Happy Holidays!

 Above: "Santa Parade" from the Lafayette Studios photographs, 1930s

Above: From the UK Radio Photographic Collection, ca 1930-1950

UK Special Collections Research Center receives CLIR funding to process significant Appalachian collections

UK Libraries is one of the recipients of CLIR funding for “Action in Appalachia: Revealing Public Health, Housing, and Community Development Records in the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center”! This processing project targets seven hidden collections of War on Poverty-era, social justice organizational records.

More information can be found here.

Above: “General scene upper station Weeksbury Mining Camp (Eastern Gas).; creek runs beside dwellings, people look on,” 1946, from the Russell Lee: Wheelwright, KY Photographic Collection

Tutinama (Book of the Parrot) Available on ExploreUK

Tutinama, or “Book of the Parrot,” is a Persian series of 52 moral tales dating from the 14th century. The original authorship is credited to Nakhshabi, a Persian physician and Sufi saint, who adapted his tales from ancient Sanskrit stories. The Tutinama tales are narrated by a parrot to distract his mistress from having an affair while her merchant husband is away from home on business. This 30 cm manuscript is bound in brown leather with gilt embossed medallions and floral motifs.

Jack Guthrie Kentucky Kernel Integration of SEC (1963) Scrapbook on ExploreUK

The Jack Guthrie Kentucky Kernel Integration of SEC (1963) scrapbook is now available on ExploreUK. The scrapbook covers civil rights and the racial integration of Southeastern Conference (SEC) and University of Kentucky (UK) Athletics during the university’s spring semester, 1963, and was compiled by Kentucky Kernel editor (1962-1963) Jack Guthrie in about 2002.

"Fun? Well Rather" The Diary of Virginia Clay McClure - part of the Sesquicentennial Stories Series

December 1, 1910

Oh you key in the window of the Educational Building! Did I get even with Addie without so much as trying? I believe I’ll never take revenge on anybody, but just wait and let it “work out”.  Addie likes to tease powerful well but she doesn’t like to be teased.

Now the Taylor Education Building

Virginia and Addie

"Fun? Well Rather" The Diary of Virginia Clay McClure - part of the Sesquicentennial Stories Series

November 29, 1910

Oh you Gym, key in the sugar bowl at the university lunch stand! Peanut butter, jelly and Uneeda biscuit.  Annie Louise “drunk”!

  

Key inserted in diary

Thanksgiving in Downtown Lexington, 1968

The Alexandra Soteriou photographs include several images labeled “Thanksgiving downtown Lexington”. Capturing simple scenes, these images provide a unique look at everyday life in 1968 Lexington. Enjoy and be thankful.

"Fun? Well Rather" The Diary of Virginia Clay McClure - part of the Sesquicentennial Stories Series

November 24, 1910

*Picture of Sweetland’s 1910 Machine

 It’s clean athletics our team stands for, and we’re proud of them though Central beat us 12 to 6; if they had played clean ball we’d have won.  Webb’s heart was broken and he left the field crying.  Webb and Shanklin and Gaiser and Threlkeld were hurt.  Oh, how it hurts to have Central beat us.  Never mind, there’ll be another year.

"Fun? Well Rather" The Diary of Virginia Clay McClure - part of the Sesquicentennial Stories Series

 November 1910

“Go on and say it; it’s good for your teeth.”

“It would be as hard to spell your way through France as to eat your way through a 10,000# cheese.”

“Zemmie.”

*Program insert.  “ENTRANCE TO THE ‘HOME OF THE BLUE AND WHITE’. [Official S.U. Yell]”

"Fun? Well Rather" The Diary of Virginia Clay McClure - part of the Sesquicentennial Stories Series

November 12, 1910



St. Louis beat us 9 to 0, but we’re proud of our team.  They called the team “Little Kentucky Colonels” and complimented them highly.  

Fun? Well, rather. I had John’s suit and it fit fine.  Lydia got me a hat.  “Peck” said I looked like “Puf”! Well, that’s alright.  I never had such a good time in my life.  Addie was an awfully good-looking boy.  Marion Johnson looked like Newt Duff.  Cornelia server was a grand looking fellow.  Everybody had a splendiferous time.  And O! You fixtures in the back yard Sunday morning! Did Mrs. Wallis get angry?  Did the Kappa Sig. boys peek out the windows?  Did we take some cute pictures? Well, rather!

 “We’ve all got it in us!”

*Inserted is a small booklet with a pencil attached.  The front has an illustration of three black cats and three Jack o’ Lanterns and reads, “Co-Ed Nov. 12, ‘10”.  The inside of the booklet has the handwritten names of 22 girls.