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Fancy Fowls Company - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 3241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2018

Fancy Fowls Company - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 3241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3241. Letter, 26 August 1898, from Fancy Fowls Company, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, publisher of the poultry journal Fancy Fowls, edited by Charles M. Meacham. The letter acknowledges advertising copy from a Quincy, Illinois company and promises to give the customer an editorial mention every quarter.


Pace Family Papers (Mss 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Pace Family Papers (Mss 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 458. Pace family documents (chiefly related to land transactions) including deeds, land grants, mortgages; as well as Bible records for the Pace and related families (click on "Additional Files" below for scans), and probate records. A significant portion of the collection documents the garden club activities of Lillian (Tynes) Pace and her efforts to have the Viceroy butterfly designated as the Kentucky state butterfly.


Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 105. Miscellaneous papers collected by Ethel Roark, Franklin, Kentucky. Includes a World War II letter; personal letters (4); Knights of Pythias certificate; general store ledger with a 1929 inventory; 1954 letter promoting legal alcohol sales in Simpson County; and 1965 farm diary.