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Thruston, Charles William, 1796-1865. Charles William Thruston : miscellaneous papers, 1823-1855.

Title: Charles William Thruston : miscellaneous papers, 1823-1855.

Includes bills of sale for slaves and the hiring of slaves; bills for medical expenses; and announcements of runaway slaves.

ArchivalResource: 55 items.

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O'Fallon, John, 1791-1865. John O'Fallon : papers, 1809-1850.

Title: John O'Fallon : papers, 1809-1850.

The papers primarily consist of O'Fallons' letters to his half brother, Charles W. Thruston of Louisville, but also include letters written to O'Fallon by various persons. The letters deal with O'Fallons' business affairs; the various branches of the family, particularly the Clarks and Thrustons, including William Clark and Meriwether Lewis Clark; allusions to contemporary events; the fur trade and expeditions regarding it; Osage Indian trade; and reminiscences of the officers and battles of the War of 1812, particularly the battles of Tippecanoe and the Thames. Prominent correspondents include Henry Atkinson, Robert Campbell, John Croghan, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, Lawrence Taliaferro, Charles S. Todd, and Robert S. Todd.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 cubic ft.

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Anderson, William Pope, 1874-1951,. Anderson Family : papers, 1805-1911.

Title: Anderson Family : papers, 1805-1911.

Included are a scrapbook of photoagraphs of family portraits, genealogical information on the Andersons of Goldmine, Hanover County, Virginia, and copies of family correspondence, including Robert Anderson letters.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46719328 View

Thruston, R. C. Ballard. Papers, 1916, 1933, 1936, 1942.

Title: Papers, 1916, 1933, 1936, 1942.

Letters from Thruston, a family tree, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (2 folders) and31 photographs (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173702251 View

Thruston, R. C. Ballard. Papers, 1908 April 10.

Title: Papers, 1908 April 10.

Letter, April 10, 1908, from R.C. Ballard Thruston, Louisville, Ky., relative to two George Croghan letters he proposes to send to the D.A.R. in Fremont, O.

ArchivalResource: 1 item, 1 p.

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Gwathmey family. Gwathmey family : miscellaneous papers, 1825-1943.

Title: Gwathmey family : miscellaneous papers, 1825-1943.

Primarily comprised of correspondence between R.C. Ballard Thruston and Judge Arthur E. Hopkins concerning the Gwathmey and allied families, and transcripts of Gwathmey letters describing a visit to Harmony, Ind., George Rapp, Lafayette's visit to Ky., activities, and deaths. Extensive genealogical information on both the ancestors and descendants of Owen and Ann Clark Gwathmey is given, as well as data on the allied Booth, Bullitt, and Clark families.

ArchivalResource: 43 items.

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Thruston, R. C. Ballard. Correspondence, 1933-1941.

Title: Correspondence, 1933-1941.

Correspondence between Thruston and Thomas H. Warner of Tappahannock, Va., concerns genealogical research on the Rogers, Clark, McLeod, Richards, and allied families of colonial Va. Extensive extracts from Va. records are included and analyzed.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49324772 View

Bodley family. Bodley family papers, 1773-1939.

Title: Bodley family papers, 1773-1939.

Papers pertaining to the Bodley and related families, primarily in Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Virginia, include personal and business correspondence, business, legal, land, and military papers, and genealogical material. Personal correspondence, 1776-1920, revolves around Thomas Bodley, his son William Stewart Bodley, and his grandson Temple Bodley. Topics include Kentucky history and politics; prominent Kentucky families like the Breckinridges, Clays, Crittendens, and Wickliffes; presidential elections and candidates; African American colonization efforts; agriculture in Kentucky and the South; banking; California history and the gold rush; cholera and other diseases; churches; land speculation; North American Indians; lawyers in Kentucky and Mississippi; Louisville history and politics; the Mexican War; Mississippi history and politics; the Aaron Burr Conspiracy; railroad development; the Civil War; states' rights; Reconstruction; slavery; religion and religious thought; St. Louis history; United States history, politics, foreign relations, and military; Virginia history; the Whig Party; and World War I. Documents include three diaries (1770-1811, 1814-1815, 1863-1865); land papers, 1783-1912; business papers, 1781-1936; military papers, 1788-1852; and genealogy. The collection also contains a group of Clark-Hite-Shiell Papers.

