Maps; Floods; Disasters; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville--1920--1940; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River
Map showing, in blue, the areas of Louisville, Kentucky, affected by the 1937 flooding of the Ohio River. Includes Street Index on recto, and description of the flood, chart of elevations of the Ohio River during floods dating back to 1832,...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson (pictured here). Billy Emerson (Edmund) was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1846 and died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. Emerson's Megatherian...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson and were managed by Richard M. Hooley (pictured here). Hooley was born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland in 1822 and died in Chicago in 1893. The...
African Americans; Social workers; Journalists; African American journalists; African American social workers; Beauty contests; African American newspapers; Newspapers; Louisville Defender (Louisville, Ky.); Civil rights demonstrations; Civil...
Oral history interview with Mrs. Vivian Clark Stanley conducted on August 5, 1985 by Janet Hodgson. She discusses her career as a social worker and her life with Frank Stanley, Sr., editor, manager, and publisher of the Louisville Defender. She...
Children riding and exiting a toboggan slide on a lake at Chester Park in Cincinnati, Ohio. Only the end of the slide is visible; a pair of children are seen riding on a toboggan near the bottom. A large, apparently wood, building with porches and...
One automobile driving on unpaved road. There are other cars lining the road; there are people in and around the cars. The car in the road is occupied by one man; it is an open-air vehicle and the driver is seated on the right rather than the...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Boston Braves (Baseball team)
Frederick Thomas Beck (1886-1962). Color portrait of Fred Beck framed by two baseball bats. A 'B' is in the top left corner and 'Rustlers' is in the top right corner. The team is the Boston Rustlers (1911), formerly the Boston Doves. Verso:...
Eddie Grant or Edward Leslie Grant (1883-1918) also known as Harvard Eddie. Color portrait of Eddie Grant. A 'C' is in the top left corner and 'Reds' is in the top right. The team is the Cincinnati Reds. Verso: Edward L. Grant. Edward L. Grant, the...
Tommy Griffith or Thomas Herman Griffith (1889-1967). Color portrait of Tommy Griffith with the Cincinnati Reds. Verso: Base Ball Stars. This card is one of a set of 30 stars from original photographs. Manufactured only by Standard Caramel Co.,...
Larry McLean or John Bannerman McLean (1881-1921). Color-portrait of Larry McLean with the Cincinnati Reds. Verso: Base Ball Gum. This card is one of a set of 50 Base Ball Players. Prominent members of National and American leagues, one of which is...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Washington Senators (Baseball team : 1886-1960)
Kid Elberfeld or Norman Arthur Elberfeld (1875-1944) also known as The Tabasco Kid. Color portrait of Kid Elberfeld framed by two baseball bats. The team is the Washington Senators. A 'W' is in the top left corner and 'Senators' is in the top right...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Washington Senators (Baseball team : 1886-1960)
Gabby Street or Charles Evard Street (1882-1951) also known as Old Sarge. Portrait of Gabby Street with the Washington Senators. A 'W' is in the top left corner and 'Senators' is in the top right. Verso: Charles E. Street. Charles E. Street, who...
Big Four Bridge; Rivers; Steamboats; Men; Women; Carriages & coaches; Boathouses; Piers & wharves; Waterfronts
Busy dock on the Ohio River. Three wharfboats line the shore and the City of Cincinnati steamboat is docked behind them. The City of Cincinnati steamboat traveled daily between Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky. Several people and a horse...
Boat & ship industry; Steamboats; Military facilities; Transportation; Bridges; Rivers
The City of Louisville was built in 1894 for trade between Louisville and Cincinnati. The U.S. Life Saving Station, or the U.S. Coast Guard, is next to the boat and the Big Four bridge in in the background. Caption under photo reads "Wharf in...
Dragon's head, small shield with text, and intricate ornamentation. A scroll with text runs across the center of the design. The text on the shield is "Never less alone than when alone." The scroll says "Bruno Alberts." Born in...
The steamboat Cincinnati passes under the Municipal Bridge (now George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge). A number of long thin boats are underneath the bridge. On the Louisville side of the bridge, stacks of materials can be seen near railroad tracks,...
Ohio River along the Cincinnati waterfront. Railroad tracks and railroad cars are seen along the waterfront. Three steamboats are docked alongside wharfboats and a small boat or canoe is close to shore. A bridge crossing the river is in the...
Ohio River along the Cincinnati waterfront. Railroad tracks and railroad cars are seen along the waterfront. Three steamboats are docked alongside wharfboats and a small boat or canoe is close to shore. A bridge crossing the river is in the...
Paddlewheeler "Keystone State of Pittsburgh" docked alongside a wharfboat in the Ohio River near Cincinnati, Ohio. Another paddlewheeler is pulling alongside the Keystone. Two bridges over the Ohio River are seen in the background.
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...
