African Americans; African Americans--Education; Boy Scouts of America; Elderly poor; Floods--Ohio River; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; National Council of Senior Citizens; Senior House; Senior centers; Scouting (Youth activity); Urban elderly;...
Oral history interviews conducted with Mr. Steward Pickett on May 23, June 4, and June 25, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Mr. Pickett, a retired assistant Boy Scout executive and board member of Senior House, talks about his family, growing up on an...
Alley running parallel to Berry Boulevard looking east toward Taylor Boulevard. Overgrown alley with wood and barbed wire fencing along the right side. Houses back up to the alley on both sides. Caption note: Whitney-Berry.
Alley running parallel to Berry Boulevard looking east toward Taylor Boulevard. Overgrown alley with wood and barbed wire fencing along the right side. Houses back up to the alley on both sides. A large puddle runs along the left side of the...
Antiphonaries--Illustrations; Gregorian chants--Illustrations; Music--Manuscripts--France; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval
Leaf from a fifteenth century French antiphonary, representing a segment of text related to the Feast of the Crown of Thorns. Also called an antiphonal or antiphoner, an antiphonary collects portions of psalms and hymns sung during liturgies or...
Body parts; Animals; Insects; Medical equipment & supplies
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: two-piece belted contraption with ties, possibly a girdle; anatomical drawing of a woman's internal organs, the most prominent of which is the bladder; skunk; anatomical drawing of woman's external body...
Address: 822 S. Floyd Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This old red brick building shows evidence of previous signs painted on its front and sides. Part of the sign reads, "Ryan-Hampton Tobacco Co." The section by the entrance is painted...
Address: 822 S. Floyd Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This old red brick building shows evidence of previous signs painted on its front and sides. Part of the sign reads, "Ryan-Hampton Tobacco Co." The section by the entrance is painted...
Bridges; Street railroads; Railroads; Cities & towns
Bridge with arc-shaped sides across the Harlem River in New York. Some of a city skyline is visible in the background. In the foreground a carriage pulled by two horses is exiting the bridge. A trolley or streetcar is to the right of the carriage....
Entrance of Xalapa Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. The farm was owned by Mrs. E. F. Givens. Close-up of delicate iron gate with heart patterns and sunrayed dome atop, lined at sides and above with stone, which angles down. Fir trees edge the stone...
Entrance of Xalapa Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. The farm was owned by Mrs. E. F. Givens. Iron gate of thin bars with sunrayed dome atop, lined heavily at sides and above with stone, which slopes down. Ivy grows on the walls.
Twelve white tents are pitched in Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky. The tents are pointed, with four sides, and do not reach the ground. There is white bedding inside some of the tents. The center tent has a pole with a cylinder on top sticking...
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...
Barrels at Fehr's Brewery, Louisville, Kentucky. Two rows of large wood barrels are partly shown on their sides. A man is touching one of the barrels in the left row; he reaches halfway up the barrel. The Frank Fehr Brewing Company was originally...
Whiskey aging in barrels, OFC Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky. The barrels are on their sides in cubbies on the wall, row upon row up and across. Some of the bottom rows are empty.
Bottling room, OFC Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky. Two long tables face from front to back. At the table at left, women are seated at either side of a conveyor belt of bottles, with more bottles gathered at the conveyor belt's sides. The table at...
Hubert Johnston Jenkins home at 1908 Tyler Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Two-story white wood house with attic under peaked roof. Every window except the attic window has a dark canopy. There is a porch on the far side of the house. In the foreground...
Dining room in Hillside House, home of Mr. and Mrs. Graddy Cary in Indian Hills, near Louisville, Kentucky. Wood paneled walls with two windows. Rectangular table with lowered sides and a doily and low bowl of tulips neatly on top. Five chairs line...
