Com. Community (Non-University) Manuscript Collections

Scope and Contents The Rodney Williams scrapbooks consist of eleven scrapbooks and a package of loose photographs. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, menus, small publications, artwork, varsity letters and pins, and various other types of ephemera. The earliest material consists of report cards Williams received in grade school, and is very limited. The bulk of the collection begins in 1955, and covers events, people, and organizations he encountered in high school and beyond. The...

Summary This collection includes records of Elizabeth Arterburn Wilson's career as Louisville recreation specialist (1930s), Louisville U.S.O. director (1940-45), recreation specialist with the American Red Cross in Germany (1945-50) and cultural affairs officer with the United States Information Agency in Hanover, Germany (1950-71). Also included are photograph albums of the Wilson family and life at the University of Louisville during the 1920s. Please note that while the photographs are in good...

Scope and Contents Wilson's papers document his teaching career including publications of the Kentucky Negro Education Association and the Kentucky Teachers Association, reports of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, and correspondence and audits for the Red Cross Hospital in Louisville dating from 1965 to 1970.

Content Description Memorabilia of Louisville Municipal College, including a LMC sweater, jacket, beanie, banners, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, football programs, some issues of the student newspaper (the Bantam), and obituary clippings for class members. There are also items from an exhibit on African American soldiers, as well as videotaped and transcribed oral history interviews with alumnae/i. Louisville Municipal College was operated by the University of Louisville from 1930 to 1951 as a college for...

Summary The Louisville Women-Church collection contains materials from the late 1970s through the early 2000s; the bulk of the collection dates from 1982-1989. It includes meeting minutes and membership information as well as records of their activities, their own published material, and material published by other organizations that was of interest to Women-Church.

Content Description This collection contains pictures, news clippings, and other memorabilia concerning women who served overseas in World War I.

Scope and Contents Woolsey's papers consist of a small amount of correspondence and a speech, copies and drafts of feature articles, reporters notes, reference materials on African Americans in Kentuckiana (i.e., the areas of Kentucky and Indiana in the Louisville metropolitan area) and miscellaneous newsclippings.