Maps; Floods; Disasters; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville--1920--1940; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River
Map, printed in green in on white paper, of the area of Louisville, Kentucky, affected by the 1937 flooding of the Ohio River. Includes description of the flood, chart of elevations and depths of selected sites in Louisville, two photographs of...
Sign above the Brown Garage that reads "Serve Lady Betty Mayonnaise Salad Dressings and Other Fine Foods" with a picture of a hand scooping mayonnaise onto a salad. The bottom of the sign reads "Wheatley Mayonnaise Co. Louisville,...
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco" ad with indistinct white-on-black image; "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco." with woman dressed in white on black background;...
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,...
African-American church choir. Men, women, and children in choir robes stand at the front of a church with the altar behind them. Printed on bottom right corner: Royal Photo Co. Lou Ky. Title supplied by cataloger.
Students from Central High School stand in front of what is likely the school. The students where band uniforms with hats and capes. The front line includes the drums, drum major, and a man in a suit who is likely the band director. Several rows of...
Address: 518 S. Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. At the corner of Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and Eighth Street, the Convent of the Good Shepherd Home for Colored Children stood. This photograph shows the a group of girls posed...
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps, Jefferson Post American Legion, Kentucky, posed lengthwise on a boulevard in front of a building with a sign on the side saying "Jefferson Garage." The men are playing music facing two conductors. One drum is...
Address: 1064-1068 Everett Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Two automobiles are parked at the curb in front of the homes at Everett Avenue. The home on the left has a pointed roof above the front entryway and a double-decker porch on the right side of...
P.G. Coker's apartment building at 722 W. Chestnut Street in Louisville, Ky. It is a three-story brick building with a large porch supported by doric style columns. Trees line Chestnut Street and electric railway tracks can be seen in the street....
Two children sitting in driver's seat behind wheel of automobile, building facades in background. Photograph is smudged and damaged from age. Typed and attached to mounted print: "Hugh T. Gratz, 1909, Bus line between Lebanon and Springfield,...
Children's band inside a gymnasium or auditorium. Two rows of boys in marching band uniforms. The back row has four boys holding flags. A row of drums runs across the front. The two center drums read 'Shawnee Corps 3204 Louisville, Ky." The...
Musical band called The Rhythmeers on stage. Two rows of men sit on the stage behind musical stands that read "Rhythmeers." The men wear tuxedos and hold assorted brass instruments. To the left sits a man at a piano with a woman in a long...
Two exterior views of a large band in uniform with instruments on the steps in front of a building. Caption: Hamilton Citadel Band at Louisville, Ky. Oct. 9, 1948.
Members of a band sit in uniform with their instruments on a stage in front of a curtain with stars. Caption: Hamilton Citadel Band at Louisville, Ky. Oct. 9, 1948.
A group of musicians pose in uniform with their instruments. The corps includes wind instruments and drums. The largest drum reads "Banner Council Band, Louisville, KY." The band is posed in front of the group's meeting place at 318 E....
Women sit on either side at three rows of dining tables for a banquet in the Seelbach Hotel. Text on bottom: College of Regents Conference - April 7, 1946 - Seelbach Hotel, Lou, Ky.
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Barge tied to bank at Howard Shipyards in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana in 1925. According to the photographer's notes, this is the "twisted barge of Inland Waterways Co., Louisville, Ky."
