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Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Greater Louisville Project

Title: Records, 2003-2023

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.

Size of Collection: 1 cubic foot

Location Number: Mss. BM G786

Historical Note

Sponsored by the Community Foundation of Louisville, the Greater Louisville Project (GLP) was created in 2003 to support the newly merged Louisville Metro government. In 2003, the GLP commissioned the Brookings Institution report “Beyond Merger: A Competitive Vision for the Regional City of Louisville,” which used data to compare Louisville to other cities and suggest a long-term plan for the city’s progress.

Since its creation, the GLP has published data and research about education, jobs, health, and quality of place in Louisville through Competitive City Reports and other annual and special reports.

Source: https://greaterlouisvilleproject.org/about/

 

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains administrative files of the GLP, including memos, correspondence, and committee meeting minutes, as well as reports on education, jobs, health, and quality of place in Louisville. Data concerns the Louisville/Jefferson County merger, comparisons of Louisville to other cities, and recommendations about Louisville’s future growth and development.

The collection includes two CDs of digital material: “Louisville Downtown Development Plan / September 2002” and “State of Affairs / Greater Louisville Project / 9 August 2006.” The CDs have been digitized and are available to view by request.

Conditions of Access and Use

Staff can pull audiovisual materials for researchers to view the original media, but the content can only be accessed once digitized. Please speak to staff for more information.

 

Folder List

Box 1

Folder 1: GLP formation material, 2001-2002 (part 1 of 3)

Folder 2: GLP formation material, 2001-2002 (part 2 of 3)

Folder 3: GLP formation material, 2001-2002 (part 3 of 3)

Folder 4: “Lessons from the Best Run Cities in America” report, 2002

Folder 5: GLP “Phase II” material, 2002 (part 1 of 4)

Folder 6: GLP “Phase II” material, 2002 (part 2 of 4)

Folder 7: GLP “Phase II” material, 2002 (part 3 of 4)

Folder 8: GLP “Phase II” material, 2002 (part 4 of 4)

Folder 9: “Beyond Merger: A Competitive Vision for the Regional City of Louisville” report, 2002

Folder 10: GLP administrative material, 2005

Folder 11: GLP administrative material, 2006 (part 1 of 2)

Folder 12: GLP administrative material, 2006 (part 2 of 2)

Folder 13: GLP administrative material, 2007 (part 1 of 2)

Folder 14: GLP administrative material, 2007 (part 2 of 2)

Folder 15: “Restoring Prosperity Case Study: Louisville, Kentucky” report, 2008

Folder 16: GLP administrative material, 2008

Folder 17: GLP press, 2013

Folder 18: Competitive City Reports, 2005-2018

Folder 19: Special reports, 2008-2023

 

Subject Headings

City planning – Kentucky – Louisville.

Community Foundation of Louisville.

Economic development – Kentucky – Louisville.

Louisville (Ky.)

Urban planning – Kentucky – Louisville.

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Wolford family

Title: Photograph Collection, ca. 1870s-2010s

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these photographs, contact the Collections Department.

Size of Collection: 3 cu. ft. and 1 wrapped vol.

Location Number: 021PC48

Biographical Note

The central figures in the collection are Thorp L. Wolford (1918-2012) and his wife Evelyn Cox Wolford (1920-2014). Thorp’s parents, Leo T. Wolford (1890-1971) and Leah Jackson Wolford (1892-1918) are also prominently featured. The Wolfords and other related families, particularly the Jackson family, lived primarily in Versailles, Linton, and Terre Haute, Indiana. Leo and Thorp both lived and worked in Louisville, Kentucky, later in their lives.

Leo Wolford (1890-1971)

Leo Thorp Wolford was born May 1, 1890, in Linton, Indiana, to Edwin Lafayette Wolford (1861-1913), president and general manager of United Fourth Vein Coal Company, and Anna “Annie” Emily Thorp (1863-1935). His grandfather, John William Wolford (1837-1922), ran J. W. Wolford & Sons Department Store in Linton, Indiana. Leo had three siblings: Earl Clarence (1884-1969), Raymond Elmer (1887-1951), who married Zulla Leona Burress (1888-1966) and worked as bookkeeper for the United Fourth Vein Coal Company, and Jessie Ellen (1895-1972).

