Heat pipes; Solar heating--Passive systems; Solar heating--Research; Solar energy--Research
The one dimensional heat transfer, thermal diode effect of heat pipes makes
them ideal for passive solar applications. Gains in a heat pipe passive solar wall are not
lost during cloud cover or periods of low irradiation. An experimental model was...
Hotels; Olympian Springs Hotel (Olympian Springs, Ky.); Health resorts
Large frame structure with wide dirt road in foreground. Horse drawn vehicles are visible in the foreground, and there is a wooden fence between the road and the structure. Olympian Springs was a resort located near Owingsville, Kentucky, and...
River or creek running beneath a stone arch bridge with a mountain in the distance. Sand Springs, which was renamed Greylock Hall, was a hotel or resort at the site of mineral springs. Handwritten title: Grey lock [ ] from Adams. Text on left:...
Small open-style building presumably situated over a sulpho-saline spring in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Two men stand on the porch of the front portion of the building, which resembles a gazebo. There is a red brick building in the background on...
Streets; Automobiles; Hotels; Post offices; Mountains; Antlers Hotel (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with several buildings, large and small. There is an automobile in the road, running near street car tracks. People are also seen along the street. The Antlers Hotel is at the end of the street and Pikes Peak...
Rolling hills with numerous trees and sections of cleared land surround the Cumberland River in Mill Springs, Kentucky. A note on the back of the photograph indicates this location as being the scene of the Battle of Mill Springs during the Civil...
Portraits; Group portraits; Families; Men; Women; Children; Boys; Girls; Government officials; Governors
Governor Albert B. "Happy" Chandler with his wife, Mildred Watkins Chandler, and their children, Marcella, Mildred, and Albert B. Chandler, Jr. of Versailles, Kentucky, standing outside and wearing summer clothing. Chandler served as...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Veterans
Outwood Veterans Hospital under construction in Dawson Springs, Kentucky, 1922. Caption on back: "Main infirmary, war veterans hospital, Dawson Springs, Ky. 1922." A long, light two story building with rows of windows; the first floor...
Four women on a small rope-style footbridge bridge strung across a river. Two of the women are sitting down and two are standing. They all wear long skirts. Drennon Springs was a popular spa site in the 19th centuries, as a result of the salt...
New Elms Hotel in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, a wide, multi-story stone building. The ground level is open, but it is not apparent if it is used as carriage-house or garage space. There is a horse-drawn vehicle standing near the front of the...
Banks; First National Bank (Excelsior Springs, Mo.)
First National Bank, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Red-brick two-story commercial building with plate glass windows. A "five and dime" store occupies the space next to the bank. A man stands in front of the bank near the side walk....
Hospitals; Trees; Saint Francis Hospital (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Saint Francis Hospital complex in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with surrounding lawn and trees. St. Francis Hospital was founded in 1887. Message on verso dated 1953. Title supplied by cataloger.
Mountains; Rivers; Bridges; Landscape photographs; Hotels; Hotel Colorado (Glenwood Springs, Colo.)
Colorado River winding past a town (presumably Glenwood Springs) with mountains in the background. The river is spanned by two bridges. There is one large building on the right bank that may be the Colorado Hotel. Postmarked 1944 on verso....
Hotels; Covered walks; Lawns; Trees; Cloyd Hotel (Red Boiling Springs, Tenn.)
Cloyd Hotel in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee. The two-story red brick building has a portico. It has a lawn, in the foreground, and there are many trees near the building. Text printed on verso reads, "Here at an elevation of 1400 feet, one...
A hotel in Cerulean Springs, consisting of a three-story main building with porches on each story and dormer windows on the top floor, and a long two-story building with porches on both stories and benches on the first-story porch. Two men sit on...
Several women in long dresses and hats, one with a parasol, and several children sit on a rocky wooded hillside, presumably at the mineral springs in Cerulean Springs.
Women; Children; Rock formations; Leisure; Bridges
Several women in long dresses and hats, one with a parasol, and several children stand on or by a small footbridge connecting two rocky ledges in the woods. This group is apparently visiting the mineral springs in Cerulean Springs.
A group of people and a couple of dogs on the bank of a stream. Two women are fishing in the foreground and several others are fishing further downstream. This group is apparently visiting the mineral springs in Cerulean Springs.
Portraits; Group portraits; Men; Women; Government officials; Governors
Albert B. "Happy" Chandler of Versailles, Kentucky, Governor-elect of Kentucky, seated outdoors with his wife, Mildred Watkins Chandler (center), and Charlotte O. (Mrs. John L.) Woodbury, of Louisville, Kentucky. Photograph has a couple...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Veterans
Administration Building, Outwood Veterans Hospital in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. Light, two story building with four tall pillars supporting a central portico. There is a small, windowed, octagonal shelter on top of the building. There are window...
