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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...

Public domain photograph of bus station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a pl...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

[Crew chief Marcellus G. Smith, Louisville, KY, 100th F.S., Ramitelli,...

Photograph shows crew chief Marcellus G. Smith of Louisville, Kentucky, 100th F.S., working on an airplane. (Source: Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group pilots.) Also available as contact sheet in LOT 12447-1. ... More

Tennessee 1:50,000. Fort Campbell vicinity

Scale 1:50,000. "Road data 1975. Other information 1975-76." Standard map series designation: Series V741S. "Projection: Transverse Mercator." Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by contours... More

Wigwam Village #2, Route 31W, Cave City, Kentucky

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Attractions. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Mother Goose Market, horizontal view, Route 476, Hazard, Kentucky

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Mimetic buildings; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies Roa... More

Henry Clay, of Kentucky, portrait print

After a daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3018

Standing Rocks - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

No. 8. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Saltpeter Pipes (1812) - Public domain dedication image

No. 5. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4456. "Div. 5" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking ...

11671-11. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Lummie Durrett. See report. Location: Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4115. Hine no. 4116. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Mahogany mills of C.C. Mengel & Bro. Co., Louisville, Kentucky

Videodisc images out of sequence; actual left to right order is: 1A-07077, 07076, 07075. Originally part of a four-part panorama; right center section not in collection. "G 3613" on left negative; "G 3614" on l... More

Had I never, never known thee, ballad

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Collins-Davis House, Main Street, Old Washington, Mason County, KY

Significance: This clapboard structure, built in 1875, is the most exuberant interpretation of Gothic Revival architecture in Washington. The facade is strongly emphasized by three steep gables and a stylized ... More

Collins-Davis House, Main Street, Old Washington, Mason County, KY

Significance: This clapboard structure, built in 1875, is the most exuberant interpretation of Gothic Revival architecture in Washington. The facade is strongly emphasized by three steep gables and a stylized ... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Invitations, acceptances, a...

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

Russell Neighborhood, Bounded by Congress & Esquire Alley, Fifteenth &...

Significance: Founded by German and Irish immigrants, the west Louisville area was expanded by African Americans after the Civil War. The significance of the Russell neighborhood lies in its rich history as an... More

2413-2415 Eddy Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: 2413-2415 Eddy Street lies within the Russell National District that was listed in 1980. This structure is consistent in size and scale to other residential structures within the neighborhood and... More

Marrs Log House, Chatham Pike, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Survey number: HABS KY-51 Building/structure dates: 1793 Initial Construction

629 South Nineteenth Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: 629 South Nineteenth Street is significant within the context of the Russell National Register District which was listed in 1980. This structure is typical of the Italianate style houses that wer... More

629 South Nineteenth Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: 629 South Nineteenth Street is significant within the context of the Russell National Register District which was listed in 1980. This structure is typical of the Italianate style houses that wer... More

My old Kentucky home good night, variations, op. 385. Charles Grobe

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Pisgah Presbyterian Church & Academy, Pisgah-Georgetown Pike, Pisgah, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10 Survey number: HABS KY-20-10 Building/structure dates: ca. 1812 Initial Construction

Pisgah Presbyterian Church & Academy, Pisgah-Georgetown Pike, Pisgah, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10 Survey number: HABS KY-20-10 Building/structure dates: ca. 1812 Initial Construction

Danville National Cemetery, 277 North First Street, Danville, Boyle Co...

Survey number: HALS KY-2 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 98000591

Theophilus Conrad Home, 1402 St. James Court, Louisville, Jefferson Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

We'll go into battle, mother - Public domain World War One sheet music

Words by Mary L. Wood ; music by W. H. Craig. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

Piatt's Landing, Upper East Bend Bottoms, Burlington, Boone County, KY

Significance: House was built ca. 1814 by Robert Piatt, the grandfather of Bvt. Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, and is an interesting example of an Ohio River house. Unprocessed Field note material ... More

Piatt's Landing, Upper East Bend Bottoms, Burlington, Boone County, KY

Significance: House was built ca. 1814 by Robert Piatt, the grandfather of Bvt. Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, and is an interesting example of an Ohio River house. Unprocessed Field note material ... More

Kentucky 1804 Bridge, Spanning Clear Fork Creek, Saxton, Whitley Count...

