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Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Sc 3623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2021

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Sc 3623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3623. Photographs (27) and accompanying narrative of an “adventure in good eating” of Duncan Hines and his wife Clara, consisting of a June automobile trip to restaurants and inns in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. They were accompanied by a photographer and editor for Look Magazine.


Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers, 1858-1860, 2008 (Mss 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers, 1858-1860, 2008 (Mss 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 509. Printouts of a database containing information from the Mammoth Cave Hotel registers owned by the Department of Library Special Collections at WKU (MSS 66); one is arranged chronologically and the other is arranged alphabetically by guest name. Compact disc containing the sorted information in a Microsoft Access database.


Mansard Hotel - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Register (Sc 1236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2014

Mansard Hotel - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Register (Sc 1236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1236. Register kept from 16 August 1907 to 7 October 1907, signed by guests staying in the Mansard Hotel, Main and Center streets, Bowling Green, Kentucky. WKU president Henry Hardin Cherry’s signature is on page 30.


Park City Hotel Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Park City Hotel Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scans for Manuscripts Small Collection 1015. Promotional letter written by Park City Hotel owner, W. G. Thomas, related to the hotel and a listing of hotel guests for 1940.


Ritter Daybook (Mss 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Ritter Daybook (Mss 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 98. A photocopy of an account book (432 pages), detailing the activities of a boarding house/tavern and large stable in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, owned by Burwell Clark Ritter.


Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 385. Letters written chiefly by Herman Frederick Wilhelm Volkerding, of Louisville, Kentucky, to his wife Mary Elizabeth (Hauber) Volkerding while traveling as a salesman for the John T. Barbee distillers. Volkerding pines for home and describes the scenery, hotels, amusements and rail travel in the western United States.


Gray's Hotel - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 2356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2010

Gray's Hotel - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 2356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan of first page (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2356. Guest register for Gray's Hotel, Russellville, Kentucky, showing guests' names, city of residence, and room number. The register includes advertisements for local businesses.


Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 43. Account books of different firms and individuals in Greensburg, Kentucky, including records of general merchandise stores, a hotel, a tailoring shop, the Kentucky Stage Company, and a lodging stable.


Advertisement Card: The St. Cloud Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla., 1920'S Jan 1920

Advertisement Card: The St. Cloud Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla., 1920'S

Print Materials from the Richard Mette Collection

The St. Cloud Hotel. Laura & 8th Sts, Jacksonville, Florida. It serves you right. European Plan. Steam heated rooms. Dining room in connection. Popular prices. Modern home comforts without extravagance. I. A. Dionne, proprietor


Hotel Lobby Card: Jacksonville, Florida Featuring The Windsor And St. James Hotels; 1890 Jan 1890

Hotel Lobby Card: Jacksonville, Florida Featuring The Windsor And St. James Hotels; 1890

Print Materials from the Richard Mette Collection

Hotel Lobby Card: Jacksonville, Florida Featuring the Windsor and St. James Hotels; 1890. On back: Schneur's Curiosity Store, No. 2, St. George St., St. Augustine


Advertisement Card: Hotel Marion On The St. John's River, Orange Park, Florida; 1890'S Jan 1890

Advertisement Card: Hotel Marion On The St. John's River, Orange Park, Florida; 1890'S

Print Materials from the Richard Mette Collection

Hotel Marion on the St. John's River, Now Open. A Delightful trip to a charming spot in Florida. Take New Yacht "Queen City" Capacity 150 passengers. Leaves foot of Hogan Street 10:30 a.m., daily returning arrives Jacksonville, 4 p.m to Orange Park 14 miles south of Jacksonville on the noble St. John's river. The Hotel Marion: Steam heated and electric lighted, will amply provide for your comfort and entertainment for a dinner, a day, or weeks, at VERY REASONABLE RATES. Engagements may be made by long distance telephone. You will be surprised and delighted and will consider this trip on …


Hotel Lobby Card: Jacksonville, Florida Featuring Everett And Carleton House; 1890 Jan 1890

Hotel Lobby Card: Jacksonville, Florida Featuring Everett And Carleton House; 1890

Print Materials from the Richard Mette Collection

Hotel Lobby Card: Jacksonville, Florida featuring Everett and Carleton House; Bay Street; 1890


Hotel Lobby Card: Jacksonville, Florida. Titled "Residence Street, Jacksonville" Dec 1881

Hotel Lobby Card: Jacksonville, Florida. Titled "Residence Street, Jacksonville"

Print Materials from the Richard Mette Collection

Hotel Lobby Card: Jacksonville, Florida. Titled "Residence Street, Jacksonville" 1882 and featuring Hotel Windsor and St. James Hotel