Photograph Collection

More than 15,000 photographs await you. You may find family photographs or simply images that will teach you how they lived. The majority of the photographs concern south central Kentucky during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We also have hundreds of glass lantern negatives and slides, some of which have national or international significance. Search in-house indexes by family names, place (county, state, foreign nation), activity (farm scene, parades, sports), events (holidays, World War II), type of structure (steamboats, stage coaches, schools, dwellings) and an infinite variety of other topics.

View our online photograph collections.