Hotels; Galt House (Louisville, Ky.); Streets; Carriages & coaches
Galt House hotel located at the northeast corner of First Street and Main Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Hotel completed in 1869, closed in 1919, torn down in 1921. The second of four hotels in Louisville to bear that name. Three men are walking...
Drawing of Union National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "R.G. Potter. Collection; Union National was licensed Oct 28 1890 / Geo. W. Swearingen Pres. W. P. Otter V.Pres. L.O. Cox Cashier....
Bird's-eye view of 4th and Main Streets in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, during the 1937 Flood, showing the Ohio River flooding onto Fourth Street. A crowd of people gathers at the intersection to witness the flooding. Handwritten on bottom of...
Three men stand amid debris including barrels, tree branches, and other garbage next to the ramp of the Municipal Bridge, also known as the Second Street Bridge and George Rogers Clark Bridge, behind a brick building at Main Street.
The Galt House Hotel at the corner of First Street and Main Street in Louisville, Kentucky. This building, the hotel's second location, was built in 1869, closed in 1919, and demolished in 1921. The hotel reopened in another location in 1973....
Location: 100 block of South Second Street, Louisville, Kentucky. In this street scene, a man peers down a manhole in Main Street. Behind him is a Gulf Refining Co. service station. Second Street is bustling with cars, trucks, and pedestrians. The...
Smoke; Building construction; Stockyards; Bourbon Stock Yard Company
Location: Main and Johnson Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Men work at a construction scene, replete with lumber and ladders. Pillars hold up the frame of part of the building on top of a concrete base. Utility poles and smokestacks emitting smoke...
Address: 533 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The camera was positioned in the middle of Sixth Street about six feet south from the center of Main Street pointing north, 1923. The view captured the Weatherly-McKennie Co. (dry goods) on the...
Ten-story Columbia Building, at Fourth and Main Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. Horse-drawn carts traverse the street in front of the building, and The Underwood is visible at right. Completed in 1890, the Columbia Building, also known as the...
Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Galt House (Louisville, Ky.)
The Galt House, First and Main Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Light five story building with high ceilinged, domed windowed first floor. Each successive floor has a different window ornament--pediments, bars with supports, bars, and arcs. Street...
Flooded intersection at 6th Street and Main Street, with 6th Stret lined by businesses. The water is halfway up the tires of the car parked to the left. Labeled time is 3:15. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by...
View of the 100 block of north 8th Street facing north towards the Ohio River. McCord Company is on the right and a moving and shipping company is in the building on the left.
