Military nursing--History; World War, 1914-1918--Women; World War, 1914-1918--Medical care; Women and war--History--20th century
World War I resulted in the deaths of over 8,500,000
military personnel and in addition, millions of civilians.
There were not enough doctors to provide the necessary
medical care for the masses of seriously sick and wounded,
and other than in...
Slavery and the church--Kentucky--Louisville; Slavery--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville (Ky.)--Church history
In the one hundred and forty years of Louisville's existence, it has grown from a log cabin settlement with no churches to a city with 269 churches and church property valued at over $30,000,000. It is impossible to measure the moral and religious...
Lieutenant William C. Dabney of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a double-breasted suit. He is missing a finger on his right hand. Photograph has been cut so that only he is present, and the background is discolored. Handwritten on back of image:...
A young man holds a lamb up on a rail fence as a woman standing on the other side wraps the lamb's foot with a bandage. Another Kate Matthews photograph with this same woman carrying the lamb was published in 1897 with the title "Bringing Home...
Men; Women; Children; Animals; Textbooks; Wagon trains; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Medical aspects of war; Soldiers; Uniforms; Battlefields; Jack-o-lanterns; Zoo animals; Intoxication
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: man behind tree watches owl perched on boat; title page for Morton & Griswold's "Western Farmer's Almanac 1870" (with scenes of wagon train, implying westward migration, and of a group of...
Soldiers; Men; Women; Discovery & exploration; Animals; Dairy farming; Uniforms; War casualties; Indians of North America
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: centurion on horseback, holding sword and spear - signed "Hartwell"; man with rifle holding map of South America; woman holds pail on head while another woman milks cow; uniformed...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the boy in tree frightened by snake, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: boy,...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Manning Ferguson Force (1824-1899), a lawyer, judge, and soldier from Ohio. He became known as the commander of the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army during the United States Civil War, and was a recipient of the Army Medal...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Richard Sherwood Satterlee (1798-1880), who was assigned to duty in New York City as attending surgeon and Medical Purveyor for the Union Army during the United States Civil War (brevet brigadier general). Removal of the wounded from...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Henry A. Barnum (1833-1892), a Union brigadier general (brevet major general) in the United States Civil War and recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. His citation read: "Although...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of Joseph King Fenno Mansfield (1803-1862), a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union major general in the United States Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
Wreckage of a train accident, possibly from a bridge. Railroad cars lie in the water and off a bridge at various angles. Men stand around the train cars. Descriptive information on back of card: Views of the Tariffville Disaster. January 14, 1878....
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.,...
Milburn house on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo; a brown brick house with green trim. A police officer stands on the sidewalk at the end of the walkway to the house. Text printed on verso reads, "On Sept. 5, 1901, President McKinley visited the...
“Gladiatorial scenes from the Zliten mosaic. The upper scene shows, on the far left, a retiarius wearing a shoulder shield (galerus) and arm guard (manica). He has been disarmed and wounded by a secutor and is holding up a finger in a plea for...
