Clay Lancaster Slide Collection Now on ExploreUK

Clay Lancaster’s collections of slides are now available on ExploreUK. The collection dates from 1939-1992 and consists of 35mm slides taken by Clay Lancaster, depicting interiors, exteriors, and drawings of many buildings in the Bluegrass area. The collection provides a visual history of architecture in the Bluegrass. Additionally, the slides are organized according to Lancaster’s own subject scheme, providing insight into how Lancaster envisioned the progression of change in the architectural landscape of the Bluegrass. A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Clay Lancaster won recognition both regionally and internationally for his scholarship, creativity, and advocacy in a variety of fields.

John Pope House - Note on slide: Third floor and section. Latrobe's drawing. Library of Congress. Bill Scott Photo, 1984

7000 house (Mary Todd Lincoln house) - Note on slide: Staircase console, 1975

Eugene Doren photograph collection on the Winchester, Kentucky Post Office now online

TheEugene Doren photograph collection on the Winchester, Kentucky Post Office,1912-1935, contains 49 items showing the construction of the post office in 1912 and photographs of the post office's rooftop addition in 1935.

The full finding aid can be viewed here.

Above: "Post office rooftop addition. U.S. Post Office // Winchester, Kentucky // February 26, 1935 // South Elevation showing Structural Steel // for 2nd floor typed on verso"

The National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey: Kentucky Photographic Collection now online

The National Park Service,Historic American Buildings Survey: Kentucky Photographic Collection,1935-1936, is now available on the Kentucky Digital Library. 

The Historic American Building Survey (HABS) was begun by the National Park Service, a division of the United States’ Department of the Interior. HABS attempts to catalog American buildings of historical, cultural, and architectural interest. Multiple formats are used to catalog the selected buildings: measured drawings, written histories, large-format photographs, etc.

This collection consists of 372 black and white silver gelatin prints taken as part of HABS. The collection is mostly comprised of private residences of historic importance, but public buildings and structures are also represented. 

The full finding aid can be seen here. 

Above: Bodley House, stairway; designed orconstructed by Samuel Long

Above: Loudoun House; designed or constructed in1850 by John McMurtry

Above: "Farmington” (Old John Speed Residence),spring house; designed or constructed in 1810

Above: Hike’s Place, corner detail of log outbuilding

Above: Captain Samuel Taylor House, stone fence;designed or constructed in 1790

Lexington Ky, on Historypin

Explore historic images of Kentucky through Historypin http://www.historypin.com/photos/#/geo:38.014,-84.484/zoom:7/date_from:1840-01-01/date_to:2001-12-31/

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Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.

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Here's an example from our collection

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Historic Marker Dedicated to Margaret I. King

Remarks from the Dedication

Margaret Isadora King was born on September 1, 1879 in Lexington, Kentucky. She was the salutatorian of her senior class in 1898. During this time women were consistently graduating with honors and outranking the campus men. Perhaps this is why in 1900, the faculty simply decreed that there would no longer be any college-wide academic honors.

Margaret I. King began her work at the University from 1905-1912 as Registrar and Secretary to President Patterson, our first President. In 1912 King was appointed Librarian, becoming our first.Her salary was fixed at $75.00 per month. Margaret I. King not only witnessed tremendous growth of the library but of the University. In 1912, 2,000 volumes were added to the library and UK’s enrollment was only 754. In 1949, the year that King retired, 28,973 volumes were added and enrollment had increased to 9,991.

At the time of the building’s dedication in 1931, this was the central library on campus. The five story Georgian Building cost $400,000 and was designed to house 350,000 volumes. It was outfitted with a completely refrigerated circulating system of drinking water, three electric elevators, and 781 light fixtures. The UK Libraries now has 12 major facilities with over 3.7 million volumes. It was said of Margaret King, “an institution is but the lengthening shadow of a person. Her shadow falls across a great portion of our collective memory and it is my privilege to work in this building and my pleasure to carry on the legacy of Margaret I. King.

--Deirdre A. Scaggs April 15, 2010

• Library Club, 1. ? 2. Minnie Neville 3. Margaret King 4. Dean A. J. Hamilton 5. Freda Lenon 6. Margaret Tuttle
• Dedication Ceremony: Carl Nathe; Angela Martinez, President of the Student Development Council; President Lee Todd; Mattie Parsley, Senior Challenge Chair; Deirdre Scaggs, Director of Archives.
• The King Library in 1940.

Downtown Lexington's ever-changing landscape

In July 2008, the building pictured here at the corner of Vine and Limestone was demolished. It was most recently the Triple Crown Lounge and the building had survived many urban changes. At the time of this photograph in 1947, the buildings surrounding it were slated for demolition to put in a new Woolworth's.