Maps; Housing; Real property--Kentucky--Louisville; Housing--Kentucky--Louisville; City planning--United States--Maps; City planning--Kentucky--Louisville
Maps of Louisville's properties created by federally-funded Works Progress Administration (WPA). Three copies of this book were used to create a complete set of maps, since each one lacked one or more of the maps. Printed on cover: "Volume II...
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...
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...
Advertisements; Children; Books; Textbooks; Animals; Reading; Men
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the JPM & Co. advertisement and the New Second and New Third School Readers, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of,...
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...
Aerial view of downtown Louisville from east of Second Street to Seventh Street and from south of Broadway to the Ohio River and into Southern Indiana.
This thesis is an exploration of Black cultural space and its influence on the
retention, adaptation, and transmission of African folktales during and after the
antebellum era. During slavery, the survival of kinship and family helped to create
an...
American Tobacco Company; Industrial facilities; Automobiles; Street railroads; Transportation; Buildings
Address: 1624 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This view of the American Tobacco Co. from the south side of Broadway between 16th and 17th Streets shows a temporary crossover switch on the streetcar tracks. A car is parked in front of the...
Location: 1600 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Reeser Place, an apartment complex on the West side of Fourth Street just south of Hill Street, is shown. The complex shows symmetrical buildings facing a courtyard. The foundation of the...
Brick building with a center tower and two chimneys on the ends. Three archways in the front and two, bricked-in archways on the right side. The building is surrounded by overgrown grass. Title: 7007 - John Brown's Fort, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.,...
Auditoriums; Dance; Military personnel; Men; Women; National Jewish Welfare Board
Large crowd of women and men in military uniforms form an oval around a large dance floor in a room decorated with streamers. Address: Jewish Welfare Board, 729 South 2nd Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
Spanish-styled building with arched windows. Handwritten note on front: "This is when the old Hall was South of School Building (Front North)." Published by the Citizen Press. Postmarked 1908 on verso.
Authors, South African--20th century; South Africa--In literature; Protest literature, South African (English); Mphahlele, Es'kia, 1919-2008. Down Second Avenue; Dikobe, Modikwe, 1913- Marabi dance; Mda, Zakes. Madonna of Excelsior; Mhlongo,...
Through content analysis of Ezekiel Mphahlele's Down Second Avenue,
Modikwe Dikobe's The Marabi Dance, Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior,
and Niq Mhlongo's After Tears, this study compares the themes of pre- and post-
1994 South African township...
Autistic children--Education; Mainstreaming in education; Teachers--Attitudes; Inclusive education
The purpose of this research study was to examine the relationship between the
attitudes of public school teachers and the inclusion of students with autism in the general
education classroom highlighting individual teacher characteristics that...
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...
Automobiles; Transportation; Streets; Automobile service stations; Signs (Notices)
A number of cars are parked along the side of Preston Street Road (now known as Preston Highway). To the left is an inn and signs for Oertels and Fehr's beer. To the right is a street sign indicating Clark's Lane. In the middle is an intersection...
Address: 2118 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. The Bardstown Road Branch of the First National Bank features a sign with a clock suspended perpendicular to the building. The brick building has a crenellated roofline and plate glass windows...
A branch of the First National Bank at 2223 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky, is shown. The brick building has large windows and an entryway built on a corner of the building. Lettering in the front window reads, "Bardstown Road Branch,...
Address: 743 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick, stone, and marble building displays a sign reading: "'The Oldest National Bank in the South' First National Bank. Shelby & Broadway Branch. 'You can park.'" The corner of the...
