Browse Collections (26 total)

Recipes for food and home remedies collected by Caroline Hancock Preston (1785-1847). Preston was born in Fincastle, Virginia and was married to…

Seven days after America entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson issued Executive Order 2594, creating the Committee on Public Information. Led by…

Stratton Owen Hammon (1904-1997) was a Louisville architect who gained national recognition after starting his own business in 1929.

During World…

D. X. Murphy & Bro., Architects was a Louisville architectural firm. It grew out of the firm of architect Henry Whitestone, an Irish immigrant best…

Today food can be stored and transported in a wide variety of plastic and glass containers. In the 18th and 19th centuries, however, options were…

Materials from the Filson's collections concerning the Women's Suffrage movement

Views of storm damage in Louisville after the 1890 tornado.

The W. Stuber & Brothers "Tornado Views" is a series of mounted photographs that is a compilation of 28 views of Louisville, Kentucky after the 1890…

Minute book of the Louisville Woman Suffrage Association. Contains a list of members, April lst, 1895; Constitution and By-Laws, and Minutes of…

Papers are primarily composed of family letters to Louis Discher, a soldier serving in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. The…