Exterior view of a store window with Artist Material across the top and an advertisement for paint in the center. The photographer, camera, and street scene are reflected in the glass of the window. Title supplied by cataloger.
Address: Preston St and Augustus Ave, Louisville, KY 40217. Old Grocery store sign painted on a currently abandoned building. Detail of top advertisement, reading, in part, "Belshoff's Food Center." Date: 1950s?
Address: 1153 Logan Street, Louisville, KY 40204. Side of building features new painted sign for Smoketown USA. Older ghost sign advertises the Feed and Seed store that occupied the building beginning in 1862.
Address: 1087 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick building with a sign painted on it reading, "John F. Hoffman Grocery & Cafe / Dan'l Boone Cigars / Try [?] Like em." Windows on the second floor are open as are the shutters...
Advertising; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Stores & shops; Office buildings; Automobiles; Dwellings; Houses; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Transportation
Taken for Louisville Gas & Electric, this photograph shows route of power lines after purchase of home telephone poles and consolidation of lines. Utility lines have been placed in a row down Frankfort Avenue. On the right side are some homes....
Advertising; Stores & shops; Show windows; Street railroad tracks; Automobiles; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings; Transportation
Written on the front of the photograph is, "January - 10 - 1921, Louisville Gas & Electric Co., Bardstown Road at Highland Ave. looking South - showing all lines moved to Southwest side of street." Utility poles line the sidewalk...
African Americans; African American physicians; African Americans--Hospitals; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Education; Segregation in education; African Americans--Medical care; Hospitals; Medical education; Race...
Oral history interview with Louisville physician Maurice Rabb. Dr. Rabb discusses his early life and education in Mississippi. He speaks of his experiences as a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, comparing race relations in his...
African Americans; Race relations; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights; Louisville Free Public Library; Girl Scouts; Libraries; Integration; African Americans--Social conditions
Oral history interview with Murray Atkins Walls and John Walls, conducted July 27, 1977 by Dwayne Cox. Most of the interview focuses on Murray Atkins Walls, although her husband, John Walls, is also an active participant. They were both involved in...
Address: 1394 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior of Chandler's electronics and appliances store is shown on the corner of Bardstown Road and Edgeland Avenue. Homes can be seen around the store and it appears that there is a home...
Automobile service stations; Show windows; Gasoline pumps; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 420 W. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior of the Francis Garage is symmetrical and made mostly of brick. Plate glass windows on the first floor indicate, "Francis Garage, Storage by the Hour, Day or Month." Just...
Automobile service stations; Signs (Notices); Advertising; Buildings
Address: 130 E. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The Gulf Refining Company service station on Main Street shows gas pumps under a canopy. The lot has a number of street lamps with round globes. Signs read "That Good Gulf Gasoline,"...
An overturned and dented car sits at the corner of Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A crowd of mostly African American men looks on. Many of them wear caps or hats and white shirts with jackets or...
Banks; First National Bank (Excelsior Springs, Mo.)
First National Bank, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Red-brick two-story commercial building with plate glass windows. A "five and dime" store occupies the space next to the bank. A man stands in front of the bank near the side walk....
Stack of cases of beer next to a store refrigerator with bottles of beer. There are signs with an African-American female model for Oertels '92 beer and the phrase A Toast To Your Smiling Host.
Address: 129 South 6th Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of building's south-facing wall from Market Street between 5th Street and 6th Street. Ghost sign reads "F. S. Schardein & Sons. 129 S. 6th St. Remodeling Repairing Bardes Coal...
Address: 1501 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the front of Caudill Seed company building is a remnant of a furniture store sign. A chain link fence with barbed wire on top protects the lot.
Address: 332 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. In 1928 this building became the new clubhouse for the Pendennis Club, a businessmen's social club. The right side of the building originally stood alone. Designed in...
