For persons with disabilities, access to transportation is necessary for integration into society. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been instrumental in assuring transportation access to individuals with disabilities for purposes of...
African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Race relations; Public relations; Discrimination in housing; Housing; African American legislators; Insurance agents; Women legislators; African American legislators; Kentucky--Politics and...
Oral history interview conducted with legislator Mae Street Kidd on October 10, November 11, and December 5, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. Ms. Kidd discusses her life, including her childhood growing up in Bourbon County. Kidd attended the Lincoln...
A worker sits on a seat for telephone installers. The seat is wood and has rollers at the top. He is holding on to a rope used to pull himself along the phone line.
Assemblage of bicycle saddle and handlebars. "Picasso's witty 1943 assemblage entitled Bull's Head is a remarkable example of his genius for synthesis. He has fused the ancient motif of the bull and the traditional medium of bronze with modern...
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...
Three women sit in a two-door car with a rumble seat, possibly a Model A Ford. The license plate hanging from the grille indicates Jefferson County, Kentucky. The convertible top is pulled back but the women are bundled up in coats and hats....
Portrait of young woman reclining with a book in a window seat. Her hair is in ringlets (tied back in a bow), and she wears a short-sleeve dress with white collar and embroidered hem. Although the handwritten annotation reads "Peg Ryan,"...
Several passengers ride a trolley in Louisville, Kentucky. The doors are open as a man wearing a white banded hat steps off. A young woman wearing a sleeveless top sits near the front. An African American woman and teenage boy also sit near the...
Boys; Classrooms; Wood; Carpentry; Hammers; Saws; Hand tools; People
Address: 114 W. Gray, Louisville, Kentucky. Five boys do woodworking projects in a classroom. Most of them wear wool coats with buttoned-up shirts and ties. Each works with tools to make wood boxes. The tools in the room include hammers, hand saws,...
Wooden benches line the walls of the Shibboleth Lodge. A waist-high wooden stand is at the center of the room opposite a large wooden seat set atop a small dais. Stairs lead up to a balcony above the dais where a few seats and an organ are. Other...
Students; Teachers; Classrooms; Schools; People; Health
Children in hooded robes sit at desks reading from books. The wood and iron desks are fashioned so that the seat of one desk is attached to the desk behind it. A woman in black observes the children. In between and behind the desks are a bunch of...
Three women sit in a convertible Model A Ford. The roof is up and two of the women sit in a rumble seat of the two-door car. The spare tire is attached to the rear of the car. A fourth woman is standing by the edge of a creek which flows under a...
Transportation; Street railroads; Automobiles; Streets; Stores & shops
Address: Market and Sixth Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Two trolleys approach the intersection of Market and Sixth Streets. Numerous cars are parked and are driving along the road, including one in which two passengers are riding in a rumble seat....
Piles of scrap are shown within a chain-link fence. The debris includes lumber, metal and what might be seat cushions. Considering the date the photograph was taken, this is likely the result of the 1937 flood.
Two men in hats and a woman with a parasol sit in a rowboat at the edge of a river. The man in center is sitting on a raised seat. Right behind the rowboat is a conical boulder. The shallows and shore are rocky. Beyond the rocks the area is...
The Monroe County courthouse, at the county seat of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, is a two-story brick building with a pinnacled dome and slightly arched windows. A six board fence fronts the property and there are many bare trees in the yard.
