Row of buildings along Michigan Avenue, facing Grant Park, an expanse of green grass. The buildings are identified on the card: Auditorium, Fine Arts Building, Chicago Club, Stratford Hotel, Railway Exchange Building, Art Institute. Text printed on...
Trolley tracks run down Bardstown Road. The road is paved and cars are parked along the curb. On the left side are signs for a hardware store, Lydon Shoe Repairing, and Deckel Grocer. More commercial buildings follow on that side. On the opposite...
Stores & shops; Millinery; Streets; Automobiles; Street railroads; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 212 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This view of Fourth Street shows the Husch Bros. store with a cloth canopy above plate glass windows. In the front window is a display of hats with a sign reading, "Sale of 500 new Fall hats...
Streets; City & town life; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Steeples; Buildings; Apartment houses
This street scene captures the area of Third Street and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky. In the foreground is a sign for "At Your Service Tire Co." and behind that is the Young Men's Christian Association. On the opposite side of the...
Address: northeast corner of Fifth and Jefferson Streets. Completed in 1912, the Inter-Southern Insurance Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. This shot captures the building just after its completion. A sign...
Address: 1764 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. A man in a dark suit and hat talks with a young man in striped pants and a white jacket. They are standing near the display cases in Young's Pharmacy. Products in the cases include cameras,...
Wooden benches line the walls of the Shibboleth Lodge. A waist-high wooden stand is at the center of the room opposite a large wooden seat set atop a small dais. Stairs lead up to a balcony above the dais where a few seats and an organ are. Other...
Transportation; Rivers; Paddleboats; Louisville and Portland Canal (Ky.)
The paddleboat Ida-Mae out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, moves down the Louisville and Portland Canal. A small sign on the shore indicates "U.S. Lock 41." A man walks along the fence line on the opposite part of the canal near a stone...
Streets; Transportation; Motorcycles; Street railroads; Buildings; Parades & processions
Address: Broadway and Sixth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Men on motorcycles ride in front of a string of trolley cars during a parade of the trolleys down Broadway. In the distance the tall white building is the Heyburn Building on Fourth Street...
A gravel or dirt road goes over a stone or concrete bridge approximately one half mile from Middletown, Kentucky. A plaque on the bridge support reads, "Erected by Jefferson County Fiscal Court / 1922." On the opposite support beam is a...
Location: between Jefferson and Chestnut, Jackson and Clay Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. On one corner is what looks like an abandoned lot with a partial fence. On the opposite corner is a home with a broken down fence. The house is a long brick...
Utility poles run along a tall brick building and on the opposite side of the street. A man stands in a doorway under a wood balcony. In front of him is a truck with "Eat Cuscaden's Ice Cream. It's a food" painted on the side. Another...
Buildings; Streets; Business districts; Men; Women; Children
Telephone poles are placed in the wide city streets of an unidentified town. A liquor store, lodging houses, and a building on the corner called The White House line the opposite side of the street, where men, women, and children are visible.
Portrait of Henry M. Gerber of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a striped pencil tie and pocket watch chain. The photograph has opposite corners missing and a lot of discoloration. Handwritten on back of image: Henry M. Gerber, Louisville Furniture...
Tom Greene wearing his captain's uniform, smiling at the man opposite him. The photograph has been painted on, attempting to accentuate details on the men's clothing. Stamped on back of image: April 16, 1935. Handwritten on back: Tom Greene, left;...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Blindness; Kentucky School for the Blind
Kentucky School for the Blind, 1867 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Four-story concrete building with a large dome on the roof, which has a small tower on top. Wide stairs lead to a two story pillared porch. A woman in black walks on a wide...
Frankfort Avenue near Mellwood Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. View of Frankfort Avenue with telephone wires on each side. Little else is shown on the right but on the left are two drugstores at opposite street corners; the second one is "Billig...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF CINCINNATI, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (300 ft. x 38 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1899. Owned by Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co., CITY OF CINCINNATI operated on the Ohio River opposite the City of Louisville. Every...
Stables; Forge shops; Pumping stations; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Buildings in the upper section of Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes, from left to right the buildings are "part of ox stable, mule stables, brick blacksmith shop, east end of...
Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
WASH GRAY, a steam propelled tugboat with wood hull (90 ft. x 19 ft. x 8 ft.), was built at Howard in 1895. Owned by John Huffman, WASH GRAY operated in the Louisville area. She was sold to the Combine in 1900 and then to Mexico in 1920. She sank...