Significance: Rare mixed Warren and Pratt truss bridge which offers a good example of the changes and development that occurred in truss technology in the early twentieth century. Apparently, the only Champion... More

Kentucky 1804 Bridge, Spanning Clear Fork Creek, Saxton, Whitley Count...

Significance: Rare mixed Warren and Pratt truss bridge which offers a good example of the changes and development that occurred in truss technology in the early twentieth century. Apparently, the only Champion... More

Governor Lazarus Powell House, Henderson, Henderson County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-27 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction

Governor Lazarus Powell House, Henderson, Henderson County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-27 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction

Governor Lazarus Powell House, Henderson, Henderson County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-27 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction

Governor Lazarus Powell House, Henderson, Henderson County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-27 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction

A sketch of the medical topography of Lexington and its vicinity : bei...

Elmwood Hall, 246 Forest Avenue, Ludlow, Kenton County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-22 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction

Love's image - Public domain American sheet music, 1876

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Lee County Courthouse, Main Street, Beattyville, Lee County, KY

Significance: Originally built in 1873, this structure is significant historically as a courthouse and architecturally for its massive timber roof trusses. //1871-1873. Built by Pryse, Brandenburg, and MacGuir... More

Lee County Courthouse, Main Street, Beattyville, Lee County, KY

Significance: Originally built in 1873, this structure is significant historically as a courthouse and architecturally for its massive timber roof trusses. //1871-1873. Built by Pryse, Brandenburg, and MacGuir... More

Lee County Courthouse, Main Street, Beattyville, Lee County, KY

Significance: Originally built in 1873, this structure is significant historically as a courthouse and architecturally for its massive timber roof trusses. //1871-1873. Built by Pryse, Brandenburg, and MacGuir... More

Letter from Jonathan Clark to Isaac Hite

Starnes Bridge, Spanning Eagle Creek, Holbrook, Grant County, KY

Significance: The Starnes Bridge is a rare surviving example of bridge technology representing the pin-connected Pennsylvania truss elements. Survey number: HAER KY-3 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Co... More

James Bethel Gresham Memorial Bridge, Spanning Green Pond River at Ken...

Significance: The James Bethel Gresham Memorial Bridge is significant as the only surviving structure built by the Nashville Bridge Company in Kentucky. The bridge was determined eligible for the National Regi... More

James Bethel Gresham Memorial Bridge, Spanning Green Pond River at Ken...

Significance: The James Bethel Gresham Memorial Bridge is significant as the only surviving structure built by the Nashville Bridge Company in Kentucky. The bridge was determined eligible for the National Regi... More

James Bethel Gresham Memorial Bridge, Spanning Green Pond River at Ken...

Significance: The James Bethel Gresham Memorial Bridge is significant as the only surviving structure built by the Nashville Bridge Company in Kentucky. The bridge was determined eligible for the National Regi... More

James Bethel Gresham Memorial Bridge, Spanning Green Pond River at Ken...

Significance: The James Bethel Gresham Memorial Bridge is significant as the only surviving structure built by the Nashville Bridge Company in Kentucky. The bridge was determined eligible for the National Regi... More

Kentucky Route 36 Bridge, Spanning Lick Fork Creek near Camp Northward...

Significance: The Lick Creek Bridge is a two-span, closed spandrel, concrete arch structure constructed in 1922. It was constructed by the Luten Bridge Company of York, Pennsylvania, and is one of four survivi... More

Carrithers-Cochran House, Carrithers Lane, Taylorsville, Spencer Count...

