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Julius Price, Sr. surrounded by Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts
Julius Price, Sr., president of Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company, surrounded by three African-American Boy Scouts and two African-American Cub Scouts from the Shawnee District in Louisville, Kentucky.
Please note that the Filson Historical Society does not have insurance policy records for Mammoth Life. Requests for their insurance policy records should be made to Kemper Life Insurance Company at 1-800-777-8467. -
Louise Marshall
Louise Marshall Passport Photograph -
"Helen Humes - Still Tops" newspaper clipping, n.d.
An unidentified newspaper clipping covering the resurgence of Helen Humes after a several year hiatus in her singing career. -
106-108 W Walnut, 1951
106-108 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), 1951. The J. Graham Brown School now occupies those lots. -
1215 Hess Lane, 2017
Behind Battery E of the 6th Regiment Field Artillery Replacement stands the former home of Herman Kurz, a Louisville grocer. You can see the house on Hess Lane today. -
1317 South Fourth Street, one of the many residences of Mary Lafon and Hallie Quigley
Today's Dupont Mansion Bed and Breakfast was one of several residences Mary Lafon and Hallie Quigley occupied in Old Louisville from about 1901-1903. -
13th and Madison, 1946
13th and Madison Streets, 1946. Light industry, apartments, and a small city park now occupy that intersection. -
1907 Kentucky State Fair Postcard
Postcard advertising the 1907 Kentucky State Fair; "Six Great Days! $25,000 in prizes!" Subsequent county fairs promoted at bottom of the postcard. -
1909 Kentucky State Fair Postcard
Postcard depicting events being held at the 1909 Kentucky State Fair, "Show Rain or Shine. Day and Night." -
1922 Kentucky State Fair Postcard
Postcard of a butter sculpture depicting "The Sugar Creek Maid" Sculpted from Sugar Creek Butter, exhibited at the Kentucky State Fair in September, 1922. -
1924 Kentucky State Fair Poster
Framed original painted poster from the 1924 Kentucky State Fair which won the first place ribbon in the Women's Department, Art and Craft Section. -
1941 Kentucky State Fair Postcard
Postcard of a butter sculpture depicting a boy drinking from a ladle with a milk bucket by his side, and a cow with two calves. Front text reads, "Sculpted from Ewing-Von Allmen Sweet Cream Butter at Kentucky State Fair-- 1941. -
1950 Kentucky State Horse Show Program Cover
Cover of the 1950 Kentucky State Fair Horse Show program previewing the entire week of the show, September 11-16, 1950. -
3001 Greenup Road, 2017
Dr. James C. Mitchell leased and then sold his home and property for the Camp, but its distinctive frame remains in the neighborhood behind George Rogers Clark Park.
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3760 Illinois Avenue, 2017
Supposedly the home of early Jefferson County settler Elizabeth Prather, the Ben Boerste house is across Illinois Avenue from the Louisville Nature Center’s parking lot. -
3823 Glenside Place and 1700 Marwood Drive, 2017
Brothers William and Joseph Crawford owned adjoining farms off Poplar Level Road before World War I, and both had to make way for the camp. Today their farmhouses sit streets apart in a residential area between Poplar Level and Illinois Avenue. -
4211 Poplar Level Road, 2017
Purchased by the US Government from Katherine Dahl, this home housed Camp Commander Major General Harry Hale. Today it is for sale. -
734 Dixie Highway, 1951
View from the rear window of 734 Dixie Highway, site of former LFC. -
734 Dixie Hwy View out front window, 1951
View from the front window of 734 Dixie Highway (formerly South 18th Street) south of Broadway looking east, 1951. As late as the early 1950s the area was a viable neighborhood of residences, businesses, and organizations. Within a few years the entire area was razed to make way for the Philip Morris industrial complex. Since closed and itself razed, the area today is a vacant lot awaiting new development. -
7th St between Broadway and Magazine, 1951
The site of the former Louisville Female College, 1951. This view looking south provides a good view of the antebellum date row houses that would also soon be demolished. The Gene Snyder U. S. Courthouse and Custom House (the U. S. Post Office, Court House, and Custom House in the 1950s) can be glimpsed in the distance. This property is now surface parking for the federal courthouse and Romano Mazzoli Federal Building.