ArchivalResource: 9.33 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86072194 View

Kentucky. Sesquicentennial commission. Sesquicentennial Commission : records, 1937-1943.

Title: Sesquicentennial Commission : records, 1937-1943.

Correspondence and minutes of the Kentucky Sesquicentennial Commission collected by R.C. Ballard Thruston. Records concern the formation of the commission and the execution of its plans, including financial, promotional, educational, and logistical aspects of the events planned for Kentucky's 150th anniversary.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

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Weaks, Mabel Clare, 1883-. Mabel Clare Weaks : miscellaneous papers, 1918-1946.

Title: Mabel Clare Weaks : miscellaneous papers, 1918-1946.

Papers include correspondence between Weaks and numerous historical societies and libraries throughout the world concerning copies of John Filson's The Discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucke. Also included is a list of locations for all known copies of Filson's book as of the mid-20th century; and correspondence between Weaks and Transylvania University officials regarding a miniature portrait of Samuel C. Rafinesque that she was assisting the school in acquiring.

ArchivalResource: 107 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49347922 View

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Letters, 1896-1910.

Title: Letters, 1896-1910.

Letters dated 31 July and 11 Aug. to Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston regarding Governor William Clark's journal kept during Anthony Wayne's campaign, 1792-1794; and a 5 Feb. 1910 letter to Messrs. Newland, Tarlkon & Co. expressing his appreciation for all they have done to help make his trip a success.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Filson Club. Filson Club records, 1890-1893.

Title: Filson Club records, 1890-1893.

Collection consists of early incoming correspondence to the Filson Club, specifically to Reuben T. Durrett as president. The letters are mainly replies to offers of membership (including one membership certificate). Other letters cover possible acquisitions, mainly "relics," for the Filson's collection and Kentucky Centenary Celebration. Tickets to the celebration, signed by Basil W. Duke (3 $10 tickets and 6 $5 tickets) are included, along with Filson letterhead. Notable correspondents include R. C. Ballard Thruston, Cassius M. Clay, George M. Davie, Bruce Haldeman, E. T. Halsey, Virginia Campbell Thompson, Abbe Carter Goodloe, and Rufus J. Childress.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

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Reade, Philip Hildreth, 1844-1919. Philip Hildreth Reade : papers, 1915-1919.

Title: Philip Hildreth Reade : papers, 1915-1919.

Correspondence of Reade with R.C. Ballard Thruston concerning Reade's study of General Anthony Wayne and the officers and men in his Legion of the United States.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 cubic ft. 89 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49301997 View

Fox, John, 1863-1919. John Fox : miscellaneous papers, 1883-1909.

Title: John Fox : miscellaneous papers, 1883-1909.

Papers include typed copies of his letters, 1883-1889, to Micajah Fible describing Fox's early career as a reporter for the Daily Sun and New York Times, as a law student at Columbia University, travels between New York and Kentucky, early literary efforts, and his move to Jellico, Tennessee; letters written to R.C. Ballard Thruston between 1890 and 1900 requesting photographs to illustrate an article on the southern mountains; three 1895 letters to Mary Lafon regarding arrangements and fees for his lecture for the benefit of a hospital in Louisville; a 3 November 1909 letter to Charles Belmont Dois regarding an article Fox had written; and a five page typewritten autobiography.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

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Breaux, Gustave Aurelian, 1869-1953. Papers, 1888-1964.

Title: Papers, 1888-1964.

