Curiosities & Wonders

  These collection guides are now available on EUK! A big thanks to the many people who worked to make these collections available!   HELEN WARE, JOSEPHINE VICTOR, HENRIETTA METCALF, 19...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2024/04/new-collection-guides-available-on-euk.html

Cover of LP record of Logan English Sings the Woody Guthrie Songbag  in the English family papers, 87m33 This year marks the sixty-year anniversary of the release of Logan E. English’s m...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2024/03/logan-english-and-woody-guthrie-songbag.html

The following collections and items are now available on ExploreUK: Oil and gas industry of Kentucky. Illustrated by a new map of the state. Presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of ...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-additions-to-exporeuk.html

Special Oil and Gas Edition Map of Kentucky, 1922   The following collections and items are now available on ExploreUK: Ann Bailey family papers   Kentucky accession no. 505Special Oi...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2023/11/new-additions-to-exploreuk.html

Union Hymnal for Jewish Worship, 1897 We've added a lot of new digital materials to ExploreUK in the last couple of months.  Below is a list of all the new collections. GENERAL LIBRARY COL...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2023/07/new-additions-to-exploreuk.html

Page from the Howard Sherman Gleason photograph album (2023ua001)  NEW COLLECTION GUIDES HAVE BEEN POSTED ON EXPLOREUK!   AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Walter T. Bradley, Jr. papers Billye Pe...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2023/06/new-collection-guides-on-exploreuk.html

 New digitized items added to ExploreUK and are included in the Sounding Spirit Digital Library Project.    Voice of praise : a collection of new songs for gospel meetings and Sunday ...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2022/11/sounding-spirit-digital-library-project.html

 New Sanborn Maps available through ExploreUK! Sanborn Maps - Adairville 1925 Sanborn Maps - Barbourville 1926 Barbourville, 1926 Sanborn Maps - Bardstown 1925 Sanborn Maps - Bardw...

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Digital images of the following collections and items are now available on ExploreUK! Page from the Bourbon Furnace ledger (87w1) 48m44 John Cockey Owings records   87W1 Bourbon Furnace l...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2022/11/new-items-available-on-exploreuk.html

TITLE: UK FACULTY LEADERSHIP, THEN AND NOW Davy writes:  “The arrival of newly elected faculty members to the Senate Council in January has provided an occasion to make historical note of an...

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  Title: The farm and the neighborhood across Rose Street, 1904-1906 On ExploreUK , Davy came across the following campus photographs from 1904 and 1906 . The photos show some of the houses...

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  TITLE: FOR UK BOARD OF TRUSTEES HISTORY BUFFS Davy Jones comments:  “The UK Library Archives has kindly provided me scanned images of color slides of the January 20, 1967, UK Board meet...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2022/02/blog-post_18.html

  TITLE: BRIEF HIGHLIGHTS OF HISTORY OF THE UK SENATE (STUDENT) RETROACTIVE WITHDRAWAL APPEALS COMMITTEE Davy Jones comments:  “Prior to 1997, there was no specific policy on student ret...

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  Title: Dr. Joseph W. Scott, first Black UK faculty member Davy Jones comments:  “Very well known is the story of Dr. Doris Wilkinson, the first UK female Black faculty member, hired...

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  This is the first post in an occasional series, “Davy Jones’ Locker.”  Follow along with Davy Jones, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology in the U...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2022/01/university-senate-secretaries-1918-2020.html

The following collections and items are now available on ExploreUK .  Archival collections ·         Archibald and Joseph Logan papers   ·         Sanford Thomas Roach ...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2021/07/new-additions-to-exploreuk.html

  Over 30 maps of Lexington, Louisville, and Cincinnati have been digitized and added to ExploreUK .  Map of Big Bone Lick, 1831 A plan of the city of Louisville and its environs in 1831 ...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2021/07/lexington-louisville-and-cincinnati.html

 A selection of publications from suffrage and women's organizations dating from 1898-1923 have been digitized and are available online via ExploreUK . Year Book of the Woman's Club of Centra...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2021/07/early-20th-century-suffrage-and-womens.html

Select items from the Lou Emma Wilson Mexicana Collection have been digitized and are available online via ExploreUK. THE MANUSCRIPT PORTION OF THE LOU EMMA WILSON MEXICANA COLLECTION (dated ...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2021/02/mexicana-items-available-online.html

 The following audiovisual collections have been digitized and are now accessible online via ExploreUK. Edward T. Ned Breathitt films (films 1.1, 2.1, 3, and 5) The Edward T. Ned Breathitt f...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2021/02/digitized-audio-and-film-added-to.html

  In the Jim Crow South, the “white primary” was the first line of attack to prevent Black Americans from voting. But in 1944, a Kentucky native on the Supreme Court helped end the tactic ...

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Online and open access to archival resources is more important now than ever in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial unrest across the United States and beyond. With that in mind, SCRC is ha...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2020/06/additional-resources-added-to-exploreuk_30.html

A selection of new collections from the Wade Hall Collection of American Letters project have been digitized and made available online! New collections include topics such as religion, romance, w...

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2020/05/new-digitized-wade-hall-collections.html

Resources related to Tenochtitlan, Jean Thomas, Lexington Pride Fest, and Whiskey Manufacturing, and more have been digitized and added to ExploreUK! Description of the O.F.C., Carlisle, and J....

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2020/03/what-do-tenochtitlan-jean-thomas.html

A wealth of UK-related materials has been digitized and added to ExploreUK !  Learn more about one of the leaders of desegregating UK in the Wade Hall papers  (dated 1876-1998, undated; 4....

http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2020/03/recently-digitized-university-archives.html