Abandoned buildings; Printing industry; Buildings; Brick wall signs; Electric signs
Address: 18th and Portland Ave., Louisville, Kentucky. Portland Printing advertises their Reduced & Enlarged Copies, as well as a Fax Service. A Neon "OPEN" sign appears in the window to the left of the ghost sign.
Address: 3936 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. (This section is now Shelbyville Road.) Two children stand in front of Plehn's Bakery near where a car had struck a boy. The invoice for this photo indicated that it was recording the skid marks...
Address: 3936 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. (This section is now Shelbyville Road.) People stand in front of Plehn's Bakery near where a car had struck a boy. The invoice for this photo indicated that it was recording the skid marks the...
George Douglas, wearing a cardigan sweater, sits in the yard of Jean Thomas' 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky, displaying a bottle and another object in his hands and a concertina on his lap.
George Douglas, wearing a cardigan sweater, sits in the yard of Jean Thomas' 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky, displaying a bottle and another object in his hands and a concertina on his lap.
Man holding a picket sign on the sidewalk in front of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company building. The sign reads "C-J- Job Printing Co. This firm unfair to allied printing trades unions. Does not pay local prevailing wage rate."...
This research addresses the problem of productivity in the P-16 system of education, emphasizing the repetition of the senior year of high school with the first year of postsecondary education. This study analyzes this integration through dual...
Billy Smith Signs storefront at 429 South Second Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The building is painted with advertisements for the sign company itself, and inside the windows signs for other companies and brands are displayed. The old Episcopal...
Address: 1153 Logan Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Partially legible ghost sign on side of brick building includes the address ("1153") and the word "groceries." A newer painted sign contains a cartoon picture of a dancing man, a...
Address: 2873 High Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Blue building with hot-air balloons painted on its side, reading "Whip Mix Corporation," "Ask for Jasper Engines & Transmissions," [illegible], and "Porter Paints Vinyl...
Advertisements; Children; Books; Textbooks; Animals; Reading; Men
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the JPM & Co. advertisement and the New Second and New Third School Readers, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of,...
Advertisement for Old Joe Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. At the top of the ad is the Old Joe Distillery. Below is a banner that reads "Anderson County Sour Mash Old Joe Brand Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey." Next to that is a...
Advertisements; Merchandise displays; Soda industry
Display booth for Royal Crown (RC Cola) in the lobby of the Mary Anderson Theatre featuring bottles of the drink and a cut-out of a woman with a star above her head. Address: 610 S. 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
Two men stand on either side of the rear of a car with a Kentucky license plate. A round advertisement on the back of the car reads "Is this your boy! Stop this slaughter" with an image of a policeman carrying a child. For Whaley Taxi...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of "Bottled by Barton Distilling Company Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky," the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of,...
Outside a Brown-Forman Distilleries building a man stands with his hand on a car covered in advertising. The advertising includes such products as Old Forester Whisky, Bottoms Up Whisky, and Old Polk Whisky. The bottom of the advertising reads,...
Address: 1087 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick building with a sign painted on it reading, "John F. Hoffman Grocery & Cafe / Dan'l Boone Cigars / Try [?] Like em." Windows on the second floor are open as are the shutters...
Advertising; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Stores & shops; Office buildings; Automobiles; Dwellings; Houses; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Transportation
Taken for Louisville Gas & Electric, this photograph shows route of power lines after purchase of home telephone poles and consolidation of lines. Utility lines have been placed in a row down Frankfort Avenue. On the right side are some homes....
