Schools; Carpentry; Religious facilities; Classrooms; Children; African Americans
Young African American boys work in a carpentry lab at the Presbyterian Colored Mission in Louisville, Kentucky. They use saws, hammers, mallets and other wood working tools as a man in dark slacks, a white shirt, and dark tie helps them.
Men; Women; People; Religious facilities; Welfare facilities; Quilts; Beds
Address: 314 S. Hancock Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Beds and makeshift room dividers adorn a room for refugees at the Presbyterian Colored Mission. Two men and two women sit in the room. The men wear suits and have placed their hats on one of the...
Address: 1713 W. Madison Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This photograph, commissioned by the Board of Education, was shot to keep track of the progress on the renovation of this building into a new high school for African American children....
Address: 518 S. Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. At the corner of Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and Eighth Street, the Convent of the Good Shepherd Home for Colored Children stood. This photograph shows the a group of girls posed...
Schools; Religious facilities; Classrooms; Children; African Americans
A child stands at the front of the room with one hand risen holding a white object. Rows of other African American children sit with various musical instruments including jugs, drums, and glasses partially filled with water. An adult sits playing...
Religious facilities; Welfare facilities; Women; Children; People; Buildings; African Americans
Address: 760 S. Hancock Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A group of African Americans adults wait with children, including a toddler and infants, in front of the Presbyterian Colored Mission. One man stands at the end near a car. The brick building...
Students from Central High School stand in front of what is likely the school. The students where band uniforms with hats and capes. The front line includes the drums, drum major, and a man in a suit who is likely the band director. Several rows of...
Women; African Americans; Students; Schools; Cookery; People
Young women at Central Colored School (908 Magazine Street, Louisville, Kentucky) take a cooking class. Each girl wears an apron over her dress and a chef's hat or towel around her hair. The tables have an array of bowls and silverware on them as...
Several young African American men work on an automobile chassis. Some wear overalls to protect their clothing; others wear vests and shirts. These young men are likely students at Central Colored School where the photograph was taken.
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Presbyterian churches; African American churches
Grace Presbyterian Church, a low brick building located at Hancock and Roselane streets, Louisville, Kentucky, served the African-American community. The entrance is at the street corner. Handwritten in the bottom left: "10-8-29" and...
Convent of the Good Shepherd Home for Colored Girls, 800 West Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and 518 South 8th Street. Convent of the Good Shepherd, a long, two-story building in Louisville, Kentucky, with a statue of Jesus holding a...
Parties; Employees; African Americans; Newspaper industry
African-American men and women sit on either side of five long dining tables and look towards the camera in the front of the room. Plates and food are on the tables. Two flags are along the back wall. Text on photograph: Courier Journal and...
Health care facilities; African Americans; Infants; Physicians; People
Address: 760 Hancock Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A doctor examines a baby who sits on a table covered in a white cloth. The doctor holds a stethoscope to the baby's chest. Beside him stands a woman in a white apron and seated next to the table is...
Address: 830 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the stage of Columbia Auditorium, some men wear tuxedoes while others wear suits. The women wear dresses and a couple have corsages pinned to their shoulders. Five young girls are dressed in...
A group of African American men, some in bandages, sit and stand together holding first aid booklets with two other men standing on either side of the group. This is part of a first aid class at Southern Bell.
Three images of African Americans with Louisville Textile Company. There are two photographs of a different man standing at the bottom of the steps outside a brick building. The third image has a group of men and women standing in two rows at the...
An African-American man stands in front of a white backdrop. He wears a tie and waiter's jacket and holds a tray with three glasses on it. For Farson & Huff, advertising agency.
