This dissertation examines popular periodicals in the late 19th- and early 20th-century America as pivotal artifacts in the history of literacy education. It first reviews current histories of literacy, writing instruction, and magazines at the...
Medical education; Medical students; Kentucky School of Medicine
Catalog for the Kentucky School of Medicine for 1881-1882. Includes list of board of regents and faculty, program information, medical class 1880, graduation details, and advertisements. Printed on cover: Twenty-Fifth Annual Announcement of the...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Theatrical posters; Actors; Men
Lithograph advertising the appearances of Mrs. and Mrs. Frank S. Chanfrau at Macauley's Theatre in November 1880. It features a portrait of Frank S. Chanfrau wearing a mustache, suit jacket, and black bow tie. Chanfrau performed his "Kit, The...
Full-length character portrait of actor Harry Standish in the role of "Edward, a Sergeant of Police" in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "The Pirates of Penzance," which was performed at Macauley's Theatre by the D'Oyly Carte...
Portrait of a young man wearing a suit jacket and tie with horseshoe-shaped pin. "The Two Orphans," starring Kate Claxton and Charles A. Stevenson, was playing at Macauley's Theatre on March 18-20, 1880, but there is no indication that...
The first effective impulse to a systematic investigation of the chemistry of food was given by Liebig some fifty years ago. The earliest quantitative analyses of food materials which we have found are those of potatoes reported by George Pearson...
William LeRoy Dulaney was born in York, Ill., in 1838. He attended Centre College, graduating in1857. He read law under Judge W.V. Loving and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He served as city attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1860 but joined...
Full-length character drawing of red-haired performer, producer, and arranger Joseph Jefferson III, in costume for his famous role as "Rip Van Winkle." He is seated on a table, wearing a hat, jacket, striped tie, knickers, and spats, and...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Entertainers; Men
Color lithograph of Col. Jack H. (Christopher) Haverly wearing a full mustache, suit jacket, and tie. Born June 30, 1837 in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, J. H. Haverly led a series of minstrel and operetta troupes, which performed at Macauley's...
Autographed character portrait of performer, producer, and arranger Joseph Jefferson III as Rip Van Winkle, with long white hair and beard. Jefferson was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died April 23, 1905 in Palm Beach, Florida....
Oval-shaped portrait of performer William Davidge wearing a fedora, suit jacket, and tie with stickpin. Autograph on mount, lower right: Wm. Davidge. Inscription on mount verso, upper center: J. Macauley Esq. with kind regards of Wm. Davidge (?)...
Three-quarter length character portrait of Harry Brown standing between two wooden chairs, wearing a suit jacket and cravat, with a trench coat hanging off the back of one of the chairs. Inscription on mount, lower center: Harry Brown, 1880 to John...
Portrait of performer Laura Joyce in three-quarter profile, wearing a dress with buttons, ruffles, and lace at the bodice. Laura Joyce (later known as Laura Joyce Bell) starred in productions of "The Tar and the Tartar" (March 1892) and...
Character portrait of actress Ada Rehan wearing a bonnet with ostrich plumes and a high-necked blouse. Born Bridget Crehan, in Limerick, Ireland, on April 22, 1857, she died in New York City on January 8, 1916. Her first appearance at Macauley's...
Bill Dahlen or William Frederick Dahlen (1870-1950) also known as Bad Bill. Color portrait of Bill Dahlen. A 'B' is in the top left corner and 'Superbas' is in the top right. The team is the Brooklyn Superbas. Verso: William Dahlen.'Bill' Dahlen,...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; African American universities and colleges; Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.)--Buildings
Simmons University, Seventh and Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930. Two three-story buildings with chimneys, behind a low wall of concrete topped by a small iron fence. The college was founded in the 1870s to provide a college education...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ROB'T. E. LEE (Way #4778), a side-wheel packet with wood hull (315 ft. x 48.5 ft. x 10.5 ft. (305,48,10?)), was built at Howard in 1876. Owned by Capt. John W. Cannon, ROB'T. E. LEE (Way #4778) operated on the Mississippi River between New Orleans...
Picture of a mounted photograph of the starboard side and bow of ROB'T E. LEE at the bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. ROB'T. E. LEE (Way #4778), a side-wheel packet with wood hull (315 ft. x...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Starboard side of CITY OF PROVIDENCE on the Ohio River. CITY OF PROVIDENCE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (273.7 ft. x 44.5 ft. x 7.8 ft.), was built in 1880 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Owned by Anchor...
