Dorris Museum Collection, 1319-1950s | Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: Dorris Museum Collection, 1319-1950s

Extent: 5.0 Cubic Feet

Date Acquired: 04/01/2000

Subjects: Boonesboro (Ky.), Land titles--Kentucky., Railroad companies--United States., Transportation--Kentucky.

Languages: English, Latin, German, French

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection consists of manuscript materials that were collected by the Dorris Museum. Some of the collection has been processed either as individual collections or has been added to other artificial collections as appropriate. The items inventoried here are just a small percentage of a collection that had a worldwide scope. Dr. Dorris collected any materials that he found to be interesting without regard to subject. Other materials will be added to this inventory as identified and processed.

Subject/Index Terms

Boonesboro (Ky.)
Land titles--Kentucky.
Railroad companies--United States.
Transportation--Kentucky.

Administrative Information

Repository: Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

Acquisition Source: Fletcher, Jack (Dorris Museum)

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Box:

[Box 1],
[Box 2],
[Box 3],
[Box 4: Artifacts],
[Box 5],
[Box 6],
[Box 7],
[Box 8],
[Box 9],
[Box 10],
[Folder FPF 1: Papal Document, 1319],
[Folder FPF 2: Petition to the Legislature of Kentucky, 30 Aug 1792],
[All]

Box 1

Barcode: 31234013795412

Folder 1: Stacy Family Correspondence and Receipts, 1870-1905

Item 1: Letter from Patrick White to Eliza Stacy, 9 Mar 1870: Love letter with drawings. (From Dorris Museum, N.72)
Item 2: Account between J.B. McCoy and William Stacy & Son, 21 Nov 1900: Account for driving staves from Balls Fork on Troublesome Creek to Jackson, KY (From Dorris Museum, N.68.3)
Item 3: Receipt from William Stacy & Son to Lexington & Eastern Railway Co., 22 Oct 1901: Receipt marked PAID for transportation of freight (From Dorris Museum, N.68.2)
Item 4: Letter from Adam Campbell to Jasper Stacy, 30 Sep 1905: Letter describing a survey done on land and includes amount due for payment of said, Napier Patent and Holiday Patent. (From Dorris Museum, N.86)

Folder 2: Perry County, Kentucky Deeds, 1846-1899

Item 1: DS John Holliday, 24 Sept 1846: Deed from John Holliday to Trudy (?) Davis for land in Perry County, KY (From Dorris Museum, N.52.11)
Item 2: DS Philip Williams, 16 Oct 1871: Deed from Philip Williams to William Stacy in Perry County (From Dorris Museum, N.112.1)
Item 3: DS Fayette Hewitt, 14 May 1883: Deed from Fayette Hewitt to Walter Holliday for land in Perry County, KY. (From Dorris Museum, N.111)
Item 4: DS W.W. Baker, 18 Nov 1883: Deed from W.W. Baker to William Stacy for land in Perry County, KY. (From Dorris Museum, N.52.12)
Item 5: DS J.M. Wooten and his wife Elizabeth Wooton and Nicholas Williams and his wife Anney Williams, 26 Mar 1890: Deed from J. M. Wooton and wife Elizabeth Wooton and Nicholas Williams and his wife Anney Williams to William Stacy fro land in Perry County, KY. (From Dorris Museum, N.52.9)
Item 6: DS Harrison Williams and Elizabeth Williams, his wife and Nicholas Williams & Anna Williams, his wife, 14 Jan 1891: Deed from Harrison Williams and Elizabeth Williams, his wife and Nicholas Williams and Anna Williams, his wife to William Stacy for land in Perry County, KY. (From Dorris Museum, N.112.2)
Item 7: DS Walter W. Holliday & Louisa Holliday, his wife, Grant Holliday & John L. Holliday, 24 Mar 1899: Deed from Walter W. Holliday & Louisa Holliday, his wife, Grant Holliday & John L. Holliday to William Stacy for land in Perry County, KY. (From Dorris Museum, N.52.13)

Folder 3: Stereocards - International

Item 1: A terrible volcanic explosion - Mont Pelee in Eruption, June, 1902, Martinique, 1902: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 2: An earthly Paradise, famous Vale of Cashmere, watered by the winding Jhelum, India, 1902: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 3: Diorite statue of King Khafre, builder of the Second Pyramid at Gizeh, Cairo, Egypt, 1904: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 4: Kingston after the fearful earthquake - W . From Soutar Tower down Harbor St., Jamaica., 1906: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 5: The Pool of Siloam, outside of Jerusalem (John ix : 1-7), 1900: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 6: Christian Street - motley Life in the Holy City's bazaar district - Jerusalem, Palestine, 1900: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 7: Garden of Gethsemane and Mount of Olives, from the eastern wall - Jerusalem, Palestine, 1908: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 8: Throw your head back and look up one of the Big Trees, Stanley Park, V, 1900: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers

Folder 4: Stereocards - United States

Item 1: Landscape, undated: Country field, writing on the back of stereocard; Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 2: Store Fronts on a city street, undated: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 3: A half-mile of pork - Armour's great packing-house, Chicago. Ill., 1894: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 4: The Pride of Mormons- The Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1901: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 5: Fathoming the depth of vanished sea- Grand Canon of Arizona from Hance's Cove, 1908: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 6: From Washington Monument (E.) over Agricultural Grounds to the Capitol, Washington, U.S.A., 1903: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 7: From Ferry Bldg. Tower up Market St., after the greatest of modern disasters, San Francisco, Cal, 1906: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 8: Yosemite Falls from Glacier Point Trail, Yosemite Valley, Cal, 1901: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 9: A Little Farmer Girl and a Splendid Pair of Herefords, 1903: Bull and cow on a stock farm in Kansas.

