Box 6

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The French Tipton Papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, and personal notes by French Tipton of Madison County, Kentucky. Overall, the collection captures Tipton's interests in history, journalism and local and regional events, as well as, to a lesser extent, national and global affairs. In particular, the collection contains the remaining notes and correspondence that Tipton had compiled while researching Madison County for his unpublished History of Madison County Kentucky. The...

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This is French Tipton's brag book as most of the news clippings are about him from newspapers around the state.

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Copies of what appears to be Crooke shingled surveys and an original map of southern Madison County showing the county boundary at the Rockcastle River.

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Tipton's index to photographs he has taken written on an Internal Revenue Storekeepers Monthly Return of Distilled Spirits.

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This seems to be a proof copy of the front page of the first issue of the Lancaster Letter. There is no masthead and editing marks have been added in pencil.

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Annual returns and estimates for county militia regiments where numbers of men and weapons are inventoried.

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News from around the country about the Grover Cleveland election.

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