A man wearing an overcoat and hat stands next to Jean Thomas, wearing a fur coat and tam, in the snowy yard of her 'Wee House in the Wood' home in Ashland, Kentucky. He has been identified as Herbert Willis here, and elsewhere as Hubert Willis.
A man wearing an overcoat and hat stands next to Jean Thomas, wearing a fur coat and tam, in the snowy yard of her 'Wee House in the Wood' home in Ashland, Kentucky. He has been identified as Herbert Willis here, and elsewhere as Hubert Willis.
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of W.C. Willis of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing dark-framed glasses and a hard collar. The photograph has been painted on outlining his image, and is damaged along the edges and discolored from age. Handwritten on front of image: (credit)...
Jean Thomas (left) stands in the yard of her "Wee House in the Wood" in Ashland, Kentucky, with Herbert (or Hubert) Willis, and a woman wearing a coat with a fur collar, who may be his sister, Mrs. Willis-Wilson. Title supplied by...
African American journalists; African American politicians; African American newspapers; African Americans; Politics & government; Politicians; Race relations; Democratic Party (Ky.); Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co. (Louisville, Ky.);...
Interview with William J. Ealy, Louisville newspaperman and political activist. This interview was conducted on August 5 and 22, 1977 by Dwayne Cox of the University of Louisville Oral History Center. Mr. Ealy discusses his early life and education...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African American newspapers; Louisville Leader (Ky.); Kentucky Reporter (Louisville, Ky.); Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co....
Oral history interview with Lattimore Cole conducted on November 26, 1977 by Dwayne Cox. In this interview, Mr. Cole discusses his early education in Louisville, working for his father’s newspaper the Louisville Leader and describes what it was...
Louisville Medical College; Medical students; Teachers
Louisville Medical College 1891 - 1892. Composite photograph for Louisville Medical College in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and part of the graduating students in the medical school class of 1891-1892. Horseshoe-shaped grouping of individual...
Louisville Medical College; Medical students; Teachers
Louisville Medical College 1893 - 1894. Composite photograph for the Louisville Medical College in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students for the medical school class of 1893-1894. Oval-shaped cluster of individual oval-shaped...
Kentucky School of Medicine; Medical students; Teachers
Kentucky School of Medicine 1904 - Composite photograph for the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students for the medical school class of 1904. Rows of individual oval-shaped portraits of students with...
Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville (Ky.); Medical students; Teachers
Faculty and Graduating Class. Hospital College of Medicine, 1897. Composite photograph for the Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students in the medical school class of 1897. Rows of individual...
Louisville College of Dentistry; Dental students; Teachers
Louisville College of Dentistry 1898 - Composite photograph of dental school faculty and students at Louisville College of Dentistry, 1898. Individual portraits of men in suits. Most of the portraits are rectangular, except for the oval cluster in...
Louisville Medical College; Medical students; Teachers
Louisville Medical College 1904 - Composite photograph for the Louisville Medical College in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students for the medical school class of 1904. Rows of individual oval-shaped portraits of students with...
Willis Overton Harris was born in 1847 in Powhatan County, Virginia. He entered Virginia Military Institute in 1863 and fought in the Civil War with VMI cadet corps until wars end, receiving an honorary degree in 1867. He attended University of...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. The first page of this issue is very faded.
