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Garment Workers In Kentucky Oral History Project (Fa 865), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 865. Interviews conducted by Lisa Karen Miller containing details about the lives of garment workers in Kentucky and Tennessee. Some of the topics included were technological changes, job layoffs, and labor unions.

Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 554. Personal and professional correspondence of Auburn, Kentucky native and New York banker Harold H. Helm. Includes biographical materials, speeches, miscellaneous papers and photographs.

Financing Small Market Baseball: A Case Study Of The Auburn Doubledays, Derek Wohlfarth

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Professional baseball has been played in Auburn, New York, since 1958, but over the last few years, the team has experienced a period of financial losses. The biggest hit was in 2013, when the team lost $125,000. The City of Auburn, which owns the team, no longer has the money to support the franchise, so in order to keep baseball in Auburn, the team must become self-sufficient. Auburn is the second-smallest market in the league, so the community needs to get behind the team in order for it to stay in operation. New management came in for the 2014 season …

Skaggs Transfer, Incorporated - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 446), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 446. Correspondence, financial records, applications for new freight routes, and other papers generated chiefly by Willet Douglas Kirkpatrick in his position as vice-president of Skaggs Transfer, a motor-based freight transfer company located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information about Renner Express Company’s negotiations and eventual purchase of Skaggs Transfer in 1971.

Gen Ms 24 T.A. Huston & Co. Chocolate Box Finding Aid, Karin A. France

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Description:

In the early 1920s, T. A. Huston & Co. of Auburn built a 7-story bakery building in Portland, which became the Glickman Library of USM in the early 1990s. This is the original packaging of "Clover Leaf Chocolate Peppermints," produced by T. A. Huston & Co.

Size of Collection:

0.25 ft.

Industrial Resources: Logan County - Russellville, Adairville, Auburn And Lewisburg, Kentucky Library Research Collection

Logan County

"Industrial Resources: Russellville, Adairville, Auburn, and Lewisburg, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department Of Commerce, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Russellville-Logan County Chamber of Commerce Adairville-South Logan County Chamber of Commerce, the City of Auburn and the City of Lewisburg, 1977. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

Industrial Resources: Logan County - Russellville, Adairville, Auburn And Lewisburg, Kentucky Library Research Collection

Logan County

"Industrial Resources: Russellville, Adairville, Auburn and Lewisburg, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Commerce in cooperation with the Russellville-Logan County Chamber of Commerce, the City of Adairville, the City of Auburn, and the City of Lewisburg, 1974. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

Industrial Resources: Logan County - Auburn, Kentucky Library Research Collection

Logan County

"Industrial Resources: Auburn, Kentucky" prepared by the Auburn Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Frankfort, Kentucky, March 1962. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

Industrial Resources: Logan County - Auburn, Kentucky Library Research Collection

Logan County

"Industrial Resources: Auburn, Kentucky" prepared by the Auburn Rotary Club, Auburn Chamber of Commerce, and the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky, July 1955. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.