Northern Kentucky University

The collections below have been sorted into broad topics to aid browsing. Collections may be listed in more than one topical category.

Some of the collections have an online finding aid. A finding aid provides information about a collection, about the people or organization which created the records in the collection and how they are organized. The name of the collection serves as the link to the finding aid for those collections which have them.

• Appalachian Authors
• Business History
• Clothing
• Fine Arts
• Industry
• Kentucky History
• Legal Collections
• Local Genealogy
• Local Government
• Local History
• Military History
• Sports
• Transportation History
• Works by NKU Faculty and Alumni
• Miscellaneous

Appalachian Authors

• Harry M. Caudill Appalachian Collection
• Chris Holbrook Papers
• Danny L. Miller Papers
• Westerfield Collection

Business History

• Bruce Family Papers
• Morris Garrett Collection
• Christopher Gist Historical Society Collection
• Shinkle Business Papers
• Warren J. Shonert Collection
• Spinks Business Records
• Spinks Estate Records
• Taliaferro Collection
• General James Taylor Family Papers

Clothing

• Gilliam Collection
• Ann Maloney Clothing Collection
• Wedding Kimono

Fine Arts

• Campbell County Civic Theatre Records
• Haven Gillespie Music Collection
• David Mack Collection
• George Melber Music Collection
• Scripps Howard Walker Stone Award Collection
• Max Wald Collection
• WNOP Radio Collection

Industry

• Clabes Racing Collection

Kentucky History

• Carl R. Bogardus Ohio River Collection
• James Duvall Collection
• Anna W. and William Fitzgerald Collection
• Morris Garrett Collection
• Christopher Gist Historical Society Collection
• Ludlow-Bromley Historical Society Collection
• Martin Signature Collection
• Dan Murphy Collection
• James Murphy Collection
• Warren J. Shonert Collection
• Stuart Sprague Collection
• John Whisman Papers

Legal Collections

• Charles H. Elston Legal Collection

Local Genealogy

• Campbell County Coroner's Records
• James Duvall Collection
• Anna W. and William Fitzgerald Collection
• Margaret Strebel Hartman Genealogical Collection
• Elizabeth Kirtley Collection
• Linden Grove Cemetery Records
• Ludlow-Bromley Historical Society Collection
• Northern Kentucky African American Heritage Task Force
• Jim Reis Research Files
• Alice Kennelly Roberts Papers

Local Government

• Campbell County Coroner's Records
• Anna W. and William Fitzgerald Collection
• Christopher Gist Historical Society Collection
• Claude W. Johnson, Jr. Committee of 500 Records

Local History

• Carl R. Bogardus Ohio River Collection
• Bruce Family Papers
• Campbell County Coroner's Records
• Committee of 500 Collection
• James Duvall Collection
• Charles H. Elston Legal Collection
• Anna W. and William Fitzgerald Collection
• Morris Garrett Collection
• Gilliam Collection
• Christopher Gist Historical Society Collection
• Holly Hill Guild Collection
• Industrial Club of Covington Records
• Claude W. Johnson, Jr. Committee of 500 Records
• Elizabeth Kirtley Collection
• Masonic Lodge Collection
• Northern Kentucky Historical Railroad Association
• Jim Reis Research Files
• Alice Kennelly Roberts Papers
• Shinkle Business Papers
• Warren J. Shonert Collection
• Social Action Committee of the Newport Ministerial Association Records
• Spinks Business Records
• Spinks Estate Records
• Stuart Sprague Collection
• Taliaferro Collection
• General James Taylor Family Papers
• Wiedemann Brewing Company Blueprints
• Jacob Wolking Collection

Military History

• Bruce Family Papers
• Civil War Diaries
• Colonel George E. Nelson Collection
• Cyrus Reasoner Civil War Correspondence
• Elmer Ruschmann Collection

Sports

• Clabes Racing Collection

Transportation History

• Carl R. Bogardus Ohio River Collection
• Christopher Gist Historical Society Collection
• Northern Kentucky Historical Railroad Association

Works by NKU Faculty and Alumni

• Michael C. C. Adams Papers
• Susan S. Kissel Adams Papers
• Ron Ellis Papers
• David Mack Collection
• Danny L. Miller Papers
• Robert K. Wallace Papers

Miscellaneous

• Elizabeth Chavez Collection
• Dan Murphy Collection
• George Paine Papers
• Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards-Editorial Writing
• Small Acquisitions
• Paul Taylor Collection