Academic achievement--Psychological aspects; College students--Psychology
Researchers have studied the concepts of optimism and pessimism as traits, expectations, strategies, and styles of explaining outcomes. Explanatory style and the strategy of defensive pessimism are two of these areas. In general, optimistic...
This thesis explores my work on the role of Charles Condomine in a production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit directed by James Tompkins. It is broken down into three main chapters covering the rehearsal process, character development, and...
Poster advertising Oertel's '92 beer with an image of a blond pin-up style woman holding a glass with a bottle of beer on a small tray in the bottom corner. The text on the poster reads "Keep Smiling!"
This dissertation takes Chinese advertisements as the research subjects to see in what way a quantifiable large number of advertisements with its metaphorical nature and instrumental mission can reflect social cultural change, in specifics,...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; African American college teachers; African American educators; African American newspapers; Integration; Segregation in education; Race relations; Baptists;...
Oral history interview conducted with sociologist Charles H. Parrish, Jr. on December 1 and 14, 1976 and February 21, 1977 by Dwayne Cox and William Morison. Dr. Parrish discusses his father, Charles H. Parrish, Sr., who was a Baptist minister and...
African Americans; African American singers; African American musicians; Jazz; Jazz singers; Women jazz musicians
Oral history interview with Helen Humes, a jazz singer from Louisville, conducted on June 12, 1979 by Mary Bobo, for the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center. In this interview, Ms. Humes discusses her career, including her start in...
African-American women in a beauty shop. Women in white smocks or dresses cut and style hair along the long side wall, with their customers seated in front of them. To the side is a table where another woman gives a manicure. A woman sits in the...
Inspired by William Butler Years and his theory that "A poet...never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table…" from "A General Introduction for My Work" this poetic thesis examines everyday occurrences in an often...
Address: 418 W. Ormsby Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. According to the 1924 Caron's city directory, this building was an apartment house known as Greystone Apartments. A small section of grass is in front of the sidewalk. Beyond the sidewalk is a...
P.G. Coker's apartment building at 722 W. Chestnut Street in Louisville, Ky. It is a three-story brick building with a large porch supported by doric style columns. Trees line Chestnut Street and electric railway tracks can be seen in the street....
A group of men in suits and hats, evidently members of the Hopkinsville Bankers Association, stand in front of the Hotel Latham. This Italian Renaissance style hotel was erected in 1894, and named for Hopkinsville native and philanthropist, John C....
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Chicago Cubs (Baseball team)
Frank Schulte or Frank M. Schulte (1882-1949) also known as Wildfire. Color portrait of Frank Schulte with the Chicago Cubs. A bear is in the top left corner and 'Cubs' is in the top right. Verso: Frank M. Schulte. Frank M. Schulte, one of the...
Eddie Grant or Edward Leslie Grant (1883-1918) also known as Harvard Eddie. Color portrait of Eddie Grant. A 'C' is in the top left corner and 'Reds' is in the top right. The team is the Cincinnati Reds. Verso: Edward L. Grant. Edward L. Grant, the...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; New York Giants (Baseball team)
Art Fletcher or Arthur Fletcher (1885-1950). Color portrait of Art Fletcher. A 'NY' is in the top left corner and 'Giants' is in the top right. The team is the New York Giants. Verso: Arthur Fletcher. Arthur Fletcher, the Giants' active young...
The Ainslie Hewett Bookplate Collection features 104 bookplates designed by Louisville native (George) Ainslie Hewett between 1909 and 1951. The bookplates were created for notable Louisville residents, as well as for clients across the United...
Address: 332 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. In 1928 this building became the new clubhouse for the Pendennis Club, a businessmen's social club. The right side of the building originally stood alone. Designed in...
Address: 204 S. Shawnee Terrace, Louisville, Kentucky. Borrowing from the Tudor style, the Shawnee Terrace Apartments have a partially brick construction and partially timbered frame. Two entries are inset at the top of sets of stairs and...
One-story building on the corner of Second and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Building covered in signs advertising laundry services of the "New Style Pressing Club: Cleaning, Dyeing, Pressing & Repairing" as well as a poster with an...
Address: 501 Main Street, Shelbyville, Ky. Construction was completed in 1913 for this building that houses the administrative offices of county government and the District and Circuit Courts. It was built in the Beaux-Art Classicism style of...