Copies of letters written to R.C. Ballard Thruston, August - November, 1888, concerning certified deeds, travel conditions in Harlan County (Ky.), and U.S. presidential election results in Lee County (Va.). Also includes letters and a proxy concerning the 1951 sale of Ballard and Ballard Mills to C.A. Pillsbury; letters and receipts from the First Unitarian Church regarding his fund raising work; letters of appreciation from various organizations to which he contributed; and also copies of his will and death certificate. His papers also include a 1 December 1964 letter from Richard Nixon to Charles Breaux discussing the 1964 election results.

ArchivalResource: 76 items.

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Bodley, Temple, 1852-1940. Letters, 1915-1916.

Title: Letters, 1915-1916.

Collection includes letters written to R.C. Ballard Thruston concerning research on the life of George Rogers Clark and the collection of material about him. Letters contain suggestions to Thruston as to manner of note-taking and which material to have copied, etc.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46727267 View

Ballard, Andrew Jackson, 1815-1885. Andrew Jackson Ballard : Papers, 1848-1896.

Title: Andrew Jackson Ballard : Papers, 1848-1896.

Included are Ballard's letters to Frances Thruston during their courtship; business records; land papers; estate papers for various family members; family correspondence; household accounts; and tax records.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46719441 View

Thruston, R. C. Ballard. Correspondence, 1940-1942.

Title: Correspondence, 1940-1942.

Correspondence with Lucy Brown Beale of Hague, Va., describes genealogical research on the ancestral families of Thruston, including typed extracts from the order books of Westmoreland County, Va., 1663-1750, and Caroline County, Va., containing information on the Pope, Rogers, Clark, Oldham, Marshall, Lisson, Wilson, and Richards families; cemetery inscriptions at Bushfield, Va., for the Bushrod family; and wills for Nathaniel Pope, 1659, and Original Brown, 1697.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964. Miscellaneous papers, 1921-1960.

Title: Miscellaneous papers, 1921-1960.

Collection includes a letter, 1960 Sept. 15, from Hoover to Thruston Morton informing Morton that the notes he has been promised are on there way; a letter, 1921 Jan. 21, from Hoover to James M. Beck about the American Relief Administration; also included are an invitation to a reception for the completion of a channel in the Ohio River and two letters to R.C. Ballard Thruston from the Louisville Board of Trade about the reception.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49242924 View

Alfred Pirtle Papers, 1847-1924.

Title: Alfred Pirtle Papers, 1847-1924.

Papers consisting of correspondence, 1847-1923, including a volume of Civil War letters; a journal, 1859-1862; and Pirtle's writings for magazines and newspapers on local and Ky. history. Correspondents include Simon Bolivar Buckner, Thomas J. Chenoweth, John M. Harlan, James E. Jouett, John Bassett Moore, Henry Pirtle, and C. P. Summerall. Pirtle's Civil War letter book contains letters Pirtle wrote to his parents, Judge and Mrs. Henry Pirtle, sisters, brothers, covering his service in the 10th Ohio Volunteer Infantry under Major General Ormsby Mitchel on the march from Bowling Green, Ky. to Huntsville, Ala.; service under Major General Lovell H. Rousseau on the return march to Bowling Green in Sept. 1862 and as ordnance officer of the 3rd Division; Battle of Murfreesboro (Stones River); encampment near Murfreesboro 3 Jan.-23 June 1863. Also covers his service as aide-de-camp to General William H. Lytle of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, 20 Apr.-19 Sept 1863; Battle of Chickamauga; return to the 10th Ohio, Company F; service in and near Chattanooga; and description of the storming of Missionary Ridge. Also included are letters of recommendation for Pirtle from Colonel Curran Pope, Philip H. Sheridan, A. M. Cook, Lovell H. Rousseau, and George H. Thomas; and letters to Mrs. Henry Pirtle from Colonel William H. Lytle, James Barnard, Doctor T. S. Bell, Captain James W. Abert, and others, dated 1861-1863. Pirtle's journal, relates his residence at Gallatin, Tenn., in 1859 as an employee of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; return to Louisville where he records the impact of the Civil War on Ky. and Mo.; flag raisings; peace meetings; recruiting; drilling; blockades; his encampment with the Citizen Guards, 21-27 May, 1861; routine of camp duties; sojourn at Ohio White Sulphur Springs with mother and sister, July-Aug., 1861; volunteer service in the Crittenden Union Zouaves, Sept.-Nov. 1861; loss by his brother, Doctor John Pirtle, of his command as major in the U.S. Army, Ky. Volunteers; Ohio River flood in 1862; defeat of General Felix K. Zollicoffer at Mill Springs 19 Jan. 1862; commission, Feb. 1862, as second lieutenant, Company H, 10th Ohio. Journal also relates his service in General Ormsby Mitchel's division on the march from Fort Jefferson to Huntsville, Ala. where he was encamped during the summer; aide-de-camp to General Lytle; change in command of the 3rd Division from Mitchel to General W. S. Smith; and from Smith to Rousseau; evacuation of Huntsville, 31 Aug. 1862; the return to Bowling Green in pursuit of Braxton Bragg and his army; and the column being impeded by slaves seeking freedom.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic ft.

