The Ghost Signs of Louisville collection emerged from a partnership between the University of Louisville Libraries and Fine Arts department. Students in a fall 2011 Documentary Photography class and Libraries employees documented these fading...
Address: 711 Brent Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of ghost signs on the four-story brick building currently housing Louisville Stoneware. This side of the building includes, near the top, the Louisville Stoneware banner; a brick wall sign above...
Address: 720 East Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Several layers of ghost signs with various colors, viewed from the side parking lot across what appear to be garden beds. Ghost signs read "Riedling & Bro Hay, Grain and Mill Feed;...
Address: 711 Brent Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of ghost signs on the four-story brick building currently housing Louisville Stoneware. Ghost signs read: "Graham Paper Co." and "Tri City Van & Storage." At the very top...
Address: 2532 South Fourth Street (at Montana Avenue), Louisville, Kentucky. South side view of the Whirlaway Inn, with ghost signs reading "Whirlaway Beer Depot / Low Competitive Prices / Whiskey by the drink," accompanied by a profile...
Address: 2532 South Fourth Street (at Montana Avenue), Louisville, Kentucky. North side view of the Whirlaway Inn, with ghost signs reading "It's one of a bourbon Kentucky Tavern" and "Klotter's Fall City Amusement Co. Depot Service...
Address: 1237 South Eleventh Street, Louisville, Kentucky. West and north side views of Midwest Paper Products Co. shows two illegible ghost signs painted in white on the brick building.
Address: 1010 S. Preston Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This building has three ghost signs, two of which read "Ohio Valley Bags and Burlap Co." and the other is "Enro Shirts."
This building is located at 506 Caldwell Street, Louisville, Kentucky and had two ghost signs on the side of the building facing Jackson street. One of the signs had been painted over and was illegible. The other was so weathered it was illegible...
Address: Story Ave., Louisville, KY. View of building with a ghost sign that reads "Kirchner's Cafe" on side. This sign seems to overlap other ghost signs that are now unreadable.
Address: 1010 S. Preston St., Louisville, KY. Two ghost signs are visible in the same area of this building -- Ohio Valley Bag & Burlap as well as Enro Shirt Co. Burkhardt Company, a custom woodworking business, is now located in the building....
Address: 217 Clay Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of ghost sign on left side of building bearing lettering on front for "Hanson Realty." Ghost sign is illegible.
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...
Address: 712 East Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of the side of the building and the metal and astroturf sculptures of the Garage Bar next door. Ghost sign reads "Allied Van Lines Parking Lot."
Address: 812 East Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Restaurant is under construction. Partially legible ghost sign, viewed from the side of the building, reads "Tailoring."