Significance: This 2-1/2 story brick house was built by the Clarke family (ca 1830) who settled in Spencer Co. in the late 18th Century and developed the site for agricultural use. The site and house exemplify... More

307 West Broadway (House), Danville, Boyle County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-289 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1953 Subsequent Work

Scene at division headquarters, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.

Military police on motorcycles in front of Western Union Telegraph Co. building at center. J231158 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Louisville. Copyright deposit; Caufield & Shook; August 26,... More

Hempfling House, 4633 River Road (State Route 8), Stringtown, Boone Co...

Significance: The Hempfling House is an uncommon and well-preserved example of the Homestead House, a house type popular during the early 20th century in northern Kentucky. It reflects the influence of nationa... More

Camp Nelson National Cemetery, 6980 Danville Road, Nicholasville, Jess...

Survey number: HALS KY-1 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 98001134

[House ("Pope House") for John Pope, Lexington, Kentucky. Elevations, ...

Reference copy available in LOT 4249. Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).

White City, Louisville, Ky. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

St. George Hotel, 100-108 North Main Street, Winchester, Clark County,...

Significance: This structure is an unusual combination of Queen Anne and Neocolonial architecture which has functioned as a major hotel in town since it opened in 1904. For one year it was the finest hotel in ... More

Spring Bank Farm, 7506 Old Shepherdsville Road, Louisville, Jefferson ...

Significance: Spring Bank Farm is an extremely unusual and complete ensemble of pre-Civil War farm buildings. Executed in a vernacular style, they are typical of what was once found on many of the smaller Kent... More

Shaker West Family Dwelling House (Second), North side of Village Road...

Survey number: HABS KY-91 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000353

Shaker West Family Dwelling House (Second), North side of Village Road...

Survey number: HABS KY-91 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000353

Atlas of Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Jessamine and Woodford Counties, Ky.

Phillips 1748 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Ancient history, or, Annals of Kentucky : with a survey of the ancient...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kuntz Shotgun House, 1401 East Washington Street, Louisville, Jefferso...

Significance: This is a typical "shotgun" house, having three rooms back-to-back perpendicular to the street, with a fourth over the rear third room, forming a "camelback" configuration. According to legend, i... More

Wood-Covered Bridge, Spanning Main Licking River, Butler, Pendleton Co...

Significance: Built 1870 by J.J. Newman & B.F. Erwin under firm name of Newman & Erwin, Middleton, Ohio, for commissioners of Pendleton County. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-11 ... More

Wood-Covered Bridge, Spanning Main Licking River, Butler, Pendleton Co...

Significance: Built 1870 by J.J. Newman & B.F. Erwin under firm name of Newman & Erwin, Middleton, Ohio, for commissioners of Pendleton County. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-11 ... More

The Kentucky revival, or, A short history of the late extraordinary ou...

Burks' Makers Mark Distillery, Loretto, Marion County, KY

Significance: Represents the growth of distilling as a major industry in Kentucky, after the Pinckney Treaty gave U.S. citizens to unhampered passage down the Mississippi to New Orleans. It also marks the deve... More

Burks' Makers Mark Distillery, Loretto, Marion County, KY

Significance: Represents the growth of distilling as a major industry in Kentucky, after the Pinckney Treaty gave U.S. citizens to unhampered passage down the Mississippi to New Orleans. It also marks the deve... More

Anonymous to Thomas Jefferson, June 26, 1801, Signed Kentucky Citizen

Signed Kentucky Citizen Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Hopewell Bridge, Spanning Little Sandy River, Hopewell, Greenup County...

Survey number: HAER KY-36 Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hopewell Bridge, Spanning Little Sandy River, Hopewell, Greenup County...

Survey number: HAER KY-36 Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dreams of the past - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

[Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (str...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kentucky State Route 1032 Bridge, Spanning South Fork of Licking River...

