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...
Automobiles; Advertising; Buildings; Stores & shops; Levy Brothers (Firm); Men
Louisville Booster automobile photographed in front of Levy Bros. on Third and Market Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1927. Advertised on side of car: "Louisville, Premier Industrial Location of America; Population Today, 347,774; 1920,...
U.S. snagboat E. A Woodruff was built in 1874 and operated the length of the Ohio River. The deck mounted cranes and hoists worked to remove debris and obstructions from the river. The boat was retired in 1920 and became a wharf boat in Louisville,...
Decorative shield featuring a pegasus, a palette with paint brushes, the drama masks for comedy (Thalia) and tragedy (Melpomene), and a pan flute or panpipe. Black ink with orange highlights. A scroll near the top of the shield has the text...
Brick archway featuring a seal with the Greek words "Sigill Coll Yalen Nov Port Nov Angl" and the Latin phrase "Lux et Veritas." This is the seal for Yale University. "Vanderbilt Hall" is inscribed on the building. The...
Construction of Louisville Municipal Bridge (now George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge), which spans the Ohio River and connects Louisville, Kentucky to Indiana. The Falls Cities Ferry and Transportation Co. dock, station, and ferry, which operated...
Buildings; Barns; Dwellings; Horse farms; Man o' War (Race horse)
Faraway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, one of the Daingerfield farms, home of Man O'War. Six dark clad adults in overcoats and a baby in white congregate at the edges of a barn of dark, vertical wood boards, and doors which are reinforced with...
Buildings; Barns; Dwellings; Horse farms; Man o' War (Race horse); Horses
Man O'War grazing at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Dark horse with glossy coat wears a bridle and leans his neck down to graze in a field of grass. There are a few trees on the horizon and a fence to the right. Man O'War won the Preakness...
Buildings; Building construction; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969.) This photograph captures the building of the Rialto Theatre. You can see the rounded edge of the stage as well as the tiered seating. Numerous workmen are shown, but the picture is centered on two...
Buildings; Building construction; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969) . The classical façade of the Rialto made extensive use of white-glazed terra cotta tile from Cincinnati's Rookwood Pottery. This scene shows some of the machinery used in the construction as well...
Pendennis Club, social club in Louisville, located at Fourth and Walnut Streets. A light, two-story building with small balconies over the front door and bay window. On back of image: "The first club in social life of the city."...
Buildings; Commercial facilities; Department stores; Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward, Fourth Street between Walnut and Liberty, Louisville, Kentucky; opening day 1920. Slightly diagonal photograph of Montgomery Ward, with a sign above its first floor saying its name on a windowless concrete panel; for the two floors...
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...
Buildings; Government facilities; Courthouses; Historic buildings
Front of the Jefferson County Courthouse, Louisville, Kentucky, displaying statue of Thomas Jefferson. On back of image: "Presented by Louisville Convention & Publicity League. June 18, 1920. Stamp on back of image: Associated Photo Co....
Buildings; Government facilities; Post offices; Customhouses
Old U.S. Post Office and Custom House on Fourth Street between Chestnut & Walnut Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. The post office is surrounded by wide sidewalks. On back of image: "Presented by Louisville Convention & Publicity...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Nursing homes; Kentucky Confederate Home
Kentucky Confederate Home stone-pillared entryway in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The man with white hair in wheelchair in foreground has been identified Alexander N. White or A.N. White, the last Confederate veteran in Pewee Valley. The Kentucky...
Address: Logan and Lampton Streets, Louisville, KY. "Café" is visible on the north side of this building but it was also offices for the Frank Fehr Cold Storage Co. in 1920.
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities
The building appears to have been purchased by the University of Louisville in March, 1981. It was the site of a University of Louisville daycare center, 1981-1997. Beginning in 2000, police used it for an anti-terrorism/hostage training facility....
Businesswomen--United States--History--20th century; Women, White--United States--History--20th century; Businesswomen--United States--Psychology; Women, White--United States--Psychology; Self-perception in women--United States
The purpose of this cross-disciplinary dissertation is to explore how the epistemic ruptures, such as WWII and the Second Wave Feminism, change the American society between 1963 and 1985. From a humanistic and historical point of view, it focuses...
Cadman, S. Parkes (Samuel Parkes), 1864-1936; Radio in religion--United States--History; Religious broadcasting--Christianity--History; Religious broadcasting--United States--History; Christianity--United States--20th century
S. Parkes Cadman (1864-1936), a Christian minister at Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York from 1901 to 1936, was a popular religious figure in interwar America. From 1924 to 1928, Cadman served as president of the Federal Council of...
