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...
A stately brick home has an entryway framed by four white columns and topped a triangular section with a semi-circular window inset. The home has four chimneys and mature trees surrounding it. A brick pathway leads through the mown grass to the...
Address: 1525 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The building in the middle has a plaque on one of its columns indicating, "Funeral Home, Herman Meyer." The building three or four-story building has a conical roof on the left side...
Street railroads; Street railroad tracks; Buildings; Louisville Railway Company; Transportation
Address: Seventh and Myrtle Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. A trolley barn is shown with two open bays. The front of the building is two stories while the back portion is a single story. Utility lines crisscross in front of the building and trolley...
Location: 800 block of Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. "Broadway looking West from a point about 100 ft. east of Shelby" was written on the invoice indicating that this photograph was likely taken for insurance purposes. On a rainy day...
Address: 110 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky (building no longer exists). A line of mule carts and trucks line up with their drivers in front of the Belknap Hardware & Mfg. Co. building. In front of them stands a man in a suit and hat.
Address: 840 Ash Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A note on the invoice indicated the camera position as "in front of dividing line between 840-842 looking West." As the focus of the image is the brick sidewalk, this photo may have been...
A woman in a cap, jacket, and riding boots pauses on a horse. She is likely Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. The horse wears a bridle and a saddle with a blanket. The scene is set in a stream with woods and a building in...
A woman in a cap, jacket and riding boots pauses on a horse. She is likely Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. The horse wears a bridle and a saddle with a blanket. The scene is set at the edge of a woods near a stream. A...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Log cabins; Dwellings; Buildings; People
In this winter scene two young boys talk to a nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service. The boys are standing on the porch of a log cabin and the nurse stands in front of the porch with one foot on the step. One boy is wearing overalls over a...
Religious facilities; Synagogues; Schools; Buildings; People
Address: 232 E. Jacob Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Fifteen women and one man are seated for a group portrait. Most of the women hold bouquets of roses while the man has a flower on the lapel of his suit. The group sits in front of a tablet with...
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service approaches a group sitting on a porch. The nurse is holding the reins of a dark horse with a blaze on its muzzle. She's wearing a cap and jacket, riding pants and boots, and a dark tie. Another horse is...
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service stands with her horse in front of a log cabin. A boy sits on the cabin steps and a girl stands next to them as a woman with an infant on her hip stands in the doorway. The nurse is smiling down at the boy....
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Families; Newspapers; People
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service stands next to the chair of a woman holding a baby in a blanket. Four small children sit on the wood floor and one older child leans against the wall. The nurse is wearing a cap, blouse, tie, jacket, and...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Families; Newspapers; People
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service sits on a chair next to a mother holding an infant. The nurse wears a cap, long-sleeved blouse with a tie, pants, and an apron. The mother wears a v-neck sweater and a skirt and a bandana on her head....
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service arrives on horseback at a two-story log cabin. She holds a barefooted infant on the saddle in front of her. A crowd of mostly women and children stand in a semi-circle around her. The photograph was taken...
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service talks with girls and a woman near a well. She is holding a brown horse by the reins. The horse wears a saddle. The nurse wears a cap and jacket with the initials FNS on the sleeve. She wears riding pants...
Horses; Parades & processions; Buildings; Transportation; People
Address: 431 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Six bay horses in harness pull a parade float carrying three women down Third Street. Two men in uniforms drive the horses. The float has the word Seagram's written out with one letter each on a...
Address: Dumesnil and Catalpa Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. This photo was likely taken for insurance purposes as the invoice indicated, "Intersection showing where Oertel truck was struck by automobile." The image shows a street corner...
Invoice note: "Camera on Magnolia, about 50 ft. west of rear of 2114 Woodland looking toward 21st." This shot captures the back of the American Box & Crate Company where the railroad tracks run. A silo sits at the top of one of the...
