Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

8-22-2023

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University: 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 765. Primarily letters and statements of James R. Hines, an Evansville, Indiana, native who was owner and legal counsel to several bargeline businesses, advocating for improved navigation and flood control on the Green River in Kentucky. Also includes historical data and narratives on Hines’s steamboating family, especially his grandfather Richard T. Williams.

Disciplines

United States History

Additional Files
MSS 765 B1F5 The Green River Valley.pdf (5788 kB)
The Green River Valley
MSS 765 B1F5 typescript.doc (43 kB)
1917 Butler County tornado
MSS 765 B1F7 Statement of James R. Hines.pdf (5950 kB)
Statement of James R. Hines
MSS 765 B1F8 Analysis of Green River Valley.pdf (4935 kB)
Analysis of Green River Valley
MSS 765 B1F9 Status of Neglected Navigation Facilities.pdf (12974 kB)
Status of Neglected Navigation Facilities
MSS 765 B2F13 Hines Inc letterhead.pdf (1152 kB)
Letterhead of Hines, Incorporated
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