1929 Kentucky Derby winner Clyde Van Dusen, in Winner's Circle draped with garland of roses, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. Owner - (of horse) H.P. Gardner, Trainer - Clyde Van Dusen, Jockey - Linus McAfee. A group of men, including two...
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Monuments & memorials; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
A Baptist church in Fairview, Kentucky, obscures all but the top of a monument dedicated to Jefferson Davis two years before his death. Trees line the dirt road tapering into the distance, where there are cars. On back of image: "Fairview, Ky....
A boy wearing metal pails on his feet stands in water surrounding a house. Labeled time is 11:00. Image is stamped Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky.
A cabinet card of the exterior of a stately brick house with an overgrown lawn, apparently belonging to Henry Bell, Jean Thomas' uncle. A little girl wearing a dress with pinafore standing outside one door of the house is Henry's daughter, Nellie...
A car parked in front of a building on a partially flooded street lined by houses. The water approaches the car's bumper. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. Original negative is...
A car parked next to debris in front of a large brick building. Water is on the ground. Labeled time is 1:15. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. Original negative is...
A cast-iron stove sits next to a wooden rocker bench in an automotive store. To the right is a roll-top desk with paperwork on it and a map hung above it. A cash register sits on a counter behind a framed-in section with one section open. Numerous...
A child crouches in a small wooden boat next to an exposed front yard with two other children crouched in the yard. More people are on a porch in the distance. The flooded street is lined by houses. A tire floats in the foreground. Labeled time is...
A collapsed house at the corner of Kentucky U.S. 42 and another street. A man is on the sidewalk with a shovel in front of a damaged house. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky....
Grocery stores; Crowds; Entertainment; Musicians; African Americans; African American musicians; Jug bands
A couple of members of the Ballard Chefs jug band stand at the right. Their costumes include white chef jackets and chef hats emblazoned with "Ballard Chefs." A crowd has gathered to hear them play at Mason Grocery and Supply Company in...
A damaged shed on top of a one-story house with other damage to the front of the house. Labeled time is 4:00. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. The Jefferson Storage company in...
A factory workroom at the Claude C. Matlack Company. Various parts of lamps and chandeliers sit on and around workbenches. Signs on the column read: "Gas Fixtures Made Electric Matlack" and "Special Designs Executed Matlack."...
A family Bible propped open to a page of the book of Malachi, facing a page marked 'Family Record.' On the left-hand (Malachi) side is handwritten "Mrs. Kate L. Bell, our dearly beloved mother, passed away Dec. 31, 1925 at 8:30 p.m. Funeral...
Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; People
A figure stands in the middle of a creek or flooded field surrounded by trees. Labeled time is 2:30. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky. Original negative is deteriorated.
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
A gathering of spectators, mostly women, watches as a horse-drawn carriage with an African-American driver wearing a top hat and passengers in antebellum period costumes stops in front of Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky...
A girl with long hair wearing a white, or light-colored, dress poses in a swing suspended from a tree. The girl is believed to be the photographer's niece, Elizabeth Matthews, who was the real-life model for the character Betty Lewis in the Little...
A gravel or dirt road goes over a stone or concrete bridge approximately one half mile from Middletown, Kentucky. A plaque on the bridge support reads, "Erected by Jefferson County Fiscal Court / 1922." On the opposite support beam is a...
A gravel road leads up to a stone or concrete bridge approximately one half mile from Middletown, Kentucky. Utility lines run along the sides of the road. On one is a sign for "Fehr's F.F.X.L. / Jefferson Island Salt." A metal shed is to...
Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Streets; Buildings; Houses; Debris; Children
A group of children stand on the street facing overturned houses, other damaged buildings, and debris with water to the left. Labeled time is 11:30. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of...
Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Streams; Towers; Men; Women; People
A group of men and women stands on an exposed patch of land next to a small brick tower at the Point. Water is on either side. There is a row of sandbags. Flooded Beargrass Creek at the Point partially covering a small wood building. Labeled: Ohio...
