Hazard Photo Album at UK Libraries Identified

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 10, 2014) — In June, the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center invited the public to help identify people and places in a photograph album featuring places in Hazard, Kentucky. Following the announcement of the project, the album was quickly identified as belonging to Daniel R. Landis, Ethel Chandler Landis and their son Dick.

Originally from Harrisonburg, Virginia, the couple lived in Hazard during the 1930s, with Daniel working as a truck driver for a bakery. In addition to the Hazard County Ice and Storage Co., several other places in the photograph album were identified, including the Woodbine Cemetery in Harrisonburg, Wise Brothers Shirt Manufacturers in Baltimore, and the Newton Giant Incubators Corporation in Harrisonburg.

The collection has been renamed the Landis family photograph album and is now available on ExploreUK, the Special Collections Research Center’s digital library.

This story on UK's history is presented by UK Special Collections Research Center. UK Special Collections is home to UK Libraries' collection of rare books, Kentuckiana, the Archives, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the King Library Press, the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center, the Bert T. Combs Appalachian collection and ExploreUK. The mission of the center is to locate and preserve materials documenting the social, cultural, economic and political history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu