Buildings; Welfare facilities; Public service; Almshouses; Assistance
Jefferson County Poor Farm Home for Whites, Louisville, Kentucky. A two-story brick building with a stone porch and a sidewalk. The Jefferson County Poorhouse was established in 1858 near Jeffersontown to provide a caring environment for the...
Buildings; Welfare facilities; Public service; Almshouses; Assistance; African Americans
Jefferson County Poor Farm Home for Negros, Louisville, Kentucky. A one-story brick building with a concrete porch and tall grass. The Jefferson County Poorhouse was established in 1858 near Jeffersontown to provide a caring environment for the...
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...
"Cornell's boxes of the 1940s and 1950s consisted of achingly melancholy juxtapositions of incongruously scaled objects implying temporal and spatial poetic leaps. A Victorian child's soap bubble set would be placed against a lunar map or a...