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The Levee, Lousiville, Ky. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Vienna Restaurant, 133-135 South Fourth Street, Louisville, Jefferson ...

Significance: At one time the most elegant and sumptuous restaurant in Louisville, the Vienna Restaurant, is a very rare example of the Art Nouveau influence in Louisville. Aside from remnants of the interior,... More

[Jake Thielman, Louisville Team, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Bank of Louisville Building, 322 West Main Street, Louisville, Jeffers...

Public domain photograph of bank building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

City Hall, 601 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: The seat of Louisville's municipal government, City Hall is a monumental example of Italianate architecture with a fine Mansard clock tower. Survey number: HABS KY-143 Building/structure dates: ... More

Ronald-Brennan House, 631 South Fifth Street, Louisville, Jefferson Co...

Significance: The Ronald-Brennan House, a good example of Italianate design, has been carefully preserved by the Brennan family, who have left the house with its excellent late 19th century and early 20th centu... More

Ronald-Brennan House, 631 South Fifth Street, Louisville, Jefferson Co...

Significance: The Ronald-Brennan House, a good example of Italianate design, has been carefully preserved by the Brennan family, who have left the house with its excellent late 19th century and early 20th centu... More

Ronald-Brennan House, 631 South Fifth Street, Louisville, Jefferson Co...

Significance: The Ronald-Brennan House, a good example of Italianate design, has been carefully preserved by the Brennan family, who have left the house with its excellent late 19th century and early 20th centu... More

647 South Eighteenth Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: 647 South Eighteenth Street lies within the Russell National District which was listed in 1980. This structure is contributing to the neighborhood in that it is consistent in size and scale to ot... More

Farmington, 3033 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: Farmington is one of the few houses constructed after a design by Thomas Jefferson. Its history of preservation has been remarkable. It now remains virtually as originally constructed, with the ... More

512 South Twentieth Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: This is a typical shotgun residence of the Russell Historic District. // ca. 1890. Shotgun. Frame. Approx. 20' x 50'. Italianate door and window hoods, dentils at cornice are layered. Poor co... More

Kentucky School for the Blind, 1867 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Jeff...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-19 Survey number: HABS KY-20-19 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Inaugural regimental services of the "Black Devils", 814th Pioneer Inf...

J231565 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Royal Photo. Co.; October 4, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45967. Copyright claimant's address: Lou., Ky. No. 578.

Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, 4701 Brownsboro Road, Louisville, Je...

Survey number: HALS KY-6 Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, 4701 Brownsboro Road, Louisville, Je...

Survey number: HALS KY-6 Public domain photograph of a graveyard monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, 4701 Brownsboro Road, Louisville, Je...

Survey number: HALS KY-6 Public domain photograph of a column monument, city square, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

552 South Twentieth Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: This is a typical Italianate shotgun residence of the Russell Historic District. // ca. 1890. Shotgun. Frame. Approx. 18' x 50'. Italianate door and window hoods. Deteriorated - vacant. Surv... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Passenger Station & Train Shed, Corner of ...

Significance: The Central of Georgia Terminal and Trainshed at Savannah are part of one of the earliest attempts to build a comprehensive railroad terminal and shop complex in this country. The structure of th... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Passenger Station & Train Shed, Corner of ...

Significance: The Central of Georgia Terminal and Trainshed at Savannah are part of one of the earliest attempts to build a comprehensive railroad terminal and shop complex in this country. The structure of th... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Passenger Station & Train Shed, Corner of ...

Significance: The Central of Georgia Terminal and Trainshed at Savannah are part of one of the earliest attempts to build a comprehensive railroad terminal and shop complex in this country. The structure of th... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Passenger Station & Train Shed, Corner of ...

Significance: The Central of Georgia Terminal and Trainshed at Savannah are part of one of the earliest attempts to build a comprehensive railroad terminal and shop complex in this country. The structure of th... More

Delegates of the south and southwestern annual conferences of the conv...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott (G. & W.)

