Transportation; Automobiles; Crowds; Flags; Racing
Address: Cecil Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Cars raise dust as they race around an oval at what is likely the Kentucky State Fair. The audience watches from bleachers on the outside of the oval or standing in the infield. Others watch from two...
Theaters; Motion picture theaters; Cultural facilities; Interiors; Buildings
Address: 649 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The projection screen of the Kentucky Theater has ornate decorations around it including two sphinxes facing the letter K at the top center. In front of the stage is a cover with musical symbols...
Portrait of Helen McBride of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a cloche hat and fur-trimmed coat. The photograph has been painted on and marred with discoloration from age. Stamped on back of image: Credit, Griswold Studio (Louisville); December 18,...
Military facilities; Forts & fortifications; Military bands
138th Field Artillery (F.A.) men in uniform posed with musical instruments, including a drum labeled "138th F.A. Louisville, Kentucky," on bleachers at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In the lower right-hand corner, an inscriptions reads "2711A...
Planet [Earth] with an open book in front of it. Behind or above the planet is the sun and a planet with rings [possibly Saturn]. Musical notes are on the left page of the book, and an image is on the right. Above the design is the phrase "Ex...
Silhouette of a boy playing a horn underneath a tree framed by a decorative circular border. Below the border is an open book with musical notes on both pages. Below the book are two birds in profile with an oval panel containing the name...
Scroll containing musical scales with notes and a violin. To the right of the violin is the name "Ruth Jones Knott." Blue ink. Signed Ainslie Hewett with four-digit year.
Musical scale with treble clef and text inside a decorative border. The text on the scale is the name "Clark S. Lampton" and the phrase "His Book." Black ink. Signed AH.
Stringed instruments; Men; Houses; Guitars; Violins; Zithers; Mouth organs; Federal Music Project (U.S.); United States. Works Progress Administration
Four men sit in the yard of a small frame house playing musical instruments. One of them is named Archie Williams. They are apparently involved in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project, a New Deal relief program that employed...
The Household Division of the British Army responsible for guarding the British Royal Family performs The Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, London, England. The soldiers wear tall hats and carry musical instruments. Jean Thomas and her...
Three men are seated in a yard on a residential block, and one man stands behind them. Part of a series labeled "Floyd County -- Prestonsburg. Tex Vanderpool, Green Maggard, Tom James, John Hayden," the standing man, who is wearing...
Three men are seated in a yard on a residential block, and one man stands behind them. Part of a series labeled "Floyd County -- Prestonsburg. Tex Vanderpool, Green Maggard, Tom James, John Hayden," the standing man, who is wearing...
A young man sits on a stone near a picket fence, holding a boomerang-shaped bone, from the jawbone of an ass (or donkey), that he is apparently trying to use as a musical instrument (by blowing into it). A frame house is visible behind him.
A young man sits on a stone near a picket fence, holding a boomerang-shaped bone, from the jawbone of an ass (or donkey), possibly for use as a musical instrument. He shows it to a boy costumed in a straw hat, plaid shirt, and suspenders and...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Organs; Balconies; B. F. Keith Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Original address: 506 W. Walnut Street (Demolished, 1952). Built as a vaudeville theater by the National Theater Company in 1913, the design came from the architectural workshop of Albert Kahn. The National Theater was sold within the year to the...
Appalachians (People); Appalachian Region--History; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Folk festivals; Folk music--Appalachian Region, Southern; Kentucky--History; Kentucky--Social life and customs
Known as The Traipsin' Woman, Jean Thomas traveled the mountains of eastern Kentucky taking snapshot photographs of the mountain way of life, writing, and promoting mountain folkways. She was particularly interested in the music, crafts, and...
Full-length character portrait of actor, composer, and writer Harry Bulger in costume for the role of King Bardout in the musical extravaganza "Sleeping Beauty and the Beast," which was performed at Macauley's Theatre in January 1905. He...
Character portrait of actress Grace Cameron, who appears to be wearing a wedding veil and dress with a pearl necklace and bracelet. She typically performed in musical comedies, including operas and operettas, and served as producer for the Grace...
Oval-shaped portrait of Eliza Weathersby's face. She appears to be in costume. Her hair is piled atop her head, and she wears a veiled headdress. The actress, who died in 1887, was married to actor Nat C. Goodwin (1857-1919). She performed in six...
