Louisville (Ky.) -- Newspapers

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Published in Louisville, Kentucky by Dr. P.R. Peters. Archives has v. IX, no. 52 (Jan. 21, 1911 - front page only). The same portion of an issue has also been microfilmed.

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Special edition, celebrating 125 years of publication, is dated September 19, 1993. This issue tells the publishing history of the paper, profiles some of the people associated with it, and recounts events since its beginning.

Scope and Contents The papers primarily consist of letters between Agnes Snyder and John Crume, youthful friends who later married. Her letters were written during her student years at the University of Louisville to Crume, who was overseas in the European theater of World War II, and as a foreign service trainee following the war. Other materials include clippings of many stories Agnes Crume wrote as a reporter for the Louisville Courier-journal; personal correspondence of the Crumes, and her father, Herbert...

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Archives has initial issue only. This was a weekly publication, published in Louisville.

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"This index to the Louisville Courier-journal is the product of the ... staff of the Louisville Free Public Library from September 1917 through September 1977." Five additional reels were filmed in 1986 to include the index from 1977 to 1986.

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Papers include two transcripts of oral history interviews conducted in 1989 by Jefferson Keith with his mother Alice Keith as well as an undated photocopy of "Memories of the Louisville Times in 1950's, collected by Effie Walsh before the death of Richard Harwood," with contributions by David Binder, Howard Bray, Bea Harwood, Dick Harwood, Alice Keith, Effie Walsh, and John Walsh.

Content Description Microfilmed issues of the Louisville Anzeiger (Advertiser), a German-language newspaper published 1848-1938 in Louisville, Kentucky. This microfilm represents the holdings from multiple repositories. Considering the newspaper's run, there are relatively few missing issues, and most of these are in the early years. Except for 1851, there are a few issues from each year starting in 1849 and ending in 1931. To facilitate research, the newspapers were filmed in chronological order with a list of...

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Two newspapers (New Albany Daily Ledger and Louisville Daily Union Press) dated April 15, 1865, including reports of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.