Maps; Housing; Real property--Kentucky--Louisville; Housing--Kentucky--Louisville; City planning--United States--Maps; City planning--Kentucky--Louisville
Maps of Louisville's properties created by federally-funded Works Progress Administration (WPA). Three copies of this book were used to create a complete set of maps, since each one lacked one or more of the maps. Printed on cover: "Volume II...
Oral history interview conducted with Nelson Goodwin on January 10, 1979 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Goodwin, a nursery owner and local historian from Louisville, Kentucky, discusses his ancestors and other African Americans who lived in the...
African Americans; Women; Sewing machines; Sewing; People
A group of African American women participate in a sewing class. Along one side of the room the women work at sewing machines which are built into desks. In the middle of the room long tables are placed end to end and women work on laying out...
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, the Commodore Apartment Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The entryway of this 11-story building includes a low field-stone wall with...
Appalachians (People); Appalachian Region--History; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Education--Appalachian Region; Education--Kentucky; Kentucky--Social life and customs; Rural schools--Kentucky--History; Oneida Baptist Institute;...
665 items from Louisville native Claude C. Matlack (1878-1944), an amateur photographer who, working as an engineer for his family's plumbing business, happened to capture on film the formative years of a settlement school built by feuding...
"Frank Lloyd Wright developed numerous plans for Broadacre City, a paradigm for suburban development that included modest, single-family houses such as the one pictured here. Although his planned community was never built, the low-pitched...
Atherton High School; Schools; Clock towers; Buildings; Educational facilities
J. M. Atherton High School for Girls is the sign posted over the entryway. This impressive building includes large plate glass windows, and a stone and brick exterior topped by a clock. The edifice was built in 1923 at 1418 Morton Avenue and named...
Auditoriums; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Buildings
Ampitheatre Auditorium in Louisville, Kentucky, built by William F. Norton Jr. in 1889 from material salvaged from the Southern Exposition, and razed in 1904 following Norton's death in 1903. Handwritten on mounted print: "Auditorium, S.W....
A branch of the First National Bank at 2223 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky, is shown. The brick building has large windows and an entryway built on a corner of the building. Lettering in the front window reads, "Bardstown Road Branch,...
Baptist churches; Broadway Baptist Church (Louisville, Ky.)
Founded in 1870, the Broadway Baptist Church was built originally on Broadway between First Street and Brook Street and the first worship services were held in the sanctuary in May 1872. The last service was held in May 1948 at this location, and a...
Bethel Baptist Church, a two-story brick church with a steeple, sloped roof, and turrets, was built in 1901 near the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The first floor windows and the...
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Concrete mixer hull on grade at Howard Shipyard. This is one of two concrete mixer hulls built at Howard for the Corps of Engineers that year. One was for the Memphis district and the other was for the Vicksburg district.
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Concrete mixer hull on grade at Howard Shipyard. This is one of two concrete mixer hulls built at Howard for the Corps of Engineers that year. One was for the Memphis district and the other was for the Vicksburg district.
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Two rock barges under construction on the grade at Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1928. According to the photographer's notes they were being built for the New Orleans port.
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Rock barges under construction on the grade at Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1928. According to the photographer's notes they were being built for the New Orleans port.
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Worker attaches sheet metal to the hull frame of a barge on the grade at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes, this is "Bahmann's S.A. Barge," probably one of two built for a...
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Men work on the hull of a concrete mixer barge on the grade at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The concrete mixer is probably the one of two that Howard built for the U.S. Corps of Engineers in 1926.
