"As an African-American who is able to pass as 'white', Piper has written eloquently of the social and institutional prejudices that surface when she divulges her racially mixed identity. In a text entitled 'Flying' of 1987 she wrote: 'I am...
Schools; Buildings; Fences; Cobblestone streets; Street railroad tracks; Transportation
A cobblestone road with trolley tracks runs past the Parkland School on Southern Avenue at Thirty-sixth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. In front of the school is a wood picket fence and a flagpole flying the Stars and Stripes. The school is a...
An unidentified sternwheel packet, possibly ALMA (Way # 189), loaded with "passengers," slides off the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana.
Map of Kentucky shows mountain ranges, rivers, large creeks, counties, cities and towns plus existing and proposed canals, streets, and railroads. Counties and frame are hand colored and relief is shown by hachures. Distances between towns are...
