Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Beauty contests; Men; People
A large crowd of people surround a stage at Fontaine Ferry Park, Louisville, Kentucky, on which a line of men stand. These men are the judges for the Bathing Beauty Contest. Many men in the crowd wear white hats with dark bands.
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Beauty contests; Bathing beauties; Women; People
A large group of beauty contestants stands on a stage surrounded by a seated crowd at Fontaine Ferry Park, Louisville, Kentucky. Loud speakers and lights sit at the top of poles. The sides of the reviewing stand has a Chevrolet sign and small...
Student movements; Activists; Students; Black Student Union (University of Louisville); University of Louisville--Students
A female protester walks out of the offices of the College of Arts and Sciences into the waiting crowd of onlookers, police and the media. Members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and some of their supporters occupied the administrative offices of...
A steamboat with two large tiers and a small third tier that is inscribed with "Stellawilds" is parked at Paducah Drydock on the Mississippi River. The dry dock is a platform in the river shallows at river height, and has segments of...
Political organizations; People; Political parades & rallies
Large group of people, men and women, sitting in folding chairs with an aisle in the middle. Everyone is looking towards the camera in the back of the room. In the front of the room there is a crowd of people standing and holding signs that read...
Crowd of people crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. In the front are two men, a woman, and a child, with more people behind them, including a child on a bicycle. Title: Brooklyn [illegible]. Text on left: The Universal Photo Art Co. C.H....
Men, women and children at a picnic at the Sleepy Hollow Country club with views of a large crowd of people on a deck and groups of people on grassy grounds.
A loose crowd of people walk toward the flooded intersection of Cardinal Boulevard and Brook Street. Yellow caution tape extends across the intersection and orange and white sawhorses stand in the water. Photograph was taken in the early afternoon.
Crowd admiring 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 5, 1934. Cavalcade and his jockey are admired as they display the garland of roses, edged by a small crowd at close range and further out an enormous...
Cheerleading; Sports & recreation facilities; University of Louisville--Students; Students;
A co-ed group of U of L cheerleaders jump to energize the crowd at a basketball game. The crowd, in bleachers, can be seen in the background. The saddle shoes worn by the cheerleaders indicate that this photo was taken in the 1950s.
Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Streams; Bridges; Buildings; Industrial facilities; People
Flooded creek approaching the base of a bridge where a crowd of people stands. A Ballard wheat storage building is in the background. Labeled time is 3:40 pm.
A group of young girls wearing hoop skirts, petticoats, and bonnets poses beneath a historical marker reading "Johnston Birthplace / Near here on February 3, 1803, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate leader, was born. He resigned from...
A group of young girls wearing hoop skirts, petticoats, and bonnets poses beneath a historical marker reading "Johnston Birthplace / Near here on February 3, 1803, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate leader, was born. He resigned from...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CHISCA, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (160 ft. x 30 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1897. Owned by Mississippi River Commission, CHISCA operated on the lower Mississippi River in the Memphis area. Her wood hull was replaced with a steel...
Ferries; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF BATON ROUGE, a centerwheel ferry with steel hull (115.2 ft. x 28 ft. x 7.2 ft.), was built at Howard in 1916. Owned by Baton Rouge Transportation Co., CITY OF BATON ROUGE operated at the the Louisiana city, carrying up to twenty-one...
Dark smoke rises from the ground in an expanding column with a hole in the center near the top, as an oil well burns in front of a backdrop of trees, witnessed by a crowd of mostly men but also children, a baby held by a man, and a woman with a...
Club Madrid. Large crowd of people at tables with white table cloths and on the dance floor in a ballroom. The men wear suits white tuxedos, and the women wear long dresses. A band is visible on the stage in the background. The ballroom is...
View of the crowd around the Churchill Downs Clubhouse from the track on Kentucky Derby Day, May 9, 1914. People are standing on the porches of both the ground floor and balcony, while others lean on the track railing or sit on the clubhouse roof....
Buildings; Government facilities; Courthouses; Plazas
Courthouse Square, at the center of Bardstown, Kentucky, with a crowd of people surrounded by parked cars. Two buildings, and the corner of a third, are visible.
