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  "The Great Lexington Trots" with women pictured sitting on stools.

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 A day in the life of Ollie C. Leathers, rural mail carrier. Vernon Lee Langels getting mail from box.

 Action shots of University of Kentucky (UK)-Xavier University basketball game. December, 1947.

 African-American girls who won beginners' buttons at the Herald-Leader's Free Learn-To-Swim Course at Douglass Pool. Shown in the front row, left to right, are Ann Shirley Lewis, Mary Evelyn Johnson, Marietta Leake, Norma Lewis, Gladys Green, and Assistant Instructor Emily Mills. Shown in the second row, left to right, are Assistant Instructor Russell Hill, Jane Furr, Jane Benton, Patsy Taylor, Nanne Gentry, and Assistant Instructor Benjamin Hamilton.

 Albert B. Chandler and Baxter Melton, both from Corydon, pictured at meeting of Rotary Club. Chandler is the United States Baseball Commissioner. Both men are graduates of the University of Kentucky.

 American Legion convention, 1952. Dancing in street. Legionnaires, from left to right, Chard Jeffries, Kelly Dull, Mickey Jansing, and Frenchy Wilson, with several unidentified men and women watching in the background.

 American Legion convention, 1952. Portrait of Miss Hilda Gay Mayberry, champion baton twirler.

 Aqua-cycle, motorless conveyance for duck-hunters and fishermen, occupied by Charles Gregory, left, and Bob West.

 Arco Begley pictured making over his Lee county farm. Mr. Begley fishing.

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 Blue Grass Day crowd shots Main and Limestone streets.

 Blue Grass Review. Scenic Kentucky. Cliff and Mountains near Natural Bridge.

 Bourbon county fair. Unidentified men and women lined-up and paired each with a cow.

 Boy in Western attire, accompanies mother on Main Street in downtown Lexington.

 Bugler at Keeneland. October, 1950. (2)

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 Carl Cummins, confined to wheel chair, participates in games at new playground at old Douglass school. Taylor Seals, a director, at left.

 Charles Dorroh, University of Kentucky senior, sitting on section of pipe that will feed steam to Memorial Coliseum

 Chihuahua pup measured next to pack of cigarettes.

 Christmas decorations in the Phoenix Hotel, stockings on a mantel.

 Community Chest Drive. Group of children standing at microphone. November 1950.

 Construction work under way in Lexington. Central Baptist Hospital.

 Crowd in stands at the Keeneland racetrack.

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 David Marshall at Color and Supply Company booth.

 Departure of Marine Reserves at Union Station. Marine kissing a woman. September 1950.

 Douglas Gaidry, Bobby Watts and Sara Proctor start placing old license plates in receptacle provided by members of Young Woman's Club.

 Douglass High School students make trip by plane to Cincinnati. Members of the group are Joe Broadus, Leroy Byrd, Elizabeth Smith, Thomas Brooks, Price Mitchell, Edna Fitzpatrick, William Holland, Hezekiah Marks, Betty Gilbert, Ronald Taylor, James Taylor, James Miller, Mary Mack, John Douglass, Thomas Roach, Sandra Roach and Mrs. S.T. Roach, teacher.

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 Ewell C. Davis with a horse that he ties to his tractor and leads to field to drive cattle. October, 1950.

 Exterior of Lyric theater for African Americans. Located on the corner of Dewees and Third streets.

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 F. R. Wilson, Lexington inventor, demonstrating portable fire escape on South Limestone Street fire tower. January, 1947.

 Female puppy found by Ernest Umstead at Main and Limestone streets

 Four houses pictured in a row with television antennas.

 Front view of the General Electric Company test car on its visit to Lexington.

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 Granvel Logan and opossum that was caught in hallway at Fire Department.

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 Helen Henderson, student at Booker T Washington school, receiving check from Miss Virginia Hayes, of Lexington Library, for submitting name for African American branch library. "The Laura Carroll Library."

 House being moved by a truck, crossing at intersection of Main and Broadway. House owned by Ted Fallis being moved by A. G. Powell.

