Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Exhibitions; Conference rooms; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)
Large empty room with columns, decorative crown molding, and pleated curtains along the perimeter. Large photographs hang above the curtains showing office scenes. Two images read "Trust Ledgers" and "Proof Transit." Address:...
This home in Old Louisville appears to be made in the brick Italianate style with a stone front. The first floor is raised with several steps leading up to the entry with double doors. The rectangular windows are trimmed with decorative posts and...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Louisville City Hospital
The Louisville City Hospital located at 323 S. Chestnut Street in Louisville, Kentucky included a building where the student nurses could live. This multistory brick building has a covered porch near its entrance. Curtains are visible in the...
Address: 1617 W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A small statue of a woman holding a large flame decorates a handrail in a hallway. The walls are decorated with two different patterns; one is a wallpaper with sketches of leaves and...
A row of three men and one woman sit in chairs. Behind them are three more men and three more women. The men are dressed in suits with ties. The women appear to be wearing dresses. They are posed in front of a brick building with sheer curtains in...
Address: 1607 S. Second Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Lettering on a window indicates, "Former Associates Of Jennie C. Benedict & Co." The arched window is topped with a stained glass inset with a fleur de lis at the center. The arch...
Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Utility poles; Trucks; African Americans; Men; People; Transportation
Two men stand on a wagon with a large spool of cable while others stand nearby. Another truck with cables, buckets, and poles seems to be anchoring the cable to the ground. Homes, many of them with lace curtains in the window, are visible in the...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
On back of image: "My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, Where Foster Wrote Song." Federal Hill, a two-story brick Greek Revival mansion with shutters and white curtains in every window and a flat roof with two chimneys, was the estate of the...
Salvation Army, Social Service Center, 330 East Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Ten men sit at a table and other areas in a room with flowered curtains, flowered rug, and dark furniture.
Entrance hall at the Dr. and Mrs. Irvin Abell home, 1433 South Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Corner of entrance hall. Stiff armchair and couch with large ornate oval mirror above. The wall has a curved section built in specifically under the...
Living room of Brent Arnold, Jr. home in Louisville, Kentucky. In the center there is a rectangular table with many booklets or magazines laid out around two lamps, a vase of flowers, bookends of women encasing a few books, and two small...
Dining room in Mayor William B. Harrison home at 1460 St. James Court, Louisville, Kentucky. On an area rug in front of four windows which are behind one set of curtains sits a polished rectangular wood table with flowers and two striped chairs....
Library in John G. Heyburn home at 1435 Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Dark room with rug and curtains, a large built in bookcase and a small bookcase hutch on a bureau. Room has various chairs, tables, and lamps.
Library mantel at John G. Heyburn home at 1435 Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Slightly crooked photograph featuring fireplace with fan screen and mantel with elaborate candlesticks and knickknack or clock embossed with a person. Heavy...
Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Bedrooms
Bedroom, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Room with white walls and area rug. Fluffy white curtains on windows and ruffly light bedding on large dark bed. Two tables with white shaded lamps. Bureau with flowers in corner. Padded straight...
The library in the Howard Mansion as seen from the hall near the east entrance. There is a tufted sofa against the wall on the left and another in the window alcove near the fireplace. Lace curtains hang at the windows, and the paneling is golden...
Louisville General Hospital; Nursing students; Nursing; Sick persons; Children
Four nurses at Louisville General Hospital crouch around a small table with three children. There are toys on the table and curtains in the window behind the group. On back of photograph: #6 pediatrics, p.38 part of ca.1959 brochure "Nursing...
Full-length character portrait of Julia Marlowe as Galatea, the ivory statue created by Pygmalion in Greek myth. She wears an Empire-waist tunic and stands on a pedestal between slightly parted stage curtains. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born...
Autographed full-length character portrait of performer and writer Clara Morris in costume for the role of Sister Genevieve in "The Two Orphans." She stands in a room with curtains and an end table, wearing a habit with a rosary at the...
Character portrait of Mattie Vickers standing on a stage set near embroidered curtains, wearing a long white gown with train and floral corsages on her shoulder and train. Inscription on mount, lower center: Sincerely yours, Mattie Vickers....
