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  • Envelope sent to C. E. Hartung & Company, New York, from A. Domeck & Co. Importers of Manufacturers of Human Hair Goods, located at 105 Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent from the Commercial Club, sponsor of Homecoming Week for Kentuckians in Louisville on June 13-17, 1906.

  • Envelope sent from United States Trust Co. located at Fifth and Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope, letter, and certificate of registration sent to E. T. Brown, Ft. Sheridan, Illinois, from John B. Castleman, president of the American Saddle-Horse Breeders Association located at no 611 Columbia Building, 4th and Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope, letter, and certificate include a lithograph of a horse. The certificate of registration is for a horse named Sheridan, foaled in 1903.

  • Envelope and price list poster sent from Vogel Bros. & Co. Shoe Makers, located at Eight and Congress Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope features an image of the factory. The poster includes images of the shoes.

  • Envelope sent from the Tyler Hotel located at Third and Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope design features the exterior of the hotel and advertises that the building is "absolutely fire proof." The back of the envelope is a color illustration advertisement for the Kentucky State Fair held on September 11-16, 1922. Images include Churchill Downs, a horse, bull, clown, airplanes, vegetables, and fruit.

  • Envelope sent to W. A. Shields, Victoria, Australia, from the Seelbach Hotel located at Fourth and Walnut Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. The back of the envelope features color illustration advertisement for the Kentucky State Fair, held on September 12-17, 1927.

  • Envelope sent from Louisville Lithographic Co. located in Power Hall, at 3rd Street between Green and Walnut, Louisville, Kentucky. The design includes the façade of the building.

  • Envelope sent from from publisher Bible Revision Rooms located at the corner of Walnut and Fourth Streets, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent to Weiss Binder Co., Toledo, Ohio, from Baptist Book Concern, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope advertises that the company publishes the Western Recorder, the "Leading Religious and Family Paper for more than Seventy-Eight Years."

  • Envelope sent to W.W. McDaniel, Horse Cave, Kentucky, from Denhard Company, Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, Ranges, House Furnishings, 221 West Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope advertises that "we can furnish a house complete in ten hours and make liberal terms."

  • Envelope sent to Major John Caperton, Grand Hotel, San Francisco, California, from the Western Recorder, Room No. 6, Mozart Building, Corner of Fourth and Jefferson Streets, Second Floor, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent from the Western Recorder, published by Baptist Book Concern, Incorporated, located at 307 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope advertises "for seventy years--leading Baptist paper. $2.00 in advance." The back of the envelope advertises the publisher's religious book selling business.

  • Two envelopes sent to Margaret Allison (Mrs. Young E. Allison), Fort Spring, West Virginia, from Truth (publication), 330 W. Green Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent to Orcutt Seed & Plant Co., San Diego, California, from The Louisville Evening Post, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope features an image of a newspaper carrier running and holding up a newspaper.

  • Blank newspaper agent form printed for The Louisville Evening Post, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Circular ad, envelope, and return envelope from The Inland Farmer agricultural newspaper, 450 Atherton Building, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent to E. M. Adams, Alexandria, Virginia, from Southern Bivouac, published by B.F. Avery & Sons, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope features an ensignia of a shield, United States flag, Confederate flag, cannon and shells, buggle, and drum.

  • Envelope and subscription slip sent from Southern Bivouac published by the Home and Farm Publishing Company, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope features an ensignia of a shield, United States flag, Confederate flag, cannon and shells, buggle, and drum.

  • Envelope sent to Margaretha Meyer, Cincinnati, Ohio, from the German-language Louisville Volksblatt daily, semi-weekly & weekly newspaper and Sunday Paper Omnibus. Located at NE corner of Third and Market, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope names W. Krippenstapel as the proprietor.
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