Kentucky--Governor (1859-1862 : Magoffin); Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
This thesis seeks to understand Beriah Magoffin as Governor of Kentucky. Adding to the work begun by Michael T. Dues and Lowell H. Harrison during the 1960s and 1970s, this thesis fleshes out a man little studied in history. It addresses several...
Portrait of Bishop H.P. Almon Abbott wearing clerical robes with a cross around his neck and ring on his left hand. Top right of picture is flawed. Handwritten on image back of image: Associated press photo from New York. Bishop of Lexington,...
Peter B. Muir was born in Nelson County, Kentucky, in 1822. He was orphaned at an early age and raised by his paternal grandfather, Dr. William Muir. After an early education in the country schools of Nelson county, he attended Hanover College....
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Government officials; Postmasters
Portrait of G. Carney Cross of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a jacket and tie. There is damage and discoloration on background of photograph. Handwritten on front of image: (credit) Cusick (Louisville studio). Handwritten on back: Postmaster of...
A group of young girls wearing hoop skirts, petticoats, and bonnets poses beneath a historical marker reading "Johnston Birthplace / Near here on February 3, 1803, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate leader, was born. He resigned from...
A group of young girls wearing hoop skirts, petticoats, and bonnets poses beneath a historical marker reading "Johnston Birthplace / Near here on February 3, 1803, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate leader, was born. He resigned from...
Born in 1790 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, George Robertson attended Transylvania University until 1806 and was admitted to the bar in 1809. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1817 to 1821 and in Kentucky's legislature from 1822 to 1827, in 1848, and...
Horatio W. Bruce was born in 1830 in Lewis County, Kentucky. He attended school in Lewis County and in Manchester, Ohio, and worked as a salesman and bookkeeper at a general store in Vanceburg, Kentucky. In 1850, he went to Flemingsburg, Kentucky,...
Lawyers; Municipal officials; Legislators; Judges; Portraits
William Pollitt McClain was born in 1849 in Henderson, Kentucky. He attended Notre Dame College, graduating in 1869. He then attended the law department of the University of Virginia, graduating in 1872. After practicing law in Missouri, he...
Landaff W. Andrews was born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. In 1826, he graduated from Transylvania University and was admitted to Fleming County bar, where he served as county attorney from 1829 to 1839. He served in the Kentucky House of...
Children playing with a kitten at McMurray's cabin. Neil McMurray is standing; Howard McMurray is on the floor. H. L. McMurray was a Baptist preacher and co-founder of Mamre Baptist College, which became Oneida Baptist Institute. He taught at the...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate; Generals--Confederate States of America; Generals; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Portrait of Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891). When Johnston's native state of Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, Johnston resigned his commission as a brigadier general in the regular army, the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to do so....
Mounted police; Police; Law enforcement officers; Horses
Two uniformed Louisville policemen on horseback. Handwritten on back of image: "'Coon Dog' Hendron on left; Joe Brummet." Handwritten on bottom of mounted print (Image number P_03151): "University of Louisville Trustees; Officers Wm...
"Duchamp's most outrageous Ready-Made was a urinal that he submitted as a sculpture to a New York exhibition mounted by the Society of Independent Artists in 1917. He turned it upside down, signed it 'R. Mutt' and called it a Fountain. The...
