Com. Community (Non-University) Manuscript Collections

Brief Description of the Collection This collection documents Lilialyce Akers’ personal, educational, professional, and activist work. The majority of the collection content pertains to Akers’ work and travel advocating for women’s rights at the state, national and international levels. There is a significant amount of material on the Kentucky Women's Political Caucus, the Kentucky Women's Agenda Coalition, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the UN Commission on Women. Additionally the collection documents Akers’ education in and...

Content Description This is a collection of loose-leaf black and white caricatures of prominent businessmen of Louisville, Kentucky, by Van Leshout, a Louisville artist and illustrator.

Scope and Contents This collection includes clippings, letters, reports, and photographs relating to Central State Hospital, as well as clippings and programs relating to boxing. Much of the material is in scrapbook form.

Scope and Contents This 6.25 linear foot collection of railroad material dates from 1913 to 1995 with the bulk of the collection consisting of railroad timetables. There is also a small, but significant number of guides, maps, operating rules, pamphlets and brochures, annual reports, railroad histories, yearbooks, and photographs. Although most of the collection is from North American railroads, there is some material related to railroading in Europe. The collection is arranged in seven series: I: Timetables...

Content Description Includes three notebooks, one relating to the Louisville Commercial Club compiled in 1955-1959; one relating to Marcus Blakely Allmond (1851-1909), a faculty member at Male High School; and one relating to Allmond Avenue in the Beechwood area, correspondence, photographs.

Content Description These papers document Alluisi's tenure as chair and executive committee member of the Kentucky chapter of "Scientists and Engineers for Johnson-Humphrey."

Content Description Small collection of photographs includes a man identified as J.L. West, a panoramic group photograph of the 1982 Scottish Rite class in front of their temple on Gray Street, and four photoraphs where dignitaries witness a demonstration of a Louisville fire pump truck.