Search Term Record
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Hancock County, KY |
Archives Entries |
17 |
Library Entries |
0 |
Object Entries |
5 |
Photograph Entries |
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Related Records
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Hancock County Courthouse
Hancock County Courthouse print by Robert A. Powell, no. 158 45 x 36 cm.
Record Type: Archive
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Hancock County Historical Society, Hawesville, Kentucky [stationery]
Stationery from the Hancock County Historical Society, Hawesville, Kentucky 27.8 x 21.5 cm.
Record Type: Archive
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Hawesville Baptist Church [program]
Order of Worship of the Hawesville Baptist Church of Hancock County, Ky., October 12, 1947.
Record Type: Archive
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Office of A. L. Ireland, Dry Goods and Groceries, Skillman, Ky., letterhead
Letterhead from the Office of A. L. Ireland, Dry Goods and Groceries, Skillman, Ky., March, 24, 1906
Record Type: Archive
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Ohio River Project - Kentucky Folklife Program
Kentucky Folklife Program project titled: "Ohio River Survey," which includes interviews, tape logs, photographs and other documentation of folklife along the Ohio River in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Interviews may include a description of belief, traditional occupation, practice, craft, or tool, informant's name, age, birth date, and address.
Record Type: Archive
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Papers - Anonymous
Collection of recipes, chiefly from the Pennyrile area of western Kentucky.
Record Type: Archive
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Papers - Blanton, Bob
Project titled: "A Collection of Ghost Stories." Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of ghost stories in the Bluegrass, Eastern Mountain and Penny Royal regions of Kentucky and Pennsylvania and Virginia. Sheets include a brief description, informant's name, and the motif index number.
Record Type: Archive
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Papers - Taylor, Alan
Paper titled: "A Collection of Folk Beliefs." Includes introduction of folk beliefs in Daviess County, Hancock County, and Ohio County, Kentucky.
Record Type: Archive
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Papers - Thomason, Hugh Maxson "Max," 1921-2014
Thomason Political Folklore Collection includes projects conducted by students from a plethora of counties in the state of Kentucky and few from out-of-state areas. The collection includes information pertaining to those counties' political oral traditions. This project was conducted by students at Western Kentucky University for class credit.
Record Type: Archive
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Papers - Wheeley, Suzanne
Project titled: "Folk Beliefs Collection." Project includes note cards with brief descriptions of songs, beliefs, sayings, tales, and occurrences from Hancock County and Warren County, Kentucky. Note cards include a brief description, informant's name, and some have the motif index number.
Record Type: Archive
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Papers (Bush, William Pope Duvall, 1823-1904) - Bush, William Pope Duvall, 1823-1904
Letter from William P. D. Bush, Hawesville, Kentucky, to Annie White, Clear View, Indiana, regarding a piano puchase she made of Bush in 1855.
Record Type: Archive
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Papers (Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986) - Potter, Hugh Oliver, Sr., 1905-1986
Correspondence, research notes, book manuscripts, promotional material, and editorials related to Hugh O. Potter's career as a radio broadcaster and his interests in Kentucky history, specifically Owensboro and Daviess County, and Abraham Lincoln. Includes one box of original legal documents (1783-1953) related to the Massie family of Daviess County.
Record Type: Archive
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Records
This collection contains material relating to 29 of Kentucky's 120 counties that was collected by Kentucky Folklife Program director Bob Gates. Collection materials include such items as tourist brochures, newspaper articles, and county maps.
Record Type: Archive
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Records (Rust, Jacob Ward, 1819-1890) - Rust, Jacob Ward, 1819-1890
Account book, 1874-1877, for students of Bethel Female College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky; undated list of Bethel Female College students; and letters, 1882, to Jacob Ward Rust, president of the college.
Record Type: Archive
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Records (Slavery - Kentucky)
Photocopy of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves (1941), transcriptions of oral interviews which recount many aspects of being a slave in nineteenth century Kentucky. The interviews were conducted during the 1930s, part of a Federal Writers' Project funded by the Works Progress Administration project and administered by the Library of Congress.
Record Type: Archive
