Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Hoses
Water being pumped out of the basement of the University of Louisville College of Education and Human Development (renamed the Woodford R. and Harriett B. Porter Building in September 2010) pours out of a blue hose that lays on the ramp leading to...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Parking lots; Hoses; Equipment; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Men; Vehicles
A long suction hose pours water into the parking lot north of the University of Louisville College of Business. Water is being pumped out of the basement. Photograph was taken in the late afternoon.
Floods; Western Union Telegraph Company; Hotels; Disaster relief; People; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville
Address: 612 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. In 1937, after a January of intense rainfall, the Ohio River Valley flooded. The 1937 flood was one of Louisville's greatest natural disasters. This photo shows police and Kentucky State Health...
Students in chemistry lab, Nazareth College, Louisville, Kentucky, 1924. Five young women in tea length skirts or dresses and Mary Janes (shoes), the same women as in the previous photograph, wearing the same clothes, stand near one another in a...
Barges; Disasters; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Heavy smoke pours from an American Barge Line oil barge after it exploded while tied to the bank at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana on May 23, 1929. Two unidentified men are in a rowboat nearby. According to the...
Streams; Bridges; Stone bridges; Construction; Maintenance & repair; Sewerage; Construction equipment; Men; Construction workers
Construction at the bed of Beargrass Creek at the stone bridge crossing Kentucky Street. Equipment and materials, including lumber, are at the site. Men work on the dry creek bed. A ramp or slide along the bank pours concrete below. Sacks are...
Three men stand at a microphone. The man in the center pours liquid from a vial into a glass held by the man on the right. The man in the center holds a sheet of paper in his other hand.
