Digital Collections
Karl Kae Knecht Collection
A collection of original cartoons by Karl Kae Knecht, long time Evansville Courier editorial cartoonist, was donated to the University of Evansville Archives by Knecht in 1962. He presented approximately 3,400 cartoons to UE, a small number of the more than 18,000 cartoons Knecht produced throughout his 54-year (1906-1960) career at the Courier. As a cartoonist, Karl Knecht was distinctive in several ways:
- His length of service to the same newspaper
- His use of chalk plate rather than pen and ink in his early career
- The location of his cartoons on the front page of the newspaper for 46 years
- His use of an elephant logo as a symbol to comment on current events
Knecht’s excellence as an editorial cartoonist was recognized by newspaper editors throughout the United States and around the world. His cartoons were reprinted in the New York Evening Post, the Washington Herald, the Chicago Daily Tribune, Catholic Record, Christian Science Monitor, and the Liverpool (England) Post. Several of his cartoons have been used as illustrations in American history textbooks. One cartoon often re-printed in these books is the 1912 cartoon on the Republican Presidential nomination battle between Taft and Roosevelt entitled “Hand It Back, Bill.” In 1949 he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
Digital access to the cartoons is now available via the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Libraries digital archive.
LinC
LinC was the University's award-winning, student-directed yearbook that ended with the 2016-17 yearbook.
All issues of the LinC from 1956 to 1985 are available online through Internet Archive. Access to this resource is made possible by the generosity of a UE alumnus.
The Crescent
The Crescent is the University's award-winning, student-directed newspaper. It was published weekly and freely distributed across campus.
The Evansville College Class of 1966 Reunion Committee funded the collaborative between the Library and the Internet Archive. Use these links to get the campus news from 1919 to 1970.
- UE Crescent 1919-20
- UE Crescent 1920-21
- UE Crescent 1921-22
- UE Crescent 1922-23
- UE Crescent 1923-24
- UE Crescent 1924-25
- UE Crescent 1925-26
- UE Crescent 1926-27
- UE Crescent 1931-32
- UE Crescent 1932-33
- UE Crescent 1933-34
- UE Crescent 1934-35
- UE Crescent 1935-36
- UE Crescent 1936-37
- UE Crescent 1937-38
- UE Crescent 1938-39
- UE Crescent 1939-40
- UE Crescent 1940-41
- UE Crescent 1941-42
- UE Crescent 1942-43
- UE Crescent 1943-44
- UE Crescent 1944-45
- UE Crescent 1945-46
- UE Crescent 1946-47
- UE Crescent 1947-48
- UE Crescent 1948-49
- UE Crescent 1949-50
- UE Crescent 1950-51
- UE Crescent 1951-52
- UE Crescent 1952-53
- UE Crescent 1953-54
- UE Crescent 1954-55
We Face the Future Unafraid
The late George Klinger, emeritus professor, authored a comprehensive history of UE in honor of UE’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2004. It is now available online.
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Bower-Suhrheinrich Library and Clifford Memorial Library
