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  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Leslie D. Aberson (1936-) on February 4, 2002. The summary is accompanied by Aberson's resume. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Marie Abrams (1937-) on October 2, 2001. The summary is accompanied by Marie Abrams's resume. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Nancy Abrams (1938-) on February 6, 2002. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

    Nancy K. Abrams was born in Louisville, and grew up in the Highlands in her youth. Her daily life included attending middle and high school, Sunday school on weekends, and socializing with friends at a Bardstown Road drug store. She and her family were largely unaffected by the local flood of 1937 and the international Jewish crisis of the Holocaust and Israeli conflicts. She maintained Jewish faith by being confirmed and participating in the NCJW, a demonstration of social service she passed on to subsequent generations in her family.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Ronald Abrams (1936-) on October 2, 2001. The summary is accompanied by Ronald Abrams's resume. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Letter from Mary Adair to her sister, Mary McCalla, mentioning her son, Alexander Adair.
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  • Letter from Mary Adair to her sister, updating her on her family and wishing she has enjoyed "all of the happyness of a wife and mother in the midst of an agreeable family." She worries of her father dying soon because without him she will be "destitute of any other home."
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  • Envelope and pamphlet sent from Aikin & Drummond Variety Foundry and Machine Shop located at Main Street between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Envelope features lithographic image of a Great Western Sugar Cane Mill, patented 1839

  • Yellow envelope sent from Ainslie & Cochran Louisville Foundry & Machine Shop located at southeast corner of Main and Tenth Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Verso of envelope includes lithographic image and return address information, including image of steam engine.

  • Yellow envelope sent from Ainslie & Cochran Louisville Foundry & Machine Shop located at southeast corner of Main and Tenth Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Verso of envelope includes lithographic image and return address information, including image of steam engine.

  • Envelope from the Alexander's Hotel located at the corner of Main and Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Envelope lists J.B. Alexander & Co. Proprietors. 745 West Main Street.

  • Envelope sent from W. B. Godfry, New Albany, Indiana, to Sarah Godfrey Smith, Iowa. The envelope is printed with a lithograph of Alexander's Hotel and the hotel's return address, located at Jefferson Street, opposite the Court House in Louisville,

  • Envelope and letter to John W. Blue, Darlington, Indiana, from Jules ? describing their travel plans from Louisville, Kentucky, to Darlington. addressed from the Alexander's Hotel located at the corner of Main and Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Envelope lists J.B. Alexander & Co. Proprietors. 745 West Main Street.

  • Envelope and letter from Elmer G. Lawrence to his unnamed wife detailing his travel plans and sending a check. The envelope return address is Simons, Hatch & Whitten envelope, located at 1 Winthrop Square and 18-32 Otis Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The letter was written on letterhead from the Alexander's Hotel located at the corner of Main and Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, to . Envelope lists J.B. Alexander & Co. Proprietors. 745 West Main Street.

  • Envelope and letter sent from attorney Lafon Allen, 317 5th Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Land-grant survey which was made at the request of Robert Burton, Esq., agent for Richard Henderson & Co., on 20 April 1796, after a grant of 200,000 acres was made to the company by the Virginia Assembly.
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  • Envelope sent to Henry Chapman Jr., 1348 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from H.J. Leszinsky, Southern Department, Alligator Long Waist Pants, 615 West Broadway (formerly 211 Seventh Street), Louisville, Kentucky. Envelope features a lithographic image of an alligator wearing the advertised "long waist" pants.

  • Envelope and bill of sale sent from Altsheler & Co., importers and wholesale grocers located at 839 and 841 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Envelope includes advertisement text for Butcher's Lard on verso of envelope.

  • Envelope sent to Patrick Griffin, Corydon, Indiana, from the American Accident Company of Louisville, located at 338 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent from American Creosoting Company located at 401 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Receipt postcard sent from American Grocery Co. wholesale grocers and provision dealers to J. T. Mercer, Milltown, Kentucky.
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