City & town halls; City Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Historic buildings; Clocks & watches; Automobiles; Carriages & coaches; Horses; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 601 W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This Renaissance Revival style building is Louisville City Hall which was constructed in the early 1870s. The building includes a raised basement and three stories of white stone. A...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; African American universities and colleges; Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.)--Buildings
Simmons University, Seventh and Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930. Two three-story buildings with chimneys, behind a low wall of concrete topped by a small iron fence. The college was founded in the 1870s to provide a college education...
Full-length character portrait of actress Marie Cahill in an indoor scene (amid a chair, an end table with lamp, a painting in the background), wearing a long gown with embroidered overlay and long white gloves, and holding a folded fan in her...
Color lithograph portrait of actress Marie Cahill wearing a fur-trimmed coat, wide-brimmed hat, and fur muff. Marie Cahill, born in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1870s, appeared at Macauley's Theatre four times between 1903 and 1909, in "Nancy...
Portrait of left profile of infamous actor John Wilkes Booth, wearing hair parted at the side, a handlebar mustache, and a dark suit jacket. Born May 10, 1838, the youngest brother of renowned actors Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., Booth...
Three-quarter length portrait of woman wearing her hair piled high atop her head (with long strands also worn down), a heavy necklace and earrings, and a long-sleeved dress with stripes at the cuffs. She is leaning onto her right arm, set atop a...
Portrait of infamous actor John Wilkes Booth, wearing hair parted at the side, a handlebar mustache, a dark suit jacket and tie, an overcoat, and leather gloves. Born May 10, 1838, the youngest brother of renowned actors Edwin Booth and Junius...
Portrait of woman with long hair wearing long-sleeve dress and small hat with feathers. It may be actress Lydia Thompson (per an annotation on mount verso), who produced and directed Lydia Thompson's Burlesque Troupe in the 1860s - 1870s. The...
Portrait of infamous actor John Wilkes Booth, wearing a handlebar mustache, suit jacket, and bow tie. Born May 10, 1838, the youngest brother of renowned actors Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln...
Autographed full-length portrait of performer, lyricist, and composer Anna Held standing with arms outstretched, wearing an elegant gown and headdress. Born in Paris in the 1870s, she married Maximo Carrera, then theatre impresario Florenz...
Buildings along Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky. Trees line the sidewalk in front of the buildings, while the foreground is dominated by Broadway. In the 1870s Broadway was considered a suburb with many large residences. By the end of this decade...
