The Keeneland Association Library

The Keeneland Association Library
Author: Amelia King Buckley
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0813162300

A research center for Thoroughbred racing, breeding, and related subjects, the Keeneland Association Library is located at Keeneland Race Course near Lexington, Kentucky. Amelia King Buckley, who became librarian in 1953, has compiled an alphabetical author listing of the titles in this unique collection as of June 1, 1958. Begun in 1939 with a gift of 2,000 volumes from William Arnold Hanger, the library has grown with the addition of other gifts and purchases, and now comprises one of the finest collections in its field. The published catalog includes more than 900 monograph titles, more than 100 serial titles, selected sales catalogs, private studbooks, bound pamphlets, and a small amount of manuscript material. The volume is illustrated with photographs from the library's remarkable collection of 15,000 negatives taken by the late Charles Christian Cook, one of the first American photographers to specialize in racing scenes.

Out of the Shadows

Out of the Shadows
Author: David K. Wiggins
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2008-02-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1557288763

The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty insightful biographies that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how these changes mirrored the transformation of sports, American society, and civil rights legislation. Some of the athletes discussed include Marshall Taylor (bicycling), William Henry Lewis (football), Jack Johnson, Satchel Paige, Jesse Owens, Joe Lewis, Alice Coachman (track and field), Althea Gibson (tennis), Wilma Rudolph, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams.

Thoroughbred Record

Thoroughbred Record
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 882
Release: 1922
Genre: Horse racing
ISBN:

Includes a statistical issue (title varies slightly) 1947-

The Manufacturer and Builder

The Manufacturer and Builder
Author: Peter Henri Van der Weyde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1887
Genre: Building
ISBN:

Billed in early issues as "a practical journal of industrial progress", this monthly covers a broad range of topics in engineering, manufacturing, mechanics, architecture, building, etc. Later issues say it is "devoted to the advancement and diffusion of practical knowledge."