Undertakers and undertaking; Business people; African American businesspeople; Politicians; African American politicians; Discrimination in public accommodations; Segregation--Law and legislation; Discrimination in employment; African...
Oral history interview with Goldie Winstead Beckett, conducted on September 12, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. In this interview, Mrs. Beckett discusses her life as well as her husband’s experiences as alderman in the city of Louisville in the late 1940s...
African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Race relations; Public relations; Discrimination in housing; Housing; African American legislators; Insurance agents; Women legislators; African American legislators; Kentucky--Politics and...
Oral history interview conducted with legislator Mae Street Kidd on October 10, November 11, and December 5, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. Ms. Kidd discusses her life, including her childhood growing up in Bourbon County. Kidd attended the Lincoln...
Walnut Street Baptist Church in its original location at the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1890. The church relocated to Third and Saint Catherine Streets in 1901. Image is marred with...
Streets; Buildings; Macauley's Theatre (Louisville, Ky.); Theaters; Cultural facilities; Automobiles
Block of West Walnut Street including Macauley's Theatre (329 W. Walnut Street) and the offices of the Louisville Post, with cars parked along street. The theater was razed after the final performance on August 29, 1925, and the Starks Building now...
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,...
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Hotels; Coffeehouses
400 block west Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard, looking east. View down Walnut Street with the Walnut theater, a cafeteria, and the Seelbach Hotel along one side of the street and the Hotel Watterson and a coffee shop on the other side.
Interior of the Walnut Street Baptist Church showing the apse and back wall of the building. Image shows pipe organ and low hanging chandeliers over rows of pews. Title supplied by cataloger.
Address: 312 E. Walnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Three "1/2 ton cap." trucks are shown here in front of the American Dye Works building. Each truck includes a sign reading, "American Dye Works, F. Edmond Klein, Prop., 'A Personal...
Buildings; Stores & shops; Drugstores; Coffeehouses; Street railroads
Southeast corner of 5th Street and Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard. Multi-story stone-and-brick building with a T.P. Taylor drugstore on the corner. The Kentucky Coffee Shop is on walnut Street. A streetcar is moving north on 5th Street.
Fourth Street at West Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard. Walnut Street looking west towards 4th Street with the Seelbach Hotel at the southwest corner of the intersection and other buildings and businesses lining the block. A policeman...
Stewart's Dry Goods on corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets (501 S. Fourth St.), Louisville, Kentucky. The photo shows entrances on two sides of the building, each with its own suspended canopy. Women can be seen window shopping at a display of...
Streets; Buildings; Hotels; Theaters; Automobiles; Street railroad tracks
Copy photograph of an album page, with caption provided by Potter, of a 1928 street scene along Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) at the intersection with Armory Place in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Cars are parked along the street,...
Men at work on steeple of Walnut Street Baptist Church in its original location at the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1890. The church relocated to Third and Saint Catherine Streets in...
Large two-story building at the corner of Fifteenth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Sign painted on the side reads "Hy. Fruechtenicht Groceries, Fresh Meats, & Vegetables." A man in an apron stands in...
Two two-story wooden buildings, seemingly connected, at the corner of Eighteenth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. One houses a "Chile" house (ten cents per bowl). A woman stands on the pavement as if waiting...
Buildings; Cafes; Bowling alleys; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Electric signs
Large three-story brick building at the corner of Eighteenth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor houses O. J. Baker's Cafe and Bowling Alley. Large windows on the second floor with ornate decorations on top.
Two-story brick building at the corner of Nineteenth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Awning above the shop wrapped up around a pole. Shop on the ground floor is Jos. Hudbuch, Jr. Wines & Liquors.
Buildings; Stores & shops; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Street railroad tracks
One-story wooden building with dark facade at the corner of Twentieth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Appears to be a grocer (no specific name given) with ads for Mother's Bread in the windows. A person can be seen in...
Two-story brick building with long windows at the corner of Twenty-Sixth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor houses Hubbuch's Cafe, selling Fortuna Whisky and Senn & Ackerman Lager Beer. A man is visible...
Two-story wooden building with dark facade on lower level at the corner of Thirtieth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor houses Henry Budke Grocery & Saloon; signs in the windows advertise Mother's Bread,...
