Browse Collections (50 total)
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The Sanders-Bullitt Family Papers
A reworking of the Bullitt family papers to highlight the people enslaved by the Bullitt family on the Oxmoor plantation and the Cottonwood plantation…
View the items in The Sanders-Bullitt Family PapersContributors: Johansen, Emma
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Kentucky COVID-19 Poster Project, 2020
View the items in Kentucky COVID-19 Poster Project, 2020The Kentucky COVID-19 Poster Project at the Filson Historical Society was inspired by the COVID-19 Poster Project, a bold and innovative collecting…
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Bourbon labels, 1850s, 1934-1949
View the items in Bourbon labels, 1850s, 1934-1949Selection of bourbon bottle labels from two collections.
Henry Miller Scrapbook, 1850s (Mss. M647a): A scrapbook of samples of engravings used by… -
Camp Zachary Taylor Collection
View the items in Camp Zachary Taylor CollectionIn 1917, nearly three thousand acres of farmland and open fields outside of the city of Louisville, Kentucky were transformed into an active military…
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Baptist Orphan Home Records. Correspondence, circa 1873-1910
View the items in Baptist Orphan Home Records. Correspondence, circa 1873-1910Correspondence, 1873-1910, to Mary A. Hollingsworth, matron, and others about the placement of orphan children, the occasional return of the same to…
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Caroline Hancock Preston Recipe Book, circa 1808-1827
View the items in Caroline Hancock Preston Recipe Book, circa 1808-1827Recipes for food and home remedies collected by Caroline Hancock Preston (1785-1847). Preston was born in Fincastle, Virginia and was married to…
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World War I Posters, 1917-1919
View the items in World War I Posters, 1917-1919Seven days after America entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson issued Executive Order 2594, creating the Committee on Public Information. Led by…
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Stratton O. Hammon Architectural Collection, 1929-1996
View the items in Stratton O. Hammon Architectural Collection, 1929-1996Stratton Owen Hammon (1904-1997) was a Louisville architect who gained national recognition after starting his own business in 1929.
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D. X. Murphy & Bro. Architectural Collection, 1854–1949
View the items in D. X. Murphy & Bro. Architectural Collection, 1854–1949D. X. Murphy & Bro., Architects was a Louisville architectural firm. It grew out of the firm of architect Henry Whitestone, an Irish immigrant best…
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Women's Suffrage
View the items in Women's SuffrageMaterials from the Filson's collections concerning the United States Women's Suffrage movement.
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Louisville Equal Rights Association Minute Book, 1889-1895
View the items in Louisville Equal Rights Association Minute Book, 1889-1895Minute book of the Louisville Woman Suffrage Association. Contains a list of members, April lst, 1895; Constitution and By-Laws, and Minutes of…
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Sheet Music Collection, circa 1840-1930
View the items in Sheet Music Collection, circa 1840-1930The Filson maintains a large collection of 19th and 20th century sheet music. Numbering some 4,700 items, much of the collection reflects the popular…
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Frank B. Russell Scrapbook, 1870-1977
View the items in Frank B. Russell Scrapbook, 1870-1977On August 7, 1895 Lilian M. Stitzel married Frank B. Russell. Lilian, born in 1873, was the daughter of Philip Stitzel, who, in 1910, sold a…
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Walter H. Kiser Drawings Collection, circa 1934–1942
View the items in Walter H. Kiser Drawings Collection, circa 1934–1942Walter H. Kiser (1902-1980) was an artist born in New Albany, Indiana. After graduating from New Albany High School, he was awarded a scholarship at…
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Edwin Finch: The World at War, circa 1943
View the items in Edwin Finch: The World at War, circa 1943Among the Filson’s cartoon collections, the World War II era is best documented in the work of Edwin Finch. Finch was born in 1895 in Norwood, Ohio…
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The Edwin Hite Ferguson Mansion
View the items in The Edwin Hite Ferguson MansionEdwin Hite Ferguson (1852-1924) was a Louisville industrialist who made his fortune in the cottonseed-oil business. His company grew to be the 2nd…
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Architecture of Arthur Raymond Smith
View the items in Architecture of Arthur Raymond SmithThe early 20th century found the east end of Louisville, Kentucky to be flourishing with new housing developments. Neighborhoods such as Crescent Hill…
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Wallace G. Mathis Cartoon Collection
View the items in Wallace G. Mathis Cartoon CollectionCartoonist Wallace Mathis was born in 1904 in Collierville, Tennessee. During his college years, he drew cartoons for Vanderbilt University’s humor…
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Fontaine Talbot Fox III Sketches and Photographs, ca. 1890-1950
View the items in Fontaine Talbot Fox III Sketches and Photographs, ca. 1890-1950Fontaine Talbot Fox III, creator of the famous Toonerville Trolley, was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1884. He started his career as a reporter for…