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Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 651. Letters and papers of the Weir family of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and related members of the Rumsey and Miller families. Well-to-do merchants and farmers, the Weirs were leading supporters of the Union during the Civil War, providing advocacy, financial support, and military service. Includes full-text scans of a letter from the brother of steamboat pioneer James Rumsey defending his legacy as an innovator; James Weir's journal; James Weir's will; the annotated recollections of Edward Weir, Sr.; and two letters from former Weir slaves recolonized in Liberia (Click on "Additional files" below).
Singer Sewing Machine Manual, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Singer Sewing Machine Manual, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Research Collections
Booklet from the Reliance Manufacturing Company Factory: 217 – 219 Quince Street, Philadelphia & 936 Arch Street, Philadelphia 1888. this company manufactured Pennsylvania Singer 1887 and High Arm Pennsylvania Singer 1888