African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); Central High School (Louisville, Ky.); Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity; African Americans--Employment;...
Oral history interview conducted with James Shively on December 18, 1978 by Dwayne Cox. Mr. Shively focuses largely on his education in Louisville, at Louisville Central High School and the Louisville Municipal College, in the 1930s and 1940s. He...
African Americans; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Education; Segregation in education; Race relations; Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); University of Louisville; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Mrs. Amelia Ray, conducted on August 25, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mrs. Ray discusses her early life and upbringing in Tennessee as well as her life in Louisville. Mrs. Ray moved to Louisville in 1934 and attended...
Allen R. Hite Art Institute; Drawings; Paintings; Prints
Catalog of an exhibition of selected works from the University collection presented by the University of Louisville, Allen R. Hite Art Institute, November 19-December 19, 1978 and January 2-25, 1979.
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Research facilities; Health care facilities;
Entrance to the Child Psychiatry Research Center, University of Louisville, apparently before the facility was named in honor of William Keller, chair of the U of L Department of Psychiatry, in 1978. Location: 608 South Jackson. Current uses:...
African Americans; African American business enterprises; African American Business people; Drugstores; Pharmacists; African American pharmacists; Urban renewal; Service stations; Standard Oil Company; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Frank Moorman, Sr., conducted on August 17, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Moorman was a businessman in Louisville's Walnut Street area. Mr. Moorman discusses his parents and grandparents, and his early life in Owensboro,...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; African American social workers; African American educators; African American college teachers; Segregation in education; Civil rights leaders; Lincoln Institute...
Oral history interview with Eleanor Young Love, conducted on October 2, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Dr. Love was a U of L professor and administrator, and sister of civil rights leader Whitney Young, Jr. Dr. Love discusses her parents, Laura and...
African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Race relations; Public relations; Discrimination in housing; Housing; African American legislators; Insurance agents; Women legislators; African American legislators; Kentucky--Politics and...
Oral history interview conducted with legislator Mae Street Kidd on October 10, November 11, and December 5, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. Ms. Kidd discusses her life, including her childhood growing up in Bourbon County. Kidd attended the Lincoln...
Undertakers and undertaking; Business people; African American businesspeople; Politicians; African American politicians; Discrimination in public accommodations; Segregation--Law and legislation; Discrimination in employment; African...
Oral history interview with Goldie Winstead Beckett, conducted on September 12, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. In this interview, Mrs. Beckett discusses her life as well as her husband’s experiences as alderman in the city of Louisville in the late 1940s...
Hospitals; Marine hospitals; Health care facilities; Buildings; United States. Marine Hospital, no. 11 (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 2215 Portland Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Completed in 1847, this Marine Hospital's unique feature is the tower on top which could be identified by passersby on the Ohio River. The grounds have an expanse of mowed grass lined with bushes...
Address: 427 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This image depicts Fourth Street with a brick road and trolley tracks. The Kaufman Straus Co. department store is shown with multiple canopies and leaded glass windows. The store windows appear...
Address: 815-827 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A multi-story industrial building dwarves the two- to four-story buildings surrounding it. "Stimpson Computing Scale Co." is painted on the front of the building. An embossed sign...
Theological seminaries; Religious facilities; Schools; Automobiles; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 109 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Constructed in sections from 1904 through 1909, this complex of buildings originally housed the Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In 1967 it was purchased by Jefferson Community College. A great lawn...
Hospitals; Lawns; Porches; Balconies; Health care facilities; Marine hospitals; United States. Marine Hospital, no. 11 (Louisville, Ky.); Buildings
Address: 2215 Portland Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. The United States flag flies in front of the U.S. Marine Hospital. Sidewalks cross the lawn and a scattering of trees and bushes provide landscaping for the building. People stand on the porches...
Address: 427 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Automobiles park in front of the Kaufman-Straus Co. building. A crowd of pedestrians walk along the sidewalks in front of the display windows. On the side of the building is a sign indicating,...
Hotels; Ballrooms; Historic buildings; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 335 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Large chandeliers hang over the dance floor in the Crystal Ballroom of the Brown Hotel. Chairs edge the dance floor. An arched pattern is repeated in doorways, windows and the designs on the ceiling....
Theological seminaries; Religious facilities; Schools; Buildings; Historic buildings
Address: 109 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Constructed in sections from 1904 through 1909, this complex of buildings originally housed the Presbyterian Theological Seminary. A great lawn is surrounded on three sides by the buildings which are...
Theological seminaries; Religious facilities; Schools; Buildings; Historic buildings
Address: 109 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This close-up on the entryway of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary shows its gothic elements. While the building is balanced it is not symmetrical and actually combines a number of...
Address: 817 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The tall building shown here is Snead Manufacturing Building. This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Snead building is brick, concrete and glass...
Address: 625 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The interior of Loew's Theatre shows the stage set up for a band with a drum, two pianos and music stands. The backdrop curtain has a patterned design and a side panel blocks the view of the...
Stores & shops; Lamps; Showrooms; Department stores; Commercial facilities
Address: 427-437 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This showroom of the Kaufman-Straus department store shows displays lamps, cookware, candle holders and other home goods. As the picture was commissioned by the Acme Lighting Fixture Company,...
