Parrish family papers
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Parrish family papers
- Date
- 1824-1887
- Extent
- 0.68 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- Cattle--Breeding--Kentucky.
- Cattle--Kentucky--Fayette County--Pedigrees.
- Cooking, American.
- Cooking--Kentucky.
- Hemp--Kentucky.
- Recipes.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by format.
- Preferred Citation
- 70M30 : [Identification of item], Parrish family papers, 1824-1887, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- The Parrish family lived in the central Kentucky area in the mid 19th century.
- Scope and Content
- The Parrish family papers are comprised mainly of account books and breeding books. The majority of the unbound material consist of receipts to Dabney W. Parrish. The volumes are account books which include expenditures of money, notes of places visited, Civil War battles, amounts of hemp broken and breeding records. Also present are separate stock breeding records, recipes for cooking foods, medical formulas and household hints.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections.
Contents of the Collection
Account Book, 1824-1877
Account Book, 1825-1887
Account Book notes, 1825-1887
- Box 2, Folder 3
Scope and Contents note
These were found between the pages of Account Book, 1825-1887 and removed.
Breeding Register, 1850-1880s
Cattle Register, 1868-1886
Medicinal Recipes, 1838-1873
Notebook, 1847-1874
Receipts, 1859-1871
Recipes, undated
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