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  • 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.

  • Letter and envelope sent to Georgianna P. Eastman, Louisville, Kentucky, from Nannie H. Ross, National Secretary of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic located at 128 W. College Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent to Richardson Drug Co., Omaha, Nebraska, from California Fig Syrup's Eastern Department located at the corner of 13th Street and Lexington Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. The envelope names George A. Newman as the general agent and includes an image of a fig tree branch.

  • Envelope sent from the Singer Manufacturing Co. located at 578 Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent from Louisville Car-Wheel & Railway Supply Co. located at 1021 E. Jefferson St., Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent from Louisville Paper Co. located at 249, 251, 253 East Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The back of the envelope advertises Neverwett Roofing paper as $5 per roll or 5 squares.

  • Envelope sent from Home and Farm serial "The most widely circulated and the best farmer's paper in the country" care of B.F. Avery & Sons, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Color cardstock promotional card printed for B.F. Avery & Sons, Plows and Agricultural Implements, Louisville, Kentucky. The inside of the card is an ad for the Avery Universal Plow, featuring a lithograth of Neptune plowing the Isthmus of Panama with an Avery Plow pulled by two horses. The back of the card depicts a horse falling in a field, with an attached plow and laborer in the air behind it. On the otherside of a fence, a horse is calmly pulling an Avery Plow while the laborer guiding the plow looks at the other person. Below the scene is the text "If you're trying to fly, you're all right

  • Postcard notice sent to J. T. Mercer, Milltown, Kentucky, from Torbitt & Castleman Co., Importers, Roasters and Grinders, located at 207, 209, 211 West Main Street and 170 Second Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Postcard lists company's specialties : coffees, sugars, molasses, rice, teas, spices. The notice reads "I will call on you about Dec 10. Very respectfully, E. Y. Kilgore. Will have with me some fine bargains in coffee &c."

  • Envelope sent to J & A Friedberg Inc., Brooklyn, New York, from Laub Brothers, Louisville, Kentucky, manufacturers of trunks and traveling bags.

  • Envelope sent from Robert S. Ayers publisher of "multiplication tables for practical business use." Located at 2514 West Walnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope and leaflet from W.E. Shaw & Co., General Agents for the Home Library Association, 306 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The leaflet advertises that the association was incorporated on December 30, 1884, and that membership is $200,000.

  • Progress report sent from Louisville Female College detailing the health, academic performance, and deportment of pupil Miss Ella Lentz. Located at 283 and 285 7th Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent to Mrs. Orville Vaughan, 300 East Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky, from Presbyterian Colored Missions located at 314 South Hancock Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Envelope includes a small note inquiring for teachers - "WANTED-- TEACHERS / At the Presbyterian Colored Missions, 314 S. Hancock St. Won't YOU come and help? Every Sunday at 3:30."

  • Envelope sent to R. A. Brock, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, from Holyoke Academy, Louisville, Kentucky. Envelope names W.W. Fontaine, A.M. as Principal.

  • Envelope sent from Louisville Commercial College located in the Old Post Office building at the corner of Jefferson & Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Lists J.J. Boyd as Principal.

  • Oversize postcard from Spencerian Commercial College located in the Union National Bank Building, 6th and Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Recto includes lithographic image of man picking from a fruit tree with text "Picking Plums." The words position, fame, wealth, honor, respect, eminence, and distinction are scattered in the tree.

  • Envelope sent from Jas. Thompson & Bro., Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Envelope sent from J.H. Sutcliffe & Co., Louisville, Kentucky, sellers of sporting guns. Front and back of envelope features images and advertisements of Remington rifles.

  • Envelope sent from A. Marks Company located at 721 West Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
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