Billy Smith Signs storefront at 429 South Second Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The building is painted with advertisements for the sign company itself, and inside the windows signs for other companies and brands are displayed. The old Episcopal...
This dissertation takes Chinese advertisements as the research subjects to see in what way a quantifiable large number of advertisements with its metaphorical nature and instrumental mission can reflect social cultural change, in specifics,...
Outside a Brown-Forman Distilleries building a man stands with his hand on a car covered in advertising. The advertising includes such products as Old Forester Whisky, Bottoms Up Whisky, and Old Polk Whisky. The bottom of the advertising reads,...
Address: 1087 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick building with a sign painted on it reading, "John F. Hoffman Grocery & Cafe / Dan'l Boone Cigars / Try [?] Like em." Windows on the second floor are open as are the shutters...
Advertising; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Stores & shops; Office buildings; Automobiles; Dwellings; Houses; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Transportation
Taken for Louisville Gas & Electric, this photograph shows route of power lines after purchase of home telephone poles and consolidation of lines. Utility lines have been placed in a row down Frankfort Avenue. On the right side are some homes....
Mrs. Robin Cooper, daughter of L & N Railroad president and Pewee Valley resident Milton Hannibal Smith, acquired The Wolf Pen Mill property in 1925 as a summer home. After repairing damage caused by moonshiners, she reopened the mill in 1926...
Advertising; Stores & shops; Show windows; Street railroad tracks; Automobiles; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings; Transportation
Written on the front of the photograph is, "January - 10 - 1921, Louisville Gas & Electric Co., Bardstown Road at Highland Ave. looking South - showing all lines moved to Southwest side of street." Utility poles line the sidewalk...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson (pictured here). Billy Emerson (Edmund) was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1846 and died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. Emerson's Megatherian...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson and were managed by Richard M. Hooley (pictured here). Hooley was born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland in 1822 and died in Chicago in 1893. The...
African Americans; Men; Trucks; Advertising; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; People; Transportation
A group of African American salesmen pose in front of a truck. One man sits behind the wheel. The men wear suits and some of them have on an overcoat or hat. A sign on the truck reads, "Free 100 Watt Free Mazda lamp delivered to each...
Automobile service stations; Automobiles; Advertising; Signs (Notices); Buildings; Transportation
Address: 1200 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Two automobiles are pulled up to the gas pumps at the Aetna Oil service station. The canopy over the pumps advertises, "Safe Pennzoil Lubrication. The Better Motor Fuel. Benzol-Gas. Power....
Automobile service stations; Signs (Notices); Advertising; Buildings
Address: 130 E. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The Gulf Refining Company service station on Main Street shows gas pumps under a canopy. The lot has a number of street lamps with round globes. Signs read "That Good Gulf Gasoline,"...
Automobiles; Advertising; Amusement parks; Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Transportation
Crowds gather to view the car display at Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky. A group of three women in dresses stands talking to one side. Banners hang from trees over the Chevrolets. One banner reads, "Drive it only five miles and...
Automobiles; Advertising; Buildings; Stores & shops; Levy Brothers (Firm); Men
Louisville Booster automobile photographed in front of Levy Bros. on Third and Market Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1927. Advertised on side of car: "Louisville, Premier Industrial Location of America; Population Today, 347,774; 1920,...
Graham Automobile dealership giveaway in Old Louisville neighborhood, Louisville, Kentucky. Giveaway car and signs advertising: "Free 7 Graham Supercharger Sedans, Listen to W.H.A.S.-11-12 A.M. Daily, Enter Gold Medal's Nomination Sweepstakes,...
Address: 312 E. Walnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Three "1/2 ton cap." trucks are shown here in front of the American Dye Works building. Each truck includes a sign reading, "American Dye Works, F. Edmond Klein, Prop., 'A Personal...
Baseball; Stadiums; Parkway Field (Louisville, Ky.); Advertisements; Advertising; Billboards
Advertising billboards posted on the outfield fence at Parkway Field stadium, home to minor league baseball team Louisville Colonels from 1932 to 1956, at Eastern Parkway and Brook Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Some signs on the building behind the...
