Women--France--History--20th century; Women--Great Britain--History--20th century; Women and literature--France--History--20th century; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century; Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986; Woolf, Virginia,...
This dissertation is a cross-cultural analysis of France and Great Britain during both the First World War and World War II in which Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf redefined "woman." Utilizing New Historicism, the first chapter...
Busy dock on the Ohio River. Three wharfboats line the shore and two steamboats are docked behind them. The larger of the two boats is the City of Cincinnati steamboat which traveled daily between Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Ky. Several people...
Southeast corner of 6th Street and Chestnut Street. A group of women sit on a stoop of a rooming house with a small child. It is a three-story brick building with two front doors. Next door is a market with a woman standing at the entrance.
This image is part of a set of twelve photographs of houses where tax assessments were raised. In the photograph, five boys with caps sit on the front porch as a woman stands to the side with hands on her hips. The house is shotgun style with a...
African Americans; African American churches; African American single mothers ; African American teenage mothers; Nursing homes; Nursing home administrators; People's Baptist Church (Louisville, Ky.); Single mothers; Teenage marriage; Teenage...
Oral history interview conducted on May 9, 1979 with Frances Smith by Mary Bobo. Mrs. Smith, a former nursing home owner and administrator discusses her childhood in Russellville, Kentucky, moving to Louisville at age twelve to tend to an aunt,...
Caption information: Schwangere Frau nach links [Pregnant woman facing left (seen from the left)] / um 1908 [c. 1908] / Bleistift, roter und blauer Farbstift [pencil, red and blue crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color...
Caption information: Liegende Frau nach rechts, mit Ruschengewand [Reclining woman seen from the right, with garment made of ruffles]. (alternately, “with ruffles” or “a ruffled garment”)/ Bleistift auf braunlichem Papier [pencil on...
A woman wearing a dress and bonnet stands next to a seated man wearing a hat and suspenders and holding an infant girl wearing a dress and bonnet. They are outdoors on the hillside. Jean Thomas describes them as "eccentric." Title...
A woman wearing a dress and bonnet stands next to a seated man wearing a hat and suspenders and holding an infant girl wearing a dress and bonnet. They are outdoors on the hillside, and a clothesline is visible beside them. Jean Thomas describes...
Men; Women; Boys; Costumes--United States; Log cabins; People with disabilities
Described by Jean Thomas as "Idiot Man," the man in this image is wearing overalls and putting his finger to his nose. The child, a boy, crouches on the ground wearing a headband with feathers. A young woman (standing) and old woman...
Described by Jean Thomas as "Idiot Man," the man in this image is wearing overalls and a straw hat and sits on a bench, talking with his hand on the woman's shoulder. The old woman wears a blouse and skirt and sits next to the man on the...
A woman and two men pose on the set of "May Blossom, or the Fisherman's Daughter" which debuted at New York's Madison Square Theatre on April 12, 1884, and was staged at Macauley's Theatre in December 1884 and January 1886. Georgia Cayvan...
Two-story brick building with a pinnacled tower. "The Town Hall" is written above the building's top windows, which hold a banner reading "National Educational Association." Two curving sets of stairs with statues in front lead...
Men; Women; Children; Boys; Girls; Log cabins; Banners; American Folk Song Festival
An old man, woman, and four children stand in front of a log cabin holding a sign reading "We're on our way to Dorothy Gordon's concert." Thomas had met Gordon, a folk song interpreter, while working in New York City, and invited her to...
The term "promiscuity" is often used in academic literature and pejoratively
proliferated among society at large. The definition of promiscuity has not been clearly
and consistently defined within research and varies significantly from...
Studio portrait of an unidentified young woman, signed by "Klauber." Imprint on frame: "Klauber, Mezzotint, Louisville". May be Ada Freeman (b. 1891?) who, according to the U.S. Census, was living with the Matlack family in 1900...
Portrait of Ada Lewis (Mrs. John Henry) Heil of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a cloche hat and beads around her neck. Crop marks frame her face, and the photograph is marred with discolorations. Stamped on back of image: Credit, Griswold Studio...
Portrait of a young woman with her head tilted to her right, wearing her hair pulled back and a necklace. There is no record of a performance at Macauley's Theatre in August 1890. Inscription on mount verso: To [illegible] from Adelaide Long Branch...
