Refreshment pavilion at Shawnee Park in Louisville, Kentucky. An open concrete enclosure with a wavy tile roof and a low rail. A low, wide staircase leads up to the pavilion; a man stands on the stairs. More people stand inside the shaded pavilion....
Golf lodge at Shawnee Park in West End, Louisville, Kentucky. Two story concrete and stone building with a tile roof. The stone second floor is reached by a stairway all the way up over the first floor. Stones are inlaid in curving patterns over...
Golf lodge at Shawnee Park in West End, Louisville, Kentucky. Diagonal view of golf lodge. Two story concrete and stone building with a tile roof. The stone second floor is reached by a stairway over the first floor. A man in uniform stands at the...
Observatory and bandstand at Shawnee Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Circular structure of brick and pillars. The front is open, and against an interior brick wall, there is a water fountain and a door (at right) leading up stairs. There is a brick...
Observatory and bandstand, Shawnee Park, Louisville, Kentucky. A shot very similar to the previous photograph. Circular structure of brick and pillars. The front is open, and against an interior brick wall there is a water fountain and a door (at...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Floods; Disasters; Cattle; Parks
Cows graze in Shawnee Park, Louisville, Kentucky, during the Ohio River flood of 1937. Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "R.G. Potter, Collection; Cattle seeking high ground in Shawnee Park, 1937."
Firemen pose with their truck in front of a building labeled "Engine Co. No. 22." Siren horns are attached to the building's suspended canopy. The men wear dark coats, pants, and hats with white shirts and dark ties. The back wheel of the...
Transportation; Automobiles; Crowds; Flags; Racing
Address: Cecil Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Cars raise dust as they race around an oval at what is likely the Kentucky State Fair. The audience watches from bleachers on the outside of the oval or standing in the infield. Others watch from two...
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Presbyterian churches
Low, brick, A-frame Shawnee Presbyterian Church, located at 44th and Main Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, on the day of its dedication (July 12, 1926). The entrance walkway is not yet complete, but a group of men and women enter the church along it....
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Presbyterian churches; Church dedications; People; Men
Trustees of the Louisville Presbyterian League at the dedication of the new church, Shawnee Presbyterian, at 44th Street and Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Men in suits pose in two rows outside a brick building.
113 maps, plus legends and information about publishers Louisville Title Company, Inc. (a real estate insurance and mortgage company), representing the city of Louisville, Kentucky and surrounding county ca. 1913, with color coding for railroads,...
Atlas of the City of Louisville, Kentucky prepared from official records, private plans and actual surveys. Thirty plates cover the entire city of Louisville and parts of the surrounding county. Each plate shows names of businesses and property...
Construction machinery digging up the road at the intersection of the 100 block of South 38th Street and Market Street. At the corner is a house with a sign for Geo. F. Hosch, Cleaner and Dyer, Office. Two young men are in the front left corner of...
The 200 block of South 38th Street dug up with a trench with boards laid across and supported by vertical beams with piles of dirt on either side. Construction crews are at the end of the narrow lane or tunnel of boards.
Two men, one of them African-American, work at a large pipe that has been exposed underground. The pipe has large holes and a board running through it. Title supplied by cataloger.
Construction; Maintenance & repair; Sewerage; Men; Construction workers
View of bulldozer and other equipment as the road at 38th Street and Market Street is torn up and the pipes and beams below exposed. There is a horse and wagon in the background. Men dig with shovels or stand nearby.
Two young men lean against a barricade at the 200 block of South 38th Street and Market Street facing south. A large piece of equipment is behind the boards in the street. Signs for a boxing match and a dance are on the barricade.
A group of men stand in front of a construction crane next to a long trench supported by beams in front of a large mound of dirt at 38th Street and Market Street.
