New Collection Guides Available on ExploreUK

We are pleased to announce that the following collection guides are now available via ExploreUK. Please contact the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center at sclref@lsv.uky.edu for further information.

• Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Clayton B. Martin papers, 2009ms132.0122 | (dated 1934-1948, undated; 0.70 cubic feet; 2 boxes) comprises correspondence between Martin and his wife Dorothy, his finances, and military experience
   
• Boynton Merrill, Jr. papers, 2010ms042 | (dated 1645-2008, bulk 1960-1980; 4.18 cubic feet; 20 boxes) consists of research sources, book illustrations, manuscript materials, correspondence, cassette tapes, and one reel-to-reel tape, which relate to Merrill's research, writing and eventual publication of the book, Jefferson's Nephews: A Frontier Tragedy
   
• Isabel Cook Bureau scrapbooks, 74m2 | (dated 1893-1951, undated; 0.1 cubic feet; 11 boxes) comprises scrapbook volumes containing items of interest from the various places Isabel and Ernest Bureau lived and visited
   
• Kentucky Appalachian Region materials, 2014ms0229 | (1970s-1980s, 0.68 cubic feet, 2 boxes) comprise documents, correspondence, and newsletters relating to the Appalachian region of Kentucky
   
• James G. Dana account books, 56m313 | (dated 1826-1840; 0.23 cubic feet; 2 items) consists of two account books documenting Dana's printing activities as well as his personal affairs
   
• Mollie Blassingame herbarium, 46m33 | (dated 1855 June 23; 0.1 cubic feet; 1 item) comprises a handwritten herbarium that documents plant life in Texas
   
• Hiram Lyday Sloanaker Guardian Angel manuscript, 64m127 | (dated 1954-1963; 0.15; 1 box) consists an excerpt from his autobiography and his curriculum vitae from 1963
   
• John Fox, Jr., Duncan Tavern papers, 1997ms203 | (dated 1883-1919, undated; 0.45 cubic feet; 1 box) comprises correspondence and manuscripts from Duncan Tavern, Paris, Kentucky, that document Kentucky author John Fox, Jr. (1863-1919)
   
• Alice Lloyd Caney Creek Community Center papers, 2007ms040 | (dated 1915-1972, bulk 1915-1923; 0.45 cubic feet; 1 box) primarily comprises correspondence that document Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd and the Caney Creek Community Center in connection with the Hindman Settlement School and the Knott County Community Improvement Association
   
• Joseph S. Satchwill scrapbook, 46m6 | (dated 1878-1901; 0.07 cubic feet; 1 item) comprises newspaper clippings primarily consisting of Baptist religious and allegorical stories
   
• Maurice MacKenzie Leach papers, 2009ms073 | (dated 1896-1989, bulk 1896-1945; 1.27 cubic feet; 4 boxes) contains catalogs, programs, correspondence, ledgers, lists, notes, pedigrees, a photograph, and printed materials pertaining to his career in the horse industry, particularly to his work with imported horses
   
• Robert G. Wallis scrapbook, 46m7 | (dated 1900-1911; 0.24 cubic feet; 1 item) consists of a scrapbook entitled Our Martyred Governor, William Goebel
   
• Federal Writers' Project manuscript, 46m55 | (dated 1939; 0.45 cubic feet; 1 box) comprises a typescript of Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass with accompanying photographs documenting Kentucky's geography, agriculture, architecture, churches, newspapers, archaeology, folklore and history
   
• Henry C. Prewitt account book, 46m152 | (dated 1854-1857; 0.04 cubic feet; 1 item) comprises an account book that documents Prewitt's farm in Montgomery County, Kentucky
   
• Mary Kay Venable Weathers scrapbooks, 46m34 | (dated 1861-1912, [n.d.]; 1.21 cubic feet; 1 box, 2 items) comprise newspaper clippings that include: poems, fictional stories, engravings, politics, military, inventions, world politics, wildlife, political cartoons, marriage, and Civil War topics
   
• Lyne-Smith family papers, 1997ms387 | (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
   
• William E. and Helen Woodward papers, 2009ms046 | (dated 1892-1965; 6.75 cubic feet; 15 boxes) comprises correspondence, diaries, legal and financial documents, manuscripts, notes and photographs that document William Woodward’s personal, financial, legal, and business matters. Woodward’s wife, Helen Woodward, collected these materials as a means to document William’s life and work as a historian. Materials span approximately from William’s late teens (1892) until well after his death (1965)
   
• Simpson family papers, 2014ms0231 | (1833-1960; 0.23 cubic feet; 1 box) comprises slave accounts, correspondence, deeds, stock certificates, a phrenological character, and a newspaper clipping that document the Simpson family's personal, financial, and legal matters
   
• Dorothy Frisch collection on John Jacob Niles, 2014ms0232 | (1929, 1944-1983, undated; 0.45 cubic feet, 2 boxes) comprises sheet music by John Jacob Niles; printed materials, including advertisements and performance programs; correspondence; Christmas cards; newspaper clippings; a photograph of an unidentified woman playing the autoharp; and a hardcover first edition of The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
   
• Emergency Fund and Service, Incorporated (EFSI) records, 1966-1981, undated  (96m10) (dated 1966-1980, undated; 14 cubic feet; 30 boxes) consists of the operating records of the Emergency Fund and Service, Incorporated and documents the organization's attempts to fight poverty in Knox County, Kentucky, from 1966-1980
   
• The Great Council of Kentucky of the Improved Order of Red Men records, 2012ms046 | (1905-1968, undated; 0.68 cubic feet; 2 boxes) comprises the operating records, correspondence, and printed materials of the Great Council of Kentucky of the Improved Order of Red Men, documenting the Council's activities as a secret patriotic society in the first half of the twentieth century
   
• Bill Kephart collection on Wheelwright (Ky.), 88m7 | (dated 1978-1980, undated; 1.35 cubic feet; 3 boxes) consists of records relating to three interrelated organizations and illustrates the roles they had in the transfer of ownership of the town from Mountain Investment to the citizens of Wheelwright, Kentucky

James Edwin "Ed" Weddle Photographic Collection, 1948-1981 now on ExploreUK!

The James Edwin "Ed" Weddle Photographic Collection, 1948-1981, consists of 4744 photographic prints and 6202 negatives representing the freelance news and sports photography archive of Ed Weddle and work done in conjunction with his business, Cross Country Fotos (sic).  The prints have been arranged by subject matter and described on an item level with either their original captions or a descriptive summary written by UK AV Archives.

View the full finding aid here.

 Above: Kentucky All Stars vs. Soviet National Junior Basketball Squad; Mikhail Borisov shoots over Bob Lindsay, 1974

 Above: Ladybird Johnson and children at school, 1964

Above: Rupp is given "The Louie B. Nunn Award"

 

 Above: Paul "Bear" Bryant with wreath and ribbon that reads "Sugar Bowl Champs", 1952

 

 Above: People at the Keeneland track on ORBRAD Oct 22, 1951

 Above: Malone's Service Station; Gas Station Attendant pumping gas for a woman and man

Dr. Jeanette Sams

Dr. Jeanette Sams, track veterinarian, performing a saliva test on a horse in 1952. She graduated from Cornell and served as track veterinarian at Fairgrounds Speedway in Louisville for four years.  Dr. Sams was the first woman to be a track veterinarian at the Lexington Trots.


-John C. Wyatt Lexington Herald-Leader photographs

2013 Women's History Month exhibit by Deirdre Scaggs