Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
Central House, at the center of its "cluster." Central House was built as part of a dormitory complex on the campus of Kentucky Southern College. Eight dorm buildings were arranged around one central building providing common space. This...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Kentucky Southern College; 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....
Buildings; Research facilities; University of Louisville--Buildings;
Exterior shot of the Center for Predictive Medicine; includes a corner of the building, an entrance and tables on a patio. Location: Shelby Campus: 950 North Hurstbourne Lane. Current uses: A level-3 biosafety lab (meaning that researchers are...
Trolley tracks run down Bardstown Road at its intersection with Highland Avenue. Utility poles are visible on both sides of the road and a traffic light hangs down from some of these. On the left is Louisville National Bank and Otto E. Mueller's...
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...
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...
Germantown School on Mary Street, last listed in City Directory 1905; replaced by Isaac Shelby elementary school; Louisville, Kentucky. Narrow, three-story brick building with pointed roof and a three story metal column attached to the front which...
Portrait of Judge Ralph Gilbert of Shelbyville, Kentucky, wearing a suit and printed tie. The photograph has a lot of discoloration, fading and yellowing from age. Handwritten on back of image: Ralph Gilbert, Shelby County judge.
Portrait of Judge Ralph Gilbert of Shelbyville, Kentucky. He is wearing a hard collar and tie. Crop marks outline his head, and the photograph is badly cracked and the surface torn where a piece of tape had been. Handwritten on back of image:...
Oval-shaped portrait of Ralph Gilbert of Shelbyville, Kentucky wearing a silk tie and sack coat. The photograph has small cracks. Handwritten on back of image: Shelby County judge.
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Starboard side of NEW SOUTH at the bank of the Ohio River. NEW SOUTH, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (257 ft. x 42.6 ft. x 7 ft.), was built in 1887 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Owned by Shelby & Perkins...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
DUFFY, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (125 ft. x 25 ft. x 4.6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1921. Owned by Ohio River Sand Company in Louisville, Kentucky, DUFFY operated in the Louisville area. The Duffy became a familiar sight in...
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...
Horatio W. Bruce was born in 1830 in Lewis County, Kentucky. He attended school in Lewis County and in Manchester, Ohio, and worked as a salesman and bookkeeper at a general store in Vanceburg, Kentucky. In 1850, he went to Flemingsburg, Kentucky,...
George Gilpin Perkins was born in Burlington, Kentucky, in 1839. His family moved to Covington, and he was educated in the city schools, at Shelby College, and at Belmont, Ohio. He studied law and was admitted to practice in 1863. In 1867, he...
Map, on a scale of 1/3000,000, of Jackson Purchase region of northwestern Kentucky (bounded bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and Tennessee River to the east). The region was ceded by the Chickasaw Indians...
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...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Kentucky Southern College; Educational facilities
View of an exterior walkway and the front of the building covered with windows. Title supplied by cataloger. Believed to be at Burhans Hall at Kentucky Southern College, now the University of Louisville Shelby Campus.
