African Americans; African American physicians; African Americans--Hospitals; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Education; Segregation in education; African Americans--Medical care; Hospitals; Medical education; Race...
Oral history interview with Louisville physician Maurice Rabb. Dr. Rabb discusses his early life and education in Mississippi. He speaks of his experiences as a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, comparing race relations in his...
The Dean's Building, with weeds in the foreground. A covered entrance is visible; other buildings and cars are seen indistinctly in the background. The Dean's Building was formerly used as the Women's Building. The cars date this image to the 1920s...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Women; Lounges; Couches; Chairs; Pianos;
Room from within the Dean's Building, from the period when it was known as the Women's Building. Women sit on chairs and couches, most of them reading. There is a piano against a wall on the far side of the room. There are no decorations on the...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Women; Lounges; Tables; Chairs; Benches;
Room within the Dean's Building from the time when it was used as the Women's Building. Several women are seated in chairs; most of them appear to be reading. The room is sparsely furnished with simple chairs, small tables, and lamps, along with a...
City & town life; Elevated railroads; Street railroads; Railroads; Pedestrians; People
View of streets and elevated railroad tracks in New York City. Buildings line the streets on the right, while the railroad tracks run perpendicular to the streets. Carriages, streetcars, and pedestrians are on the streets. Trains run on the tracks....
Black and white photo-collage; "This collage makes use of photographs of a project carried out by Matta Clark in Englewood, New Jersey, which involved him splitting apart a house that was due for demolition. Having divided the house in half by...
This thesis is an examination and analysis of the role of law enforcement in the transformation of a city's downtown from one dominated by sleazy strip bars and prostitutes to one of family entertainment. The focus is on the police and prosecutors;...
"Broodthaer's Musée d'Arte Moderne assumed various forms. The 'Department of Eagles', which contained the exhibits pictured here, had further permutations in other venues. In a Düsseldorf showing of 1970 the museum's 'nineteenth-century'...
Sculpture; Horses; Buildings; Parks; Castleman, John Breckinridge, 1841-1918
Located at the intersection of Cherokee Parkway and Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky, and framed by one of the grand houses in the Cherokee Triangle area, the Castleman Statue sits on an island at the edge of Cherokee Park. The statue depicts...
Sewerage; Sewers; Buildings; Streets; Public utility companies; Public utilities--Kentucky--Louisville
The Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) Collection records the construction of sewer lines, drainage work, and floodwall protection projects throughout Louisville in the early twentieth century through the beginning of World War II. While the scope...
Sociology, Urban--California--Los Angeles; Urbanization--California--Los Angeles; Ontology--Social aspects; Social epistemology
Noir Ontology: Existing in the Fragmented Urban Spaces of Los Angeles explores the role of decentered urban geography within the body of noir texts set within Los Angeles. By focusing on the development of the idea of Los Angeles in early to...
Address: 1036 E. Burnett Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. The display windows of Heitzman's Bakery show trophies and cakes. A sign in the window reads, "Our 2 Silver Cups won at the State Convention Cake Contest of the Kentucky Master Bakers...
Women in literature--History--19th century; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Materialism in literature; American literature--19th century--Social aspects
This dissertation examines American consumer culture and its influences on images of women created in art and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. It is divided into four substantive parts and uses the methods and theoretical approaches...
