Address: 1087 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick building with a sign painted on it reading, "John F. Hoffman Grocery & Cafe / Dan'l Boone Cigars / Try [?] Like em." Windows on the second floor are open as are the shutters...
Advertising; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Stores & shops; Office buildings; Automobiles; Dwellings; Houses; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Transportation
Taken for Louisville Gas & Electric, this photograph shows route of power lines after purchase of home telephone poles and consolidation of lines. Utility lines have been placed in a row down Frankfort Avenue. On the right side are some homes....
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...
African American musicians; Musicians; African Americans; Trombones; Trumpets; Saxophones; Drums (Musical instruments); Pianos; Stringed instruments; Wind instruments; Violins; Banjos; People
Six African American musicians perform in an open pavilion. The drum reads "Jones Orchestra." Other instruments include trombone, violin, banjo, piano, trumpet, and saxophone. Outside of the pavilion tables are set up.
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...
African Americans; Children; Pianos; Students; Teachers; Religious facilities; Sunday schools; People
A crowd of people, mostly African American children, attend Sunday school in a classroom containing a row of chairs. An African American man in a suit stands by a podium and may be the minister. Two white women and a boy stand or play at the piano...
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...
Address: 418 W. Ormsby Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. According to the 1924 Caron's city directory, this building was an apartment house known as Greystone Apartments. A small section of grass is in front of the sidewalk. Beyond the sidewalk is a...
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...
Automobile service stations; Show windows; Gasoline pumps; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 420 W. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior of the Francis Garage is symmetrical and made mostly of brick. Plate glass windows on the first floor indicate, "Francis Garage, Storage by the Hour, Day or Month." Just...
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...
Three cars are parked at the Iroquois Park observation point which faces downtown Louisville. A flag pole flies the U.S. flag as park-goers look out over the view. The observation point is a flattened space at the top of a hill which is surrounded...
Automobiles; Street railroad tracks; Buildings; Industrial facilities; Transportation
A stretch of Mellwood Avenue between Frankfort Avenue and Letterle (now Brownsboro Road), Louisville, Kentucky, is shown with potholes around the trolley tracks. Industrial buildings line the street. One building has signs reading "No...
Address: 600 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. A sign on the side of this brick building announces that it is First Standard Bank, an African American bank in downtown Louisville. The pediment over the door, mock...
Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Side view of men standing on a large hull on ways at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes, this is the "South America boat."
Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Men work on a small steel hull on the grade at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes, this is a "derrick boat hull."
Boys; Basketball players; Group portraits; Basketball; People; Young Men's Christian associations; Gymnasiums
Forty-three young men pose beneath a basketball hoop. According to the invoice for this photograph, they belong to the Young Men's Christian Association hexathlon group. Most wear sleeveless tops, shorts, and lace-up shoes. Some wear plain white or...
Boys; Bicycles & tricycles; Louisville Free Public Library; Group portraits; Buildings; People; Transportation
Address: 301 York Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Five boys pose in front of the Louisville Free Public Library on York Street. They each have a bicycle with a headlight, horn, and water bottle. The boys are dressed in white shirts with ties, short...
Boys; Classrooms; Wood; Carpentry; Hammers; Saws; Hand tools; People
Address: 114 W. Gray, Louisville, Kentucky. Five boys do woodworking projects in a classroom. Most of them wear wool coats with buttoned-up shirts and ties. Each works with tools to make wood boxes. The tools in the room include hammers, hand saws,...
Address: 815-827 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A multi-story industrial building dwarves the two- to four-story buildings surrounding it. "Stimpson Computing Scale Co." is painted on the front of the building. An embossed sign...