[Chaplain Charles A. Fischer of the 32nd Indiana Regiment, full-length...

In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 26. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

The women and children of Louisville, Kentucky, leaving the city, by o...

Illustration showing a throng of Louisville citizens in carriages and covered wagons, and on foot evacuating the city, many headed toward the docks on the Ohio River where they are boarding steamboats. Illus. ... More

[Paul Cook, Louisville Colonels, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Abraham Flexner, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Klauber,...

Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1974:206. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Daniel Boone monument, Cherokee Park, Louisville, Ky.

Public domain photograph - park, sign, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

426 South Eighteenth Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: One of the more decorative shotgun residence in the Russell Historic District. // ca. 1900. Shotgun (camelback). Frame. Approx. 20' x 50'. Vertical beaded siding in gable, king post and beam, ... More

Market St. [Street], Louisville, Ky.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic market square, downtown, commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Union Station, Louisville, Ky. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Phoenix Hill Historic District, 738 East Madison Street (House), Louis...

Significance: Brick shotgun with camelback frame section - typical working class dwelling of this area. // x. 1875. Italianate. Brick and frame. 15' x 60'. Italianate doorhood. Insul-brick on rear section,... More

Phoenix Hill Historic District, 816-818 East Muhammad Ali Boulevard (H...

Significance: Early vernacular duplex, wooden lintels - residential. // Vernacular. Brick. Approx. 40' x 55'. Wooden lintels, six-over-six light windows. Door hoods altered - date unknown. Poor condition -... More

A group of people standing around a boat on a flooded street, Kenntuck...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fishing on Ohio riverfront in Louisville, Kentucky

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Legionnaire falls after picnic bench breaks at American Legion fish fr...

Public domain photograph related to American Legion, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a blanket, Kenntucky. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men sitting next to a body of water, Kenntucky. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Legion fish fry, Oldham County, Post 39, near Louisville, Ken...

Public domain photograph related to American Legion, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Coils of sheet...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Marine boilers. Large forge furnaces prepare heats for the...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Marine boilers. Large forge furnaces prepare heats for the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Naval gun mounts. Part of a 16 inch naval gun assembly is ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Marine boilers. The operator at the controls of a large fl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Pipe fittings. Forging shop crew of a Midwest plant serve ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Sawmill carr...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Production. Pipe fittings. A giant press used in a Midwest plant now f...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large wal...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

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

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of passengers, mass transit, transportation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of an old building. Office of War Information ...

Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is a... More

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of passengers, mass transit, transportation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Carol M. Highsmith - Downtown street in Louisville, Kentucky

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Downtown Louisville, a town in northeastern Georgia, during Louisville...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town is named for French King Louis XVI in appreciation for French assistance to the colonists during the American Revolution. Pur... More

Rossmore Apartment House, 664 South Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Jeffers...

Significance: The Rossmore Apartment House was Louisville's first modern apartment building. The structure shows clear evidence of the influence of the Chicago School Style of the late nineteenth century, of w... 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

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

608 South Eighteenth Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: 608 South Eighteenth Street is significant within the context of the Russell National District which was listed in 1980. This structure is typical of shotgun houses that were built throughout thi... More

Churchill Downs, 700 Central Avenue, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-210 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001348

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

Cave Hill Cemetery, Rustic Shelter House, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisvil...

Significance: The design of the structure was based on Cottage Orne, a rustic cottage popularized in France by Richard Mique during Marie Antoinette's time. It was used as a favorite picnic spot during pre-Civ... More

Phoenix Hill Historic District, Ohio Falls Dye & Finishing Works Build...

Significance: Architecturally, the building is a typical industrial structure of the late nineteenth century, two and three stories in height and contributes to the Phoenix Hill Historic District. Historically... More

Phoenix Hill Historic District, Ohio Falls Dye & Finishing Works Build...

Significance: Architecturally, the building is a typical industrial structure of the late nineteenth century, two and three stories in height and contributes to the Phoenix Hill Historic District. Historically... 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

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

Cave Hill National Cemetery, 701 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Jefferson ...

