Man holding a picket sign on the sidewalk in front of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company building. The sign reads "C-J- Job Printing Co. This firm unfair to allied printing trades unions. Does not pay local prevailing wage rate."...
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...
Sign above the Brown Garage that reads "Serve Lady Betty Mayonnaise Salad Dressings and Other Fine Foods" with a picture of a hand scooping mayonnaise onto a salad. The bottom of the sign reads "Wheatley Mayonnaise Co. Louisville,...
Advertisements; Merchandise displays; Soda industry
Display booth for Royal Crown (RC Cola) in the lobby of the Mary Anderson Theatre featuring bottles of the drink and a cut-out of a woman with a star above her head. Address: 610 S. 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
Poster display for Royal Crown cola with an image of Sonja Henie holding a bottle of RC cola. The text reads "'Yes it tastes best!' says Sonja Henie" and "Take Time Out for a 'Quick Up' with Royal Crown Cola Best by Taste-Test."...
Window display for liquor. The display has guitars, signs for Bacardi, and a sign reading "Carl Hollenbach B.C.S. is now at the bar." The sign above the display reads "Baron-Atlas Incorporated No. 3" A sign painted on the window...
An aerial photograph of downtown Louisville, the Ohio River, and Southern Indiana with the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, also known as the Second Street Bridge, in the center of the river. Title supplied by cataloger.
African Americans; African American business enterprises; African American Business people; Drugstores; Pharmacists; African American pharmacists; Urban renewal; Service stations; Standard Oil Company; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Frank Moorman, Sr., conducted on August 17, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Moorman was a businessman in Louisville's Walnut Street area. Mr. Moorman discusses his parents and grandparents, and his early life in Owensboro,...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; Boy Scouts of America; Elderly poor; Floods--Ohio River; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; National Council of Senior Citizens; Senior House; Senior centers; Scouting (Youth activity); Urban elderly;...
Oral history interviews conducted with Mr. Steward Pickett on May 23, June 4, and June 25, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Mr. Pickett, a retired assistant Boy Scout executive and board member of Senior House, talks about his family, growing up on an...
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...
African Americans; Children; Group portraits; Schools; People
Location: Thirteenth and Liberty Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Hundreds of African American school children and their teachers pose for a portrait in front of their school. This may be Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Elementary School at 1228 W. Liberty...
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...
African-American women in a beauty shop. Women in white smocks or dresses cut and style hair along the long side wall, with their customers seated in front of them. To the side is a table where another woman gives a manicure. A woman sits in the...
Air pollution; Rivers; Boats; Transportation; Military facilities
Address: River Road and Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A boat comes out of the covered shelter of the U.S. Coast Guard station. A man in a white cap is seated at the front of the boat and two men in dark uniforms are standing at the rear of...
Apartment houses; Porches; Fences; Street railroad tracks; Buildings
Address: 429 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This apartment building has a sign on its canopy announcing, "Chesterfield." Several Corinthian columns support the stone canopy and two pediments emphasize the Greek Revival influence of...
P.G. Coker's apartment building at 722 W. Chestnut Street in Louisville, Ky. It is a three-story brick building with a large porch supported by doric style columns. Trees line Chestnut Street and electric railway tracks can be seen in the street....
A number of men in suits and a few women pose outside Tafel Electric Co. at 236 W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky, with appliances like vacuum cleaners and a washing machine. The shop windows advertise electric supplies, Mazda lamps,...
