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Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 426. Correspondence and genealogical research collected by Marietta Mansfield, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, and a Methodist minister that served various churches in Kentucky. The bulk of the collection relates to the Mansfield and Osborn(e) families of Kentucky and West Virginia. Includes letters written by Mansfield while serving as a missionary in India during the 1950s. Click on "Additional Files" below for various Mansfield notes on her hospitalization in India after she contracted polio.
Cook, Elizabeth Charlotte (Mss 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cook, Elizabeth Charlotte (Mss 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 403. Letters written by various male friends, many in military service during World War II, to Elizabeth Charlotte Cook while she was in school at Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky and Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Some of the letters are of a courtship nature.
Salyers, Mary Alice, 1910-1998 - Letters To (Mss 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Salyers, Mary Alice, 1910-1998 - Letters To (Mss 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 430. Courtship letters sent to Mary Alice Salyers, Somerset, Kentucky from various suitors, chiefly Charles Duke Payne, a Christian minister and her future husband, Richard Allen Hays.
Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
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.
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Mss 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Mss 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 423. Family letters, notes and typescripted scrapbook items (primarily contemporary newspaper articles) relating to the family and career of Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan.
Decantillon, Mary E. (Sc 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Decantillon, Mary E. (Sc 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 514. Autograph album of Mary E. DeCantillon of Louisville, Kentucky, which contains essays as well as autographs.
Perry, Emily Bailey, 1844-1923 (Sc 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perry, Emily Bailey, 1844-1923 (Sc 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 513. Album containing autographs of Civil War Confederate soldiers. It was found on a Southern battlefield and was presented to Emily Perry of Hopkinsville, Kentucky by a friend in 1866. Includes autographs of Kentucky soldiers, some having served with John Hunt Morgan.
Hassman, Drusilla (Hand), 1875-1971 (Mss 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hassman, Drusilla (Hand), 1875-1971 (Mss 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 413. Chiefly courtship letters addressed to Drusilla (Hand) Hassman, Evansville, Indiana from various male admirers. Also correspondence with her husband, Fred Hassman, and letters sent to them as a married couple from friends and family.
Ware, Josiah William, 1802-1883 (Sc 2561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ware, Josiah William, 1802-1883 (Sc 2561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 2561. Letter of Josiah William Ware, written from Greensburg, Kentucky to his cousin Winnifred Williams, Paris, Kentucky. Ware provides anecdotes relating to his travel, including an acquaintance’s account of a conversation with the guards of accused murderer Jereboam O. Beauchamp about evidence of his guilt.
Condict Family Letters (Sc 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Condict Family Letters (Sc 21), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 21. Letter written by Rebecca Condict, Warrick County, Indiana, to her sister, Mrs. Mary Condict, Ohio County, Kentucky, 1830, advising frequent bathing as a cure for sickness, and a letter written by Uzal Condict from McLennan County, Texas, to his wife Mary, describing his trip to Texas, 1859.
Daughters Of America - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Daughters Of America - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 499), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 499. Officers’ bonds of Val Frey as trustee and William Breitenstein as recording secretary of Banner Council, No. 7, Daughters of America, Louisville, Kentucky.
Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 60. Correspondence of Thomas V. Ferrell, teacher and businessman, and of his wife, Winnie (58 items), and of their daughter Thelma (94 items), of Somerset, Kentucky; Ferrell family legal papers (7 items); notes of Thelma, who worked for the Somerset Journal for years; and miscellaneous receipts, clippings, etc.
Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 410. Materials relating to Duncan Hines and the marketing of the “Duncan Hines” brand of food products. Includes obituary notices for Duncan Hines, ice cream franchise agreement, stock certificate books for related companies, and a study on marketing the brand to consumers, especially women.
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.
Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2546. Laura Elizabeth Richardson’s notebook containing holographic notes about the history of quilting. Notebook includes hand executed quilt pattern images in ink, poems, definitions of quilting terms, and textile descriptions. Includes notes about the provenance of Richardson’s quilt collection and her furniture.
Wright, Linda Sue (Sc 2548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wright, Linda Sue (Sc 2548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2548. Letter, 1959, written by Linda Sue Wright, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, to Martha Rasdall explaining that she had selected Rasdall as her "little sister" in the Future Homemakers of America chapter at North Warren High School.
Campbell, May E. (Sc 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Campbell, May E. (Sc 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 510. Autograph album of May E. Campbell, Newport, Kentucky, 1883-1885, which contains autographs of Bowling Green, Kentucky friends. Also, a 1972 letter from Florence Cooksey, Madison, Wisconsin, a relative of Miss Campbell.
Washington, William Armstead, 1800-1883 (Sc 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Washington, William Armstead, 1800-1883 (Sc 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 506. Memory album containing poetry written by William Armstead Washington, Logan County, Kentucky, some of which was written for his sisters, Sarah Virginia and Louisa Fairfax. Also, a poem written by J.A.C. Boyer which he dedicated to Sarah V. Washington, and holographic notes (2) are included.
Burnam, Mattie, 1865-1924 (Sc 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burnam, Mattie, 1865-1924 (Sc 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 509. Autograph album, 1879-1881, of Miss Burnam of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes sentiments written by Lida Calvert who later published under the name Eliza Calvert Hall.
Stockdale, Elizabeth Ann, 1821-1840 (Sc 507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stockdale, Elizabeth Ann, 1821-1840 (Sc 507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
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
Potter, Blanche Genevieve (Jamison), 1860-1942 (Sc 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
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.
Philips, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 - Relating To (Sc 2533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Philips, Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 - Relating To (Sc 2533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2533. Typewritten remarks, author unknown, about Emanie Nahm’s 1924 novel, Talk. The reviewer speculates on the people and places in Nahm’s home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky on which the novel may have been based, and refers to a reported visit to Nahm in Bowling Green by the author Rebecca West.
Selby, Cornelia Frances, 1916-2005 (Sc 2530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Selby, Cornelia Frances, 1916-2005 (Sc 2530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2530. Letters from Cornelia Frances “Fran” Selby to her sister, Mary Agnes Selby in Utica, Ohio, written during Cornelia’s service in the Women’s Army Corps at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. She writes of her activities, her anticipated furlough and their male acquaintances.
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 42. Correspondence, 1864-1878 (8); journal, 1852-1883; scrapbooks (2); Manuscript: “House of Madison and McDowell in Kentucky,” 1888; family genealogical data; slave records; etc., of Agatha (Rochester) Strange, 1832-1896, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 405. Journal of Nancy Elam Moore, an eldress of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, describing life in the colony during the Civil War, 1861-1863, especially visitation and exploitation by both Union and Confederate forces. Includes a diary of unknown authorship recording daily life at the colony in 1866. The original diary is owned by the Dayton [Ohio] Public Library.
Eclectic Book Club (Mss 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eclectic Book Club (Mss 407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 407. Minute book, yearbooks, and financial data of the Eclectic Book Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
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
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
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.
Education (Sc 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Education (Sc 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 267. Teachers’ certificates, 1874-1875 (3), issued to Amanda L. and C. S. Arnold for the first and second grades in the Kentucky counties of Henry and Oldham; and school essays written by Wanda Lee Arnold at Eminence College, 1871 (1), and by Bell Mason (1) and Essica Maye Ransdell(1).
Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 395. Minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other records of the LARTHS Club, a literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1925.