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Thruston, R. C. Ballard. Report, [18--?].

Title: Report, [18--?].

An undated geological report of the areas of Bell, Harlan, Knox, and Letcher counties in Ky. mainly concerns coal, and also describes the topography of the area.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (276 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49324782 View

Thruston, R. C. Ballard. Photograph collection, 1880-1942.

Title: Photograph collection, 1880-1942.

Collection includes photographs taken in Ky. in Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Breckinridge, Caldwell, Carroll, Daviess, Edmonson, Fayette, Franklin, Green, Hancock, Hardin, Hart, Henry, Hopkins, Jefferson, Larue, Leslie, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Mercer, Metcalfe, Monroe, Nicholas, Nelson, Oldham, Scott, Shelby, Trimble, and Whitley counties. He photographed scenes and people in Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Conn., Del., Washington (D.C.), Fla., Ga., Hawaii, Ill., Ind., La., Mass., Mich., Minn., Miss., N.H., N.J., N.M., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Or., Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Utah, Vt., Va., Wash., W. Va., Wis., and Wyo. Foreign countries in which Thruston traveled and photographed include the Azores, Austria, Bahamas, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Panama, the Philippines, and Scotland. The collection includes negatives and contact prints for many of the negatives.

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49324778 View

Thruston, R. C. Ballard. R.C. Ballard Thruston : papers, 1885-1945.

Title: R.C. Ballard Thruston : papers, 1885-1945.

Papers include correspondence, 1929-1942, regarding the Ballard and Ballard Co.; letters of Frances Thruston Ballard discussing family and routine matters; notes about early Jefferson County courthouses, marriages, and census; abstracts of marriage laws in Hening's Statutes of Virginia; and a notebook containing the history of the Ballard Mills. Also include are Thruston's 10 May-23 July 1873 travel journal kept while touring Europe; and 13 Jan.-25 Apr. 1920 journal kept while touring Japan, China, and Manila.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49324781 View

Thruston, R. C. Ballard. R.C. Ballard Thruston : miscellaneous papers, 1866-1945.

Title: R.C. Ballard Thruston : miscellaneous papers, 1866-1945.

Includes a 24 Feb. 1866 phrenological character reading by Professor O.S. Fowler of Thruston; letters to Fanny Ballard from her cousin Ben O'Fallon concerning old family letters in his possession; correspondence between Milo M. Quaife and Thruston about Quaife's book on the American flag; twenty-two letters, 1910-1911, between Thruston and Benjamin LaBree concerning the Sons of the American Revolution and genealogy; twenty-five letters, 1925-1930, written to Ludie J. Kinkead regarding research Thruston had done on the signers of the Declaration of Independence; ten letters, 1940, 1945, regarding Thruston's recommendation of Daniel Mac-Hir Hutton as director of state parks; three letters, 1943, to John E. Boos regarding Kentucky's delegation to Abraham Lincoln's burial; and research notes.

