Family portrait courtesy of the Davenport/Riddell Family Collection. Photo provided | Kenton County Public Library

The Kenton County Public Library is soliciting donations of historical photos in October to expand its Faces and Places database, which preserves photographs from throughout the region.

Boys from Covington Catholic on a makeshift raft, May 1970. Photo by Jim Bailey | Kentucky Post via Kenton County Library.

The donation drive is taking place at the library’s Covington branch on Scott Street.

Interested donors can contact the library’s Local History and Genealogy Department by calling (859)962-4070 or by emailing history@kentonlibrary.org to coordinate a donation or to ask questions.

Check out the existing Faces and Places database at facesandplaces.kentonlibrary.org.

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