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Trip to Kentucky and visit at the nursery stud, Lexington

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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

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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.

    photCL MLP

  • Stephen G. Burbridge, Lexington, Kentucky, letter to Abraham Lincoln

    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.

    mssLincoln

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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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    "The Kentucky Engineer", College of Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY

    Manuscripts

    The collection deals primarily with the professional and personal activities of Samuel Brooks Morris, a civil engineer of note in Southern California who was most active from the 1930s into the early 1960s. The collection deals with local (Pasadena and Los Angeles), state and national engineering concerns, largely related to water reclamation, dams, hydrogeology, water litigation, and a wide range of related technical publications. The material consists of a highly diverse mix of manuscripts and printed materials, including correspondence, maps, notes, charts, fliers, and brochures, often interspersed within each folder. The correspondence is primarly to and from colleagues, but also includes discusion with government officials at all levels from local to national. The collection includes a small number of photographs, located in appropriate sections of the collection by subject.

    mssMorris, Samuel papers

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    Our trip across Alaska and Klondike as far as Dawson City

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    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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