Gina Webb papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Gina Webb papers
- Date
- 1992-1999, undated (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.45 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- African American history
- Oral histories
- Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Perryville (Ky.)
- Sleettown (Ky.)
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged into two series by format.
- Preferred Citation
- 2021ms088: [identification of item], Gina Webb papers, 1992-1999, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Gina Webb is a historian living in Boyle County, Kentucky. During the 1990's she conducted oral history interviews with residents of Perryville, Kentucky about local history.
- Scope and Content
- The Gina Webb papers (dated 1992-1999, undated; 0.45 cubic feet; 1 box) comprise transcripts, historical notes, letters, and some photographs and negatives gather by Webb for an oral history project with residents of Perryville, Kentucky. The transcripts cover the town, the people, the culture, the commerce. Of significance, the collection includes interviews and photographs related to slavery, and the post-Civil War settlement in Boyle County of former enslaved persons called Sleettown.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Binder no. 1, 1996-1998, undated
Oral history transcripts and individual background information, 1996-1997
Letters and forms, 1997-1998
Reference materials, undated
Binder no. 2, 1992-1999, undated
Oral history transcripts and individual background information, 1997-1998
Photographs of log cabins and houses, Sleettown, exterior views (12), undated
Binder no. 1 project planning materials, 1998
Binder no. 1 reference materials, 1992-1999
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