This problem originated in an attempt to make methyl glyoxal in quantity. Several methods of making methyl glyoxal are mentioned in the literature but in none of them is acetone used as a starting point. Since this seemed a new field it was decided...
African Americans; African American business enterprises; African American Business people; Drugstores; Pharmacists; African American pharmacists; Urban renewal; Service stations; Standard Oil Company; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Frank Moorman, Sr., conducted on August 17, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Moorman was a businessman in Louisville's Walnut Street area. Mr. Moorman discusses his parents and grandparents, and his early life in Owensboro,...
African Americans; African American singers; African American musicians; Nightclubs--Kentucky--Louisville; Singers; Musicians
Oral history interview with Robert Key, conducted October 25, 1977 by Robert Friedman. Mr. Key was a musician. He was born in Louisville but really launched his career in Chicago before touring as a singer. In this interview, he discusses his...
Algebra--Study and teaching; Academic achievement; Teachers--Attitudes
The purpose of this study was to investigate various secondary to postsecondary mathematics transition issues for students. Making successful transitions from high school to postsecondary study has become necessary if our nation's young people are...
The focus of this dissertation work is the formulation and improvement of anemia management process involving trial-and-error. A two-stage method is adopted toward this objective. Given a medical treatment process, a discrete Markov representation...
Animals; Street railroads; Children; Play (Recreation); Toys; Writing; Reading; Sleeping; Men; Lathes; Shepherds; Barrels; Women; Flowers; Plants; Trees; Urns; Inkstands
Woodblock prints of, from top left and starting with larger images: fox ready to pounce on rabbit, hidden under tree root; 5-cent stamp, bearing image of horse-drawn trolley; mother cat leaping with arched back toward dog to protect her litter of...
Ground-level ozone forecast models were developed for the following middle and small metropolitan areas in Kentucky: Ashland, Bowling Green, Owensboro, and Paducah. These models were nonlinear regression models, based on models previously developed...
In this day when the erstwhile plebian hog has taken to scaling the social ladder and has climbed beyond the ken of many an honest workman, it behooves the housewife to wage, with double zeal the warfare on our rivals, the molds, yeasts and...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; New York Giants (Baseball team)
Larry Doyle or Lawrence Joseph Doyle (1886-1974) also known as Laughing Larry. Color portrait of Larry Doyle. A 'NY' is in the top left corner and 'Giants' is in the top right. The team is the New York Giants. Verso: Lawrence Doyle. 'Larry' Doyle,...
George Gibson or George C. Gibson (1880-1967) also known as Moon. Color portrait of George Gibson. A pirate is in the top left corner and 'Pirates' is in the top right. The team is the Pittsburgh Pirates. Verso: George Gibson. George Gibson, the...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Washington Senators (Baseball team : 1886-1960)
Germany Schaefer or William Herman Schaefer (1876-1919) also known as Liberty. Color portrait of Germany Schaefer with the Washington Senators. A 'W' is in the top left corner and 'Senators' is in the top right. Verso: Herman Schaefer. 'Germany'...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: scene of Belgium, with man watching woman making lace before backdrop of cathedral and thatched-roof cottage; scene of Ireland, with man watching woman carry pail on her head across...
A combination of three techniques – high resolution micro computed tomography (micro CT) scanning, Archimedes-based volume fraction measurement and serial sectioning or milling – were used to determine the volume fraction, trabecular thickness,...
Book of Hours--France--Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts--France--Renaissance, 1450 - 1600
Leaf from a Book of Hours, a book used for private prayers, written by hand on a sheet printed with woodblock borders. The Book of Hours originally including this leaf was made in Paris around 1524. The leaf is from a supplemental section, the...
Narrow bridge, probably a pedestrian bridge, crossing a creek. The image is overexposed making the bridge appear very bright. Title supplied by cataloger.
"Artifacts from the wreck include: the ivory figurine of a female acrobat with her feet on her head; a gold pendant of a nude fertility goddess holding gazelles in her hands; a partly gold-clad bronze figurine of a goddess, perhaps the ship's...
"A full-scale replica of the ship in the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Bodrum, Turkey." (Caption, p. 315); "Without doubt it was a royal cargo. And an exceptional one, at that. We can only guess how its loss, toward the end of...
Broom & brush industry; Industrial facilities; Brooms & brushes; Men
Seven men work at different stages of making brooms in front of a building of unpainted, long vertical wood boards. The building has two peaked roofs and several porches with slanting roofs. A row of brooms leans along the front porch railings;...
Installation of brew tanks, Fehr's Brewery, Louisville, Kentucky. A huge brew tank is suspended on its side by a crane (to which it is tied by one cable) outside Frank Fehr Brewing Company, where there is a square hole cut in the second floor brick...
Building marked "B. F. Avery & Sons Co.", featuring large windows on the first two floors (of three), and a parking lot, Louisville, Kentucky The company started in Louisville in the mid-1800s making plows and other farm tools before...
