Digital Library Services and Special Collections Announce New
Digitized Collections:
Sarah Dorpinghaus, Digital Projects
Manager in Digital Library Services, announced three new digitized collections:
The Spencer Family Collection contains diplomas, certificates, printed materials and photographs of
the family and descendants of Kentuckian Benjamin F. Spencer.
Spencer family patriarch, Benjamin F.
Spencer was born a slave in Kentucky in 1854. He was taught to read along with
his owner's son. After emancipation, Spencer became what is believed to be the
first African American to be granted a teaching certificate in what had been a
slave state. After teaching for six years, Spencer left teaching and opened a
boot shop
in Frankfort, Kentucky. This enterprise
was maintained by Spencer family descendants into the 20th century. The Spencer
family has continued the tradition of academic pursuits established by Benjamin
Spencer.
The Otis Prather UK Varsity Handbook student diary (2012ua007) is now available via ExploreUK and the
Kentucky Digital Library: http://eris.uky.edu/catalog/xt7gb56d2s0d/guide This
collection is only available electronically.
Otis Prather was a freshman at the
University of Kentucky during the 1924-1925 academic year. His diary includes handwritten daily entries
detailing Prather's activities, classes, movies he saw, the weather, and places
he visited as a freshman student at UK. Prather's K-Book also includes a
hand-written class schedule and pasted-in photographs and clippings.
The K-Book, sponsored by the YMCA and
YWCA, was distributed to new UK students to help them become acquainted with
school life and the campus. A small, pocket-sized bound book, it contained the
academic calendar, university history information, freshman rules, school traditions,
athletic schedules, school songs, and information about student clubs and
government. In the 1924-1925 edition, the last 67 pages of the K-Book included
one blank line per day for students to use as a diary, specifically as a prompt
to "write mother about it."
The University of Kentucky general photographic prints collection is now available on ExploreUK and the Kentucky
Digital Library (Beta): http://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt75736m0s6q/guide
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