Contains the records relating to several mining companies owned and operated by Thomas Clark, followed by his son George Murray Clark and granddaughter Juliet Belding Clark. Mine companies include the River Hill Mining & Milling Company, Gentle Annie Mining Group, Sherman Hill Mining & Milling Company, El Dorado Water & Deep Gravel Mining Company, and Grand Victory Gold Mining Company.
Consists primarily of research notes compiled by Thomas Clark and his research assistants for use in the writing of Indiana University, Midwestern pioneer. A second series contains transcripts of interviews conducted by Clark with faculty and administrators of Indiana University. A third series contains some page and galley proofs, typescripts, and illustration lists.
Papers of the Clarke family of Butternuts, Exeter, and Cooperstown, N.Y., including deeds, wills, letters, and one volume of accounts of carpentry work done by Thomas Clarke in 1843 for many prominent Cooperstown residents.
Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr. served as governor of Kentucky from December 12, 1967. The Breathitt administration was notable for its close ties with the national administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson and with Johnson's Great Society programs. Governor Breathitt led successful campaigns for economic and industrial development, civil rights legislation, increased support for education, and expansion and improvement of the state highway and park systems. His most significant defeat was the rejection in 1966 of a new state constitution. His administration won several national awards, including: a Lincoln Key Award (1966) for leadership in the passage of civil rights legislation; Society of Industrial Investors' award (1964) for the best industrial development program; the Midwest Travel Writers Association award (1965) for the best travel promotion program; and the U.S. Department of Interior Distinguished Service Award (1967) for contributions in the field of conservation. Governor Breathitt's papers are of historical importance for the light they shed on one governor's attempts to mesh state and federal actions and to fit federal programming to the needs of his state.
