Preparatory work for the reinstallation of The Thinker in front of Grawemeyer Hall. The new pedestal is being installed by Muldoon Memorial Co., the same company that installed the original pedestal. This work was completed Feb. 13-15, 2012.
Activists; Black Student Union (University of Louisville); University of Louisville--Students; Police
Police carrying demonstrators into transport vehicle. Police officers and news people are gathered around. Members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and some of their supporters occupied the administrative offices of the College of Arts and...
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...
Spanish-styled building with arched windows. Handwritten note on front: "This is when the old Hall was South of School Building (Front North)." Published by the Citizen Press. Postmarked 1908 on verso.
Auroras; Exhibitions; Exhibition buildings; Great Lakes Exposition
Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland, Ohio, seen from the air at night. There are a variety of buildings and other structures, including a performance "shell," and the lake can be seen in the background. There are beams of colored light...
An overturned and dented car sits at the corner of Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A crowd of mostly African American men looks on. Many of them wear caps or hats and white shirts with jackets or...
Automobiles; Transportation; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings; Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Parkway Field (Louisville, Ky.)
A row of cars is lined up on a field between the University of Louisville's Belknap campus and Parkway Field minor league ballpark. Under each of the vehicles is a number typed on the photograph. In the back left is Grawemeyer Hall. Other campus...
Bands; Bandmasters; University of Louisville. Band;
Three-year-old conductor Jerry Lyon stands in front of the University of Louisville Band which has assembled for a "Communiversity Concert" on the steps of the Administration building (Grawemeyer Hall), in front of the Thinker. The boy's...
Graduation dinner in Anderson Hall in May 1913. James Madison "Matt" Hensley and Dr. Preston Jennings Jones are on the left at the front table. Lillie DeZarn sits behind the flowers on the right with Julia Barclay on her left. L. D....
Address: 1386 Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky. A current sign advertising Headliner's Music Hall is covering the ghost sign which is completely illegible. The sign itself has a diamond shape and was a white sign with a green border.
Baseball players; Athletes; Group portraits; Uniforms
Handwritten on photo of scrapbook page (Image number P_02588): "'Pee-Wee' Reese 'The Bat Boy'. New Covenant Presbyterian Church team, 37 & Broadway, July 31, 1931 R. G. Potter, Collection. Top Row - J. Wilton, Keith Sparks (Mgr.) M....
Baseball players; Baseball managers; Athletes; Parkway Field (Louisville, Ky.)
Boston Red Sox baseball player Ted Williams with Louisville Colonels manager Mike Ryba at Parkway Field, Louisville, Kentucky. Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "R.G. Potter, Collection; University of Lou. Photo Archives; Parkway Field...
Liberty Bell. The crack faces the viewer. Text printed on verso reads, "This famous relic was first cast in London 1752. It bore the motto: 'Proclaim Liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.' It was afterward recast in...
Black Student Union (University of Louisville); African American college students; African Americans; Students; University of Louisville--Students; Activists
A group of African-Americans stand in front of Gardiner Hall. A white hand holds up a sign, "Black rights mean everyone's rights." Members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and some of their supporters occupied the administrative offices...
Black Student Union (University of Louisville); Student movements; Crowds; Police; University of Louisville--Students
Police officers and a dark-shirted man look into the open door of Gardiner Hall. Members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and some of their supporters occupied the administrative offices of the College of Arts and Sciences, located inside Gardiner...
Decorative shield with a torch on either side. At the top is an insignia featuring a ship with sails. In a circle around the insignia are the words "The Handcraft Shops Founded 1904." On the scrolls below the insignia is the phrase...
Brick archway featuring a seal with the Greek words "Sigill Coll Yalen Nov Port Nov Angl" and the Latin phrase "Lux et Veritas." This is the seal for Yale University. "Vanderbilt Hall" is inscribed on the building. The...
Three young boys pose under a tree in a fenced yard. A cornfield and a large building, probably Marvin Hall, are in the background. Title supplied by cataloger.
