Address: 817 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The tall building shown here is Snead Manufacturing Building. This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Snead building is brick, concrete and glass...
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.); Dining rooms; Schools; African Americans; Women; People; Segregation in education
A number of young African American women set the tables at the Lincoln Institute dining room. Each woman wears a white apron over her clothes. The tables are covered with white paper or cloth and wood chairs are pulled up. Silverware is laid out...
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.); Students; African Americans; Engines; Vocational education; Schools; People; Segregation in education
Several groups of African American men work on engines in a brick room with large windows. One man wears a suit and is probably the instructor while the others wear sweaters and slacks. One sign on the wall shows a Chrysler transmission and another...
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.); Students; African Americans; Typewriters; Vocational education; Schools; People; Segregation in education
A woman watches a young lady typing. Three others are also practicing at their typewriters. Each short desk has one or two typewriters and a larger table has a book, pen, paper, and calendar on it. A radiator sits between two windows which show...
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.); Football players; African Americans; Schools; People; Segregation in education
A group of mostly African American men pose for a photograph next to a goalpost. Most wear dark long-sleeved tops and knee length light-colored pants. Some hold helmets and others have footballs in their hands. To the sides are two men who may be...
A number of automobiles and trucks are parked in front of buildings on Main Street. The building partially showing on the left is Bosler Bros. Leather & Findings. A sign in the window advertises, "Shoemakers Supplies, Shoe Machinery,...
Zimmerman, Leo W., 1924–2008; Art, Abstract--Kentucky--Louisville; Kinetic art--Kentucky--Louisville; Mural painting and decoration, American--Kentucky--Louisville
Leo Zimmerman is a contradiction: A man who was both highly collaborative and deeply influential in the Louisville art scene but was a misanthrope who became increasingly reclusive over the years. He produced prolifically yet chose to never sell...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. A large portion from pages five and six is missing from this issue.
Maps, on a scale of 200 feet per inch, of "every lot or parcel of ground" in the central area of Louisville, Kentucky in 1876, including details such as precise dimensions, owners' names, building materials (wood vs. brick) and whether...
