Thelma Polly Hall Parrott Hollingsworth papers
Abstract
The Thelma Polly Hall Parrott Hollingsworth papers (dated 1844-2008, undated; 51 boxes, 2 folders; 29.45 cubic feet) comprise the family papers, beginning in the mid nineteenth century, of her grandparents, parents, husband, children, and their spouses: Hall, Parrott, Hollingsworth, Wiedemann, and Boggess.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Thelma Polly Hall Parrott Hollingsworth papers
- Date
- 1844-2008, undated (inclusive)
- Creator
- Hollingsworth, Polly (Thelma Hall Parrott), 1898-1980
- Extent
- 27 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Bathhouses
- Brownie Girl Scouts
- Construction
- Family archives.
- Glass manufacture
- Horse industry -- Kentucky
- Lexington (Ky.)
- Love-letters
- Mount Clemens (Mich.)
- Oil wells
- Playwriting.
- Radio
- Saint Louis (Mo.)
- Tazewell County (Va.)
- Theater -- Kentucky -- Lexington.
- Women authors.
- Thoroughbred horse.
- Blood-Horse Publications (1916-)
- Hall, Letitia Jenny Shook, 1851-1941
- Hall, Nelle Belle, 1875-1949
- Hall, William Ebenezer, 1844-1914
- Hollingsworth family (Lexington, Ky.)
- Hollingsworth, Betty Randolph Boggess, 1928-2016
- Hollingsworth, Denzil Maurice, 1899-1968
- Hollingsworth, Kent, 1929-1999
- Hollingsworth, Polly (Thelma Hall Parrott), 1898-1980
- Parrott, Blanche Hall, 1877-1956
- Parrott, Lewis Merton, 1871-1952
- United States Army Armor School (1940-) (Fort Knox, Kentucky)
- Wiedemann, Dorcas Noel Hollingsworth, 1926-2015
- Wiedemann, Jefferson Allen, 1922-1986
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged alphabetically by person and format in 10 series: Audiovisual and realia; Hall family; Betty Boggess Hollingsworth; Denzil Maurice Hollingsworth; Hollingsworth family; Kent Parrott Hollingsworth; Thelma Polly Hall Parrott Hollingsworth; Blanche Hall and Lewis Merton Parrott; Thoroughbreds and horse racing; Dorcas Noel Hollingsworth and Jefferson Wiedemann.
- Preferred Citation
- 2018ms036: [identification of item], Thelma Polly Hall Parrott Hollingsworth papers, 1844-2008, undated, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Thelma "Polly" Hall Parrott Hollingsworth (June 9, 1898-November 23, 1980) Leslie Hollingsworth, nom de plume. A poet, playwright, clubwoman, educator and thoroughbred breeder and owner, Thelma "Polly" Parrott Hollingsworth contributed much to the community of Lexington, Kentucky. Her literary works including a book of poetry, American Pictures in 1940 and a play Silent Night in 1941 were published under her pseudonym of "Leslie Hollingsworth." Several plays were produced on radio and television. Her papers contain manuscripts for many other plays and poems; and, the play program and musical score for Out of the Blue, a musical starring Lucille Caudill Little in August 1945 for the American Legion of Kentucky and presented in the old Guignol Theater. She produced an Easter pageant that was performed at Memorial Coliseum for all of Lexington to attend. Her mother was Blanche Hall of Mount Clemons, Michigan, and her father, Lewis "Chummy" M. Parrott was a teacher. They moved to St. Louis for her father to teach at McKinley High School then Roosevelt High School. She attended Missouri University, University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin. She married Denzil Maurice Hollingsworth (February 5, 1899- April 17, 1968) on April 17, 1922. Denzil, a civil engineer, managed an excavating company while they lived at 4211 Flora Place in St. Louis together with Blanche and "Chum." Upon the profits from success of an oil company, Thelma and Denzil moved to "The Hollys," a thoroughbred horse farm on Newtown Pike in Scott County, Kentucky in 1932; and, when "Chum" retired from teaching, he and Blanche moved back to her parents' home at 142 Cass Avenue in Mt. Clemons, Michigan. In Kentucky, the Hollingsworths participated in the growth of the thoroughbred industry as well as in the new community theatricals and music as post-war Lexington grew.
- Thelma Hollingsworth was an active member of the Republican Party and the Daughters of the American Revolution in Kentucky. Toward the end of her life, she was a member of the Mount Horeb Presbyterian Church (where her son Donn preached), the Keeneland Club, Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, Midwest Museum Association and the Midwest Hunt and Steeplechase Association. She taught at Sayre School as a primary teacher in the 1960s. Hollingsworth's papers include some information about their children who attended schools in St. Louis then University High in Lexington. The three eldest sons served in the U.S. Army and graduated from the University of Kentucky. The daughter graduated from Sophie Newcomb College and youngest son from Yale University. All were able athletes and talented equestrians:
- 1. Donn Denzil Hollingsworth (October 30, 1923-February 14, 1996) m. Leslie Toll of Lawrenceburg then Anne Spence – English teacher at Lafayette High School and in July 1961 appointed headmaster at Sayre School, Lexington
- 2. L. Hall Hollingsworth (Jan. 14, 1925-March 4, 1996) m. Martha Rebecca Bryan of Georgetown – construction contractor and builder in Lexington
- 3. Dorcas Noel Hollingsworth Wiedemann (December 28, 1926-November 26, 2015) m. Jefferson Allen Wiedemann of Lexington – farmer
- 4. Kent Parrott Hollingsworth, J.D. (August 21, 1929-May 26, 1999) m. Betty Boggess of Tazewell VA then Missy Constant – publisher/editor Blood-Horse Thoroughbred Racing Magazine and lecturer at University of Louisville
- 5. D. Vertrees Hollingsworth, M.D. (July 10, 1937-February 14, 2012) m. Alice Broadbent of Cadiz – Family Physician in Scott County, Ky. and Commanding Officer at three U.S. Navy medical treatment facilities.
- Source: Authored by Professor Randolph Hollingsworth for University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center in 2018.
- Scope and Content
- The Thelma "Polly" Hall Parrott Hollingsworth papers (dated 1844-2008, undated; 51 boxes, 2 folders; 29.45 cubic feet) comprise the family papers, beginning in the mid nineteenth century, of her grandparents, parents, husband, children, and their spouses: Hall, Parrott, Hollingsworth, Wiedemann, and Boggess. The largest portion of the collection comprises Polly's own papers, including her play scripts and manuscripts, correspondence, genealogical research, and activity and meeting sheets from her time as a Girl Scout leader in the 1930s. Other significant portions include the diaries, letters, and property records of Polly's family in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Her parent's papers include invoices, property deeds, and teaching ephemera from St. Louis, Missouri. Her husband's papers include many business records for his excavating company, invention of parts for oil drills, and investment in oil wells throughout southern Illinois and Indiana. All of Polly's children have papers in the collection, but a large portion includes the letters, awards, teaching, and equine writings of her son, Kent, and his wife, Betty Boggess. Also included are the letters and genealogical research by her daughter, Dorcas, and the business records of her husband, Jefferson Wiedemann. Of significance is a collection of more than 1,500 photographs and negatives of family members, horses, and events. Notably are recordings by Thelma and Denzil, including audio and film, as well as keepsakes like St. Louis Browns Baseball team hats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is available to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Audiovisual and realia, 1879-2008, undated
Scope and Contents
The Audiovisual and realia series, 1879-2008, comprises many photographs, negatives, and slides of many Boggess, Hall, and Hollingsworth family members. There are two vinyl records, one of a song written by Thelma and musician Kay Dickey and the other one of Thelma narrating a horse race in 1968. The DVD is a recording of Louis Hall Hollingsworth in 1988 giving commentary while watching old 8mm film recordings by Thelma and Denzil during the 1930's through to the 1960's. The realia portion of the series contains a wide variety of items collected by the Hollingsworth family over the years, like 1920's-1950's St. Louis Browns baseball hats, certificates, trophies, scrapbooks, embossing stamps, and artwork.
