The following collections have been digitized and
are now available on ExploreUK and the Kentucky Digital Library. Sarah Dorpinghaus,
director Digital Services, says this brings the total
number of unique items/pages that are digitized and available online to 1,123,568.
And, she thanks all of those who played a role in providing access to this
content.
The Appalachian Leadership
and Community Outreach Inc. (ALCOR) records contains documents and some
audio/graphic materials related to the educational and recreational programs
sponsored by the organization in Eastern Kentucky. The collection has
administrative office files, partnered college files, development fundraising
files, Coordinated Consumer Health Education Project Files. File topics also
include those on board members, contracts, equipment, program planning and
policy, campus directors, college programs, and program training. Photographs
document the programming organization by ALCOR.
The Means family played
a dominant role in the development of the iron industry in the Hanging Fork
region of southern Ohio and in eastern Kentucky. They also played a prominent
part in the development of both river and rail transportation in the area and
in the formation of Ashland, Kentucky as an industrial city. These papers
include both personal and business-related correspondence, financial records,
legal documents, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, journals, scrapbooks, and
photographs.
Walter S. Harkins, Sr.
(1857-1920) was a lawyer and entrepreneur active during the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries in Floyd County, Kentucky. By the 1920s his sons,
Walter S. Harkins, Jr. (1898-1936) and Joseph Davidson Harkins were practicing
in the Harkins law firm and also participating in the development of coal and
gas in eastern Kentucky. Materials primarily include business papers, including
a large amount of the correspondence and case files relating to legal cases
handled by the Harkins and Harkins law firm.
The Montgomery County
Historical Society Anderson Chenault papers (1826-1878; 0.23 cubic feet; 1 box)
comprises slave bills of sale, letters, receipts, contracts, and powers of
attorney. The papers primarily relate to Chenault's activities as a slaveowner.
The H.H. Downing
autobiography, "Trickles" Sixty Years on the Same Campus (dated circa
1950s; 0.23 cubic feet; 1 box) consists of a typed draft of H.H. Downing's
autobiography which details his association with the University of
Kentucky from his time as a student through his tenure as UK's tennis coach and
a mathematics professor.
The Henry Lewis Martin,
Jr. diary (dated 1906-1920; 0.15 cubic feet; 3 items) consists of digital
surrogates of Martin's farm diary for Calumet Farm in Woodford County,
Kentucky.
The John M. McCalla
Mortuary of Lexington, Kentucky scrapbook (dated 1802-1869, bulk 1802-1846;
0.16 cubic feet; 1 item) comprises a scrapbook of funeral notices and
obituaries published in Lexington newspapers, many printed with black patterned
borders.
The Calvert McCann
photographs (dated 1961-1964; 3.7 cubic feet; 7 boxes) consist of 20 black and
white photographic prints depicting the Civil Rights Movement in Lexington and
Frankfort, Kentucky. The photographs show sit-ins at lunch counters,
demonstrations in downtown lexington, Louis Armstrong refusing to cross a
picket line at the Phoenix Hotel, and the March on Frankfort led by Martin
Luther King, Jr, Ralphy Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and Jackie Robinson. In
2004, Calvert McCann gave University of Kentucky faculty member Dr. Gerald
L. Smith his undeveloped negatives from the 1960s. Smith used these images
in his book Black America Series: Lexington, Kentucky. These particular prints
originally hung in UK's Martin Luther King Center housed in the Student Center.
The photographs provide a glimpse into the Civil Rights Movement which was
seldom covered by local newspapers and media.
The Lexington and
Eastern Railway Company (L&E) was initially incorporated as the Kentucky
Union Railway Company in 1872 and was later purchased by the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company (L&N) in 1910. This collection contains case
files for lawsuits filed against the L&E and L&N in eastern Kentucky in
the early twentieth century. Materials include correspondence, legal documents,
maps, sketches, and a few newspaper clippings and photographs relating to the
cases.
Wheelwright, located
in Eastern Kentucky's Floyd County, is a town created by the coal
industry. This collection contains records from three of the companies
that owned Wheelwright: Inland Steel, Island Creek, and Mountain
Investment.
The Caroline Cox Morgan
family papers (dated 1839-1863, undated; 0.45 cubic feet; 82 items) comprise
correspondence between various Cox and Morgan family members in Kentucky and
Texas relating to the Texas Revolution, the Mexican War, and the California
Gold Rush as well as daily life.
Trainwreck at Whites
Station, Kentucky photographs (1910; 0.09 cubic feet; 4 items) includes four
mounted silver gelatin prints of the train crash that occurred in Richmond,
Kentucky, on March 31, 1910.
The Josephine Russell
Erwin Clay family papers (dated 1823-1901; 0.45 cubic feet; 2 boxes) consist of
letters, receipts, a slave deed, and a scrapbook, documenting the Clay, Erwin,
and Russell families of Kentucky.
The Hanson family
photographs (undated; 0.1 cubic feet; 8 items) comprises 8 photographs
depicting the Hanson family of Winchester, Kentucky.
The Lyne-Smith family
papers (dated 1820-1932, undated; 3 cubic feet; 10 boxes, 2 items, 1 folder)
comprises correspondence, ledgers, photographs, financial papers, legal papers,
maps, and printed material, which documents the business and personal lives of
the Lyne family of Kentucky and the Smith family of Columbus, Texas.
The Steamboat
photographs (1905-1923; 0.1 cubic feet; 8 items) comprise 8 prints of
steamboats along the Ohio River.
The College of
Pharmacy papers and prints collection contains correspondence pertaining to the
college honorary fraternity and the business of the college, clippings, reports,
photographic prints, plans / blueprints, and teaching materials. Materials from
a woman's honorary fraternity named the Ring of Hygeia (1967 & 1985) is
also included in this collection.
The Cowherd Family
photographs (dated undated; 0.02 cubic feet; 22 items) includes 8 postcards, 3
cabinet cards, 3 tintypes, and 7 silver gelatin prints belonging to the Cowherd
family of Greensburg, Kentucky.
The Henry Clay account
book (dated 1797-1847; 0.23 cubic feet; 1 box) consists of a bound volume of
contracts and transactions maintained by Henry Clay and various Kentuckians.
The Carolyn Murray-Wooley color transparencies collection (dated
1972-2006, bulk 1975-1988; 0.90 cubic feet; 4,013 items) consists of slides
that document stone houses and stone fences, built by local craftsmen, in
Kentucky’s Bluegrass region, including many Bluegrass Trust buildings.
