Kentuckiana Collection

The Special Collections Research Center collects Kentuckiana comprehensively. Our collection includes rare and unique materials documenting the history and culture of Kentucky across an extensive variety of formats and spanning a broad spectrum of subjects, including county histories, Kentucky biographies, books, pamphlets, personal memorabilia, cookbooks, photographs, and much more. Highlights of the collection include:

• J. Winston Coleman Scrapbooks – microfilmed scrapbooks containing newspaper articles, photographs, and documents relating to Kentucky history, assembled by historian and noted collector of Kentuckiana J. Winston Coleman
• Samuel Wilson Collection – print materials relating to the settlement and history of Kentucky, including numerous examples of frontier printing
• Belinda Mason Papers – plays, poetry, short stories, and novel of Eastern Kentuckian author and AIDS activist Belinda Mason

Find more information and unique collections in our Kentucky Authors in Special Collections Research Guide and Kentucky History Special Collections Research Guide.

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