Photographs, film, and audio, 1879-circa 2008, undated
Negatives and slides, 1942-1999, undated
Emma family negatives, circa 1999
Ebenezer Hall glassware slides, circa 1965
Eyerman, Dr. and Mrs. Charles, Charles, Jr., and Peter, 4259 Flora Place, St. Louis, MO, XMAS card negative, 1942
Kentucky leisure on Elkhorn Creek, undated
Mount Clemens, Michigan slides, circa 1965
Unidentified negatives, undated
Jockey Club certificate, undated
Sayre School, 1961
Six women wearing Kentucky C.L. shirts, photo by Dorcas Hollingsworth, 1944 May
Woman and girl, circa 1964
Family dinner, undated
Blanche Hall Parrott (9), 1942
Size 4x6 Photographs, 1893-1992, undated
Addis, Bertha P., 1955
"Admiral at The Apartment", bird next to bathroom mirror, undated
Atlantic City, undated
Atlantic City, Traymore Hotel, undated
Aunt Bessie, farm, undated
Aunt Stella, Erma, Ivan, Helen, undated
Aytell, E. M. residence, Omaha, Nebraska, undated
Balsé (gray tabby cat), 1982
Bardwell, Cousins Addis and Gene, undated
Bardwell, Gene, cousin, undated
Barn, farm, 1910
Beauty (hound dog), undated
Beck, Blanche and Herm Christmas card (Victoria Glacier, Lake Louise), circa 1960
Big boy (German shepherd dog), undated
Boggess, Bandy, undated
Boggess, Betty, 1928
Boggess, Betty, 1930
Boggess, Betty, circa 1945
Boggess, Betty, undated
Boggess, Betty and aunt, undated
Boggess, Betty and Bill, undated
Boggess, Betty, Bill, and Cecil Thompson, undated
Boggess, Betty, Bill, and cousin, Cosby Peery, undated
Boggess, Betty and Bill, Tazewell, Virginia, 1933
Boggess, Betty and dog, undated
Boggess, Betty and Grandmother Peery, undated
Boggess, Betty and Johnny, undated
Boggess, Betty at the age of 11, 1939
Boggess, Betty, right, and Frances, 1929 May 26
Boggess, Betty on right, and other baby, undated
Boggess, Betty on right, and woman, undated
Boggess, Betty, Charles H. Peery III, Ko. Jo. Jouralmon, 1932
Boggess, Betty, John Randolph and Elizabeth, Treuleau Peery, Bill, 1941 August
Boggess, Betty, Mimi (Elizabeth), cousin, undated
Boggess, Betty, Treuleau Ann, Cosby and Bill Peery, undated
Boggess, Bill, undated
Boggess, Bill and Betty, undated
Boggess, Dad (John Randolph), Boyd, Riffe, Bandy, undated
Boggess, Dad (John Randolph), John, and Mamaw, undated
Boggess, "Daddy dear" (John Randolph), undated
Boggess, John Peery, undated
Boggess, John Peery, 12 years old, 1952
Boggess, John Randolph, undated
Boggess, John Randolph, 1955 October
Boggess, Johnny, undated
Boggess, Johnny and Betty, undated
Boggess, Johnny, Betty, Bob Gerst, and Betty G., undated
Boggess, Mamaw, Mimi (Elizabeth), Margaret, Nell, Grace, undated
Boggess, Margaret, undated
Boggess, Margaret on left, undated
Boggess, Margaret, Mamaw, and Nell, undated
Boggess, Margaret, Riffe, and Nell, undated
Boggess, Margaret, Riffe, Mama (Mary Minerva) Boggess, undated
Boggess, Mary Minerva Boyd and Maude Boyd Boggess, undated
Boggess, Maude, undated
Boggess, Mimi (Elizabeth), 1951 May
Boggess, Mimi (Elizabeth), Tazewell, circa 1960
Boggess, Mr. and Mrs. Boggess (John Randolph and Mimi, Elizabeth Peery), undated
Boggess, Mr. John Randolph and Garland Hawkins, undated
Boggess, Mrs. John Randolph (Mimi, Elizabeth Peery), undated
Boggess, Mrs. John Randolph (Mimi, Elizabeth Peery) and Treuleau Peery, 1934 March 17
Boggess, Mrs. John Randolph and Maggie Peery, undated
Boggess, Mrs. W. P., undated
Boggess, Mrs. W. P. (Mary Minerva), undated
Boggess, Oscar and Val, 1960
Boggess, Riffe, 1953 July
Boggess, Riffe, undated
Boggess, Riffe and Nell, undated
Boggess, Tib Peery (Mimi, Elizabeth), 1934 March 17
Boggess, Tib Peery (Mimi, Elizabeth), undated
Boggess, Tib Peery (Mimi, Elizabeth) and B. Gillespie, undated
Boggess, Tib Peery (Mimi, Elizabeth) at fair with prize heifer, undated
Boggess, Tib, Val, and Betty, undated
Boggess, Tibbie, 1952 June
Boggess, W. A., 1950
Boggess, W. P. ,first Richland's house, undated
Boy, 1964 June
Boy, undated
Boy and cat, undated
Boy and elderly couple, 1964 June
Boy and girl, undated
Boyd, Mary Ruth, University of Virginia, 1937
Boyd, Mrs. W. H., undated
Boyd, Mrs. W. H. and daughter Mrs. W. P. Boggess, undated
Boys, undated
Boys on tennis court, undated
Bridal party outside Christ Church, undated
Bryant, Irma, undated
Cat, undated
Child, undated
Children, undated
Children at table, undated
Christmas, decorations, 1953
Couple, undated
Couple and dog, undated
Couple on porch, Hyde, Maryland, undated
Cove School, 1950
Cove School children, 1950
Cove School, getting a drink at pump, undated
Cove School, recess, 1950
Cove School, Tazewell, Virginia, undated
Cove School, where Betty taught, 1950
Crockett, Allen T., Lieutenant USA, killed in the Philadelphia insurrection, undated
Crockett, Henry, undated
Crockett, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, undated
Crowd, undated
Dog on steps, 1954
Dogs, undated
Doll, undated
Eiffel tower, 1944
Elderly couple, 1968 August 27
Elderly man, 1960
Elderly man, undated
Elderly man and toddler, undated
Elderly men and women, undated
Elderly woman, undated
Elderly woman and girls, undated
Equine Club trail ride, 1992
Essex House, where we stay when we go to New York, undated
Evelyn, Rosie, and Nellie, 1931 May
Family, 1957 July 27
Family, undated
Farm, undated
Fence, undated
Fern, 1910 January
Fern Farm, Mount Clemens, undated
Forest, undated
Field meet, undated
Four generations, undated
Garst, Adelaide, 1912
Garst, Bob, cousin age 14, undated
Garst, Bob, Joe Mainous, and Kent, 1951
"Garst, Bob, son of Battle" and Marie Gerst aged 1/2, Toodles, undated
Garst, Eddie, age 6, Marie, age 2 1/2, "Tales of the Angels", undated
Garst, Josephine, undated
Garst, Marie and Francis, "Little Men" and "Little Women", undated
Garst, Mr., undated
Garst, Mr. and Mrs. and Nancy Kiser (Fisher), undated
Garst, Mr. and Mrs. Mainous, undated
11, undated
Garst, Mr. and Mrs., Betty, and Bob, undated
Girl, undated
Girl and dog, undated
Girl and puppy, 1910
Girl and puppy, 1912
Girl on hill, undated
Girl on ladder, undated
Girls, undated
Glen and Grove, Mount Clemens, undated
Group, undated
Grove farm, undated
Garst, Betty, Betty Boggess, and Bob, undated
Hall, Alfaretta, circa 1980
Hall, Alfaretta, undated
Hall, Blanche, undated
Hall, Blanche, Belle Farrah, Gertie Cudworth, undated
Hall, Blanche, Nelle Belle, Letitia Hall, and M. Rutter, undated
Hall, Eugene E., side of Hall House, undated
Hall House dining room corner, 1959
Hall House five female employees, undated
Hall, Letitia, undated
Hall, Letitia, Blanche Parrott, circa 1925
Hall, Letitia, Blanche Parrott, and Thelma Parrott, circa 1905
Hall, Letitia, mother of Henry Hall, circa 1900
Hall, Letitia Shook, Mary Rood Katy, Nelle Belle Hall, Blanche Hall, 1893
Hall, Nelle Belle, undated
Hall, Nelle Belle, her last Christmas, 1948
Hall, Nelle, Letitia, Edith Yandal, and infant, circa 1900
Hall, William and Dan, "His Wild horse by Hall House", undated
Hall, William E. by Media Hotel (background), sitting in yard, undated
Harper's Ferry, undated
Harper's Ferry Catholic church, undated
Harper's Ferry Hilltop Hotel, undated
Harper's Ferry street, undated
Harrison Township Hall - new, 1955
Harrison Township Hall - old, 1955
Hilebrand, Anthony D. and unidentified, 1981
Hilebrand, Anthony D. and unidentified, 1982
Hilebrand, Anthony D. and unidentified, 1982
Hilebrand, Anthony D., Robinson Forest student cabins, picnic before hike, 1982 October
Hollingsworth, Betty, 1949
Hollingsworth, Betty, 1950
Hollingsworth, Betty, 1982
Hollingsworth, Betty, undated
Hollingsworth, Betty and Alice, Thanksgiving, 1981
Hollingsworth, Betty Boggess and dog, Shane, at Doe Run, undated
Hollingsworth, Betty and Kent, undated
Hollingsworth, Betty and unidentified, 1982
Hollingsworth, Betty Boggess and Val, undated
Hollingsworth, Betty, Florida, 1952 January
Hollingsworth, Denzil, 1941
Hollingsworth, Denzil, 1951
Hollingsworth, Denzil, undated
Hollingsworth, Denzil, Donn D., L. Hall, Dorcas N., Miami Beach, Florida, undated
Hollingsworth, Denzil papers the hall at 142 Cass Avenue, 1960
Hollingsworth, Denzil, Vertrees, Alice, and Kent, at Beacon Hill, undated
Hollingsworth, Donn Denzil, undated
Hollingsworth, Donn Denzil and Leslie Toll wedding, 1948 July 2
Hollingsworth, Dorcas, undated
Hollingsworth, Dorcas and Kent school portraits, undated
Hollingsworth, Dorcas and Vertrees sunning themselves, undated
Hollingsworth, Dorcas Noël in her christening dress, circa 1927
Hollingsworth, Dorcas Noël, 3 months, 1927
Hollingsworth, Dorcas Noël, 7 months, 1927 August 12
Hollingsworth, Dorcas, freshman at University of Kentucky, circa 1944
Hollingsworth, Fred and bride, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Fred and children, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Fred and Hunter with child, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Fred wedding, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Fred wedding guests, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Fred wedding party, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Fred wedding party and guests, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Fred wedding reception, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Hall and wife, Missy, and Kent Hollingsworth, undated