Leo graduated from Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, and from the University of Chicago. He obtained his Indiana teacher’s certificate in 1917 and worked as a history and economics teacher at New Albany High School from 1917 to 1918.

In 1916, he married Leah Jackson (1892-1918) of Versailles and New Albany, Indiana. Leah died of an infection in 1918, a week after giving birth to their son, Thorp. Leo never remarried. Thorp lived with Leo’s mother and sister Jessie in Indiana as a child.

Leo was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in 1919 and practiced law in Louisville at Bruce & Bullitt and successor firms. He served in the Army during World War I from around September 1918 to April 1919, serving at least for a time at Camp Zachary Taylor and Camp Knox. After his discharge, he returned to his practice and lived in Louisville at the Mayflower Apartments during the week while commuting to Versailles, Linton, or Terre Haute on many weekends to visit Thorp and the rest of the family.

Leo was actively involved in Louisville civic and legal groups, including serving as treasurer and president of the Filson in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also involved with the Louisville Title Insurance Company, Interstate Canning Company, Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville Bar Association, Pendennis Club, Lawyers Club, Conversation Club, Louisville Gas and Electric Company, Royal Crown Bottling Company, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and many other organizations.

He died on December 6, 1971, in Louisville.

Leah Jackson Wolford, 1892-1918

Leah Florence Jackson was born on September 7, 1892, in Versailles, Indiana, to Allie Belle Underwood (1867-1941) and Hiram Newton “Newt” Jackson (1863-1915).

She attended Franklin College, where she studied music and met her future husband, Leo Wolford. She graduated in 1912 and worked as principal at her Versailles high school the following year. In 1914 she enrolled in the University of Chicago, where she earned a Master of Arts. She was an accomplished scholar and published a book about Indiana folklore, games, and music titled The Play-Party in Indiana in 1917.

She married Leo on her twenty-fourth birthday, September 7, 1916. She gave birth to Thorp Wolford on January 8, 1918. A week later, on January 14, she died of peritonitis at age twenty-five.

Thorp Wolford (1918-2012)

Thorp Lanier Wolford was born on January 8, 1918, in New Albany, Indiana, to Leo Wolford (1890-1971) and Leah Jackson (1892-1918). He lived in Terre Haute, Indiana, with his grandmother Anna Wolford and aunt Jessie Wolford when he was a child.

He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1937 and earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1941. He served as a sergeant in the Army Signal Corps during World War II, working at intelligence gathering posts at Vint Hill, Virginia, and Honolulu, Hawaii. He earned his law degree from Harvard in 1944 and was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in 1948. He practiced law in Louisville as a partner at Middleton, Seelbach, Wolford, Willis, & Cochran. He also earned his Master of Arts from the University of Louisville in 1955.

In 1942, he married Evelyn Regina Cox (1920-2014) of Boston, Massachusetts. Thorp and Evelyn raised seven children and were actively involved in Louisville civic, social, and church groups, including the Louisville Arts Club and the Conversation Club.

He died on February 9, 2012, in Louisville.

Evelyn Wolford (1920-2014)

Evelyn Regina Cox was born on January 4, 1920, in Boston to Henry F. G. Cox and Alice Cox. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Simmons College in Boston before marrying Thorp Wolford in 1942. Together they lived in Louisville and had seven children.

Evelyn was involved in many clubs and organizations, including the Louisville Ballet, the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Arts Club of Louisville (for which she became the first female president), the University of Louisville Women’s Club, the Crescent Hill Woman’s Club, and the Woman’s Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention. She was a writer and poet, and in 2010 she and Thorp published a book of their poetry titled “Going On.”

She died on August 6, 2014.

Jessie Wolford (1895-1972)

Jessie Ellen Wolford, sister of Leo Wolford, was born on December 26, 1895, in Linton, Indiana, to Edwin Lafayette Wolford (1861-1913) and Anna “Annie” Emily Thorp (1863-1935).

Jessie graduated from Linton grade school around 1910, from Alhambra High School in California in 1914, and from Franklin College in Indiana in 1918. She did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin in 1919 and 1920. She also took some classes at Columbia University in New York in 1925 and at Indiana State Teacher’s College in 1944.

