African Americans; African American business enterprises; African American Business people; Drugstores; Pharmacists; African American pharmacists; Urban renewal; Service stations; Standard Oil Company; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Frank Moorman, Sr., conducted on August 17, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Moorman was a businessman in Louisville's Walnut Street area. Mr. Moorman discusses his parents and grandparents, and his early life in Owensboro,...
African American journalists; African American politicians; African American newspapers; African Americans; Politics & government; Politicians; Race relations; Democratic Party (Ky.); Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co. (Louisville, Ky.);...
Interview with William J. Ealy, Louisville newspaperman and political activist. This interview was conducted on August 5 and 22, 1977 by Dwayne Cox of the University of Louisville Oral History Center. Mr. Ealy discusses his early life and education...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; Boy Scouts of America; Elderly poor; Floods--Ohio River; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; National Council of Senior Citizens; Senior House; Senior centers; Scouting (Youth activity); Urban elderly;...
Oral history interviews conducted with Mr. Steward Pickett on May 23, June 4, and June 25, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Mr. Pickett, a retired assistant Boy Scout executive and board member of Senior House, talks about his family, growing up on an...
It is to be noticed that if there be any marshy places, certain animals breed there, which are invisible to the eye and yet getting into the system through the mouth and nostrils cause serious disorders." This quaint observation is taken from...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; New York Giants (Baseball team)
Larry Doyle or Lawrence Joseph Doyle (1886-1974) also known as Laughing Larry. Color portrait of Larry Doyle. A 'NY' is in the top left corner and 'Giants' is in the top right. The team is the New York Giants. Verso: Lawrence Doyle. 'Larry' Doyle,...
Howie Camnitz (1881-1960) also known as Red. Born in Covington, Kentucky; died in Louisville, Kentucky. Color portrait of Howard Camnitz. A pirate is in the top left corner and 'Pirates' is in the top right. The team is the Pittsburgh Pirates....
New Salt River Bridge, Taylorsville, Kentucky. The New Salt River Bridge was dedicated July 18, 1933 (replacing the 100-year-old Old Salt River Bridge). Here, it is packed on one side with cars crossing and people getting out of the cars.
Due to the overwhelming increase in open source code, off-the-shelf software packages, third party and vendor codes, along with the ease of getting information about hacking network security systems and attacking the well known holes in security...
Computer vision; Pattern recognition systems; Human face recognition (Computer science)
Humans have the uncanny ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D), otherwise known as depth perception. The amazing thing about this ability to determine distances is that it depends only on a simple two-dimensional (2D) image in the...
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...
Ford Motor Company; Business logistics--Management; Production management; Manufacturing processes; Organizational change
For many years the concept of Lean Manufacturing has been applied in automotive development as a tool to refine the manufacturing practices to the greatest efficiency possible through waste reduction. Continuous Improvement is a quality innovation...
This dissertation is an intensive analysis of the artworks and letters of Vincent van
Gogh focusing on the final three years of his life from February 1888 to July 1890 at
Arles, Saint-Rémy, and Auvers. The author is both an art historian and an...
"Johns used letters or numbers as a means of reintroducing the signifiers of a collective sign system into a Modernist 'field' previously answerable to subjective judgments of taste. The textures in his drawings in particular are subtly...
Politicians; Political corruption; United States. Congress; Legislators--United States; Legislators--Kentucky;
Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on August 6, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the sixth of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...
Train approaching from the left on a set of railroad tracks in a row of four sets. Tree-covered mountains and a body of water are in the background. A man sits on a tree stump next to the tracks. Title: (79) Famous Horseshoe Curve among Allegheny...
Rifles; University of Louisville--Sports; Rifle ranges
Rifle team practices shooting from the kneeling position at the indoor range in Dougherty Hall - April, 1969. Rifle Team at the University of Louisville Getting in Some Target Practice at the Range in Dougherty Hall - April, 1970. People: John...
Segregation in education; African American construction workers; Construction workers; African Americans; Labor unions; Race relations; Laborers' International Union of North America; Women construction workers; African Americans--Employment; A....
Oral history interview conducted with James "Jimmy" Stewart on April 4, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Mr. Stewart, business manager for Local 576 of the Laborers' International Union of North America discusses segregation in education in Tennessee...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
DUFFY, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (125 ft. x 25 ft. x 4.6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1921. Owned by Ohio River Sand Company in Louisville, Kentucky, DUFFY operated in the Louisville area. The Duffy became a familiar sight in...
Street railroads; Louisville Railway Company; Exhibitions; Fairs; Transportation
A booth at the Kentucky State Fair displays information about the Louisville Railway Co., with photos of trolleys under signs reading, "Have you ridden on these cars?" and "Ask Father about these cars." A three-dimensional...
"Gala-Leda rendered 'in accordance with the modern "nothing touches" theory of intra-atomic physica' (Dali)." (Caption); Dali himself was only too happy to admit his debt to Gala. In the early 1930s he had begun to sign his...
