Kentucky--History--1792-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes
During the secession winter of 1860-61 the Commonwealth of Kentucky found itself caught in the middle of the great sectional controversy. With the Union's fate hanging in the balance Kentucky figured as a prominent player in the outcome of that...
The thesis deals with the political career of John Marshall Harlan prior to his appointment in 1877 as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Throughout the majority of those twenty-three active years in Kentucky politics, Harlan...
This research project describes the application of a master/slave configuration of processors to study a comparison of alternative material handling configurations for automated manufacturing. Such a study usually requires a large number of...
A small brick building with overhang and wooden columns, identified as slave quarters at "The Anchorage" estate in Anchorage, Kentucky. Image is irregular shape.
Souvenir postcard folder from Savannah, Georgia. Includes a variety of images of buildings in Savannah, including Christ Church Episcopal Church, the city hall, various hotels, Central of Georgia Railway Hospital [sic], the masonic temple, and...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; African American universities and colleges; Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.)--Buildings
Simmons University, Seventh and Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930. Two three-story buildings with chimneys, behind a low wall of concrete topped by a small iron fence. The college was founded in the 1870s to provide a college education...
Portrait of man with hair parted in the middle, double-breasted suit jacket, and bow tie. Inscription on mount, lower center: "I was tempted. I fell and became a slave to the feast [?]." Brotherly yours, Chas. Anwire. 1909. Location of...
Map of Kentucky, bordered by Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and Tennessee, shows mountain ranges, rivers, large creeks, counties, major roads, cities, and towns. Counties are hand colored and relief is shown by hachures. Below the map and on the...
Fanny Craig, the real-life model for the character Allison MacIntyre in Annie Fellows Johnston's Little Colonel book series, sits in a Victorian style parlor holding a single flower. She is dressed in a long white dinner dress, and a reproduction...
An African-American woman in servant's dress and head scarf sits in a wooden chair reading a newspaper. The woman, Rebecca Porter, was born a slave in Virginia. After the war, she spent most of her life working in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Rebecca...
Brick building with a center tower and two chimneys on the ends. Three archways in the front and two, bricked-in archways on the right side. The building is surrounded by overgrown grass. Title: 7007 - John Brown's Fort, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.,...
Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Memorial works; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Bas-reliefs; Portraits; Families; Men; Women; Couples; Spouses; Fathers; Mothers; Children; Boys; Youth; Slaves; Servants; Women domestics; Working class;...
"The father (pater in the epitaph) was the libertus of Quintus Servilius (Q.L.) and took his patron’s name upon manumission (gaining freedom). His wife (uxor) was formerly a slave of a woman named Sempronia. She too assumed her patron’s...
