Alexandra Soteriou photographs
Abstract
The Alexandra Soteriou photographs (dated 1968, 0.83 cubic feet, 5 boxes) comprise a scrapbook and photo negatives that document everyday life in Lexington, Kentucky, from April to June 1968, following the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Alexandra Soteriou photographs
- Date
- 1968
- Extent
- 0.83 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- African Americans--Civil Rights--Kentucky.
- African Americans--Kentucky--Lexington
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by format.
- Preferred Citation
- 2013av029: [identification of item], Alexandra Soteriou photographs, 1968, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Alexandra Soteriou was editor of the Kentuckian, the University of Kentucky yearbook, for 1969-1970. This yearbook was published without approval from the Director of Student Publications. Soteriou graduated from UK in 1971 with a Bachelors of Arts in Arts and Sciences.
- Scope and Content
- The Alexandra Soteriou photographs (dated 1968, 0.83 cubic feet, 5 boxes) comprise a scrapbook and photo negatives that document everyday life in Lexington, Kentucky, from April to June 1968, following the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. Some photographs also appear to be taken in Cincinnati, Ohio. The scrapbook additionally contains quotes and poems accompanying the photographs. Many of the negatives and scrapbook pages detail African-American life on Kenton Street in Lexington. Some negatives show crowds in front of Buell Armory on the University of Kentucky's campus. All pictures and negatives in the collection are attributed to Alexandra Soteriou.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky holds the copyright for materials created in the course of business by University of Kentucky employees. Copyright for all other materials has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Contents of the Collection
Scrapbook, 1968
African-American child, "The smile that you send out returns to you" Indian Wisdom, 1968
African-American woman, Man sitting on porch, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may..." Herrick, 1968
Two African-American men, African-American man leaning on fence, "From the poverty shacks he looked from..." Dylan, 1968
African-American man eating, African-American man sitting, "Before the Phantom of false Morning died..." Omar Khayyam, 1968
Man in hat pointing, Three African-American men sitting, "Human beings are involved in international intranational group conflicts..." Mead, 1968
Man in hat standing, Man sitting on steps, "... man is condemned to be free..." Sartre, 1968
Two African-American women seated, African-American child, "People remember sorrow much longer than they remember laughter..." Mr. Blue, 1968
Family seated on stoop, African-American men seated, "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought..." Shakespeare, 1968
My Discontent Man seated on stoop of used furniture store, "Suppose life is an old man carrying flowers on his head..." E.E. Cummings, 1968
Blank page, 1968
Me Man seated on stairs, "I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without anything or any person being able to lighten it" Sarte, 1968
Blank page, 1968
Three African-American men stand on the corner of 5th and Kenton, the one on right is Ronnie Woolfork, Woman sitting in a bar looking at shot glass along Maple Street, inbetween 6th and 7th Streets, "I ain't lookin' to compete with you..." Dylan, 1968
Blank page, 1968
My Work Man selling pretzels out of cart on a street corner, 1968
Blank page, 1968
Two men and a boy working in a garage, 1968
Waitress working in a cafe, Two women and a man on strike against Bell System in front of the Bell Telephone Company building, "There is a destiny that makes us brothers..." E. Markham, 1968
Three men doing concrete work, "The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals..." Mao Tse-Tung, 1968
Inside a building, 1968
Group of African-American men sitting on porch, possibly along Kenton Street, Man sitting on stoop, When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Shakespeare, 1968
Man sitting on bench asleep, possibly at 5th and Toner Streets, "Mistah Kurtz-he dead. A penny for the Old Guy..." T.S. Eliot, 1968
African-American man seated in a chair, African-American man sitting on a stoop, "That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity" Irving, 1968
Blank page, 1968
My Children African-American man seated with child, "Your children are not your children..." Kahlil Gibran, 1968
Blank page, 1968
African-American child standing on porch, Child standing next to fence and tree, "These children singing in a stone a silence of stone these little children wound with stone flowers opening for..." E.E. Cummings, 1968
Four children playing, African-American woman with five children around her, 1968
Woman leaning over fence to talk to a child, Five children outside, two on bikes. Both photos located in Irishtown, 1968
