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Spalding Laundry & Dry Cleaning Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3272. Undated solicitation letter (ca. 1933) from Spalding Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co., Louisville, Kentucky, for its Daily Infant Laundry Service. Includes a booklet for recording infant weight and height and providing diet guidelines for the first twelve months. The letter bears the National Recovery Administration’s “blue eagle” symbol.

Daniel Boone Cigar Factory - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan for Manuscripts Small Collection 3260. Letter, 1 December 1886, of Dan'l Boone Cigar Factory, C. C. Bickel & Co., Louisville, Kentucky, notifying Scott Cunningham, Derby, Indiana, of shipment and invoicing for an order of cigars. A postcript wishes the addressee a "Good 'Holiday Season.'" Letter is on the factory's letterhead and includes envelope with image of Daniel Boone.

Adams, Marion Lee, 1930-2013 (Mss 638), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 638. Research, articles and clippings relating to Patty and Mildred Hill of Louisville, Kentucky, and their composition of the song “Happy Birthday to You.” Includes letters of the Hills’ surviving descendant written to Marion Lee Adams of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Harris, Henry Thornton, 1831-1899 (Sc 3197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3197. Miscellaneous papers related to Henry T. Harris, a lawyer of Lincoln County, Kentucky. Includes an invitation to “Bachelor’s Hall,” an article written for the Saturday Evening Post, a short note to an aunt written from “awful Niagara,” a flyer for Montrose Law College, Frankfort, Kentucky, and an exterior sketch of the Law College building with rooms identified. Also includes poems, recipes, a trade card for Louisville’s Alexander House, a sample print strip from a telegraph machine, and genealogical data.

Booksellers And Bookselling - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3130. Pamphlet advertising school books and theological and other works for sale at the Missionary and Education Rooms, South Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Includes a purchaser’s account showing sales, prices and returns.

Mcintosh, James T., B. 1819? (Sc 3121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3121. Letter, 4 May 1873, of James T. McIntosh to his wife Mary. Writing from Louisville, Kentucky on an apparent selling trip, he describes attending church, visiting the steamer Charles Brown at Jeffersonville, and the purchases he has made for her and their daughters Anne, Sallie, Lela, Fawn, Olinda and Bonnie. He expresses doubts about making money on the trip, but advises that Owensboro is his next destination.

Burhans, Rollin S., 1914-2005 - Relating To (Sc 3112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3112. Typescripted account by an unknown author of an intercession by Rollin S. Burhans, pastor of Crescent Hill Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky, which prevented the planned suicide of “Mr. Martin,” a musician traveling with the Ice Capades.

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 (Mss 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 544. Materials related to the construction of the Godey Quilt by Mildred Lissauer, Louisville, Kentucky in 1934. Includes graphic items gleaned from newspaper, magazines, and other paper ephemera, correspondence with the seamstress responsible for much of the sewing on the quilt, research correspondence of Sandra Statebell related to the quilt and an article that she wrote about it. News clippings and magazine articles about Lissauer’s penchant for interior decorating.

Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 590. Personal and professional papers of Christian County, Kentucky teacher and administrator Erleen (Joiner) Rogers, and novels, poems, skits, epigrams and witticisms written by her father, Robert Tinnon Joiner. Includes a collection of Joiner’s writings titled Nonsense and Wisdom From Flat Lick, Rogers’ family history titled Seven Generations in and From Flat Lick, other family data, and photographs.

Honeycutt, Roy Lee, Jr. (Sc 3066), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 3066. “Response to ‘The Cover-up at Southern Seminary,’” a statement by Roy L. Honeycutt, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 22 April 1990. He offers a detailed defense of himself and the Seminary’s Board of Trustees against trustee Jerry Johnson’s criticism in a forthcoming article of his Biblical beliefs and commentary.

Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3057. Certificate no. 1653 dated 21 August 1890 for ten shares of stock in the Louisville Bridge Company, issued to J. S. Bell. The certificate is endorsed by Bell and bears a cancellation stamp of 4 April 1896. Includes an engraving of the bridge spanning the Ohio River and the canal at Louisville, Kentucky.

Owens, Nellie, 1912-2007 (Sc 3051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3051. W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) sewing notebook of Nellie Owens, Louisville, Kentucky, containing fabric swatches and sewing samples.

Yancey, Clara Louise (Robertson) Keech), 1908-2004 (Mss 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 579. Correspondence, photographs, interviews and papers of Louisville, Kentucky native Clara Louise (Robertson) Keech Yancey. Includes papers and correspondence of her parents, Eugene and Clara Mae Robertson, brother James Thomas Robertson, husband William J. Keech, son William Robertson Keech, and family data.

Besten & Langen - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3003. Letter to Camilla H. Gerard, Bowling Green Kentucky, from the Fur Storage Department of Besten & Langen, Louisville, Kentucky, advertising its storage and cleaning services for furs.

Durston, James Marion, 1920-2011 (Mss 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 571. Letters of James M. “Brandy” Durston, a Bowling Green, Kentucky chiropractor and later a resident of Southaven, Mississippi, with copious reminiscences of people and places in Bowling Green. Includes material relating primarily to Durston’s church in Memphis, Tennessee.

Sargent, George Henry, 1828-1917 (Mss 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of a portion of a diary (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 564. Diary kept by George Henry Sargent from 1 May 1851 to 10 January 1853. The Harvard student writes on a variety of subjects, including education, religion, historical events, travel, etc. Of particular interest is a three-month sojourn in 1852 with his sister, Lucy Baldwin (Sargent) Rupert in Louisville, Kentucky. While in Kentucky, he also visits Henderson and Mammoth Cave.

