Maps; Floods; Disasters; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville--1920--1940; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River
Map, printed in green in on white paper, of the area of Louisville, Kentucky, affected by the 1937 flooding of the Ohio River. Includes description of the flood, chart of elevations and depths of selected sites in Louisville, two photographs of...
School yearbooks; Schools; Students; University of Louisville--Students; Alumni & alumnae; University of Louisville--Alumni and alumnae; Student organizations; Universities & colleges; Medical students; Law students; Dental students; Music...
A publication of the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1954.
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson (pictured here). Billy Emerson (Edmund) was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1846 and died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. Emerson's Megatherian...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson and were managed by Richard M. Hooley (pictured here). Hooley was born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland in 1822 and died in Chicago in 1893. The...
"Frank Lloyd Wright developed numerous plans for Broadacre City, a paradigm for suburban development that included modest, single-family houses such as the one pictured here. Although his planned community was never built, the low-pitched...
Boats; Locks (Hydraulic engineering); Soo Locks (Mich.)
Several rows of boats in the water, lined up side to side and several deep. The boats are tethered together. Many are flying American flags; most have dark smoke coming from their smokestacks. The three most prominently pictured boats are marked...
Buildings; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Mechanical systems components
Address: 711 Vine Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Sign painted on side of one-story brick building reads: "Acme Wholesale Furnace Supply 711 Vine Street." Also pictured is an old weathered Acme metal sign. This business is apparently now...
Ceiling of celebrities at Loews Theater on Fourth Street between Broadway and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Written on back: "Portion of the ceiling of celebrities as viewed from the main foyer. Star designates the bust of the late Victor...
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Auditoriums
Municipal War Memorial Auditorium, Fourth & Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Right corner view of stone building of two to three stories in sections with subtly varying heights and types of roofs including one rounded roof (only the...
J. Stoddard Johnston elementary school, Flatlick Road & Warnock Street, Louisville, Kentucky (now 2301 Bradley Avenue). Artist's drawing of three-story brick building with vertical columns around four two-story panels of windows. The entrance...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Children
Two groups of children and a few women pictured in front of two adjacent buildings, possibly a school, in Anchorage, Kentucky. At left, children and women exit across the lawn of a two-story brick building; at right, boys and girls sit and stand on...
Capitol building in Frankfort, Kentucky, a Beaux-Arts style building with columns and dome, and a statue, lawn, and two driveways in front. The photograph has been retouched along the dome and sky. Caption on back of image: "All of Kentucky's...
The U of L Board of Trustees stand in a cafeteria line in the Jefferson Room of the Student Cafeteria. There are other people eating at a table in the foreground. From the front of the cafeteria line to the back, the trustees pictured are: Eli H....
Members of the U of L Board of Trustees dine in the Jefferson Room of the Student Cafeteria, at round tables. There is an empty table in the foreground. Trustees pictured are: Eli H. Brown, III, Miss Adele Brandeis, Lee P. Miller, Frederick Stamm...
Cityscapes; Mining; Churches; Streets; Hospitals; Orthodox churches; Schools; Department stores; Power plants; Catholic churches; Athletic fields; Methodist Episcopal churches; Hotels; Banks; Post offices; Buildings; United States Coal and Coke...
Souvenir folder of postcards from Lynch, Kentucky, in Harlan County. Lynch is a mining town and some of the views reflect that role: there are views of mine entrances. Also pictured are various churches, including a Greek Orthodox church, an...
Tall cliff with large trees surrounding its base, possibly in spring or fall. A smaller rock formation with logs upon it is in the foreground. While the cliff is near Rockcastle River, the river is not pictured.
Coaches (Athletics); University of Louisville--Football; Mayors; University of Louisville--Sports
Members of the University of Louisville football staff stand behind a long table. A banner behind them reads "Great Work! 'Cards' Beat Washington and Lee." There is a podium on the table. Staff pictured from left to right: J. D. Dunn,...
Dwellings; Horse farms; Man o' War (Race horse); Horses
Elizabeth Daingerfield, horse breeder, with Man O' War, here 12 years old, at Hinata Farms near Lexington, Kentucky. Man O'War's torso is pictured as he stands with groom John Buckner, who wears a warm-up jacket and hat and holds the bridle, and...
Address: 2448 Grinstead Drive. A home is pictured in a yard where there are more leaves on the ground than on the trees. The building is a three-story A-frame with a wrap-around porch. A man in a dark suit (possibly William A. Hildebrand, the name...
Engineers; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; University of Louisville--Faculty; University of Louisville--Alumni and alumnae; Mayors; Anniversaries; Teachers;
Five men at a round table during the University of Louisville Speed School of Engineering alumni anniversary dinner. There are men at other tables in the background. This event was held as part of the Speed School's 25th Anniversary festivities....
