Com. Community (Non-University) Manuscript Collections

Scope and Contents This collection is made up of photocopies of notes made by Bernard Asman as a student at the Kentucky School of Medicine (KSM) from 1895-1897. The instructors documented here are Profesors Marvin, Holloway, Rodman, Mathews, Wathen, Tuley, Orendorf, Coomes, and Hays. The notes cover lectures, labs, and clinical instruction.

Content Description The collection includes correspondence, reports, and reference materials generated or compiled by the association. There are also many photographs, primarily created in the 1930s but including some produced in the following decades. These images include prints of fish and furniture packed in barrels and the filling of barrels in distilleries. In addition to the printed photographs, the collection contains 1760 photographic slides depicting barrel-making and associated subjects as well as two...

Content Description Sixty-six sports cards featuring former University of Louisville student athletes.

Content Description 1228 Digital images and 14 digital videos of the flood experienced in Louisville on August 4, 2009, donated by members of the community to document the event. Many of the images are from the campus of the University of Louisville and the surrounding area, although the Beechmont, Chickasaw, and Phoenix Hill neighborhoods are also represented. This collection also includes a small number of pictures of the ice storm of January 2009 and the wind storm of September 2008. Image files are arranged by...

Scope and Contents The records date from 1889 to 1948 and occupy 9.75 linear feet.Account ledgers and packets of correspondence created by the Avery Insurance Company (under a number of different names) were discovered on the otherwise empty second floor of the building at 515 West Market that housed Avery Savings & Loan Association until demolition in August 1980. The insurance company had occupied that site from 1924 to 1966. Both companies were offshoots of B. F. Avery & Sons, one of the...

Content Description A collection of flyers, with some stickers, handouts, lyric sheets, zines, and a patch, for mostly Louisville hardcore bands, from around 1992 and 1993.

Content Description 84 digitized photographs of bands performing at Louisville venues (Tewligans, Cliffhangers, and The Machine). Bands include local bands such as Endpoint (at Cliffhangers and The Machine), Falling Forward (at The Machine), Step Down ( at The Machine), Enkindel (at The Machine), and Crain (City Lights), and out of town bands such as Avail (at Tewligans), and Voodoo Glow Skulls (at The Machine). This collection is part of the Louisville Underground Music Archive (LUMA) project.