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  • A mailed bank check from an unknown financial institution written in the amount of $198. Imagery behind the stamps features a battle scene between armed white men and Indigenous people.

  • Envelope mailed via the U.S.S. Louisville. Hand drawn color illustration of the state of Kentucky, a jockey on a horse, three white stars, and blue, red, and white stripes. Stamped as "U.S.S."

  • Envelope sent to John B. Bryners, located in Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Mailed with a three cent stamp.

  • No. 633 stock certificate for ten Louisville Industrial Exposition shares purchased by C. S. Snead. Includes lithograph image of Louisville Industrial Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent to Hon. R. A[erson], Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, from Saint Matthews, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent to Winchester Hall, Chicago, Illinois, from Saint Matthews, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent from Louisville, Kentucky, to Miltern Griffith located in Plymouth, Ohio. Color Lithograph depcits a soldier surrounded by patriotic symbols and "We Have Beat Our Last Retreat".

  • Envelope printed for C. Magnus, located at 12 Frankfort Street, New York. Lithograph of a woman holding a flag labeled "For the Union" and two men shaking hands with "Kentucky" underneath.

  • Envelope sent from Louisville, Kentucky, to Maria Schenck, Peru, Huren County, Ohio. Color lithograph depicts a woman with an American flag, and the word "Union!".

  • Envelope sent from Louisville, Kentucky, to Teresa Carver located in Savannah, Wayne County, New York. Color lithograph of a bald eagle on an American flag shield.

  • Color postcard depicting the Louisville Hotel building façade in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • 8mm color film clip of two medical professionals administering vaccines to children at Camp Tall Trees in Meade County, Kentucky. The Jewish Community Center of Louisville hosted the 2-3 week long summer camp in Otter Creek. The children in this film are receiving what was likely the Salk polio vaccine, introduced just five years earlier in 1955. Before this point, many parents dreaded the late summer months when polio cases peaked, and swimming pools were often shut down to try to curb transmission through contaminated water. The year 1952 marked the worst outbreak of polio in the nation’s history, with nearly 58,000 reported cases of paralytic poliomyelitis. The number of cases dropped to just under 3,200 in 1960 and fell to the single digits by the 1980s.

  • 8mm color film clip of field day competitions at Camp Tall Trees in Meade County, Kentucky, as shot by a camp counselor. The Jewish Community Center of Louisville hosted the 2-3 week long summer camp in Otter Creek.

  • 8mm color film clip of the merchandise in the camp store at Camp Tall Trees in Meade County, Kentucky, as shot by a camp counselor. The Jewish Community Center of Louisville hosted the 2-3 week long summer camp in Otter Creek.

  • 8mm color film clip of the grounds and facilities of Camp Ben F. Washer in Meade County, Kentucky, as shot by a camp staff member. The Jewish Community Center of Louisville worked with Otter Creek Park to open the new camp grounds by the 1967 camp season.

  • A pennant from Male High School, a public school in Louisville, Kentucky. This pennant was owned by Roosevelt Chin, a Chinese American from Louisville, Kentucky who worked with the Cabbage Patch Settlement House for over fifty years. The pennant is made of felt. It is purple with gold lettering and a gold strip across the leftmost side. Roosevelt Chin graduated from Male High School in 1951.

  • Advertisement for Cherokee Gardens neighborhood.

  • 5 annual Christmas seals sold by the Louisville Tuberculosis Association as a fundraiser.

  • Newspaper clipping on the Louisville Tuberculosis Association's 1931 Christmas Seals Campaign poster. Text on the poster reads "Buy Christmas Seals / Fight Tuberculosis / 25th annual seal sale / 1931." The poster design features a snowy scence of a stage coach passing by two Tudor-style buildings.

  • Sample of Christmas cards sent to Louisville, Kentucky, couple Walter and Elizabeth Shackelton over the course of several holiday seasons in the late 1920s. Cards like these could be ordered from catalogs in pre-printed sets with the sender's name or in smaller batches to sign personally.
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