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Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 733. Journal, 1878-1880, of Mattie (Spangler) Gentry, Covington, Kentucky, chronicling her attendance at Lexington’s Hamilton Female College and at boarding school in Orléans, France; also her journal, 1889-1898, recording her life as a music teacher and her courtship and marriage. Includes photographs and a letter to Mattie in France from the president of Hamilton College (Click on "Additional Files" for typescript).
Duncan, Sarah Amanda "Dallie," 1848-1940 (Sc 3486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan, Sarah Amanda "Dallie," 1848-1940 (Sc 3486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3486. Letters, 3 November 1866 and 23 May 1867, of Dallie Duncan to her mother in Pontotoc, Mississippi. Returning for another year of school at Science Hill Academy, Shelbyville, Kentucky, she writes of her roommates and clothing purchases, asks about various family members, and warns that her tuition should be paid before she leaves school, noting the headmistress’s criticism that “Mississippians never paid their debts when they could help it.” She also expresses concern for her recently widowed mother’s emotional and physical health. Dallie’s mother (addressed as “Mrs. C. G. Mitchell”) married her …
Bate Family Papers (Mss 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bate Family Papers (Mss 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 673. Correspondence, business, and legal papers of various members of the Bate family of Sumner County, Tennessee. Some of the children are located in San Augustine, Texas. Most of the correspondence centers around the mother, Ann Franklin (Weatherred) Bate and her children, particularly Eugenia Patience (Bate) Bass Bertinatti and Humphrey Howell Bate, and to a lesser degree their siblings. Includes extensive documentation about the financial and legal condition of Bertinatti after the Civil War. The originals are in the Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 676. Letters, papers, photographs and scrapbooks of the Perry family, principally Gideon Babcock Perry, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Hopkinsville, Kentucky and his children, Reverend Henry G. Perry, Chicago, Illinois, and Emily B. Perry, Hopkinsville.
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods.
Darden, Addie A., 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Darden, Addie A., 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1283. Graduation speech delivered at Cedar Bluff Female College in Woodburn, Kentucky by salutatorian Addie Darden on 7 June 1877. Includes an essay read in Latin.
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.
Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2695. Invitations to the 1886, 1887 and 1888 commencement exercises of Cedar Bluff College, a school for young ladies in Woodburn, Kentucky. The members of the graduating classes are listed, and the 1888 invitation includes the program for the event.
Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of diploma (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 656. Mistress of Science diploma conferred upon Mollie B. Robinson by Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky. Mollie was the niece of the college's president, William F. Whitesides.
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”
Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 804. Paper entitled “Early Schools of Bowling Green [Kentucky],” written by Lavinia R. Scott. Includes information about the Southern College of Kentucky, Mary Kendall Jones’ Female Seminary, Samuel Moore Gaines’ Presbyterian School for Young Ladies, and George Edgar’s Bowling Green Female College.
Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2649. Subscription lists, receipts and other financial records related to the operation of Smiths Grove College in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. Includes a debate outline demanding equal rights for women (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).
Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 431. Sundry items from Lillian Iona Tynes’s childhood and adolescence in Russellville, Kentucky, including greeting and holiday cards, correspondence, diaries, report cards, programs from school functions, news clippings, church programs, and more.
Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 488. Photocopy of paper entitled “Reminiscences of the Life and Teachings of Mary Kendall Jones while a Resident of this City,” written by a former student, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sometime during the period 1883-1887.
Potter, Blanche Genevieve (Jamison), 1860-1942 (Sc 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 396. Correspondence to family, friends, and acquaintances of Tandie Lewis McIntire, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Collection contains educational material related to McIntire's career as a teacher in Edmonson County. Also includes tracts and pamphlets related to McIntire's involvement in religious organizations, particularly Baptist entities.
Hook, Elizabeth Henrietta (Schmaltz), 1787-1846 - Letter To (Sc 268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hook, Elizabeth Henrietta (Schmaltz), 1787-1846 - Letter To (Sc 268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 268. Letter, 26 October 1844, written by her daughter Louisa and niece Kate in Schenectady, New York to Elizabeth (Mrs. Josiah C.) Hook in White Lake, New York. In addition to family news, they report on local support for Henry Clay’s Whigs and for the Locofocos as reflected in a Clay Club at school and in the flying of flags made from colored muslin.
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 375. Correspondence, photographs, diaries, and personal and professional writing of Virginia Wood Davis, a Smiths Grove, Kentucky native and a reporter and editor, 1943-1985, for newspapers in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and McCreary County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data as well as correspondence and miscellaneous papers of her family, especially her mother, Virginia Wood (Cox) Davis.
Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 167. Civil War disability exemption certifiate of Felix Crady, LaRue County, Kentucky, 1864; Simpson County, Kentucky deed, 1868; statement of Nazareth College, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1868; and an agreement concerning construction of the foundation for Franklin Fremale College, Franklin, Kentucky.
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Franklin Female College - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 501), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 501. Certificates of proficiency from the Franklin Female College, 1874 (4), of Maud McCutchen and autograph album of Maud Blair which she had while a student at the college, 1886-1888.
Shaw, Henrietta Fannie, 1839-1917 - Letters To (Sc 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shaw, Henrietta Fannie, 1839-1917 - Letters To (Sc 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 112. Chiefly letters from girl friends of Henrietta Fannie Shaw, Logan County, Kentucky, 1863-1867, a slave bill of sale, 1863, and miscellaneous writings.
Bennett, Mackie E. (Smith), 1880-1966 (Mss 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bennett, Mackie E. (Smith), 1880-1966 (Mss 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 5. Center Street Elementary School (Bowling Green, Kentucky) grade books and various club records kept by Mackie E. (Smith) Bennett, a Warren County, Kentucky native. Includes a large group of records related to the Sue Young Sewing Circle of Bowling Green's State Street Methodist Church, 1915-1948. Full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) have been made of the material related to the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary (Box 1, Folder 7).