Old U. S. Custom House lobby, Louisville, Kentucky, 1900. The lobby is festooned with large, gathered, striped ribbons and a United States flag, similarly gathered and curved. Seating visible below. Photograph on cardboard backing. On back of...
Buildings; Commercial facilities; Telephone companies; Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Southern Bell Telephone Company, located at Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. The large, tiered building includes a fire escape leading to some of the upper floors.
Buildings; Canopies; Utility poles; Atherton Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Original address: 610 S. Fourth Street (Later known as the Francis Building.) The Atherton Building is shown with Southern Optical Co. sign on the corner, but most other storefronts empty. There's graffiti on the window next to Southern Optical and...
Buildings; Canopies; Atherton Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 610 S. Fourth Street (Later known as the Francis Building). Completed in 1907, the Atherton Building would have been a project started while Alfred S. Joseph was still serving as chief architect and engineer for the firm of McDonald &...
Buildings; Canopies; Carriages & coaches; Atherton Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Original address: 610 S. Fourth Street (Later known as the Francis Building). This photo shows the corner of Walnut and Fifth Streets where the Atherton Building stood. Horses and carriages are driven on the brick streets and signs show "T.P....
Streets; Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Street railroads
Intersection of South 8th Street and Chestnut Street with a view of streetcar tracks across Chestnut Street, brick houses on either side of 8th Street, and a horses and carriages and wagons on the side of the road.
Post offices; Post Office and Customs House (Louisville, Ky.)
United States Post Office and Custom House in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1892. Construction is being done on steeple. Handwritten on back of print: "Old Post Office, about 1892; Steeples." Title supplied by cataloger.
Brick building on the Southeast corner of 3rd and Chestnut Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, during time period when it housed Pearson's funeral home (1898-1924). A horse and buggy are visible in the background. Title supplied by cataloger.
Continental Oil Company station at 431 Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Service station has cars in both the washing and greasing bays, and three workers and a patron turn towards the camera for the photo. The gasoline pumps are closer to the...
