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Title
View
from
corner
of
Green
and
Sixth
Streets
,
Louisville
.
Contributors
Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion (publisher)
Description
Copy
of an
engraving
depicting
downtown
Louisville
:
men
converse
in
street
while
children
play
off
to the
side
and a
horse-drawn
carriage
drives
ahead
;
pedestrians
stroll
along
tree-lined
sidewalks
;
buildings
,
including
two
churches
, are
visible
.
Printed
on
bottom
of
engraving
: "
View
from
corner
of
Green
and
Sixth
streets
,
Louisville.
"
Handwritten
: "
R
.
G
.
Potter
Collection.
" The
original
engraving
appeared
in
Ballou's
Pictorial
illustrated
newspaper
(Boston)
,
dated
October
18
,
1856
,
along
with
five
other
wood
engraved
views
: "
Speed
Market
,
Louisville
,
Kentucky
" "
Louisville
University
" "
Marine
Hospital
" "
Bridge
over
Beargrass
Creek
,
Louisville
" and "
St
.
Joseph's
Infirmary
,
Louisville.
" The
article
reads
, "
...Louisville
is
situated
on the
Falls
of the
Ohio
River
, at the
mouth
of
Beargrass
Creek
,
about
130
miles
below
Cincinnati
. In a
commercial
point
of
view
,
it
is
the
most
important
place
in the
State
.
It
is
the
seat
of
justice
of
Jefferson
county
, and
stands
upon
an
extensive
sloping
plain
about
a
quarter
of a
mile
above
the
principal
declivity
of the
falls
, and
seventy
feet
above
high
water
mark
. The
falls
may
be
seen
from the
city...Our
view
in
Sixth
Street
,
presents
the
general
appearance
of the
Louisville
streets
,
all
of them
being
shaded
with
fine
trees
. The
church
on the
right
is
the
First
Presbyterian
; that on the
left
is
the
Saint
Paul's
Episcopal�.
"
Subject
Streets
Pedestrians
Carriages & Coaches
Churches
Location Depicted
Sixth Street (Louisville, Ky.)
Liberty Street (Louisville, Ky.)
Central Business District (Louisville, Ky.)
Louisville (Ky.)
Jefferson County (Ky.)
Date Original
1856-10-18
Object Type
Photographic prints
Source
8 x 10 in. b&w photographic print. Item Number ULPA P_00966 in the R. G. Potter Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
Citation Information
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http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/description/collection/potter#conditions
for guidance on citing this item. To cite the digital version, add its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file).
Collection
R. G. Potter Collection
Collection Website
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/potter/
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Photographic Archives
Format
image/jpeg
Ordering Information
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http://louisville.edu/library/archives/copying.html/.
Please cite the Image Number when ordering.
Image Number
ULPA
P_00966
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