Hollingsworth, Hall and his mother, Thelma, 1972
Hollingsworth, Hall, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1930
Hollingsworth, Hall with dogs, named Girl and Beauty, during derby week, undated
Hollingsworth, Hall with Piel Hollingsworth at Millstream in Scott County, undated
Hollingsworth, Hunter and Denzil, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Hunter and Fred, 1961
Hollingsworth, Hunter at 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens, 1956 10 November
Hollingsworth, Hunter with Denzil and wife, Elise, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Hunter, Denzil, and Fred Hollingsworth, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Hunter, Denzil, Fred, and Jay, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Jay, undated
Hollingsworth, Kent, undated
Hollingsworth, Kent and Rose Bower, undated
Hollingsworth, Kent, Hunter, Denzil, and Val, 1954 August
Hollingsworth, Mandy with daughter, Lucy, undated
Hollingsworth, Randolph and Richard Griessman, circa 1980
Hollingsworth, Randolph and Richard Griessman, Pipestem Park, 1980
Hollingsworth, Sophia, undated
Hollingsworth, Val, Mark, and Hunter, 1954 August
Hollingsworth, Val French, 1953 December
Hollingsworth, Val French, 1954 August
Hollingsworth, Val French and Denzil in grandfather's pool, 1954 August
Hollingsworth, Val French, 3 months, 1953 November
Hollingsworth, Val French, Valdemar Eff, 1954 August
Hollingsworth, Val French holding daughter Lucy, undated
Hollingsworth, Vertrees, undated
Hollingsworth, Vertrees and Alice Hollingsworth children (Eben, Sophia, Piel, and Donn D.), 1970
Hollingsworth, Vertrees and Alice with Eben and baby Sophia, undated
Hollingsworth, Vertrees and George, undated
Hollingsworth, Vertrees and wife Alice, Becky, and husband Hall, Piel and boyfriend (?), undated
Hollingsworth, Vertrees visiting at Hall and Becky Holingsworth's house, undated
Hollingsworth, Vertrees, age 3, 1940
Holly's, St. Louis, 4211 Flora Place, circa 1935
Holly's, Georgetown, 1942
Holly's, Georgetown, after construction, undated
Holly's, Georgetown, backyard before construction, undated
Holly's, Georgetown, before construction, undated
Holly's, Georgetown, mid construction, undated
Holly's, Georgetown, side of house after construction, undated
Horse, undated
Horse and foal, undated
Horse and man, 1961 March 15
Horse: American Easter, undated
Horse: Hedgewood, at three, undated
Horses, undated
House where Horace Rockham was born, 1954
House where Horace Rockham was born, 1955
Independence Hall, undated
Infant, 1954 August
Infant, undated
Infant and man, undated
Infant, 2 months, undated
Jim, Uncle, undated
Johnston, Kitty and Betty, 1981
Johnston, Kitty, Betty, and A. D. Hildebrand, 1981
Katus, May, Nelle Belle Hall, and Blanche Hall, undated
Kids lying on beach, undated
Kiln, 1913
Kiser, Nancy on beach, undated
Lartigne, Heston L. and Carrie Teats, 1953
Lattiner, Captain John Kingsley, Oxford, England, 1944
Lehna, Will, Eugene Hall, Belle Shook, Maude, and Mollie Davis, circa 1885
Little girl and woman, circa 1905
Mainous, Betty and Joe, undated
Mainous, Betty and Kent Hollingsworth, circa 1950
Man, 1959 September
Man, undated
Man and boy, 1964 June
Man and boy, undated
Man and girl, undated
Man and kitten, 1956 April
Man and toddler, undated
Man and woman, 1980 August
Man and woman, undated
Man, boy, and kitten, 1956 May
Man in uniform, circa 1910
Man jumping into lake, undated
Man's portrait, undated
Mann, Laura, circa 1910
Mattingly, Letitia Hollingsworth (bride) with Kent, Hall, and Vertrees Hollingsworth and Dorcas Hollingsworth Wiedemann, circa 1995
McKrell, Denzil, age 3, Church of Good Shepherd altar, undated
Men, Indiana police car, Greyhound bus, undated
Men, two, and woman, undated
Men on chaise, 1895
Mining scene, Alfudton, Virginia, undated
Mirror, 1963 October
Monument, undated
"Mother and father at work", undated
Mount Horeb Prebyterian Church, circa 1950
Parrott family, undated
Parrott, Blanche Hall, circa 1890
Parrott, Blanche Hall, 1903 August
Parrott, Blanche and daughter, Thelma, circa 1908
Parrott, Thelma and Lewis Merton, undated
Parrott, Blanche Hall and her mother, Letitia Hall on the porch of 142 Cass, Mount Clemens, Michigan, undated
Parrott, Blanche Hall and Mrs. Sylvia Young, Lexington airport, 1947 July 3
Parrott, Lewis Merton (Chum), 1908
Parrott, Lewis Merton, undated
Parrott, Lewis Merton and chess, undated
Parrott, Lewis Merton and his mother, undated
Parrott, Lewis Merton reading, 1912
Parrott, Lewis Merton, Saginaus, 1910
Parrott, Thelma, undated
Parrott, Thelma and Erma, undated
Parrott, Thelma at Washington University Stadium, Saint Louis, circa 1920
Parrott, Thelma in her father's office, undated
Parrott, Thelma on the fence, undated
Parrott, Thelma, age 6 months, 3 weeks, 1899
Parrott, Thelma, age 5 years old, 1904
Parrott, Thelma, age 10-12 years, circa 1911
Parrott, Thelma, Constance, and unidentified, 1909 September
Parrott, Thelma, Fern, and Danger Dog, Mount Clemens, circa 1906
Parrott, Thelma, Mount Clemens, undated
Parrott, Thelma, Mrs. Noel, Mrs. Hasset, Warriner, Whiteneys, Saginaus Riverside, Lark summer, 1910
Parrott, Thelma, Shades, Indiana, 1909
Parrott, Thelma "Lucile to Thelma", circa 1905
Parrott, Thelma "Three generations: Letitia Jane Hall, Blanche Hall Parrott, Thelma Parrott", 1902
Peery, Mr. Charles Henry and great-granddaughter Betty Boggess, undated
Peery, Charles Henry house, Tazewell, undated
Peery, Charles Henry, III, Betty Boggess, and "Wimpy" Jones, undated
Peery, Charles Henry, III, Bill Peery, Betty Boggess, Cosby and Treuleau Ann Peery, undated
Peery, Cousin Jennie, daughter of Treuleau John David, 1934 March 16
Peery, Elizabeth Eleanor, 1 year, 1909 June 29
Peery, John David and Treuleau, Mimi (Elizabeth), 26 years old, Mrs. John Randolph Boggess, 1934 March 16
Peery, John David and Treuleau, Mimi (Elizabeth), Louis John Randolph Boggess, 1934 March 16
Peery, John David and unidentified, 1934 March
Peery, Mrs. J. W., undated
Peery, Treuleau and Betty Boggess, undated
Peery, Treuleau Ann, Betty Boggess, and Cosby Peery, undated
Peery, Treuleau Crockett, undated
Peery, Treuleau, grandmother, and Betty Boggess, undated
Peery, Treuleau, grandmother, Betty or Bill Boggess, Treanlea Ann Peery, Cosby Peery, 1929
Peery, Treuleau, grandmother, Cousin Jenner Lauder, Grandfather Peery, circa 1930
Peery, Treuleau, grandmother, Mimi (Elizabeth) (Mrs. Boggess), Betty, and Val, 1956 January
Peery, Treuleau, Howard, Ella, Lula J., Baby John, John D. Peery, Ella Peery, 1908 October 17
Pan American column, undated
Pan American water fountain, undated
Philadelphia statue, undated
People, undated
People at horse race, undated
People at party, 1980 August
People doing headstands on beach, undated
People on cliff, undated
People on porch, undated
People on steps, undated
People with canoe, undated
Porter, Nell, undated
Porter, Nell (Potie), 1958 June
Porter, Nell and Margaret, undated
Radio City, 1941
Reba, undated
River, undated
Rose, 1960
Rose, 1963 October
Roses, 1961 June
Ruterer, Maude, undated
River Side Park, Saginaw, circa 1910
Sayre School auditorium, circa 1960
Sayre School kids playing sports, circa 1960
Sayre School kids watching piano, circa 1960
Sayre School lunchtime, circa 1960
Shades, Indiana, 1912
Shaw's garden, Saint Louis, 1914
Short, George, 1910
Shortcake supper, 1961
Siamese cat and dog, undated
Silver, Margaret and Carolyn, undated
Snuffy, terrier dog, 1981
Sunrise Creamery float, Tazewell, Virginia, undated
Tazewell Court House, Tazewell, Virginia, undated
Tazewell High, Tazewell, Virginia, undated
Tazewell house back door, undated
Spiller, R. K., Second Lieutenant, USA Philadelphia insurrection, 1900
Thompson, Frank, 1982
Thompson, Keith, undated
Thompson, Keith and Johnny, undated
Thompson, Keith, Johnny, and Betty, undated
Thompson, Ruth Peery "Boots", 1946
Thompson, Ruth Peery "Boots", 1969
Thompson, Ruth Peery "Boots", undated
Thompson, Ruth Peery and Betty, undated
Thompson, Ruth Peery and Mimi (Elizabeth), undated
Thompson, Ruth Peery, Johnny, Cosby, Betty, and Jeanette, undated
Thompson, Ruth and Keith, 45th wedding anniversary, 1981 June 1
Thompson, Ruth Peery and Schoën, undated
Toddler, undated
Toddler and elderly woman, undated
Toddler and man, undated
Toddlers in leaves, undated
Toddler in pool, 1954 August
Topham, Miss, French teacher at University High, 1940
Walton, Fannie and Betty Boggess, undated
Warriner, John, Saginaus, Michigan, undated
Warriner, Mr. and his son, John, 1909
Warriner, Paul, undated
Washington D.C.: at a park, circa 1925
Washington D.C.: The Cairo entrance, circa 1925
Washington D.C.: Capitol steps, circa 1925
Washington D.C.: Memorial at Arlington, circa 1925
