Five turbaned men and two harnessed donkeys in front of a building with a metal grid, part of the "Orient" concession along the "Pike" at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. On the building to the left of the grid, a notice...
Address: 1100 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. View of signs painted on the brick building currently housing Louisville Office Furniture. Large horizontal brick wall sign reads: "OK Storage, the world's largest long distance moving...
Address: 1100 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. View of signs painted on the brick building currently housing Louisville Office Furniture. Vertical sign reads: "OK Storage"; sign at base of building reads "OK Over Seas...
Drawing of a dark stallion named Gambonito. At the bottom of the drawing, a scroll reads: "Gambonito, 8419. 2:27 1/2, property of W. M. Rue and Son." (The rest of the scroll is illegible.) Gambonito is listed in the Year Book, Trotting...
Address: 907 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, KY. View of Louisville Monument Company. Large colorful ghost ad on side of this building reads: "Firestone Tires."
Buildings; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Mechanical systems components
Address: 711 Vine Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Sign painted on side of one-story brick building reads: "Acme Wholesale Furnace Supply 711 Vine Street." Also pictured is an old weathered Acme metal sign. This business is apparently now...
Address: 711 Brent Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of ghost signs on the four-story brick building currently housing Louisville Stoneware. This side of the building includes, near the top, the Louisville Stoneware banner; a brick wall sign above...
Painted portrait of attorney, editor, writer, civic leader, and honorary Kentucky colonel Reuben Thomas Durrett of Louisville, Kentucky. The plaque beneath the portrait reads: In memory of Reuben Thomas Durrett, Founder of The Filson Club,...
Jack Foy and an unidentified brunette woman pose in the woods by a tall bearing a sign advertising the American Folk Song Festival. The sign reads: "Jean Thomas, Director / American Folk Song Festival / June 8 / 12 mi. [with arrow] / June 8 /...
Tombstone reads: "In memory of the Hon. Judge THOMAS WARING, born in Prince George Co. Md. Emegrated [sic] to Ky. 1784 & Died in Greenup Co. Jan. 15th, 1818, in his 67. Year." A smaller marker in front of the grave reads...
William Anderson 'Devil Anse' Hatfield, the patriarch of the West Virginia family that feuded with the McCoys of Kentucky in the 1870s-1880s, is depicted in the figure atop this family tomb. The inscription reads: 'Johnson / Wm. A. / Robert L. /...
Jean Thomas, surrounded by three women wearing long dresses, holds a blonde child. The left side of the image reads: "Taken 8/10/19 PM." Title supplied by cataloger.
Drawing shows aerial view. Text reads: Proposed Louisville Medical Center / Joseph & Joseph Archts. & Engrs. Louisville KY. / Jas. A Hamilton & Assoc. Consultant Minneapolis Minn.
Cartoon pages of The Louisville Times newspaper from March 8, 1913, featuring a sketch of John T. Macauley smoking a cigarette, with a cat on his lap and a dog beside him. The text reads: "Col. John T. Macauley & Hobbies - No. 54. Catering...
Maps; Floods; Disasters; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville--1920--1940; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River
Map showing, in blue, the areas of Louisville, Kentucky, affected by the 1937 flooding of the Ohio River. Includes Street Index on recto, and description of the flood, chart of elevations of the Ohio River during floods dating back to 1832,...
Automobiles; Public libraries; Signs (Notices); Louisville Free Public Library
An automobile parked in front of the Louisville Free Public Library. A small flag on the hood of the car reads: Matlack Lighting Fixtures. Written across the bottom border of the print: Hudson 6-40 HP Claude C. Matlack 1914. See ULPA 1982.01.552.p...
Automobiles; Public libraries; Signs (Notices); Louisville Free Public Library
An automobile parked in front of the Louisville Free Public Library. A small flag on the hood of the car reads: Matlack Lighting Fixtures. Written across the bottom border of the print: Hudson 6-40 HP Claude C. Matlack 1914. See ULPA 1982.01.551.p...
Residents of Pewee Valley pick up mail at a small white frame building. A sign on the tree reads: "Pewee Valley Post Office." From left to right are: Lillian Fletcher, Marquesa San Germano, the postmistress (in doorway), unidentified...
The tree-covered path alongside Central Avenue in front of the old Post Office in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The sign on the tree reads: "Pewee Valley Post Office" and the front of the post office building is visible behind the tree on the...
Residents of Pewee Valley pick up mail at a small white frame building. A sign on the tree reads: "Pewee Valley Post Office." From left to right are: Lillian Fletcher, Marquesa San Germano, the postmistress (in doorway), unidentified...
