African Americans; Suits (Clothing); Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Group portraits; Bible--Study & teaching; People; Men
The Glad Hand Bible class of the East End Baptist Settlement poses for a picture. The African-American men are dressed somberly in dark suits with ties. One man holds a white hat with a dark band. On the wall behind them is a faded sign for Quaker...
Two mules in harness pull a young man on seed drill on a farm. On the back of the machine is lettering reading, "Alfalfa & Grass Seed Drill." A stream cuts through the picture. To the left there is a small stone outbuilding with two...
Angel suspended in sky holding ribbon banner that reads, "Glory to God in the Highest." An article in "The Louisville Courier-Journal" on November 12, 1942 described how this picture was produced: "In the attic of...
Madison (Ind.)-Milton (Ky.) Bridge across the Ohio River, dedicated December 20, 1929. The river banks are covered in a light snow. Typed note on back of image: "Enclosed is a photograph of the new Madison-Milton bridge with Milton and the...
Buildings; Advertisements; Signs (Notices); Brick wall signs; Street railroad tracks; Electric lines
Long two-story brick building at the corner of Twenty-Eighth and Greenwood, Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor houses State Fair Exchange (C. M. Rose, proprietor). A large painted ad for Frank Fehr's F.F.X.L. is on the side of the building. A...
In the foreground are two or more buildings topped by mansard roofs. Their steeply-angled sides are covered with rectangular and fish scale shingles. Signs for the Seelbach Hotel (on Fourth Street) and the cross at the top of the Cathedral of the...
The Highlands branch of Louisville National Bank & Trust Company, located at Bardstown Road and Baxter Avenue (now a Chase Bank). Two large black circles appear on the photograph, with one reading "2 Reverse this picture."
Buildings; Grocery stores; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Street railroad tracks
Three-story dark brick building at the corner of Twentieth and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Curtain awning over ground floor drawn up. Ground floor houses Goetz Bros' Groceries, Meats & Vegetables. Trolley car tracks visible on the side of...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Majestic Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 618 S. Fourth Street (Building no longer exists.) The Majestic opened as a vaudeville theater in 1908. Beyond that fact, however, its history is far less certain. The most commonly stated version is that the 1908 theater was torn down and...
Children; School children; Group portraits; African Americans; Schools; Buildings; People
Address: 1534 Washington Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Students and teachers of the Benjamin Bannecker School stand outside for a group picture. The school building appears to be built of wood plant siding and has a small awning over the front...
Convertible automobiles; Couples; Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.)
Man and woman sit in early "open-air" automobile, posing for picture. Behind them is a backdrop of a road with the signpost "Louisville" drawn in. The verso of the image indicates it was taken at the Fontaine Ferry Postal Studio...
A man stands behind a pillar in the Eastern Parkway overpass tunnel that connects Brook Street and Floyd Street, taking a picture. A red car drives through the tunnel in the lane behind the man. Overhead, an inscription reads "CLEARANCE...
“The sanctuary of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Kore at Eleusis, as it might have appeared in the fifth century BC. The Telesterium, the Great Hall of the Mysteries, is in the centre [center]. The procession entered by the gate at the top...
“The Panathenaic procession passing through the Propylaea, the gate of the Acropolis. The ceremonial boat, on which the new tunic (peplos) for Athena may have been hoisted as a sail, would probably have been parked alongside the Clepsydra...
Above: "Reconstruction drawing of the hunting scene in the Tomb of Philip (drawing by G. Miltsakakis)." Below: "The façade of the large unrobbed Macedonian tomb (the Tomb of Philip) offered a simple, yet at the same time distinctive...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Government officials; Men
Secretary of War William Howard Taft (third from left), President Theodore Roosevelt's representative at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri (and his successor as U.S. President, in 1909), exchanges greetings with local dignitaries: Thomas H....
Six adults in a family picture. An older man and woman sit on a sofa with a younger woman sitting on either sofa arm and two men standing behind the sofa.
Gresham Sackett of Louisville, Kentucky, shaking hands with someone that has been cut out of the picture. The photograph has been badly creased and discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: President of A.P. Sikking Company. Stamped on...
Albert B. "Happy" Chandler of Versailles, Kentucky, Governor of Kentucky from 1935-1939 (and again from 1955-1959), reading from a paper and holding a gavel. Photograph has been cut irregularly, the paper he is holding has been cut from...
