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Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 64. Ledger volume containing fulling mill records, (1814-1815), accounts (1843-1844), and journal (1909-1911) of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky.
Gunther, L. W., B. 1822? (Sc 3075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gunther, L. W., B. 1822? (Sc 3075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3075. Letter, 12 March 1848, of L. W. Gunther, Cadiz, Kentucky, to Charles H. Blake, Blandville, Kentucky. He refers to Blake taking delivery of goods from the steamboat Tennessee, reports correspondence from England and France concerning their stave business, and discusses the specifications for the English customer. He also makes reference to a “shipbuilding enterprise.”
Point Pleasant Store - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Point Pleasant Store - Ohio County, Kentucky (Mss 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 594. Ledger books containing transactions from the Point Pleasant Store in Ohio County, Kentucky. Because of this store’s location on the Green River, ledgers also include information about shipment of tobacco from that site. Also includes wages for labor performed for the store owner.
Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gerard Family Papers (Mss 577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 577. Funeral records, correspondence, account books and other financial papers related to various undertaking establishments run by the Gerard and Bradley families, including Gerard and Gerard Funeral Home, Eugene Gerard Company Mortuary and the Gerard and Bradley Funeral Chapel in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes financial records related to an earlier furniture making business operated by John C. Gerard, a French immigrant.
Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Louisville Bridge Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3057), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
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.
Lester Lowe Grocery - Pondsville, Kentucky (Mss 589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lester Lowe Grocery - Pondsville, Kentucky (Mss 589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 589. Receipts, wholesale grocery ordering forms, correspondence and promotional material from the Lester Lowe Grocery, a small general store in Pondsville, Warren County, Kentucky.
J. W. Ford & Company - Hartford, Kentucky (Mss 595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
J. W. Ford & Company - Hartford, Kentucky (Mss 595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 595. Account books documenting the financial transactions of the J. W. Ford Company which operated several business interests in Ohio County, Kentucky. The chief industry documented in the account books is the Hartford Roller Mills, which was located near the Rough River in Hartford, Kentucky.
Gaines Family - Business Records (Sc 3025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gaines Family - Business Records (Sc 3025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3025. Two account books of Squire C. Gaines, Fayette County, Kentucky, 1875-1878, recording time records, payments to laborers, haulage of stone and other details of work on the Cincinnati Southern Railway; unidentified notebook, 1873, with ideas and sketches for stories; unidentified account book, 1886-1887, recording expenses for individual laborers and merchandise.
Riggs Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Riggs Refining Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3017. Correspondence and papers relating to the business of the Riggs Refinery, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes correspondence between Henry W. Bradley and principal Edgar R. Riggs while the latter pursued business opportunities in Florida. Matters discussed include business transactions, collections, the Florida land boom, and the effects of a destructive storm in Bowling Green.
Smith Brothers Store - Russell County, Kentucky (Mss 585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith Brothers Store - Russell County, Kentucky (Mss 585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 585. Three account books from the Smith Brothers Stores located in Fonthill and Irvin’s Store, Russell County, Kentucky. Also includes some information about the estate of Robert Pierce Smith.
Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Mss 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection 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.