16th President. Stereoview photograph of Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace in Hodgensville, Kentucky. The stereoview shows an image of the humble log cabin where Lincoln was born. Black and White photograph on a gray mount. Albumen and mount are in excellent condition.
African American nightlife photographs documenting formal social life near West Walnut Street in Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1940s to early 1950s, with direct evidence of how Black leisure, commercial entertainment, and urban community life functioned within a segregated downtown district. Stamped by Wilson Foto at 818 Walnut Street, the group places.....
Kentucky University, Crimson yearbook, 1897. Lexington, Kentucky. 10.75” x 7.5” inches. 147 pages. Red boards with gold gilt title. Yearbook includes class photos, group photos for various organizations and clubs, faculty photos, rosters, student literature and illustrations relevant to the school's pride. Group photos of classes, clubs and sports teams.....
The Louisville Alcohol-Butadiene Plant sale materials trace a federally built wartime synthetic rubber facility in Rubbertown, southwest of Louisville along the Ohio River, from original butadiene production from ethyl alcohol to postwar disposal by the General Services Administration. The Binder includes Printed material, photographs and sales brochure that state that.....
[Civil War] [Women History] [Biography] LIFE OF PAULINE CUSHMAN. THE CELEBRATED UNION SPY AND SCOUT. Carefully Prepared from Her Notes by F. L. SARMIENTO, ESQ. FIRST EDITION. Original, Bright, Clean, Solidly Bound,Handsome Cover Design with Gold Gilded Background Lettering and Frontispiece and Facsimile Signature of Cushman and Numerous Other Illustrations.....
Unidentified photographer, composite portrait photographs of segregated African American troops at Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1947, document the structure and personnel of Black training units in the final year before the formal desegregation of the United States Armed Forces, providing visual evidence of racial segregation within military organization and hierarchy. The.....
[Slavery and Abolition] Clarkson, Thomas. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (1816 printing), one of the foundational intellectual works of the Anglo-American abolitionist movement, here issued in a rare Kentucky imprint juxtaposing transatlantic antislavery thought within the slaveholding territories of the American.....
[Labor Organizing] United Mine Workers of America archive, 1910s through 1930s, when the coal industry was being reshaped by mechanization, falling labor demand, and increasingly unstable operator finances. After the wartime expansion of coal production, mine operators pushed wage reductions and open shop policies while new machinery displaced large numbers.....
[Mining][Labor Organizing] United Mine Workers press photo group depicting labor leaders, wage negotiations, and congressional testimony during the violent coal labor conflicts that reshaped American industrial relations from the 1920s and 1940s. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, was a dominant labor figure in the.....
