The Market House Museum Photograph Collection houses approximately 5000 catalogued images of Paducah from the Civil War to the 1950's. The museum has been active in promoting its conservation and preservation program, whereby the images in our keeping, plus new images that are found, are being recorded with a high definition resolution onto disc format, for ease of retrieval and publication purposes. This is also a way of enabling the images to be safely housed in a vault to protect them from fire or flood. The Museum is happy to assist historians in locating photographs of certain subjects for examination, but by appointment only, please.