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War and Centre College: Digital Archives

This guide contains information on archival material at Centre College Special Collections and Archives related to the College's war history. Materials included in this guide were curated by Annalise Weedman `24.

Digital Archives

Digital materials located on the Centre Library website.

Military Materials

Photographs of People

Photographs helpful for establishing context of campus life during the wars. 

E. Wilbur Cook Collection (World War II)

Pictures of people at Centre College and Danville from the 1920s-1940s.

Faculty and Presidents Photographs/Portraits

Civil War

  1. Ormond Beatty, Professor of Physics and Chemistry 1852-1872, President 1870-1888
  2. Ormond Beatty, Professor of Physics and Chemistry 1852-1872, President 1870-1888
  3. Ormond Beatty, Professor of Physics and Chemistry 1852-1872, President 1870-1888
  4. Ormond Beatty, Professor of Physics and Chemistry 1852-1872, President 1870-1888
  5. Ormond Beatty, Professor of Physics and Chemistry 1852-1872, President 1870-1888
  6. Ormond Beatty, Professor of Physics and Chemistry 1852-1872, President 1870-1888
  7. Ormond Beatty, Professor of Physics and Chemistry 1852-1872, President 1870-1888
  8. Ormond Beatty, Professor of Physics and Chemistry 1852-1872, President 1870-1888
  9. Lewis W. Green, President 1857-1863
  10. Robert S. Patterson, Professor of Mathematics, 1860
  11. William L. McKnight, Professor of English Literature and Political Science 1860-1864
  12. William L. Breckinridge, President 1863-1865
  13. William L. Breckinridge, President 1863-1865
  14. Alfred B. Nelson, Professor of Mathematics pro tem 1864-1869
  15. Alfred B. Nelson, Professor of Mathematics pro tem 1864-1869

World War I

  1. John C. Fales, Librarian 1908-1916
  2. John C. Fales, Librarian 1908-1916
  3. John C. Fales, Librarian 1908-1916
  4. William A. Ganfield, President 1915-1921
  5. Frank L. Rainey, Professor of Biology 1908-1924, President 1936
  6. Frank L. Rainey, Professor of Biology 1908-1924, President 1936
  7. Frank L. Rainey, Professor of Biology 1908-1924, President 1936

World War II

  1. Robert L. McLeod Inauguration, 1939
  2. Robert L. McLeod, President 1938-1945
  3. Robert J. McMullen, President 1944-1946
  4. Robert J. McMullen, President 1944-1946

Students and Alumni

Civil War

  1. Alfred B. Nelson, class of 1864

World War I

  1. Football Team, 1918
  2. George White Fithian, class of 1919
  3. Joseph Lynn Tucker, class of 1919
  4. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  5. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  6. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  7. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  8. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  9. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  10. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  11. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  12. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  13. Unidentified Students Playing Dice, circa 1910-1914
  14. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  15. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  16. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  17. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  18. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  19. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  20. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914
  21. Unidentified Student, circa 1910-1914

World War II

  1. Centre College Science Students, circa 1930s
  2. KCW Students, 1940s
  3. Faculty and Students, 1946
  4. Frederick M. Vinson (class of 1909), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1946-1953

Carnival and Homecoming

World War I

  1. Carnival Float, circa 1910-1914
  2. Carnival Float, circa 1910-1915
  3. Queen's Float Carnival, 1915
  4. Carnival, circa 1910-1920
    • Postcard
  5. Nancy Logan, Carnival Queen 1914
  6. Carnival Queen and Float, 1914
  7. Virginia Swope, Carnival Queen 1919

World War II

  1. Homecoming, 1938
  2. Mary Munn, Carnival Queen 1939
  3. Carnival, 1940
  4. Carnival, 1940
  5. Katharine Poor, Carnival Queen 1942
  6. Dorothy Creekmore, Carnival Queen 1946

Fraternities (World War I)

  1. Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 1913-1914
  2. Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 1919

Kentucky College for Women 

World War I

  1. Drama Production, 1915
  2. Wapanooche Pennant, 1915-1916
  3. KCW Students, 1918

Photographs of Centre College and Danville

Photographs and postcards depicting buildings and campus at Centre College and in Danville.

E. Wilbur Cook Collection (World War II)

Pictures of people at Centre College and Danville from the 1920s-1940s.

Building and Campus Photographs

World War I

  1. Sigma Chi Fraternity House, circa 1910-1914
  2. Sigma Chi Fraternity House, circa 1910-1914
  3. Sigma Chi Fraternity House, circa 1910-1914
  4. Sigma Chi Fraternity House, circa 1910-1914
  5. Sigma Chi Fraternity House, circa 1910-1914
  6. Sigma Chi Fraternity House, circa 1910-1914
  7. Sigma Chi Fraternity House, circa 1910-1914
  8. Sigma Chi Fraternity House, circa 1910-1914
  9. Sigma Chi Fraternity House, circa 1910-1914
  10. Kentucky College for Women East Hall, 1915
  11. Kentucky College for Women East Hall, 1915
  12. Boyle-Humphrey Alumni Gymnasium, 1916

World War II

  1. Centre College Aerial View, 1939
  2. Old Centre, circa 1940
  3. Old Centre, circa 1940
  4. Old Centre, circa 1940
  5. Wiseman Hall, circa 1940
  6. Wiseman Hall groundbreaking ceremony, circa 1940
  7. Aerial View of Centre College Campus, 1949
  8. Aerial View of Centre College Campus, 1949
  9. Aerial View of Centre College Campus, 1949
  10. Aerial View of Centre College Campus, 1949
  11. Aerial View of Centre College Campus, 1949
  12. Aerial View of Centre College Campus, 1949
  13. Aerial View of Centre College Campus, 1949

Danville and Boyle County Photographs

Civil War

  1. Danville Motor Co. parade, 1921
    • Celebration of Harvard upset

World War II

  1. Main Street, Danville, 1935
  2. Main Street, Danville, 1935/circa 1940

Postcards

Civil War

  1. Monument to Confederate Dead, Perryville, KY, 1909
  2. Christian Church, Danville, KY

World War I

  1. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1914
  2. Gilcher Hotel, 1918

World War II

  1. Old Centre, 1945
  2. Goodall Company, 1945