Washington D.C.: National Museum, circa 1925
Washington D.C.: side entrance of N.A.R. building, circa 1925
Washington D.C.: Washington Monument, circa 1925
Water fountain, undated
Waterfront, circa 1900
Wedgewood Easter, undated
Weidemann, Brittain with Randall's children (birthday) at The Hollys in Scott County, undated
Weidemann, Brittain with wife-to-be, undated
Weidemann, Dorcas photo: little boy carrying beach ball, circa 1950
Weidemann, Dorcas photo: woman and infant on beach, circa 1950
Weidemann, Dorcas's animals at the Hollys, undated
Weidemann, Dorcas's dog at the Hollys, undated
Weidemann, Hope with husband-to-be, John Curtis, undated
Weidemann, Mark on tractor at the Hollys farm in Newtown Pike in Scott County, undated
Weidemann, Martha, undated
Weidemann, Randall, far right, undated
Winnett, Uncle and George, fishing, 1912
Winnett, Uncle, Mount Clemens, undated
Woman, undated
Woman and children, undated
Woman and dog, undated
Woman and girls, undated
Woman and infant, undated
Woman and infant on beach, undated
Woman and man, undated
Woman and three boys, undated
Woman and toddler, undated
Woman at mailbox, undated
Woman diving into lake, undated
Woman feeding toddler, undated
Woman opening car door, undated
Woman serving water, undated
Woman sitting on steps, undated
Women, 1922 July 4
Women, undated
Women and girl, undated
Women and infant, undated
Women and toddler, undated
Women at restaurant, undated
Women outside building, undated
Women putting baby in car, undated
Women serving water, undated
Women with indigenous children, undated
Women with man, undated
Young girl, undated
Young woman, undated
Young man, undated
Young, Sylvia, undated
Boggess, Tib Peery (Mimi, Elizabeth), undated
Hall, Ebenezer W. home, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens, built Fall 1901, Spring 1902, circa 1905
Hall, Aunt Nelle with Thelma, circa 1940
Hollingsworth, Betty and infant, Florida, 1952 January
Hollingsworth, Denzil, undated
Hollingsworth, Denzil hanging plaster, 1960
Hollingsworth, Thelma and Siamese cat, circa 1960
The Holly's, Georgetown, front exterior, undated
Family at the Holly's, circa 1990
Cathedral, circa 1950
Cathedral, undated
Unidentified building, undated
Buckingham Palace, 1927
Bridge over water, 1927
Castle, 1927
Castle on the Rhine, 1927
Cathedral at Milan, 1927
Cemetery at Genoa, 1927
Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, 1927
City on hill, 1927
Clock tower at Venice, 1927
Corner of the ruins of Kenilworth Castle, 1927
Gondola, Venice, 1927
Home of Christopher Columbus, 1927
Lorelei on the Rhine, 1927
Old Curiosity Shop, 1927
"Our gang" at the Pope's Palace in Avignon, France, 1927
"Our gang" leaving Gloria Genoa, 1927
Part of "Our gang" at the rear of Hampton Court, 1927
Peace Palace at the Hague, Holland, 1927
Terraced land at the Rhine, 1927
Village on Lake Como, Italy, 1927
Women on board ship, 1927
Patching seat covers in "Merry Olds", Indiana, 1953 November
Schoën, 1953 November
Hollingsworth, Hunter, Denzil and Val, 1954 August
Toddler in pool, 1954 August
Val in pool, 1954 August
Woman and toddler, 1954 August
Woman and toddler in pool, 1954 August
House, 1506 Beacon Hill, 1956 January
Hollingsworth, Denzil tiling floor, 1956 April
Hollingsworth family, 1956 February
Woman and infant, Miami airport, 1966 January
Farm, 1966 May
Man, 1966 May
Man and house, 1966 May
Man on horse, 1966 May
Man on steps, 1966 May
Man on tractor, 1966 May
Boat, 1966 June
Children, 1966 June
Man and girls, 1966 June
Man in pool, 1966 June
Toddler, 1966 June
Roses, 1966 June
Boat, 1966 July
Boat, man, and girl, 1966 July
Boy and boat, 1966 July
Boy putting boat onto car roof, 1966 July
Woman with roses, 1966 July
Children at table, 1966 July
Fallen tree, 1966 July
Family at lake, 1966 July
Garden, 1966 July
Kids and man in pool, 1966 October
Street, 1966 July
Toddler and dog, 1966 July
Woman and man in boat, 1966 July
Woman with roses, 1966 July
Woman and children, 1966 July
Woman, 1966 July
Rose trellis, 1966 July
Boy and man in pool, 1966 October
Boy in pool, 1966 October
Kids and man in pool, 1966 October
Man and children in pool, 1966 October
Boys on tennis court, circa 1915
Devil's Oven (cave), circa 1915
Gean, circa 1915
Grandma, George, Mount Clemens, 1910
Hall, Nelle, 1917
Lake with canoes, circa 1915
LaMont, Peggy, circa 1915
Man chopping wood, circa 1915
Miles, Ruth, 1915
Parrott, Lewis and Grandma, circa 1915
Pauline and Peggy, circa 1915
Pauline, Jed, Polly, and Peggy, circa 1915
"Sunny Jam", four youths in costume, circa 1915
Warrier and son, Saginaw, Michigan, to Nelle Belle Hall, 1909 January
Warrier Cottage, circa 1915
Wiedemann, Britton Boal, 1965 November
Wiedemann, Mark and Pogo [dog] at 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens, 1964 November
Woman (possibly woman) and Jim Hallaway, 1977
Woman standing next to car, circa 1915
Woman with dog, circa 1930
Alma in front of Shakespeare's birthplace, undated
Ausable Chasm, New York, circa 1920
Benjamin Franklin's birthplace, circa 1920
Blanket chest at Hall house, 1956
Bus driver to John Brown's home, Elba, New York, circa 1920
Couple aboard boat crossing Lake Champlain, circa 1920
Crosby, Mary Francis and Thelma Parrott in canoe, circa 1905
Dillons at Weldon Hotel, Greenfield, Massachusetts, circa 1920
Doorway of Hall Building, 1956
Elephant's Trunk, Ausable Chasm, New York, circa 1920
Five women, Weldon Hotel, Greenfield, Massachusetts, circa 1920
Girl and boy with cross bow, circa 1910
Gravestones, 1963 September
Group aboard ferry, Public Gardens, Boston, circa 1920
Group of men and women, Orion, Michigan, 1899 August 1
Group on bus tour to John Brown's home, circa 1920
Guard at Buckingham Palace, undated
Hall house, west end of dining room, 1945
Hall, Nelle Belle, Blanche Hall Parrott, and Thelma Hall Parrott after a day of shopping, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1912
Hall, Nelle Belle, May Katus, and Blanche Hall Parrott, circa 1895
Hall, William Robert's and Duncan Hubbard's family (3), circa 1900
Hawthorne's Wayside home, Concord, Massachusetts, circa 1920
Home with Paul Revere, circa 1920
Hotel Statler view from Public Gardens, circa 1920
Hubbard, Lizzie Shook and Grandma [Letitia Shook ]Hall, circa 1910
John Brown's farm house, Elba, New York, circa 1920
Lexington Minute Man statue, circa 1920
Man sitting in chair, circa 1930
Man with dog, circa 1930
Neighborhood foliage and street, 1965 February
Old Ironsides, Charleston Navy Yard, circa 1920
Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts, circa 1920
Parrott, Blanche Hall, circa 1945
Parrott, Blanche Hall at Public Gardens, Boston, circa 1920
Parrott, Blanche Hall, Age 16, Mount Clemens, 1893
Parrott, Blanche Hall, China book memento of Methodist Church, 1956
Parrott, Blanche Hall, Grandma, and family, circa 1920
Parrott, Thelma Hall at Hocker Farm, circa 1918
Parrott, woman, photo of 19th century portrait, undated
Public Gardens, Boston, George Washing Monument in background, circa 1920
Shook gravestone monument, 1963 September
Statue and pond in Public Gardens, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1920
Students in chemistry lab, University of Michigan, circa 1897
"Tale of the Angels", Eddie Gerst, age 6, Marie Gerst, age 2, 1925
Thelma's cat snow covered back yard, 1909 December 30
Three women, 1918 September 1
Three women on Frederick Bridge, 1918 September 1
Toddler at beach [photo fragment], circa 1953
Toll and Kent, 1951 December
Tower of London, undated
"Twelve Snap Shots of Volendam and Marken, published by Hotel Spaander, Volendam (Holland)" (only 9/12), circa 1925
Two men cleaning dishes, circa 1920
Two women next to flower bush, 1922 July 4
Unidentified gear, undated
Unidentified late 19th century man's portrait, copy, undated
Vermont State Capitol at Montpelier, circa 1920
View of Hudson River from Trophy Point, West Point, New York, circa 1920
Armored School, Fort Knox, 1952-1953
Minnie Haller, cook at Hall House, circa 1900
Size 5x7 Photographs, 1890-circa 2008, undated
Actors, undated
Actors in blackface, undated
Beer, Charlie, circa 1900
Beer, Charlie, wife of, circa 1900
Beer family member, New York State, undated
Broome, Lillian, Mount Clemens, 1894
Broome's porch, 1898 July
Broomes fence; Lil Brooke, Blanche Hall Parrott, Nelle Hall, undated
Cessna airplane, undated
Child sitting on floor, circa 1955
Church, Daytona Beach, 1930
Miss Dillion and Thelma Parrott, 1899 September
Miss Dillon and Thelma Hall, 1901
Elderly woman in Florida at Viscaya, undated
Elderly woman in rocking chair, undated
Elderly woman, Mount Clemens, Michigan, circa 1900
Family in a park, circa 1900
Farnum, Stanley and Stanford, undated
Fenton, Charlie, Lily, Walter, and Howard, undated
Fenton, Henrietta, undated
Foster, Eliza Hall, undated
Foster, Mary, undated
Foster, Mr., undated
Fountain by Hotel Statler, Buffalo, New York, undated
Fountain in center of pond, undated
Four women at a beach, circa 1900
Hacker, Fern and Glen, undated
