Address: Second and Bloom Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Orphans pose for a portrait on a playground at the Masonic Widows & Orphans Home. They wear baggy dresses with dark stockings and have the same "bowl cut" hair style. They are...
Address: 321 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. The display window of the Player Roll Shop advertises Q.R.S. Player Rolls, "Records by the Mile" and specific songs, including "My Mammy,"...
Chandeliers hang from an ornately-decorated ceiling in Thompson's Restaurant. Seating appears to be single chairs with small flat surfaces attached to the arms. To the right are marble and wood counters with fruit and other food products, including...
Suspended lights hang from an ornately-decorated ceiling in Thompson's Restaurant. Seating appears to be single chairs with small flat surfaces attached to the arms. To the right is a marble and wood counter with fruit and baked goods. Three large...
The steamboat America is docked near a shore and crowds of passengers are along the decks and on the shore to observe an event taking place in the water. Three African American men are standing in the water. One is wearing a black robe belted over...
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Contests; Twins; People
Five sets of twins are posed together for a group portrait during the "Twins contest" at Fontaine Ferry Park, Louisville, Kentucky. The men mostly wear shirts with the sleeves rolled up. Only one set of male twins wears a full suit with...
The arms and hands of a woman extend out over a nurse's kit as her silhouette appears on the wall. The kit includes cotton swabs, bandages, scissors, needles, and some vials of salve.
Smoke rises from the ground in a darkening and widening column near a small shelter. Two men in white shirts stand in front. One man has his arms crossed and one is holding onto his suspenders. Leafy trees encircle the clearing and there is also a...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Airships; Men
A man leans his arms on a rail in a large, beamed, sunlit room where there are two partially filled balloons and a gas bag for a dirigible. Stamped on lower left corner: 10968.
Men; Women; Children; Horses; General stores; Post offices
A general store and post office on Rockhouse Creek in Letcher County, Kentucky, with a sign reading "J. D. Caudill." Out front, women with children in their laps sit on a box; three men, including one sitting on a barrel, are reading; one...
Two women, including Lucile A. Furnas at right, are seated in the yard of a house with their arms intertwined. Flowers are growing in rows in the yard behind them. Shelves of clay jars are against the house along with a work table.
Two women in the backyard garden of a house at 2438 Cypress Street. The women are in dresses and posing with their arms around each other's shoulders. Their backs are to the camera as they walk down the path towards the house.
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Government officials; Legislators
Oval-shaped portrait of J. Blackburn wearing a jacket and tie. Handwritten on back of image: President J. Blackburn, Princeton, Sergeant at Arms, Senate, Democratic Committee, 1st District. Stamped on back: (credit) Cusick Studio, Frankfort.
Portraits; Men; College presidents; People associated with education & communication
Henry Hardin Cherry of Bowling Green, Kentucky, President of Western Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College, wearing glasses, crossing his arms and holding a hat. Photograph has been cut irregularly so that only he is present in photo.
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Musicians; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Frederic Cowles of Louisville, Kentucky. He posed to the side with his arms crossed. Handwritten on back of image: Director of Louisville Conservatory of Music.
Portrait of Wallace Muir of Lexington, Kentucky wearing a suit and tie, holding his arms crossed over his chest. The photograph is marked with discolorations and yellowed from age. Handwritten on bottom, front of image: Wallace Muir, attorney at...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers; Portrait photographs; Portraits
Picture of Commander Henry Walke, who has messy dark hair, curved eyebrows, and a light beard above a straight mouth. Walke wears a double breasted long jacket with the arms too long and one button undone, where he has inserted his right thumb. His...
Buildings; Sports & recreation facilities; Country clubs; Swimming pools
Louisville Country Club swimming pool. Two lifeguards watch the pool from a stand as bathers dangle their feet in the water, exit the pool, or stand alongside the pool, where a man with outspread arms supports another man on his shoulders.
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Distilling industries
Speed Scientific School testing for distilleries, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. On a floor of concrete squares sit two large, dark metal machines, and to the right, a simple table. The machine in back has an arm at the left...
