General. – The Characaeae is the only extant family of an ancient and unique group of nonvascular aquatic plants which are classified as a separate division, the Charophyta (Groves and Bullock-Webster, 1920; Zaneveld, 1940; Imahori, 1954; Bold,...
New stewards stand at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. White, two-story octagonal stand with stairs and topped by a pennant. The first story is enclosed up to an open area at window height. The second story has an inner area which is enclosed...
Address: 226 E. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A four-story brick building is shown. The building is not symmetrical, but does include a covered porch, a large bay window on the third floor, skylights and decorative brick work. The...
Apartment houses; Porches; Fences; Street railroad tracks; Buildings
Address: 429 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This apartment building has a sign on its canopy announcing, "Chesterfield." Several Corinthian columns support the stone canopy and two pediments emphasize the Greek Revival influence of...
Address: 903 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A cobblestone street with trolley tracks runs in front of a building with a sign declaring it, "9th St. Public Warehouse." Other signs indicate a number of businesses using the building,...
Buildings; Factories; Industrial facilities; People; Men; Automobiles; Transportation; Ford Motor Company
Men work on the frames of cars which are set on a long, straight track. Behind the men are bins of materials and some tools. Most of the men wear caps and aprons or overalls. Windows let in light from behind and above the line. On the other side of...
Address: 3005 River Road, Louisville, Kentucky. On the right, the Louisville Water Tower stands 169 feet tall. The base is surrounded by Corinthian columns and the water standpipe is enclosed within a Doric column. This architectural theme is...
Two men stand, and two men and a woman sit on horses in front of a log cabin with a shingle roof and stone chimney. The dirt yard is enclosed by different types of fence and includes a few large trees and two more horses, one a foal. In the...
Seven cows of various size and a small calf stand in a row (one cow faces backwards) on a field enclosed by a split rail fence topped with barbed wire. G. N. McGrew was a farmer and stock raiser and served nine years on the State Board of...
Exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Enclosed by an open, pillared wall, a sign over one segment reads, "Coffee Exportation, annual mean for the years 1899-1903 in bags of 60 kilograms; every bag represents 50000 bags; Brazil...
Madison (Ind.)-Milton (Ky.) Bridge across the Ohio River, dedicated December 20, 1929. The river banks are covered in a light snow. Typed note on back of image: "Enclosed is a photograph of the new Madison-Milton bridge with Milton and the...
Standard Club at Zorn Avenue and River Road in Louisville, Kentucky. The club has several segments; each has a peaked roof. One section has canopies over the second floor windows. The large section to the right of that has a second floor balcony...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Kentucky--Buildings
Basketball Gymnasium, 1924. Wide brick building with high domed windows. White band above windows. Two entrance doors with white-pillared roofs also enclosed by high, square brick pillars eventually ending in triangular pediments.
National parks & reserves; Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Dining rooms
Hotel main dining room, Mammoth Cave Park, Kentucky. Exterior of "Hotel Lobby Main Dining Room", a white wood building with a large enclosed porch, darkened windows, flower boxes, and potted flowers.
Women; Costumes--United States; Fences; American Folk Song Festival
A woman sits on a bench in a yard enclosed by a brick fence, wearing a long white dress with ruffles, a plaid bodice and hem, and the skirt spread out. She hails from Prestonsburg (Floyd County), Kentucky, but is likely photographed in Boyd County...
Five men pose on a flatboat loaded with barrels. Four of the men wield poles used as oars. The boat includes an enclosed area resembling a small house or shed. Another figure is visible on the riverbank in the background. Title supplied by...
Five men pose on a flatboat loaded with barrels. Four of the men wield poles used as oars. The boat includes an enclosed area resembling a small house or shed. Another figure is visible on the riverbank in the background. Title supplied by...
Buildings; Banks; Liberty Insurance Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 207-209 W. Market Street. The interior of Liberty Bank had waist-high white marble counters. A row of benches and writing tables runs between two rows of enclosed teller counters. At the far end of the room is a gated vault with an ornate...
Buildings; Banks; Liberty Insurance Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 207-209 W. Market Street. The interior of Liberty Bank had waist-high white marble counters. A row of benches and writing tables runs between two rows of enclosed teller counters. At the far end of the room is a gated vault with the words...
Portrait of actor Maclyn Arbuckle looking to his right, wearing a double-breasted suit jacket and striped bow tie. His hair is parted in the middle and curls slightly at the sides. Arbuckle was born July 9, 1866, in San Antonio, Texas, and died...
