Six sigma (Quality control standard); Manufacturing processes--Quality control--Statistical methods
The objective of this thesis was to apply what was learned from Six Sigma while working for General Electric, towards real applications to improve processes. Two manufacturing problems were targeted. One of the issues dealt with variation, in an...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; New York Giants (Baseball team)
Otis Crandall or James Otis Crandall (1887-1931) also known as Doc. Color portrait of Otis Crandall. An 'NY' is in the top left corner and 'Giants' is in the top right. The team is the New York Giants. Verso: Otis Crandall. Otis Crandall, the...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Chicago Cubs (Baseball team)
Rube Kroh or Floyd Myron Kroh (1886-1944). Color portrait of Floyd Kroh. A bear is in the top left corner and 'Cubs' is in the top right corner. The team is the Chicago Cubs. Verso: Floyd M. Kroh. Floyd Kroh, the southpaw pitcher whom the...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; New York Giants (Baseball team)
Christy Mathewson or Christopher Mathewson (1880-1925) also known as Big Six, Matty, and the Christian Gentleman. Color portrait of Christy Mathewson. An 'NY' is in the top left corner and 'Giants' is in the top right. The team is the New York...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Tris Speaker or Tristam E. Speaker (1888-1958) also known as the Grey Eagle and Spoke. Color portrait of Tris Speaker with the Boston Red Sox. A 'B' is in the top left corner and 'Red Sox' is in the top right. Verso: Tris Speaker. Tris Speaker, the...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Chicago Cubs (Baseball team)
Joe Tinker or Joseph Bert Tinker (1880-1948). Color portrait of Joe Tinker with the Chicago Cubs. A bear is in in the top left corner and 'Cubs' is in the top right. Verso: Joseph B. Tinker. 'Joe' Tinker, the brilliant Chicago shortstop, has a...
Kirby White or Oliver Kirby White (1884-1943) also known as Red and Buck. With the Pittsburg Pirates or Pittsburgh Pirates. Verso: Kirb White. Kirb White, the big right handed pitcher of the Pittsburg Nationals, was born in Ohio, and made his entry...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; New York Giants (Baseball team)
Hooks Wiltse or George Leroy Wiltse (1879-1959). Color portrait of Hooks Wiltse with the New York Giants. An 'NY' is in the top left corner and 'Giants' is in the top right. Verso: George Wiltse. George Wiltse, the Giants' tall side-wheeler, has...
Teachers; Students; Children; Women; Classrooms; Schools; Blackboards; Flags--United States; People
A teacher shakes hands with a young boy while a young girl stands with her arm around the teacher's waist. The teacher wears a dark dress with a frilled collar and has a whistle on a string around her neck. The young girl wears a dark hat and a...
Unidentified Louisville Colonels hitter about to hit a pitch at Parkway Field, Louisville, Kentucky, 1942. Another baseball player is standing at rest in background. A farm team for the Boston Red Sox at this time, the Colonels played in the...
Laborers; Quarrying; Rocks; United States. Works Progress Administration
Loading rock at Wolfe County, Kentucky. Seven young men in overalls or jeans and white shirts surround a wheelbarrow and bend to hit rocks with mallets. The rocks are fist sized and light in color. The men are surrounded by a wall of dark boulders.
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
SHILOH, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (150 ft. x 28 ft. x 4 ft.), was built at Howard in 1902. Owned by St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., she operated primarily in the Savannah and Danville area. SHILOH hit a levee and sank at...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat engines; Launchings; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
SENATOR CORDILL, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (170 ft. x 33 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1902. Owned by Vicksburg & Natchez Packet Co., SENATOR CORDILL operated on the Mississippi River in the Vicksburg and Natchez areas...
People gather to observe damage to the Fitch home, a two story frame house, after it was hit by a tornado on March 27, 1890. The roof and parts of the chimney and walls are gone.
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Stern and starboard side of KATIE, tied to the bank of a river. KATIE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (284 ft. x 43 ft. x 8.7 ft.), was built in 1871 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. KATIE operated on the lower...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF SALTILLO, a sternwheel packet with wood hull (200 ft. x 37 ft. x 6.6 ft.), was built in 1905 at Howard Ship Yard and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Owned by St Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., she operated on the...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ORA LEE, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (140 ft. x 32 ft. x 4.4 ft.), was built at Howard in 1891 for the Lee Line in Memphis, Tennessee and she operated in that area initially. She was later sold to White River and renamed ORLANDO (#4330)....
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ROBERTA, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (138 ft. x 28 ft. x 4.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1903. Owned by Monroe Navigation Co., ROBERTA operated on the lower Mississippi River, hauling cotton from the Ouachita River to New Orleans. She hit...
On the morning of August 4, 2009, record-breaking rains fell in central Louisville and surrounding counties between 7 am and 10 am EDT, with reported hourly rainfall rates as high as 8.83 inches. The Louisville Free Public Library's main branch and...
Stoves; Porches; Country life; Girls; Crying; Pain
A crying girl stands next to a hot stove sitting on a large stone on a cabin porch. She may have found the kettle or stove too hot, or she may have hit her hand. Title supplied by cataloger.
