Maps; Floods; Disasters; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville--1920--1940; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River
Map, printed in green in on white paper, of the area of Louisville, Kentucky, affected by the 1937 flooding of the Ohio River. Includes description of the flood, chart of elevations and depths of selected sites in Louisville, two photographs of...
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....
Advertising; Stores & shops; Show windows; Street railroad tracks; Automobiles; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings; Transportation
Written on the front of the photograph is, "January - 10 - 1921, Louisville Gas & Electric Co., Bardstown Road at Highland Ave. looking South - showing all lines moved to Southwest side of street." Utility poles line the sidewalk...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); Central High School (Louisville, Ky.); Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity; African Americans--Employment;...
Oral history interview conducted with James Shively on December 18, 1978 by Dwayne Cox. Mr. Shively focuses largely on his education in Louisville, at Louisville Central High School and the Louisville Municipal College, in the 1930s and 1940s. He...
Caricatured African American barber stands over client and gazes at a caricatured African American woman, a manicurist. The barber's shaving brush is in his client's mouth. This image depicts African Americans in a stereotyped fashion that may be...
African Americans; Women; Hats; Political participation; Dogs; Political posters; People
Two African American women talk on the street as a dog watches. Utility poles and walls are plastered with political signs, including ones for Senator Ernst and Chas. F. Ogden for Congress.
African Americans; Women; Hats; Political participation; People
Four African American women talk on the street. Two of them are writing in notebooks. Its likely that the two are recruiting voters for an upcoming election.
African Americans; Women; Hats; Political participation; Political posters; People
Four African American stand in the street. One of them is writing on a sheaf of paper. All of the women wear hats and jackets. Political advertising is visible posted on the walls behind the women.
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps, Jefferson Post American Legion, Kentucky, posed lengthwise on a boulevard in front of a building with a sign on the side saying "Jefferson Garage." The men are playing music facing two conductors. One drum is...
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps, Jefferson Post American Legion, Kentucky. Drummers march and drum across an outdoor stadium, led by a man in white uniform with tasseled bucket hat; the drummers are wearing white pants with stripes, dark coats with light...
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps marching in formation, Jefferson Post American Legion, Kentucky. Men in Drum and Bugle Corps uniform perform music marching across an outdoor stadium with a crowd in the stands. The leader in white wields a baton over his head.
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps, Jefferson Post American Legion; shown in uniform holding the U.S. flag in an outdoor stadium, Kentucky. The photograph has been touched up with paint to the extent that black and white dots constitute the crowd in the stands.
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps, Jefferson Post American Legion; in street parade wearing uniforms, Kentucky. The Drum and Bugle Corps carry two flags--a U.S. flag and a dark flag, each with an eagle on top--as they march past a building with high pillars....
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps, Jefferson Post American Legion, Kentucky. The Drum and Bugle Corps are in uniform posed in a row facing the camera in an outdoor stadium in front of a crowd in the stands. The photograph has been touched up with paint to the...
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps of Jefferson Post American Legion marching in uniform in outdoor stadium, Kentucky. They are marching away from a scoreboard, with a crowd in the stands at their side. The leader in white has his arm raised. The photograph has...
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps of Jefferson Post American Legion standing for group photograph on a formal indoor stairway overlaid with marble, Kentucky. The Corps are wearing white shoes, white pants with stripes, dark coats with light embellishments,...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: man in tunic seated among four male lions; knights on horseback jousting outside castle; girl and boy listening to man seated on porch smoking pipe and holding skull; number 11; man wearing turban and...
From the "Elements of Architecture: Space-Spanning Construction Devices" section of the "Starter Kit". Elements included: post and lintel; corbeled arch; arch; vault; cantilever of reinforced concrete; suspension span; truss;...
Authors, South African--20th century; South Africa--In literature; Protest literature, South African (English); Mphahlele, Es'kia, 1919-2008. Down Second Avenue; Dikobe, Modikwe, 1913- Marabi dance; Mda, Zakes. Madonna of Excelsior; Mhlongo,...
Through content analysis of Ezekiel Mphahlele's Down Second Avenue,
Modikwe Dikobe's The Marabi Dance, Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior,
and Niq Mhlongo's After Tears, this study compares the themes of pre- and post-
1994 South African township...
