Jug bands; African American musicians; African Americans; Musicians; Show windows; Automobiles; Buildings; People; Transportation
Address: 941 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A jug band and a group of men in suits and straw hats stand outside Landrum Bros. display window. The African American men in the jug band wear white suits and hats with black bow ties and have...
Women; African Americans; Students; Schools; Cookery; People
Young women at Central Colored School (908 Magazine Street, Louisville, Kentucky) take a cooking class. Each girl wears an apron over her dress and a chef's hat or towel around her hair. The tables have an array of bowls and silverware on them as...
The shop window for DeLuxe Eat Shoppe at 666 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky, displays cakes and other pastries as well as candies and fruit. Lettering on the front window indicates, "Tables for Ladies & Gentlemen." Beyond the...
In the bulk of experiments on animal feeding the Albino Rat has served as the experimental animal. It has been proved that any diet which brings about satisfactory growth in white rats will also cause a young child to grow satisfactorily....
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Events; Rites & ceremonies; People; Crowds; Military uniforms
Six men in military uniforms with white gloves and swords stand before a crowd of women (some holding parasols) and a few men at a ceremony opening the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. The man in the center, with the plumed hat and epaulets, is...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Copper; Forging
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, five men take turns hitting copper with mallets; they are hitting the metal which a sixth man, who is kneeling, is holding onto a block with tongs. Five of the men are wearing white sombreros. The men are...
Irvin S. Cobb, Paducah, Kentucky-born author of more than fifty works and later an actor, sitting at a desk writing, smoking a cigar. Photograph is damaged in several places and also has some discolored blemishes. Attached to back of image: When...
Portrait of Bishop John A. Floersh of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a suit with a clergy collar. Floersh served as Bishop, then Archbishop, of Louisville from 1924-1967. The photograph has been painted on and says: take out mike. Stamped on back of...
Portraits; Men; Business people; Binoculars; Racetracks
Colonel Frank Levy of Louisville, Kentucky with Frank Livensohn. They are both wearing bowlers and suits. The photograph has been painted on, accentuating details, and is discoloring with age. Handwritten on back of image: Frank Livensohn of New...
Portrait of Reverend Royal Tucker of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, wearing his pastoral garb. The photograph is damaged along the edges and badly discolored from age. Stamped on bottom, front of image: Standiford, Louisville (Studio). Stamped on back:...
Buildings; Vehicles; Airplanes; Airports; Air pilots; Bowman Field (Ky.)
Two pilots in an airplane with spinning propellers preparing to take off at Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. A man stands on the right near the plane with one foot forward. The airfield, established in 1919 by Abram H. Bowman, is still in...
World War, 1914-1918; Soldiers; Military life; Military uniforms; Bathing; Hygiene
André Jeunet, center, and fellow French soldiers appear to be clowning around as they take a break to wash up outdoors. Jeunet is wearing the jacket of a higher-ranking soldier and the other two have towels.
World War, 1914-1918--France; Soldiers; Railroads; Military life; Drinking fountains
French soldiers, being transported by train, take advantage of a brief stop to freshen up and cool off under a small shower of water during World War I. Soldiers are believed to be with the 139e Régiment d'Infanterie. Two other images in this...
An African-American woman wearing a long dress and head scarf sits at a table on a porch, writing. A portrait of Abraham Lincoln is propped up on the table. In her 1940 book 'The Sun Shines Bright,' Thomas recalls that Aunt Charity had been hired...
An African-American woman wearing a long dress and head scarf sits at a table on a porch, writing. A portrait of Abraham Lincoln is propped up on the table. In her 1940 book 'The Sun Shines Bright,' Thomas recalls that Aunt Charity had been hired...
Louisville City Hospital; Louisville General Hospital; Nursing students; Nursing; Infants
Student nurse, nurse, and new mother at Louisville City Hospital or Louisville General Hospital. A student nurse in a striped blouse, apron, and cap holds a newborn baby. A nurse in white uniform and cap stands to her left. The mother sits in a...
Lawyers; Municipal officials; Legislators; Judges; Portraits
William Pollitt McClain was born in 1849 in Henderson, Kentucky. He attended Notre Dame College, graduating in 1869. He then attended the law department of the University of Virginia, graduating in 1872. After practicing law in Missouri, he...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 17. No. 51. but is actually Vol. 17. No. 50. This was a special Wednesday edition of the Louisville...
Three-quarter length portrait of Louisville native Max Bloom wearing bowler, suit jacket, vest, necktie, and one leather glove (with which he holds its match). Bloom performed at Macauley's Theatre in "The Mayor of Tokio" in September...
