Loneliness--Fiction; Widowers--Fiction; Supernatural in literature
Happy Death Men is a series of excerpts from a novel of the same name. It is a work of
magical realism that follows in the footsteps of Haruki Murakami and Neil Gaiman. The
novel consists of two main storylines, one about a widower named Henry, and...
Governors; Government officials; Group portraits; Family; Houses; Dwellings; Swimming pools; Bathing suits; Summer
Albert B. "Happy" Chandler with wife Mildred Watkins Chandler and children Mimi, Ben, and Dan beside pool at rear of their home in Versailles, Kentucky. Happy Chandler was governor of Kentucky two separate terms, from 1935 to1939 and...
Portraits; Group portraits; Men; Women; Government officials
Standing outdoors, from left to right, president of the Texas division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. W.W. Turner of Webster, Texas; Kentucky Governor Happy Chandler; and author and president of the United Daughters of the...
Portraits; Men; Government officials; Presidents; Governors; Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (Ky.); Historic sites; Monuments & memorials
President Franklin D. Roosevelt looking at Kentucky Governor A.B. "Happy" Chandler at the podium. The photograph has yellow discolorations around the edges from age. Stamped on back of image: June 21, 1936. Article attached to back:...
Leaving to attend A. B. Chandler's inauguration, Louisville, Kentucky. A well dressed crowd of men and women (one in a fur coat) poses on the grass in front of a train on which "Taylor Democrats" is shown on two signs in backwards...
Chandler, Happy, 1898-1991; Inaugurations; Governors; Events; People
Leaving to attend A. B. Chandler's inauguration, Louisville, Kentucky. The Drum and Bugle Corps and a number of pedestrians in overcoats stand around on a field with cars and trucks in the background. Most of the people are facing the camera....
Democratic political leader Mickey Brennan with Maurice Garvin and Lieutenant Governor A.B. Chandler, possibly viewing the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. They are all wearing hats and suits. Photograph has been painted on to crop their images....
Soup tureen sits on a platter decorated with holly. Four lit candles glow in the corner. "Here's to a happy holiday, health and wealth for all the year" is printed on the front. "Ellen H. Clapsaddle" is written in script...
Flowers draped near an inscription: "A very happy Christmas. May Christmas fill they heart with love, they life with holy gladness: and in departing may it leave no afterthought of sadness! -- Edith H. Coghlan" Dated 1893 on verso.
Two poinsettias decorate a card bearing the greeting, "A happy joyous Christmas and a glad New Year." "C-230" printed on front. Postmarked 1921 on verso.
Green basket of blue flowers (Forget-me-nots) under a Forget-me-not decorated draped rope and the inscription "Greeting and wishes sincere for a very happy Christmas." "Forget-me-not" is printed above one of the drapes of the...
Christmas tree decorated with lit candles and a holly wreath, with the poem: May happy memories of the past / with hopes of future bliss be blent / and round the present season cast / the halo of a heart's content. Published by Raphael Tuck &...
Framed scene of boat on a small lake or pond near a house. Below the inscription, "A holy happy Easter" are four calla lilies. Printing and address information date this card to before the first World War.
University of Louisville--Presidents; College presidents; Men;
University of Louisville president John W. Taylor stands with (from left to right): Don Hill; A.B. "Happy" Chandler, Commissioner of Major League Baseball; an unidentified man; and a man believed to be U of L athletic director John...
Greeting cards; Christmas cards; Group portraits; Families; Calendars
Christmas card with halftone color photo of girl with bangs, man with mustache, and woman with hair piled atop her head. The card also features a miniature calendar, torn off to November 1910, indicating that the card probably dates to December...
Ventriloquism; Entertainers; McCarthy, Charlie (Fictitious character)
Edgar Bergen in tuxedo with Charlie McCarthy, his ventriloquist's doll, on a stool. They stand next to a man with a ventriloquist's dummy in a military uniform.
Ringing bell and fir boughs on front, with a small image of three men on camels with a guide pointing and looking at a light in the sky, presumably the Christmas star. The bell has an inscription that reads, "gloria in excelsis Deo."...
