Address: 3936 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. (This section is now Shelbyville Road.) Two children stand in front of Plehn's Bakery near where a car had struck a boy. The invoice for this photo indicated that it was recording the skid marks...
Address: 3936 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. (This section is now Shelbyville Road.) People stand in front of Plehn's Bakery near where a car had struck a boy. The invoice for this photo indicated that it was recording the skid marks the...
Address: 1087 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick building with a sign painted on it reading, "John F. Hoffman Grocery & Cafe / Dan'l Boone Cigars / Try [?] Like em." Windows on the second floor are open as are the shutters...
Advertising; Stores & shops; Show windows; Street railroad tracks; Automobiles; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings; Transportation
Written on the front of the photograph is, "January - 10 - 1921, Louisville Gas & Electric Co., Bardstown Road at Highland Ave. looking South - showing all lines moved to Southwest side of street." Utility poles line the sidewalk...
African Americans; African American singers; African American musicians; Nightclubs--Kentucky--Louisville; Singers; Musicians
Oral history interview with Robert Key, conducted October 25, 1977 by Robert Friedman. Mr. Key was a musician. He was born in Louisville but really launched his career in Chicago before touring as a singer. In this interview, he discusses his...
African American journalists; African American politicians; African American newspapers; African Americans; Politics & government; Politicians; Race relations; Democratic Party (Ky.); Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co. (Louisville, Ky.);...
Interview with William J. Ealy, Louisville newspaperman and political activist. This interview was conducted on August 5 and 22, 1977 by Dwayne Cox of the University of Louisville Oral History Center. Mr. Ealy discusses his early life and education...
African Americans; Sewing; Irons (Pressing); Tailoring; People; Men; Women
Address: 1112 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. This is likely the interior of Bradford Cleaners. Several African Americans are working in a room full of clothes. A man stands by an ironing board. Beyond him, a woman sits at what appears to be...
African Americans; Street musicians; Mouth organs; Wind instruments; People
Four boys and a man with a beard stand in front of a wood fence. The man holds a harmonica in one hand and his hat on the ground next to him with the brim side up. The nearest boy extends his cap in the same position, possibly asking for money for...
Agricultural laborers; Tobacco industry; United States. Works Progress Administration
Men hauling what looks like tobacco, Kentucky. Two dark horses pull a white-covered cart on which two men sit. Behind them, two white horses pull a smaller cart, also covered, on which one man sits. There are some trees, a telephone pole, and a...
Air pollution; Rivers; Boats; Transportation; Military facilities
Address: River Road and Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A boat comes out of the covered shelter of the U.S. Coast Guard station. A man in a white cap is seated at the front of the boat and two men in dark uniforms are standing at the rear of...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: cows drinking from stream by mill; man on horse talking to man standing by fence with shovel; men on horseback passing through jungle populated by snakes, monkeys, birds, and leopards; number 10; child...
Address: 1394 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior of Chandler's electronics and appliances store is shown on the corner of Bardstown Road and Edgeland Avenue. Homes can be seen around the store and it appears that there is a home...
Audubon Country Club (Louisville, Ky.); Golf; Men; People
Address: 3265 Robin Road, Louisville, Kentucky. A man puts on the green of the Audubon Club golf course. Other men wait with golf clubs in hand. The green ends in a sand trap. Two younger men hold bags of clubs; they are probably the caddies at the...
Automobile dealerships; Automobiles; Men; Buildings; Electric signs; Signs (Notices)
Eline Motor Company, located on the 3900 block of Shelbyville Road in Louisville, Kentucky, 1940; salesmen posed beside vehicles in sales lot for photo. Moving location signs in window and advertisement signs for: Chevrolet; Quick Service, All...
One automobile driving on unpaved road. There are other cars lining the road; there are people in and around the cars. The car in the road is occupied by one man; it is an open-air vehicle and the driver is seated on the right rather than the...
A woman wearing a dress and hat sits on the running board of automobile that appears to be on parked on a dirt road or driveway. See ULPA 1982.01.691.p for other images of the automobile. Title supplied by cataloger.
