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Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 64. Ledger volume containing fulling mill records, (1814-1815), accounts (1843-1844), and journal (1909-1911) of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky.

Gunther, L. W., B. 1822? (Sc 3075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3075. Letter, 12 March 1848, of L. W. Gunther, Cadiz, Kentucky, to Charles H. Blake, Blandville, Kentucky. He refers to Blake taking delivery of goods from the steamboat Tennessee, reports correspondence from England and France concerning their stave business, and discusses the specifications for the English customer. He also makes reference to a “shipbuilding enterprise.”

Point Pleasant Store - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 594. Ledger books containing transactions from the Point Pleasant Store in Ohio County, Kentucky. Because of this store’s location on the Green River, ledgers also include information about shipment of tobacco from that site. Also includes wages for labor performed for the store owner.

Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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

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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.

Lester Lowe Grocery - Pondsville, Kentucky (Mss 589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 589. Receipts, wholesale grocery ordering forms, correspondence and promotional material from the Lester Lowe Grocery, a small general store in Pondsville, Warren County, Kentucky.

J. W. Ford & Company - Hartford, Kentucky (Mss 595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 595. Account books documenting the financial transactions of the J. W. Ford Company which operated several business interests in Ohio County, Kentucky. The chief industry documented in the account books is the Hartford Roller Mills, which was located near the Rough River in Hartford, Kentucky.

Gaines Family - Business Records (Sc 3025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3025. Two account books of Squire C. Gaines, Fayette County, Kentucky, 1875-1878, recording time records, payments to laborers, haulage of stone and other details of work on the Cincinnati Southern Railway; unidentified notebook, 1873, with ideas and sketches for stories; unidentified account book, 1886-1887, recording expenses for individual laborers and merchandise.

Riggs Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3017. Correspondence and papers relating to the business of the Riggs Refinery, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes correspondence between Henry W. Bradley and principal Edgar R. Riggs while the latter pursued business opportunities in Florida. Matters discussed include business transactions, collections, the Florida land boom, and the effects of a destructive storm in Bowling Green.

Smith Brothers Store - Russell County, Kentucky (Mss 585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 585. Three account books from the Smith Brothers Stores located in Fonthill and Irvin’s Store, Russell County, Kentucky. Also includes some information about the estate of Robert Pierce Smith.

Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 554. Personal and professional correspondence of Auburn, Kentucky native and New York banker Harold H. Helm. Includes biographical materials, speeches, miscellaneous papers and photographs.

Bank Of The United States (Sc 2963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2963. Deed, 11 May 1827, from the Bank of the United States to William Ray, Louisville, Kentucky, of a tract of land in Louisville. Signed by Nicholas Biddle, President of the Bank of the United States, in the presence of Joseph Watson, Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Roberts, Samuel F. (Sc 2956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2956. Mortgage of a one-third interest in a steam sawmill in Lewis County, Kentucky, given by Samuel F. Roberts to Leonard B. Cox and James Bowman, his securities on a peace bond given to the Fleming County, Kentucky Circuit Court and his debtors on a promissory note for the legal services of L.M. Cox and L.B. Cox.

Howell Family (Sc 2953), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2953. Farm ledger belonging to the Howell family of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes a letter, 26 April 1925, drafted in Alvaton, Kentucky, to Clarence Howell and family.

Garvin, David Berry, 1943-2014 (Mss 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

Edmonson County, Kentucky - Account Books (Mss 550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 550. Account book for H.E. James & Co., a general store, at Johnson's Mill, Edmonson County, Kentucky, and S.T. Brooks, a general store in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Includes two loose items removed from the Brooks ledger.

Miller, John A., Sr., 1840-1905 (Mss 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 514. Receipts, correspondence, bills of lading ledger, 1870-1874, and account book, 1864-1866, for Miller’s jewelry businesses in Alton, Illinois and Paducah, Kentucky. Miller later operated a jewelry store in Cairo, Illinois.

Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 510. Correspondence, business records, account books, and miscellaneous personal papers of members of the Allen, Barner, Savage and Mallory families of Edmonson, Hart and Warren counties in Kentucky.

Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers, 1858-1860, 2008 (Mss 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 509. Printouts of a database containing information from the Mammoth Cave Hotel registers owned by the Department of Library Special Collections at WKU (MSS 66); one is arranged chronologically and the other is arranged alphabetically by guest name. Compact disc containing the sorted information in a Microsoft Access database.

Bowman, Johnston & Company - New York, New York (Sc 2853), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2853. Letter, 1 July 1840, of Bowman, Johnston & Company, New York, to P. W. Vaughan and Son, Greensburg, Kentucky commenting on the tobacco market; also letter, 20 November 1840 with particulars of a recent sale of 35 hogsheads of tobacco on account.

Mcivor, Wilfred J., B. 1897? (Mss 506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 506. Personal patient ledger (1931-1932) of Dr. W.J. McIvor, a physician practicing at Moseley Hospital in Henderson, Kentucky. Includes an unidentified photograph of a woman and the cover of an 1897 book on writing and engrossing.

Mansard Hotel - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Register (Sc 1236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1236. Register kept from 16 August 1907 to 7 October 1907, signed by guests staying in the Mansard Hotel, Main and Center streets, Bowling Green, Kentucky. WKU president Henry Hardin Cherry’s signature is on page 30.

Diddle, John A., 1863-1942 (Sc 1271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection. General store account book, 1891, kept by John A. Diddle, Gradyville, Adair County, Kentucky. Also loose receipts, 1898-1903 of Diddle and J.J. Hunter that were in book and photos of store, which was also a post office.

Coke, James Guthrie, 1841-1908 (Sc 1252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1252. Account book kept by businessman and farmer James Guthrie Coke, Olmstead, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes accounts for farm operations, household expenses and employees.

Sweeten, Lena L. (Sc 1174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1174. Lena L. Sweeten's thesis presented to Middle Tennessee State University entitled, "Historic Preservation Theory and the Experience of a Community of Workers: A Case Study of Bowling Green, Kentucky." She examines the failure of preservationists to explore Bowling Green's industrial and labor history.

Oates Realty Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2776), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2776. Organizational meeting minutes, directors’ minutes, and by-laws of the Cooperative Sales Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes typescripts of stock certificates issued to the incorporators, Alva Williams, M. B. Williams, and L. E. Ringo.

Cutler-Hammer, Incorporated - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1127. Congratulatory letters, internal memos, undated press releases, and newspaper clippings from Cutler-Hammer, Inc., in Bowling Green, chiefly related to the publication of the newsletter Cutler-Hammer News.

Cooperative Sales Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2775), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2775. Organizational meeting minutes, directors’ minutes, and by-laws of the Cooperative Sales Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes typescripts of stock certificates issued to the incorporators, Alva Williams, M. B. Williams, and L. E. Ringo.

Skaggs Transfer, Incorporated - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

Clagett, John Gay, 1818-1899 (Mss 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 481. Account book of John Gay Clagett, Rough Springs, Grayson County, Kentucky, primarily for sales of agricultural products. Includes business correspondence and loose items found therein.