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...
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: 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....
Advertising; Stores & shops; Show windows; Street railroad tracks; Automobiles; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings; Transportation
Written on the front of the photograph is, "January - 10 - 1921, Louisville Gas & Electric Co., Bardstown Road at Highland Ave. looking South - showing all lines moved to Southwest side of street." Utility poles line the sidewalk...
Aerial photographs; Industry; Clocks & watches; Colgate Company
This aerial view of southern Indiana catches the very edge of the Ohio River and the area around the Colgate & Co. plant in Clarksville. Even from the air the company's signs and large clock are visible. Besides the name of the company the...
Aerial photographs; Stadiums; Baseball; Buildings; Parkway Field (Louisville, Ky.)
Aerial view of a baseball game at Parkway Field, 100 W. Eastern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky. Players are on the field and the stands are almost full. Beyond the stadium cars are parked along the street and in a parking lot and trolley cars can be...
Address: 1400 S. Forty-third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of the top of a ride at the Kentucky State Fair. Across the way is a tent advertising acrobats, singers, a midget circus, and athletes. Further along is a carousel and a Ferris wheel....
African American musicians; Musicians; African Americans; Trombones; Trumpets; Saxophones; Drums (Musical instruments); Pianos; Stringed instruments; Wind instruments; Violins; Banjos; People
Six African American musicians perform in an open pavilion. The drum reads "Jones Orchestra." Other instruments include trombone, violin, banjo, piano, trumpet, and saxophone. Outside of the pavilion tables are set up.
An African-American gentleman in a suit stands next to an automobile. He's wearing a top hat and coat and carries a walking stick. Man and car are in front of a building with a window sign that reads, "Webb & Co., Live Stock Commission...
African Americans; Boys; Hats; Wheat; Farms; People
An African-American boy with a straw hat sits atop a stack of wheat at Kerlin Farm in Prospect, Kentucky. The boy is wearing knee length pants and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
African Americans; Children; Pianos; Students; Teachers; Religious facilities; Sunday schools; People
A crowd of people, mostly African American children, attend Sunday school in a classroom containing a row of chairs. An African American man in a suit stands by a podium and may be the minister. Two white women and a boy stand or play at the piano...
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...
African Americans; Men; Hand tools; Hammers; Shoes; Shoemakers; Shoemaking; People
An African American man sits on a wooden bench and uses a hammer on the sole of a boot supported on a metal pole. He wears a work apron over his knee-length pants and button-up shirt with tie. Tongs, shoehorns, and more shoes wait on the bench next...
African Americans; Sewing; Irons (Pressing); Tailoring; People; Men; Women
Address: 1112 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. This is likely the interior of Bradford Cleaners. Several African Americans are working in a room full of clothes. A man stands by an ironing board. Beyond him, a woman sits at what appears to be...
African Americans; Women; Hats; Political participation; Dogs; Political posters; People
Two African American women talk on the street as a dog watches. Utility poles and walls are plastered with political signs, including ones for Senator Ernst and Chas. F. Ogden for Congress.
African Americans; Women; Hats; Political participation; People
Four African American women talk on the street. Two of them are writing in notebooks. Its likely that the two are recruiting voters for an upcoming election.
African Americans; Women; Hats; Political participation; Political posters; People
Four African American stand in the street. One of them is writing on a sheaf of paper. All of the women wear hats and jackets. Political advertising is visible posted on the walls behind the women.
