Young boys in suits and girls in white dresses stand in rows at the altar of a church during First communion at St. Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church.
Buildings; Youth organizations; Young Men's Christian associations; African Americans
YMCA Colored Branch, Louisville, Kentucky. Three-story, narrow brick building with a three-section slanted roof of curved shingle. Stone fence at entrance and stone embellishments around the one front first floor window, which is wide and domed....
Buildings; Youth organizations; Young Men's Christian associations
YMCA Central Branch, Third Street and Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky, 1928. Seven-story, wide brick building with a tall first floor featuring domed windows, above which "Young Men's Christian Association" is carved. The roof is flat,...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Interiors; Basements; Flood damage; University of Louisville--Buildings; Cleaning personnel; Disaster relief; Equipment; University of Louisville--Employees
Workers attempt to deal with incoming flood water in the basement of the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. Photograph was taken in the mid-morning.
Wooden benches line the walls of the Shibboleth Lodge. A waist-high wooden stand is at the center of the room opposite a large wooden seat set atop a small dais. Stairs lead up to a balcony above the dais where a few seats and an organ are. Other...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: title page for "American School Series. New First School Reader by Noble Butler A.M. John P. Morton & Co. Louisville, Kentucky." with image of girl playing with dogs and...
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco" ad with indistinct white-on-black image; "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco." with woman dressed in white on black background;...
Woodblock prints of large images from left to right starting at top left, and smaller images from top to bottom at right and from left to right beneath large images: border of flowers surrounding picture of young child, with blank space beneath;...
Women's dining room, Nazareth College, Louisville, Kentucky, 1924. Features a huge ornate mirror over a fireplace, dark walls, and a table with curved wood chairs, a plant on top, and a chandelier above. On back of image: "Young Ladies Dining...
Women; First aid; Classrooms; African Americans; Asian Americans; American Red Cross; People
Women practice first aid techniques at the Dunbar school (908 Magazine Street). Many women bear bandages on their arms and legs as others practice their bandaging techniques.
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Boat engines; Launchings; Ship equipment & rigging; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
WM. LARIMER JONES, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (136 ft. x 34 ft. x 7.3 ft.), was built at Howard in 1930. Owned by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, WM. LARIMER JONES operated in the Pittsburgh area. Wm. Larimer Jones was the first...
With the Middle Kingdom mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II at left; "If the most impressive monuments of the Old Kingdom are its pyramids, those of the New Kingdom are its grandiose temples, often built to honor pharaohs and queens, as well as...
Willna Rudy (Mrs. W. Clarke) Otte of Louisville, Kentucky seated, wearing a skull cap and silk scarf around her neck. The photograph is creased and torn and discolored with age. Stamped on back of image: December 1, 1933. Typed on back: first wife...
William LeRoy Dulaney was born in York, Ill., in 1838. He attended Centre College, graduating in1857. He read law under Judge W.V. Loving and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He served as city attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1860 but joined...
Lawyers; Municipal officials; Legislators; Portraits
William C. G. Hobbs was born in St. Clair, Tenn., in 1864. He received his public school education in the schools of Lee County, Virginia, and Eastern Tennessee, after which he attended the Medical College of East Tennessee. Later, he dedicated to...
William and Alameda Sparks Messer, an elderly couple wearing work clothes, stand outside a small shed with a saw leaning against it in Rowan County, Kentucky. Mr. Messer, descended from the Stewarts of Scotland, is said to be a descendant of Mary...
