Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco" ad with indistinct white-on-black image; "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco." with woman dressed in white on black background;...
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...
Location: 1600 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Reeser Place, an apartment complex on the West side of Fourth Street just south of Hill Street, is shown. The complex shows symmetrical buildings facing a courtyard. The foundation of the...
Automobile service stations; Automobiles; Dwellings; Houses; Buildings; Transportation
The Gulf Refining Company service station has a sign reading, "That Good Gulf Gasoline." There is a line of cars waiting to get into the station. Neighboring houses appear to be 1 1/2 or two stories. Utility poles line the street.
A hexagonal marble desk sits in the lobby of an ornate bank. A sign on the desk reads, "Information" while other signs hang above teller windows with signs like "Savings." The floor is a checkerboard pattern with the lighter...
Louisville Boat Club House tied off at shore, floating on the Ohio River at 6th Street, in 1897. The houseboat's structure consists of a plain first floor supporting a decorative upper story, with two upper stories at the front section. Five men...
This study investigates the use of bongo music as a medium for social commentary in
society. African traditional musicians, without formal education have been able to
address socio-political and moral issues. The methodology includes the use...
A brick building with a high smokestack blowing smoke. The building is in stair step segments of one to five stories; the smokestack rises above the lowest section, at left. The building has a dirt yard and is located on a wide dirt road. There are...
Building construction; Scaffolding; Buildings; Industrial facilities
Address: 800 Logan Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This view shows Frank Fehr Cold Storage (later Merchants Ice and Cold Storage Co. and Arctic Ice Co.) partially constructed at the site of the Schaefer-Meyer Brewing Co., which became the Frank Fehr...
Commonwealth Life Insurance building was located on the northwestern corner of Fourth Street and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky, between the Kenyon building and United States Trust building. Built in 1928, 19 stories were added to it in 1955, and...
Buildings; Airports; United States. Works Progress Administration; Bowman Field (Ky.)
Architectural rendering in pencil of the Administration Building at Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky. Stamp on back of image: "This photograph and any accompanying data are furnished free of charge by the Works Progress Administration in...
Buildings; Brewing industry; Oertel Brewing Company
Two views of Oertel brewery at Story Avenue and North Webster Street. Two brick buildings joined by a bridge running above a cross street. The building on the right is two stories. The building on the left is multiple stories and has a turret.
Buildings; Brigman Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; Columns; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School
Brigman Hall, when it housed the Speed Scientific School, University of Louisville, Belknap Campus, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. A vase-like concrete ornament, a curved drive, and a building are seen. The building is two stories with two wide, low...
Buildings; Canopies; Automobiles; Banks; Lincoln Savings Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 136 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1973.) The Lincoln Savings Bank is another of the buildings for which Alfred S. Joseph served as chief architect while at Macdonald & Dodd. Its glazed tile upper and lower tiers, setting off the brick...
Buildings; Churches; Canopies; Stores & shops; Republic Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 429 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.). The Republic Building, using glazed terra cotta as both surfacing and decorative elements, was one of the first buildings designed by Joseph & Joseph. The building is eleven stories with...
Buildings; Clubs; Cobblestone streets; Street railroad tracks; Transportation
Address: 615 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. The Catholic Woman's Club is set off the street by a sidewalk and small lawn with one small tree on each side of an entry walk. The building appears to have been...
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Auditoriums
Municipal War Memorial Auditorium, Fourth & Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Left corner view of stone building of two to three stories in sections with subtly varying heights and types of roofs including one rounded roof. Massive two...
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Auditoriums
Municipal War Memorial Auditorium, Fourth & Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Right corner view of stone building of two to three stories in sections with subtly varying heights and types of roofs including one rounded roof (only the...
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Auditoriums
Municipal War Memorial Auditorium, located at Fourth and Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Left corner view similar to image ULPA 1994.18.1110. Stone building of two to three stories in sections with subtly varying heights and types of roofs...
