Jamestown Settlement--History; Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century; Leadership--History; Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
English experience gained from colonization attempts in the New World and in Ireland, as well as military expeditions to the European continent and the New World, helped make Jamestown more successful than any previous English colonial venture in...
Women on television; Animated television programs--Social aspects; Women in popular culture
Utilizing the criteria for unruly women established by Kathleen Rowe, this work engages with current television scholarship on animated sitcoms in order to come to an understanding of how unruliness as a category of behavior and embodiment is...
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...
From Hierakonpolis, Egypt. "In Predynastic times, Egypt was divided geographically and politically into Upper Egypt (the southern, upstream part of the Nile Valley), a narrow tract of grassland that encouraged hunting, and Lower (northern)...
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
To gain a true appreciation of the works of any author, we must first be familiar with his race, his environment, and the period in which and of which he wrote. The Paris of the early seventeenth century was far different from the modern metropolis...
A careful perusal of Shakespeare’s works leads to one outstanding conclusion. Shakespeare was preeminently interested in words, as such. His every play shows a painstaking attention to words in their various shades of meaning. It is our interest...
Portrait of Dr. Bernard S. King of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a jacket and tie. The photograph is creased, missing a corner, silvering, and marred with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: Dr. B.S. King, 207 Gutherie -Coke Building,...
Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville (Ky.); Medical students; Teachers
Hospital College of Medicine 1890 - Composite photograph for the Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students in the medical school class of 1890. Oval-shaped cluster of individual oval-shaped portraits...
University of Louisville. Medical Dept.; Medical students; Teachers; University of Louisville--Students; University of Louisville--Faculty
Medical University of Louisville 1885 - 1886 - Composite photograph for the Medical University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students for the medical school class of 1885-1886. Rows of individual oval-shaped...
University of Louisville. Medical Dept.; Medical students; Teachers
University of Louisville medical department 1891 - 1892 - Composite photograph of faculty and graduating students for the medical school class of 1891 - 1892 from the University of Louisville school of medicine in Louisville, Kentucky. Rows of...
"This mosaic decorated the bottom of a shallow pool […]. The hole at its center belonged to a water jet. […] Its border consists of a band of twisted ribbon between plain bands. The emblema shows one of the popular episodes related to the...
Oval-shaped portrait of performer W. H. Crompton wearing a three-piece suit with white bow tie and eyeglasses attached to a buttonhole. Crompton starred in "Lady Rose's Daughter" at Macauley's Theatre in October 1903, and played with...
Full-length character portrait of performer, writer, and director Wright Lorimer in costume for the role of David in "The Shepherd King," which he also co-wrote. He is seated on a rock, wearing a fur pelt and lace-up sandals and holding a...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Rufus King (1814-1876), a newspaper editor, educator, U.S. diplomat, and a Union brigadier general in the United States Civil War. He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Minister to the Papal States in 1861. While on his way...
Zion Baptist Church (Louisville, Ky.); Crowds; Churches;
Mourners gather in front of Zion Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, waiting to board a bus to Atlanta for the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. Many people have suitcases; several are sitting on them. King's younger brother, A.D. King, was...
1) Pyramid of Menkaure, 2) Pyramid of Khafre, 3) Mortuary temple of Khafre, 4) Causeway, 5) Great Sphinx, 6) Valley temple of Khafre, 7) Pyramid of Khufu, 8) Pyramids of the royal family and mastabas of nobles; "From the remains surrounding...
From Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV. "The seated statue of Khafre is one of a series of similar statues carved for the pharaoh's valley temple near the Great Sphinx. The stone is diorite, an exceptionally hard dark stone brought some 400 miles down...
African Americans--Education (Elementary); African Americans--Education (Higher); National Training School for Women and Girls (Washington, D.C.); Fisk University; Howard University; African Americans; Race relations; Civil rights; African...
Oral history interview conducted with Ruth Bryant on July 24, 1977 by Kenneth L. Chumbley. Mrs. Bryant, a community activist, primarily discusses her involvement in community organizing and political activism during the 1960’s in Louisville. ...