She taught at Concannon High School in Terre Haute, Indiana, for 34 years, from about 1919 until her retirement in 1953. She was also involved in several social, civil, and academic organizations throughout her life. She was president of Delta Kappa Gamma honorary teacher’s society, a member and one-time president of her chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), a member of Delta Zeta alumnae chapter, and a member of First Baptist Church in Terre Haute.

She died on May 13, 1972.

Flo White (1877-1943)

Florence “Flo” Jackson was born on February 6, 1877, in Johnson, Ripley County, Indiana, to James B. Jackson and Nancy Hyatt. She was the sister of Hiram Newton Jackson, aunt of Leah Jackson, and great aunt of Thorp Wolford. Flo wrote many letters to Leo and Thorp Wolford over the years.

In 1893, she married Lewis “Lew” Lester White (1874-1930), and they lived together in Versailles, Indiana, throughout their lives. Lew worked with Flo’s brother Newton Jackson in the mercantile business for many years before opening his own department store, located at U.S. Road 50 and State Road 29 in Versailles. The store eventually burned down, and Lew later became the southeastern Indiana representative for the securities department of the Meyer-Kiser Bank of Indianapolis. In 1930, Lew died in a car accident.

Flo was a writer and had an interest in genealogy—she wrote several genealogical sketches about the Hyatt family, Jackson family, and other relatives.

She died on August 18, 1943.

 

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of photographs of various formats and snapshot, cartes-de-visite, and cabinet card albums of the Wolford family of Linton, Terre Haute, and Versailles, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky. Also included in the collection are three cased ambrotypes and four framed photographs

Folders 1-33 include photographs and five photographic albums of Thorp Wolford, Evelyn Cox Wolford, and their children.

Folders 34-37 include photographs of Leo Wolford.

Folders 38-43 include photographs of Leah Jackson Wolford.

Folders 44-49 include photographs and a photographic album of Jessie Wolford.

Folders 50-64 include photographs of family members and other miscellaneous identified and unidentified people.

Folders 65-70 include photographs grouped by family, including the Wolford, Thorp, Underwood, Carr, Fainot, and Otter families.

Folders 71-79 include photographs of businesses, places, and events, mostly in Indiana.

Folder 80 includes two oversized photographs. One is a school group photograph featuring Thorp Wolford and the other a portrait of seven men, all likely law professionals in the Louisville area, including Thomas R. Gordon.

Volumes 81-84 are photographic albums of the Wolford, Thorp, Underwood, Jackson, and Warman families.

Removed from collection

021PC48.03: Ambrotype of an unidentified boy, ca. 1870

021PC48.04: Ambrotype of an unidentified woman, ca. 1870

021PC48.05: Ambrotype of an unidentified woman, ca. 1870

021PC48.06: Linton High School group photo featuring Leo Wolford, ca. 1908-1909

Related collections

Wolford family papers [Mss. A W859]

Related library material [uncataloged as of September 2024]

 

Folder List

Box 1

Thorp and Evelyn Wolford

Folder 1: Thorp Wolford, 1918-ca. 1927

Folder 2: Thorp Wolford with friends and family, ca. 1928-1934

Includes photos of Thorp during childhood illness in 1928 and photos of Thorp at Boy Scout camp

Folder 3: Thorp Wolford photograph album, ca. 1929-1934

Includes photos of family members

Folder 4: Thorp Wolford photograph album, 1932-1934

Includes photos of friends and family members in Terre Haute and Versailles, Indiana

Folder 5: Thorp Wolford Baptist Young People’s Union album, ca. 1935

Includes mostly photos of friends at BYPU

Folder 6: Thorp Wolford Baptist Young People’s Union album, ca. 1935

Includes mostly photos of friends at BYPU

Folder 7: Thorp Wolford photograph album, ca. 1935

Includes photos of friends and family members

Folder 8: Thorp Wolford family and friends (removed from album), 1935

Folder 9: Thorp Wolford at Phillips Academy, 1935-1937

Includes photographs of Thorp Wolford at Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.) from the

fall of 1935 to the spring of 1937. Of special interest are photos of a “Veterans of Future

Wars” rally in 1936, photos of a skiing trip, and a trick photo of a friend pretending to be

a knife-wielding ghost

Folder 10: Thorp Wolford at Phillips Academy, 1935-1937

Includes photos of Thorp’s friends, mostly from Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.)

