Automobile service stations; Automobiles; Advertising; Signs (Notices); Buildings; Transportation
Address: 1200 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Two automobiles are pulled up to the gas pumps at the Aetna Oil service station. The canopy over the pumps advertises, "Safe Pennzoil Lubrication. The Better Motor Fuel. Benzol-Gas. Power....
Floods; Industrial facilities; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Smokestacks; Buildings
Water surrounds the Beargrass Gas Plant. Utility poles in the middle of the photograph show water about halfway up the poles. In the foreground a man stands in a shallow boat poling his way through the water. Steam and smoke still rise up from the...
Rails are embedded in a cobblestone road alongside the Big Four and Chesapeake & Ohio Freight building. A multi-car train is parked in front of the building. One of the cars is marked "N.Y.C. & H.R." while another says,...
Multiple views of a service station, a small white building surrounded by fields with a brick building containing Kingsley Food Mart across the street.
Storage facilities; Disaster relief; Canoes; Boats; Buildings; Automobile service stations
Canoes in front of OK Storage facility used as boat station during Ohio River flood, February 1937. OK Storage was located at 1104-1108 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Handwritten on back of another image in series: "Boat Station at...
Service station with two sets of gasoline pumps and a few parked cars. A couple men stand at the garage entrance. Address: 800 River Road, Louisville, Kentucky.
The Pennsylvania Bridge can be seen in the behind the barge and coal station on the bank of the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky. Caption under photo reads, "River with Ice."
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
The old Coast Guard station in the shallows of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky. The white two-story station has a balcony and a United States flag and a pointed turret and small windows. The first Louisville Lifeboat Station was a wooden...
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
New Coast Guard station or Life Saving Station in the shallows on the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky. Compared to the old station, the windows are large and the trim is dark. There is a rope across the water to the shore and men on both sides....
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
New Coast Guard station or Life Saving Station on Ohio River with a steamboat and bridge visible as seen from Louisville, Kentucky, 1929. The first Louisville Lifeboat Station was a wooden houseboat built in 1881 and located at the Falls of the...