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 Jessamine County Lions Club Fair. Garland Thompson talks to his six-month-old cow.

 Jug Band outside entrance to the Downs on Derby Day, May 7, 1949.

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 Kentucky Cow and calf plan pictures. Open field with a horse in the foreground, June 19, 1952.

 Kit Barrow and Betsy Speed with Halloween pumpkin.

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 Layout picturing garbage in open containers within two-block radius of Main and Limestone streets. (2)

 Lexington Railway System bus resting over broken off fire hydrant on Lafayette avenue after its brakes failed March 17, 1949.

 Lexington snow scene. Car covered by snow.

 Lexington snow scene. Transylvania park after snow storm.

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 Marine Corps Reserve units fire in district match. Men firing.

 Mrs. R. L. Maranville and two screech owls that left their nest too soon.

 Mrs. Ruth Saunders, Fayette home demonstration agent, and her assistant, Mrs. Mary Helen Horn, preparing exhibit for Four-H and Future Farmers of America (FFA) fair.

 Mt. Sterling Homecoming. Jeanette and Sally Clay, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clay Jr. prepare for Homecoming bubble gum contest. September 1, 1950.

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 Negatives used in making up section head in 'Back to School' edition of Herald-Leader. Building shown is Henry Clay High School. August, 1948.

 Night picture of Lexington Public Library.

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 Observer checked the board at Keeneland.

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 Pictured in connection with meeting of Kentucky Firemen's Association. Captain Omer Cunningham, garbed as a woman, "rescued" from tower's fifth floor. The firefighter on the ladder is George Stubbler.

 Pictured in connection with running of 1949 Plug Horse Derby. Governor Earle C. Clements handing winner's trophy to Jockey Bill Jennings on Ann Bromfield's Beam Bourbon. Robert W. Wilson awarding wreath of carrots. Frank Godwin next to Wilson.

 Pictures in connection with 1951 bus strike. Picture of Main Street without the buses.

 Pictures in connection with the Hustlers, African-American baseball team. Bunny Davis, Manager Scoopy Brown, Bill Berry, Bob Terrell and Beaverdam Mason.

 Portrait of John William Gillis, winner of a public speaking award given by the New Farmers of America

 Portrait of John Wyatt, Herald photographer, who received a perfect score on an entrance test for the Naval Reserve. June, 1948.

 Portrait of Mary Sweeney, internationally recognized authority on child-development and welfare and former assistant director of the Merrill-Palmer school. She was also head of the Home Economics department at the University of Kentucky and dean of Home Economics at Michigan State College, as well as executive secretary of the American Home Economics Association. A graduate of Transylvania College, Sweeney received an honorary degree from Transylvania on June 6, 1949. Photo taken in 1949.

 Portrait of Miss Marjorie Tubbs, Administrator of Cripples Children's Convalescent Home. January, 1950.

 Portrait of Mrs. J. Campbell Thompson holding a rifle, August, 1949.

 Preston Madden guiding Satan's Child over the jumps at the Iroquois Hunt Club Horse Show.

 PTA purchases yellow slickers for Safety patrol at Ashland School. Raymond Munich, J.T. Bryant, Jesse Bowman, Gordon Bowlin (back to camera), James Harlow, Hershel Conway, Eugene Jones and Johnny Wise.

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 Railroad strike scenes. Portrait of Colonel C.D. Love of Louisville, general superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, sitting at the throttle, with W.G. McGowan, 163 Bell Court East, assistant train master of the Eastern Kentucky division of L&N.

 Red Cross operates canteen during Armed Forces Day parade. Aerial shot of the cadets marching down Main Street.

 Robert Arthur, Del-Tor Clinic attendant, holds Smiley Pete as the dog looks at his mate Patsy and their newborn puppies.

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 Scene after car driven by Shirley Cobb Jr., hits liquor store at Main and Naple streets in Nicholasville.

 Scenes as Iroquois Hunt Club sponsors horse show, horse pulling contest, and beef barbecue October 12, 1946 at W. Fauntleroy Pursley's farm on Athens-Boonesboro Road. Horse pulling contest.