Hacker, Frank G., undated
Hacker, Grove, undated
Hacker, "Nellie" Parrott, undated
Hall, Ebenezer Wright homestead, undated
Hall, Eugene, undated
Hall, George and Mildred, undated
Hall House, photographed by Mr. Bawdy, 1896
Hall, Harry Wright, undated
Hall, Harry and Blanche, 1897 April 18
Hall, Harry Wright, William Robert, and Eugene Egbert; sons of William Ebenezer and Letitia J. Shook Hall, 1895
Hall, Henry, undated
Hall, Letitia J. Shook, 1890
Hall, Letitia, Eugene, William, Nelle, William Ebenezer, Harry, Blanche, 1894
Hall, Letitia J. Shook, circa 1935
Hall, Letitia J. Shook and Hall Hollingsworth, 1940 August 9
Hall, Mabel, undated
Hall, Nelle Belle, circa 1903
Hall, Nelle Belle, undated
Hall, Nelle and group of people, Lake Orion, 1898 July 22
Hall, Nelle, Mr. Duffes, and Blanche Hall Parrott, 1897
Hall, Nelle, Maude and Frank Mulholland, George Clark, Lillian Brown, 1899 July 31
Hall, Nelle, Maude M. Rutter, Mildred Grosvenor, Lillian Brown at Marne Castles, 1898 October
Hall, Walter, undated
Hall, William, brother of Blanche, undated
Hall, William, II, 1895
Hall, Willie, undated
Hollingsworth, Denzil, undated
Hollingsworth, Donn, Hall, Kent, Vertrees, undated
Hollingsworth, Dorcas, undated
Hollingsworth, Ethelbert Callahan, Denzil M. Hollingsworth, age 8, Dorothea Margaret Hollingsworth, age 7, 1907
Hollingsworth, grandmother of Denzil, undated
Hollingsworth, Hall, 1943 July
Hollingsworth, Kent 3 years old, on balcony, undated
Hollingsworth, Kent portrait, circa 1960
Hollingsworth, Kent, Sherman School, St. Louis, Missouri, 1996
Hollingsworth, Randolph and unidentified child and man, circa 1990
Hollingsworth, Thelma Jockey Club certificate, 1944 November 1
Hollingsworth, Thelma Jockey Club certificate, 1946 November 1
Horse and jockey, 1976 April 11
Horse cart next to building, circa 1915
Hubbard, Inez, Letitia Jane Hall, Duncan Hubbard, and Giles Hubbard, undated
Infant, Mount Clemens, undated
Katus, Pete and Mary Rood, undated
Keeneland race, 1970 April
Leraans family, Christmas card, circa 1950
Man, Minneapolis, Minnesota, undated
Man, Mount Clemens, undated
Mann, J. S., 1896
Oldest house in the United States, Saint Augustine, Florida, 1930
Orion, Four young women, 1898 July 26
Parrott, Blanche, 1935
Parrott, Blanche and Christmas tree, undated
Parrott, Blanche and daughter, Thelma, undated
Parrott, Blanche and Grove Hacker, 1898
Parrott, Blanche and Grove Hacker, taken on Parrott Farm, 1898
Parrott, Blanche and Lewis with group of people next to a piano, 1898
Parrott, Blanche holding Thelma Hall Parrott, 2 days old, 1899 June 11
Parrott, Charles, 1944
Parrott, Charley, undated
Parrott, Leonard, undated
Parrott, Lewis, undated
Parrott, Lewis, circa 1900
Parrott, Lewis and three others swimming at a river, circa 1915
Parrott, Lewis and two others swimming at a river, undated
Parrott, Lewis and unidentified woman, circa 1900
Parrott, Thelma H., infant, 1900
Parrott, Thelma H., circa 1901
Parrott, Thelma Hall, circa 1904
Parrott, Thelma Hall, circa 1912
Parrotts (two men and one woman) standing near store front storefront, 1905
People gathered around doctor and patient (possibly a University of Michigan class), undated
Savage, Nettie, dining room girl at Hall House, circa 1890
Shook, Eugene, circa 1890
Shook, Walter, Edith, and Eugene, undated
Steamboat Captain Sundreland, Manistique, Michigan, undated
Teats, George Henry family, 1954
Toddler, photo by Smith, Saginaw, E.S., circa 1900
Town buildings and unpaved road, circa 1915
University of Michigan group of men and women, Ann Arbor, 1895
Warriner, Mary, undated
Weidemann, Holly, 1957
Woman, infant, and girl, New York, circa 1900
Woman, Mount Clemens, Michigan, undated
Woman in chair, 1897
Young man, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1900
Boy, undated
Dilapidated house, undated
Eiffel tower, 1944
Elderly woman on staircase, undated
Elderly woman on steps, undated
Family, undated
Gap and the art museum, 1944
Hall, infant girl, circa 1900
Man, undated
Man and boy, undated
Man and girl, undated
Woman and flower bush, undated
Women on beach, undated
Color enlargement, 1956 June 23
Weidemann, Dorcas trip to see Ebenezer Hall birthplace and glass factory , Keene, New Hampshire, 1997 September
Weidemann, Dorcas trip to see Ebenezer Hall birthplace and glass factory , Keene, New Hampshire, 1997 September
Aunt Lettie, Tazewell, Virginia, undated
Boggess, Bandy or Riffe, Margaret, and Boyd, undated
Boggess, Elizabeth (Mrs. Glen), undated
Boggess, Grandmother, John, and Johnny, undated
Boggess, John Peery, 1952 November 1
Boggess, John Perry, 1955 March
Boggess, John Perry and Betty on Rhayssanock River dock, circa 1950
Boggess, John Perry, 1961 July
Boggess, John Perry, Grandmother Peery, and Aunt Ruth, 1949
Boggess, Johnny and Mimi (Elizabeth), undated
Boggess, John Randolph, 1949 May 15
Boggess, John Randolph, circa 1950
Boggess, John Randolph and John Perry, 1953
Boggess, John R., William Porter, Betty Randolph, Elizabeth Peery, 1930
Boggess, Margaret, undated
Boggess, Mary and Maude, undated
Boggess, Mimi (Elizabeth), undated
Boggess, Mimi (Elizabeth) and Johnny, undated
Boggess, Nell Porter, undated
Boggess, Mrs. Rau, undated
Boggess, Riffe, undated
Burton, Robert and John Randolph Boggess, 1959
Boy and elderly couple, undated
Boyd, Granny, Jennie Sue, Bud and Bobby Rangeley, undated
Crockett family member, girl, undated
Elderly woman, 1943 October 10
Elderly woman, undated
Girl, undated
Harrison, Maggie and daughter, Welch, West Virginia, undated
Hollingsworth, Betty Boggess, undated
Hollingsworth, Betty Boggess, 1930
Hollingsworth, Betty Boggess, North Tazewell, Virginia, 1930
Hollingsworth, Betty Boggess and people at art museum, circa 2008
Hollingsworth, Betty and Val, 1954 July
Hollingsworth, Betty Boggess at a Christmas party, 2005 December 16
Hollingsworth, Val, 1954 July
Man, undated
Peery family, undated
Peery family from Utah, undated
Peery, Charles Henry, undated
Peery, David John, undated
Peery, Elizabeth Eleanor, undated
Grandmother Peery, undated
Peery, John David and G. H., second from left, undated
Peery, John David's father, undated
Thompson, Aunt Ruth, Grandmother Peery, and Johnny, undated
Uncle Ron, Granny Boyd, and Bandy Boggess, undated
Warner, Nola (Gleason), Alberta White (Bond), and Nell Porter Boggess, undated
Wills, Mary, undated
Armored School, Fort Knox, 1952-1953
Addis, Bertha Piel, photo taken by Dorcas in front hall of the Holly's (copy), circa 1945
Aerial view of Fort Peck, Montana (5), circa 1935
Cheerleader jumps and other cartwheels, photo by Dorcas (3), circa 1945
Couple on set of play, circa 1945
Crosby, Mary Francis and Thelma Parrott, circa 1905
Emma family photos proof sheet, 1999 August
Emma family photos proof sheet, 1999 September
Hollingsworth, Hall, Donn, and Kent, Blanche and Lewis Parrott, circa 1945
Hollingsworth, Hall, Donn, and Kent, Blanche Parrott, circa 1945
Hollingsworth, Vertrees' family, 1964 October
Parrott, Blanche Hall at 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens, MI, 1942 February 15
Peery, Elizabeth Elinor, Tazewell, Virginia, undated
Rutter, Maude, Nelle Belle Hall, May Katus, and Lillian Broome, circa 1895
Victorian style house, man and woman in front yard, circa 1895
Young Hayward, circa 1895
Edith, Jenny, and Walter Shook, Mount Clemens [cracked cabinet card photo], circa 1870
Parrott, Lewis M. portrait [brittle condition], circa 1900
Young girl, ambrotype on milk glass, circa 1880
Size 8x10 Photographs, 1879-1974, undated
Actors, undated
Bennett, Tom, M/M Melton Menasco, 1971 September 12
Bingle, John, circa 1930
Breathett, Ned, Governor and the girls, 1965 April 3
Eastman Hotel lobby, Mount Clemens, Michigan, circa 1910
Family, circa 1880
Fanar, Grace, Mount Clemens, Michigan, circa 1900
Farronl, Mrs. David and infant, circa 1880's
Group of women an one man on staircase, circa 1960
Group of women at Lake Orion, 1898 July 28
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Bedroom, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Dining room, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Exterior, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Girl on staircase, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Piano, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Sitting room, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Staircase, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Wall clock, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Wall mural, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Wall sconce, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Woman holding glass, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Woman on sofa, circa 1960
Hall House, 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens: Woman reading a table, circa 1960
Hall, George B., son of Henry and Carrie Hall, New York, circa 1900
Grosevor, Mildred, circa 1900
Hall, Nelle Belle, circa 1930
