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....
African Americans; African American business enterprises; African American Business people; Drugstores; Pharmacists; African American pharmacists; Urban renewal; Service stations; Standard Oil Company; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Frank Moorman, Sr., conducted on August 17, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Moorman was a businessman in Louisville's Walnut Street area. Mr. Moorman discusses his parents and grandparents, and his early life in Owensboro,...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; Boy Scouts of America; Elderly poor; Floods--Ohio River; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; National Council of Senior Citizens; Senior House; Senior centers; Scouting (Youth activity); Urban elderly;...
Oral history interviews conducted with Mr. Steward Pickett on May 23, June 4, and June 25, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Mr. Pickett, a retired assistant Boy Scout executive and board member of Senior House, talks about his family, growing up on an...
Amish--Books and reading; Amish--Ohio--Social life and customs; Literacy--Ohio
Following in the tradition of scholars who treat literacy in context such as Deborah Brandt, Shirley Brice Heath, and David Barton and Mary Hamilton, I conducted my dissertation research not in an academic classroom but in the valleys of Hanley, a...
Billboards; War posters; Brewing industry; Oertel Brewing Company
Billboard for Oertel Brewing Company promoting the 7th war loan hanging above a row of businesses. The billboard reads 'Plan now for the bigger 7th war loan through pay-roll savings' and has an image of a crowd of men and women holding cash.
Buildings; Awnings; Men; Women; Streets; Business districts
A row of businesses at the corner of Fourth Street and Jefferson Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Several of the storefronts have awnings and "watches and jewelry" is printed on the first awning on the street. George Wolf, whose name is on...
Two-story light brick building with a dark facade on the ground floor at the corner of Eighteenth and Portland, Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor businesses include Nan's Parlor on the left and a Cafe on the right. Painted on the side of the...
Address: 1252 S. Shelby Street, Louisville, Kentucky. View of sign painted on the side of a brick business building. Sign appears to read "Mack's Drug Store." Cars, a pedestrian, a church, and other businesses are also visible.
Address: 903 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A cobblestone street with trolley tracks runs in front of a building with a sign declaring it, "9th St. Public Warehouse." Other signs indicate a number of businesses using the building,...
Buildings; Cafes; Eating & drinking facilities; Bars; Signs (Notices); Pedestrians; Electric signs; Street railroad tracks; Furniture stores; Boys; Water pumps
Three-story brick building on street corner at Tweflth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky, with a small room at the top and a garage, shown in different eras (with different businesses operating in it).
Corner of Main Street and Limestone Street in Lexington, Kentucky, with people on the sidewalks in front of stores and businesses, including Webster Clothes.
Two exterior views of the Beason Sign & Display Company with a large banner reading Signs Screen Process Printing above the entrance. The building is in a row of commercial businesses.
500 block of West Breckinridge Street on the east side looking south. Row of brick buildings, mostly businesses, with cars parked on the side of the street.
500 block of West Breckinridge Street on the west side looking south. Row of brick buildings, mostly businesses, including a radiator and fender repair station.
