Address: 1934 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the side of this brick building is the remnant of a sign that is mostly illegible. The word at the top may be acorn for Acorn Used Furniture which was located at 1930 W. Market Street....
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching; English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching; Community colleges--Kentucky--Louisville
The introduction to this doctoral dissertation is an argument for locating Writing Across the Curriculum programs on the community-college campus for several reasons, among them the proximity of the disciplines on the community college campus, the...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers; Portrait photographs; Portraits
Picture of Admiral Andrew Hull (A. H.) Foote in a double-breasted jacket, his body turned to the right and his head facing the camera, his name signed below. He has dark hair, a beard mostly white, intelligent eyes, a long pointed nose, and a...
Currently including 26 interviews (available as audio files and transcriptions), mostly conducted in the late 1970s, that document the many aspects of life in Louisville, particularly as experienced by African Americans, this digital collection...
Buildings; Vehicles; Airplanes; Airports; American Airlines, inc.; Biplanes; Bowman Field (Ky.)
Passengers, mostly men wearing suits and white hats with black bands, are greeted as they exit a large American Airlines biplane on the tarmac at Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky. The airfield, established in 1919 by Abram H. Bowman, is still in...
In 2003, Wilson Creek running through Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in central Kentucky was restored to its original winding path through a valley field. Early 20th century settlers had previously redirected this creek to run a straight...
A crowd of African Americans, mostly men and boys, stop beside a cart of tobacco and in front of a three-story dark wood building which has an awning over the first floor. One man in front holds a load of tobacco. A man sits on the awning and two...
Industrial facilities; Buildings; Automobiles; Distilling industry
Two automobiles park by an industrial facility. The buildings appear to be made mostly of brick with rectangular windows. A large smokestack and a couple of vats are next to the building.
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...
Boys; Baseball; Games; Hats; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); People
Boys prepare to play baseball in a ritual where a representative from each team wraps his hand around the bat just above the other team representative's hand. The boy whose hand covers the top of the bat will likely decide whether his team bats or...
A group of nine people, mostly women, eat burgoo (spicy stew, a specialty of Western Kentucky) in the woods; a man in suspenders smiles and ladles the burgoo. One woman sits on a tree trunk also used as a table. Two people sit in a cart and two...
Multiple views of wide stretches of quiet streets and a stone bridge lined with trees and the occasional lamppost. A sign with an arrow reads To City. Although the titles indicate Butchertown, these images were mostly likely photographed in a...
Historic sites; Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (Ky.); Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Log cabins; Monuments & memorials
Replica of the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. The original cabin was mostly destroyed, but a replica, built from some of the original salvaged materials, stands within the Lincoln Memorial at the Abraham Lincoln...
Historic sites; Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (Ky.); Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Men; Log cabins
Cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Three men stand outside of the open door of the cabin. The original cabin was mostly destroyed, but a replica of the cabin, built from some of the original salvaged materials, stands at...
Few previous studies have compared microbial communities in subterranean and surface environments. Chemical analyses used to characterize the surface and cave microbial environments indicated limited exchange between surface and subsurface waters....
Portrait of left profile of actor Charles B. Hanford wearing a suit jacket and polka-dot tie with stickpin. Hanford appeared in eighteen plays--mostly Shakespeare--at Macauley's Theatre between 1890 and 1913. He was born May 5, 1859, in Sutter...
Portrait of right profile of actor Charles B. Hanford wearing a suit jacket and tie with stickpin. Hanford appeared in eighteen plays--mostly Shakespeare--at Macauley's Theatre between 1890 and 1913. He was born May 5, 1859, in Sutter Creek,...
Dark smoke rises from the ground in an expanding column with a hole in the center near the top, as an oil well burns in front of a backdrop of trees, witnessed by a crowd of mostly men but also children, a baby held by a man, and a woman with a...
