Content Description This collection contains videotapes of a wide variety of university people, places and events, mainly (ultimately) for promotional purposes, including student recruitment. Events covered include convocations, interviews with university president Dr. Donald C. Swain, and celebrations noting the university's bicentennial. This group of recordings also includes b-roll footage of the Belknap and Health Sciences campuses; the Louisville Redbirds; material used for the Speed School's 75th...

Scope and Contents This collection includes materials documenting the life and career of Philip Grant Davidson, Jr. as well as the entire Davidson extended family. There are journals, correspondence and writings by Davidson, his parents, his sister, his wife and some of her family members, their children, and various other relations. They are divided into 6 series. Philip Grant Davidson served as the twelfth president of University of Louisville from 1951 to 1968. These papers include correspondence from...

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This collection contains the letters, clippings, scrapbooks, speeches, and diaries concerning the life of A.Y. Ford. The collection begins with Ford's student days at Brown University (circa 1883), and covers primarily his work as a Louisville journalist, businessman, and university president. Accession 1998-155 added miscellaneous photographs, printed material, diary pages, and correspondence of Arthur Ford, Salem Ford, and Mrs. Salem Ford.

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This collection consists mainly of correspondence, both outgoing and incoming, on a variety of topics including Dr. Kent's academic career, issues related to education, and the war in Europe. The collection includes correspondence with Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Bernard Flexner, Senators Alben Barkley and Albert Chandler, and a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Records of Rollin Burhans former President of Kentucky Southern College. Materials include publications, clippings, and ephemera.

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The papers contain a small amount of correspondence, but the bulk is composed of typescripts of his "Money Talks" articles, written during the opening years of World War II, and a clippings notebook from 1946 to 1950.

Scope and Contents The Woodrow Mann Strickler collection pertains predominantly to Strickler's personal and professional activities dating from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, with some earlier material in evidence. The collection is divided into five series: personal and professional files; day-at-a-glance calendar books; speeches by Strickler and others; reference materials and published source material; and photos, plaques, certificates, and memorabilia.Strickler's personal and professional files...

Content Description Framed, painted portraits of the first presidents of the University of Louisville and its predecessor institutions. Portraits include Jefferson Seminary's Mann Butler (1813-1816); Louisville Collegiate Institute's Rev. Benjamin F. Farnsworth (1838-1840) and John Hopkins Harney (1840-1844); Louisville Medical Institute's John Rowan (1837-1842); and University of Louisville's Samuel Smith Nicholas (1846-1847), James Guthrie (1847-1869), Isaac Caldwell (1869-1886), James Speed Pirtle...