Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Frank L. Clifford wearing a jacket, vest and tie. Photograph has a few small blemishes. Stamped on bottom, front corner of image: Heath, Louisville, Kentucky. Stamped on back: March 1, 1924. Handwritten note on back: Vice-President of...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Journalists; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Molly Clowes of Louisville, Kentucky, journalist for The Herald-Post and later head of the editorial page for The Courier-Journal. She is wearing her hair short and a white blouse. Stamped on back of image: credit, Walton Jones...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Government officials; Legislators
Portrait of Senator John L. Thurmond of Gracey, Kentucky, wearing a bow tie and stickpin on the lapel of his jacket. The photograph has small cracks along the surface and is discolored from age. Handwritten on bottom, front of image, is a note to...
Waterways; Canals; Louisville and Portland Canal (Ky.); Shipping
Portland Canal's Dam 41 in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Falls of the Ohio, where many fossilized organisms can be seen. The river curves right; beyond, it narrows and curves left. Two bridges are shown. Caption on back of image: "View looking...
Mammoth Cave Park, Kentucky. Caption on back: "Remains of saltpeter leading vats in Mammoth Cave where nitrates were obtained for the American army and navy gunpowder in the War of 1812. Note crude wooden water pipe in foreground." A man...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
NATCHEZ (Way #4111), a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (225 ft. x 40 ft. x 8 ft.), was built at Howard in 1891. Owned by the Leathers family, she was the last, and only stern-wheel, NATCHEZ of the famous Leathers fleet. She operated on the lower...
Soldiers--French; World War, 1914-1918--France; Military uniforms; Military life; Pacifists
Photographic postcard of André Jeunet taken during his military training in Autun, France in 1915. Other copies were mailed to his family, but Jeunet saved this one and inscribed it in 1920.
Medical education; Medical students; University of Louisville. Medical Dept.
Printed lecture on improvements in the profession of medicine. Handwritten note: By Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Sr. Incomplete. Page numbers are approximate. Title supplied by cataloger.
Address: 501 Main Street, Shelbyville, Ky. Construction was completed in 1913 for this building that houses the administrative offices of county government and the District and Circuit Courts. It was built in the Beaux-Art Classicism style of...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 14. No. 37. but is actually Vol. 14. No. 39. There is a note that reads "EXTRA! ROTOGRAVURE...
Full-length character portrait of American actress Fanny Davenport standing in front of a set backdrop, wearing a hat, a dress with bustled skirt, and high boots made of white calfskin. Born into a family of actors on April 10, 1850, Davenport was...
Portrait of left profile of performer Barbara Milton wearing a dress with bib collar and black bow. Barbara Milton, also known as Barbara Milton Watkins Strater (following her marriage to Edward L. Strater), was born in Louisville, Kentucky on July...
Plan developed for city of Lystra on South Creek of Rolling Fork in Nelson County, Kentucky, is comprised of perpendicular streets and blocks of uniform size. Printed in the lower right corner, "Note. The Town is divided into 188 Lots. The...
Plan developed for the city of Franklinville between the Licking River's North and Middle Branches in Mason County, Kentucky, consists of perpendicular streets and blocks of uniform size. Printed on the map, "Note. Each Square contains 16...
Map of Kentucky and Tennessee shows mountain ranges, rivers, large creeks, counties, major roads, cities, and towns. Counties are hand colored and relief is shown by hachures. Includes statistical table with dimensions of each state, population in...
Plate showing the Louisville and Portland Canal, with Sand Island, Shippingport, Corn Island, Louisville, the Ohio River, and Kentucky also labeled. Printed above map frame: "Plate I." Printed beneath map frame: "Note: From survey...
Map of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1856, at a scale of 4 inches to a mile. Includes lists of Louisville, Portland, and Shippingport streets, as well as a Reference to Public Buildings. Note beneath title reads "Published by W. Lee White. Reduced...
Maps, on a scale of 200 feet per inch, of "every lot or parcel of ground" in the central area of Louisville, Kentucky in 1876, including details such as precise dimensions, owners' names, building materials (wood vs. brick) and whether...
Members of the Matthews family pose outside Clovercroft. According to a handwritten note on the verso side, from left to right are Marc Osborne, Ed Matthews, Lillian Fletcher, Florence Matthews, Charlotta Osborne, Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett, Kate...
