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.
African American History
Appalachian Authors
Business History
Clothing
Education
Fine Arts
Kentucky History
Legal Collections
Local Genealogy
Local Government and Politics
Local History
- Carl R. Bogardus Ohio River Collection MS-26
- Bruce Family Papers MS-40 - discusses the life of a large, 19th century slave owning Covington, KY family involved in business, banking, agriculture and the Roebling Bridge construction. Discusses aspects of slavery, the Civil War, health including cholera outbreaks. Includes several early pencil drawings by Mary Bruce Sharon.
- James Duvall Collection
- Charles H. Elston Legal Collection MS-1
- Morris Garrett Collection MS-13
- Christopher Gist Historical Society Collection MS-24
- Grant County Schools Records MS-76
- Jeffrey Hampton Manuscript on African American Education in Covington, Kentucky MS-33
- Theodore H. H. Harris Local History Research Papers MS-20
- Holly Hill Guild Collection MS-46
- James and Earl Hudson Papers MS-72
- Industrial Club of Covington Records MS-47
- Claude W. Johnson, Jr. Committee of 500 Records MS-3
- Elizabeth Kirtley Collection MS-48
- Masonic Lodge Collection MS-60
- Charles J. McLaughlin Family Collection MS-21
- Al Murphy Vietnam Military Service Papers MS-54
- Jim Reis Research Files MS-56
- Alice Kennelly Roberts Papers MS-10
- Fred A. Schild World War II Collection MS-71 - This collection contains biographical material, correspondence, photographs, ephemera and objects relating to Fred A. Schild who was killed in 1944 while serving in the United States Army during World War II.
- Matthew Seifried Gambling Chips Collection MS-79
- Shinkle Business Papers MS-57
- Warren J. Shonert Americana Collection MS-18
- Social Action Committee of the Newport Ministerial Association Records MS-4
- Spinks Business Records MS-67
- Spinks Estate Records MS-68
- Stuart Sprague Collection MS-58
- Taliaferro Collection MS-32
- General James Taylor Family Papers MS-6
- Theatre Productions, Inc. Records MS-12
- Wiedemann Brewing Company Blueprints MS-64
Military History
Sports
Transportation History
Works by NKU Faculty and Alumni
Miscellaneous