Hall, Nelle Belle, "An Evening with Korea, Mount Clemens, Epworth League" group (Nelle in middle with black bead necklace), 1909 May 13
Hall, Nelle Belle, Detroit, Flint, circa 1940
Hall, Nelle Belle, four miniature portraits, Mount Clemens, circa 1900
Hall, Nelle Belle in a fur coat at the counter of a bank, circa 1940
Hall, Nelle Belle, Maude Rutter, Mildred Grosevor entertaining teachers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rutter, circa 1900
Hall, Nelle Belle, Mount Clemens, circa 1895
Hollingsworth, Betty B., 1951
Hollingsworth, Betty B., 1953 May
Hollingsworth, Betty B., undated
Hollingsworth, Denzil portrait, 1943
Hollingsworth, Dorcas, front and center of large group of women under a magnolia tree, circa 1945
Hollingsworth, Dorcas Noel, one-year old, 1927
Hollingsworth, Dorcas Noel, Saint Louis, circa 1939
Hollingsworth, Kent and Thelma at the Leslie Combes II farm, 1970
Hollingsworth, Thelma Hall Parrott, circa 1910
Hollingsworth, Thelma Hall Parrott in Petosky, Michigan, circa 1970
Hollingsworth, Thelma and Bill Bishy, Keeneland races, 1970 October 20
Hollingsworth, Thelma, Keeneland summer, sales, 1974
Hollys living room: Thelma, Hall, Kent, Donn, Leslie, Denzil (infant), Vertrees, Denzil, 1949 March
Hunt Club party (Denzil and Thelma on far left), circa 1965
Hubbard, Rob and Duncan, circa 1890
Katus, Peter, Prescription Drug Store, Mount Clemens, circa 1900
Lake, undated
Lawrence and Hollingsworth; left to right: Mrs. Amos Lawrence, Mr. Amos Lawrence, Mr. Donn Hollingsworth, Mrs. Donn Hollingsworth, and center front Mrs. Denzil M. Hollingsworth, undated
Mann, Eldson Lester at the age of ten months, circa 1900
Monroe, J.G., Superintendent of Schools, St. Johns, Michigan, circa 1895
Mulholland, Frank L., undated
Owen, David Dale, Dr., [1860 negative printed in 1880], 1880
Parrott, Blanche, circa 1900
Parrott, Blanche and Lewis, 1922 August 9
Parrott, Blanche and Lewis, and Mrs. W. A. Bludgett, Cocoanut Grove, Florida, 1937
Parrott, Blanche and Nelle Belle Hall, Mount Clemens, Michigan, 1879
Parrott, Blanche and Thelma, four miniature portraits, circa 1900
Parrott, Blanche, Lewis, and Thelma, circa 1905
Parrott, Blanche with newborn Thelma, 1899
Parrott, George, father to Lewis Merton, undated
Parrott, Lewis M., Saint Johns, Michigan, 1898
Parrott, Mollie and Wallace, Mount Clemens, circa 1890
Parrott, Thelma Hall, circa 1900
Parrott, Thelma Hall, eighteen-months old, Saginaw, 1901
Parrott, Thelma Hall, four small portraits, circa 1900
Parrott, Thelma Hall, three-years old, 1902
Pelis, Robert, Dr., 1848 (1880's reproduction), circa 1880
Republicans at Keeneland for Republican Governors Convention, 1969
Sayre School party, circa 1970
Schoën, 11 months old, German pointer dog, 1953
Slapp, uncle, yearly guest at Hall House from Columbus, Ohio, undated
Unidentified woman, circa 1880
Victory Column, Berlin, circa 1900
Weidemann, Dorcas' copy of Ebenezer Hall portrait, undated
Woman on horse, undated
Young woman (1860 negative, reproduced in 1880's), circa 1880
Boggess, John Randolph, 1920
Boggess, Margaret, undated
Boggess, Nell Porter and her mother, Mrs. William Porter, II., 1942
Faulkerson, Louise Peery, 1906 June 14
Gary, West Virginia, family friends at mine, circa 1900
Gary, West Virginia, family friends of Papa Peery, circa 1900
Gary, West Virginia, railroad crew, circa 1900
Lettie, aunt, Abingdon, Virginia, circa 1900
Lettie, aunt, Bluefield, West Virginia, circa 1900
Military parade, North Tazewell WWI troops, circa 1918
Peery, Charles David, Tazewell, Virginia, circa 1900
Peery, Charles Henry, Tazewell, Virginia, circa 1900
Peery, Charles Henry and John D., Salem, Virginia, circa 1900
Peery, Deborah Ward and two others, Tazewell, Virginia, 1908
Peery, Elizabeth Tib, infant, Tazewell, Virginia, circa 1900
Peery, Glen, Bluefield, West Virginia, circa 1900
Peery, John David's father, circa 1900
Peery, Letitiah Ward and sister, Lena Deborah, 1909 January 4
Peery, Margaret Cathrine, age 4 months, 15 days, circa 1900
Peery, Papa and relative, circa 1900
Peery, Tib, infant, Tazewell, Virginia, circa 1900
Riffe, Major Ed, Bandy Boggess and John Boggess, 1905 September 15
Roark, Betsy, Martha Mooney, Barbara Barksdale, and Betty Boggess Hollingsworth, 1982 June
Thompson, Ruth, 1941 February
Thompson, Ruth, Dave, Tib, and Glenn, circa 1900
Hollingsworth, Denzil, Construction sites, Saint Louis, 1926-1935
Hollingsworth, Denzil, Construction sites, Saint Louis, 1926-1935
Hollingsworth, Denzil Log of unloading and distributing pipe between Stratton and Flagler, Colorado, Western Division Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, 1937 October
Charlie Otto, Pilot Lee Jine Anstogino, and unidentified man with auto gyro, Saint Louis, circa 1950
Dot Magee with grandma Hall's hat she wore in her carriage, circa 1960
Kindor, Gulf Coast Handicap, Fairgrounds N.Q., Denzil Hollingsworth on far right, 1946 February 8
Male and female cheerleaders, Tulane, New Orleans, circa 1948
Man playing piano (possibly at Hall House), circa 1960
Parlour room (possibly at Hall House), circa 1960
Parrott, group of men, circa 1897
Students and staff, University of Michigan, circa 1897
Victorian religious card, circa 1900
Larger than size 8x10, 1903-1989, undated
Foal, scanned copy, undated
Four generations: Letitia Hall, Thelma and Donn Denzil Hollingsworth, and Blanche Parrott, 1924
Hall, Nelle Belle, Detroit, circa 1925
Group photo with many in costume, includes Polly Parrott, Champaign, Illinois, circa 1920
Hollingsworth, Kent and people at party, to Dorcas from Maylou and Sonny, circa 1960
Horse and jockey, circa 1960
Horse race, circa 1960
Men at horse race, circa 1960
Kent and Denzil at horse race, circa 1960
Parrott, Thelma Hall, Saint Louis, circa 1918
Shook, Elizabeth and Letitia, undated
Woman and infant, circa 1900
Woman's portrait, to Polly, Saint Louis, 1920
Boggess, Betty and Bill with dog, 1935
Crockett, Charles William and Elizabeth Graham Hambrick, Tazewell, Virginia, undated
Crockett, Lena Harmon, circa 1920
For Elizabeth, from Ellen, 1920 December
Family, Tazewell, Virginia, undated
Gary, West Virginia Engine ice plant, undated
Gary, West Virginia mining family, undated
Gary, West Virginia store front and unidentified people (1865 photograph, reprinted in 1880's), circa 1880
Harmon, Henry, Aunt Lettie's husband, undated
Harmon, Aunt Lettie, circa 1920
Peery, Charles Henry and wife, Annie Letitia, Bluefield, West Virginia, circa 1900
Peery, Charles Henry and Eleanor Phoebe Beavers, 1920 December
Peery, Charles David family, Tazewell, Virginia, circa 1930
Peery family, circa 1890
Peery family, Roanoke, Virginia, circa 1930
Peery family, Tazewell, Virginia, circa 1920
Peery family with car, Five Oaks, Virginia, circa 1920
Peery family at Charles Henry Peery house, Tazewell, Virginia, circa 1890
Peery, Glen, undated
Peery, John David, 1934 December
Peery, John David's father, Roanoke, Virginia, undated
Peery, Treuleau and four other Crockett women, circa 1950
Tazewell, Virginia: Corn cobbler and silo, circa 1900
Tazewell, Virginia: Manufacturing building, circa 1900
Tazewell, Virginia: Manufacturing buildings, circa 1900
Tazewell, Virginia: Men working along a stream, circa 1900
Tazewell, Virginia: Men, boys, and work horses, Five Oaks, circa 1900
Tazewell, Virginia: Men with horses in a field, circa 1900
Unidentified family, 1906 July
Unidentified woman, Roanoke, Virginia [possibly Elizabeth Eleanor Peery], circa 1930
Hudson River Steamboat (non-profit folk music club), launched 1978, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1979
Unidentified man, possibly named Will Bloch, undated
Hall, William R., Local Inspectors of Steam Vessels certificate, Detroit, 1903
Hollingsworth, Kent National Institute for Trial Advocacy Diploma, 1989 May 21
Boggess, John Randolph, circa 1940
Hollingsworth, Kent and son, Belmont, 1969
Hollingsworth, Kent, Belmont, 1977
Thompson, Aunt Boots Peery, circa 1920
Unidentified man, undated
Group of young adult women and men, Lewis Parrott is second right, circa 1895
Jockey on horse owned by Thelma Hollingsworth, Dorcas next to trainer
Vinyl records and DVD, 1943, 1968, 2008
Hollingsworth, Denzil and Thelma family movies, from 8mm films recorded 1930s-1960s, with voice over commentary by L. Hall Hollingsworth,1988-1990, 3 hours, 27 minutes, video file copied to DVD 2008 December, 2008
"Across the World" by Leslie Hollingsworth and Kay Dickey, Motorola Home Recording Disc, vinyl, 1943 January 19
"Hollingsworth, Thelma: owner and breeder, Charles W. Serbin: trainer, John Choquette: jockey; Six furlongs, Delaware Park; Jim Hannon, Announcer Race Recording"; 45 vinyl, 1968 August 6
Realia, circa 1922-1969, undated
Jockey Club Conference fountain pen holder, 1969
Jockey Club Conference paper pad, 1966
Kent Hollingsworth Fraternity Scholastic Award trophy, undated
Kentucky Derby, Assault wins by 6 lengths, Kendor 17th photopolymer plate, 1946
Eclipse Place, Georgetown, Kentucky metal engraving plate, undated
