200 block of West Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard, on the north side. Row of stone buildings with signs for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company and a drug store selling candy and cigars. Cars are parked along the curb.
A girl with long hair wearing a white, or light-colored, dress poses in a swing suspended from a tree. The girl is believed to be the photographer's niece, Elizabeth Matthews, who was the real-life model for the character Betty Lewis in the Little...
Streets; City & town life; Automobiles; Stores & shops; Horses; Carriages & coaches; Buildings; Transportation
A median separates two brick streets in a business district of Jeffersonville, Indiana. At the end of the median is a long low building with a rounded roof where a number of horse-and-carriage rigs are parked. More carriages and cars are parked...
Historic buildings; Apartment houses; Buildings; Building construction
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, the Commodore Apartment Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In this early shot of the construction process, the future apartment building has...
Historic buildings; Apartment houses; Buildings; Building construction
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, the Commodore Apartments near Cherokee Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. This photograph shows a side view of the future apartment building...
Historic buildings; Apartment houses; Buildings; Building construction
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, this 11-story building became the Commodore Apartments and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. This photograph shows the building almost completed. A...
Historic buildings; Apartment houses; Buildings; Building construction
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, this 11-story building near Cherokee Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The photograph shows the structure in the early stages of its...
Historic buildings; Apartment houses; Buildings; Building construction
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, this 11-story building near Cherokee Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. This photograph shows the Commodore apartment building during its...
Historic buildings; Apartment houses; Buildings; Building construction
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, this 11-story building near Cherokee Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. This photograph shows the early stages of the construction of the...
Address: 2210 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Trolley tracks run down the street where Bardstown Road meets Harvard Drive. On the left side is the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company and on the right are Taylors Drugs and Steiden Stores....
Address: 319 W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The Tyler Block is capped by a triangular pediment with a center medallion carving that reads, "Tyler Block 1874." The first floor of this complex is made up of stores while upper...
Address: 741 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Two delivery trucks for Home Town Potato Chips are shown parked across the street from R and B Hardware Co. on Broadway. At the back of each truck is a man unloading boxes. At the hardware store,...
Bales of cotton covering a large area in front of a large paddle boat or paddle steamer. In the foreground two African-American men sit on the bales. Other men are in the background. Title: 12479 - Cotton! Cotton! Cotton! Levee, New Orleans, La....
Catherine Lawton, dressed as the character Kitty Walton in the Little Colonel books, sits on a lawn with a basket of flowers. She is wearing a full dress and a straw hat with flowers. Handwritten on verso of postcard in Kate Matthews' handwriting:...
Dots Miller of John Barney Miller (1886-1923). Color portrait of Dots Miller with the Pittsburg Pirates or Pittsburgh Pirates. A pirate is in the top left corner and 'Pirates' is in the top right. Verso: John D. Miller. John D. Miller, the young...
Theaters; Motion picture theaters; Cultural facilities; Buildings; Eating & drinking facilities; Broadcasting; Electric signs; Signs (Notices)
Exterior view of the Scoop Theatre and WGRC (showing Road to Victory & News), adjacent to Golden Donut Ranch restaurant and Atlantic Hotel, at 418 W. Walnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The Scoop Theatre opened in 1942 (although the building...
Railroad tracks; Electric railroads; Railroads; Canals
Four sets of railroad tracks with fields on either side. Electric poles and lines run parallel to the tracks. A train is on the left set of tracks with a person sitting on the top of one of the cars. A second train is on one of the middle sets of...
Large crowd of people at the beach in swimwear and hats. Some sit on the shore while others stand at the edge of the water. Title: 11 In Surf, Sand and Sun, Atlantic City, N.J. Copyright statement: Copyright 1905 by H.C. White Co. N.Y. Text on...
Lillian Fletcher feeds her pet lamb at Twigmore, her farm in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Lillian is wearing a straw hat and light dress as she stretches to hold a feed bucket up to the lamb standing in a field over the stone entrance to the spring....
Location: 800 block of Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. "Broadway looking West from a point about 100 ft. east of Shelby" was written on the invoice indicating that this photograph was likely taken for insurance purposes. On a rainy day...