 Scenes at CAP-AAF Air Show at dedication of Blue Grass Field and unveiling of the T. Ward Havely memorial. Unidentified woman in military uniform pictured inside an airplane with medical instruments. November, 1946.

 Scenes at Sportsmen's Show. Joe Moeller and his assistant, Jeanne Dare, representing Beverly Archery Company.

 Scenes at the Moose Lodge Easter Egg hunt at Woodland Park. Two children sitting on cart with prizes in their laps. April, 1947.

 Scenes in and around Lexington after blizzard hit. Thomas W. McAtee and his dog for which he has made moccasins.

 Scenes in connection with Carlisle's third annual Blackberry Festival, sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars. Picture of a boy with a small dog. Picture taken July 1951.

 Sergeant William Morris with dog left at scene of accident.

 Sheriff Harvey Partin, Jessamine county, left, and Police Chief Carl Bruner, Nicholasville, examining parts of captured moonshine still. May, 1947.

 Smiley Pete, the dog that hangs around Main and Limestone streets, in holiday attire.

 Snow scenes on Johnson Road.

 Snow Scenes. Gainesway Farm.

 Snow Scenes. Mrs. R.F. Head giving push to sled with Jane Head and Marsha Hoskins on it. Mrs. Wilbur J. Hoskins pulling sled (cropped).

 Southeast corner of Limestone and Main streets where Lexington Railway System will erect a change-making and information booth. Pedestrians in front of Williams' Drug Store and McGurk's Shoe Shop. May, 1947.

 Sponsored by the Jaycees and The Herald-Leader, Santa Claus visits Lexington. Santa in his sleigh atop Fire Department truck.

 Strand Theater audience pictured watching "the world's first full length three-dimension movie" (3-D). Photo shows interior of a Strand Theater auditorium with audience wearing three-dimension (3-D) glasses.

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 T.H. Dunn looking at Herald-Leader thermometer which registers 100.

 The fire on Richmond road where a fire truck was headed when it struck a car on Main and Jefferson Street.

 The Herald-Leader at work. Leader News room. In display book actually used E.154 of Herald news room. May 1952.

 Three students typing at desks with teacher standing over them with timer. Photo is taken in schoolroom with windows and background. Students are from left to right, Don Chasteen, Hannah Hargett, and Rosalie Mahanes. Teacher is J.H. Sims.

 Two kittens found under the desk of Herald-Leader Office Manager J. W. Mann. Circulation Clerk Kennedy Engle found the kittens.

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 U. S. weatherman Dix Newton jokes around with two Delta Air Line employees about the intense heat and predicted thundershowers. Shown, left to right, are Dix Newton, standing, as well as Bill Helm and Tommy Simpson, under the umbrella.

 Unidentified tree-lined roadway. 1950.

 University of Kentucky (UK) Troupers prepare for their annual show at the Coliseum, during which they will perform twenty-five (25) acts. Pictured (left to right) are John Bell, on bicycle, Nancy Townsley, on his shoulders, Candy Johnson, in front of the bike; doing handstands, from left to right, are Ann Pruitt, Margy Crudden, and Marie Goggin; Beckie Gill and Dawn Kelly, bottom of pyramid, Lynn Block, top of pyramid, Lorendz Smith, lying on his back, and Jim Anders, performing a hand-to-hand stand. The show, directed by Bernard Johnson and Joyce Perbix, is sponsored by the University's Physical Education Department.

 University of Kentucky baseball players, Bill Leskovar, left, and Dominic Ford.

 University of Kentucky's Tau Sigma modern dance group. From left, Eleanor Gash, Judith Luigart and Beuleh Reynolds.

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 V-J Day Celebration in Lexington. Shot of Victory demonstration; group of youths piled on truck. They had commandeered a truck and the driver drove them up and down Main Street for hours.

 Valentine layout: Dog, Dinah, owned by Mrs. George T. Price.

 Views of the Memorial Coliseum. Picture taken June 29,1951.