UofL Libraries continues to add primary source materials to its Digital Collections website at http://digital.library.louisville.edu. The latest additions are:
The Ainslie Hewett Bookplate Collection (http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/hewett/ ) features Gothic and heraldic bookplates designed by Louisville native (George) Ainslie Hewett (1880-1963) for notable Louisville residents, as well as for clients across the United States.
Images of Kentucky and Environs (http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/kyimages/ ) will assemble images relating to Louisville, Kentucky, and environs from various small collections in the University of Louisville Libraries' special collections and archives. It currently features the A.W.
The African American Oral History Collection (http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/afamoh/ ), from the Oral History Center at the University Archives and Records Center, currently includes nineteen interviews (available as audio files and transcriptions), mostly conducted in the late 1970s, that document the many aspects of life in Louisville, particularly as experienced by African Americans.
The Kate Matthews Collection (http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/matthews ) celebrates a pioneering woman photographer of Pewee Valley, Kentucky.
The Kentucky Maps Collection (http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/maps ) currently features three atlases of Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1876, 1884, and 1913. These maps show inter-city and commuter rail lines, waterway crossings, and private and public properties, from a time before interstate highways crisscrossed the region and the metropolitan area expanded throughout the county.
September 1, 2007: UofL Libraries announces that two new collections have been added to its Digital Collections website at They are the Claude C.
