This thesis is an economic and historical examination of Keeneland racetrack in Lexington, Kentucky. The material commences with a historical overview of the role of sport and recreational activities in the United States. Putting sport and leisure...
Title: 14851. The speeding train amid Alpine heights, Amsteg, Switzerland. Text on left: James M. Davis, New York, St. Louis, Liverpool, Toronto, Sydney. Copyright 1902, by B.W. Kilburn. Descriptive information on back of card: Photographed and...
The side of a log cabin, which features a chimney, seen amid trees on the other side of a tilting stockade fence running along a dirt road. A horse grazes at the left side of the road near a cart which has been pulled aside, while a horse and buggy...
Brooklyn Bridge in Boone Tunnel on Kentucky River at Mercer County and Jessamine County, Kentucky. The bridge has high, wide stone pillars and ends at the tunnel into the high rock bank amid trees growing there. Caption on back of image:...
Portraits; Group portraits; Men; Women; Crowds; Government officials; Governors
Governor Albert B. "Happy" Chandler and wife, Mildred Watkins Chandler standing beside a car and three unidentified men amid a crowd of people. Chandler served as Governor of Kentucky from 1935-1939 (and again from 1955-1959). Stamped on...
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Episcopal churches
St. Mark's (Episcopal) Church, at Frankfort Avenue and Kennedy Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky, is a small, ivy-covered stone church with cross-topped bell tower, photographed amid snow and bare bushes and trees.
A small town with buildings, roads, and a grassy clearing, nestled in valley at Cumberland Gap, Kentucky, amid trees and mountains. In this photograph the town is partly obscured by a row of trees in the foreground.
Buildings; Government facilities; Capitols; Kentucky. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Special session of the Kentucky House of Representatives in Frankfort, Kentucky, called by Governor Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Senior, in 1935. Men sit informally on sturdy wood chairs amid manual typewriters and stacks of papers....
Vertically ribbed white house in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, with wood lacework hanging from the roof, amid large trees. The basic structure of Tuliphurst, a historic home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, now on the National Register of Historic Places, was...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Church schools
Sacred Heart Academy, Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Aerial view of two building clusters amid trees and paths. The cluster on the left is further recessed from the camera and contains a large hexagonal section with a dome and pinnacle, with...
Shelbyville High School in Shelbyville, Kentucky. A two-story brick building with white trim/geometric details and the label, "High School," above. From the side, a path leads to the doorway amid bushes and small saplings.
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Kentucky--Buildings; Libraries
Library at University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1924. Small, square stone and brick building with a sloped, four-sided roof of scalloped shingles. The building is amid trees and small pathways; fall leaves have started to fall around it.
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; Western Kentucky State Teachers College--Buildings
Community House at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, 1935. Small cabin of dark wood, amid overgrown grass and trees. The porch roof begins under the house roof; the roofs are layered. The photograph has been enhanced with paint. On back of...
Buildings; Galleries & museums; J.B. Speed Art Museum
Speed Museum galleries, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930. Two sets of marble pillars flank the walls of each end of a short wide hall between two display rooms. The closer room houses paintings around the walls at fairly low height and has a small table...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Distilling industries
Speed Scientific School testing for distilleries, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. A man in profile wearing a suit stands holding a lever amid heavy, dark machinery. Two windows are at left. In front of the first is a sign: ...
Carl Finger and Edward Ulrich testing bottled beer, Fehr's Brewery, Louisville, Kentucky. The younger man at left holds aloft and inspects a large test tube amid other tubes and beakers and the older man in glasses at right adjusts a microscope....
Aerial view of OFC Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky. View of buildings at center, farmland behind and river in front. There is a cluster of about seven buildings with dark roofs. There is also a water tower, amid trees. Stamp: "Bowman-Park Aero...
New construction, architect Carl J. Epping, Louisville Distillery of Frankfort Distilleries. Terraced brick buildings with flat roofs, some low, some medium height, amid a smoke stack. The beginning of a railroad is visible. Caption on back: New...
