Cynicism--Kentucky--Louisville; Public opinion--Kentucky--Louisville; Metropolitan government--Kentucky--Louisville
The government's ability to gain and hold a high proportion of citizens' trust is essential to the functioning of an efficient and successful administration at the federal, state, and local levels. This thesis is a quantitative study aimed at...
Gardeners--Kentucky--Louisville--Social conditions; Community gardens--Kentucky--Louisville
Using four surveys, two created by this researcher, another created by Walizcek, Mattson, and Zajicek, and a fourth created by Herbach, the researcher compared the characteristics of community gardeners, their motivations for gardening, and the...
Alternatives to imprisonment--Kentucky--Jefferson County; Juvenile corrections--Kentucky--Jefferson County
Since the beginning of the juvenile justice movement in the United States over a century ago, considerable debate has persisted among policymakers and practitioners concerning the causes of juvenile offending and the appropriate responses to...
This study focuses on how the 2001 consolidation of the Louisville Division of Police (LPD) and Jefferson County Police Department (JCPD) impacted police officers' perception of fairness of the process. To accomplish this, the study asked four...
Four boys stand in front of a sign reading "Creative Art for Rowan County Children / Sponsored by Morehead Kentucky Branch of the American Association of University Women and the P.T.A. Council." Two of the boys hold another sign reading...
Jackson Jail in "bloody Breathitt County." A dark building (or dark photograph), behind a telephone pole and flanked by trees. Image from Associated Press Photo, Chicago Bureau. AP caption: "Kentucky mob invades jail to seize...
Jackson Jail in "bloody Breathitt County." A dark building (or dark photograph), behind a telephone pole and flanked by trees. Caption from Associated Press: "Jail from which mob took victim--the Breathitt County Jail at Jackson,...
Hardin County Courthouse, old Courthouse in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1932. The Hardin County Courthouse is a two-story brick building with a porch, a triangular roof that also has a small pediment, and a white clock tower above the roof. There is a...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Buildings; Health care facilities
Caroline Butler Atwood Memorial Center, a unit of the Frontier Nursing Service on Red Bird River in Clay County, Kentucky. Buildings, split rail fence, and circular road in a rural, wooded area. On back of image: "Caroline Butler Atwood...
Lyda Messer Caudill, said to be a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, is pictured sitting outside her log cabin with stone chimney in Rowan County, Kentucky. Mrs. Caudill, a teacher, was elected superintendent of Rowan County schools in 1906 and...
Lyda Messer Caudill (left, wearing a hat) poses with three men (including her father, William Messer, second from right) and a young girl outside a church at Christy Creek in Rowan County, Kentucky. The young girl may be her daughter, Leona...
William and Alameda Sparks Messer, an elderly couple wearing work clothes, stand behind a chair outside their log cabin in Rowan County, Kentucky. Mr. Messer, descended from the Stewarts of Scotland, is said to be a descendant of Mary Queen of...
William and Alameda Sparks Messer, an elderly couple wearing work clothes, stand outside a small shed in Rowan County, Kentucky. Mr. Messer, descended from the Stewarts of Scotland, is said to be a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots. Alameda Sparks...
William and Alameda Sparks Messer, an elderly couple wearing work clothes, stand outside a small shed with a saw leaning against it in Rowan County, Kentucky. Mr. Messer, descended from the Stewarts of Scotland, is said to be a descendant of Mary...
William and Alameda Sparks Messer, an elderly couple wearing work clothes, stand outside a small shed with a saw leaning against it in Rowan County, Kentucky. Mr. Messer, descended from the Stewarts of Scotland, is said to be a descendant of Mary...
Lyda Messer Caudill (left, wearing a hat) poses with two men (including her father, William Messer, at right) and a young girl outside a church at Christy Creek in Rowan County, Kentucky. The young girl may be her daughter, Leona Margaret Caudill,...
Lyda Messer Caudill, said to be a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, is pictured sitting on the porch of her log cabin in Rowan County, Kentucky. Mrs. Caudill, a teacher, was elected superintendent of Rowan County schools in 1906 and founded the...
Address: 501 Main Street, Shelbyville, Ky. Construction was completed in 1913 for this building that houses the administrative offices of county government and the District and Circuit Courts. It was built in the Beaux-Art Classicism style of...
Jefferson County Jail (Louisville, Ky.); Automobiles; Street railroad tracks; Buildings; Detention facilities; Jails
Address: 540 W. Liberty, Louisville, Kentucky. At the corner of Armory Place and Liberty Street is the Jefferson County Jail. The stone and brick building includes a raised basement plus three stories topped by two hexagonal towers with lightning...
Buildings; Detention facilities; Jails; Jefferson County Jail (Louisville, Ky.)
Jefferson County Jail, Louisville, Kentucky. Men, mostly in suits and hats, crowd the sidewalk, and men in white short sleeve shirts are behind bars upstairs.