Nourse, Charles Ewing, 1826-1866 (Sc 3000), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts of three Mexican War letters (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3000. Correspondence of Charles Ewing Nourse, Bardstown, Kentucky, and his wife Mary “Mollie” (Brown) Nourse. Three letters of Charles, serving in the 4^th Kentucky Infantry during the Mexican War, describe military life, illness, Mexican cities, and encounters with the enemy. Mary’s father writes from Cadiz, Kentucky, of his work as a circuit judge, and an 1850 letter wishes Charles and Mary well on their marriage. Includes Mary’s letter to Charles with family news, and two verses, both probably by Charles; one …

Outdoor Art League Of Louisville - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 2914), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2914. Form letter soliciting funds for the Zachary Taylor Memorial Lane Committee of the Outdoor Art League of Louisville. The letter, from committee chairman Mrs. Charles D. Greer, laments the neglect of the tomb of President Zachary Taylor near Louisville, Kentucky, and outlines the Committee’s intent to construct an entrance to a “Memorial Lane” leading from Brownsboro Road to the monument at the cemetery in which Taylor is interred.

Includes a rendering of the proposed entrance.

Denhardt, Henry Herman, 1876-1937 (Mss 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 533. Correspondence, military orders, and instructional materials relating to Henry Herman Denhardt’s World War I service as a field artillery officer and postwar training as an officer in the Kentucky National Guard. Includes a few personal and political items relating to Denhardt’s campaign for Governor of Kentucky.

Payne, Selden H., 1841-1926 (Sc 2890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2890. Letter of Selden H. Payne, 18 January 1863, written from Camp Nelson, Kentucky to his sister Mary Hills in Eagleville, Ohio. He describes the troops, Confederate prisoners and wounded of the camp and recounts his travels, including nights spent at the Louisville depot, a “Negro prison” in Lexington, and the court house in Nicholasville, Kentucky. He also describes the injury and death of a comrade at the Louisville depot after he fell under the troop rail car, originally used to transport hogs.

Floods - Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 (Sc 2882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2882. “Notes on Radio Broadcasts” by an unknown author, recording damage and emergencies created by the Ohio River flood at Louisville, Kentucky.

Clagett, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1900-2000 (Mss 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 513. Correspondence and papers of Marjorie E. Clagett, a WKU faculty member who taught French from 1928-1964. Includes field notes and slides relating to her studies of flora in south central Kentucky, Great Britain and other habitats in the United States, and research materials relating to the history of the French in Kentucky. Includes correspondence, photographs and genealogical data of the Clagett, Northcott, Strange and associated families. Also includes notes (Click on "Additional Files" below) of a Northcott ancestor's encounter with Lost River Cave in Warren County during the Civil War.

Dowsman, George B. (Sc 2867), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of letter (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2867. Letter, 24 September 1862, of George B. Dowsman, Company H, 75th Indiana Infantry. Writing from camp in Louisville, Kentucky, he describes conditions preceding a possible attack by Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s army, his company’s readiness, and its recent movements in Kentucky.

Chelf, Frank Leslie, 1907-1982 (Mss 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 492. Correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, audiotapes, film and miscellaneous material relating primarily to the political career of Democrat Frank L. Chelf, who represented Kentucky’s Fourth District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1944-1966. Includes Chelf’s voting record and bills, research and speeches related to his legislative interests.

Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 493. Correspondence, chiefly from the Fort and Flowers families of Logan County, Kentucky, which includes prisoners of war correspondence from the Civil War. Also includes cemetery, church, and funeral home records, as well as news clippings about historic sites, people and events in Logan County.

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods. Includes a World War I scrapbook created for and about Mildred's brother John (Click on "Additional Files" below).

Lanier Collection (Mss 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of post-World War II pen pal letters and selected images from ciphering book of Collins Lanier from Manuscripts Collection 488. Collection consists chiefly of letters written to Deanna June (Linville) Lanier by friends and her family, particularly her mother Lena (Harris) Linville. Includes some interesting pen pal letters with a German child, 1948 to 1950. Includes genealogical material about the Lanier and Linville families. Also includes early Warren County, Kentucky material from brothers, Byrd Lanier and Collins Lanier, including a little correspondence, bills and notes, receipts, and property records.

Grauman, Edna Jeanette, 1892-1979 (Sc 1294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of letter (Click on additional files) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1294. Letter, 11 February 1937, written by Edna J. Grauman, Louisville, Kentucky, to Margie Helm, Western Kentucky University librarian, Bowling Green, Kentucky, describing the Ohio River flood in Louisville and especially its effect on the Louisville Public Library, where she was employed.

Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 1284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1284. Letters and greeting cards, 1963-1976, written by author Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Kentucky, to young Memphis, Texas admirer Mike Hughes. Mike initiated the correspondence, which developed into a friendship. Includes three of Mike’s letters, 2000.

Hughes, Berta (Brinton), 1868-1947 - Letter To (Sc 2810), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2810. Letter, 30 November 1918, to Berta B. Hughes (Mrs. Charles Z.), Toledo, Ohio, from “Elliot,” a soldier stationed at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. He expresses condolences on the death of her son Lee, refers to the death of another son, Tom, and praises her and both sons, who he describes as close friends.