Address: 1127 S. Seventeenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick apartment building is shown in a residential area. A small sign declares it Ruby Apartments. Another sign reads, "For Rent to colored. These modern apartments, two rooms &...
Wide two-story brick building at the corner of Seventeenth & Lytle, Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor left-hand doors are graffitied. The right-hand side appears to be a cafe; there is a sign advertising Senn & Agkermann beer on draught....
In the year 1573 when Shakespeare and Marlowe were already boys of nine, Chapman in adolescence, Spenser, Lyly and Richard Hooker men of twenty, John Donne, then important to only a few but destined to the company of royalty, was born. Walton...
An original manuscript leaf from a late sixteenth century or early seventeenth century Persian Qur'an, written and illuminated circa 1570-1630 on handmade paper. The Qur'an or Holy Koran is the key religious text for Islam. Followers of Islam find...
To gain a true appreciation of the works of any author, we must first be familiar with his race, his environment, and the period in which and of which he wrote. The Paris of the early seventeenth century was far different from the modern metropolis...
Postal service--History; Postal service--Southwest, Old
In every civilization of which any record has been preserved, there is known to have been some organized plan for maintaining communication by couriers who were either post runners or riders mounted. The relaying of these couriers was an obvious...
Santa Fe Mission depot, a structure with Spanish-influenced architecture. Other buildings are visible nearby, and telegraph wires run between various buildings and the depot. There are people standing near the tracks and the station, and several...
Row of damaged houses on Broadway between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Streets in Louisville, Kentucky following the tornado which struck on March 27, 1890. Several men stand on top of one of the houses and two small groups of women are standing on...
