Box Small Coll. 11

Items of interest in the scrapbook include: A sketch on page 93 inscribed with the name Annie M. Ayers. An obituary for Fannie D. Stockton on page 107. Reward of Merit for Rosa Summers on page 165. Miss Lillie V. Wheeler handwritten on page 341.

Manuscript cookbook. Recipes contributed by Miss Eoff Virginia, Mrs. Budd,  Miss Leslie, Mrs. M. Kein, Lydia Heister, M. Sheaff, Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. Tucker and Mary Rush. Other names are difficult to decipher. Lancaster is also noted frequently and may be a place rather than a person. Many recipes have notations that they came from Virginia, France, England, etc.

Includes photographs with Earl Roberts and other members of the Alumni Association as well as Robert's introduction of Robert R. Martin at an alumni event, programs, newsletter and name badges.

Aerial view of Manchester showing soldiers and army trucks on Main Street. The troops were ordered there by Governor Laffoon in an effort to break up an alleged automobile theft ring.

Flood waters forced evacuation of the inmates of the Kentucky State Prison at Frankfort, but not before prisoners rioted. Here guards are patrolling the prison camp set up in tents outside the prison.

Governor A.B. Chandler announced abandonment of the Kentucky State Prison after returning from the inauguration of President Roosevelt to find water behind the walls of the prison. A total of 2,900 convicts were evacuated to jails and buildings in other towns. Twelve prisoners were reported to have been either killed or drowned.

John Lair, presiding personality of CBS radio's "Renfro Valley Sunday Gathering," tried out a banjo, one of the large collection of contemporary and antique musical instruments played by the talented residents of the Kentucky valley where the program originates.

Turning the crank will draw water from the cistern pump at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

This one-room school is similar to those in scores of remote mountain communities of the Appalachian region. This one, in Kentucky's southeastern area, serves as the educational center for pupils in grades one through six.

The flooding North Fork of the Kentucky River flows near the top of school buses parked near the Hazard jail.