Portrait of Alice G. (Mrs. Samuel H.) Matlack of Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing her hair back and a scalloped collared blouse. The photograph has been marred with discolorations and age. Handwritten on back of image: Active in PTA. Stamped on...
Industrial facilities; Buildings; Cobblestone streets; Utility poles
Address: 831 S. Twelfth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. An industrial building is shown on a brick road with trolley tracks in it. The long building has at least four sections with different heights ranging from 2 1/2 stories above ground to 4 1/2...
Health--Information resources; Health--Information services; Information networks
Background: Failure to achieve their goals of over 200 U.S. Health Information Exchange Networks (HIENs) which formed or operated in the U.S. from 2004 to 2010, lost time, capital and opportunity at individual, organizational and societal levels,...
Address: 137 South Main Street, Lawrenceburg, Ky. The Beaux-Arts style Anderson County Courthouse is shown. The building is made of stone with four columns holding up the cornice. The top of the building is noted for its cupola with inset clock. In...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Musicians; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Anna Belle Sale (Mrs. C.G.) Prather of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing her hair short and wavy. The photograph has been painted on and marred with discolorations from age. Stamped on back of image: Credit, Griswold Studio (Louisville)....
Commercial art galleries; Brick wall signs; Buildings; Drugstores
Address: 1764 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, KY. View of Architype Gallery. Woman standing at window looking inside. Ghost sign on Pope Street side of building reads "H.G. Young, Druggist."
Parades & processions; Horses; Flags--United States
Horse-drawn carriage full of people holding American flags, waving and smiling. Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "R.G. Potter, Collection; Armistice Day Nov 11-1918 A wagon load of celebrants in front of Citizens Union Bank on Jefferson...
Multiple views of men assembling windows and window frames, plus machinery and stacks of manufactured windows. Address: Arthur G. Eller Company, 517 S. Preston Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
“Athens in the mid-fourth century BC. N4- Dromos, leading through the Kerameikos (the graveyard) to the Academy, L6- Dipylon Gate, N12- Piraeus Gate, H11- Agora, G16-Areopagus, C15-Acropolis, I19- Pnyx, G- Olympeion, B19- Kynosarges, B10-...
Atlas of the City of Louisville, Kentucky prepared from official records, private plans and actual surveys. Thirty plates cover the entire city of Louisville and parts of the surrounding county. Each plate shows names of businesses and property...
Auditoriums; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Buildings
Ampitheatre Auditorium in Louisville, Kentucky, built by William F. Norton Jr. in 1889 from material salvaged from the Southern Exposition, and razed in 1904 following Norton's death in 1903. Handwritten on mounted print: "Auditorium, S.W....
Audubon Country Club (Louisville, Ky.); Golf; Men; People
Address: 3265 Robin Road, Louisville, Kentucky. A man puts on the green of the Audubon Club golf course. Other men wait with golf clubs in hand. The green ends in a sand trap. Two younger men hold bags of clubs; they are probably the caddies at the...
Men examine early aviation accident at Churchill Downs. Biplane wing appears to have broken in what R.G. Potter described as a "slight mishap" that occurred when American aviation pioneer Glen H. Curtiss brought two planes to Churchill...
Baseball players; Athletes; Group portraits; Parkway Field (Louisville, Ky.)
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig with Louisville Colonels baseball team, Parkway Field, Louisville, Kentucky, October 24, 1928. Babe Ruth is wearing Bustin Babes jersey and Lou Gehrig is wearing Larrupin Lou's jersey. Photo included in R.G. Potter's book:...
Bands; Wind instruments; Percussion instruments; Post offices; Post Office and Customs House (Louisville, Ky.); Buildings
The U.S. Mail Band poses in front of the Louisville Post Office. Drums and clarinets are in the front row, followed by trumpets and french horns; saxophones, trombones and tubas bring up the rear.
The Baxter Building was torn down in 1925 by the University of Louisville to make way for the Speed Art Museum. Location: Belknap Campus: on site of present-day Speed Art Museum. The Baxter Building served as a the main building for the House of...
View of Baxter Square Park, including many damaged trees, after the tornado that hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. A gazebo sits, seemingly unharmed, amidst the debris, broken trees, and damaged buildings. The tornado killed an estimated...
Overhead view of a town in a valley with a river running alongside the town's edge. To the right, further up the river is another cluster of buildings. Text on left: Scenery Lehigh Valley R.R. Text on right: Scenery Lehigh Valley R.R. Descriptive...
Boys; Baseball; Games; Hats; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); People
Boys prepare to play baseball in a ritual where a representative from each team wraps his hand around the bat just above the other team representative's hand. The boy whose hand covers the top of the bat will likely decide whether his team bats or...
