Multiple freight train cars on five sets of tracks leading to large industrial equipment with four smokestacks. To the right is a barge docked in the water. To the left are large piles of ore. Title: 6680 - Great Hoists, Hughlett & Brown...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Interiors; Basements; University of Louisville--Buildings; Mechanical systems; Debris
Dirt and mud cover piles of tangled tubing, plastic sheeting, cardboard boxes and plastic garbage cans. Pictured are the chilled water pumps that Physical Plant uses to cool the buildings. All of the motors for all of the equipment were replaced....
A crowd of men and a few boys pose in front of a large open-sided shack with piles of wood boards all around. Four of the people are sitting on some of the piles at right; the others stand at left.
Jilson Setters (a pseudonym for James William (J.W.) Day, 1860-1942), wearing a hat and carrying a cane, stands by piles of harvested corn resembling haystacks (probably on his farm in Rowan County, Kentucky). Title supplied by cataloger.
This photograph is one in a series ordered by the law firm of Batson, Cary & Welch of this property. The image shows a partially constructed home or garage. At the top of the driveway, piles of lumber stand. The property includes some mature...
Address: 321 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. The display window of the Player Roll Shop advertises Q.R.S. Player Rolls, "Records by the Mile" and specific songs, including "My Mammy,"...
Industry; Sand; Bridges; Transportation; Rivers; Waterfronts; Big Four Bridge
Address: 129-133 River Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Sand is heaped in piles at the Ohio River Sand Company along the Ohio River. Industrial equipment, buildings and utility lines mark the property. A fuel company boat is docked along the river and...
Industry; Sand; Bridges; Transportation; Rivers; Waterfronts; Big Four Bridge
Address: 129-133 River Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Sand is heaped in piles at the Ohio River Sand Company along the Ohio River, next to the buildings for Pittsburgh Fuel Company. Rows of railroad cars are parked next to the businesses. Three boats...
A note on the photograph indicates, "View looking west after the Tornado of June 2d 1875." The Masonic Home for Widows & Orphans, located on 2nd Street south of Bloom in Louisville, Kentucky, was incorporated on January 15, 1867. In...
Piles of scrap are shown within a chain-link fence. The debris includes lumber, metal and what might be seat cushions. Considering the date the photograph was taken, this is likely the result of the 1937 flood.
Kosair Children's Hospital (Louisville, Ky.); Hospitals; Building construction; Buildings
Address: 982 Eastern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky. During construction of the Kosair Crippled Children's Hospital, piles of lumber surround the partially constructed building. The first couple of stories are brick and mostly completed. The top...
Dwellings; Houses; Apartment houses; Building construction; Refuse; Refuse disposal
This photograph is one in a series ordered by the law firm of Batson, Cary & Welch of this property. A ten-story building is shown next to two houses. Next to the tall building is a shorter one with piles of wood and garbage indicating that it...
Railroad tracks lead into a mine entrance in the woods. The mine entrance, a roughly trapezoidal hole, is in the side of a small hill. At either side of the path are two small piles of logs.
Tobacco industry; Building construction; Lumber; Men
Barrett's Tobacco Stemmery frame under construction: a large barn-shaped wood building with a small brick addition. More of the work has been done on the first floor and roof. The second floor is more bare. Piles of wood boards lie or lean around...
A crowd of over forty men, some of them holding tools or buckets, stand in front of a coal tipple attached to the front of a simple, dark wood building. Two piles of ladders with another ladder in the middle lie on the ground in front of the crowd.
A white horse and cart stand in front of a wood building and tipple built atop some large piles of dirt; four men stand on the pile at the right. Wood boards lie loosely around, especially at the base of the pile on the left.
Three men in a lumberyard help hoist a board onto a low pile of boards while a fourth man stands to the right behind a smaller pile of similar boards on a wheeled cart that runs along a track. On either side of the track are many other piles of...
Racetracks (Horse racing); Keeneland Association (Lexington, Ky.); Buildings; Building construction
Buildings nearing completion for 1936 opening, Keeneland Association, Lexington, Kentucky. Panoramic photograph of two to three-story buildings of different sized stone and dark windows. At the sides the buildings have two layered tops like the...
