Kentucky History Special Collections: Archives

This collection is a continuation of the University of Kentucky's previously accessioned Frontier Nursing Service records (85M1). Materials span the years 1902-2006 and document the organization and development of the Frontier Nursing Service. Included are minutes, reports, publications, promotional materials, guestbooks, scrapbooks, memorabilia, correspondence, financial files, and medical records.

In 1971, a group of Lexington women convened to form the Lexington Women's Center, a non-profit, volunteer-run organization that advocated for gender equality and support of women's issues. Shortly after the Center's founding, its volunteers formed a task force to provide services and assistance for survivors of rape and sexual abuse. In 1974, the task force incorporated as the Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center. The materials in this collection highlight the development and growth of feminist organizations in central Kentucky in the 1970s and the renewed attention to women's rights during the second-wave feminist movement.

The African American photographs include tintypes, albumen cartes de visite, lantern slides, gaslight developing out papers, albumen and silver gelatin print cabinet cards, mounted and unmounted silver gelatin prints, and halftones. The photographs are primarily portraits but also include materials pertaining to the clergy, churches, the YMCA, and family life.

The Henry Clay Memorial Foundation papers (dated 1777-1991) contain papers and photographs from the Clay, McDowell, and Bullock families as well as a small amount of operating records for the foundation. Organized into series by family, the papers include various forms of documentation such as correspondence, letter books, diaries, checks, receipts, account books, ledgers, stud books, drawings, paintings, printed materials, realia, and newspaper clippings.