Folder 11: Thorp Wolford at Harvard, ca. 1939-1942

Folder 12: Thorp Wolford Harvard graduation, June 1941

Includes photos of Evelyn Cox and a graduation parade

Folder 13: Thorp Wolford World War II friends and portrait photographs, ca. 1940s

Folder 14: Thorp Wolford World War II Hawaii, 1945-1946

Includes photos of military barracks and offices, military personnel relaxing on the beach, and a victory parade

Folder 15: Thorp Wolford portrait photographs, ca. 1919-1940

Folder 16: Thorp Wolford, ca. 1950s-2012

Folder 17: Evelyn Cox Wolford, 1941-1960s

Includes photos of Evelyn’s wedding and graduation from Simmons College (Boston, Mass.)

Folder 18: Thorp and Evelyn Wolford’s home “Paradise” in Warrenton, Va., 1943-1944

Folder 19: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children in Warrenton, Va., 1943-1944

Folder 20: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1945-1947

Includes photos of a Halloween party

Folder 21: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1948-1949

Includes photos of Halloween and Christmas, as well as a photo of an unidentified Black woman, possibly Mary Howard White

Folder 22: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children (removed from album), ca. 1950s

Folder 23: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1950-1951

Includes photos of Easter baskets and decorations

Folder 24: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1952-1953

Folder 25: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1954-1955

Includes photo of one of the Wolford boys getting a haircut at the barber shop

Folder 26: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1956-1958

Folder 27: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1959-1960

Folder 28: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1961-1964

Includes photos of the Atherton High School (Louisville, Ky.) senior prom

Folder 29: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1965-1967

Includes photo of a Black woman identified as Mary Howard White

Folder 30: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children, 1968-1969

Folder 31: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford and their children family portraits, ca. 1950s-1970s

Includes mostly Christmas cards

Folder 32: Friends of the Wolfords, 1940s-2000s

Folder 33: Evelyn and Thorp Wolford Arts Club of Louisville, ca. 1980s-2000s

Leo Wolford

Folder 34: Leo Wolford, ca. 1900s-1930s

Includes photos of New Albany High School building and faculty

Folder 35: Leo Wolford, ca. 1950s-1971

Folder 36: Leo Wolford portrait photographs, ca. 1900s-1920s

Folder 37: Leo Wolford portrait photographs, ca. 1920s-1960s

Leah Jackson Wolford

Folder 38: Leah Jackson Wolford portrait photographs, 1892-ca. 1910s

Folder 39: Leah Jackson Wolford in groups, ca. 1900s-1910s

Folder 40: Leah Jackson Wolford horseback riding and farm work, 1900s-1910s

 

Box 2

Folder 41: Leah Jackson Wolford outdoor exploration, ca. 1900-1910s

Includes photos of Leah and her parents at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs

Folder 42: Leah Jackson Wolford theater and basketball, ca. 1900s-1910s

Folder 43: Leah Jackson Wolford candid shots and with friends and family, ca. 1900s-1910s

Jessie Wolford

Folder 44: Jessie Wolford portrait photographs, ca. 1900s-1960s

Folder 45: Jessie Wolford with friends, ca. 1910s-1950s

Folder 46: Jessie Wolford with unidentified friends, ca. 1910s-1950s

Folder 47: Jessie Wolford with groups, 1910s-1950s

Folder 48: Jessie Wolford with friends, ca. 1910s

Includes photos of girls wearing swimming costumes and dressed as Native Americans

Folder 49: Jessie Wolford Concannon High School (Terre Haute, Ind.) album, ca. 1920s

Other Individuals

Folder 50: Flo Jackson White, ca. 1900-1943

Folder 51: Hiram Newton Jackson, ca. 1880s-1910s

Includes photos of a group of men and women posing after a fishing trip

Folder 52: Allie Jackson, ca. 1900s-1930s

Folder 53: Ray and Zulla Leona Burress Wolford, ca. 1910s-1930s

Folder 54: Anna Thorp Wolford, ca. 1880s-1930s

Folder 55: John William Wolford, mayor of Linton, Ind., 1904-1908

Folder 56: Edwin Lafayette Wolford, ca. 1880s-1910s

Folder 57: Stephen, Richard, John, and Roger Wolford (brothers), ca. 1960s-2000s

Folder 58: Thomas L. Wolford, ca. 1890s

Thomas Wolford was the brother of Edwin Wolford

Folder 59: Lillian Wolford, 1936

Folder 60: Ida Thorp Field and family, ca. 1880s-1950s

Folder 61: Jim Tribble and family, ca. 1890s-1910s

Folder 62: Tom and Dorothy French, 1952 and 2016

Folder 63: Mabel Thorp Cummins and children Lois Jane and Billy Cummins, ca. 1900s-1930s

