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Portrait of "Fanny" Frances Latham Slaughter
"Fanny" Frances Latham Slaughter was a wife and a mother who had strong ties with her family as seen through letters sent to her daughter and other relatives. "Time passes away tedious and heavy" writes Frances Latham Slaughter to her daughter (who left home) on 12 October 1816. Women who were separated from family and friends often experienced loneliness on the frontier. -
Portrait of Elizabeth Wood Bayless
Elizabeth Wood Bayless was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She migrated to Mason County, Kentucky, with her family sometime within the first decade of Kentucky's statehood. Her father, George Wood, was a Revolutionary War Veteran who was one of the first Baptist preachers to settle in the region. Elizabeth married Benjamin Bayless in 1798 in Mason County, Kentucky. -
Portrait of Benjamin Bayless
Benjamin Bayless was born in Hartford County, Maryland, and migrated to Mason County, Kentucky, sometime withing the first decade of Kentucky's statehood. He married Elizabeth Wood in 1798. During the War of 1812, he sustained a lifelong injury. In 1815, he was appointed Sheriff of Mason County. The U. S. Census shows that he enslaved thirteen persons in 1820 and ten persons in 1830. -
Teaspoon, circa 1810
Early style teaspoon with egg-shaped bowl and slender handle widening to a modified coffin style. Undecipherable monogram on end of handle. "SA" stamped in rectangular cartouche. Also a winged eagle, looking left. -
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. -
Testimonial Dinner in honor of Herman Meyer, November 17, 1935
Testimonial Dinner in honor of Mr. Herman Meyer on his 70th birthday on 1935, Nov. 17 at the Kentucky Hotel located in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Silver Ladle
Coin silver ladle made by Asa Blanchard, who was one of many skilled artisans who migrated from the eastern states to the Kentucky frontier. Blanchard worked under other silversmiths in Philadelphia and New York, which were highly competitive environments for artisans. The Ohio River Valley offered a new market and opportunity for career advancement. Within a single generation, Kentucky transitioned from a frontier community into a society that supported painters, furniture makers, silversmiths, and other artisans. As middle- and upper-class families obtained financial stability, they purchased luxury goods symbolic of their status. -
Abigail Prather Churchill, needlework sampler, 1828-1830
Samplers were a staple in the education of girls, designed to teach needlework skills needed for household duties. Samples could be symbolic of the girl's culture, religion, social class, or personal accomplishments. Sampler making was seen as the ground work for civic, social, and familial responsibility. This was made by Abigail Prather Churchill the daughter of Abigail Pope Oldham Churchill (1789-1854), around age 11-13 at Nazareth Academy (which is near Bardstown, KY). -
Linen Sheet, circa 1835
According to family narrative, this bed sheet was made by an enslaved weaver using flax that was grown on Dabney Carr Overton's farm in Fayette County, Kentucky. In 1830, Overton enslaved thirty-two persons, including twenty female children and adults. Enslaved women were skilled spinners, weavers, and seamstresses, whose skills provided comfort for the families that enslaved them. -
New Year's Day Dinner at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on January 1st, 1887
New Year's Day dinner at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on January 1st, 1887. -
Thanksgiving Dinner at French Lick Springs Hotel, 1907
Thanksgiving dinner on November 28th, 1907 located at French Lick Springs Hotel in French Lick, Indiana. -
Christmas Day Menu at the Galt House on December 25th, 1874
Christmas day menu on 1874, Dec. 25 at the Galt House located in Louisville, Kentucky. -
Christmas Day Menu at the Galt House on December 25th, 1876.
Christmas day menu at the Galt House on December 25th, 1876. -
Herman Gunter and family, ca. 1860s
A composite work of photography and painting likely done by Herman Gunter. The image shows Karoline Günter at her writing desk with a photo of Herman on the table. Their five children at the time and a dog are nearby and at her feet. They are all looking up to see Herman Gunter walk through the door. -
Mary Ann Logan needlework sampler, circa 1813
This sampler was made by Mary Ann Logan in Shakertown, Kentucky. Samplers were a staple in the education of girls. The samplers were designed to teach needlework skills needed for household duties and could be a symbol of the girl's culture, religion, social class, and personal accomplishments. Sampler making was seen as the ground work for civic, social, and familial responsibility. -
Ohio River Channel Completion Celebration Dinner
Dinner Celebrating the Completion of a Nine-Foot Channel in the Ohio River
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Christmas Day Menu, "36th Christmas Greeting" at Louisville Hotel, 1869
Christmas Day menu, "36th Christmas Greeting", on December 25th, 1869 at the Louisville Hotel located in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Christmas Day Menu, "67th Christmas Greeting" at Louisville Hotel, 1870
Christmas day menu, "37th Christmas Greeting", Located at the Louisville Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky on December 25th, 1870. -
Christmas Day Menu at the Louisville Hotel, 1872
Christmas Day Menu on December 25th, 1872 at the Louisville Hotel located in Louisville, Kentucky. -
Maxwell House Christmas Day Menu, 1879
A Christmas day menu from the Maxwell House located in Nashville, Tennessee on December 25th, 1879.