By: Bill Burchfield, MSLS, Kentucky Historical Society Librarian We all know that the early history of the United States is filled with disease epidemics. Kentucky has shared in their sometimes-disastrous outcomes. Cholera was an especially dreadful disease that cropped up from time to time in various locations throughout the Commonwealth …
KHS is looking to learn more about this image of seven African American men wearing lab coats on the steps of an unidentified building. Photographed in 1934, and part of the Wolff, Gretter, Cusick and Hill Studios Negatives (Graphic 2), the original housing indicates that Geneva Howard requested this image …
By: Cheri Daniels, KAO Editor and KHS Head of Reference Services Genealogists are usually very cognizant of those odd moments, when we discover something during our research that sends a tiny little shiver down the spine…..or gives us goose bumps…..or makes us pass by it quickly because it’s just plain creepy. …