Folder 64: Unidentified/unknown relation, ca. 1890s-1960s

Family Groups

Folder 65: Wolford family, ca. 1900s-1960s

Folder 66: Thorp family, ca. 1900s-2000s

Folder 67: Underwood family, ca. 1900s-2010s

Folder 68: Carr family, ca. 1920s-1960s

Folder 69: Fainot family, ca. 1900s-1960s

Pricilla “Cill” Thorp, sister of Anna Thorp Wolford, was married to Fredrick Fainot

Folder 70: Otter family, ca. 1900s-1910s

The Otter family was possibly related to the Wolfords on Flo Jackson White’s side

Businesses, Places, and Events

Folder 71: Hiram Newton Jackson General Store (Versailles, Ind.), ca. 1890s

Folder 72: J.W. Wolford & Sons (Linton, Ind.), ca. 1900s-1930s

Includes photos of advertising floats and people shopping inside the store

Folder 73: Jackson house (Versailles, Ind.), ca. 1900 and 1994

Folder 74: Versailles, Indiana, Pumpkin Show, September 1985

Folder 75: Ripley County, Indiana, Pumpkin Festival, 2002

Folder 76: Versailles, Indiana, 26 May 2004

Folder 77: Cliff Hill Cemetery (Versailles, Ind.), 1990

Folder 78: Linton, Indiana, Cemeteries (including Jerusalem and Fairview), 20 September 1991

Folder 79: Miscellaneous, ca. 1900s-1980s

Includes a photograph of the United Fourth Vein Coal Company’s Black Creek Mine (Linton, Ind.) and a photograph of the congregation of the Terre Haute, Indiana, First Baptist Church’s 75th anniversary

Folder 80: Oversized photographs, ca. 1910s and 1930s

Includes a school group photograph featuring Thorp Wolford and a portrait of seven men,

all likely law professionals in the Louisville area, including Thomas R. Gordon

 

Box 3

Volume 81: Wolford and Thorp families album, ca. 1870s-1890s

Includes cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, and tintypes of the Wolford and Thorp families of

Linton, Indiana

Volume 82: Underwood family album, ca. 1870s-1890s

Includes cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, and tintypes of the Underwood family of           Versailles, Indiana

Volume 83: Underwood, Jackson, and Warman families album, ca. 1870s-1890s

Includes cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, and tintypes of the Underwood, Jackson, and     Warman families of Versailles, Indiana

 

Wrapped on Shelf

Volume 84: Jackson family album, ca. 1870s-1890s

Includes cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, and tintypes of the Jackson family of Versailles, Indiana

 

Removed from Collection

021PC48.03: Ambrotype of an unidentified boy, ca. 1870

021PC48.04: Ambrotype of an unidentified woman, ca. 1870

021PC48.05: Ambrotype of an unidentified woman, ca. 1870

021PC48.06: Linton High School group photo featuring Leo Wolford, ca. 1908-1909

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Whitehouse, Jacqueline, 1945-2018

Title: KYSOC Collection, 1961-1967

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.

Size of Collection:  0.19 cubic feet

Location Number: Mss. A W593

Biographical and Historical Note

Jacqueline “Jackie” Whitehouse (1945-2018) of Louisville, Kentucky, contracted polio in 1952 when she was seven. She attended Louisville’s Ahrens Trade School and was an active participant in the Kentucky Society of Crippled Children (KYSOC) Teenage Club in Louisville, Kentucky. According to the handbooks, Smallwood served as the Club’s Vice President and later, President. In 1964 she both “aged out” of KYSOC and married Jack Smallwood. The December 13, 1974, Louisville Courier Journal (CJ) contained an article regarding her inability to file a criminal complaint against a boarder at her house because the Police Court was not accessible by wheelchair; it also described her husband, Jack Smallwood, as paraplegic. He died in 1989. In 1993, a December 1 article in the CJ referring to her by as Jackie Whitehouse, explained that the “late effects” of polio, e.g., muscle weakening, had made it increasingly difficult for her to manage everyday tasks. It told of how fellow members of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints came to her aid when its volunteers built an accessible home. She died in 2018 at the age of 73.

