Paramount Ballroom (Shanghai, China); Architecture--China--Shanghai; Buildings--China--Shanghai; Shanghai (China)--History--20th century; Shanghai (China)--Social life and customs--20th century
The Paramount Ballroom was an innovative urban space that challenged traditional
Chinese values. In doing so it played an important role in Shanghai's modernization.
Traditional Confucian morality set very strict regulations on the social...
Churches; Religious facilities; Nightclubs; Buildings
Address: 539 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the left is the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. The church has a dome and cupola. On the right is the Madrid Ballroom. The Madrid Ballroom was added to the National Register of Historic...
Buildings; Hotels; Henry Clay Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 604 S. Third Street. The ballroom of the Henry Clay Hotel included numerous windows and chandeliers as well as a raised stage area for orchestra or other performers. According to the Louisville Guide, the ballroom was capable of holding...
Buildings; Automobiles; Transportation; Dance halls; Garages; Electric signs; Signs (Notices)
Address: southeast corner of Third and Guthrie Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. The Madrid Ballroom, labeled with a neon sign indicating "Madrid / Dancing," opened in September 1929 as a dance hall in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. White...
Address: 224 E. Broadway. The ballroom of the Kosair Temple is shown with chairs lining the wood floor. A piano is on the right and rows of matching chandeliers line the ceiling. The ceiling and walls are ornately decorated in Egyptian-style...
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....
Ballroom at the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky. It is a curved room with three high, curtained windows shown, a piano, and wooden chairs all along the wall. The parquet floor is empty. Two crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling, which...
Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Ballrooms
Crystal Ballroom, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Large room with high ceilings, a polished floor, draped two story entryways, and crystal chandeliers. Padded, straight backed chairs line the walls between the entrances.
Address: 224 E. Broadway. The ballroom of the Kosair Temple is shown with chairs lining the wood floor. A piano is on the right and rows of matching chandeliers line the ceiling. The ceiling and walls are ornately decorated in Egyptian-style...
Club Madrid. Large crowd of people at tables with white table cloths and on the dance floor in a ballroom. The men wear suits white tuxedos, and the women wear long dresses. A band is visible on the stage in the background. The ballroom is...
Large crowd of people at tables with white table cloths and on the dance floor in a ballroom. The men wear suits white tuxedos, and the women wear long dresses. A small group of people on the dance floor have turned to face the camera. A band is...
Address: 539 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The Madrid Building is shown with its sign advertising, "Bowling Dancing Billiards." On the first floor of the building is an entrance to a parking garage and Short's Tire Service. A...
Mammoth Cave Hotel at Mammoth Cave National Park, built by John Croghan in 1841 and destroyed by fire in 1916. Hotel was 200 feet long with piazzas extending the whole length of the building and two buildings adjacent to each end which held a...
Hotels; Mammoth Cave Hotel (Ky.); Buildings; Trees
Mammoth Cave Hotel at Mammoth Cave National Park, built by John Croghan in 1841 and destroyed by fire in 1916. Hotel was 200 feet long with piazzas extending the whole length of the building and two buildings adjacent to each end which held a...
Mansfield Tire & Rubber Company; Tire industry; Group portraits; Meetings; Men
Portrait of group of men wearing shirt sleeves and ties, posed in ballroom of Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Stratton & Terstegge Co., based in Louisville, was a manufacturer; Mansfield Tire & Rubber Company was based in Ohio. Title...
Mansfield Tire & Rubber Company; Tire industry; Group portraits; Meetings; Men
Portrait of group of men wearing shirt sleeves and ties, posed in ballroom of Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Stratton & Terstegge Co., based in Louisville, was a manufacturer; Mansfield Tire & Rubber Company was based in Ohio. Title...
Telephone companies; Men; Women; Ballrooms; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Holidays; Henry Clay Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Large group of men and women in rows of chairs and then standing in a ballroom or banquet room at the Henry Clay Hotel. A man dressed as Santa Claus is on the right in front of a Christmas tree. Address: Henry Clay Hotel, 604 South 3rd Street,...
Men and women sit at round tables in a large ballroom or banquet room. A group of men in tuxedos stand in a row along the wall on the left. A band is in the background. The walls appear to be decorated with metal scrollwork. For Benevolent and...
