A factory workroom at the Claude C. Matlack Company. Various parts of lamps and chandeliers sit on and around workbenches. Signs on the column read: "Gas Fixtures Made Electric Matlack" and "Special Designs Executed Matlack."...
Address: 801 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. At the corner of Eighth and Main Streets, the Mahan Products Company factory is a multi-story building with large arched windows. An ornamented turret runs two stories along the side and top of the...
This aerial view details the railroad tracks and cars, storage areas, and buildings of a factory, possibly the Wood-Mosaic Co. of Highland Park, Kentucky. There are multiple, large, industrial buildings. A house sits amidst the other buildings. A...
Tobacco industry; Industrial facilities; Buildings; Men
Three-story building with a brick first floor and dark wood upper floors in which tobacco is stemmed. On the front of the building is labeled "R. H. Soaper's Tobacco Factory." Richard Henderson Soaper, originally of Henderson, Kentucky,...
Interior view of the office and factory space for James Clark Jr. Electric Company. It is a long, high room with equipment and materials. Address: 645 Bergman Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
Tour of the assembly lines at the Globe-Union factory and a party at the Brown Hotel with men, women, and children at tables entertained by musicians and at buffet lines.
Address: 1114 W. Liberty Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Tobacco leaves are spread on wooden benches in a dimly lit workroom. With the exception of one man standing at the edge of the room who is Caucasian, all the workers are African Americans. Some...
A crowd of men and (fewer) women and children gather with several oxen and one mule hitched to a cart in front of a wide, open-sided shack located on sandy ground in front of, at left, a hill covered in bare trees, and at right, two large, bare...
A crowd of men and a few boys pose in front of a large open-sided shack with piles of wood boards all around. Four of the people are sitting on some of the piles at right; the others stand at left.
Broom & brush industry; Industrial facilities; Brooms & brushes; Men
Seven men work at different stages of making brooms in front of a building of unpainted, long vertical wood boards. The building has two peaked roofs and several porches with slanting roofs. A row of brooms leans along the front porch railings;...