Fountain pen text writers, undated
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Boggess copper engraving plate, undated
Mrs. John Randolph Boggess copper engraving plate, undated
Purcell's Do-It-Yourself Shop carpenter pencils (2), undated
Racing Hall of Fame, National Museum of Racing, Saratoga Springs, New York embosser, undated
Siamese [cat] rubber stamps (2), undated
The Excavating and Foundation Company, Saint Louis embosser, 1932
The Hollingsworth Company, Inc., Saint Louis, Mo., Seal embosser, undated
Saint Louis Browns baseball hat (grey hat, brown bill), circa 1922-1924
Saint Louis Browns baseball hat (white hat and brown bill), circa 1946-1950
Saint Louis Browns baseball hat (Brown hat, orange bill), 1951
Saint Louis Browns baseball hat (Brown hat and bill), circa 1952-1953
Red and white striped baseball hat with embroidered letter G, undated
Family calendar on notecards, undated
George D. Fischer & Company, Saint Louis, Missouri eyeglass case and spectacles, undated
Hollingsworth leather name tag, undated
Jockey Club blue chips (3), undated
Saint Louis Browns hat details and statistics for 1922-1924, 1946-1953, undated
Silk Christmas gift tag, undated
Program of an open meeting of the Periclen Society, University of Kentucky, 1866
Blanche and Lewis account book, 1952-1955
Photo album, from Thelma to Aunt Nelle, 1910 December 25
Grave stone rubbings from Wickliffe/Howard cemetary on Beck's Farm, Paris Pike (formerly Howard's Grove), 1998
Hall family, 1844-1999, undated
Biographical note
The Hall family series includes the papers of descendants from Dr. Ebenezer Wright Hall (1783-1865) and Olivia Rich (1812-1881). The family were early settlers of Mount Clemens, MaComb County, Michigan, a northeast suburb of Detroit. Dr. Hall established a glass factory for manufacturing medical vials and bottles. As early settlers of Mount Clemens, the Hall family owned a significant portion of properties in the city. The doctor's brother, William Ebenezer Hall, a glass cutter, with his wife, Letitia Jenny Shook, helped manage Hall Bath House, a mineral spa and hotel. The couple had two daughters, Nelle Belle, a school teacher, and Blanche Hall Parrott. Their daughters helped manage the hotel property into the early twentieth century. Blanche's daughter, Thelma Hall Parrott Hollingsworth, was integral to the closing and selling of the Hall estate property in the late 1950's.
Scope and Contents
The Hall family series (1844-1999, undated) comprises the personal papers and genealogical research of a prominent family based in Mount Clemens, Michigan. The series includes daily diaries written by the patriarch's son, Ebenezer Wright Hall, a merchant. Also in the series are the papers and letters sent to and by the immediate family Ebenzer's brother, William E. Hall, Letitia Jenny Shook Hall, and Nelle Belle Hall. In addition the series contains many copies of records, newspaper clippings, and other documents collected for genealogical research by Thelma Hall Parrott Hollingsworth and her daughter, Dorcus Wiedemann.
Ebenezer Wright Hall, 1860-1906, undated
1863 Diary, includes 1860 letter from wife, Mary Ann Beer, 1860, 1863
Diary, 1864
Diary, 1865
Diary, 1866
1867 Diary, includes 1862 Carrlton Oil bill, 1862, 1867
Diary, 1868
Diary, 1869
Diary, 1870
Diary, 1871
Diary, 1872
Diary, 1873
Diary, 1874
Diary, 1875
Diary, 1876
Diary, 1877
Diary, 1878
Diary, 1879
Diary, 1880
Diary, 1882
Diary, 1884
Diary, 1885
Diary, 1886
Diary, 1890
Diary, 1896-1903
Diary notes, undated
Land deed, 1889 December 23
Last will and testament, 1906
Notes, 1865
Genealogy and family papers, 1849-1999, undated
A College Story booklet, by A.E. Little & Company, Lynn, 1899
Alexander Macomb Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, Michigan, directory, 1966-1967
Ancestry charts, 1999, undated
Around the World stereoscope cards, circa 1904
Biographies, 1997, undated
British shop invoice for child's dress, 1924
Christmas cards, undated
Church and glassworks newspaper clippings, 1945-1954
Dearborn Historian, Quarterly of Dearborn Historical Commission, 1965 Spring
Deed: Phelps, Joan, 1865
Deed: Pringle, William, 1900
Deed: Scott, George abstract, Mount Clemens, 1866
Detroit Arts Institute bulletins, 1953-1954
Detroit Arts Institute letter regarding artefacts, 1994
Detroit Historical Society Bulletin, 1946 December
Estate records, 1903-1976
Father Tuck's Land of Toys Painting Book, 1909
Financial notes (likely Ebenezer's), 1864-1965
First Methodist Church, Mount Clemens, Michigan bulletins, 1952 May-July
Garden plantings for 142 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens, undated
Genealogy including Dr. Ebenezer Wright Hall and William E. Hall, 1994, undated
Genealogy notes, undated
Glass factory history, undated
Glass factory notes and scripts, undated
Hall and Doremus's Receipt book, 1849
Hall family notes taken by Thelma Polly Parrott Hollingsworth, undated
Hall House hotel stationary, 1904
Hall House receipt book, 1895-1902
Hall House, Furst Hotel newspaper clippings, 1937, undated
Hall, Alfarata Calling card, undated
Hall, Alfarata Estate probate record, 2483
Hall, Ebenezer biographies, undated
Hall, Ebenezer biography and glass factory history, 1999, undated
Hall, Ebenezer Wright (1783 - 1865) biography (transcript) in New Hampshire Sentinel, 1859 November 10 (reprint), undated
Hall, Harry W. deed, 1902
Hall, John, Dr., Whig biography, part of Daughters of the American Revolution, undated
Keene Glass, Ebenezer Hall's factory order list, mid 1800's
Letter book with transcription, 1892-1893, undated
Life of Spenser and the Fairy Queen handwritten story, undated
List of clothing and furniture, circa 1890
Lockwood, Land deed, H.N. to E.G. Pratt , Mount Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan, 1852 November 13
Lovett's Boston Stars program, 1896
Michigan church and family history, 1950
Michigan glass factory trip photo negatives, 1997
Michigan Historic Attractions book by Michigan Historical Society and John M. Munson, 1970
Michigan Historical Collections, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1955-1956
Michigan Historical Collections, Detroit Institute for the Arts letters re: Ebenezer Hall, 1953
Michigan History notes, undated
Michigan postcards, undated
Michigan vs. Minnesota Foot Ball Game Official Score Card, 1897 November 13
Mount Clemens certified letter regarding Gratiot Avenue property, 1977 March 22
Mount Clemens High School commencement programs, 1880, 1886, 1887, 1894, 1898
Mount Clemens history, 1973, 1999, undated
Mount Clemens history by Warren Parker and newspaper clippings, 1952, undated
Mount Clemens ledger book, includes Hall and Shook families, 1871
Mount Clemens Lodge No. 6 wallet and newspaper clippings, circa 1903
Mount Clemens Methodist Episcopal Church dedication services program, 1926 January
Mount Clemens newspaper clippings, 1957, undated
Mount Clemens Public Library letter re: Fred Sullivan, 1970
Mount Clemens Savings Bank blank check, 1880's
Mount Clemens Union School Exhibition programme, 1968 March 26-27
Notes found in old bills, 1875, undated
Photographs, scanned copies, undated
Play about Hall family by Thelma Polly" Hall Parrott Hollingsworth, undated
Sayles, Neil about the Hall family, 1924-1955, undated
Stone House booklet about Eliza Hall's home in Vermont, undated
University of Detroit program for A Madrigal dinner-concert, circa 1960
Wheeler, Don letters (copies and originals), 1924, 1957
Mount Clemens, Cass Avenue and Gratiot Turnpike, survey map, 1860
Hall, William R. ledger book, 1887-1900
Patton, J. ledger note, 1856
Hall, Eugene, St. Clair Hotel, Port Huron, Michigan envelope, undated
Notes and newspaper clipping about Ebenezer Wright Hall, 1963, undated
Pictorial Map of Downtown Detroit, 1945
Captain George R. Bonnah of Hanna Mour of Algonae (Southern Michigan), circa 1890
Nellie Steamer freight book (possibly piloted by William R. Hall, circa 1890
Master Mason certificate, Mount Clemens Lodge 6, 1914
Letitia, Nelle, and William Hall, 1844-1945, undated
Letitia Jenny Shook Hall, 1876-1937, undated
Account statement, 1879 April, 1880 January
Agreement with Esther Kraemer regarding Gratiot Avenue, Mount Clemens, undated
California postcard book from Mrs. Ada Chase, circa 1910
Cemetery plot invoices, 1903, 1925
Chattel mortgage sale, 1930 November 21
Class poem by Edith Shook, undated
Deeds, 1876-1901, 1925, 1929
Funeral register, 1941
Hall Hotel bank notes, 1929-1933
Hall Hotel lease, 1926
Insurance and legal records, 1933-1936
Land deed, 1893
Letter from Mrs. Rachel L. Shuck, Glendale, Carnegie, Pennsylvania, 1936 October 14
Macomb County Circuit Court decree, 1901 August 19
Mortgage note, 1920 September 8
Mortgage payment, Mount Clemens, 1929 April 22
Mount Clemens Chamber of Commerce stock certificate, 1920 April 28
Notebook (mostly blank), 1930
Pan-American Exposition postcards, 1901
Postcards, 1930's
Postcards from California, undated
