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Hall Family Collection - Index To Appendix 1, "Letters From The Attic" And Appendix 2, Postcards, Kyle Ainsworth May 2022

Hall Family Collection - Index To Appendix 1, "Letters From The Attic" And Appendix 2, Postcards, Kyle Ainsworth

Librarian and Staff Presentations

The Hall Family Collection can generally be described in two parts. The first part is Letters from the Attic, which are more than 5,000 documents that Andrena Hall Brunotte transcribed into 16 volumes. Brunotte’s transcription project established an “original order” to this part of the collection that the processing archivist does their best to adhere to. All of these materials were found in one large steamer trunk and organized by Brunotte in chronological order. Boxes 1 to 4 of the collection house the paper transcriptions (3,330 pages). Boxes 5 to 13 contain the documents, which are in chronological order. The …


1860 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2019

1860 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Slaves were listed by owner, not individually. Listed by column number, enumerators recorded the following information:

Name of owner

Number of slave

Number of slave houses

Each owner's slave was only assigned a number, not a name. Numbering restarted with each new owner Age Sex

Color: "B" if the slave was Black and an "M" if they were Mulatto.

Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of uncaught escaped slaves in the past year Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of slaves freed from bondage in the past year Is the slave "deaf …


1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2019

1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Slaves were listed by owner, not individually. Listed by column number, enumerators recorded the following information:

Name of owner

Number of slave

Each owner's slave was only assigned a number, not a name. Numbering restarted with each new owner Age Sex

Color: "B" if the slave was Black and an "M" if they were Mulatto.

Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of uncaught escaped slaves in the past year Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of slaves freed from bondage in the past year Is the slave "deaf and dumb, blind, insane, …


Carlisle Indian School Students Database, Amelia Trevelyan Jan 2015

Carlisle Indian School Students Database, Amelia Trevelyan

Carlisle Indian School Students

This data collection helps to identify students who attended the Carlisle Indian School from 1879 to 1918. Data were collected from periodical publications in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (CIIS) archive, such as The School News, The Red Man, The Indian Craftsman, and The Morning Star. Many of these publications are now available online in the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center.