ENG 303 Sample Items
Civil Rights march in Richmond, KY
Letter about a house fire in 1823
Civil War veteran who was badly injured during the war
Letter about the death of an Irish immigrant in 1841
1862 estate sale that includes enslaved people
Fighting in the Spanish American War
Eastern's first president writes about the importance of education
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.
Dress fabric has a newspaper printed on it
Cup presented by Eastern faculty to Mary C. Roark
![Judg Shacklford [William Rodes Shackelford] from S.C. Carrier](https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/files/square_thumbnails/88b6b5779225adecc47c56769e910182.jpg "Judg Shacklford [William Rodes Shackelford] from S.C. Carrier")
Letter from a family quarantined by small pox in 1913
Gypsies in south-side Chicago
Gypsies in south-side Chicago
Gypsies in south-side Chicago
World War I gas mask
Letter about the end of World War I
One-room school in Eastern Kentucky
Letter from London, England at the start of WWI
Louisville during the 1937 flood
Letter about the end of World War II from a Navy soldier
San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake
Letter about the Red River Dam
Lady Bird Johnson visiting Eastern Kentucky during the War on Poverty
Letter about the Civil War Battle of Richmond
EKU student body president leading a protest march after Kent State shootings
Letter about hardship on the Santa Fe Trail
Train preparing to ship chemical weapons to the ocean for disposal
Proposal to the Kentucky legislature to locate the capital at Boonesborough
Clip from an oral history interview about the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Certificate from a German POW camp
