This burgundy velvet covered photograph album contains portraits of the Hiestand family and others. The album contains pages with slots for the pictures. The pictures were removed from the slots in order for the entire image to be scanned. Some...
An article in the Jasper Herald on the wedding of Linda Lou (Seitz) Rollins and Maurice C. Rollins, which took place in Louisville, KY. Keywords: man, woman, wedding, newspaper.
Korean War, 1950-1953--United States; Speedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Correspondence; United States. Army--Military life; Fort Knox (Ky.); United States. Army. Officer Candidate School
Arthur is in Fort Knox, Kentucky and writes that he has not heard from his brother since last September. He has been selected to go to Officer Candidate School but he feels bad being state side while other people he knows are overseas fighting. He...
Called the Rod Mill locally, American Steel and Wire moved to Anderson from Covington, Ky. in 1888. The factory was located in west Anderson on Locust Street. It made nails and tacks, wire rods, plain and barbed wire rope, concrete reinforcement...
From left to right, top to bottom: Nicholas Lott, Kate (Lott) Hurley, Anna (Lott) Melchior, Louise (Lott) Orr, Charles Lott, Frank Lott, Mary B. (Leinenbach) Lott, Charles Lott, Stephen Lott. Taken in Louisville, KY. Keywords: family, portrait
From left to right: Charles Lott, Alma (Melchior) Unseld, Anna (Lott) Melchior, Urban Melchior. Taken in Louisville, KY. Keywords: wedding, flowers, gown, tuxedo, portrait, hat
Civil War, U. S., 1861-1865; Correspondence; Fortune telling; Love-letters; American Civil War, letters and diaries; Military life
Ernest Schleicher, a soldier in Company I 38th Regiment Indiana Infantry, wrote letters home during the Civil War to Harriet Jackson of New Providence, Indiana. Ernest mustered in as a private in 1861 and was discharged in 1865 as a sergeant. These...
Steamboats; Showboats; Riverboats; "Grace Devers"; Towboats; Tugboats; Levees; Otto Hitner
The "Cotton Blossom" began life in 1896 as a raft for a lumber company working out of St. Paul. She handled the large excursion barge named "Mississippi" at one time, was renamed "The Princess" and was then sold to the Barrett Line for use as a...
The inscription on the picture says, "Sternwheel Towboat "Samuel Clark" built in Pittsburg in 1870, was used on the Ohio River until 1916 when the superstructure was removed and the hull sold to Maj. J.F. Butts, Carrollton, Ky., for use as a barge...
These are five tickets in a ticket booklet from the Louisville & Northern Railway & Lighting Company. The tickets are for a trail ride between Sellersburg, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. The ticket book was sold to N. B. Pierle on April 1, 1914.
Clark County (Ind.); Shepherdsville (Ky.); Court correspondence
This is a letter written by Frederic William Spence Grayson, Clerk of the Court in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, on 28 April 1818. It is addressed to John T. Ghum and James McCampbell, Gent Justice of the Peace in the Indiana Territory [Indiana was a...
A letter from Mary's brother, Val, who writes about newspaper accounts of her visit to Winchester. He writes about Milroy's retreat from Winchester, and Halleck's intention to crush Milroy for it. He also writes of Morgan's raid into Indiana.
Military communications; Soldiers--Selection and appointment
A letter from Zeigler to Milroy discussing the appointment of a regimental chaplain. Zeigler also discusses recent fighting and how his regiment faired in that fighting.
Letters; Milroy family--Correspondence; Jasper (Horse); Finances, Personal
A letter to Milroy's wife, Mary, letting her know he arrived safely in Louisville. He must wait there for Jasper before going on. He has encountered many acquaintances along the trip. He's sending Mary $800, which she and Cicero can use toward...
A ltter from Mary Milroy's brother, Valerius Armitage, to Milroy. Valerius writes of living in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the state of things there. He also writes his reaction to a false news report that Milroy was killed in battle.
