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...
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
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,...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson (pictured here). Billy Emerson (Edmund) was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1846 and died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. Emerson's Megatherian...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson and were managed by Richard M. Hooley (pictured here). Hooley was born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland in 1822 and died in Chicago in 1893. The...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; African American social workers; African American educators; African American college teachers; Segregation in education; Civil rights leaders; Lincoln Institute...
Oral history interview with Eleanor Young Love, conducted on October 2, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Dr. Love was a U of L professor and administrator, and sister of civil rights leader Whitney Young, Jr. Dr. Love discusses her parents, Laura and...
Catalog of an exhibition of work by I.M. Pei and Associates presented by the University of Louisville, Allen R. Hite Art Institute, March 6-March 28, 1964.
Alphabets (Writing systems); Animals; Containers; Laundry; Buildings; Men; Women; Children; Barrels; Barns; Carriages & coaches; Pipes (Smoking); Body parts; Top hats; Flowers; Wash tubs; Containers; Writing materials; Toys; Pine cones;...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the letters A and V and the sea serpent, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: letter...
Woodcut prints of, from left to right starting at top left: letter X; man reading book (sideways); letter W (upside-down); top hat and cane (upside-down); flowers in urn (sideways); fiddle (upside-down); letter V (sideways); letter I, with figure...
Address: 173 N. Keats Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. At the end of North Keats Avenue stands the Grand View Apartments and Annex. The multi-story frame building to the right has a sign over its door announcing, "Grandview." A woman, a man,...
Address: 1127 S. Seventeenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick apartment building is shown in a residential area. A small sign declares it Ruby Apartments. Another sign reads, "For Rent to colored. These modern apartments, two rooms &...
Atherton High School; Schools; Clock towers; Buildings; Educational facilities
J. M. Atherton High School for Girls is the sign posted over the entryway. This impressive building includes large plate glass windows, and a stone and brick exterior topped by a clock. The edifice was built in 1923 at 1418 Morton Avenue and named...
Graham Automobile dealership giveaway in Old Louisville neighborhood, Louisville, Kentucky. Giveaway car and signs advertising: "Free 7 Graham Supercharger Sedans, Listen to W.H.A.S.-11-12 A.M. Daily, Enter Gold Medal's Nomination Sweepstakes,...
A woman stands at a microphone accompanied by a woman on the piano and men on the guitar, bass, and drums. The ceiling above them is decorated with paper bells. One of the songbooks on the piano is for I'm Going to Love That Guy Like He's Never...
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....
Address: 600 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. A sign on the side of this brick building announces that it is First Standard Bank, an African American bank in downtown Louisville. The pediment over the door, mock...
Banks; Women; Citizens Union Bank (Louisville, Ky.); Clerks
Address: 4th & Broadway. Women, identified left to right as Mrs. Francis Hogue (Becky Yeager), Lorraine Crawford (Mrs. M. G. Whitley), Mrs. Winthop Allen (Louis A Starks), Mrs. Chas Hill (Elanor Gordon), Mary Ferris Lindenberger, and Miss Thoda...
Barges; Disasters; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Thick black smoke rises from an American Barge Line oil barge after it exploded while tied to the bank at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes, this picture was taken "Thurs....
Barges; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Two large wooden barges on ways at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The barges are believed to be government barges St. L and M.V.T. No. 101 and 102. Side wheeler CITY OF HICKMAN is on ways in the background. The...
Barges; Tugboats; Boathouses; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Starboard bow view of GEN. O. M. POE, with her paddlewheel removed, near the boathouse at the bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. A transfer barge is on the grade slightly upriver from GEN. O.M....
