–By Eli Hughes
The University of Louisville’s Archive and Special Collections Department has digitized all issues of The Louisville Cardinal dating back to 1926 when the newspaper was founded.
Thomas Owen, an archivist for regional history, led the project as an effort to preserve campus history and make it easier to access. Owen and the archives and special collections team wanted to pursue the project but didn’t have the funding.
That was before he worked on a project for David Jones Jr. and his wife Mary Wheeler. Jones’s parents had been active in the university community and he wanted a way to honor them and demonstrate their legacy to their family.