Abandoned buildings; Printing industry; Buildings; Brick wall signs; Electric signs
Address: 18th and Portland Ave., Louisville, Kentucky. Portland Printing advertises their Reduced & Enlarged Copies, as well as a Fax Service. A Neon "OPEN" sign appears in the window to the left of the ghost sign.
Man holding a picket sign on the sidewalk in front of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company building. The sign reads "C-J- Job Printing Co. This firm unfair to allied printing trades unions. Does not pay local prevailing wage rate."...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: narrow rectangular advertisement for "JPM & Co. Printers, Binders and Blank Book Manufacturers," with printing press shown; narrow rectangular advertisement for "JPM & Co....
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco" ad with indistinct white-on-black image; "Bachelor's Darling Smoking Tobacco." with woman dressed in white on black background;...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African American newspapers; Louisville Leader (Ky.); Kentucky Reporter (Louisville, Ky.); Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co....
Oral history interview with Lattimore Cole conducted on November 26, 1977 by Dwayne Cox. In this interview, Mr. Cole discusses his early education in Louisville, working for his father’s newspaper the Louisville Leader and describes what it was...
American Printing House for the Blind (Louisville, Ky.); Buildings
Address: 1839 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. In 1883, this building was constructed for the American Printing House for the Blind, the oldest publishing house for the visually impaired in the United States.
Boy and girl in horseshoe swing. The ropes holding the swing are decorated with roses. The boy wears a sailor suit and the girl wears a pink dress; she also holds a glass of wine up as if in a toast. The boy and girl have flowers in their lap....
Book of Hours--France--Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts--France--Renaissance, 1450 - 1600
Leaf from a Book of Hours, a book used for private prayers, written by hand on a sheet printed with woodblock borders. The Book of Hours originally including this leaf was made in Paris around 1524. The leaf is from a supplemental section, the...
Boy with two baskets full of food. One basket contains red apples; the other contains cabbage, radishes and a chicken. The chicken's feet stick up out of the basket. The boy also carries a small bunch of flowers. Next to the boy is a poem:...
Two exterior views of the Beason Sign & Display Company with a large banner reading Signs Screen Process Printing above the entrance. The building is in a row of commercial businesses.
Buildings; Garages; Lincoln Garage, Inc. (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 444 S. Fifth Street. The photograph shows a multistory building with the words Lincoln Garage painted on the side. That wording also appears on a T-shaped sign hanging on the front of the building. That sign also says "Storage"...
Address: 923 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Barren trees and dormant grass surround the Stokes Sanatorium in this winter scene. A sign for the sanatorium is hung above the entrance. The front porch is supported by six Doric columns. The...
Buildings; Industrial facilities; Distilling industry
Looking down on the roof of a small, one-story building between larger buildings. Printing on the photograph indicates the building is the Grand Dad Distillery.
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the word "AND" and the circular image of a house on an urban street, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Miller Information Technology Building (Louisville, Ky.); Educational facilities; People;
University College building at the University of Louisville; a few people are walking along the sidewalks that intersect near the building. This building is now known as the Miller Information Technology Building (MITC); it was dedicated (and...
