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  Allan and Anna Weiss collection on Kentucky businesses and institutions

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  Architecture of Arthur Raymond Smith

  The 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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  B’nai B’rith. Louisville Lodge No. 14 (Louisville, Ky.) Records, 1860-1921

  Collection consists of early organizational records of two Jewish fraternal lodges in Louisville, both independent orders of B’nai B’rith: the Har…

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  Baptist Orphan Home Records. Correspondence, circa 1873-1910

  Correspondence, 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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  Bingham Family Photograph collection

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  Bourbon labels, 1850s, 1934-1949

  Selection of bourbon bottle labels from two collections.
  
  Henry Miller Scrapbook, 1850s (Mss. M647a): A scrapbook of samples of engravings used by…

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  Cabbage Patch Settlement House Records

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  Camp Zachary Taylor Collection

  In 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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  Caroline Hancock Preston Recipe Book, circa 1808-1827
  

  Recipes 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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  D. X. Murphy & Bro. Architectural Collection, 1854–1949

  D. 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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  Edwin Finch: The World at War, circa 1943

  Among 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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  Edwin H. Ferguson Residence Architectural Collection, 1902

  Edwin Hite Ferguson (1852-1924) was a Louisville industrialist who made his fortune in the cottonseed oil business. His company, the Kentucky Refining…

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  Enid Bland Yandell, 1869-1934

  A selected set of items from the Enid Bland Yandell Photograph Collection and the Enid Bland Yandell Papers at The Filson Historical Society

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• Ethel and William Clemons Oral Histories

  Oral history interviews with Ethel Clemons and William Clemons, a married Black couple, conducted by Teresa C. Klasen at the Clemons's home in…

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  Exhibit records

  Graphics and other materials created by Filson Historical Society staff in the process of curating exhibitions. The collection also includes digital…

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  Film and Video Collections

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  First American West, 1750-1820

  Drawing from many historical collections at the Filson Historical Society, First American West incorporates maps, diaries, letters, ledgers, and…

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  Fontaine Talbot Fox III Sketches and Photographs, ca. 1890-1950

  Fontaine Talbot Fox III, creator of the famous Toonerville Trolley, was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1884. He started his career as a reporter for…

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  Frank B. Russell Scrapbook, 1870-1977

  On 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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  Grossman Chapman Klarer Architects Inc. Architectural Drawings

  The digital collection features records of Grossman Chapman Klarer Architects Inc.'s projects that won Kentucky Society of Architects (AIA Kentucky)…

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