A child, "Today's television child is attuned to up to the minute "adult" news..." McLuhan, 1968
My Home The front of a house showing the doorway and window, " But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed..." Kahlil Gibran, 1968
Blank page, 1968
African-American woman outside of house, African-American woman sitting inside, pictures taken in either Davis Bottom or Kindaid Town, "My God, I heard this day that none doth build a stately habitation..." Herbert, 1968
The Front Both photos are of Mr. Floyd Booker and his son or brother sitting on a porch located on Kenton Street, 1968
Porches A woman and two children standing on a porch, African-American neighbors sitting on their porches, both pictures taken on Kenton Street, 1968
Of Our Souls A sign stating Keep Out, Property of Urban Renewal and Community Agency, Two children sitting on a fence with a third child walking towards them, 1968
African-American man sitting on a porch with a smiling child looking at the camera, African-American man sitting on his porch, both pictures taken on Kenton Street, 1968
Front door and window of a house, "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll..." Holmes, 1968
My Nation Picture showing Jean's Bar with advertisements for Pasquale's Pizza and Hillside Motors, "Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial..." Bob Dylan, 1968
Blank page, 1968
Two men standing outside Rhodes Thrift Store and Used Furniture, "Humanity I love you because you would rather black the boots of..." E.E. Cummings, 1968
View down an alleyway with group of people standing at far end, "A man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back..." E.E. Cummings, 1968
Man standing on corner in front of an unknown movie theatre, "Next to of course God America I love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh..." E.E. Cummings, 1968
Man seated inside diner drinking, "Examination of the handling of submarine crews during World War II..." Mead, 1968
Group of children on a hillside, "In just - spring when the world is mud - luscious the little lame balloonman..." E.E. Cummings, 1968
African-American man seated on porch with smiling child standing in front, picture taken on Kenton Street, "Come gather round people wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown..." Dylan, 1968
African-American woman reading newspaper on porch, R.O.T.C Army and Airforce sign, Four men in meeting, "The cold war is the real war front - a surround - involving everybody..." McLuhan, 1968
Figure walking down sidewalk at night, "The laws of God, the laws of man, he may keep that will and can..." A.E. Houseman, 1968
Negatives, 1968
Man sitting on stoop, Man working on a door, 1968
Woman and children sitting on a stoop, A back alley, A stairwell, 1968
Elderly man porch, 1968
Family on porch, 1968
Elderly man on porch, 1968
African-American child, 1968
Child standing by fence, 1968
African-American child, 1968
African-American child, 1968
Two African-American children, 1968
African-American child, 1968
African-American child, 1968
Children on bikes, Girl standing on porch, Children outside by laundry, 1968
Four men behind fence, Woman on porch, Junk pile, 1968
A woman and child, Two children, A child standing by door, 1968
A woman and child, 1968
Children sitting on a fence, 1968
Woman and children on steps, 1968
Two African-American men by wall, 1968
African-American man sitting, Three African-American men standing in alley, Two African-American men by wall, 1968
East End Real estate office, African-American man sitting, 1968
Man and child, Three men on corner, 1968
Four children, Man and child on porch, 1968
Two women on porch, Three children on porch, 1968
Man and child on porch, 1968
Man leaning on fence, Three children, 1968
Two men on porch, Three children, 1968
Man on stoop, 1968
Two men in front of Rhodes Thrift Store and Used Furniture, 1968
Two men in front of building, Waitress working in a cafe, 1968
A girl, 1968
View down a street, Man selling pretzels on a corner, 1968
View down a street, Strikers against Bell Systems, 1968
Man in a diner, 1968
Man selling pretzels, Two strikers against Bell Systems, A girl, 1968
Group of children on a hillside, 1968
Picture showing Jean's Bar and advertisements for Pasqual's Pizza and Hillside Motors, 1968
Woman throwing trash away, Nuns standing on a corner, Man standing on a corner, 1968
African-American child, 1968
Two men seated, African-American man, 1968
Two men seated, Child in the street, 1968
Group of children, 1968
Groups of people in front of the Student Center, 1968
Envelopes with contact prints glued to them, 1968
- Box 5
Scope and Contents note
The envelopes housed in box 5 contained some of the negatives located in boxes 3 and 4. Contact prints assembled into a collage have been pasted to the fronts and backs of the envelopes. These show what negatives were contained in the envelope.
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