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  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Enid German-Beck (1930-) in November 2010. The summary is accompanied by photographs of Enid, her homes, and her family and friends, dating from the 1930s-1950s, 2011. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • This 16mm silent Kentucky wildlife film was produced by Walter (1892-1957) and Elizabeth Catterall Shackleton (1894-1982) from footage of nocturnal wildlife around their 200-acre home in the Sleepy Hollow area of Prospect, Kentucky. It was part of their first series produced under their company Shackleton Productions, incorporated in 1949. Wildlife filmed include birds, raccoons, a salamander, a mole, owls, and flying squirrels.

    Walter began naturalist documentary work as a bird and wildlife photographer. He attended an Audubon Screen Tour in the 1940s, which inspired him to take up motion picture film. For their films, Walter shot the footage, Elizabeth logged the shots, and the couple worked together to craft the story and splice together the film. Walter Shackleton showed their films in Louisville in the late 1940s and began touring for National Audubon Society sponsored showings around the United States in 1952.

  • Compilation of silent film footage of animals from film collections at the Filson Historical Society. The footage was exhibited in "Animals in the Archives" at the Filson from 2023-2024.

  • Reproduction of a negative by Ivey Watksins Cousins (1898-1973). It captures the joy of young Black boys playing with a pet dog in a northwestern view of East Broadway and South Jackson Street in Louisville, Kentucky. A native of Danville, Virginia, Ivey Watkins Cousins moved to Louisville in 1944. He held numerous jobs over the years, working as a tobacco dealer, photographer, machine-shop instructor, manager of the USO Shop, and Curator of the Louisville Library Museum. In 1959, he began photographing houses and structures being demolished to make way for I-65. After viewing the images, the Filson Club Board of Directors gave Cousins $25 to buy film for his project. This is one of the few images in which Cousins photographs people.

  • For nearly five decades, abstract painter Gloucester Caliman “G.C.” Coxe (1907-1999) was a fixture of the Louisville art scene. The first Black artist to receive a fine arts degree from the University of Louisville, Coxe worked and exhibited with a milieu of artists including Sam Gilliam and Fred Bond. He co-founded the Louisville Art Workshop, where he worked alongside Gilliam, Bond, Robert Douglas, and Ed Hamilton, and was a mentor to generations of Louisville artists.

  • Newspaper clipping on the sale of the Lemon Galleries Building at 223 East Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Photograph of Abramson's Market in Louisville, KY. Located in Louisville’s historic Smoketown neighborhood in the western part of Louisville’s dissipating urban Jewish core, the store was run by Sidney and Roy Abramson.

  • Greathouse School Spring 1951 (Kindergarten). Jerry Abramson is pictured 3rd row 4th from left.

  • Photograph of the Jewish Community Center Little League baseball team The Yankees, taken sometime in the mid-1950s.

  • Petition for Naturalization for Sidney Abramson

  • Photograph of brothers Morris, Sidney, and Lester. The back of the photograph reads"3 Brothers. (L to R) Morris and Ruth; Sidney and Sadie; Lester and Ida."

  • The concert was held on December 14, 1956 at Columbia Auditorium. Tickets were 50 cents (about $5.00 in 2022 dollars).

  • In September of 1956, violinist and Louisville Symphony Orchestra Conductor, Sidney Harth invites Kurt Ackermann to audition for a new orchestra forming at the University of Louisville. The audition was successful and Kurt Ackermann is listed as a violinist in the program for the new orchestra's first performance December 1956.

  • Photograph of Helen Humes lounging in a chair and holding a cigarette in her right hand.

  • Newspaper clipping from the Lousiville Times dated July 25, 1959. The headline reads "Local Jazz Singer May Make Big Time." The clipping features a photo of Helen Humes singing.

  • Photographic studio portrait of Emma Humes (1881-1967), mother of Helen Humes.

  • Photograph

    This item is included in the Bricks and Mortar, Soul and Heart: The Evolution of Louisville's Young Men's Hebrew Association and Jewish Community Center 1890-2022 digital exhibit at: https://filsonhistorical.omeka.net/exhibits/show/ymha-jcc-louisville/dutchmans-lane-1955-present

  • Photograph of Jewish community leaders signing the purchase for property on Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, Kentucky, to build a new Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) building.

    This item is included in the Bricks and Mortar, Soul and Heart: The Evolution of Louisville's Young Men's Hebrew Association and Jewish Community Center 1890-2022 digital exhibit at: https://filsonhistorical.omeka.net/exhibits/show/ymha-jcc-louisville/dutchmans-lane-1955-present

  • View of the Board of Trade building at 106 North 3rd Street [northwestern corner of South 3rd Street and West Main Street].

  • Memo to Pendennis Club members regarding reservations for Derby Day. The memo lists prices for derby events and details regarding guests and reservations.
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