Significance: A metal truss bridge consisting of two identical Pratt through trusses, constructed in 1906 by the Champion Bridge Company. Survey number: HAER KY-25 Building/structure dates: 1906 Initial Construction

Don't forget the old folks - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Phoenix Hill Historic District, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-163 Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James Russell Lowell Elementary School, 4501 Crittenden Drive, Louisvi...

Significance: The James Russell Lowell Elementary School is architecturally significant as an excellent example of both the vernacular, institutional architecture of the period (1916) and of the Art Deco style ... More

James Russell Lowell Elementary School, 4501 Crittenden Drive, Louisvi...

Significance: The James Russell Lowell Elementary School is architecturally significant as an excellent example of both the vernacular, institutional architecture of the period (1916) and of the Art Deco style ... More

James Russell Lowell Elementary School, 4501 Crittenden Drive, Louisvi...

Significance: The James Russell Lowell Elementary School is architecturally significant as an excellent example of both the vernacular, institutional architecture of the period (1916) and of the Art Deco style ... More

James Russell Lowell Elementary School, 4501 Crittenden Drive, Louisvi...

Significance: The James Russell Lowell Elementary School is architecturally significant as an excellent example of both the vernacular, institutional architecture of the period (1916) and of the Art Deco style ... More

James Russell Lowell Elementary School, 4501 Crittenden Drive, Louisvi...

Significance: The James Russell Lowell Elementary School is architecturally significant as an excellent example of both the vernacular, institutional architecture of the period (1916) and of the Art Deco style ... More

James Russell Lowell Elementary School, 4501 Crittenden Drive, Louisvi...

Significance: The James Russell Lowell Elementary School is architecturally significant as an excellent example of both the vernacular, institutional architecture of the period (1916) and of the Art Deco style ... More

Thomas Threlkeld House, Benson Pike, Shelbyville, Shelby County, KY

Significance: The Threlkeld/Weakley House incorporates significant early features in a largely unaltered form. Unusual features such as mud wall infill, horizontally sliding sash, an early porch and the juxtap... More

Thomas Threlkeld House, Benson Pike, Shelbyville, Shelby County, KY

Significance: The Threlkeld/Weakley House incorporates significant early features in a largely unaltered form. Unusual features such as mud wall infill, horizontally sliding sash, an early porch and the juxtap... More

Thomas Threlkeld House, Benson Pike, Shelbyville, Shelby County, KY

Significance: The Threlkeld/Weakley House incorporates significant early features in a largely unaltered form. Unusual features such as mud wall infill, horizontally sliding sash, an early porch and the juxtap... More

James Ben Ali Haggin Barn, 4160 Paris Pike (U.S. 27, 68), Lexington, F...

1985 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The James Ben Ali Haggin Barn, designed by New York architect, H.I. Copeland, was completed ca. 1902. This barn was one of three twelve-sided bar... More

Old Closson House, Closson Court & Ringold Streets, Ludlow, Kenton Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS KY-20-13 Building/structure dates: ca. 1832 Initial Construction

Croghan House, 561 Blankenbaker Lane, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-66 Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George Wiedemann Brewery Complex, #7A Bottling Shop, Sixth & Columbia ...

Survey number: HABS KY-177-J Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Union Station, 1000 West Broadway, Lo...

Significance: Located at the confluence of major east, west, north, and south rail lines, Union Station is one of the largest and finest examples of late Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Kentucky. Surv... More

Seelbach Hotel, 500 South Fourth Street, Louisville, Jefferson County,...

Significance: Built from 1903 to 1907, the neo-classical hotel includes a Rathskeller, one of only two known ensembles of the famous Rookwood pottery on a large scale. The Rathskeller was patterned after a Ger... More

Hart Block, 728 West Main Street, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: An excellent example of the late phase of cast-iron commercial facades, the Hart Block remains essentially as constructed, a testimony to the durability of cast-iron when properly maintained. It ... More

Hart Block, 728 West Main Street, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: An excellent example of the late phase of cast-iron commercial facades, the Hart Block remains essentially as constructed, a testimony to the durability of cast-iron when properly maintained. It ... More