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...
Buildings; Clubs; Cobblestone streets; Street railroad tracks; Transportation
Address: 615 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. The Catholic Woman's Club is set off the street by a sidewalk and small lawn with one small tree on each side of an entry walk. The building appears to have been...
Address: Payne Street and Hamilton Avenue (now Lexington Road), Louisville, Kentucky. A cart of quarried stone sits midway up a railed ramp outside a grouping of wooden buildings. Two men stand in front of the ramp. One of the men wears a white...
Aerial views; Schools; Stadiums; Buildings; Louisville Male High School (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 900 S. Brook Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This aerial view shows the neighborhood surrounding Louisville Male High School as well as the school and its stadium in 1922. The homes to the left of Brook Street have since been removed to make...
Address: 1400 S. Forty-third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of the top of a ride at the Kentucky State Fair. Across the way is a tent advertising acrobats, singers, a midget circus, and athletes. Further along is a carousel and a Ferris wheel....
Amusement parks; Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement rides
This partially corroded image depicts the alpine slide ride at Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Twin slides end atop two wood-planked raised platforms. A sign painted on the wall shows a hand pointing and the words "way to top of...
A crowd of people fill the Municipal Bridge during its opening in October 1929. The bridge was later renamed the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. The bridge spans the Ohio River from Second and Main Streets in Louisville, Kentucky, to Illinois...
A paddlewheel steamboat makes its way down the Big Sandy River. Plumes of dark smoke come out of two forward stacks and steam rises from smaller pipes further back on the boat. Houses and farmland can be seen on the banks with hills rising up in...
Roads; Automobile service stations; Advertisements; Billboards
Address: Preston Highway near Minor's Lane. Skid marks from a wide-tired vehicle like a car or truck are on the road that leads up to M. Douglas Grocery. The grocery advertises Fehr's Beer and Coca-Cola while a Standard Oil station is next door. A...
Address: 900 block of Goss Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. A cobblestone road with trolley tracks runs in front of the Louisville Textile Mills. Utility lines are in a line down the sidewalk and the property is surrounded by a chain link fence. At...
Automobile service stations; Tires; Automobiles; Radios; Buildings; Transportation
Location: southwest corner of First Street and Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Goodrich Silvertown Stores is shown. The building includes an ornate tower behind which a dome and steeple from a church can be seen. The service station has a car...
Garages; Show windows; Street railroad tracks; Buildings; Historic buildings; Transportation
Address: 421-425 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The Bosler Fireproof Garage was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The two-story garage is shown here with its arched garage door and second floor windows. On the first...
Floods; Industrial facilities; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Smokestacks; Buildings
Water surrounds the Beargrass Gas Plant. Utility poles in the middle of the photograph show water about halfway up the poles. In the foreground a man stands in a shallow boat poling his way through the water. Steam and smoke still rise up from the...
Computer sound processing; Computer-assisted instruction; Educational games
Educational games have steadily entered classrooms as a means of challenging advanced students and tutoring those lacking comprehension. However, without adequate educational benefits, instructors are struggling to continually justify the marginal...
This dissertation describes new procedures for synthesizing and purifying Au and Au/Ag nanoplates directly on surfaces as well as controlled binding of proteins to their surface. It also describes fundamental changes in the optical properties of Au...
Phase II clinical trial are generally single arm trial where a homogeneity assumption is placed on the response. In practice, this assumption may be violated resulting in a heterogeneous response. This heterogeneous or overdispersed response can be...
Dentists--Attitudes; Endodontics--Study and teaching; Medical referral
The decision by a general dentist to treat or refer a patient needing endodontic therapy may be based on multiple variables. Students attending dental schools with endodontic specialty programs could be exposed to a referral system with endodontic...
It is important to burn the air toxics and harmful gases which come from water and wastewater treatment processes. In common practice, instead of natural gas, digester gas is used for economical reasons. This burning process takes place in the...
Cortical and tectal inputs to the caudal LPN in the rat were examined using anatomical and physiological techniques. Pyramidal cells in layer 6 of the visual cortex and wide-field vertical cells in the stratum opticum of the superior colliculus...
The inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS) encompass a heterogeneous collection of rare disorders characterized by hematological abnormalities, generalized growth delays, and an increased incidence of malignant transformation. These...
