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Journal of a trip from Philadelphia to Lexington in Kentucky
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Trip to Kentucky and visit at the nursery stud, Lexington
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Photograph album documenting a visit by five friends to Lexington, Kentucky, to tour thoroughbred horse farms, to Louisville to watch the Kentucky Derby, and other points of interest in the Blue Grass region, from May 2nd to May 9th, 1896, as guests of race horse breeder August Belmont, Jr., the members of the party were William A. Burnham, A. Lithgow Devens, A. Clifford Tower, Amos T. French, and E. C. Potter. With many photographs of horses, as well as images including group portraits of the group, the Kentucky Association Track in Lexington, traveling to the Mammoth Cave, and a raccoon. The album includes handwritten captions for some images and a handwritten daily summary of the trip on the last page as well as a menu for the Navarro Cafe, Lexington, Kentucky, May 5, 1896, for August Belmont.
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The Kentucky gazette, Lexington, Kentucky : Reproduced by the photostat process from the file owned by the Public library of Lexington, Ky
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Cincinnati, Ohio and Lexington, Kentucky: Gardens
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Images of landscaping and gardens at several houses. Majority are unidentified. Image 021 is residence of Louis G. Freemans (Jr.); image 045 is residence of Harry S. Robinsons; both in Cincinnati, both Henry Fletcher Kenney, landscape designer (see citations).
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Gardens [in Lexington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio]
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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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"The Kentucky Engineer", College of Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY
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mssMorris, Samuel papers
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The Memorial of the mechanics and manufacturers of Lexington, Kentucky, to Congress
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