The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. The list below is just a sample of the many Kentucky resources available for free on the Library's Web site.
The tools at the end of the page can help teachers use these in the classroom. Teachers can find even more primary sources, along with the tools to help use them in the classroom, at www.loc.gov/teachers. They can also search the Library's American Memory or Prints and Photographs collections.
Birds eye view of Louisville, Kentucky 1910
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Bird's eye view of the city of Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky 1871
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My old Kentucky home, 1897
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Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb : an American slave / written by himself, 1849 |
No Kitchen is supplied with enough good useful articles of Tinware
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Plan of the battle of Mill Spring or Logan's Cross Roads : fought January 19th, 1862 |
1937 Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Louisville
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The plan of Bards Town as laid off by William Bard in 1782 |
An Interior view of the original Lincoln cabin showing the old fireplace in the west room and the old spinning jenny of Mrs. Lincoln, c1891 |
Symptoms of a locked jaw. Plain sewing done here, 1834 |
In the hills of old Kentucky; My mountain rose. 1914 |
Taxation without representation one-sixth (353,702) of the population of Kentucky is disfranchised |
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