Streets; Cobblestone streets; Buildings; Community centers
The southeast corner of Magazine Street at 9th Street looking east. Intersection of two brick streets with a sign for the Booker T. Washington Community Centre hanging from a building at the corner.
The southeast corner of Magazine Street at 9th Street looking east. A group of African-American men stand on the sidewalk in front of the Booker T. Washington Community Centre.
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African American newspapers; Louisville Leader (Ky.); Kentucky Reporter (Louisville, Ky.); Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co....
Oral history interview with Lattimore Cole conducted on November 26, 1977 by Dwayne Cox. In this interview, Mr. Cole discusses his early education in Louisville, working for his father’s newspaper the Louisville Leader and describes what it was...
East Washington Street side of building located at 122 Adams Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The building houses the E.S. Tichenor Company interior design firm. Ghost sign has been painted over, with the only distinguishable word being...
East Washington Street side of building located at 122 Adams Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The building houses the E.S. Tichenor Company interior design firm. Ghost sign has been painted over, with the only distinguishable word being...
Alexander Craig Culbertson and wife, Bess Haldeman Culbertson of Louisville, Kentucky, walking arm-in-arm. Alexander Craig Culbertson and his brother, William S. Culbertson, were the inspiration of Annie Fellows Johnston's characters Malcolm and...
City & town life; Elevated railroads; Railroads; Buildings; Pedestrians; People
View down the Bowery of the cobblestone street and the elevated railroad tracks on either side in front of the buildings. A train is on the left set of tracks. Streetcars, carriages, and pedestrians are on the street. Title: (3) Along the noted...
Busy and wide cobblestone street lined with buildings on either side. Streetcar tracks run down the street. On the street are streetcars and carriages. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks. Elevated tracks run parallel to the left and...
Dr. Arthur T. McCormack of Louisville, Kentucky standing beside a train with Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr. The photograph has been painted on, cut in half and marked with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr.,...
Train engine car and passenger car on a very steep set of railroad tracks. People stand in front of and behind the train, with more people visible inside the passenger car. 'Mt. Washington' can be read across the side of the train car. Title: 538....
Train engine car and passenger car on a very steep set of railroad tracks. Despite the caption, the train appears to be descending with the engine at the lower level. People stand in front of and behind the train, with more people visible inside...
Children; School children; Group portraits; African Americans; Schools; Buildings; People
Address: 1534 Washington Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Students and teachers of the Benjamin Bannecker School stand outside for a group picture. The school building appears to be built of wood plant siding and has a small awning over the front...
Elevated railroads; Railroads; Cities & towns; Parks
View from above of elevated railway with a train on the tracks. Below is a park with paths, a gazebo, and trees. A ship is in the water in the distance. Title: Battery Park - extreme southern part of Manhattan Island - Elevated Railway and New York...
Buildings; Utility poles; Carts & wagons; Belknap, Inc. (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 129-133 N. Second Street (Building no longer exists.) The completed warehouse for Belknap Hardware included two colors of stone and brick. The Lintel over the doorway says "1906". The street scene includes telephone poles, horses...
Betsy Ross' house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A small red brick house with white trim and an old fashioned American flag flying from a dormer window on the roof. Text printed on verso reads, "The Betsy Ross House is a quaint little shop...
Full-length character portrait of right profile of actress Billie Burke, possibly in costume for her role in "Love Watches," which she performed at Macauley's Theatre at Christmas 1909. She leans forward in an armchair, toward a set...
Portrait of right profile of actress Billie Burke, wearing her hair atop her head (held by headband and braid) and a short-sleeved dress. Burke, best known for playing the role of Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the 1939 MGM movie "The...
Portrait of left profile of actress Billie Burke, wearing her hair in a bun, a necklace, and a short-sleeved dress. Burke, best known for playing the role of Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the 1939 MGM movie "The Wizard of Oz," was...
Three-quarter length portrait of actress Blanche Bender, who married Joseph Jefferson IV (1869-1919) in 1891. She wears a dark dress with elbow-length gloves. Inscription on mount, lower right: Col. Macauley, with best wishes from, Blanche Bender...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In Louis's enormous 'veils' of the 1950s the physical operations of pouring paint or tilting a canvas so that the paint floods down it are powerfully implied." (Caption, p.28); "[Clement] Greenberg's conception of 'Modernism' as...
