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Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2010

Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 49. Correspondence of the Green family, Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky, including business papers and account books, and correspondence for several generations of the Robert Wilmot Scott family, originally of Frankfort, Kentucky.


Carter, Maude (Sc 2372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Carter, Maude (Sc 2372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2372. "A Study of Caroline Lee Hentz, Sentimentalist of the Fifties" by Maude Carter, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Maste rof Arts degree, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1942.


Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Mss 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 317. Professional correspondence, short stories, book and story manuscripts, author's notes, reviews, and primary and secondary research materials relating to the literary career of Emanie Louise Nahm Philips, a Bowling Green native. Includes some photographs, notices and reviews relating to her work as an artist, family biographical material, and personal correspondence.


Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Mss 89), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2010

Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Mss 89), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 89. Pattern pieces for articles of women’s clothing, primarily jackets or shirtwaists, used in Taylor’s Bowling Green, Kentucky dressmaking business. The pieces are made of paper and in some cases carry penciled notations of names, presumably of the client(s) for whom the garment was being made.


Cisney, Barbara (Sc 2252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2010

Cisney, Barbara (Sc 2252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2252. "Bevie W. Cain," and "Civil War Letters of Bevie Cain," two papers written by Barbara Cisney for Western Kentucky University history classes and based primarily on a collection of Cain's letters held in WKU's Special Collections Library (SC 2251).


Browning Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2010

Browning Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and photograph (Click on "Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Collection 301. Constitutions, minutes, club histories, membership and program materials of the Browning Club, a women's literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1895.


Davis, Martha Anne, 1936-2010 (Mss 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Davis, Martha Anne, 1936-2010 (Mss 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 303. Three volumes of autobiographical musings, generally in poetic form, related to the life of Martha Anne Davis, the producer of a comedy show titled "2 Funny" which aired on local access cable television in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1991 to 2001. A title index to the writings is available, as well as one of Davis's business cards.


Welborn, Annie E., B. 1869 (Sc 2160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Welborn, Annie E., B. 1869 (Sc 2160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2160. "The Story of My Life," autobiographical essay by Annie E. Welborn, born in Todd County, Kentucky. She describes her early married life, farming, her children and grandchildren, and a trip to Montana and Washington.


Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2159. Letters (some incomplete) to Bertha C. Stephenson, of Milton, Trimble County, Kentucky, from friends, relatives and sweethearts in Kentucky, California and Florida. They write of gifts and photographs exchanged, mutual friends, travel, romances, and Stephenson's upcoming wedding. Includes a handwritten notice from the Board of Health requiring Stephenson and her pupils to be vaccinated in order to conduct school (click on "Additional Files" below for scan).


Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2147. Paper: "Jennie Green: Portrait of a Progressive Kentucky Woman" written by Karen Wolford for a Western Kentucky University history class.