Maps, on a scale of 200 feet per inch, of "every lot or parcel of ground" in the central area of Louisville, Kentucky in 1876, including details such as precise dimensions, owners' names, building materials (wood vs. brick) and whether...
Automobiles; Transportation; Streets; Automobile service stations; Signs (Notices)
A number of cars are parked along the side of Preston Street Road (now known as Preston Highway). To the left is an inn and signs for Oertels and Fehr's beer. To the right is a street sign indicating Clark's Lane. In the middle is an intersection...
Address: 1252 S. Shelby Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of sign painted on the side of a brick business building. Sign appears to read "Mack's Drug Store." Cars, a pedestrian, a church, and other businesses are also visible.
Nurses; Health care facilities; Sick persons; People; Women; Girls
Address: 1436 S. Shelby Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A young girl with a cleft lip, wearing a bow in her hair, sits in a white bed in a hallway with three nurses. The hallway has a coat and hat rack on the left, a certificate and a phone on the...
Address: 1455 S. Shelby Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of blue brick building currently housing AAA Appliance Repair. A faded sign remains in red brick on the side of the building. Cars, vans, buildings, and residence are also visible.
Industrial facilities; Houses; Dwellings; Buildings; Smokestacks; Air pollution
Address: 2440 S. Floyd Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A house sits next to the Van Camp factory. The factory property includes a multi-story building from which a smokestack pokes into the sooty sky. A lower building with garage doors sits in...
Address: 501 Main Street, Shelbyville, Ky. Construction was completed in 1913 for this building that houses the administrative offices of county government and the District and Circuit Courts. It was built in the Beaux-Art Classicism style of...
Buildings; Courthouses; Shelby County Courthouse (Shelbyville, Ky.)
Address: 501 Main Street, Shelbyville, Ky. The courtroom of the Shelby County Courthouse is shown with numerous wood seats. The judge's area and witness stand can be seen on the right. To the left is a section of seating separated by a wood...
Buildings; Courthouses; Shelby County Courthouse (Shelbyville, Ky.)
Address: 501 Main Street, Shelbyville, Ky. This photo of the Shelby County Courthouse courtroom looks down from the visitor's balcony. This shot affords a good view of the large windows, ornate ceiling, multiple chandeliers and the general...
Buildings; Courthouses; Shelby County Courthouse (Shelbyville, Ky.)
Address: 501 Main Street, Shelbyville, Ky. This view of the Shelby County Courthouse courtroom shows the jury box with twelve wooden chairs set in a tiered seating arrangement. Behind the jury box is the public seating and entryway above which is a...
Address: 743 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick, stone, and marble building displays a sign reading: "'The Oldest National Bank in the South' First National Bank. Shelby & Broadway Branch. 'You can park.'" The corner of the...
Address: 786 Shelby St., Louisville, KY. A For Sale sign covers the last of the advertising painted on the north side of this building, but "The Heath & Milligan Paints" can be seen.
Address: Corner of the 1300 block of Shelby Street and 800 block of Ash Street. The building is located in the same parking lot as Goss Avenue Antiques and Interiors, but seems to be vacant. The ghost sign, partially obscured by a "Home of...
Address: Shelby Street and Ash Street, Louisville, KY 40217. Back of the Goss Avenue Antiques & Interiors. Ghost sign may be from the Serta manufactures that were there before Goss Antiques acquired the building. "Slip covering",...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Kentucky Southern College; Educational facilities; Streets; Aerial photographs;
Aerial view of Shelby Campus, including "cluster" of dormitories, Burhans Hall, Founders Hall, and other buildings. Streets leading through and around the campus are also seen. Founded in 1961 as a home for the Baptist liberal arts...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Kentucky Southern College; Educational facilities; Streets; Forests; Aerial photographs;
Aerial view of Shelby Campus, including its "cluster" of dormitories, Burhans Hall, Founders Hall, and other buildings. The surrounding woods and developed areas can be seen in the background. Originally developed as a home for the...
Before and after views of a bar at the corner of Shelby Street and Market Street. It is a two-story building. In the before, it is dark brick. In the after, the bottom one-third of the building has a Perma Stone façade and the top two-thirds is...
Born in 1819 in Shelby County, Kentucky, Bland Ballard attended Hanover College and the Law Department of Transylvania University where he received an L.L.B in 1846. He read law under James T. Morehead. In 1846, he married Sarah McDowell, daughter...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. School of Music; Dormitories; Sculpture;
Buildings used as dormitories and practice space by the School of Music when it was located on the University of Louisville's Shelby Campus. There is a sculpture in front of one of the buildings. These buildings were formerly dormitories for...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
Burhans Hall, part of the old Kentucky Southern College campus. Originally housed administrative offices, classrooms and cafeteria of Kentucky Southern College; after Southern closed, it housed UofL School of Music's Administration Building....
