Maps; Floods; Disasters; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville--1920--1940; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River
Map, printed in green in on white paper, of the area of Louisville, Kentucky, affected by the 1937 flooding of the Ohio River. Includes description of the flood, chart of elevations and depths of selected sites in Louisville, two photographs of...
Red Cross Hospital (Louisville, Ky.); African Americans; African American physicians; Hospitals; Integration
Oral history interview with hospital administrator Waverley Johnson conducted on August 30, 1979, by Olivia Frederick. Mr. Johnson discusses the Red Cross (Community) Hospital and his role as administrator at this black-run institution. He...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
On back of image: "My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, Where Foster Wrote Song." Federal Hill, a two-story brick Greek Revival mansion with shutters and white curtains in every window and a flat roof with two chimneys, was the estate of the...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
On back of image: "My Old Kentucky Home, Federal Hill." Entrance hall of Federal Hill, the Bardstown, Kentucky, estate of the Rowan family, whose cousin, Stephen Foster, composed "My Old Kentucky Home." Federal Hill Mansion, on...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
Parlor musicians at Federal Hill. On back of image: "Bardstown Ky. My Old Ky. Home. July 1933. Singing Foster songs." A man wearing a tuxedo plays piano, a woman plays harp, and four other women gather around listening at Federal Hill...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
At Federal Hill, also known as "My Old Kentucky Home" in Bardstown, Kentucky, an overall-clad African American man plays guitar for a woman, seated on the ground in a long dress, while a man wearing a tuxedo and holding a top hat looks on...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
A gathering of spectators, mostly women, watches as a horse-drawn carriage with an African-American driver wearing a top hat and passengers in antebellum period costumes stops in front of Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
A man and woman approach Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky Home," in Bardstown, Kentucky, followed by an African-American man carrying luggage, as three women stand and one woman sits on the entrance steps. Federal Hill...
Interior and exterior views, front and back, of the Greater Louisville First Federal Savings and Loan Association building. The interior has a dark wood counter with rows of machines.
Louisville Federal Reserve Bank, a stone building with columns. Louisville branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Pedestrians are on the sidewalk in front. Title supplied by cataloger.
A multi-story building for Greater Louisville First Federal Savings and Loan Association next door to Burdorf Furniture store. Title supplied by cataloger.
Southwest corner of West Broadway at 3rd Street. A policeman stands in the intersection with a stop sign. A multi-story stone and brick building is at the corner with a Federal Land Bank on the first floor.
Interior views of offices in the Jefferson Federal Savings and Loan Association building showing damage to the walls and windows and materials on the floors. An exterior view of the two-story brick building.
Old U.S. Federal Building on Fourth Street in Louisville, Kentucky. It is a four-story building with a clock tower. Two pedestrians below. On back of image: "Presented by Louisville Convention & Publicity League. June 18, 1920." Stamp...
New U. S. Federal Building & Post Office at Sixth & Broadway in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. A large and long building with a pediment and pillars over some of the upper windows. Construction barricade at street level.
