The Filson Newsmagazine
Volume 5, Number 1
The Satellites of Mercury
The Louisville Board
of Trade developed the Southern Exposition as a way to
promote industry and commerce of Louisville and the South.
It was held for several years starting in 1883, and during
that time millions of people from all over America attended
the yearly festivals.
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Marine Corps General: The Papers of Ronald Reginald Van Stockum
The Filson Historical
Society has been fortunate to receive the papers of retired
Marine Corps General Ronald Reginald Van Stockum. These
papers cover his career in the Marine Corps until his
retirement in 1969, after which he began a second career at
the University of Louisville Medical School as an
administrator. The collection has over 60 years of letters,
journals, documents, photographs and artifacts that span
several continents. It came to The Filson well organized
and, as a result, was quickly cataloged.
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Mary B. Cobb: A Kentucky Portraitist
Louisville native Mary
B. Cobb is an accomplished artist who has used her career as
a means through which to explore a diverse range of human
experiences. The Filson Historical Society’s Mary Cobb
Collection chronicles Cobb’s career history and artistic
achievements, and contains nearly 300 examples of her
original artwork as well as relevant photographs, diaries,
papers and letters.
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PastPerfect Software: Better Access to Collections
A few years ago The
Filson Historical Society searched for a computer software
program that would allow its museum, print and photograph
collections to be more efficiently managed and more
accessible to both staff and researchers. After researching
a number of programs on the market, a program named
PastPerfect was selected.
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Ray Harm Collection: New Filson Acquisition
Ray Harm is one of
America’s most revered wildlife artists and naturalists.
He remains one of the few wildlife artists who capture their
subjects in nature from first-hand observation, rather than
from photographs.
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Neighborhoods Initiative: New Educational Programming
The Filson Historical Society has made a
major commitment to its Old Louisville neighborhood and,
with that in mind, has begun a new initiative this year to
teach the students of our community about the neighborhoods
in which they learn and live.
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Breaux Fellow: Michael F. Conlin
Were the North and South, and the West for
that matter, really as culturally divided into “separate
societies” leading up to the Civil War as the consensus
among scholars now stands? Eastern Washington University’s
assistant professor of history Michael F. Conlin is not won
over by this consensus and challenges it in his current
research project entitled “Patriotic Culture in a Divided
Republic: the Parallel Paths of American Nationalism on the
Road to the Civil War, 1848-1862.”
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