 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 382. Photostat of a letter written by Edmund P. Shelby, Lexington, Kentucky, to Richard Jouett Menefee, concerning disposition of original paintings done by Menefee’s grandfather, Matthew Harris Jouett, of Governor Isaac Shelby. Menefee was especially interested in locating Jouett’s works.


Heard, Grant Davis, 1841-1910 (Sc 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Heard, Grant Davis, 1841-1910 (Sc 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 426. Letters from Richmond, Virginia, July 1862, and near Gordonsville, Georgia, 21 April 1864, from Grant D. Heard to his father in Covington, Georgia. He laments the hardships of war, describes a meeting to censure the Governor of Georgia for his policies, and outlines the procedure for sending provisions. Heard served in the 53rd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.