Donnie Pence Photograph Collection, 1870s-1982.

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Donnie Pence Photograph Collection, 1870s-1982.

Donnie Pence Photograph Collection, 1870s-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/136972603

The Donnie Pence Photograph Collection consists of photographs and newspaper clippings donated by the estate of Lowell Ashe and his wife Ann. Lowell Ashe was a relative of Donnie Pence. The older vintage photographs were once owned by Donnie Pence and the copy prints were provided by Tom Watson, the publisher of the Salt River Arcadian. There are 55 photographs including cabinet cards, tintypes, carte-de-visite, silver gelatin prints and copy prints of engravings and photographs. Most of the photographs date from the late 1800s, around the 1860s-1880s, although many do not have exact dates listed. The photograph subjects include portraits of Jesse and Frank James; the James Brothers mother, Zerelda James Samuel; Jesse James wife Zerelda Mimms James; members of the James-Younger Gang such as Cole Younger; William C. Quantrill and members of his gang; Donnie Pence and members of the Pence family; and a photograph of Phil Evans, the last man to be hung in Nelson County, Ky., walking to his execution. A few portraits are credited with a photographer and these include North American Photo-Copying Co. of St., Jamestown, N.Y., Phipps, Georgetown, Ky., D.C. Bettison of Louisville, Ky., W.L. Elrod of Louisville, Ky., Thomson of Kansas City, Mo., Strong of Kearney, Mo., Wiley C. Troglen of Elizabethtown, Ky., J.C. Elrod of Louisville, Ky. and Wybrant of Louisville, Ky. There are two (2) newspaper clippings from the Courier Journal (August 16, 1969 and April 4, 1982) included in the collection, both relating to Jesse James. The vintage prints and copy prints were originally mounted in an album, and have been numbered according to their order in that album. Each photograph was described and given an individual number on an itemized list and entered into an Excel table. The photographs are in an acid free box and each photograph was put in an acid free photograph sleeve. The collection is in one box, 0.5 cubic feet.

0.5 c.f.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library