A Pontiac convertible is hitched to a boat and parked in front of the Falls City Boat Works. The boat has L-9 and E-42 painted on the side as well as "Miss Houston IV, Worlds Champion 1925-26-27-28." Seven men stand behind the boat. Some...
Taylor Drug Store interior with soda fountain counter, adorned with signs advertising foods and drinks. Waitresses serve customers at counter. Handwritten on back of print: "Drug Store-Soda Fountain." Title supplied by cataloger.
Beverage industry; Billboards; Advertisements; Signs (Notices); Coca-Cola Company
Billboard on white lattice background, reading "the Pause that Refreshes" at left and "Drink Coca-Cola" at right, with three-dimensional glass of Coke at center. Title supplied by cataloger.
Flood-damaged houses on West End of Louisville, Kentucky had to have basements pumped before furnaces could be lit. People pose on porch of house in foreground. Title supplied by cataloger.
Automobile service stations; Signs (Notices); Advertising; Buildings
Address: 130 E. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The Gulf Refining Company service station on Main Street shows gas pumps under a canopy. The lot has a number of street lamps with round globes. Signs read "That Good Gulf Gasoline,"...
Automobile service stations; Signs (Notices); Cobblestone streets; Buildings
Address: 130 E. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The Gulf Refining Company service station on Main Street shows gas pumps under a canopy. The lot has a number of street lamps with round globes. Signs read "That Good Gulf Gasoline," and...
Automobile service stations; Signs (Notices); Cobblestone streets; Buildings
The Gulf Refining Company service station at Locust and Court in Jeffersonville shows gas pumps under a sign reading, "That Good Gulf Gasoline." A number of street lamps with round white globes appear on the property. A brick building is...
The two-story home features a front porch capped by a second-story balcony. The house is very symmetrical with matching shutters around the windows. A low stone wall is centered in front of the house with steps leading up it and onto a pathway to...
Address: 2132 Lakeside Drive, Louisville, Kentucky. A home is shown at the top of a small hill. It is in the style of a chalet with stone work on the basement, chimney, and first level and a crossed woodwork design on the upper levels. A concrete...
Two rooms with an extra-wide doorway connecting them are shown in this unidentified residence. The first room has a stuffed armchair and another chair. The second room is a dining room with table, chairs, and cabinet. While the first room has two...
Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings
Address: 1200 block of W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Utility lines run along the sidewalk in front of a number of buildings. Trolley tracks line the street and cars are parked along the sidewalk. One of the buildings has a sign for Auto Supply...
Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings; Commercial facilities
Address: 900 block of E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Utility lines crisscross over the street. On one side is a cafeteria. On the other side of the street are signs for The Corner Shoppe ("Drug Sundries Luncheonette"), Coca-Cola,...
A machine for pressing down asphalt is shown on a country road. The asphalt machine has a covered section for the driver and a smokestack above a wide, centered, possibly concrete wheel. A farmhouse and building is visible above a cornfield on the...
Trolley tracks run down Bardstown Road at its intersection with Highland Avenue. Utility poles are visible on both sides of the road and a traffic light hangs down from some of these. On the left is Louisville National Bank and Otto E. Mueller's...
Historic buildings; Apartment houses; Buildings; Building construction
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, this 11-story building near Cherokee Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. This photograph shows the early stages of the construction of the...
Louisville Free Public Library; Segregation; Libraries; African Americans; People
Address: 604 S. Tenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. African American children sit at tables or stand by bookshelves in the children's room of the Western Colored Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. A number of books are on the tables and...
Theaters; Motion picture theaters; Cultural facilities; Interiors; Motion picture posters
The entryway of Le Rose Theatre includes a carpet with an L and an R intertwined which sits in front of a set of double doors. On the far wall is a combination mirror and poster display. The poster reads, "Richard Dix, The Gay Defender, a...
Theaters; Motion picture theaters; Cultural facilities; Interiors
The interior of Le Rose Theatre includes an aisle between a front and back section of seating as well as aisles dividing the front seating into three sections. The movie screen is framed by arched windows on either side. Short windows at the tops...
Churches; Steeples; Religious facilities; Buildings
Address: 1127 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior of First Evangelical Lutheran Church is shown. The building's symmetry is offset by a balcony and steeple that are set off-center. Two sets of double doors serve as the entryway. Above...
Historic buildings; Apartment houses; Buildings; Building construction
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, the Commodore Apartment Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In this early shot of the construction process, the future apartment building has...
