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    News clippings from the 75th Anniversary scrapbook describing efforts to avoid closing the Jewish Hospital
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    Scrapbook page featuring souvenirs and memorabilia from the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Items on the page include the Derby Dinner menu at the Brown Hotel; a Club House return check from 1925; a ticket to the Ladies Clubhouse, and two photographs of the horse race.
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    Image of the Russell Residence, located at 205 South Peterson Avenue.
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    Childhood portrait of Toska and her older brother Hobart-- or Tox and Hobit as the inscriptions throughout the scrapbook reveal their nicknames to be. Locket sized photographs of Lilian and Frank appear over the shoulders of Tox and Hobit.
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    Married on August 17, 1895, this photograph shows Lilian M. Stitzel and Frank B. Russell on their wedding day. Lillian would have been 22 when this photo was taken and Frank was 26.
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    This snapshot was captured on a 1905 trip to Cuba. The photo captures the happenings and people of Obispo Street.
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    The Russell's youngest daughter, Joyce. She is pictured here in 1911 at age three on a tricycle, parasol in hand.
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    This undated image shows Hobart (Hobit) Russel; getting ready to take his mother(Lilian Russell) and his sister Joyce for a car ride.
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    Captured in September of 1911 this image shows members of the Russell Family posed below the Falls of the Niagara. The caption on the back reads: from left to right- Frank, Tox, Lilian, Joyce, Hobart, Kent, JBH, N, and Le.
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    A picnic scene outside of the Estill County iron furnace on April 26, 1896. Pictures on the far left is Lilian's brother, Arthur, next to an unidentified woman who stands next to Frank and Lilian Russell.
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    Five undated images of Hobart Russell with various props and poses.
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    Image taken of two unidentified boys on the beaches of Coney Island.
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    Domestic help Charley and Al are pictures with the family's cows. This undated photograph was taken in front of the carriage house of the Russell's Peterson Avenue home.
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    Photograph of members of the Clay City Baseball team.
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    "Pop" (Frank), "Ellie" (Lilian), Tox, and Hobart are photographed in May of 1905 on a carriage ride, pulled by the family horse named "Decker."
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    On a duck hunting trip with Lilian in January of 1904, Frank is seen here with a rifle off the Florida coast.
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    On a duck hunting trip with Frank in January of 1904, Lilian is seen here with a rifle off the Florida coast.
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    Hobart atop a horse in 1903.
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    Frank Russell pictured with two other men named Ramsey and Cox in front of the Clay City National Bank, ca. 1903. Frank would later be Director of the Lincoln Bank and Trust Co., U. S. Trust Co., and the Winchester Bank.
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    Frank Russell (pictured on the right) along with a R. B. Moore, hunt chickens in South Dakota, 25 miles north of Clark. The men are pictures with their dogs, Nell and Bob.
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