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...
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
Demonstrators picket Communist Party USA (CPUSA) leader Gus Hall's appearance in the University Center at the University of Louisville on February 12, 1973 as a guest of Pi Sigma Alpha, the Political Science Honorary. Protesters hold picket signs...
Outside a Brown-Forman Distilleries building a man stands with his hand on a car covered in advertising. The advertising includes such products as Old Forester Whisky, Bottoms Up Whisky, and Old Polk Whisky. The bottom of the advertising reads,...
Agricultural laborers; Tobacco industry; United States. Works Progress Administration
Men hauling what looks like tobacco, Kentucky. Two dark horses pull a white-covered cart on which two men sit. Behind them, two white horses pull a smaller cart, also covered, on which one man sits. There are some trees, a telephone pole, and a...
Air pollution; Rivers; Boats; Transportation; Military facilities
Address: River Road and Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A boat comes out of the covered shelter of the U.S. Coast Guard station. A man in a white cap is seated at the front of the boat and two men in dark uniforms are standing at the rear of...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: cows drinking from stream by mill; man on horse talking to man standing by fence with shovel; men on horseback passing through jungle populated by snakes, monkeys, birds, and leopards; number 10; child...
Location: 1600 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Reeser Place, an apartment complex on the West side of Fourth Street just south of Hill Street, is shown. The complex shows symmetrical buildings facing a courtyard. The foundation of the...
Address: 173 N. Keats Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. At the end of North Keats Avenue stands the Grand View Apartments and Annex. The multi-story frame building to the right has a sign over its door announcing, "Grandview." A woman, a man,...
Three women and a man sit in an open automobile parked at a curb, apparently preparing to enter a parade. The car, which has a number on the side, is covered with decorative paper flowers. The women are wearing white, or light-colored, dresses and...
A black car is parked at a curve in the road at Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Stark trees and snow covered roads surround a stone bridge over a creek. At the top of a nearby hill is a large building.
A lone automobile comes around the fourth turn on a dirt racetrack, leaving a trail of dust behind. The grandstands are empty, but a few people stand near a picket fence just to the left of the covered bleachers. Title supplied by cataloger.
Three black cars are parked along the street at Crescent Court in Louisville, Kentucky. Houses on the right side of the street have covered porches and are set back from the street. Tall trees with no leaves and the occasional utility pole line the...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Boston Braves (Baseball team)
Buck Herzog or Charles Lincoln Herzog (1885-1953). Color portrait of Buck Herzog. A 'B' is in the top left corner and 'Rustlers' is in the top right. The team is the Boston Rustlers. Verso: Charles L. Herzog. Charles L. Herzog, who covered the...
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...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team)
Color portrait of Frank Baker (John Franklin Baker) framed by two baseball bats. An elephant is in the top left corner. 'Athletics' is in the top right corner. Baker earned the nickname Home Run Baker in the 1911 World Series with the Philadelphia...
Battlefields; Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Stereograph view of Orville Elias Babcock (1835-1884) sitting on a stump and Orlando M. Poe (1832-1895) standing. The men are facing each other. In the background are rolling hills, apparently ravaged and covered with tree stumps. Inscribed on...
Boys; People with disabilities; Women; Beds; Chairs
A boy with an injured leg lies in bed. A woman, probably his mother or grandmother, sits in the chair next to the bed. The walls are covered with newspapers and there is a shelf on the wall next to the bed. Handwritten on bottom border: 509. See...
Address: 2605 Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Building is unrecognizable. Sign painted on brick wall reads "National Steel Service Center, Inc. Subsidiary of National Steel Corporation." A ghost sign can be seen beneath it, possibly...
Madison (Ind.)-Milton (Ky.) Bridge across the Ohio River, dedicated December 20, 1929. The river banks are covered in a light snow. Typed note on back of image: "Enclosed is a photograph of the new Madison-Milton bridge with Milton and the...
