Women; African Americans; Students; Schools; Cookery; People
Young women at Central Colored School (908 Magazine Street, Louisville, Kentucky) take a cooking class. Each girl wears an apron over her dress and a chef's hat or towel around her hair. The tables have an array of bowls and silverware on them as...
Wounds and injuries--Treatment; Drug delivery systems
Wounds care and management is one of the most basic needs in the medical setting. Burn wounds, trauma wounds, pressure ulcers and bedsores are just some of the many types of wounds that need to be treated quickly and efficiently. Take for instance...
Military nursing--History; World War, 1914-1918--Women; World War, 1914-1918--Medical care; Women and war--History--20th century
World War I resulted in the deaths of over 8,500,000
military personnel and in addition, millions of civilians.
There were not enough doctors to provide the necessary
medical care for the masses of seriously sick and wounded,
and other than in...
Newspapers; Medical equipment & supplies; Men; Women; Body parts; Children; Maps
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: dark rectangular-shaped image (illegible); masthead for "Louisville School Messenger"; surgical instrument with pipe, hose, and two bulbs, manufactured by Codman &...
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco" ad with indistinct white-on-black image; "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco." with woman dressed in white on black background;...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: title page for "Home and School Journal of Popular Education"; portrait of man seated in chair, wearing glasses; cube, dissected by smaller cubes, with labeled endpoints; number 26; cow with...
Animals; Medical equipment & supplies; Men; Women; Waterfronts; Shipping; Steamboats; Children; Indians of North America
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: Dog holding cane in its mouth (upside-down); fish (salmon?); number 27; belted poultice, possibly for hernia (upside-down); design, possibly of interlocking letters; man rushing to greet woman, with...
Children; Writing materials; Animals; Geometry; Hats; Men; Women; Domestic life
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: boy, resting foot on stool, writing numbers on slate; cat; number 26; geometric figures of triangle, half-circle, cone, and hexagon, each circumscribed with other geometric figures; hat with short brim,...
Women and children seated in long tables, with silverware and cups at each place and vases of flowers and plates of bread in the center. Some children have already received their dinner plates, served by female workers wearing white aprons. Other...
Women; Costumes--Great Britain; American Folk Song Festival; Folk festivals
Woman wearing long black Elizabethan gown with white ruffled collars and sleeves poses in front of bush. The Ladies-in-Waiting would accompany the speaker of the historical prologue that began each American Folk Song Festival.
Woman in classical dress sitting with a scroll in her lap overlooking the water. The woman is framed by a circular border with decorative elements. The circle is contained inside a rectangular frame with a floral element in each of the four...
Twitter; Museum visitors--Services for--Technological innovations; Museums--Technological innovations; Online social networks; Museums--Marketing
With the evolution of social networks and technological innovations, services such as Twitter provide a platform for increased dialogue and participation. Micro-blogging features enable individuals and organizations to communicate directly,...
Feminism in literature; Self-perception in literature; Women in literature; Chen, Ran, 1962-; Tan, Amy
With increasing cross-cultural infiltrations and accelerated interflows among people of all nationalities in this globalized world, the focus of comparative literature has experienced a shift from traditional Eurocentric cannons to a broader space...
When observers view a naturalistic (l/f) broadband image, the various spatial components present in the image stimulate many detecting-mechanisms that suppress each other. This suppression is anisotropic, being relatively greater for mechanisms...
Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818--Criticism and interpretation; Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818. The monk
When Ambrosio in Matthew Lewis's 1796 gothic masterpiece, The Monk , signs a contract relegating his soul to Satan and eternal damnation, he has reached the culmination of 442 pages of mental anguish, of his self wrestling with his conscience to...
Utopias; Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969; Irigaray, Luce; Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
What is the idea that "utopia" names? How can discourse represent that idea? Setting aside temporarily deeper problems with the idea of representation, and focusing on how a complex philosophical discourse might approach the problem of...
Volney (or Volna) Fraley stands in the yard blowing a brass horn. Fraley participated in the American Folk Song Festival each year from 1932-1957, starting off the festival by blowing a fox horn that had belonged to William Anderson 'Devil Anse'...
Volney (or Volna) Fraley stands in the yard blowing a brass horn. Fraley participated in the American Folk Song Festival each year from 1932-1957, starting off the festival by blowing a fox horn that had belonged to William Anderson 'Devil Anse'...
Volney (or Volna) Fraley stands in the yard blowing a brass horn. Fraley participated in the American Folk Song Festival each year from 1932-1957, starting off the festival by blowing a fox horn that had belonged to William Anderson 'Devil Anse'...
Women; Costumes--Great Britain; American Folk Song Festival
Virginia Waring poses in Ladies-in-Waiting costume (long black Elizabethan gown with white ruffles at neck and sleeves) in front of a brick house, probably Jean Thomas' 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky. The Ladies-in-Waiting would...
