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  Greathouse School Kindergarten, Spring 1951

  Greathouse School Spring 1951 (Kindergarten). Jerry Abramson is pictured 3rd row 4th from left.
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  Signing ceremony for Dutchman's Lane property, 1951

  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
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  Rear of East Side 7th between Magazine and Broadway, 1951

  Another view of the rear of row houses on the east side of 7th north of Broadway, 1951.
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  Rear of 7th St between Broadway and Magazine, 1951

  Rear view of row houses on the east side of 7th Street north of Broadway, 1951.
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  East Side of 7th Between Magazine and Broadway, 1951

  Closer view of the antebellum date row houses on the east side of 7th Street north of Broadway, 1951. They were razed by the late 1950s.
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  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.
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  East Side of 7th Between Broadway and Magazine, 1951

  Photograph taken at 7th Street and Magazine Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1951, with demoltion underway and sign for M & R Wrecking & Lumber Company.
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  Mansion at 7th and Chestnut, 1951

  Old mansion at 7th and Chestnut Streets, 1951. The sign over the door reads Huston and a smaller sign to the right of the door reads “COL HOTEL” which by that time, the area being in the African American business district, likely indicates it was a hotel for African Americans. Research identified the mansion as The Huston apartments, at 620 W. Chestnut (the southeast corner of 7th and Chestnut) only listed in the mid-1950s, so the 1951 date is in error. No listing of a hotel by that name appears in the 1950 through 1953 directories. Like so many of these fine old houses, it originally was a single family dwelling. By 1898 it had been converted to a boarding house.
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  Alley Between 6th & 7th, 1951

  View from the alley running north between 6th and 7th Streets between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, 1951. The church steeple in the distance is the Cathedral of the Assumption on 5th north of Muhammad Ali (previously Walnut). The Republic Building and Kentucky Towers can also be seen to its right. Everything in the foreground is now occupied by the AT&T building, a River City Bank building, and surface parking.
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  106-108 W Walnut, 1951

  106-108 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), 1951. The J. Graham Brown School now occupies those lots.
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  734 Dixie Highway, 1951

  View from the rear window of 734 Dixie Highway, site of former LFC.
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  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.