Louisville (Ky.)--Maps; Jefferson County (Ky.)--Maps
Three atlases of Louisville and environs comprising 149 maps (plus covers, title pages, and other explanatory materials) of Louisville and Jefferson County in 1876, 1884, and 1913; 76 maps, one index, and one appendix from the Lafon Allen Kentucky...
Men in suits sit on both sides of two long tables. Caption: Louisville and Southern Indiana Gabriel Meeting Hotel Tyler - Louisville, KY - Feb 1, 1940. Signs for Gabriel are hung from the back wall. One sign on an easel reads "Gabriel the...
Buildings; Detention facilities; Jails; Jefferson County Jail (Louisville, Ky.)
Jefferson County Jail, Louisville, Kentucky. Men, mostly in suits and hats, crowd the sidewalk, and men in white short sleeve shirts are behind bars upstairs.
Community service; Jails; Radio broadcasting; Music ensembles; Jefferson County Jail (Louisville, Ky.)
Four men stand in front of two microphones with two of the men holding open books at the Jefferson County Armory. To the right are a woman and two other men. The man on the right plays an accordion. The other man stands at a podium from which a...
Politicians; Political campaigns; Democratic Party (Louisville and Jefferson County, Ky.); Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate;
Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on May 20, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the second of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...
Politicians; Political campaigns; Democratic Party (Louisville and Jefferson County, Ky.); Legislators--United States; Legislators--Kentucky;
Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on May 21, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the third of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...
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; African Americans--Social conditions; African American social workers; African American educators; African American college teachers; Segregation in education; Civil rights leaders; Lincoln Institute...
Oral history interview with Eleanor Young Love, conducted on October 2, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Dr. Love was a U of L professor and administrator, and sister of civil rights leader Whitney Young, Jr. Dr. Love discusses her parents, Laura and...
Segregation in education; African American construction workers; Construction workers; African Americans; Labor unions; Race relations; Laborers' International Union of North America; Women construction workers; African Americans--Employment; A....
Oral history interview conducted with James "Jimmy" Stewart on April 4, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Mr. Stewart, business manager for Local 576 of the Laborers' International Union of North America discusses segregation in education in Tennessee...
Politicians; Political campaigns; Democratic Party (Louisville and Jefferson County, Ky.); Legislators--United States; Legislators--Kentucky
The Romano L. Mazzoli Oral History Collection documents the life and political career of Congressman Romano (Ron) Mazzoli, an Italian-American native of Louisville, Kentucky who represented Kentucky's Third Congressional District for 24 years...
Appalachians (People); Appalachian Region--History; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Education--Appalachian Region; Education--Kentucky; Kentucky--Social life and customs; Rural schools--Kentucky--History; Oneida Baptist Institute;...
665 items from Louisville native Claude C. Matlack (1878-1944), an amateur photographer who, working as an engineer for his family's plumbing business, happened to capture on film the formative years of a settlement school built by feuding...
Maps; Forts & fortifications; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Two-page spread, featuring three maps. Published by the United States Department of War in 1895 as Plate 102 of Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies 1861-1865. Map 1 is "Defenses of Munfordville, Ky....
Flooded street lined by houses and a fence. A car and a boat are in the water. Labeled time is 10:35. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky.
Flooded street with a brick building for the Western Electric Company on the right and a church, possibly St. William's Catholic Church, and houses to the left. Labeled time is 1:40. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by...
Flooded street with houses to the left and a warehouse on the right. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky.
Creek lined by concrete with a bridge in the distance and a water tower on the top of a hill to the left. Labeled time is 1:55. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky.