ArchivalResource: 135 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49324780 View

Bodley, Temple, 1852-1940. Papers concerning George Rogers Clark, 1614-1888, 1906-1927.

Title: Papers concerning George Rogers Clark, 1614-1888, 1906-1927.

Papers including correspondence, 1906-1927, of Minnie G. Cook, primarily from Temple Bodley; and research materials gathered by them during their research on George Rogers Clark, American Revolutionary frontier leader and Indian commissioner, which culminated in the publication by Bodley of the biography entitled "George Rogers Clark: His Life and Public Services" (Boston, 1926). The correspondence includes letters written by historians, writers, and descendants of Clark. Research materials include extensive notes and photostats containing copies of papers, 1614-1888, relating to Clark and his forebears from the Draper Collection of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and other manuscript and archival collections, particularly those in the Virginia State Library and the Library of Congress.

ArchivalResource: 1.9 c.f. (17 volumes in 4 archives boxes and 1 separate volume)

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Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963. Archibald Henderson : papers, 1927-1956.

Title: Archibald Henderson : papers, 1927-1956.

Papers are primarily comprised of correspondence between Henderson and R.C. Ballard Thruston and Otto A. Rothert regarding Henderson's attempts to locate material about Daniel Boone, Benjamin Logan, and the Transylvania Company; and discussing the 1935 Boonesborough celebration.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 cubic ft.

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Thruston, R. C. Ballard,. Photographs of letters of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in the J.S.H. Fogg collection at the Maine Historical Society, ca. 1925.

Title: Photographs of letters of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in the J.S.H. Fogg collection at the Maine Historical Society, ca. 1925.

Photographs of letters of the signers; together with newsclippings relating to other collections of signers' autographs and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 26 cm.

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Thruston, R. C. Ballard. Mountain collection, 1880-1904.

Title: Mountain collection, 1880-1904.

Collection consists of a series of photographs of scenes and people in the mountains of eastern Ky., 1880-1904. Many were taken by Thruston when he was with the Kentucky Geological Survey in the 1880s and when he was representing the Kentucky Union Railroad Land Co. in the 1890s. Other photographs were taken by A.R. Crandall who also was with the Geological Survey. Included are views in Bell, Breathitt, Elliot, Floyd, Harlan, Knox, Letcher, Pike, Whitley, and Wolfe counties in Ky., and Wise County, Va.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49324776 View

Ballard family. Ballard Family : papers, 1840-1899.

Title: Ballard Family : papers, 1840-1899.

Papers relating to Frances Thruston Ballard's (1826-1896) reign as Queen of the May in 1840; letters, 1852-1859, from Frances Thruston to her runaway slave Cecilia J. Larrison living in Canada, relating news about their family and friends, letters, 1896-1899, from Cecilia to R.C. Ballard Thruston requesting financial assistance after her move back to Louisville, and Thruston's 1899 memoir of Cecilia, her family, and his family's association with her; two letters, 1883-1884, from Lyman C. Draper to Frances T. Ballard requesting information on George Rogers Clark and his slave Kitt; and invitations received by the family.

ArchivalResource: 37 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46719442 View

Seelbach, Otto, d. 1933. Letters, 1916.

Title: Letters, 1916.

Seelbach's 22 Jan. 1916 letter to John T. Settle of the Louisville Free Public Library notes that an enclosure regarding the availability of Daniel Boone letter. Settle's 3 Feb. 1916 response indicates that the library had no funds for such a purchase and suggests he contact Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Henry Hamilton papers, 1768-1933.

Title: Henry Hamilton papers, 1768-1933.

Papers of British officer HenryHamilton and correspondence and other papers related to the acquisition and publication of theseand other Hamilton manuscripts.

ArchivalResource: 2boxes (.75 linear ft.)

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