Several women smile from a float in the Kentucky Derby Festival Parade. The float is pulled by two horses as the driver smokes a cigar. A sign suspended above the float reads, "Louisville Thanks You" and one on the side reads,...
Parade float with two women sitting on the top next to large cigarettes. A large cigarette pack is at the front and rear of the float. The sign across the float reads "LOCAL 185." A small plaque on the float reads "Billy Smith."
Parade float with four men standing behind a bar and one man standing in front of it. Paper beer bottles line the perimeter of the float with advertisements for Yellowstone Beer. The signs across the float reads "Before Being Served Look for...
Delta Zeta (University of Louisville); University of Louisville--Students; Fraternities & sororities; Parades & processions; Floats (Parades);
Float constructed by Delta Zeta sorority features members dressed in blackface riding on the back of a truck, above the slogan "Good Pickin's Tonight." The float travels down the street in the homecoming parade. There are cars on the...
Homecoming float created by the Wandering Greeks in the homecoming parade on Broadway in Louisville. The float features a structure with a slanted roof and another with a facade that reads "UofL Powerhouse" mounted on a trailer. A banner...
Floats (Parades); Motion picture premieres; Mature, Victor
Parade float decorated to look like a ship parked in front of a large stone building. The side of the float reads "Louisville Own Victor Mature. Captain Caution. Louise Platt - Leo Carrillo - Bruce Cabot. Lowes Starting Friday. A man dressed...
Parade float decorated with stars and stripes. Text on the float reads "Ballard's The Only Union Label Flour" and Ballard's Oven-Ready Biscuits." The side of a drum on the float reads "American Federation of Labor" in the...
Parade float for the Louisville Chapter of Associated General Contractors. The float is of an underground air raid shelter. The side of the float reads "Shelter Construction Section of Louisville Defense Council. General Contractors -...
Floats (Parades); University of Louisville; Mascots
View of the Cardinal Bird on the rear of the University of Louisville 1968 Derby Parade float while under construction in a tobacco warehouse on Cane Run Road. The rolling stock and base platform of the float were prepared by University Building...
Parades & processions; Floats (Parades); Tobacco industry
Parade float with Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp across the side and large cigarette cartons and a male figure with a building under the word Prosperity on top of the float. Title supplied by cataloger.
Parades & processions; Floats (Parades); Tobacco industry; Women
Parade float carrying three young women. It is decorated with a large pack of Raleigh cigarettes. The side of the float reads Local 185. Title supplied by cataloger.
Parade float decorated with prescription kits. A sign reading 'Prescriptions' is on top of the float. Text on the sides reads 'Pharmaceutical Unit' and 'In Civilian Defense Drug Stores Pharmaceutical Units Equipped to Furnish First Aid Supplies...
Salvation Army float with two women and a boy on the float with flags and a group of men, women, and children from different Salvation Army groups following on foot.
Parades & processions; Floats (Parades); University of Louisville--Students;
Homecoming float for unidentified University of Louisville fraternity features a Schmoo theme and drives down Broadway. The banner reads, "Heads we win-tails they lose-the Cards are in-cause we've got Schmoos"; the truck bearing the...
Floats (Parades); University of Louisville--Students; Mascots
The University of Louisville 1968 Derby Parade float staged on West Broadway prior to the parade, showing float personalities Ruth Ann Hackett (Best Dressed), Annette Gohmann (Homecoming Queen), and Sharon Dawley (Miss University of Louisville, in...
University of Louisville--Presidents; University of Louisville--Students; Bandstands; Bands; Lambda Chi Alpha. Zeta-Sigma Chapter (University of Louisville);
Lambda Chi president Dick George accepts the award for "Best Fraternity Homecoming Float" from University of Louisville president John W. Taylor. George and Taylor stand near another man in front of the bandstand. There are band members...
Floats (Parades); University of Louisville--Students; Mascots
The University of Louisville 1968 Derby Parade float on Broadway at the start of the parade, featuring Ruth Ann Hackett (Best Dressed), Wes Unseld (Basketball All American), Sharon Dawley (Miss University of Louisville), Ed Harmon (football...
