Address: 217 E. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Employees of the Spotless Meat Market stand behind glass-enclosed counters. The men mostly wear shirts and ties with aprons or smocks and a woman wears an apron around her waist. Meat products...
Boys; Baseball; Games; Hats; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); People
Boys prepare to play baseball in a ritual where a representative from each team wraps his hand around the bat just above the other team representative's hand. The boy whose hand covers the top of the bat will likely decide whether his team bats or...
Address: 570 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A crowd of mostly men gathers in front of the Louisville Music & Radio Company store. Many of them wear overcoats and hats or caps. Further along the street are signs for a dentist, Taylor...
Industrial facilities; Buildings; Automobiles; Distilling industry
Two automobiles park by an industrial facility. The buildings appear to be made mostly of brick with rectangular windows. A large smokestack and a couple of vats are next to the building.
This aerial view of Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky, shows rooftops of mostly industrial buildings with their chimneys and vents, plus a few church steeples.
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Contests; Twins; People
Five sets of twins are posed together for a group portrait during the "Twins contest" at Fontaine Ferry Park, Louisville, Kentucky. The men mostly wear shirts with the sleeves rolled up. Only one set of male twins wears a full suit with...
Kosair Children's Hospital (Louisville, Ky.); Hospitals; Building construction; Buildings
Address: 982 Eastern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky. During construction of the Kosair Crippled Children's Hospital, piles of lumber surround the partially constructed building. The first couple of stories are brick and mostly completed. The top...
Automobile service stations; Show windows; Gasoline pumps; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 420 W. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior of the Francis Garage is symmetrical and made mostly of brick. Plate glass windows on the first floor indicate, "Francis Garage, Storage by the Hour, Day or Month." Just...
African Americans; Children; Pianos; Students; Teachers; Religious facilities; Sunday schools; People
A crowd of people, mostly African American children, attend Sunday school in a classroom containing a row of chairs. An African American man in a suit stands by a podium and may be the minister. Two white women and a boy stand or play at the piano...
A drug store sits at the corner of Hickory and Ash Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. Goss Avenue can be seen in the background. The area looks mostly residential with a number of shotgun houses lining the street. Both Hickory and Ash Streets were...
Group portraits; Costumes; Flags--United States; Buildings; Patriotic societies; People
The Daughters of America pose for a picture outside of Parkland Hall at 3536 Hale Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. The women are mostly dressed in white dresses. Some where sashes and others carry the United States flag. A man in a white outfit sits...
An overturned and dented car sits at the corner of Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A crowd of mostly African American men looks on. Many of them wear caps or hats and white shirts with jackets or...
Jug bands; African American musicians; African Americans; Musicians; Parties; Segregation; People
A group of African American musicians kneels in the foreground. They wear overalls and straw hats and each hold an instrument including jug, guitar, banjo, and saxophone. In a covered outdoor area at three rows of tables a large group of mostly...
In a printing ink plant, phthalocyanine (Pc) aqueous slurries are produced by grinding the Pc pigment in water using a media mill. Mostly, dispersions of Pc in water are used in heat-set printing inks to make the color phthalo blue. Typically, Pc...
Vertical cliff of rock strata and some greenery (mostly near the top and base). A winding wood staircase runs a good way up the cliff. Higher up there seem to be three people, and near the top it looks like there is a shack.
Women; Guitars; Trumpets; Musical instruments; Music stands
A woman in a large dark hat, a jacket with wide gathered sleeves, and a ruffled white blouse sits at a table, strumming a guitar. A music stand next to the table holds an open book and a trumpet lies on the table, as do some sheets of paper. The...
A crowd of African Americans, mostly men and boys, stop beside a cart of tobacco and in front of a three-story dark wood building which has an awning over the first floor. One man in front holds a load of tobacco. A man sits on the awning and two...
A group of nine people, mostly women, eat burgoo (spicy stew, a specialty of Western Kentucky) in the woods; a man in suspenders smiles and ladles the burgoo. One woman sits on a tree trunk also used as a table. Two people sit in a cart and two...
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...
Address: 1934 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the side of this brick building is the remnant of a sign that is mostly illegible. The word at the top may be acorn for Acorn Used Furniture which was located at 1930 W. Market Street....