For additional documentation please view HABS No. KY-142 (Cave Hill Cemetery) Survey number: HALS KY-8 Building/structure dates: 1861 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1863 Subsequent Work Natio... More

Cave Hill National Cemetery, 701 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Jefferson ...

For additional documentation please view HABS No. KY-142 (Cave Hill Cemetery) Survey number: HALS KY-8 Building/structure dates: 1861 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1863 Subsequent Work Natio... More

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

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

Spring Station, Lexington Road & Cannon's Lane, Louisville, Jefferson ...

Survey number: HABS KY-23 Building/structure dates: 1795 Initial Construction

Vaughn, C[atcher], Louisville, Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows catcher, Harry Francis Vaughn, posing in throwing position. U15774 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright '89, Goodwin & Co. Advertisement for Old Judge cigarettes.

Dr. Palmer House, 721 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Jefferson Cou...

Survey number: HABS KY-63 Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Billy Grimes the drover - Public domain American sheet music

Belle of Nelson old fashion hand made sour mash whiskey

Print shows a Turkish harem of nude white women, with a black woman offering water pipes to two women in foreground. N15735 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed at bottom: Distilled by the Belle of Nelson Distillery... More

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Republic Building, 427 West Muhammed Ali Boulevard, Louisville, Jeffer...

Significance: The Republic Building is one of the early office buildings designed by the Louisville architectural firm of Joseph and Joseph. The building is eclectic in design showing the strong influence of t... More

Republic Building, 427 West Muhammed Ali Boulevard, Louisville, Jeffer...

Significance: The Republic Building is one of the early office buildings designed by the Louisville architectural firm of Joseph and Joseph. The building is eclectic in design showing the strong influence of t... More

Main Street, 600 & 700 Block (Buildings), Louisville, Jefferson County...

Significance: Although long considered only as a busy commercial hub, the site of Main Street roughly between Fifth and Ninth Streets has been the location of many other uses and events some vital to the orig... More

Main Street, 600 & 700 Block (Buildings), Louisville, Jefferson County...

Significance: Although long considered only as a busy commercial hub, the site of Main Street roughly between Fifth and Ninth Streets has been the location of many other uses and events some vital to the orig... More

Main Street, 600 & 700 Block (Buildings), Louisville, Jefferson County...

Significance: Although long considered only as a busy commercial hub, the site of Main Street roughly between Fifth and Ninth Streets has been the location of many other uses and events some vital to the orig... More

Main Street, 600 & 700 Block (Buildings), Louisville, Jefferson County...

Significance: Although long considered only as a busy commercial hub, the site of Main Street roughly between Fifth and Ninth Streets has been the location of many other uses and events some vital to the orig... More

Main Street, 600 & 700 Block (Buildings), Louisville, Jefferson County...

Significance: Although long considered only as a busy commercial hub, the site of Main Street roughly between Fifth and Ninth Streets has been the location of many other uses and events some vital to the orig... More

606 South Eighteenth Street (House), Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Significance: 606 South Eighteenth Street is significant within the context of the Russell National District which was listed in 1980. This structure is typical of shotgun houses that were built throughout thi... More

Loew's Theatre, 625 South Fourth Street, Louisville, Jefferson County,...

Significance: The first John Eberson atmospheric theatre in the state or region, Loew's Theatre is a lavish and perfectly preserved movie palace of the late 1920s. It is an excellent example of Churrigueresque... More

Loew's Theatre, 625 South Fourth Street, Louisville, Jefferson County,...

Significance: The first John Eberson atmospheric theatre in the state or region, Loew's Theatre is a lavish and perfectly preserved movie palace of the late 1920s. It is an excellent example of Churrigueresque... More

Loew's Theatre, 625 South Fourth Street, Louisville, Jefferson County,...

Significance: The first John Eberson atmospheric theatre in the state or region, Loew's Theatre is a lavish and perfectly preserved movie palace of the late 1920s. It is an excellent example of Churrigueresque... More