Streets; Stores & shops; Buildings; Political posters
Address: 3900 block of Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. An accident had happened on this street and the photograph was taken for the insurance company for the case Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. vs. Myrl Myers. This portion of the street is...
Lettering under awning reads "Masonic Theatre." This appears to be a rear entrance, possibly to a theatre by that name that operated at 2862 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky, and was also known as the Crescent Theatre. Title...
Theological seminaries; Historic buildings; Men; Boys
Baptist seminary in London, Kentucky is a simple-lined brick building with a two-story mid-section with a pediment supported by square brick pillars, and two one-and-a-half-story wings. A man in a suit stands on the porch, and two barefoot boys in...
Daniel Boone's grave and monument in Frankfort, Kentucky. Tiered white monument with square sides surrounded by a high iron fence. On the largest part of the monument is a panel carved with what looks like Boone fighting with another man who is...
Daniel Boone's tombstone sits behind a small wrought iron fence on his grave in Frankfort Cemetery. It is on a cliff overlooking the Kentucky River in Frankfort, Kentucky. Title supplied by cataloger.
Commissioned in 1848 by the Kentucky State Legislature, this monument to honor Kentucky veterans of all wars was built by Robert E. Launitz of New York. It was brought by barge to Frankfort, Kentucky, and completed in 1850. Only the top of the...
Tall monument, with the name Campbell etched on it, in the Frankfort Cemetery in Franklin County, Kentucky, surrounded by several smaller monuments and grave markers. This is the Sawyier-Wingate family plot, but the stereograph was made before Paul...
Monument for Daniel Boone in the Frankfort Cemetery in Franklin County, Kentucky. Boone died in 1820 in Missouri, but his and his wife's remains were reinterred in Kentucky in 1845. ULPA 1999.36.91 is a duplicate image on a yellow card.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Frankfort Cemetery (Frankfort, Ky.); Cemeteries; Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850
Monument to Richard Mentor Johnson in the Frankfort Cemetery in Franklin County, Kentucky. Johnson served in both the House and Senate of the United States, and was elected Vice-President of the United States in 1837. His birth year on the monument...
Address: 3936 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. (This address is now Shelbyville Road.) Railroad tracks parallel Frankfort Avenue and cut through Meridian Avenue. Plehn's Bakery stands on the corner. A house and gas station are visible across...
Address: 3936 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. (This address is now Shelbyville Road.) Railroad tracks run eastward parallel to Frankfort Avenue at the intersection of Meridian Avenue. Utility poles run in the same line. On the right is...
Built by the Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company in 1848, the tunnel allowed trains to travel directly into Frankfort, Kentucky. Railroad tracks lead into the tunnel, and the steep cliff of the adjacent mountain clearly illustrates the engineering...
Motorcycle with sidecar for Frankfort Distilleries. The motorcycle driver wears a uniform. The side car has advertisements for beverages from the distillery.
Women; People associated with politics & government; Dwellings; Books
After having hosted the wife of Kentucky Governor Flem D. Sampson at her first American Folk Song Festival at the Traipsin' Woman Cabin in 1930, Jean Thomas was invited to the Governor's mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky, the following year to discuss...
Women; People associated with politics & government; Dwellings; Books
After having hosted the wife of Kentucky Governor Flem D. Sampson at her first American Folk Song Festival at the Traipsin' Woman Cabin in 1930, Jean Thomas was invited to the Governor's mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky, the following year to discuss...
