Thirty smokers were solicited from the Wichita, Kansas community via the newspaper and broadcast media for a stop-smoking project. The volunteers were assigned to one of two treatments: double smoking or a modification of Von Dedenroth's (1964)...
The hurried aspects of daily living exhaust me. Speed is the operative word. Apparently everyone wants more of it. Not me. While I value the innovations that speed up my onerous tasks, in my artwork I am attracted to its opposite--repose. I try to...
Surface active agents; Rendering industry--Waste disposal; Air filters
Meat is a major component of the diet of an American. However, humans do not consume one-third to one-half of each animal raised for their needs. The leftover materials are subjected to processing in the meat rendering industry. The rendering...
Undertakers and undertaking; Business people; African American businesspeople; Politicians; African American politicians; Discrimination in public accommodations; Segregation--Law and legislation; Discrimination in employment; African...
Oral history interview with Goldie Winstead Beckett, conducted on September 12, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. In this interview, Mrs. Beckett discusses her life as well as her husband’s experiences as alderman in the city of Louisville in the late 1940s...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Red Kleinow or John Peter Kleinow (1877-1929). Color portrait of Red Kleinow framed by two baseball bats. A 'B' is in the top left corner and 'Red Sox' is in the top right. The team is the Boston Red Sox. Verso: John Kleinow. 'Jack' Kleinow, the...
Women; Boys; Dwellings; Houses; Stone buildings; Hitching posts; Windmills; Dirt roads; Religious communities; Shakers; Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Ky., Inc.
Several women wearing dark dresses and white bonnets stand in the front yard of a large white stone house. Another woman stands on a stone platform at the gate of a picket fence that apparently runs the length of a row of houses. A boy stands on...
Five men, a woman, and a girl, wearing headbands and fur-lined shawls, and a dog (held by the woman) stand in a row near a cement wall with high windows, while a white man in a top hat sits behind them, apparently on steps. The group are...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indigenous peoples; East Indians; Tibetans; Clothing & dress; Headdresses; Elephants
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, fifteen Tibetan and North Indian men stand in a row in front of two elephants and an archway to a temple, with two other men (one apparently Caucasian and wearing a cap and jacket; the other wearing a...
A group of men in hats standing in front of the courthouse with clock tower in Winchester, Kentucky. There are large posters or signs leaning against the front of the building that say "Walk-Over" across the top with a picture of a...
Sketch of champion harness racer Prince Wilkes, with the horse racing and pulling a jockey in a sulky, or two-wheeled cart. "D. W. Smith, 1887" is written in the left corner, and "2.14 3/4" and "Prince Wilkes" in the...
Two men stand in the side yard of a stone house apparently built in 1790 in Mercer County, Kentucky. The house has shuttered windows and a small front porch.
Women; Children; Rock formations; Leisure; Bridges
Several women in long dresses and hats, one with a parasol, and several children stand on or by a small footbridge connecting two rocky ledges in the woods. This group is apparently visiting the mineral springs in Cerulean Springs.
A group of people and a couple of dogs on the bank of a stream. Two women are fishing in the foreground and several others are fishing further downstream. This group is apparently visiting the mineral springs in Cerulean Springs.
A group of black and white men and boys stand on the banks of a stream, separated from a row of houses with picket fences by a dirt road lined with utility poles. Downstream from the group there is a small bridge and more houses. Apparently this...
In this view of J.T.S. Brown and Sons Distillery, situated in the rolling hills of Mercer County, Kentucky, men stand on the roofs of two different stories. Several chutes convey material out of the building; one apparently carries mash by-product...
Buildings; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Mechanical systems components
Address: 711 Vine Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Sign painted on side of one-story brick building reads: "Acme Wholesale Furnace Supply 711 Vine Street." Also pictured is an old weathered Acme metal sign. This business is apparently now...
Ruth Duffy, a young woman wearing a long print dress, plays accordion and Walter Friend, a young man wearing shirtsleeves, plays guitar on an outdoor path among trees and grass. They are apparently students at Kentucky Christian College (now...
Ruth Duffy, a young woman wearing a long print dress, plays accordion and Walter Friend, a young man wearing shirtsleeves, plays guitar on an outdoor path among trees and grass. They are apparently students at Kentucky Christian College (now...
