Two boys (one in costume with suspenders) and a girl (costumed as a pioneer with a long dress and bonnet) play homemade musical instruments, including a banjo, gourd banjo, and sticks possibly used as percussion instruments, in front of a barn...
Copy of a taxi poster for Music Under the Stars. The poster reads "Music Under the Stars. Lake Front Grant Park Chicago Park District and Chicago Federation of Musicians."
Stringed instruments; Men; Houses; Guitars; Violins; Zithers; Mouth organs; Federal Music Project (U.S.); United States. Works Progress Administration
Four men sit in the yard of a small frame house playing musical instruments. One of them is named Archie Williams. They are apparently involved in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project, a New Deal relief program that employed...
Stringed instruments; Men; Houses; Guitars; Violins; Zithers; Mouth Organs; Fences; Musical instrument cases; Spinning apparatus; Brooms & brushes; Federal Music Project (U.S.); United States. Works Progress Administration
Five men sit in the yard playing musical instruments. Their coats and hats can be seen hanging on the picket fence in the background, and a few musical instruments are on the ground. A spinning wheel and broom are visible behind them. They are...
Stringed instruments; Men; Guitars; Violins; Zithers; Mouth Organs; Fences; Musical instrument cases; Spinning apparatus; Brooms & brushes; Federal Music Project (U.S.); United States. Works Progress Administration
Six men sit in the yard playing musical instruments. Their coats and hats can be seen hanging on the picket fence in the background, and a few musical instruments are on the ground. A spinning wheel and broom are visible behind them, and another...
Stringed instruments; Men; Houses; Guitars; Violins; Zithers; Mouth Organs; Fences; Musical instrument cases; Spinning apparatus; Brooms & brushes; Federal Music Project (U.S.); United States. Works Progress Administration
Five men sit in the yard playing musical instruments. Their coats and hats can be seen hanging on the picket fence in the background, and a few musical instruments are on the ground. A spinning wheel and broom are visible behind them. They are...
Music rooms; Vases; Oil paintings; Interiors; Radios
The music room in photographer Kate Matthews' family home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, which was known as Clovercroft. A large vase of flowers sits atop a radio on a table. There is a large portrait on the wall, probably of Kate Matthews' brother,...
Charlotta Matthews Osborn sits on a dark Victorian sofa, or settee, in the music room at Clovercroft, the Matthews' family home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Handwritten on album page in an unidentified handwriting: "Charlotta Matthews Osborn in...
Stores & shops; Music stores; Advertising; Window displays; Signs (Notices)
Louisville Music & Radio Company, 570 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, with posters for recordings, radio, and instruments displayed in front windows. Patriotic banners hang along front sign welcoming the American Legion. Signs for Dr....
Stores & shops; Music stores; Advertising; Window displays; Signs (Notices)
Louisville Music & Radio Company, 570 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, with posters for recordings, radio, and instruments displayed in front windows. Patriotic banners hang along front sign welcoming the American Legion. Signs for Dr....
View of Southern Automatic Music Company building at 540-542 S. 2nd Street as viewed from across the street. A long one-story brick building with multiple windows is to the right of a taller-brick building. Signs for machines, equipment, and...
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); Classrooms; African American universities and colleges; African American college students; College students; African Americans--Education (Higher); Education; African American college teachers; Teachers;...
Music students at Simmons University with instructors and President C. H. Parrish in class with violins and a piano. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute (1879), State...
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); African American universities and colleges; African American college students; College students; African American college teachers; Teachers; African American educators; African Americans--Education (Higher);...
Mrs. Mamie E. Steward and Music Classes, per the back of the photograph. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute (1879), State University (1883), Simmons University (1921),...
Address: 570 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A crowd of mostly men gathers in front of the Louisville Music & Radio Company store. Many of them wear overcoats and hats or caps. Further along the street are signs for a dentist, Taylor...
Address: 720 S. Brook Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick wall with a scalloped top encloses a work site where construction debris litters an open area near a partially-constructed building. A wooden scaffold is set up along the building. The...
