The following thesis examines the relationship between site geology and ground motion amplification for medium sized earthquake events in the Ohio Valley area. This thesis also includes a Rapid Screening Guide that can be used to estimate...
Government facilities; City & town halls; Buildings; Men; Children; Boys; Carts & wagons; Horses
A dark-clad crowd of almost two dozen men and three small boys gather in front of Uniontown, Kentucky's City Hall, a deep, narrow, two-story brick building which has an ornamental roof, large second floor windows, and a wood framed canopy over the...
One-story A-frame white wood church with stained glass windows and a corner steepled turret. The church is on the corner of a muddy road in Uniontown, Kentucky.
Uniontown, Kentucky during the Ohio River flood of 1898. Floodwaters cover the town and its buildings. Several people in small boats are in the floodwaters.
On the landing of a staircase which runs to the first floor of a small building, five men in suits and various hats stand in a row. Signs on the building read "Mutual Distilling Co Incorporated," "John L. Givens Distiller," and...
Long, three-story wood building with a shelter containing a railroad car attached to the front. The long, front side of the building has only one window, on the second floor. Two men stand at the edge of the window; only the edge of the man on the...
Tobacco industry; Industrial facilities; Buildings; Men
Three-story building with a brick first floor and dark wood upper floors in which tobacco is stemmed. On the front of the building is labeled "R. H. Soaper's Tobacco Factory." Richard Henderson Soaper, originally of Henderson, Kentucky,...
A dozen men, one in an apron, another with two suitcases, stand in front of a three-story building with extensive windows on the first floor and a canopy over the first floor. Between the second and third floors, "Hotel Zora" is painted.
Two-story wood building with a three-story brick building to its right. The larger building has an awning and "Uniontown-Roller Mills" painted at its top. One man stands in the doorway of the smaller building; one man stands between the...
Small, one-story building of vertical wood boards labeled "Uniontown," with a small sign saying "Postal Telegraph Office." A train (number 1748) passes along a track to the right. In between the building and track stand ten men...
Steam Ferry "New Haven" docked on the Ohio River at Uniontown. The ferry has a smokestack and water wheel, and a man leaning back in a chair on its deck.
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); African American universities and colleges; African Americans--Education (Higher); Education
Includes names of faculty and students and information about the university and its courses. The catalog also includes photos of faculty, teachers and students, minister's department, basketball team, chapel, shorthand and typewriting class,...
Dark wood building with two to five story sections and a smokestack, probably the Mutual Distillery Company, renamed the Union County Distilling Co. in 1905. The ground in front of the building is covered with patches of snow, and the sky is...
Brick church with a corner steepled turret topped by a cross and stone accents on the stained glass windows and buttresses. A low iron fence surrounds the church.
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ARTHUR HIDER, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (163 ft. x 30 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1898. Owned by Mississippi River Commission, the tugboat operated on the lower Mississippi River until 1935 when she was sold to A. O. Kirschner...
Medical education; Medical students; Louisville Medical College
Catalog for Louisville Medical College 1869-1870. Includes a list of board of trustees and faculty, program information, list of current students for 1869-1870, and a list of graduates [for 1869?]. Printed on cover: Circular Announcement of the...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. Pages seven and eight of this issue are very faded.
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. There are tears and small portions missing along the sides of each page of this issue and page seven is very faded.
