African Americans; Street musicians; Mouth organs; Wind instruments; People
Four boys and a man with a beard stand in front of a wood fence. The man holds a harmonica in one hand and his hat on the ground next to him with the brim side up. The nearest boy extends his cap in the same position, possibly asking for money for...
Schools; African Americans; Hammers; Saws; Hand tools; Fences; Hats; Fraternal lodges; Buildings; People
Address: 316 W. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Seven young African American men stand by a fence on the Prentice School property. The hammers and saws they hold and the freshness of the fence wood indicates that they may have just built it....
A boy wearing a hat, short pants, and a large grin sits on a split-rail fence. A man wearing a suit and holding a straw hat and a woman wearing a long dress and holding a parasol stand beside the fence. Title supplied by cataloger.
Children; Men; Women; Animals; Play (Recreation); Toys; Farming; Reading; Spinning
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top: girl seated outdoors holding dog; man in overcoat and top hat facing man in shirtsleeves and vest holding axe; axe leaning against tree stump (sideways); man and boy on porch, with dog and...
Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Buildings; Houses; Fences; Billboards; Children
Flooded and icy street with houses to the left and a fence and billboard to the right. Saint Xavier Athletics is painted on the fence. Children stand on both sides of the street n front of the houses and fence. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood...
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...
"Z Taylor 1835" is carved into the trunk of a tree in Iroquois Park, Louisville, Kentucky. The tree is believed to have been carved by Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, in 1835. Beneath that carving is another...
An African American man in a white shirt and black pants sits on a rail fence near Mt. Sherman in LaRue County, Kentucky. His attire includes a black tie tucked into his shirt and a pair of white suspenders. Tire tracks can be seen in the dirt road...
Location: between Jefferson and Chestnut, Jackson and Clay Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. On one corner is what looks like an abandoned lot with a partial fence. On the opposite corner is a home with a broken down fence. The house is a long brick...
Utility poles; Dwellings; Houses; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings
A couple of homes can be seen in this hazy picture of telephone lines. The home in the foreground is a one-and-a-half story home with a front porch. Two wooden trellises are attached to the porch. In the back, there is a wooden fence. Across the...
Two women (one of whom is African American) and two men stand spaced apart in front of a substantial two story stone and brick house, possibly in Mercer County, Kentucky. Several outbuildings surround the building, along with a number of large,...
Women; Dwellings; Houses; Stone buildings; Wooden buildings; Religious communities; Shakers; Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Ky., Inc.
At the left of the photograph is a large three-story wood house; at right are two two-story houses closely spaced (the house furthest to the right is stone; the middle house, set a little farther back, is wood). A row of bare trees, a one board...
Dwellings; Houses; Men; Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Ky., Inc.
Two-story light brick house consisting of two large, perpendicular sections, with shutters and many chimneys. A line of trees (some of them severely pruned) and a picket fence with a six board gate runs in front of the house; behind the fence, four...
The Barren County, Kentucky county seat of Glasgow's courthouse, a two-story brick building with a clock tower and a double, domed entrance with two white pillars. A scalloped metal fence runs along the property, and a little closer to the street...
Group of people, including men and women both white and black and a young girl and boy, and cats standing and sitting in front of a wooden dairy building with a brick chimney at a dairy farm, possibly in Clark County, Kentucky. Two delivery wagons...
A horse and wagon travel on Harrodsburg Pike, a dirt road running alongside a stone fence. The property beyond the fence includes a large home. Title supplied by cataloger.