The Kentucky Society for Crippled Children (KYSOC) was established in 1923. In 1934 the National Society for Crippled Children began conducting an annual “Easter Seals” campaign which achieved so much name recognition that by 1980 the organization became known as Easterseals. The organization changed its name to The Easter Seal Society in 1980. The Easterseals’ goal was to acknowledge that those it served asked “simply for the right to live a normal life.” The KYSOC’s Teenage Club, established in 1956, exemplified the national organization’s goal. It was a club for students aged 14 to 19; its handbook contained no limitations on what type of disability qualified a student for membership. The club had nine original members, but during the years covered by the collection, membership grew to 28. The club’s activities included hayrides, “beatnik” nights, talent nights, canteen nights, boat trips on the Ohio River, and annual Christmas parties and birthday banquets. In 1961, KYSOC opened Camp Kysoc in Carrollton, Kentucky and club members were able to participate in recreational camping.

Mary Ann Millet (1934-2010), the main KYSOC staff contact for the Teen Club during the era covered by this collection, eventually became a member of the faculty at the University of Louisville’s Kent School of Social Work; her papers are contained in the University of Louisville’s Archives and Special Collections (see: https://archivescatalog.library.louisville.edu/resources/millet).

Sources:

Louisville Courier Journal

KYSOC Handbooks, Jacqueline Whitehouse KYSOC Collection

 

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of documents scrapbooked by Jacqueline “Jackie” Whitehouse, an active member of the Kentucky Society of Crippled Children (KYSOC) Teenage Club. Contents include the club’s handbooks (which incorporate lists of members and officers); correspondence; programs and speeches from the club’s annual birthday meeting; press clippings; and miscellaneous items that sporadically cover the period from October 1961 through January 1967. Clippings include photos in which members Kenny Ward, Don Taylor, and Jackie Whitehouse are identified in the captions. The documents reflect an insider’s view of a teen organization devoted to children with disabilities in the early 1960s. The KYSOC staff contact with the Teen Club for most of this period was Mary Ann Millet who was consistently referred to by the group as “Mother Hen.”

Related Collections:

022PC19 Jackie Whitehouse KYSOC Teen Club Photographs

2022.24.1-3 Jackie Whitehouse KYSOC Teen Club Museum Items

015PC3AV Easter Seal Camp Kysoc Audiovisual collection

 

Folder List

Folder 1: KYSOC Teenage Club Handbooks, 1961-1965

Folder 2: Correspondence, 1961-1966

Folder 3: Annual birthday banquet programs and speeches, 1962-1965

Folder 4: Newspaper clippings, 1962-1964

Folder 5: Miscellaneous             

 

Subject Headings

African Americans with disabilities – Kentucky

Braille

Camps for children with disabilities – Kentucky

Children with disabilities – Kentucky

High school clubs – Kentucky

Kentucky Society for Crippled Children and Adults

Kentucky Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Teen Club

Outdoor recreation for children with disabilities – Kentucky

People with disabilities – Kentucky

Scrapbooks

Teenagers with disabilities – Recreation – Kentucky

Women with disabilities – Kentucky

Youth with disabilities – Recreation – Kentucky

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Reed-Carey family

Title: Papers, 1931-2002

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.

Size of Collection:  0.5 cu. ft. (in 1.0 cu. ft. box) and 3 ovsz. wrapped vols.

Location Number: Mss. A R323

Biographical Note

Edsel Sherwood Reed (1923-2022), called “Sherwood” as a child and young man and later “Ed” and “Edsel,” was born in Bowen, Kentucky, to George W. Reed and Mattie Elizabeth Palmer Reed. He graduated from Powell County High School, Morehead State Teachers College, University of Louisville School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine, and a residency program in radiology at University of Louisville. He became a radiologist and was a long-time member and deacon of the First Baptist Church.

