Leather-bound guest book dating from 1948 to 2011, featuring signatures of attendees of Louisville Orchestra premieres; Grawemeyer Composition winners; and official guests of the School of Music.
The Chautauqua movement has been called "culture under canvas" and "the university of the people." What began as a training camp for Sunday School teachers on the shores of Lake Chautauqua in western New York State in the...
Women in literature--History--19th century; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Materialism in literature; American literature--19th century--Social aspects
This dissertation examines American consumer culture and its influences on images of women created in art and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. It is divided into four substantive parts and uses the methods and theoretical approaches...
Shen, Fu, 1763-ca. 1808. Fu sheng liu ji; Shen, Fu, 1763-ca. 1808--Criticism and interpretation; Chinese literature--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912--History and criticism; Conduct of life in literature
This study endeavored to provide a new path to understand Fusheng liu
ji (Six Chapters of a Floating Life) by Shen Fu in the middle of the Qing
Dynasty (1636-1911). Shen Fu recorded his love story with his wife Chen Yun and his life as a Chinese...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 29. No. 33. but is actually Vol. 29. No. 36. This issue is four pages.
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women
Heavily retouched three-quarter length portrait of Alfa Norman, opera singer and director of the Alfa Norman English Opera Company. She wears her hair piled atop her head; a cross necklace; and a white dress with a white rose pinned to the bustle....
Federal Art Project; Art and social action; Politics in art
This thesis project exhibition brought together Works Progress Administration prints
from the University of Louisville collection, as well as the University of Kentucky Art
Museum and Murray State University. The thirty-three works were...
Full-length character portrait of actors John Howson and Marie Johnson in costume for the roles as Bunthorne and Patience in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride." Howson stands with one hand to his head and...
Group portraits; Theatrical productions; Opera houses
Group portrait of the San Carlo Opera Company, a touring company including soprano Alice Nielsen. They appear onstage in New Orleans during Act II of "Carmen," in 1906. Their first appearance at Macauley's Theatre, from that 1906-1907...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Full-length character portrait of soprano Alice Nielsen standing in front of a set backdrop of a tree, wearing a long white dress and admiring a tree bough she holds before her. Nielsen was born in Nashville, Tennessee on June 7, 1876, and died...
Politicians; Political corruption; United States. Congress;
Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on May 25, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the fifth of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...
School yearbooks; Schools; Students; University of Louisville--Students; Alumni & alumnae; University of Louisville--Alumni and alumnae; Student organizations; Universities & colleges; Medical students; Law students; Dental students; Music...
A student publication of the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1959.
WHAS (Radio station : Louisville, Ky.)--History; Radio stations--Kentucky--Louisville--History; Radio broadcasting--Kentucky--Louisville--History
As the historiography on radio broadcasting continues to grow and forces
examination from the macro-level to the micro-level, station histories are becoming
increasingly important. The story of WHAS highlights the evolution of a nationally...
Jin, Ha, 1956-; Masculinity in literature; Chinese literature--20th century; Sex (Psychology) in literature
This dissertation consists of readings of three selected novels by Ha
Jin-Waiting, The Crazed, and A Free Life. These novels cover three historical
periods of Contemporary China under the rule of the Communist Party in
sequence-the Mao's era...
The process of designing the settings and lighting for a show is an adventure; it's a story that has the normal components of any good story, a beginning, middle and end. There is tension, conflict, climax and resolution. It contains characters who...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 32. No. 41. but is actually Vol. 32. No. 45.
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Full-length character portrait of Hanna Mara costumed for the role of "Kundry" in Wagner's opera "Parisfal" (adapted and produced in English by Henry W. Savage, and performed by Henry W. Savage's Opera Company at Macauley's...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes
Character portrait of left profile of soprano Geraldine Farrar in costume for the role of Gilda in the Verdi opera "Rigoletto," which the Metropolitan Opera Company, of which she was a member, performed at Macauley's Theatre in April...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women
Three-quarter length photogravure portrait of famous opera singer Fritzi Scheff wearing a hat, cape, and muff. Born August 30, 1879 in Vienna, Austria, Scheff gave a command performance for Queen Victoria in 1900 (at age 21), and was decorated. She...
