Waterways; Canals; Louisville and Portland Canal (Ky.); Shipping
Bridge crane of Ohio River Sand Company on the right bank of the Portland Canal, Louisville, Kentucky. The bridge crane is trapezoidal with four thin triangular supports, and there is the impression that it has just walked across the water. On the...
Address: 405 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. (Building no longer exists.) The brick road in front of the Western Union building looks slick from rain. Cars are parked at the curb and a couple of men in messenger uniforms speak with a man in...
Women household employees--Southern States--History; African American women--Civil rights--Southern States--History; Minority women--Southern States--Social conditions; Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century
During the 1960's, nearly ninety percent of black women in the South worked as
domestic servants. While much has been written depicting the dehumanizing and
exploitative conditions in which they lived, their contributions to human rights...
Women refugees; Women immigrants; Women--Violence against; Stress management for women
An interest in privileging the voices of women who are marginalized in many parts of the world coupled with knowledge of the restorative properties of music cultivated this qualitative study. Seven women, ages 20-49 years of age, from three...
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...
Women; Doors & doorways; Stone buildings; Baskets; Flowers
The wife of photographer Kate Matthews' great-nephew, Paul Martin Fletcher, is holding a basket of flowers as she knocks on the door at Twigmore in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Twigmore was owned by Kate Matthews' niece, and Paul Fletcher's aunt,...
A young woman poses outdoors wearing a long dress and holding flowers. The woman is the photographer's niece, Elizabeth Matthews, who was the real-life model for the character Betty Lewis in the Little Colonel books written by Annie Fellows...
Elizabeth Matthews Feagin sits in a large wooden chair with a book in her lap, her right elbow on the arm of the chair and her chin in her hand. The pose resembles that in a rather famous photograph taken of Elizabeth decades earlier when she...
Fannie Craig, real-life model for the character Miss Allison in the Little Colonel books by Annie Fellows Johnston, sits at a piano. She is wearing a long-sleeved dark dress with white lace collar and cuffs and her head is turned toward the camera....
The woman on the left is identified as Lucile A. Furnas of Louisville, Kentucky. The girl on the left is identified as "Grace" as written under the photograph.
An African-American woman in servant's dress and head scarf sits in a wooden chair reading a newspaper. The woman, Rebecca Porter, was born a slave in Virginia. After the war, she spent most of her life working in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Rebecca...
Soldiers--French; World War, 1914-1918--France; Military uniforms; Military life; Pacifists
Photographic postcard of André Jeunet taken during his military training in Autun, France in 1915. Other copies were mailed to his family, but Jeunet saved this one and inscribed it in 1920.
