The thesis deals with the political career of John Marshall Harlan prior to his appointment in 1877 as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Throughout the majority of those twenty-three active years in Kentucky politics, Harlan...
Medical education; Medical students; Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville (Ky.)
Catalog for Central University, 1876-1877. Includes information for College of Medicine and other colleges and departments. Includes list of faculty at College of Medicine in Louisville (Louisville Hospital College of Medicine) list of enrolled...
Medical education; Medical students; Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville (Ky.)
Catalog for Hospital College of Medicine 1877-1878. Includes university information, medical faculty, program information, enrolled students for 1876-1877, and graduates from February 1877. Printed on cover: Annual Announcement of the Hospital...
John Dorsey Atchison was born in 1852 in Daviess County, Kentucky. He attended the Oakland Seminary and West Kentucky College. He read law with W. N. Sweeney and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He served as Daviess County School Commissioner from...
Two women and two men are standing, and two men are sitting, on top of High Bridge, which is 275.5 feet above the low water mark, 1125 feet long, and is reported to be the first cantilever bridge in North America. Two piers anchored in concrete...
Two men on the banks of the Kentucky River, and another man in a small boat in the river, survey the High Bridge, which was originally planned to be a suspension bridge but construction was halted during the Civil War. When the bridge was completed...
High Bridge over the Kentucky River. It stood 275 feet tall and spanned 1,125 feet. When the bridge was completed in 1877 (after construction was halted during the Civil War), it was the first cantilever bridge in North America, and also the...
Address: 2255 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, KY 40206. Partially visible ghost sign reading "Remodeling Repairing" appears on the side of the building, beneath the sign reading "Bourbons Bistro Est. 05." The building dates back...
Hydraulic facilities; Dams; Buildings; Power plants; Rivers
Hydroelectric plant near High Bridge, Kentucky. View of building with smoke stack, foregrounded by generators and a chain link fence. Forested hills in the background. High Bridge runs between Jessamine and Mercer counties. The original bridge,...
Hydraulic facilities; Dams; Buildings; Power plants; Rivers
Hydroelectric plant near High Bridge, Kentucky. View from a distance of building with three smoke stacks and a large vent sloping down to a smaller building, past a tower. In the distance is a forested area, and in the foreground is a stream and...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Boys; Cadets; Military uniforms
Portrait of Dinwiddie Lampton, Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a military academy uniform. The photograph has been torn and marked with discolorations. Stamped on back of image: Herald-Post, Page No. 2, Photo No. 1, Issue of May 10; Russell...
Copy negative of a photograph of the steamboat GRAND REPUBLIC. GRAND REPUBLIC, a side wheel packet with a wood hull, was originally built as the GREAT REPUBLIC (Way #2438) in 1867 and then remodeled and renamed GRAND REPUBLIC in 1876. Owned by...
Copy negative made from a "Boehl & Koenig" photograph of the ornate interior cabin on the steamboat GRAND REPUBLIC. The original photograph was taken by GRAND REPUBLIC, a side wheel packet with a wood hull, was originally built as...
Medical education; Medical students; University of Louisville. Medical Dept.
Catalog for the University of Louisville medical department 1877-1878. Includes a list of board of trustees and faculty, annual announcement or circular, catalog of class for the 1876-1877 session listing student name, residence, and preceptor, and...
Lyttleton Cooke was born in Virginia in 1831. He spent his childhood in boarding schools and academies until age 18 when he entered the law school of the University of Virginia. Involved in a duel, he left before graduation, and moved to St. Louis,...
Lawyers; Municipal officials; Legislators; Judges; Portraits
William Pollitt McClain was born in 1849 in Henderson, Kentucky. He attended Notre Dame College, graduating in 1869. He then attended the law department of the University of Virginia, graduating in 1872. After practicing law in Missouri, he...
Andrew McDonnell January Cochran was born in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1854. He attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1873. He then pursued his law studies at Harvard University, where he graduated LL.B. in 1877. He was...
Portrait of actor Barney Bernard wearing a suit jacket and bow tie. Bernard was born Aug 17, 1877 in Rochester, New York, and died March 21, 1924 in New York City. He appeared in four productions at Macauley's Theatre between 1909 and 1923. His...
Three-quarter length portrait of performer Kate Claxton wearing a long white dress with bustle and pearl necklace and bracelet. Born circa 1848 in Somerville, New Jersey, Claxton starred in eleven productions at Macauley's Theatre between January...
Oval-shaped portrait of Eliza Weathersby's face. She appears to be in costume. Her hair is piled atop her head, and she wears a veiled headdress. The actress, who died in 1887, was married to actor Nat C. Goodwin (1857-1919). She performed in six...
