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  • Broadside explaining how to keep weevils from infesting harvested wheat crops.
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  • Essay discussing women and love, and the institution of marriage. "The women are degraded to a level with the inferior animals, are expected to perform all the most tiresome, offensive and laborious services and unless when the instinct of nature prompts their savage lords to embrace them are treated with no sort of sympathy or equality."
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  • Broadside with campaign songs in support of Henry Clay for president

  • Article featuring a Jewish Hospital employee holiday party from the periodical Micro Scoop.

  • An unidentified newspaper clipping covering the resurgence of Helen Humes after a several year hiatus in her singing career.

  • The Louisville Liederkranz was a singing society organized in 1848 by the city's German immigrants. One program documents the performance of the Liederkranz Orchestra at a welcome home ceremony for Louisville Legion troops returning from the Spanish-American War. The program is illustrated with an image of the unit's commander, Col. John Breckinridge Castleman, as well as a drawing of a soldier in uniform. The program contains a list of songs performed and speeches given by various dignitaries.

  • Essay contemplating suicide as a justifiable act.
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  • Essay contemplating suicide as not-justifiable.
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  • The great expositions of the 19th century were spectacles that displayed the nation's industrial, technical, and cultural accomplishments in the decades following the Civil War. Massive galleries dedicated to art provided unprecendented opportunities for American artists to exhibit their work the hundreds of thousands of visitors. Thum exhibited work at the Southern Exposition held in Louisville from 1883-1887. It helped launch her career and she developed a lasting friendship with expo's curator Charles Kurtz, an influencer in New York. Following the exposition Thum actively exhibited her work throughout the country.

    -1893, Columbia's Exposition in Chicago
    -1886 and 1889, National Academy of Design in New York City
    -1897, Nashville, Centennial Exposition
    -1898, Trans-Mississippi International Exposition
    -1905, St. Louis World's Fair

  • Page from the papers of 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.

  • This graphic and text are from a Jewish Hospital expansion fund pamphlet. Provides examples of the amount of labor needed to run a hospital.

  • “Why Is A City Club” by Eleanor Mercein Kelly, 12 December 1917, Louisville Women’s City Club, Vol 1., No. 8. Louisville Women’s City Club Records.

  • Newspaper of the Louisville, Kentucky, Jewish Community Center and National Council of Jewish Women's Club 60. The publication includes an article beginning on page 3 that details the youth, immigration, and subsequent settling of Jewish Frenchman Jacques Wolff (1903-1977) in the United States. Includes his service in the French army, and his personal losses to the German army and the Holocaust, after which he was able to work in wholesale business in Louisville, Kentucky. Jacques was the husband of Denise Wolff, one of the founders of Club 60.

    Pages 6-8 are missing from the original version in the Filson's collection.

  • Clipping from the Jewish Hospital periodical Micro Scoop featuring a photo of a group of women hospital volunteers, also called candy stripers.

  • Clipping from the Jewish Hospital Publication Service featuring a recipient, Rev. James Purvis, of a cardiac pacemaker at 105 years old.

  • Clipping from Service about the Women's Guild raising funds for the coronary care unit.

  • The 1973 Proposed Slate of the Plymouth Congregational Church is a list of the proposed candidates for election from the annual meeting held on December 13, 1972, in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Photographs of the 1st Kentucky Regiment, National Guard featuring men that served with Pershing's Mexican Boarder Expedition as printed in History of the First Regiment of Infantry, Kentucky National Guard.

  • Cover of the 1940 Kentucky Derby Program. Jockey Carroll Bierman won the 66th Kentucky Derby on Gallahadion in an upset over heavily favored Bimelech.

  • The 90th Anniversary bulletin from Plymouth Congregational Church is a three-page typescript depicting the monumental service and the history behind the church and the settlement house in the Russell neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
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