Folder 5: Stereocards - Daily Life

Item 1: Consider the lilies how they grow - Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these, 1901: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 2: Unidentified Family Group, undated: People standing for portrait with goat.
Item 3: The Afternoon Tea Party, undated: Creator: Polychrome Stereo View, Reproduced from Original Stereoscopic Photograph
Item 4: Junior class carrying the traditional daisy chain - graduation exercises, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1906: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 5: A Knight of Labor, 1899: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 6: Good Night, 1901: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 7: The story that led to the land of nod, 1901: 2 cards.; Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers

Folder 6: Stereocards - War

Item 1: American Soldiers entrenched at Pasay - awaiting orders to fire - Philippine Islands, 1899: Spanish American War; Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 2: Fighting from Stone Wall Defenses - Washington Volunteers - Taguig Philippines, 1899: Spanish American War; Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 3: Chinese who paid War's penalty at South Gate immediately after Allies entered the City -Battle at Tientsin China, 1901: City was renamed Tianjin; Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 4: Reserves a waiting orders to advance - during an assault of the Russian forts - siege of Port Arthur, 1905: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 5: The Horrors of modern war - a trench filled with Japanese dead - in a Russian fort, Port Arthur, 1905: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Item 6: Expecting an attack from Russian cavalry - alert Japanese near Tehling, Manchuria, 1906: Creator: Underwood & Underwood Publisher

Folder 7: Photographs, 1800s

Item 1: Unidentified man, undated
Item 2: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 3: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 4: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 5: Unidentified man, undated
Item 6: Unidentified man, undated
Item 7: Unidentified man, undated
Item 8: Unidentified man, undated
Item 9: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 10: Unidentified man, undated
Item 11: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 12: Unidentified man, undated
Item 13: Unidentified girl, undated
Item 14: Unidentified man, undated
Item 15: Unidentified girl, undated
Item 16: Unidentified boy, undated
Item 17: Unidentified man and woman, undated
Item 18: Two unidentified men, undated
Item 19: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 20: Unidentified man, undated
Item 21: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 22: Unidentified Group of men, undated
Item 23: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 24: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 25: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 26: Unidentified man, undated
Item 27: Unidentified woman and child, undated
Item 28: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 29: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 30: Unidentified man and woman, undated
Item 31: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 32: Unidentified man, undated
Item 33: Unidentified man and woman, undated
Item 34: Unidentified man, undated
Item 35: Unidentified men, undated
Item 36: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 37: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 38: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 39: Unidentified woman, undated: Creator: Archer, D.J., Columbus, OH
Item 40: Unidentified man, undated: Creator: Stevens, T.J., Maysville, KY
Item 41: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 42: Unidentified man, undated
Item 43: Unidentified man, undated
Item 44: Unidentified man, undated
Item 45: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 46: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 47: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 48: Unidentified man, undated
Item 49: Unidentified man, undated
Item 50: Unidentified man, undated
Item 51: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 52: Unidentified woman, undated: Creator: Bryan, C.H., Mt. Sterling, KY
Item 53: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 54: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 55: Unidentified man, undated
Item 56: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 57: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 58: Unidentified man, undated
Item 59: Unidentified child, undated
Item 60: Unidentified boy, undated
Item 61: Unidentified man, undated
Item 62: Mary A. Whaler, undated
Item 63: S. Ally Britton, undated
Item 64: Martha A. Chandler, 1866: Creator: Cooper, Mrs. B., Maysville, KY
Item 65: James C. Ricketts & William Britton, undated
Item 66: Alice Ricketts, undated
Item 67: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 68: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 69: Two unidentified women, undated
Item 70: Unidentified man, undated
Item 71: Unidentified girl, undated
Item 72: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 73: Unidentified man, undated
Item 74: Unidentified man, undated
Item 75: Unidentified girl, undated
Item 76: Unidentified man, undated
Item 77: Unidentified man, undated
Item 78: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 79: Unidentified man, undated
Item 80: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 81: Unidentified girl, undated
Item 82: Unidentified man, undated
Item 83: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 84: Unidentified woman, undated
Item 85: Unidentified boy, undated
Item 86: Unidentified Civil War Soldier, ca. 1863
Item 87: Unidentified boys, undated
Item 88: Unidentified boy, undated: Creator: Schlegel, J.L.
Item 89: Unidentified Man, undated: Creator: Schlegel, J.L.
Item 90: Unidentified Man, undated
Item 91: Unidentified Man, undated: Creator: Shull & Rue, Richmond, KY

Folder 8: John Taylor's Scrapbook, 1876-1878

This scrapbook was created by Postmaster John Taylor of Richmond, KY and consists of news clippings pasted over a book titled Report of the Commissioner of Patents. Many of the articles are related to politics; however, he also included clippings on medical remedies; the Freedman's Bureau; various statistics around the state, country and world; the case of James H. Arnold who killed Robert E. Little; the Hill-Evans Feud in Garrard County, and the Sanders and Ballard fight on Second Street in Richmond to name just a few.