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...
Address: 418 W. Ormsby Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. According to the 1924 Caron's city directory, this building was an apartment house known as Greystone Apartments. A small section of grass is in front of the sidewalk. Beyond the sidewalk is a...
Apartment houses; Porches; Fences; Street railroad tracks; Buildings
Address: 429 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This apartment building has a sign on its canopy announcing, "Chesterfield." Several Corinthian columns support the stone canopy and two pediments emphasize the Greek Revival influence of...
P.G. Coker's apartment building at 722 W. Chestnut Street in Louisville, Ky. It is a three-story brick building with a large porch supported by doric style columns. Trees line Chestnut Street and electric railway tracks can be seen in the street....
Stone building ruins and columns surrounded by grass with mountains in the background. Title: 143. Recently Excavated Palace, Pompeii, Italy. Text on left: World Series. Reproduced from Original Stereoscopic Photograph. Text on right: Copyright...
A woman wearing a cloche hat and fur-trimmed coat sits at the wheel of a Model A Ford. A terrier sits in the backseat. The convertible has its spare tire attached to the side of the car near the front tire. The hood ornament is a running greyhound....
A four-door Model A Ford sits in the driveway of a home. Two women in the car look out at a third who is wearing a hat with earflaps and a coat trimmed with fur. The spare tire is attached to the car next to the front tire. The license plate...
Address: 600 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. A sign on the side of this brick building announces that it is First Standard Bank, an African American bank in downtown Louisville. The pediment over the door, mock...
Basilicas; Plazas; Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano; Buildings
View of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome from across the square. The church is ornately decorated with columns and a dome. Other buildings are around the perimeter of the square with a fountain or state in the center. Title: 35. Magnificent St....
Shield above a monument with two columns. The shield is decorated with two open books, a globe, stripes, and two crosses. Within the monument is the quotation "Consider not what great men are worth in themselves, but what they are worth to...
Elaborate design with two columns and a dome at the top and bottom of the image. The center contains the phrase "Ex Libris," the name "Mary Louise Kannapell," and the Latin phrase "Alfiora [?]eto." Dark blue and tan,...
Bookplates; Labels; National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Woman in a colonial era dress within a circular frame. The circle is contained by a decorative rectangular panel with columns on either side and a scrolled top and base. Above the circle is the phrase "Ex Libris." At the base of the panel...
Bearded man in classical dress holding a book and looking at a younger man sitting on steps in front of a set of columns. Books and a scroll are on the step next to the younger man. A globe and books are on the base of the column next to the...
Decorative panel with columns. In the center are the name "Sallie Bird Wilson Roach" and the phrase "Her Book." Dark blue and tan, brown, or gold ink. No signature or date.
Breviaries--England--lllustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--England; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a book used for daily prayers by a monk or other person living in a religious community, probably in England. The book was written in the thirteenth century on animal skin since paper was not used at that time. The text is from an...
Address: 332 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. In 1928 this building became the new clubhouse for the Pendennis Club, a businessmen's social club. The right side of the building originally stood alone. Designed in...
Bridges; Construction; Smokestacks; Electric signs
This view captures a portion of the Municipal Bridge from Jeffersonville, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky. Two concrete columns act as the base for large lights on the Indiana side of the bridge. The columns each have a tableau and the word Indiana...
A narrow bridge linking dirt roads. The bridge is supported by columns and set somewhat into a hill. To the right is a set of train tracks with lumber beams set next to the tracks. Title supplied by cataloger.
Address: Second and Main Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. A street light stands on an intersection island with a sign indicating "Toll Bridge." This is the Louisville side of the Municipal Bridge which spans the Ohio River to...
Large, four-story white brick building with columns. The Elms is above the entrance. A man stands on the roof of the house and ladders are leaning against two windows. Written on the photograph is For Ben Williams & Co. Ashland, Ky. Title...