Rapid Railroad Company Hall House lease, 1916 March 1
Shook family genealogy note, undated
Stationary and postcards, circa 1900
Taxes, 1931
Tenant lease, 1916
Tenant lease, 1923 February 6
Tenant lease, 1929-1935
Tenant lease, 1930 December 9
Tenant lease, 1936
Hall, Letitia List of assets, 1881 May 1
Postcard from Thelma Parrott [Hollingsworth], 1917 November
Invoices, 1933-1937
Mother's Day and Father's Day cards, 1922, 1933
Nelle Belle Hall, 1891-1951, undated
Bills, 1934-1937
Calling card (Nelle's), undated
Cards, circa 1900
Christmas letter, 1948
Correspondence, 1896-1904
Correspondence, 1942-1949
Deeds, 1902, 1928, 1947
Description of New York trip, 1908 October 17
Estate records, 1949
First Lessons in Book Keeping and notes found in book, 1894-1895
Hotel fire insurance claim, 1945 August
Ledger books, 1894-1895
Mount Clemens High School certificates, 1891-1893
Mount Clemens Public School report cards, 1893-1895
Mount Clemens Teachers Club Christmas Dinner program, undated
Nelle and Blanche Hall Parrott Land deed, 1940 September 3
Nelle and Blanche Hall Parrott Lease with George and Homer Smith, 1944 July 1
Nelle and Blanche Hall Parrott Masonic Temple Association Commerce Building Company sale, 1950 April 5
Nelle and Blanche Hall Parrott Tenant leases, 1923-1944
Pan American Exposition, Detroit, postcards sent to Letitia Hall, 1901
Paufre, Eldred Hall birth announcement, 1927 March 14
Postcard stationary, undated
Postcards, 1909-1916
Taxes, 1944-1945
Teaching and school award, Mount Clemens High School (copy), undated
Victorian souvenir cards, circa 1900
Invoices, 1939-1951
Hall, Nelle Belle Mount Clemens High School English Course Diploma, 1895 June 19
Hall, Nelle Belle Mount Clemens High School Scientific Course Diploma, 1894 June 20
William Ebenezer Hall, 1869-1918, undated
Bank book, 1898
Checks, 1895
Deeds, 1865, 1886-1902, 1914
Family newspaper clippings, 1903, undated
Hall and Shook Hinrich Hanson bank note, 1878 August 27
Land deed, 1909 April 17
Life insurance policy, 1918 May 3
Memorial card, 1914 September
Mount Clemens Chamber of commerce stock certificate, 1892
Notes about church gifts, undated
Property title, Mount Clemens, 1909
Remnant of check signed by Hall, Shook, & Company, 1872 April 6
Singer Manufacturing Company rent slip for machine, Mount Clemens, Michigan, 1884 January 8
Wedding announcement for Bessie Phelps to Robert B. Cardwell, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1892 June 15
William E. and Letitia Hall Arethusa Bath House agreement, 1910 November 16
William E. and Letitia Hall Birth announcement for a son of Mr. and Mrs. Sanford, Mount Clemens, 1893
William E. and Letitia Hall Gross income note, 1913
William E. and Letitia Hall Lease template, undated
William E. and Letitia Hall New Steam Heating Plant stock receipt, 1912 December 2
William E. and Letitia Hall Rapid Railway Company leases, 1905, 1917
William E. Hall and Letitia Shook marriage certificate and biographical note, 1869, undated
William E. and Letitia Hall Tenant lease, 1904 October 13
Betty Randolph Boggess Hollingsworth, 1933-2005, undated
Biographical note
Betty Randolph Boggess Hollingsworth, (1928-2016), Elizabeth Eleanor Peery and John Randolph Boggess in southwestern Virginia. She attended University of Kentucky from 1947 to 1950 and earned a Bachelor's of Arts in Journalism. She taught for one year at The Cove School in Tazewell, Virginia. On December 17, 1951, she married Kent Hollingsworth. They lived in Georgetown, Kentucky and had five children: Val French, Randolph, Amery, and Letitia. After Betty and Kent divorced in 1981, she moved to Merrick Place in Lexington, Kentucky and worked for the Bluegrass Land and Nature Trust.
Scope and Contents
The Betty Randolph Boggess Hollingsworth series (1933-2005, undated) comprises personal and family papers primarily from soon before and after she married Kent Hollingsworth in 1951. A significant part of the series includes letters from students she taught at Cove School in Tazewell, Virginia, family members, and from her husband, Kent. The series also includes some genealogical information about the Boggess, Peery, and Garst family of southwest Virginia.
4-H Automobile Program certificate, 1969
Anniversary card from Kent, circa 1951
Betty Randolph Boggess and Kent Parrott wedding announcement, 1951
Boggess, Bondy Richlands, Virginia envelope and Dixie Grocery receipt, 1933
Boggess family newspaper clippings, 1950, undated
Boggess family newspaper clippings, circa 1950
Boggess, John R. [Betty's father], Attorney at law business card, Tazewell, Virginia, undated
Boggess, William Porter, University of Virginia graduation invitation, to Hollingsworth family, 1952 June
Business cards, undated
Card from Lee and Lori, 2002
Carsner, Casper, Lexington Kentucky pioneer story draft, undated
Christ Church, Episcopal, Lexington, Kentucky choir programs, 1977
Collection of drawings, notes, and keepsakes from Randolph Hollingsworth childhood, 1960's
History of Richlands [Virginia] by R.L. Crawford, 1946
Letter from daughter, Amery Eleanor Hollingsworth, 1981 March 19
Letters from daughter, Randolph Hollingsworth, 1979, undated
Letter from Jenny Karns, Charleston, South Carolina, 1982 June
Letter from William P. Boggess, 1955 July 20
Letter to Thelma and Denzil Hollingsworth, circa 1958
Letters, 1948-1949
Letters, 1950
Letters, 1951
Letters, 1952
Letters from students and parents, 1950-1951
List of errands, circa 1969
Mock up drawings for coffee and tavern signs, 1956
Name cards (possibly from wedding guests), undated
New year's card (possibly sent by Kent to Betty Hollingsworth), 1964 December 31
Newspaper clippings, 1954-1969
Newspaper clippings, 1979-1980
Notes from Kent Hollingsworth, circa 1951
Note to self, 1951
Paper Knowledge Seminar, Mead Merchants, certificate, 1984
Postcard from Bill, Glasgow, Scotland, 1952
Scan photo prints of Betty Hollingsworth at a holiday luncheon, 2005 December 16
Scott County Women's Club yearbooks, Georgetown, 1968-1970
University of Kentucky memorabilia and other ephemera, undated
Virginia Cavalcade, Virginia State journal, 1959 Spring, Autumn
Randolph, Elizabeth Christmas card with watercolor cover, undated
Denzil Maurice Hollingsworth, 1905-1969, undated
Biographical note
Denzil Maurice Hollingsworth was born in 1900 to Ethelbert and Bertha Piel Hollingsworth in Allison Prairie, Illinois. After serving the United States Army during World War I, Denzil earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. While at university, he met another student, Thelma Polly Parrott, and the couple were wed in the Spring of 1921. Denzil and Polly lived at 4211 Flora Place, St. Louis, Missouri, and Polly gave birth to five children: Donn Denzil, Louis Hall, Kent, Dorcas, and Vertrees. Denzil worked as a contractor for his own excavating company and won contracts to begin work for many St. Louis City landmarks like the Kiel Opera House, Malcolm Bliss Hospital, and Kennard School. Denzil also designed mechanisms for oil well drills and invested in wells throughout southern Indiana, Illinois, and various other locations throughout the country. In the late 1930s, Denzil and Thelma followed their dream for race horsing and moved to a farm, originally owned by founders of Keeneland Horse Race Course, Louis and Harriet Beard, in Georgetown, Kentucky. They named the farm "The Holly's" and raised several champion thoroughbreds there. Denzil died of a sudden heart attack on April 19, 1968.
Scope and Contents
The Denzil Maurice Hollingsworth series primarily consists of business letters, receipts, records of finance, and plans related to Denzil's companies and investments mostly in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. In addition to excavation and oil drilling investments, the series has many equine records. The series contains maps and mid twentieth century magazines related to oil drilling. Also included are personal items like military records, cards from his wallet, equine books given by his son, Kent.
A Quarter-Century of American Racing and Breeding, 1916 through 1940, The Blood-Horse Silver Anniversary Edition [Inscribed: Xmas 1965, To Father from Kent Hollingsworth, 1965
Addis, Bertha, Denzil's mother, crematory slip, 1957 July 15
Addison Miller, Inc. business papers, 1930's
Addison Miller, Inc. business papers, undated
Ambassador Trench weekly time book, 1925
Ashland Oil Company, 1940
Bank book, 1934
Bank pass book, 1931 September
Benish Restaurant Company, Inc., Saint Louis stock, 1925 October 27
Braden Wench Company acquisition letter, 1951
Burley Oil Company invoices, Georgetown, 1962-1964
Burley Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Association ledgers, 1945-1951
Business binder, circa 1935
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company train ticket to Gulfport, Mississippi, 1948 February 4
Business papers, 1931-1964, undated
Business notes, 1924-1945, undated
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