A pendant light with a shade hangs down low over a dining room table at 2515 Longest Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. The table and chairs are made of dark wood and the seats are upholstered. A sideboard sits against the back wall along with a table...
Address: 2595 S. 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Industrial warehouse, located in an abandoned parking lot, surrounded by fencing, Framers Supply, and fast food restaurant (Moby Dick's), appears abandoned. Painted brick wall sign reads...
Address: 2595 S. 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Abandoned building, possibly formerly National Steel Service Center, Inc. Ghost sign has been painted over in red. Building also includes contemporary graffiti and closed up windows/portals.
Address: 2595 S. 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Side of abandoned building once housing National Steel Service Center, Inc. Ghost sign has been painted over in red.
Address: 419 Finzer Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This building is an apartment complex today (known as The Lofts of Broadway), but it was originally constructed as a tobacco warehouse, and has one ghost sign which reads, "Stewart's Service...
400 block of south 4th Street on the east side. Re-Nu Shoe Repairing with Bryan's Service on the second floor. Other stores on the block include a cafeteria and W.K. Stewart booksellers.
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African American newspapers; Louisville Leader (Ky.); Kentucky Reporter (Louisville, Ky.); Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co....
Oral history interview with Lattimore Cole conducted on November 26, 1977 by Dwayne Cox. In this interview, Mr. Cole discusses his early education in Louisville, working for his father’s newspaper the Louisville Leader and describes what it was...
African Americans; African American politicians; African American businesspeople; African American business enterprises; Women politicians; Civil rights; Louisville (Ky.)--Politics and government; Politicians; Integration; Discrimination in housing
Oral history interview conducted with Louise Reynolds on June 13, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Louise Reynolds was the first African American woman elected alderman in the city of Louisville. Ms. Reynolds discusses her work with the Republican Party,...
African Americans--Education (Elementary); African Americans--Education (Higher); National Training School for Women and Girls (Washington, D.C.); Fisk University; Howard University; African Americans; Race relations; Civil rights; African...
Oral history interview conducted with Ruth Bryant on July 24, 1977 by Kenneth L. Chumbley. Mrs. Bryant, a community activist, primarily discusses her involvement in community organizing and political activism during the 1960’s in Louisville. ...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; Boy Scouts of America; Elderly poor; Floods--Ohio River; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; National Council of Senior Citizens; Senior House; Senior centers; Scouting (Youth activity); Urban elderly;...
Oral history interviews conducted with Mr. Steward Pickett on May 23, June 4, and June 25, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Mr. Pickett, a retired assistant Boy Scout executive and board member of Senior House, talks about his family, growing up on an...
Address: 830 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the stage of Columbia Auditorium, some men wear tuxedoes while others wear suits. The women wear dresses and a couple have corsages pinned to their shoulders. Five young girls are dressed in...
Railroad cars; Railroad employees; Men; Boys; Electric railroads
Interurban with conductor and two passengers, a man and young boy, sits on a railroad track. The railcar has "54" on the front and a "Silver Hills" sign on the top. It probably carried passengers from New Albany, Ind. to Silver...
Emotions (Philosophy); Literature--Philosophy; Ethics; Philosophy of mind
This dissertation offers a brief survey of the rise of reason and the tum to the self at the expense of emotion in Western thought. This marginalization of emotion has had deleterious effects on two areas: the cultivation of virtue and the...
Ferries; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
A. BALDWIN, a center wheel ferry with steel catamaran hulls (127 ft. x 58.9 ft. x 7.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1905. Owned by Union Ferry Co., A. BALDWIN operated in the New Orleans area carrying up to thirty-five automobiles and 231...
Historic sites; Buildings; Monuments & memorials; Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (Ky.); Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Memorial Building at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site near Hodgenville, Kentucky. The memorial is a stately neoclassical building reached by a series of stairs. It houses a replica of the log cabin in which President Abraham...
Temples; Domes; Religious facilities; Historic buildings; Buildings
Address: 757 S. Brook Street, Louisville, Kentucky. James J. Gaffney designed this building, with its terra cotta dome, tile mosaics, and elaborate brickwork, for congregation Adath Jeshurun. The first service there was on July 5, 1919. The...
Trucking--Management; Freight and freightage--Cost control; Freight and freightage--Planning
Freight imbalance is a problem that negatively affects drivers and carriers within the truckload trucking industry. One result of this problem is that the industry experiences high annual driver turnover, exceeding 130% annually. The turnover can...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Awnings; Windows;
The Service Building, now known as the Administrative Annex. The entrance is clearly visible, as are the front windows and their awnings. Some of the second story windows appear to be open. The Administrative Annex was built as a WPA project during...
Aerial view of the Big Four Bridge across the Ohio River between Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana, on a diagonal from bottom right of photo to upper left. Fog in areas on river banks. On back of image: "Photo by Ray Barclay...
