Business logistics; Production management; Manufacturing processes; Industrial efficiency
In today's competitive business environment, companies face enormous pressure and must continuously search for ways to design new products, manufacture and distribute them in an efficient and effective fashion. After years of focusing on reduction...
Medical appointments and schedules--Data processing; Medical appointments and schedules--Mathematical models; Scheduling--Computer programs; Medical offices--Data processing
In order to allow quality healthcare to be available to more people, healthcare must be as affordable as possible. Ideally this will be done through the elimination of the waste that is built into the current healthcare system. One area that is...
Theaters--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville (Ky.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
A child is considered by some psychologists to pass through on its way to manhood the stages through which the race has passed on its way to civilization. If this is true of a single man, might it not equally be true of a community of men? Have not...
Dynamic analysis and parameter identification of a single mass elastomeric isolation system represented by Maxwell model is examined using both analytical and experimental approaches in this dissertation. Influences that the stiffness and damping...
Museum exhibits; Art--Study and teaching (Elementary); Color in art
Color is an important part of art and life, which can be utilized by the museum educator to engage visitors with the art. For the museum educator, development of appropriate programs and activities to meet the needs of their audience is a central...
Four women in a parlor with wall hangings and a piano. In the center, two women hold swords pointed to the floor. To the left, a third woman stands clutching her hands. To the right, a fourth woman stands with her arms crossed. Title: 37. An Affair...
Radio broadcasting; Jug bands; African American musicians; Pianos; Microphones; African Americans; Musicians; People
A man in a suit stands holding a WHAS microphone. Next to him is a woman seated at a piano as if ready to play. Sheet music is propped on the piano's stand and the piano keys are exposed.
Address: northeast corner of Fifth and Jefferson Streets. Completed in 1912, the Inter-Southern Insurance Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. This shot captures the building just after its completion. A sign...
This log cabin located on the Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds in Louisville, Kentucky includes a stone chimney, a porch in front, and a projecting wing in back. A split rail fence is in the foreground. Men in suits and women in dresses visit the...
Stores & shops; Window displays; Grocery stores; Oysters; People
A young woman stands in a display window preparing oysters to be fried. She wears a sign over her apron saying, "We serve the original John A. Mazzoni fried oysters." Another sign indicates "Made fresh before your eyes. Fried. 49...
Automobile service stations; Tires; Automobiles; Radios; Buildings; Transportation
Location: southwest corner of First Street and Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Goodrich Silvertown Stores is shown. The building includes an ornate tower behind which a dome and steeple from a church can be seen. The service station has a car...
Address: 418 E. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Horses harnessed to a covered cart and a truck are backed up to the loading dock of the Louisville Bedding Co. mattress factory. A man stands at the head of the horses and another is ready at the...
Neef, Joseph, 1770-1854; Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 1746-1827
In the early nineteenth century the Pestalossian system of education became very popular in Europe, and, aided by the necessity of something positive to take the place of the decayed and formalistic systems then prevalent, the movement spread...
Address: 1505 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the side of this brick building multiple signs have been painted. The most legible one is for Portland Appliances. Below it is a sign with the words "ready" and "enamel"...
Monument at left to Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, who died in office in 1850, and mausoleum at right. The monument was dedicated on September 20, 1883, in the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery on Brownsboro Road,...
Vehicles; Cruisers (Warships); United States. Navy
Launching of U.S.S. Louisville at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. The official launching was on September 1, 1930. Flags are hung on lines from mast to bow and stern and at top is a U.S. flag. Crowds line the docks. There is fog in...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ARTHUR HIDER, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (163 ft. x 30 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1898. Owned by Mississippi River Commission, the tugboat operated on the lower Mississippi River until 1935 when she was sold to A. O. Kirschner...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF HICKMAN, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (285 ft. x 44.5 ft. x 9.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1890. Owned by Anchor Line, CITY OF HICKMAN operated on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans. She sank on August 23, 1896...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF MUSKOGEE backing out from Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana on a trial run up the Ohio River. CITY OF MUSKOGEE, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (127.6 ft. x 28.5 ft. x 4.7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1908. Owned by Merchants...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
GENERAL H.L. ABBOT, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (170 ft. x 32 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1895. Owned by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the St. Louis district, GENERAL H.L. ABBOT operated on the Mississippi River. She was renamed...
