Louisville City Hospital school of nursing 1938 - Student nurses, class of 1938, at the Louisville City Hospital school of nursing, which later became Louisville General Hospital. Three rows of female students on the grass in front of a brick...
Color map, with Street Index, of Louisville, Kentucky, compiled in 1936. Verso includes lists of public halls, blocks and buildings; places of amusement (theaters, private parks, etc.); subdivisions; monuments; clubs; hospitals, institutions, and...
Couples in formal wear dance on a wood floor. The men wear tuxedos and the women wear floor-length gowns. To the right are a number of tables where people sit. The tables have glasses and napkins on them as well as decorations including tall...
Men in suits and ties sit at tables in the Kentucky Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. The tables are set with bread and fruit cups and assorted tableware. Some of the men have ribbons on their lapels. A banner is hung from the back of the room which...
Address: corner of Stilz and Frankfort Avenues, Louisville, Kentucky. Trolley tracks line the roads in front of Steiden Stores. The grocery has canned goods displayed in its windows. Next door is a beauty salon and barbershop with a barber pole...
Transportation; Street railroads; Streets; Automobiles; Stores & shops
The invoice for this photograph indicates it was taken at 4:40 P.M. A number of cars and trolleys drive down Liberty Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Businesses line the street including Gibson-Winer Insurance, Liebschutz Book Store, and Woolworth's.
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...
Buildings; Galleries & museums; J.B. Speed Art Museum
Address: 2035 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This upward shot of the front of the J. B. Speed Memorial Museum captures the Doric columns and Greek influence of the building. Wood double doors are topped with a decorative transom and...
President Franklin Roosevelt and an entourage of men in suits stand at the rear of a train car. At the end of the car is a sign for the Baltimore & Ohio Special and microphones from WHAS and WAVE radio stations are propped up by the car's rail....
Churches; Religious facilities; Altars; Stained glass
Wooden pews face an altar which is carved with an image of the Last Supper. Potted lilies sit on either side of the altar and three stained glass windows are above. The windows come to a slight point at the top which is echoed in the cantilevered...
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....
Motion picture theaters; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Interiors; Motion picture posters
Address: 2313 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Two posters grace the wall of the Ideal Theatre lobby. One advertises "Second Honeymoon" with Tyrone Power and Loretta Young. The other advertises the movie "Sally, Irene and...
Theological seminaries; Religious facilities; Schools; Buildings; Historic buildings
Address: 109 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Constructed in sections from 1904 through 1909, this complex of buildings originally housed the Presbyterian Theological Seminary. A great lawn is surrounded on three sides by the buildings which are...
Theological seminaries; Religious facilities; Schools; Buildings; Historic buildings
Address: 109 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This close-up on the entryway of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary shows its gothic elements. While the building is balanced it is not symmetrical and actually combines a number of...
Stores & shops; Department stores; Window displays; Mannequins
Address: 532 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The word "Byck's" is spelled out across a marble section above the entryway of Byck's Bros. department store. Above the marble are windows with open blinds. Below the marble are a set...
Address: 132 W. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A shiny marquee announces "koby drugs" with decorative curvy lines. The store is at the corner of Second and Chestnut Streets and the main door opens to the corner. The floor in front...
Football; Group portraits; Athletes; Sports; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Gymnasiums; Sports & recreation facilities
The University of Louisville football team pose for a group portrait in numbered uniforms. A football sits on the ground in front of the group of men. Beside the uniformed players are three other men. One stands to the left with a long-sleeved...
Ropes with flags and pendants hang across a road where men and women are walking. In the middle of the road is a kiosk with a sign reading "Fool the Guesser." Past that is a building advertising "Giggles / Nuttier than the nut house...
President Franklin Roosevelt and an entourage of men in suits stand at the rear of a train car. At the end of the car is a sign for the Baltimore & Ohio Special and microphones from WHAS and WAVE radio stations are propped up by the car's rail....
Bicyclists and pedestrians meet at the doorway of Young's Pharmacy at Frankfort Avenue and Pope Street. The building is multiple stories tall and likely includes an apartment on the upper floors. Beyond the pharmacy is Rosalind Beauty Shoppe and...