In 1943 during World War II, Edsel Reed was drafted into the Army and served first at Nicholas Army General Hospital and then as a medical student in the Army specialized training program at the University of Louisville. He graduated from medical school in 1946 and interned at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, where he met and married Allie Ruth Carey.

Allie Ruth Carey (1925-) was born to Levi Carey and Bessie Grose Carey in Marion, Indiana. She grew up in the farming community of Upland, outside Marion. Allie graduated from Marion High School in 1942 and worked for a year at the local telephone company.

In 1943, she was admitted to the Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing and worked as a cadet nurse with the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps (CNC) program until graduating in 1946. The CNC was created in June of 1943 to meet an urgent need for nurses during World War II. The Bolton Nurse Training Act paid nursing schools to expand and accelerate their programs and paid nursing students to pursue training. More than 100,000 American women served as members of the corps in a miliary role or an essential civilian role for the duration of the war.

Allie Carey and Edsel Sherwood Reed married on December 23, 1947, in Lexington. According to Allie’s notes and recollections, she worked after the war at Kentucky Baptist Hospital in Louisville and at the Girl Scouts’ Camp Shantituck. She had to quit her hospital job when she became pregnant, and Allie and Edsel’s daughter Patricia was born in Kentucky in October 1949.

Edsel Sherwood Reed served as chief of radiology service at the U.S. Army Hospital in Fort Clayton, Panama Canal Zone, in 1951-1953, and Allie joined him there with their daughter. After Edsel’s separation from the Army in 1953, the family moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, where Edsel joined a radiology group. The family moved back to the Kentucky and Indiana area in 1956, and Edsel became the first full-time radiologist at Clark County Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1958.

In the 1960s Allie Reed returned to school to get a BS in nursing from Spalding University. Her husband’s father died when he was in his fifties, and her husband was having health issues. She wanted to have a way to support herself and her children, should anything happen to her husband. She did not actively work as a nurse following her degree, but she did serve as Indiana State President of the Medical Auxiliary Board.

Sources:

Curator notes from meeting with Allie Carey Reed, 2023.

United States census records, 1930, 1940, 1950 [ancestry.com]

National Park Service, “Cadet Nurse Corps” [https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/cadet-nurse-corps.htm]

 

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of the papers of Dr. Edsel Sherwood Reed (1923-2022) and Allie Carey Reed (1925-), dating from before and after their marriage in 1947 in Lexington, Kentucky, where they met working at Good Samaritan Hospital, he as a medical intern and she as a nursing student.

Folders 1-7, 17, and volume 18 consist of school notebooks and report cards, personal and military correspondence, and a scrapbook belonging to Edsel Sherwood Reed, who was called “Sherwood” as a child and young adult. The notebooks and report cards (folders 1-3) date from the 1930s-early 1940s, when Sherwood was attending school in Powell County, Kentucky, and Morehead State Teachers College. Correspondence from 1939-1953 (folders 4-6) and an oversized scrapbook from 1952-1954 (volume 18) pertain to Sherwood’s years as a student at Morehead and a medical student in the Army specialized training program at the University of Louisville during World War II, as well as his overseas tour at the Fort Clayton Army General Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone. In 1953, Sherwood moved with Allie and their daughter Patricia to St. Joseph, Missouri, to begin private practice as a radiologist. Also of note is a Nichols Army General Hospital Thanksgiving program and book of rules and regulations from 1943 (folder 3), a family account book from 1948-1951 (folder 7), and miscellaneous loose papers (folder 17).

Folders 8-16 contain papers of Allie Carey Reed documenting her years at the Good Samaritan School of Nursing in the mid-1940s and her high school and nursing class reunions in 1989-2002. Dating from the 1940s are Good Samaritan School of Nursing newsletters, yearbook, and a booklet from 1948-1949 containing a staff list, images of nursing students’ residence and lounge, general regulations, and course descriptions (folders 8-9). Correspondence and ephemera from class reunions date from 1989 and 1993 (folders 9-10). Materials were removed from Allie Carey Reed’s magnetic page album scrapbook and foldered in their original order (folders 11-16). On the bottom front of the album was written “Good Sam – Class ’46 Reunion 9-9/10-89.” The contents include correspondence and ephemera from Marion High School (Indiana) class of 1942 reunions in 1997 and 2002 and from the Good Samarian class of 1946 reunions in 1989 and 1996; photographs of Good Samaritan staff and students from the 1940s; and graduation programs and newspaper clippings from the 1940s.

