"The Canterbury Tales", prologue, opening page, in "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," Kelmscott Press, 1896, woodcut illustration by Burne-Jones, border decorations and initials by William Morris.
A crowd of people fill the Municipal Bridge during its opening in October 1929. The bridge was later renamed the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. The bridge spans the Ohio River from Second and Main Streets in Louisville, Kentucky, to Illinois...
A crowd of people lines the sidewalk in Jeffersonville, Indiana during the opening of the Municipal Bridge which spans the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. A police officer stands in the middle of the street at the beginning of the bridge....
A small podium has been erected on the Municipal Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky. One man stands at a microphone with other men on the podium and people are seated and standing around the stage to watch. This is the opening ceremony of the Municipal...
Address: 328 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A series of pendant lights hang above a u-shaped glass counter full of jewelry. The counter has numerous bouquets of flowers on it. Around the edges of the room are dark wood shelves filled with...
Address: 421 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A group of people stand inside the newly opened Lincoln Bank. The people are well-dressed and the room has several bouquets of flowers. The main room shows teller booths on either side and a...
Address: 528 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Women model fashions on a runway in the new Mangel's clothing store. An audience sits observing the models. Pendant lights hang from the ceiling.
An old man wearing a torn shirt and a wide brimmed hat and holding a pickaxe stands with a boy, in suspenders or overalls and also in a hat, in front of a coal opening on Lum Drake farm. They are covered in dust. The coal opening is a stout...
Buildings; Vehicles; Airplanes; Airports; Bowman Field (Ky.)
Crowds gather at Bowman Field's First Administration Building on Opening Day, Louisville, Kentucky. The airfield, established in 1919 by Abram H. Bowman, is still in operation, although Standiford Field (now Louisville International Airport) took...
Eclipse Park on the day of the opening game at the new location, the northwest corner of Seventh Street and Kentucky Street, 1913. Handwritten on back of print: "Eclipse Park. N.W. corner 7th & Ky. - right field bleachers at extreme left....