The exterior of Kehoe's Grocery. The long but narrow brick building has a canopy over the front door reading "Kehoe's Grocery." The entryway has a number of baskets and boxes by it as well as a stand holding brooms. One of the boxes...
Address: 2532 S. Fourth Street (at Montana Avenue), Louisville, Kentucky. A sign hanging from the storefront advertises "Whiskey by the drink Frosted Mugs" and "Budweiser King of Beers." Ghost signs on brick wall at side of...
Address: 2532 S. Fourth Street (at Montana Avenue), Louisville, Kentucky. A sign hanging from the storefront advertises "Whiskey by the drink Frosted Mugs" and "Budweiser King of Beers." Ghost signs on brick wall at side of...
Address: 231 Main Street at Floyd Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Partially legible ghost sign viewed from the side of the building reads, "Grocery Co." and "Taylor." Other signs, including one listing the property as...
Address: Corner of Dixie Highway and West Saint Catherine Street, Louisville, Ky. View of south wall of vacant building. Partially legible ghost sign on wall for "parking" and "prescriptions priced right." Signs on front of...
Address: Corner of Dixie Highway and West Saint Catherine Street, Louisville, Ky. View from West Saint Catherine Street of north wall of vacant building featuring two overlapping ghost signs. One appears to have been for mechanics and is partially...
Address: 850 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Ky., between Howard and West Breckinridge Streets. Ghost sign is on center building of the Brown-Forman Corporation and has been built around. Only visible lettering of ghost sign is "&Co."
Address: 2403 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. View of east facing wall of building. Adjacent to Syls Lounge. Used to be "Rucker's Warehouse" of "Used Furniture and Appliances." Partially legible ghost sign for a grocery appears...
Address: 1935 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. View of wall facing west from adjacent parking lot. Ghost sign partially hidden beneath crumbling frame faade. Legible part of sign reads "M&T Builders." Sign of "Broadway Eye Care...
Address: 122 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of Harley's Main Street Tavern. Advertisement on building's brick front reads "Eugene B. Dye. Twines Baskets Feathers Dusters Mops Brooms and Brushes. Roofing, Building Papers. Tinware,...
Address: 2501 Maple Street, Louisville, Ky. Near intersection with Midway Avenue. View from Broadway Housing parking lot at South 25th street, adjacent to Superior Distributing. Ghost sign across the top of the building is illegible.
The Ghost Signs of Louisville collection emerged from a partnership between the University of Louisville Libraries and Fine Arts department. Students in a fall 2011 Documentary Photography class and Libraries employees documented these fading...
Streets; Buildings; Building deterioration; Brick wall signs
Narrow, four-story brick building with broken windows on Main Street. Boards or beams are stacked on the sidewalk in front of the fence next to the building. A faded painted sign, illegible, is across the front.
Four-story brick building with a faded sign above the entrance. A man stands in a window on the top floor. Two men are on the sidewalk in front of the building, which has one garage entrance.
Men stand alongside and within doorways of Hymie's Credit Tire Company and Cut Rate Liquors. These business were co-located at 455 S. Third Street from 1936-1937; the tire company later moved to 515 West Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky, but the city...
View of Main Street looking West from Jackson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Universal Carloading & Distributing Company on right (now the site of Louisville Slugger Field), with sign reading "Daily Consolidated Package Cars"; parked...
Exterior of brick Swift & Co. building at 301 E. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Advertisement painted on brick building reads "Swift's Premium Ham and Bacon," with images of each. Plant No. 2 of Merchants Ice & Cold Storage is...
