Business
City of Murray and Calloway County Photograph Collection
MS12-01 is an extensive collection of photographs from Calloway County from the 1880s to the 1980s.
This photograph is of a man with his horse and buggy outside of "Love & Miller Coffin Shop" sometime in the late 1800s. Small owner-operator businesses such as these were common in small towns throughout the United States.
City of Murray and Calloway County Photograph Collection: MS 12-01, Box 5, File 8.
"Martin & Dale Drug Store" with shelves full of pharmacy items in 1905.
City of Murray and Calloway County Photograph Collection: Sourced from MS 12-01, Box 5, File 25.
Burgess H. Scott Papers
Burgess H. Scott launched a career in journalism at the Paducah Sun-Democrat during the Great Depression, then served as a United States Army correspondent during World War II. MS88-03 includes his decades of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and research materials related to his work as a reporter, correspondent, columnist, and newspaper editor. Scott worked as an editor and writer for the monthly Ford Times from 1945 to 1974. At the very end of his career, he worked to publicize Ford Motor Company’s new focus on smaller, more fuel-efficient cars in the aftermath of the 1973 Oil Crisis.
An ad in the Paducah Sun-Democrat from WWII reminding people to help the war effort by restricting long-distance calls to emergencies only. Many newspaper ads invoked the war effort in some way.
Burgess H. Scott Papers Collection: MS 88-03, Box 1, File 13.
West Kentucky Brikcrete Company Collection
MS20-06 consists of advertising bulletins, correspondence, lab reports, blueprints, and financial transactions from the West Kentucky Brikcrete Company, which manufactured bricks used in many of the new homes built in Calloway, Graves, and Marshall Counties between 1948 to 1965.
Advertising magazine for "Brikcrete: The World's Most Modern Masonry," circa 1950s or 1960s.
West Kentucky Brikcrete Company Collection: MS 20-06, Box 1, File 1.