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Drawing of coffee nut tree seed pod, 1816
A sketch of the coffee nut tree seed pod from the last page of a letter from Dr. Charles Wilkins Short to Dr. Daniel Drake.
Letter from Eleanor Clark, 9 February 1798
Letter from Eleanor E. Clark requesting the recipient to use the enclosed linen to make a border for a bed quilt.
Compagnie de Colonisation Americaine, stock certificate, 1 July 1820
French stock certificate for one share in the Compagnie de Colonisation Americaine (American Colonization Company). Share is for 100 acres of land in…
Diary entry describing Native-Americans mounds, 20 December 1815
Daniel Chapman Banks was a Louisville Presbyterian minister. The diary chronicles his 1815-1816 trip from Connecticut to Louisville in which he…
Diary entry discussing murders committed by Native Americans, 7 December 1815
Daniel Chapman Banks was a Louisville Presbyterian minister. The diary chronicles his 1815-1816 trip from Connecticut to Louisville in which he…
Diary entry describing the death of a woman's baby, 5 December 1815
Daniel Chapman Banks was a Louisville Presbyterian minister. The diary chronicles his 1815-1816 trip from Connecticut to Louisville in which he…
Account of an earthquake from Daniel Chapman Banks, 25 November 1815
Daniel Chapman Banks was a Louisville Presbyterian minister. The diary chronicles his 1815-1816 trip from Connecticut to Louisville in which he…
Field notes for a survey in Jefferson County, Kentucky
Field notes and plat of a survey done in Jefferson County, Kentucky, by George May. Taken from George May's survey book.
Bars quilt
Quilt belonging to Elizabeth Tyler Sturgeon. The quilt has strips of hand-woven cloth believed to have been made locally in Jefferson County,…
Letter from Joseph Bowman to Isaac Hite, 14 June 1779
Bowman's letter to Isaac Hite discusses trade with New Orleans, the abundance of money at Kaskaskia, British and American troops in the northwest, and…