Two people cross mud-covered Third Street which is still flooded at the intersection with Eastern Parkway. Orange and white sawhorses warn drivers to avoid the intersection. The Reynolds Building, also known as Reynolds Lofts, rises on the right....
A tractor trailer hauls another vehicle around the corner from Brook to East Lee street during the morning downpour. The gothic-inspired tower of DuPont Manual High School rises in the background. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
Address: 815-827 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A multi-story industrial building dwarves the two- to four-story buildings surrounding it. "Stimpson Computing Scale Co." is painted on the front of the building. An embossed sign...
Stores & shops; Buildings; Automobiles; Streets; Historic buildings; Stewart Dry Goods Co., Inc.
Address: 501 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Rows of black cars are parked on either side of the Stewart Dry Goods Company at the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard). The stone and brick building rises several...
A stone and brick house is pictured at an angle. The front of the building has an A-line design on the left side which is repeated in a truncated A-line for the entryway. This section is made of stone while the rest of the building is brick. The...
Buildings; Religious facilities; Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)
Address: 3642 Monks Road, Trappist, Kentucky. A low stone building with pointed-arch windows sits at the edge of a farm field. Atop the structure is a small cupola with a cross which mirrors the cross at the top of a steeple in the background. A...
Gardening equipment & supplies; Farming; Religious communities; Religious facilities; Buildings; People; Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)
Monks in robes work a field in front of the Abbey of Gethsemani. Two of them have hand-held hoes and a metal bucket sits on the ground near another's feet. In the background the abbey's steeple rises above a large, plain building. To the left is a...
A paddlewheel steamboat makes its way down the Big Sandy River. Plumes of dark smoke come out of two forward stacks and steam rises from smaller pipes further back on the boat. Houses and farmland can be seen on the banks with hills rising up in...
Industrial facilities; Buildings; Railroad tracks; Automobile industry
Address: 2500 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Several cars are parked next to a factory building. Signs in the parking lot indicate "Parking for Ford Motor Co. employees only." The building consists of a long low section for most...
Industrial facilities; Building construction; Buildings; Automobiles; Employees; African Americans; Ladders; Utility poles; People; Men; Children
Address: 800 Logan Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This view shows two sides of the Frank Fehr Cold Storage plant during its construction. On the site of the Schaefer-Meyer Brewing Co., Frank Fehr Brewing Co. Plant #2 opened in 1911, and began this...
Water bubbles up from a drain in the street. The Reynolds Building rises in the background to the right. The street is flooded almost up to the railroad bridge over Third Street. Photograph was taken in the mid-morning.
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Doors & doorways
Murky water rises halfway up a glass door serving as the "handicap entrance" to Jouett Hall on the University of Louisville campus. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
Dark clouds cover the sky over Third Street near the intersection at Eastern Parkway. The Reynolds Building rises in the right background. The street is flooded almost up to the railroad bridge over Third Street. Photograph was taken in the...
A brick building with a high smokestack blowing smoke. The building is in stair step segments of one to five stories; the smokestack rises above the lowest section, at left. The building has a dirt yard and is located on a wide dirt road. There are...
Dark smoke rises from the ground in an expanding column with a hole in the center near the top, as an oil well burns in front of a backdrop of trees, witnessed by a crowd of mostly men but also children, a baby held by a man, and a woman with a...
Smoke rises from the ground in a darkening and widening column near a small shelter. Two men in white shirts stand in front. One man has his arms crossed and one is holding onto his suspenders. Leafy trees encircle the clearing and there is also a...
Several displays in a large room with a grid of metal beams at the ceiling within the Palace of Agriculture at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. On top of one of the displays, an enormous model of a tobacco leaf rises between two octagonal...
A view of the Empire Coal Company alongside railroad tracks, with several railroad cars loaded with coal. A person is standing on the tracks and another is standing on top of a railroad car full of coal. Steam or smoke rises around the cars,...
Courthouse in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. The courthouse is dark with white trim and has a tower that rises in two blocks with small balconies above a triangular portico. There is a large curved window on the second floor. Three cars are parked in...
Southern Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Second Street and Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky, 1925. At the left, behind a traffic light, is a three-story building with an angular domed roof and a top window from which an ornate pole rises. At the...
