African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Race relations; Public relations; Discrimination in housing; Housing; African American legislators; Insurance agents; Women legislators; African American legislators; Kentucky--Politics and...
Oral history interview conducted with legislator Mae Street Kidd on October 10, November 11, and December 5, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. Ms. Kidd discusses her life, including her childhood growing up in Bourbon County. Kidd attended the Lincoln...
African Americans--Education (Elementary); African Americans--Education (Higher); National Training School for Women and Girls (Washington, D.C.); Fisk University; Howard University; African Americans; Race relations; Civil rights; African...
Oral history interview conducted with Ruth Bryant on July 24, 1977 by Kenneth L. Chumbley. Mrs. Bryant, a community activist, primarily discusses her involvement in community organizing and political activism during the 1960’s in Louisville. ...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Fire fighters
Portrait of Captain Alex Bache of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a fireman uniform. Photograph is damaged top, right corner and marked with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: Assistant chief of Fire Department. Stamped on back: January 8,...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Alex M. Forrester of Louisville, Kentucky. He has a mustache and is wearing glasses. The photograph has been painted on around his face and other blemishes. Handwritten on back of image: A.M. Forrester, Assistant to Vice president of...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Physicians; College administrators; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Dr. Alice N. Pickett of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a cloche hat and blazer. Alice Newcombe Pickett (1888-1971) joined the medical faculty at the University of Louisville in 1921 as the head of the obstetrics department. Nicknamed...
Women; Men; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Violins; Guitars; Mouth organs; Stringed instruments; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Jean Thomas wearing her "Narrator" costume (a long black dress with white collar and sleeves), is joined by various musicians, including fiddler J.P. Fraley and his wife Annadeene (who also works as Thomas' assistant) onstage at the...
Women; Men; Children; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Guitars; Zithers; Violins; Banjos; Mouth organs; Stringed instruments; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Various musicians, including children playing hammered dulcimer; men playing guitar and harmonica; a young woman playing guitar; and a string band featuring J.P. Fraley on fiddle join Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress with white collar and...
Women; Men; Children; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Primarily photographs of the audience at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival, held at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill, Kentucky with a replica of Jean Thomas' "Traipsin' Woman Cabin" serving as the stage, this...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; School principals; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Anna Voegtle of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a beaded necklace. The photograph has been painted on outlining/cropping her image, marked with discolorations, and yellowing from age. Handwritten on back of image: Assistant principal,...
Two women, one of whom is identified as Beatrice Lusby. They wear nurse's uniforms and caps and stand at the bottom of steps leading to a building. On back of photograph: B. Lusby. Beatrice Lusby graduated from the nursing school in 1934 and was...
Louisville General Hospital; Nursing students; Nurses
Portrait of Beatrice Lusby in dark clothing. Beatrice Lusby graduated from the Lousiville City Hospital school of nursing in 1934 and was the Assistant Superintendent from approximately 1940 to 1951. Title supplied by cataloger.
Portraits; Group portraits; Men; College administrators; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Dean of the University of Louisville's Speed Scientific School, Bennett M. Brigman (left) of Louisville, Kentucky with National Leader of ASME, C.E. Davies, Chairman of Student Chapter of ASME, Kenneth Hess, and Assistant Professor of Mechanical...
Big Red (Sculpture); Public art--Kentucky--Louisville;
Big Red sculpture undergoing refinishing. A white primer has been applied to the usually red sculpture, which stands outside the University of Louisville College of Business. Created by Tom Lear and installed December 20-21, 1989 and dedicated June...
University of Louisville--Faculty; Generators; Engineers; Engines; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Teachers
Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Carl O.G. Wittig grasps a wheel attached to a steam turbine driven generator unit located in Sackett Hall. Assistant professor of mechanical engineering Lawrence S. Churchill, Jr., wearing a suit and...
University of Louisville--Faculty; Generators; Engineers; Engines; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Teachers
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Lawrence S. Churchill, Jr. (far left) and head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Carl O. G. Wittig stand with two unidentified men behind a steam turbine driven generator unit located in...
Cheerleading; University of Louisville--Students; Students;
Five cheerleaders from the 1969 squad in formation. Patricia Allison, assistant dean of women, stands near them holding a book. From left, clockwise: Kathy Dwinell, Karen Koshewa, Jeanne Carol Camp, Anne Weyhing, Pam Recktenwald.
University of Louisville--Basketball; University of Louisville--Students; Coaches (Athletics); Basketball players; Students; NCAA Basketball Tournament; College athletes; University of Louisville--Sports;
Coach Bernard "Peck" Hickman and another man (possibly Assistant Coach John Dromo) are held up by members of University of Louisville's basketball team as they cut the net following their victory over Michigan State University in the...
Portrait of DeRoy Scott of Louisville, Kentucky seated, wearing a pin-stripe suit. The photograph has been painted on, badly creased, and marked with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: assistant cashier, Lincoln Bank & Trust Company....
Diagrams of Run-Off Showing Basis of Design of Main Sewer District 3A, Paducah, KY, July 1922. Henry A. Pulliam, Commissioner of Public Wks and Chief Engineer. J.C. Keeley, First Assistant. C.F. Johnson, Chief Draftsman. Chart with a graph and...
Portrait of Elmo J. Burton of Louisville, Kentucky wearing darkly tinted glasses and holding his hat on his lap. Typed on back of image: former assistant to W. Clarke Otte as commonwealth's attorney and witness in Mrs. Willna Otte's balm suit....
