African Americans; African American business enterprises; African American Business people; Drugstores; Pharmacists; African American pharmacists; Urban renewal; Service stations; Standard Oil Company; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Frank Moorman, Sr., conducted on August 17, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Moorman was a businessman in Louisville's Walnut Street area. Mr. Moorman discusses his parents and grandparents, and his early life in Owensboro,...
African American farmers--Kentucky; Farms--Kentucky; Land use, Rural--Kentucky
The decline of black farmers and black-owned farmlands is an ever worsening problem. Though their numbers neared one million at the start of the 20th century, the most recent account of black farmers states that there are only 30599 left in America...
The Consumer and Industrial group of the General Electric Company (GE) allocates its shipping truckload to seventeen different trucking companies over 701 different routes from each of its nine terminals to 48 contiguous states. One of the...
Mixing machinery; Production engineering--Case studies
A processing facility in Trenton, Ky owned by HydroSolutions is in need of modernization in order to increase efficiency in the mixing process, improve the safety of the facility, and give the facility the ability to expand in the future. The main...
To gain a true appreciation of the works of any author, we must first be familiar with his race, his environment, and the period in which and of which he wrote. The Paris of the early seventeenth century was far different from the modern metropolis...
Integration; African Americans; Hospitals; Red Cross Hospital (Louisville, Ky.)
D.W. Beard was interviewed on November 29, 1979 about the Red Cross (Community) Hospital. He was a member of the board of Community Hospital, which was known previously as Red Cross Hospital. He discusses public perception of the hospital and the...
Automobiles; Libraries; Louisville Free Public Library; Buildings; Historic buildings; Transportation
Address: 301 York Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A Winton automobile is parked in front of the Louisville Free Public Library. One of a series of photographs of Winton automobiles owned by John Maas, Mrs. Mooney, Mrs. Read, Dr. Anderson, Mr. Long,...
Address: 300 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. One of a series of photographs of Winton automobiles owned by John Maas, Mrs. Mooney, Mrs. Read, Dr. Anderson, Mr. Long, Mrs. Humphreys, Pearson & Son, Miss Cummings, Mr. Kopmeier, and auto at...
Side entrance of Lyndhurst mansion in Lexington, Kentucky, formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Stone. The architect based his plans on a villa he visited in Italy. Construction began in 1861 but was interrupted by the Civil War. The villa was...
Large L-shaped cattle barn with cows at the Woodburn farm in Woodford County, Kentucky. A windmill is behind the barn. The Woodburn horse farm was owned and operated by the Alexander family.
Large Colonial farm house at Castleton Farm on the Iron Works Pike in Fayette County, Kentucky, viewed from the side and back of the house. The side entrance has columns and griffins. Owned by James R. Keene of New York from 1901-1913, the farm was...
An African American man with a gray beard and a young black man stand at a large stone gateway on the Woodburn farm in Woodford County, Kentucky. A lodge is visible just inside the gate. The Woodburn horse farm was owned and operated by the...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
Parlor musicians at Federal Hill. On back of image: "Bardstown Ky. My Old Ky. Home. July 1933. Singing Foster songs." A man wearing a tuxedo plays piano, a woman plays harp, and four other women gather around listening at Federal Hill...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
At Federal Hill, also known as "My Old Kentucky Home" in Bardstown, Kentucky, an overall-clad African American man plays guitar for a woman, seated on the ground in a long dress, while a man wearing a tuxedo and holding a top hat looks on...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
A gathering of spectators, mostly women, watches as a horse-drawn carriage with an African-American driver wearing a top hat and passengers in antebellum period costumes stops in front of Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
A man and woman approach Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky Home," in Bardstown, Kentucky, followed by an African-American man carrying luggage, as three women stand and one woman sits on the entrance steps. Federal Hill...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Allen Meverelle Reager of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a striped tie. He owned his own insurance company. The photograph is discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: Photo by Rieger. Stamped on back: July 1, 1924.
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Allen Meverelle Reager of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing his hair combed back and textured tie. He owned his own insurance company. The photograph is marked with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: 1924; Cusick (Studio,...
White wood house with stone details, Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Known as The Beeches, this house was once owned by the Lawtons, who were models for the Walton family in the Little Colonel book series. The author of the books, Annie Fellows Johnston,...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Gymnasiums
A low brick building with a sloping roof and a small wing with a flat roof. Part of St. Joseph's Hospital, also known as St. Joseph's Infirmary. The door is in the center of the wing, which appears at the right side of the photo....
