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Trip to Kentucky and visit at the nursery stud, Lexington
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A Kentucky Episode
Manuscripts
A signed, autograph manuscript; written in Lexington, Kentucky. The manuscript was published under the title: King Solomon of Kentucky.
mssHM 14989
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Gardens [in Lexington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio]
Visual Materials
Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
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Mae Donovan Dihel diary of a trip to Mexico City
Manuscripts
Diary kept by Donnie Dihel while on her trip from Lexington, Kentucky, to Mexico City in 1938. The author makes several comments about the conditions she saw due to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. She also makes several comments regarding the African Americans she saw during her travels as well as the people of Mexico. Accompanied by a letter to Mae Donovan Dihel and a family-related clipping, 1937 and 1951.
mssHM 84013
Stephen G. Burbridge, Lexington, Kentucky, letter to Abraham Lincoln
Manuscripts
Letter. Identified as "copy for Surgeon in chief T.S. Bell" on letterhead of the Office of The Mayor, Louisville, Kentucky.
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Stephen G. Burbridge, Lexington, Kentucky, letter to Abraham Lincoln
Manuscripts
Letter. Identified as "copy for Surgeon in chief T.S. Bell" on letterhead of the Office of The Mayor, Louisville, Kentucky. (6 pages)
HM 25133
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Our trip across Alaska and Klondike as far as Dawson City
Visual Materials
Bound photograph album containing 49 black-and-white snapshots documenting a trip by Alfred and Charles O'Meara in May-August 1899 from Skagway, Alaska, into the Yukon Territory, Canada, to their gold mining claim sites at Last Chance Creek, thirty miles from Dawson City. Each image is accompanied by a descriptive handwritten caption chronicling the trip. The images depict landscapes; travel by foot, mule, and canoe; camping; rivers; steamships; town sites; and mining and mining sites. Depicted locations include: the Dyea Trail; Chilkoot Pass; Lindermann Lake; Lake Bennett; Bennett City; Taglish Lake, Marsh Lake, Lake Lebarge; Hootalinqua Station; the Bib Salmon River Police Station; Lewes River; Fort Selkirk; Yukon River; Stewart City; Dawson City; and Last Chance Creek. Some notable photographs include a photograph of the wooden tracks of the tramway at Miles Canyon (No. 25); a boat on White Horse Rapids (No. 30); the wreck of the steamer Domville (No. 37); and the Steamer Golden Star (No. 39).
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