Browse Collections (107 total)
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Lane, Frank Raymond. Correspondence, ca. 22 July-12 Dec. 1918.
View the items in Lane, Frank Raymond. Correspondence, ca. 22 July-12 Dec. 1918.Letters written by Lane from Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky to his fiancee, Nellie F. Rahe in Milan, Indiana, reflect his training as a cook, his…
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Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company Collections
View the items in Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company CollectionsMammoth Life and Accident Insurance, Co. (1915-1992) was one of the largest Black-owned and operated companies in Kentucky's history. Four individuals…
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Ivey Watkins Cousins Negative Collection
View the items in Ivey Watkins Cousins Negative CollectionIvey W. Cousins, a native of Danville, Va., retired as a leaf tobacco buyer and dealer in 1944 and moved to Louisville, Ky. While living in his…
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Enid Bland Yandell, 1869-1934
View the items in Enid Bland Yandell, 1869-1934A 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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Jewish Hospital (Louisville, Ky.) Records, 1905-2008
View the items in Jewish Hospital (Louisville, Ky.) Records, 1905-2008The collection consists of the records of Jewish Hospital, which opened in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1905. The papers, dating from 1905 to 2008,…
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Wyncie King Caricatures, ca. 1920
View the items in Wyncie King Caricatures, ca. 1920Wyncie King was a noted caricaturist and political cartoonist of the early 20th century. Born in Covington, Georgia in 1884, King got his start in…
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Music of the Great War
View the items in Music of the Great WarWhen the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, nearly three years after the war had begun, the nation was shocked. Woodrow Wilson had…
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John Speed in World War I
View the items in John Speed in World War ILouisville and the Ohio Valley made many contributions to the war effort in World War I. Camp Zachary Taylor, in what is now a residential…
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Steamboats on the Ohio River
View the items in Steamboats on the Ohio RiverLouisville, Jeffersonville, and New Albany’s strategic locations at the Falls of the Ohio River destined them to become intertwined with the steamboat…
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Louisville's Southern Exposition, 1883-1885
View the items in Louisville's Southern Exposition, 1883-1885The Southern Exposition, held in Louisville from 1883-1887, was driven by the city’s need to succeed in a competitive national economy. The Exposition…
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The Kentucky Derby: "The Run for the Roses"
View the items in The Kentucky Derby: "The Run for the Roses"The Kentucky Derby is a one-and-one-quarter-mile stake race for three-year-old Thoroughbred colts, geldings, and fillies. The Kentucky Derby and the…
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The Kentucky State Fair, 1816-2015
View the items in The Kentucky State Fair, 1816-2015The Kentucky State Fair is one of the oldest fairs celebrated in the United States. Its beginning can be traced back to 1816 when Colonel Lewis…
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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…
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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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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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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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Geneva H. Bell Textile Collection, circa 1960-1980s
View the items in Geneva H. Bell Textile Collection, circa 1960-1980sThe textiles of Geneva Howard Bell (1905-2013) became a part of The Filson’s museum collection in mid-2015. Geneva was the wife of Dr. Jesse B. Bell,…
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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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Mammoth Cave by Magnesium Light, 1866
View the items in Mammoth Cave by Magnesium Light, 1866In 1866, Charles L. Waldack of Cincinnati, Ohio took the first subterranean photographs of Mammoth Cave with the help of magnesium light. These were…
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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…