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Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 577. Funeral records, correspondence, account books and other financial papers related to various undertaking establishments run by the Gerard and Bradley families, including Gerard and Gerard Funeral Home, Eugene Gerard Company Mortuary and the Gerard and Bradley Funeral Chapel in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes financial records related to an earlier furniture making business operated by John C. Gerard, a French immigrant.
Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3057. Certificate no. 1653 dated 21 August 1890 for ten shares of stock in the Louisville Bridge Company, issued to J. S. Bell. The certificate is endorsed by Bell and bears a cancellation stamp of 4 April 1896. Includes an engraving of the bridge spanning the Ohio River and the canal at Louisville, Kentucky.
Garvin, David Berry, 1943-2014 (Mss 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Garvin, David Berry, 1943-2014 (Mss 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 547. Limited correspondence, calendars, photos, news clippings, and reports that document the life of Warren County, Kentucky, businessman David Berry Garvin. Includes information about Beech Bench Park, Camping World, Sugar Maple Square and an unrealized land development project near Franklin, Kentucky. Includes several memorial books from Garvin’s funeral
as well as a large number of sympathy cards.
Skaggs Transfer, Incorporated - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Skaggs Transfer, Incorporated - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 446. Correspondence, financial records, applications for new freight routes, and other papers generated chiefly by Willet Douglas Kirkpatrick in his position as vice-president of Skaggs Transfer, a motor-based freight transfer company located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information about Renner Express Company’s negotiations and eventual purchase of Skaggs Transfer in 1971.
Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 105. Miscellaneous papers collected by Ethel Roark, Franklin, Kentucky. Includes a World War II letter; personal letters (4); Knights of Pythias certificate; general store ledger with a 1929 inventory; 1954 letter promoting legal alcohol sales in Simpson County; and 1965 farm diary.
Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 260. Three letters of Joseph I. Younglove, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brothers, David and James, and sister, Jane, New York state, relating news of his drugstore, of his upcoming marriage to Sarah Morehead, and the effect of the Civil War on conditions in Bowling Green; a candy order for the drugstore, 1847; and a certificate attesting to his business integrity, presented by the Merchants Protective Association.