Special Collections Research Center: digital collections update

Photo from the Jim Curtis collection on Civil Rights

The Special Collections Research Center recently digitized the Jim Curtis Photograph Collection on Civil Rights in Kentucky, which is now available on ExploreUK. The collection comprises 13 photographs documenting the March on Frankfort, Kentucky, held on March 5, 1964, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jackie Robinson. Other figures depicted in the photographs include Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, Frank Stanley, Jr., and Kentucky Governor Edward T. Breathitt. For more information about the collection and to view the photographs, visit http://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7gqn5z7t3j_1_1/guide.

Other recent additions to ExploreUK include the following.

• The James King Ashley Civil War manuscript, a handwritten memoir written by James King Ashley of the 20th Indiana Battery recounting his experiences during the Civil War
• Micrographia: or Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses With observations and inquiries thereupon (1665)
• Spring 2015 Kentucky Alumni
• October and December 2014 University of Kentucky Board of Trustees meeting minutes
• 1888 and 1889 University of Kentucky Agriculture Experiment Station reports (1890-1992 are already available on ExploreUK.)

Many thanks to everyone who helped provide online access to these collections.