ENG 303 Sample Items
1862 estate sale that includes enslaved people
Civil War veteran who was badly injured during the war
One room schoolhouse
Austin Lilly in a dress made of a newspaper
Lady Bird Johnson touring Eastern Kentucky
A home near Ashland, Kentucky
Madison National Bank interior
This exhibit showcases items from EKU Special Collections and Archives that can be used in upcoming class projects. Please feel free to contact SCA if you would like more items relating to a specific subject.
Gypsies in south-side Chicago
Letter about the end of World War I
World War I gas mask
Louisville during the 1937 flood
San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake
EKU student body president leading a protest march after Kent State shootings
Train preparing to ship chemical weapons to the ocean for disposal
Letter about the Civil War Battle of Richmond
Clip from an oral history interview about the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Proposal to the Kentucky legislature to locate the capital at Boonesborough
Harvesting potatoes grown to support World War I efforts
Men Stripping Tobacco to Prepare it for Sale
Boys with a Basketball
Woman milking cows
Letter about the end of World War II from a Navy soldier
Boy throwing a pot at Bybee Pottery
Spinning and weaving on the front porch
Dr. Herndon with weather station in Richmond
Arithmetic on the wall in a one room school
Students in school buses
Letter about hardship on the Santa Fe Trail
Civil Rights march in Richmond, KY
Girl in a buggy at the gates of Arlington
The R.M.S. Olympic arriving at Southampton