Street railroads; Street railroad tracks; Buildings; Louisville Railway Company; Churchill Downs (Louisville, Ky. : Racetrack); Transportation
Address: 700 Central Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. People cross in front of streetcar 1109 in front of the Churchill Downs entrance. The men wear suits or shirts with their sleeves rolled up and many have light-colored hats with a dark band. One...
Address: 615 E. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Boys and girls are gathered in a lunch room at Hiram Roberts School. They are eating out of white cups with colored rims. The boys wear knee-length pants with long stockings and button-up shirts...
A young man is driving a truck up an incline. He wears a cap and a dirty shirt with rolled up sleeves. The back of the truck is filled with a mound of bricks. Signs on the side of the truck read, "Ruckstell Axle / 4 speeds forward" and...
A referee holds a basketball up between two young African American men. They each have an arm raised in anticipation of the ball being released. The two teams have distinctive uniforms. One uniform is made up of a white tank top with the letter M...
A girl, probably Pansy Fay Shook, poses for a formal picture. Her hair is a short bob with long waved bangs. She wears a flowered dress with short ruffled sleeves and a necklace.
Two smiling men shake hands in front of a black automobile. One man is in a light suit and tie and holds a straw hat. He wears a ribbon that says, "Universal Car Co." The other man is younger and wears his shirt sleeves rolled up. A...
The steamboat America is docked near a shore and crowds of passengers are along the decks and on the shore to observe an event taking place in the water. Three African American men are standing in the water. One is wearing a black robe belted over...
Agricultural machinery & implements; Men; People; Hay
Several men and boys work in a hay field in Boyle County, Kentucky. They are using pitchforks to feed hay into a machine which bundles the hay into rectangular blocks. Some of the men are in shirt sleeves and long pants while others wear overalls....
A woman places sliced apples on a cloth on top of a large rock. A lean-to of forked branches and lumber is set up over the rock. The rock platform has a space underneath where some wood sits. A child looks on and a dog stands near the woman who has...
Restaurants; Eating & drinking facilities; Buildings; Men; People; Group portraits
A group of men in white uniforms pose for a group portrait in front of the White Castle restaurant which has crenellations along the roofline. Each man wears a long-sleeved white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to just below the elbow, a long...
Address: 547-553 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Six men sit on parked motorcycles in front of Short's Tire Service. The men wear uniforms including jackets with insignia on the sleeves and a black belts buckled over their jackets. Their...
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Contests; Men; Obesity; People
A young man stands on a stage for the "Fattest man contest" at Fontaine Ferry Park, Louisville, Kentucky. He wears a shirt with the sleeves rolled up, belted pants and shoes and holds a white hat.
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Contests; Twins; People
Five sets of twins are posed together for a group portrait during the "Twins contest" at Fontaine Ferry Park, Louisville, Kentucky. The men mostly wear shirts with the sleeves rolled up. Only one set of male twins wears a full suit with...
African Americans; Boys; Hats; Wheat; Farms; People
An African-American boy with a straw hat sits atop a stack of wheat at Kerlin Farm in Prospect, Kentucky. The boy is wearing knee length pants and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
Women; Guitars; Trumpets; Musical instruments; Music stands
A woman in a large dark hat, a jacket with wide gathered sleeves, and a ruffled white blouse sits at a table, strumming a guitar. A music stand next to the table holds an open book and a trumpet lies on the table, as do some sheets of paper. The...
Portrait of Mary L. (Mrs. Benjamin) Crawford of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing short sleeves. Photograph has a few marks of discoloration. Stamped on bottom, front of image: Standiford, Louisville. Stamped on back: March 10, 1933. Handwritten on...
Frances Martin of Louisville, Kentucky wearing a wire hat and a jumpsuit with alternate sleeves and lengths being long and short. The photograph has been cut so that only her image is visible. Stamped on back of image: June 3, 1933. Handwritten on...
Portrait of Frances (Mrs. Phillip) Newman of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a cloche hat, coat, and holding gloves. The photograph has been painted on, marked with discolorations and age. Handwritten on back of image: One of the new high-necked...
