200 block south 4th Street on the east side. The Sutcliffe Company at the end of a block with Dan Cohen Shoes next door. A banner attached to Sutcliffe's reads Let's Fill It. Community Chest. Feb 3-13.
200 block west Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard, on the north side. Three-story brick building with arched windows. A sign reads Liberty Hall Association. Above the door are the letters I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows). The...
200 block west Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard, on the south side. Three-story brick-and-stone building under construction with a sign reading 'Pendennis Club' above the door.
Streets; Railroad tracks; Railroad crossings; Buildings; Stores & shops; Children
4701 Louisville Avenue at Pocahontas Avenue, now an extension of Woodlawn Avenue. The W.F. Lippold market is at the corner. A boy stands at the door while another one sits on the front steps. Across from Louisville Avenue is a set of railroad...
500 block west Chestnut Street on the north side. Three-story white brick building with a sign for Furnished Rooms by the door. View from across the street of a block lined with houses.
"Alice Aycock […] bases her forms on the logic of the imagination. […] Aycock revels in conjuring the past. The rich associative content of her sculpture is often nurtured by fanciful titles and accompanying texts that refer to history,...
"Before" shot of the space that would become the Carden. There is furniture apparently being stored in the room, which is otherwise empty. The sign on the door reads "No loafing in basement." Also known as the Den, this facility...
"Here Morris presented a small rectangular structure with a door shaped as a letter 'I'. When opened the door gave on to a photograph of the artist, his phallus rhyming with the "I" connotative both of the viewers looking (eye) and...
Architecture; Buildings; Brothels; Prostitution; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Architectural elements; Walls; Doors & doorways; Beds; Murals; Paintings; Erotica; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Men; Women; City & town life
"One of the rooms in the Lupanare. Through the door we see a stone pallet, which was usually covered with cushions and fabric to make it more comfortable. Above the door jamb is one of the various frescoes that adorned the brothel walls."...
A bearded man, wearing a hat and jacket, sits on the steps outside a door with a sign reading "General Waiting Room." He is probably at, or near, the train station in London.
A blurry image of the front of a log cabin, built onto a platform stage. A flag is draped on one side of the cabin, and on the other side is a sign. This cabin, known as the "Traipsin' Woman Cabin" (as indicated by the sign above the...
A cabinet card of the exterior of a stately brick house with an overgrown lawn, apparently belonging to Henry Bell, Jean Thomas' uncle. A little girl wearing a dress with pinafore standing outside one door of the house is Henry's daughter, Nellie...
Floods; Automobiles; Automobile service stations; Buildings; Transportation; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Flood damage
A car ruined by the 1937 flood sits outside the Bybee Bros. service station. The car is covered in mud, inside and out, as is shown by the open car door and the front tire is flat. A sign for Standard Oil products stands above the gas pumps.
A carpet runner climbs a wooden staircase at 2515 Longest Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. A chandelier lights the area as does a large window at the stair landing. To the right is a small hallway leading to another room. A sideboard, carpet and a...
A cast-iron stove sits next to a wooden rocker bench in an automotive store. To the right is a roll-top desk with paperwork on it and a map hung above it. A cash register sits on a counter behind a framed-in section with one section open. Numerous...
A circular drive leads up to this home on Douglass Boulevard west of Millvale Road. The first floor is made of stone and includes a raised portico over the front door. The second floor is done in brick and the third floor windows which peak out of...
