Kentuckiana Digital Library includes documents on colonization societies, railroads, the Kentucky Derby, exploits of Daniel Boone, pioneer surgery, and a recollection of Abraham Lincoln. These documents are valuable for those studying changes in the social and cultural history of the state. Kentuckiana Digital Library provides ample historical material from 15 Kentucky colleges, universities, libraries, and historical societies. The site includes nearly 8,000 photographs; 95 full-text books, manuscripts, and journals, from 1784 to 1971 and 94 oral history interviews. You will also find 78 issues of the magazine Mountain Life & Work, from 1925–62 on Kentuckiana Digital Library. This informative video site has 22 issues of the publication Works Progress Administration in Kentucky: Narrative Reports, covering 1935–37. Texts on this site include Civil War diaries, religious tracts, speeches, correspondence, and scrapbooks.
You will get oral histories pertaining to Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed, U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper, the Frontier Nursing Service, and the transition of an area from farming to an industrial economy on Kentuckiana Digital Library.
Kentuckiana Digital Library includes photographic collections of renowned photographer Russell Lee, who documented health conditions resulting from coal industry practices. Also included is the photographic collection of Roy Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration photographic project. There are other images of a variety of cities, towns, schools, camps, and disappearing cultures.
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