Seal for University of Louisville featuring Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, in profile. Below the profile is the year "1846." "University of Louisville Kentucky" surrounds the image in a circular frame. Two decorative...
Location: Woodland Avenue and 40th Street. In 1908, Alfred S. Joseph received a commission to design the livestock pavilion for the new Kentucky State Fair Grounds. It was this work which allowed him to found, with his brother Oscar, Joseph &...
Appalachians (People); Appalachian Region--History; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Education--Appalachian Region; Education--Kentucky; Kentucky--Social life and customs; Rural schools--Kentucky--History; Oneida Baptist Institute;...
665 items from Louisville native Claude C. Matlack (1878-1944), an amateur photographer who, working as an engineer for his family's plumbing business, happened to capture on film the formative years of a settlement school built by feuding...
Portrait of left profile of Eugene Elrod, with hair parted at left and wearing a dark suit jacket. He served as Business Manager at Macauley’s Theatre in the 1880s. Inscription on mount verso, upper center: A beam from "Old S & C"...
Autographed portrait of theatrical manager and theatre proprietor John H. Havlin (1847-1924) wearing a bushy mustache and tweed suit jacket with tie and pin. With E. D. Stair, Havlin produced the Stair & Havlin Theatrical Management Syndicate...
Portrait of Helen Josephine ("Josie") Mansfield, wearing a hat with ostrich plume, cameo necklace on black velvet ribbon, and off-the-shoulder dress. As the annotation on the back of this print indicates, she gained notoriety as a...
Three-quarter length portrait of financier James Fisk, Jr., wearing a mustache and fur overcoat over a three-piece suit and bow tie. He holds a fur hat and a cane or switch in his left hand. Fisk was shot to death on January 6, 1872, by his former...
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...
Map of Louisville, Kentucky, with Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana visible north of the Ohio River. Includes electronic railways and railroads (further annotated in ink), as well as locations of utilities, parks, cemeteries, institutions, and...
Map of Louisville, Kentucky, including Portland, Shippingport, the Ohio River islands, Jeffersonville Indiana, and an inset of the "Southern Extension of Louisville," where the University of Louisville's Belknap Campus is now located....
Color map, with Street Index, of Louisville, Kentucky, compiled in 1936. Verso includes lists of public halls, blocks and buildings; places of amusement (theaters, private parks, etc.); subdivisions; monuments; clubs; hospitals, institutions, and...
Ed Matthews, dressed in a dark business suit, sits on a beach smoking a pipe. Handwritten on verso in Matthews Fletcher's hand: "Ed Matthews." Title supplied by cataloger.
Immigrants--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville--History; Italians--United States--History--20th century; St. James Catholic School (Louisville, Ky.); St. Xavier High School (Louisville, Ky.); Catholics; Catholics--Education; University of Notre Dame;...
Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on May 14, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the first of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...
Exterior view of Green & Green Furriers, a two-story brick business on 3rd Street with houses and other businesses on either side. Painted signs are on the brick exterior and a sign hangs above the door. Title supplied by cataloger.
400 block of West Breckinridge Street on the north side looking west. At the corner is a long-two story brick building with a tailors and cleaners business on the ground floor. There are signs on the sidewalk for the shop and for Browns-Oyl oil...
Streets; Railroad tracks; Railroad crossings; Buildings; Stores & shops; Men
Road running parallel to a railroad crossing with a store at the corner. A group of men sit on a bench in front of the store next to the street sign. An advertisement for Peacock Coffee is on the side of the business. Title supplied by cataloger.
Automobiles; Buildings; Automobile dealerships; Ford Motor Company
Ford Lincoln models are advertised on the storefront of Jenner-Woody Motors Co., and a row of 1920s Lincoln cars are parked in a row next to the building. An older model is parked on the corner of the flat roof. The city directory showed that this...
Moon Cleaners & Dyers office at 311 East Madison Street, Louisville, Kentucky; with business trucks parked diagonally in front showing logos, and employees posing inside and outside the trucks. Title supplied by cataloger.
Close-up view of entrance to the Towers Theatre (later Knox Theatre), located at 331 W. Oak Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Posters for films "Now Playing," "Padlocked" and "Mismates," indicate a date of 1926, although...
Two rescue workers load goods onto boat from residence in Louisville, Kentucky, during the 1937 Flood of the Ohio River. A service station with Gulf sign is visible in the background. A note on the back of print P_00513 indicates that one of the...
