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Bank Of Kentucky (Sc 3063), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Bank Of Kentucky (Sc 3063), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3063. Certificate for 100 shares of stock in the Bank of Kentucky, issued to May Humphreys on 1 February 1858. Signed by Virgil McKnight, President, and S. H. Bullen, Cashier.


Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

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.


Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842 (Sc 3030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2016

Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842 (Sc 3030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3030. Letter, 28 April 1830, of Joseph Desha, Cynthiana, Kentucky, to Adam Beatty, Washington, Kentucky. In response to Beatty’s inquiry, the former Kentucky governor writes that, despite facing personal financial loss, he is unable to advise on current debt relief measures directing Beatty to accept payments to “the Bank,” presumably the Bank of Kentucky, in discounted notes of the Bank of the Commonwealth.


Bank Of The United States (Sc 2963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2015

Bank Of The United States (Sc 2963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2963. Deed, 11 May 1827, from the Bank of the United States to William Ray, Louisville, Kentucky, of a tract of land in Louisville. Signed by Nicholas Biddle, President of the Bank of the United States, in the presence of Joseph Watson, Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Bowling Green Gas, Oil And Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Bowling Green Gas, Oil And Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2700. Three certificates for shares of stock in the Bowling Green Gas, Oil and Refining Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a subscription form for stock in the Consolidated Oil Corporation.


Hill, J. Murray, Sr., 1891-1961 (Sc 963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hill, J. Murray, Sr., 1891-1961 (Sc 963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 963. Letters, 1918, written by prominent Bowling Green, Kentucky, businessmen, attesting to the good character and competencies of J. Murray Hill, Sr. Also Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation, Bowling Green, stock certificate, 1942.


Anderson, Joseph, 1757-1837 (Sc 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Anderson, Joseph, 1757-1837 (Sc 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 456. Original letters (3) of Joseph Anderson, and original and holographic copies of letters, notes, etc. (11) written by William Meredith, Philadelphia, to Anderson, Washington, D.C. Anderson’s correspondence with Meredith pertains to a debt owed by Anderson since 1790. Anderson was a Tennessee Senator and first Comptroller of the Treasury.


Fruit Of The Loom (Sc 2457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2011

Fruit Of The Loom (Sc 2457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2457. Stock certificate issued to Julius and Emilie Twesten on 7 June 1950 for eleven shares of preferred stock of Fruit of the Loom, Inc.


Confederate States Of America - Bond Coupons (Sc 2403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2010

Confederate States Of America - Bond Coupons (Sc 2403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2403. Full sheet of bond coupons issued by the Confederate States of America in $30 denominations with a full term of thirty years; total $1,000. The bonds were approved by the CSA on 11 February 1864. This sheet is hand numbered "8654" and was part of the "Fifth Series" issue.