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Ora Porter
Two color Polaroid prints of Ora Frances Porter at the George Washington Carver Center in Bowling Green, KY. She is shown during a committee meeting. Please help identify the persons in this photograph, send information using the feedback button or by calling 270-745-5083.
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Ora Porter
Photograph of Alice and Stella Procter with their aunt, Ora Frances Porter; Ora Francis Porter was born in Butler County, KY and was the first African American Butler County native to earn a college degree. See: http://www.kywcrh.org/archives/tag/ora-porter "Born near Winchester, Kentucky, in Butler County was a very intelligent woman who was the first registered nurse in Bowling Green, Kentucky. At the age of ten, Ora Porter and her family mov...
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Ora Porter
Photograph of Miss Ora Frances Porter. She was born in Butler County, KY and was the first African American Butler County native to earn a college degree. See: http://www.kywcrh.org/archives/tag/ora-porter "Born in Butler County was a very intelligent woman who was the first registered nurse in Bowling Green, Kentucky. At the age of ten, Ora Porter and her family moved from Butler County to Bowling Green Kentucky, where she graduated from Tuske...
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Ora Porter
Photograph of Ora Frances Porter. She was born in Butler County, KY and was the first African American Butler County native to earn a college degree. See: http://www.kywcrh.org/archives/tag/ora-porter "Born near Winchester, Kentucky, in Butler County was a very intelligent woman who was the first registered nurse in Bowling Green, Kentucky. At the age of ten, Ora Porter and her family moved from Butler County to Bowling Green Kentucky, where sh...
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Ora Porter
Two black and white photographs showing the Ora Porter home at 715 College Street in Bowling Green, KY. One of the photographs shows Porter's mother, Sarah, seated on the porch of the home. There is a swing behind her.
Record Type: Photo
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Papers (Porter, Ora Frances, 1879-1970) - Porter, Ora Frances, 1879-1970
Letter, 6 November 1966, from Ora Frances Porter, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her nephew Robert Earl Whitney and his wife Verla; correspondence with Verla Whitney relating to Porter after her death; undated photo of Porter; 1968 letter to the editor of the "Daily News" from Margie Helm reviewing Porter's career as a registered nurse; two books from Porter's library.
Record Type: Archive
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Ora Porter House
Original and reprinted photograph of Ora Porter's house in Bowling Green, KY. The house was located between 7th and College Streets across from Cecilia Memorial Presbyterian Church. Ora Porter is standing on the left by the window. Her mother is shown sitting in a chair with an unidentified female. The Episcopal church is on the left. See: http://www.kywcrh.org/archives/tag/ora-porter "Born near Winchester, Kentucky, in Butler County was a very...
Record Type: Photo
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Ora, Madeline and Ottoline Detrick
Real photo postcards Ora Berry Detrick with her daughters, Madeline and Ottoline Rice Detrick 14 x 8 cm.
Record Type: Archive
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Proctor / Porter Family
African American women with Alice Ruth Proctor and Shella (Procter) Hayes of Auburn, Kentucky. They were nieces of Ora Porter. Please help identify the persons in this photograph, send information using the feedback button or by calling 270-745-5083.
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Ora Hoy calling card
Callling card of Ora Hoy which has a bird and bouquet and the poem: Today when birds are mating, This pledge of love send I; ne'er was good at hating So shall love thee till I die! 4.8 x 8.4 cm.
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Billy Porter
Real photo postcards with William "Uncle Billy" Porter (born 1854) he was the last of dray drivers with his mule drawn cart. He was a slave of Charles Asher who was a postmaster at Bowling Green during the Civil War. The picture was made at 8th and Adam streets. 14 x 8 cm.
Record Type: Archive
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Ora B. Grove funeral invitation
Funeral notice which reads: Died, at the residence of her husband, in Glasgow, Kentucky, at two o'clock, Tuesday morning, October 17th, 1893, Mrs. Ora B. Grove, wife of W. H. Grove, in the thirty-second year of her age. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence this afternoon at four o'clock. Burial immediately afterwards at Odd Fellows Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend. Glasgow, Ky., Tuesday, Oct. 17, 18...
Record Type: Archive
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Correspondence - Bullitt County Superintendent of Schools - WKU President's Office - Cherry
McCormick, C.E. Roby, Ora
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Porter Family of Somerset County, Maryland
Family chart of the Porter Family of Somerset County, Maryland compiled and drawn by Charles M. Noble and revised, 1956, 1959 and 1973. 145 x 55 cm.
Record Type: Archive
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Ora Ora Howard's Potter [Bible] College report card
Ora Howard's report card, Potter [Bible] College, Bowling Green, Ky., January 25, 1914. 9.4 x 13.5 cm.
Record Type: Archive
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African American Museum
Program for the opening ceremony for th African American Museum of Bowling Green, KY with short biographies of exceptional blacks in the are: Judge Benjamin F. Shobe, Otho Porter, Edwin Buford, and Ora Porter
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Records - Porter, Nathaniel
Original land grant, 7 June 1838, by which James Clark, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Nathaniel Porter 85 acres in Butler County, Kentucky.
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Records - Porter, Thomas
Original land grant, 30 May 1825, by which Joseph Desha, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas Porter 100 acres in Butler County, Kentucky.
Record Type: Archive
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Papers (Helm, Louella T. "Ella" (Kuykendall), 1861-1946) - Helm, Louella T. "Ella" (Kuykendall), 1861-1946
Letters of Louella T. Helm, Morgantown, Kentucky, written to T. V. McReynolds, Quality, Kentucky, and to Mrs. Melvin Porter, and notes concerning genealogy of the Porter family of Butler, Logan, and Warren counties in Kentucky.
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