Address: 1372 Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky. This building is located next door to Headliner's Music Hall. A sign painted on the side of the building reads "Distillery Commons." This sign is covering an older ghost sign which is...
Medical education; Medical students; Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville (Ky.)
Catalog for Hospital College of Medicine 1894 for January to June session. Includes faculty, program information, graduates for 1893, honor roll details, session information for the College of Philosophy, Letters, and Science for 1894, and a list...
Address: 770 Preston Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This building appears to be vacant and there seem to be several ghost signs layered on top of each other, the most legible of which reads "Pianos." The only other legible portion of...
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...
Slavery--Political aspects--Kentucky; Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
In his 1926 study of the Civil War era in Kentucky, southern historian E. Merton Coulter repeated the old saying that Kentucky was the only state to secede after Appomattox. In an over-simplification of the process, most historians have seen harsh...
Antiphonaries--Illustrations; Gregorian chants--Illustrations; Music--Manuscripts--France; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval
Leaf from a fifteenth century French antiphonary, representing a segment of text related to the Feast of the Crown of Thorns. Also called an antiphonal or antiphoner, an antiphonary collects portions of psalms and hymns sung during liturgies or...
A beech tree with letters carved into the bark of the trunk apparently commemorating an event or relationship. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the album page. Title supplied by cataloger.
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Fraternities & sororities; Student housing; Beta Theta Pi. Delta Pi Chapter (University of Louisville)
Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. The Greek letters beta, theta and pi are affixed to the front of the building. A flag or sign with a fraternity crest is set between two windows above the porch roof. A banner with the Greek letters beta, theta and...
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
University of Louisville--Basketball; University of Louisville--Students; Basketball players; Awards; Students; College athletes; University of Louisville--Sports;
Don Hill hands the Thurston Cook trophy to Robert "Long Bob" Lochmueller at half-time during the University of Louisville-Indiana State University game, February 21, 1951. Hill speaks into a microphone featuring the call letters...
Busy and wide cobblestone street lined with buildings on either side. Streetcar tracks run down the street. On the street are streetcars and carriages. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks. Elevated tracks run parallel to the left and...
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...
Catherine Jane Buchart of Louisville, Kentucky standing outside, wearing long skirt, jacket, hat, gloves and a fur. The photograph has been cut irregularly and has the letters ETY drawn on the top corner. Stamped on back of image: April 24, 1935.
Fraternities & sororities; University of Louisville--Buildings; Buildings; Night photographs; Chi Omega Fraternity. Beta Gamma Chapter (University of Louisville);
The front of the Chi Omega house at 2030 South First Street. The front doorway and the letters "Chi" and "Omega" are lit up, standing out in the darkness. Two women can be seen in the doorway. The sorority moved from this...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Dormitories; Fraternities & sororities; Tables; Street lights; Trees; Tau Kappa Epsilon. Alpha Chi Chapter (University of Louisville); University of Louisville. Panhellenic Council;
Entranceway to Community Park dormitory. Sidewalks lead to a larger central entranceway, and to smaller entranceways bearing the letters of different "Greek" groups. The initials of the Panhellenic Council and Tau Kappa Epsilon can be...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Dormitories; Fraternities & sororities; University of Louisville. Naitonal Pan-Hellenic Council; Kappa Delta Sorority. Alpha Xi Chapter (University of Louisville);
Community Park, eastern view. The Greek letters "Kappa Delta" can be seen on a portico near the corner of the building. (This is the entrance to Kappa Delta sorority's suite.) Location: Belknap Campus: 2033 South Fourth Street. Current...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Dormitories; Fraternities & sororities; Pi Beta Phi. Kentucky Alpha Chapter (University of Louisville)
Community Park. The Greek letters pi beta and phi are affixed on a portico near the corner of the building. This is the entrance to Pi Beta Phi sorority's suite. Location: Belknap Campus: 2033 South Fourth Street. Current uses: Dormitories;...
Israel--Social conditions; Israel--Social life and customs
Times Square went mad with noise and excitement,
and a small freighter slipped from its Brooklyn berth into
the drama of the night. It was December 31, 1949--midnight-January
1, 1950; and I was on my way to the world in general
and Israel and the...
Portrait by Chester Harding made in 1819, only personal portrait ever painted of Boone. Bust of white haired Boone on a dark background inscribed in white letters, "Colonel Daniel Boone: As Chester Harding saw him in 1819 when he painted the...