Volumes 19 and 20 are account ledgers likely belonging to Edsel Sherwood Reed’s father, George W. Reed, or other Reed family members from Powell County. Volume 19 has “Leases No. 13 Powell County Court” printed on the front cover (George Reed served as Powell County Court clerk) and includes loose pages. It tracks farm expenses and income from ca. 1939 to 1946, as well as office expenses and income from ca. 1951 to 1953. Most of the ledger’s pages are blank. Volume 20 has “Supervisors Meetings Powell County Court” printed on the front cover and dates from ca. 1940 to 1955. It includes information about cows bred, farm and barn expenses, cost of hogs, income, and farm laborers. George Reed is listed as one of the owners breeding cows. At the top of one of the pages is written “Ida Reed Farm 1953.”

Related collections:

Allie Carey Reed museum collection [2023.22] and photograph collection [023PC35]

University of Louisville Medical Anatomy Class of 1944 photograph [GRI-67]

Reed-Carey genealogy materials in library collection [uncataloged as of September 2024]

 

Folder List

Box 1

Folder 1: Edsel Sherwood Reed school notebooks, ca. 1930s and undated

Folder 2: Edsel Sherwood Reed school notebooks, 1937-1938

Folder 3: Edsel Sherwood Reed report cards, programs, and ephemera, 1931-1944

Folder 4: Correspondence of Edsel Sherwood Reed, October 1939-September 1943, undated

Folder 5: Correspondence of Edsel Sherwood Reed, October-December 1943

Folder 6: Correspondence from Edsel Sherwood Reed to his parents, 1944-1953

Folder 7: Reed family account book and travel mementos, ca. 1940s-1950s, 2011

Folder 8: Good Samaritan Hospital nursing school publications, 1940s

Folder 9: Allie Carey Reed miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1940s, 1993

Folder 10: Good Samaritan Hospital nursing school class of 1946 reunion, 1989

Folder 11: Allie Carey Reed scrapbook, disassembled (1 of  6), 1940s-2002

Folder 12: Allie Carey Reed scrapbook, disassembled (2 of  6), 1940s-2002

Folder 13: Allie Carey Reed scrapbook, disassembled (3 of 6), 1940s-2002

Folder 14: Allie Carey Reed scrapbook, disassembled (4 of 6), 1940s-2002

Folder 15: Allie Carey Reed scrapbook, disassembled (5 of 6), 1940s-2002

Folder 16: Allie Carey Reed scrapbook, disassembled (6 of 6), 1940s-2002

Folder 17: Loose papers removed from Edsel Sherwood Reed scrapbook, ca. 1954-1995

 

Oversized wrapped volume

Volume 18: Edsel Sherwood Reed scrapbook, 1952-1954

Volume 19: Reed family farm account book, ca. 1939-1946, 1951-1953

Volume 20: Reed family farm account book, ca. 1940-1954

 

Subject Headings

Account books.

Carey family.

Class reunions.

Cumberland Falls State Park, Kentucky.

Estill County (Ky.)

Family farms – Kentucky – Powell County.

Father’s Day.

Fort Clayton (Canal Zone)

Fort Hamilton (New York, N.Y.)

Good Samaritan Hospital (Lexington, Ky.)

Italy – Description and travel.

Livestock farms – Kentucky – Powell County.

Marion High School (Indiana).

Medical students.

Military hospitals.

Morehead State Teachers College.

Mother’s Day.

Nichols General Hospital (Louisville, Ky.)

Nurses – Kentucky.

Nursing schools – Kentucky.

Nursing students – Kentucky.

Oneida (Ky.)

Palmer family.

Paris (France) – Description and travel.

Philadelphia (Pa.) – Description and travel.

Reed family.

Reed, Allie Carey, 1925-

Reed, Edsel Sherwood, 1923-2022.

Schools – Indiana

Schools – Kentucky – Powell County.

Students – Kentucky.

United States. Army.

United States. Cadet Nurse Corps.

University of Kentucky.

University of Louisville. School of Medicine.

World War, 1939-1945.