Linseed oil is the oil from the plant linum usitatissiumum. It is not a new oil, for we read that the Greeks and Romans used it, not as it is used today, but as a food, and it is still used for that purpose in some countries, especially in Russia,...
Portrait of left profile of infamous actor John Wilkes Booth, wearing hair parted at the side, a handlebar mustache, and a dark suit jacket. Born May 10, 1838, the youngest brother of renowned actors Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., Booth...
Portrait of infamous actor John Wilkes Booth, wearing hair parted at the side, a handlebar mustache, a dark suit jacket and tie, an overcoat, and leather gloves. Born May 10, 1838, the youngest brother of renowned actors Edwin Booth and Junius...
Portrait of infamous actor John Wilkes Booth, wearing a handlebar mustache, suit jacket, and bow tie. Born May 10, 1838, the youngest brother of renowned actors Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln...
Maps; Forts & fortifications; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Reprint of a Civil War-era map of Louisville, Kentucky, highlighting forts. Printed in lower lefthand corner:"Accompanying report of Lieut. Col. J.H. Simpson Corps of Engrs., U.S. Army, dated June 24, 1865. SERIES I. VOL. XLIX." Printed...
Maps; Forts & fortifications; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Two-page spread, featuring three maps. Published by the United States Department of War in 1895 as Plate 102 of Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies 1861-1865. Map 1 is "Defenses of Munfordville, Ky....
Tall synagogue standing as a shell of a building. A crumbling building is next to it and rumble is in front. Two men sit near the edge of the rubble. Title: No. 8. Ruins of the Jewish Synagogue on Sutter St., near Powell; stood the great...
Vertically ribbed white house in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, with wood lacework hanging from the roof, amid large trees. The basic structure of Tuliphurst, a historic home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, now on the National Register of Historic Places, was...
Medical education; Medical students; Kentucky University. Medical Department
Catalog for Kentucky University medical department, 1901-1902. Includes list of board of curators and faculty, program information, including curriculum and admission requirements, currently enrolled students for 1900, and a textbook list. Printed...
William P. D. Bush was born in 1823 on his father's farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. He was educated at the Hardin Seminary in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. After reading law, in 1846 he was admitted to the bar and was appointed deputy clerk of the...
Joseph T. Tucker was born in Marlboro, Vermont, in 1835. He went to Kentucky in 1854 and settled in Winchester, Kentucky During the Civil War, he was made lieutenant-colonel of the Confederate 7th Kentucky Cavalry, and later was promoted to colonel...
William Morgan Beckner was born in 1841 in Moorefield, in Nicholas County, Kentucky. He attended the schools of Bath and Fleming counties, before attending Centre College in Danville. He read law under Judge E. C. Phister and was admitted to the...
Very faint full-length character portrait of Julia Marlowe wearing a long dress and hat. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born Sarah Frances Frost on August 17, 1865 in England. She spent her late childhood in the United States, and married actor...
Character portrait of Julia Marlowe wearing a regal gown. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born Sarah Frances Frost on August 17, 1865 in England. She spent her late childhood in the United States, and married actor Robert Taber in 1894. With her...
Three-quarter length character portrait of Julia Marlowe costumed as a boy (or possibly as Jeanne d'Arc), holding flowers. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born Sarah Frances Frost on August 17, 1865 in England. She spent her late childhood in the...
Full-length character portrait of Julia Marlowe as Galatea, the ivory statue created by Pygmalion in Greek myth. She wears an Empire-waist tunic and stands on a pedestal between slightly parted stage curtains. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born...
Portrait of Julia Marlowe with her hair down. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born Sarah Frances Frost on August 17, 1865 in England. She spent her late childhood in the United States, and married actor Robert Taber in 1894. With her second...
Three-quarter length character portrait of American actress and director Minnie Maddern Fiske leaning against a rock formation, in front of a backdrop of a body of water, wearing an ermine-trimmed robe and holding a black hat in her hand. Born...
Three-quarter length character portrait of left profile of performer Orrin Johnson, who stands with one hand on hip and the other leaning on the back of a chair, wearing a tuxedo with boutonniere and white tie, and a mustache. Orrin Johnson was...
Portrait of performer, producer, and writer Raymond Hitchcock wearing a three-piece suit with striped tie and boutonniere. Born October 22, 1865, in Auburn, New York, Hitchcock died November 24, 1929, in Beverly Hills, California. He starred in ten...
