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The Library's digitized collection includes some non-Fayette County directories for businesses, farms and residences.
This month features Mike Wade on trumpet, Edgar Byers on saxophone, Jackson Steiger on piano, Melvin Broach on drums, and Peter Gemus on bass. Now in its sixteenth season, Jazz at the Library sponsored by Jamey Aebersold Jazz and the Ja
Features vocals and saxophone by Brooks Giles III with Clay Moore on guitar, Tom Covello on bass, and Terry O'Mahoney on drums.
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The Kentucky Room's collections contain Lexington's residential directories going back over 200 years, and are some of the most useful resources for researchers looking for family information, neighborhood histories, and house histories.
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The Kentucky Rally Songs pamphlet contains 42 songs compiled and printed by the state chapter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, to be used at the many gatherings and rallies that they organized in the late 19th and ea

Old Kentucky Architecture is a comprehensive book by Rexford Newcomb that was published in 1940.


The Kentucky Gazette was the first paper established west of the Allegheny Mountains, founded by John and Fielding Bradford. The frontier paper focused on East Coast and International news, though some local announcements can be found.
