ESE 543/ENG 303 Sample Items

Children Making Brooms at the Kentucky Reformatory at Greendale

Boys Making Brooms at Kentucky Reformatory

Coal Train Car

Train car of coal with tennant houses and tipple

William Prewitt Vohn

Civil War veteran who was badly injured during the war

One-Room School

One room schoolhouse in Appalachia

Austin Lilly in newspaper dress

Austin Lilly in a dress made of a newspaper to promote freedom of speech

Boonesborough Bridge and Ferry

Boonesborough Ferry with new bridge in background

A home near Ashland, KY

A home near Ashland, Kentucky

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Helping Mamma Iron the Clothes-A Filipino Method, Island of Luzon, P.I.

Helping Mamma Iron the Clothes, Luzon, Philippines

Letter from William P. Hopkins to French Tipton

Letter about the Civil War Battle of Richmond

Tea Gatherers in the Pretty Hill Country near G___, Ceylon

Tea Gatherers in the Hill Country in Ceylon

Gypsies Who Visited the Stock Yard Neighborhood in South-side Chicago

Gypsies in south-side Chicago

Crummies Creek Coal Co.

Scrip from Crummies Creek Coal Co.

Aquitania Log Book

Passenger log book documenting a trip across the ocean

Igorrote Girls Gathering Sweet Potatoes, near Bagino, Island of Luzon, PI

Igorrote Girls Gathering Sweet Potatoes, Luzon, Philippines

United States Military Gas Mask

World War I gas mask

Drawing in Warp, Front View, Dallas Cotton Mills, Dallas, Texas

Drawing Warp on a Loom, Dallas, Texas

Fourth Street Looking North

Louisville during the 1937 flood

Match Game at Hull House

Baseball Game at Hull House

Picking Special Mulberry Leaves for Infant Silk Worms, Japan

Japanese children picking mulberry leaves to feed silk worms

From Ferry Bldg. Tower up Market St., after the greatest of modern disasters, San Francisco, Cal

San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake

Stitching and Fitting Department in Large Shoe Factory, Syracuse, NY

Sewing Shoes in a Factory in New York

Harriette Louisa Arnow

Letter from Harriet Simpson [Arnow] to John Wilson Townsend

Civil Rights March on Main Street, Richmond, KY

Civil Rights march in Richmond, KY

A Characteristic Plowing Scene, Interor of Luzon, P.I.

Plowing Fields in Luzon, Philippines

Jim Pellegrinon Leading a Protest on Main Street

EKU student body president leading a protest march after Kent State shootings

Wagon Loads of Cotton Waiting their Turn at the Gin, Texas

Wagon Loads of Cotton Waiting their Turn at the Gin, Texas

Preparing for Nerve Gas Shipments

Train preparing to ship chemical weapons to the ocean for disposal

Native Woman Grinding Wheat, Palestine.

Native Woman Grinding Wheat, Palestine

<a href="https://oralhistory.eku.edu/items/show/6065">Clip from an interview with David Neal</a>

Clip from an oral history interview about the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Petition to the Legislature of Kentucky

Proposal to the Kentucky legislature to locate the capital at Boonesborough

Gold Miners and Dog Team North of Arctic Circle, Alaska

Gold Miners and Dog Team North of the Arctic Circle in Alaska

Madison County Equal Rights Association Suffrage Potato Patch

Harvesting potatoes grown to support World War I efforts

Picking and Loading Cantaloupes near Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A.

Harvesting Cantaloupes near Buffalo, NY

Z-L Ranch Trail Outfit

Cowboys on a Ranch in Texas

Unidentified Men Stripping Tobacco

Men Stripping Tobacco to Prepare it for Sale

Norway - Lapp Men, taken in Street, 3 A.M.

Lapp Men in Norway

Boys with a Basketball

Boys playing basketball in Richmond

Hauling Oats from the Field, Showing the Prairie, Illinois

Harvesting Oats in Illinois

Student Jayne Judd milking cows

Woman milking cows

First Haul of the Season, Salmon Industry, Columbia River, Oregon

Salmon Fishing in Columbia River, Oregon

Old Glory over Iwo Jima

Patriotic envelope showing flag being raised over Iwo Jima

Indian Basket Weaving, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Indian Basket Weaving on Prince Edward Island, Canada

Unidentified Boy Throwing a Pot

Boy throwing a pot at Bybee Pottery

Blowing the Alpine Horn, Grindelwald, Switzerland

Blowing the Alpine Horn in Grindelwald, Switzerland

William Wallace from J.A. Sullivan

Letter about the end of World War I

Mrs. Mary A Anderson and her daughter operating a spinning jenny and loom at their home, Berea ky

Spinning and weaving on the front porch

Cutting Wheat with Cradle, Pennsylvania

Harvesting Wheat in Pennsylvania

Dr. Thomas Herndon with Weather Equipment

Dr. Herndon with weather station in Richmond

Boys doing Arithmetic on the Board at the Roseburg School

Arithmetic on the wall in a one room school

Cutting Leather for High Quality Shoes, MA

Cutting Leather for Shoes

Students in Buses from Memorial? Consolidated School

Students in school buses

Letter from E. J. Broaddus to French Tipton

Letter about hardship on the Santa Fe Trail

Lady Bird Johnson

Lady Bird Johnson visiting Eastern Kentucky during the War on Poverty.

Loading Bananas into Plantation Cars for Transportation, Banana Fields, Costa Rica

Loading Bananas in Costa Rica

B-24 Fighter Planes Dropping Bombs

WWII Fighter Planes Dropping Bombs

Doll Dress Making Class

Children Making Doll Dresses at Chicago Settlement House