Grover Hatfield's son, holding rifle, plays with another boy near a pickup truck behind Hatfield's grocery store in Cannonsburg, Kentucky, June 1942. Title supplied by cataloger.
Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
In the early days of 1861, Kentucky, torn between her allegiance to the federal government and her sympathy for the South, with her citizenry so divided that hardly a family in the state stood united, vainly endeavored to carve out for herself a...
James E. "Captain Jim" Howard and George Nixon displaying the turtles they killed or captured. Nine turtles are tied to a large tree branch balanced on the shoulders of Jim and George, dressed in hunting attire and holding their shotguns.
Men; Women; Rifles; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; American Folk Song Festival; Folk festivals
Jean Thomas, wearing a long black Elizabethan dress with white ruffled collar, poses under a tree with a young woman in a linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England) and a young man holding a rifle. They are likely in costume...
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
On the cobblestone in front of the Louisville, Kentucky, Coast Guard station, five coast Guard members wearing uniforms and boots stand at attention, shouldering rifles, while their captain looks on. From left, they are: Captain Walter Farrell,...
Rifles; University of Louisville--Sports; Rifle ranges
Rifle team practices shooting from the kneeling position at the indoor range in Dougherty Hall - April, 1969. Rifle Team at the University of Louisville Getting in Some Target Practice at the Range in Dougherty Hall - April, 1970. People: John...
World War, 1914-1918--France; Soldiers; Battlefields; Military training; Rifles; Arms & armament
Soldiers from France's 139e Régiment d'Infanterie sit and stand in a field in France during World War I. Rifles are arranged next to them in a conical formation resembling a small tepee.
Soldiers from the 1st Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Infantry at a Newport News, Virginia encampment, preparing to go to Puerto Rico in summer 1898. Soldiers are lined up in double rows with rifles in firing position. The soldiers remained in...
Soldiers from the 1st Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Infantry at a Newport News, Virginia encampment, preparing to go to Puerto Rico in summer 1898. The soldiers are performing a drill while holding their rifles diagonally in front of their...
Soldiers from the 3rd Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Infantry at a Newport News, Virginia encampment. Soldiers are lined up in double rows with rifles in firing position. Small white tents are on either side of the soldiers. Several other...
Photography--Psychological aspects; Mourning customs in art; Mourning customs in literature; Phenomenology and art
The creation of liminal spaces has been used for centuries cross-culturally to create sacred or taboo meanings in rituals, people, places, or objects. Liminality is constructed by the overlapping of cultural categories and "ruptures" an...
African American women artists; Poetry--Social aspects; Music--Social aspects; Art--Social aspects;Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide when the Rainbow is enuf.; Walker, Kara Elizabeth. Gone.; India.Arie. Video.;...
The creative expressions of three black women artists--Ntozake Shange, Kara Walker, and India. Arie--are explored using optimal consciousness-an Afrocentric framework by Linda James Myers. This concept advocates that the role of the artist is to...
United States. Army--History; Federal aid to law enforcement agencies--United States; Riots--United States
The function of the army of the United States is to protect the country against all enemies foreign and domestic. Everyone is cognizant of the accomplishments of the American forces against its foreign enemies; but there is another work, of equal...
Log cabins; Interiors; Families; Ladders; Home food processing; Rifles
The interior of Harve "Cody" Burns' log cabin. Arlin "Head" Burns, at right, uses a "gritter" to grate corn. The "stair-steps," or ladder, on the right leads to the sleeping loft. The walls are lined with...
Executions and executioners--Press coverage; Mass media and public opinion; Capital punishment in popular culture; Death row inmates--Press coverage
The public's exposure to state sanctioned killings is limited to the mass media representations such as editorials, news reports, feature films, and books. Therefore it is important to examine the process of execution and its relation to the media...
This dissertation explores how presidential inaugural speeches reflect the overarching mindset of the government, and how, in the postmodern era, this mindset manifests the same sort of African American erasure that has existed since Middle...
