“The porch has sixteen Egyptian grey and red granite columns, each 40 Roman feet in height and weighing about 84 tons. […] The diameter and height of the rotunda are exactly the same, 43.2 metres [meters] (140 feet). […] The walls of the...
"The Canterbury Tales", prologue, opening page, in "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," Kelmscott Press, 1896, woodcut illustration by Burne-Jones, border decorations and initials by William Morris.
A crowd of people fill the Municipal Bridge during its opening in October 1929. The bridge was later renamed the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. The bridge spans the Ohio River from Second and Main Streets in Louisville, Kentucky, to Illinois...
A crowd of people lines the sidewalk in Jeffersonville, Indiana during the opening of the Municipal Bridge which spans the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. A police officer stands in the middle of the street at the beginning of the bridge....
A group of men in suits posing on and around a carriage with spoke wheels several feet taller than the men on the dirt road in front of McCord & Adams Carriage Company. Two horses are hitched to the carriage, and a banner attached to one of the...
A group of uniformed Salvation Army members stand on stage along with a group of children, some holding American flags, and props including a giant pot of Peacock Coffee (with mug); an oversized "In God We Trust" coin (dated 1932); a drum...
University of Louisville--Buildings; Astronomical observatories;
A small building with a slanted roof, sitting in the distance in a clearing surrounded by bushes and trees. According to the University of Louisville Astronomy website, "This general purpose telescope enclosure offers simple access to the sky...
A small podium has been erected on the Municipal Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky. One man stands at a microphone with other men on the podium and people are seated and standing around the stage to watch. This is the opening ceremony of the Municipal...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Parking lots; Automobiles; Parking garages; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Women; Umbrellas
A woman wearing an overcoat and carrying an umbrella appears to be opening the door of a car in the flooded parking lot between the Student Health and Counseling Center and the Houchens Building. Photograph was taken in the mid-morning.
A woman, wearing a suit and hat, sits in a window opening in the remains of a wall from Ward's Mill near Big Rock in Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky. See ULPA 1982.01.564.p for another view of the wall. See ULPA 1982.01.619.p, ULPA...
A young woman stands behind a table which contains trays of doughnuts. She wears a small lace cap and a light-colored dress with a pointed collar. She is holding a metal object near the opening of a machine where a doughnut is coming out. Signs...
Aboveground view of a narrow opening leading down into Mammoth Cave. A ladder extends up through the opening which is surrounded by rocky ground and bare trees. Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world and located within Mammoth Cave...
Actress, author and news reporter Joan Lowell opening a present in front of a Christmas tree with Thompson Buchanan of New Hope, Pennsylvania. Article attached to back of image: Divorces Playwright Husband; author of Salty Tales of The Sea, has...
Address: 328 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A series of pendant lights hang above a u-shaped glass counter full of jewelry. The counter has numerous bouquets of flowers on it. Around the edges of the room are dark wood shelves filled with...
Buildings; Hotels; Lodges; Henry Clay Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 604 S. Third Street. This view of the main foyer of the Henry Clay Hotel shows a long hallway opening into the foyer where a large plant or tree sits. In front of the tree are smaller plants and a silver platter. To the left is a sign that...
Adolphus E. Richards was born in Virginia in 1844. His education was interrupted by the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army, where he rose to the rank of major before his twenty-first birthday. At the war's end, he returned to school,...
An old man wearing a torn shirt and a wide brimmed hat and holding a pickaxe stands with a boy, in suspenders or overalls and also in a hat, in front of a coal opening on Lum Drake farm. They are covered in dust. The coal opening is a stout...
