The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 32. No. 14. but is actually Vol. 33. No. 17. There are creases across the center of each page that...
Slavery and the church--Kentucky--Louisville; Slavery--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville (Ky.)--Church history
In the one hundred and forty years of Louisville's existence, it has grown from a log cabin settlement with no churches to a city with 269 churches and church property valued at over $30,000,000. It is impossible to measure the moral and religious...
Oral history interview conducted with Nelson Goodwin on January 10, 1979 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Goodwin, a nursery owner and local historian from Louisville, Kentucky, discusses his ancestors and other African Americans who lived in the...
Address: 2116 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. An automobile is parked in front of the Bardstown Road Pharmacy. The hood of the car appears to be seamed down the middle with hinges so that it can be opened from the side. Two headlamps, metal...
Address: Bardstown Road and Douglass Boulevard, Louisville, Kentucky. The intersection of Bardstown Road and Douglass Boulevard is shown as cars drive down Bardstown Road. More cars are parked next to the Arno and Steiden Stores. Signs above the...
Dwellings; Houses; Stores & shops; Street railroad tracks; Automobiles; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 1300 block Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Handwritten on front: "January 10 - 1921, Louisville Gas & Electric Co., Bardstown Road near Longest Ave. looking South showing all lines moved to Southwest side of street."...
Intersection of Baxter Avenue and Bardstown Road, Original Highlands, Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1930. Along Bardstown Road, restaurant, house and barber shop in photo. Handwritten on back of print: "1000 block Bardstown Rd., c1930."...
Address: 2400 block of Bardstown Road. Vehicles park along the muddy edge of Bardstown Road. Utility lines trace along either side of the street. A row of businesses is separated from the paved street by a dirt expanse of several feet. The business...
Address: 2227 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Trolley tracks on Bardstown Road pass before a series of connected brick buildings forming a zigzag pattern. Each doorway has inset columns topped with a pediment over an arched window and...
Address: 2210 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Trolley tracks run down the street where Bardstown Road meets Harvard Drive. On the left side is the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company and on the right are Taylors Drugs and Steiden Stores....
Address: 2118 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. The Bardstown Road Branch of the First National Bank features a sign with a clock suspended perpendicular to the building. The brick building has a crenellated roofline and plate glass windows...
Address: 1394 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior of Chandler's electronics and appliances store is shown on the corner of Bardstown Road and Edgeland Avenue. Homes can be seen around the store and it appears that there is a home...
Utility poles; Street railroad tracks; Automobiles; Dwellings; Houses; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 1300 block Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Handwritten on front: "January 10 - 1921, Louisville Gas & Electric Co., Bardstown Road near Longest Ave. looking North showing all lines moved to Southwest side of street."...
Bardstown Road where it crosses Highland Avenue to become Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. On one corner is Taylor-Made Pharmacy No. 10 with a Coca-Cola sign in the window and a gingerbread-trimmed turret. The Highland Lunchroom sits to its...
A branch of the First National Bank at 2223 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky, is shown. The brick building has large windows and an entryway built on a corner of the building. Lettering in the front window reads, "Bardstown Road Branch,...
Guthrie, James, 1792-1869; Kentucky--Officials and employees; Kentucky--Politics and government--19th century
James Guthrie, like any man, may be considered as a private individual, as a participant in the economic activities of his time, and as a citizen. Of Guthrie’s personal life little is known besides the barest biographical outline. His business...
This thesis is a historical examination of the relationship between the railroad industry and state government in Kentucky during the nineteenth century. The thesis begins with an examination of the legal culture of the early nineteenth century and...
The Consumer and Industrial group of the General Electric Company (GE) allocates its shipping truckload to seventeen different trucking companies over 701 different routes from each of its nine terminals to 48 contiguous states. One of the...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
Parlor musicians at Federal Hill. On back of image: "Bardstown Ky. My Old Ky. Home. July 1933. Singing Foster songs." A man wearing a tuxedo plays piano, a woman plays harp, and four other women gather around listening at Federal Hill...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
A gathering of spectators, mostly women, watches as a horse-drawn carriage with an African-American driver wearing a top hat and passengers in antebellum period costumes stops in front of Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky...
