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Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3666. Magazine-style supplement to the Louisville Courier-Journal, 13 March 1966, profiling the personnel and operations of the Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company. The well-illustrated publication highlights the company’s new home office building, the Lincoln Tower, designed by Taliesin Associated Architects, and includes a color rendering of the building on the cover.
Leopold Family Collection (Mss 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Leopold Family Collection (Mss 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 747. Papers of the Leopold family of Louisville and Smiths Grove, Kentucky, primarily business records of William J. Leopold.
Save Your Local Government Committee - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Save Your Local Government Committee - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding and and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3652. Flyer issued by the Save Your Local Government Committee, Louisville, Kentucky, outlining its objections to the proposed new state constitution and urging voters to vote against its adoption on 8 November 1966.
Grayson, Donald Spalding, 1940-2022 (Sc 3651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grayson, Donald Spalding, 1940-2022 (Sc 3651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3651. Letters to Donald S. Grayson, Louisville, Kentucky, from Kentucky politicians. They mostly reply to his interest in legislation for the treatment of hemophilia and in legislative responses, including a Constitutional amendment, to the abortion ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Includes campaign material from candidate for Governor Tom Emberton and U.S. Senate candidate Wendell Ford, and an invitation to a business forum from Louisville mayor Harvey Sloane.
Coke Family Papers (Mss 737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coke Family Papers (Mss 737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 737. Correspondence and papers of the Coke family of Logan County, Kentucky and related families, principally the Guthrie and McCutchen families. Includes materials on the historic family homestead, McCutchen Meadows, near Auburn, Kentucky. Also includes J. Guthrie Coke's letters to his wife Carrie, January-February 1914, written in the form of journals describing his experiences as a state legislator in Frankfort, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 736. Photocopied correspondence of Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson of Greensburg, Kentucky. Letters from his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, fellow soldiers, colleagues and citizens of Greensburg cover his Mexican War and Civil War service, his business ventures, and attempts to win political office. Includes Hobson's memoranda of actions against Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in 1864, a list of prisoners taken from Morgan's and other brigades, and a letter from Hobson's nephew deploring an 1892 lynching in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Belz, Elmore F., 1892-1918 (Sc 3496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Belz, Elmore F., 1892-1918 (Sc 3496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3496. Letters to his family, 1918, and related personal papers of Elmore F. Belz, Dayton, Kentucky, created while he was stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. He describes his military training, diet and leisure, and comments on the prevalence of influenza in the area. When he falls ill, he writes of his hospital stay in letters dated two days before his death on 7 October 1918. Includes a letter to Belz’s parents from his battery commander praising his qualities as a soldier; also includes a …
Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Mss 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Mss 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 171. Correspondence and papers of Harry L. Jackson, a Warren County, Kentucky native and Cleveland, Ohio executive. Includes his World War II correspondence, genealogical research, and papers of his wife Evelyn’s family, the Minshalls of Ohio. A sampling of Jackson's World War II letters to sisters Sallie and Bernice can be viewed under "Additional Files" below.