The Illinois Central Railroad roundhouse, located on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Oak Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, has numerous railroad tracks leading to and from a semi-circular building. Railroad cars and tanks sit on the tracks and...
Dwellings; Houses; Living rooms; Fireplaces; Couches; Chairs
In this unidentified residence, a curved sofa faces a large fireplace with a Tudor arch on its opening and a decorative carved frieze in lieu of a mantel. Armchairs sit on either side of the fire and a small bookcase and plant stand sit next to the...
Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.); Hospitals; Nurses; Sick persons; Health care facilities; Tuberculosis; People
Five beds are shown on a sunny porch. Each bed has a patient under white blankets. Nurses stand nearby, as does a man in a dark suit. This may have been taken at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium on Dixie Highway, which was the largest tuberculosis...
The lower part of an oil derrick; within its base is an open-mouthed wood structure the width of the base, inside which a few men are standing. There are several small wood shacks to the left of the oil well, with a man nearby, and a man a stands...
A two-story brick building with white-clad girls and women sitting in or leaning from a few of its open windows. The building, at which hosiery is produced, emits dark smoke from its chimney. Two white ducks stand at the edge of the dirt sidewalk...
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...
In Shelbyville, Kentucky, a man pulls two fire hoses from a fire truck, over a cavern in the ground and around a telephone pole where there may be a fire hydrant. A large brick building is visible to the left with a woman in white standing nearby.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Gunboats; Vehicles
Drawing labeled, "U.S. steamer Tyler and mortar boat." The Tyler has vertical sides and a domed section. The mortar boat, on the nearby shore, has a slanted pentagon shape and square windows and floats atop a square raft, only slightly...
Meeting room at the Pendennis Club, Louisville, Kentucky. There is a mural of horses prancing in a river with boats in the background and onlookers nearby.
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Kentucky--Buildings
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, judging pavilion, Lexington, Kentucky, 1924. Low concrete building with high, industrial windows and flat roof. The nearby land is arid mud but to the side there is some brush grass. A small water...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings
Architect's rendering of Belknap Campus, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. Aerial view shows an oval path in the center surrounded by buildings nearby and in the distance. Trees line the campus in something like a diamond shape...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings
Architect's rendering of Belknap Campus, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. Aerial view shows an oval path in the center surrounded by buildings nearby and in the distance. Trees line the campus in something like a diamond shape...
Seventh Street looking north to Kentucky Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Wide street with street car tracks curves left when it reaches a building with "Lyric Theater" and a silhouette of young Shirley Temple painted on it in a rectangle...
Taylorsville Road at entrance to Jeffersontown, Kentucky. Head on view of road lined by telephone lines and leafy trees. Close to the trees on the left are some houses or buildings, as well as a mailbox and a nearby sign. A car is parked further...
Anchorage, Kentucky, home of Henry Watterson. Two to three-story white brick house with bulky roofs and extensive pillared, balconied porches that surround the house and project over the front section of driveway. The shuttered second floor windows...
Horse cemetery at Hamburg Place, a horse farm owned by Edward Wiaddeus, near Lexington, Kentucky. A statue of a horse stands on top of a massive, many layered pedestal encircled by a fence of pointed stakes which is covered by bare vines. Six low...
Horse cemetery at Hamburg Place, a horse farm owned by Edward Wiaddeus, near Lexington, Kentucky. Another print of 1194.18.0702. A statue of a horse stands on top of a massive, many layered pedestal encircled by a fence of pointed stakes which is...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Sanatoriums; Aerial photographs; Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.)
Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky, aerial view. Arc-shaped four-story building amid forested area. Building is light with dark windows and roof. Smaller buildings nearby.
Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels
The Tyler Hotel, Third and Jefferson Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Eight-story building with letters on two corners above, each saying "The Tyler." First floor is concrete with picture windows, displaying "Chas. C. Wright & Co.;...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
U.S.E. towboats JOHN and HENRY, complete or nearly complete, at Howard Shipyard. The towboat TRANSIT is nearby. JOHN AND HENRY were identical towboats (86 ft. x 18 ft. x 2.5 ft.) built for USE, Nashville in 1903. HENRY was in service until 1924....
