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"Clay and Liberty!!! Kickapoo War Songs" Broadside, 1884
Broadside with campaign songs in support of Henry Clay for president -
"Votes for Women" streamer, Melville Otter Briney papers, c. 1915
Page from the papers of Ms. Melville Otter Briney of Louisville, Kentucky. On this page is pasted a streamer that reads "Votes for Women," accompanied by a note: "I was a page at Mrs. Snowden's lecture." Otter is referring to the November 1915 lecture given by British feminist Ethel Snowden at the Masonic Theater in Louisville. -
A Preparation for the Hair Recipe
A recipe for a homemade hair tonic, made with rosemary and nutmeg, included in the recipe book of Caroline Hancock Preston (1785-1847). -
A statement to the public by Henry Clay, Washington, 4 April 1838
A statement to the public recommending Franklin Knight as a respectable and intelligent gentleman, and the Christian Statesman, for which Knight is going to the Western states to solicit patronage, as a paper highly worthy of support. J. R. Underwood concurs. -
Agreement between Daniel Bryan and Henry Clay, 7 September 1804
Said Clay agrees to act for the said Bryan in any suit ... against the Trustees of Transylvania University relative to the settlement and preemption on the waters of Hickman and Elkhorn. Bryan agrees to pay Clay seven pounds and one dollar per acre. On reverse: H. Clay received fifty dollars in full satisfaction of the agreement. 5 Sept. 1808. In: Misc. Papers. -
American Republican Manifesto Broadside, circa 1850
This broadside linked the American Revolution's result, "INDEPENDENCE OF FOREIGN NATIONS", to the 1850s "danger of foreign influence" they believed was posed by immigration of Germans and Irish. This threat was magnified by the "most gross and outrageous frauds...committed under our present Naturalization system." Once naturalized, adult white male immigrants could vote. -
Appointment Document signed by James Monroe, 3 December 1823
Monroe confers upon James Brown, U.S. Minister to France, full powers to negotiate with the French government concerning "claims to indemnity of citizens of the United States on the government of France," or of French subjects upon the U.S. and matters of commerce between the two countries. Countersigned by John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State and affixed with the Seal of the U.S. -
Autograph by Dwight Eisenhower for The Filson Club
Transmitting his signature to The Filson Club with best wishes. -
B. F. Avery & Sons: The Genuine Avery Plow
Annual catalog no. 86, 1911-1912; Plows and cultivating implements, B. F. Avery & Sons, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A., established 1825. -
Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co. Catalog, 1932
Front cover of the Belknap Catalog book -
Bloody Monday Illustration, 1922
Illustration of the riots in Louisville on Bloody Monday, August 6, 1855 (printed 1922) -
Broadside "Reception of the Remains of Hon. Henry Clay," 6 July 1852
Copy of a broadside calling upon the young men of Louisville, regardless of party affiliation, to meet at the courthouse to make arrangements for the reception and transportation of the body of Henry Clay to Ashland. -
Captain Madison Dugan Certificate, 22 May 1888
Inspectors Certificate of Captain Madison “Big Matt” Dugan (1860-1917). Dugan lived in Jeffersonville, Ind., and came from a steamboating family. He captained the ferries City of Jeffersonville and Gen. George Rogers Clark between Louisville and Jeffersonville. He kept a diary for thirty-one years (1886-1917). He was murdered on board the Clark in the early morning hours of August 19, 1917. -
Carter's Dry Goods Store
Page from Louisville, KY- Resources and Industries highlighting the Carter's Dry Goods Company, located at 727 W. Main Street in Louisville. -
Certificate of Deposit signed by Henry Clay, 4 June 1827
A partially printed document certifying that Octavius Pickering deposited in the Office of the Department of State Volume III of his book entitled Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The certificate includes a statement on copyright provisions for the book and is sealed and signed by Clay as Secretary of the Department of State of the United States. -
Check for T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller, May 6th, 1891.
Check for T. J. Humphrey for three hundred dollars for the Louisville Baptist Orphan's Home, signed by W. L. Weller. -
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller, July 3rd, 1891.
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller & Sons of three hundred dollars. -
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller, June 20th, 1891.
Check to T. J. Humphrey of five hundred and five dollars with ninety cents from W. L. Weller. -
Commission signed by Andrew Johnson, 21 May 1866
Commission to Job J Hayes as Major of U.S. Volunteers. Signed by Andrew Johnson, President, and Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Also bears signature of E. D. Townsend, Ass't. Adj't. General. -
Conclin's New River Guide, Cover, 1850
Cover from the Conclin's New River Guide, which provided river travelers with important navigation and travel information.
Also called "a gazetteer of all the towns on the western waters," Conclin's guide contains sketches of cities, towns, and countries bordering the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, along with their tributaries, populations, products, commerce, etc. The guide was published in 1850 but uses data from 1848.