Title
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Papers (Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990)
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Creator
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Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990
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Description
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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.
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Collection
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Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Object Name
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Correspondence
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Date
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1846
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Year Range From
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1846
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Year Range To
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1990
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Other Number
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MSS 375
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Subjects
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African Americans Aircraft accidents Banking Banks Birthday cards Cancer Christmas cards Clubs Coal mines and mining --Kentucky Courtship Diaries Diplomas Easter cards Estates Exhibitions Fairs Farming Farms Fox hunting Genealogy Greeting cards Hemp Horseback riding Horses Indians Indians of North America Journalists Land Maps Military life Military service New Year cards Newspapers Ocean travel Photographers Photographs Physicians Poetry Polo Postcards Prostitution Report cards Schools Smallpox Social life Strikes Taxes Tobacco Traffic accidents Travel Valentines Wills World War I, 1914-1918 World War II, 1939-1945
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People
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Albers, Jo-Ann Huff Alexander, Betty Alexander, Dabney B., b. 1873 Anderson, William Arnow, Harriette Louisa (Simpson), 1908-1986 Baird, Anna E. Baird, Blanche Baird, Eugene Yancey, 1902-1950 Baird, Laura Melvina Baird, Margaret Yancey (Wood), 1870-1957 Baird, Wood, 1893-1918 Bartley, Sallie M. Bear, Charles E. Bingham, Sallie, b. 1937 Binkley, Ellis, 1908-1986 Blakeman, Claude Norman, 1875-1913 Bohannon, Hattie Lou Bond, Mary Virginia (Baird), 1891-1984 Bond, Oscar Stephen, 1876-1971 Borders, Lola J., 1895-1981 Borders, Winford, 1894-1976 Brogdon, Neal Stanley, b. 1932 Browning, Gordon Weaver, 1889-1976 Butler, Pearl, 1885-1974 Butler, Peter H., 1880-1967 Byland, Lyle Carroll, Pattie, b. 1875 Carter, Eleanor Rosalynn (Smith), b. 1927 Carter, James Earl "Jimmy," Jr., 1924-2024 Chambers, Whittaker, 1901-1961 Chambliss, Emma Elizabeth (Baird), 1898-1977 Chambliss, Landon Baird "Hank," 1921-1994 Chambliss, William Jones III, 1923-2011 Chambliss, William Jones, Jr., 1899-1981 Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005 Clark, Tom T. Colby, Ida E. (Baird), 1868-1952 Cooke, Jessie Kirtley Cooke, John F. Cox, Eugene, 1848-1916 Cox, Meredith Howard, 1826-1903 Cox, Meredith J., 1895-1976 Cox, Nell, 1892-1980 Cox, Sarah Jane (Brown) Green, 1824-1900 Craft, Ryland Glenmore, 1889-1960 Crockett, David, 1786-1836 Cullins, Nell (Grider) Davis, Edwin Davis, Elijah Hise, 1843-1905 Davis, Elmore Wood, 1875-1925 Davis, Joe D. Davis, Roger, b. 1939 Davis, Virginia Wood (Cox), 1880-1950 Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 De Lourdes, Sister Mary DeLoach, Judson Bennett, 1911-2008 Dickenson, Edward Swanson, 1930-2002 Dix, Earl Steve, 1944-1982 Eldridge, Alta Elkin, Cova Ellis, Beulah (Collins), 1885-1975 Ellis, Virginia Eubank, Ada Ewing, Kate C. (Gatewood), b. 1868 Fields, Pat Franks, M. E. Garman, Emily Garrido, Amparo, b. 1929 Gibbons, Sam Melville, 1920-2012 Greider, William Harold, 1936-2019 Grinstead, L. M. Hadnot, John William, 1952-1956 Ham, Mordecai Fowler, 1877-1961 Hammersley, Estelle (Salling), 1897-1978 Harman, Aubrey Harman, Jean Herrmann, John Jackson, Edie Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 Kirk, Claude Roy, Jr., 1926-2011 Landis, Dean Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927 Lynn, Loretta, 1932-2022 Magnuson, Theodore Marler, Kenneth Wayne McCall, Pauline G., 1915-2004 McConnell, Addison Mitchell "Mitch", Jr., b. 1942 Miller, George Henry, 1915-2004 Moore, Nell, 1892-1980 Moulder, Eva K. Murphy, Lois Murphy, Naomi Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 O'Dell, Marguerite Orendorf, Jo Tilden, 1910-2003 Palmer, Bertha Matilde (Honore), 1849-1918 Parrish, Eugenia Wood, 1911-1981 Perry, Doris, 1924-1953 Pittman, Richard F. Popham, John Nicholas III, 1910-1999 Powell, Reuben R., 1910-1982 Purdon, James F. Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 Rogers, Harold Dallas "Hal," b. 1937 Rogers, May, 1907-2000 Rosenfield, Frances (Cox), 1888-1930 Rosenfield, Marilee, 1911-1978 Ross, Maude Ross, Stanford G. Ross, Wilburn Kirby, 1922-2017 Rowlett, William H. Ruiz, Armando III Salling, John B., 1856?-1959 Schmidheiser, Ken Shadoan, Mary Smith, H. D. Smith, Mary Mildred (Cox), 1874-1946 Smith, Robin Meredith, b. 1898? Stallings, Cora Lee Sweeney, Luella Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 Terry, Anne (Ford) Terry, Courtney Prentice Tucker, Edna L., 1890-1986 West, J. W. Whisnant, Gretchen Elizabeth (Van Trease), 1926-2006 White, Richard Wiley, Grace Kirby, 1877-1952 Wilkens, George R. Williams, Leslie Wilson, Philip H., 1906-1985 Yerkes, Jane
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Search Terms
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Alabama Bagby family Barren County, KY Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (KY & TN) Blakeman family Breathitt County, KY Caribbean Catawba Indians Cherokee Indians Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Compulsory military service Consolation Cox family Cuba Cullins family Drug traffic Equal Rights Amendment Florida Florida College Georgia Glasgow Times (Glasgow, KY) Hardin County Fair (Elizabethtown, KY) Hardin County, KY Helen, GA Henderson County, KY Home front Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Japan Jefferson County, KY Kingsport, TN Land - Transactions (Sales, Purchases, Transfers) Law cases McCreary County Record (newspaper) McCreary County, KY Medical care, Cost of Mormon Church Nazareth Academy (Bardstown, KY) Owensboro, KY Passports Powell family Power of attorney Rogers family Savannah, GA Shipley family Smiths Grove High School (Smiths Grove, KY) Smiths Grove, KY Social Security South Carolina Tax receipts Tennessee Warren County, KY Western Kentucky State Teachers College Wood family
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Finding Aids
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For finding aid click here - http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/1863/
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Catalog Number
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2011.138.1
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Dates of Creation
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1846-1990
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Caption
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Virginia Wood Davis
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Extent
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15 boxes. 154 folders. 4,059 items.
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Number of Images
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1
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