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Binghams and Figaro, 1947
Photograph of Barry Bingham Sr. (1906-1988) with three of his five children, Jonathan, Sallie, and Eleanor, along with their standard poodle Figaro at the family amphitheater. The Binghams owned several standard poodles over the years, many named after opera characters. Bingham Sr. was a second-generation owner of The Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, and WHAS radio and television. -
Blue Boar Cafeteria exterior photograph, ca. 1937 or 1947
Exterior photograph of Blue Boar Cafeteria at 644 S. Fourth St. -
Blue Boar Cafeteria interior photograph, ca. 1937 or 1947
Restaurant interior, with tables, Blue Boar, 644 S. Fourth St. -
Board of Trade building photograph, 25 June 1959
View of the Board of Trade building at 106 North 3rd Street [northwestern corner of South 3rd Street and West Main Street]. -
Boys on the sidewalk with dog, June 10, 1959
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. -
Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920), a great-granddaughter of Henry Clay and sister-in-law of Sophonisba Breckinridge, served as president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association from 1912 to 1915 and from 1919 to 1920. -
Building being demolished for Interstate 65 photograph, n.d.
East southeastern view of a building being torn down for the construction of Interstate 65, at East Jacob Street and South 1st Street. Unity Temple is in the distance. -
Building Being Demolished on 6th and Grayson, 1959
Building at 6th and Grayson Streets shortly before demolition, 1959. -
Burbank with dog
Photograph of Samuel McKee Burbank (1886 or 1887-1933) posing with his dog. -
Burned hay shed at Camp Zachary Taylor photograph, ca. 1917-1920
Burned hay shed (struck by lightning) at Camp Zachary Taylor. -
Bust of Emma Willard, 1898
Bust of Emma Willard. The notation reads Public Library, Albany, New York. -
Camp Zachary Taylor Bakers photograph, ca. 1918-1919
Bakers stand behind pallet of bread that would be delivered to mess halls all over the camp. Camp Zachary Taylor Field Unit, Quartermaster Corps -
Camp Zachary Taylor Fire Department photograph, ca. 1917-1919
Fire department (Durrett Lane) at Camp Zachary Taylor -
Carrie Brown Memorial Fountain. 1899
Enid Bland Yandell poses in her studio in front of the plaster cast of the Carrie Brown Memorial Fountain. She is holding some of the tools used to sculpt the piece. -
Catherine Doolan's Property photograph, 1917
“Photograph was taken during the first week of October 1917 shows a very fine growth of the second crop of potatoes grown on this same land this year.” -
Central United Methodist Church in Manila, Philippines photograph, 13 April 1946
The Central United Methodist Church in Manila, Philippines, shown heavily damaged. Front reads, "Central Church" Verso reads, "4/13/46" -
Chief Ninigret Statue
Enid Bland Yandell poses with model and sculpture of Indian Chief Ninigret. This was Enid's last major public commission which depicted the Niantic chief know for his peaceful relations with European settlers in his territory of Rhode Island. The model for the figure was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, performing in Paris at the time. The finished work presently rests on a rock beside the bay in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. A version of Chief Ninigret was one of two works which Yandell exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show. The other work featured was the Five Sense Fountain. -
Children in a production of Cinderella, 1918
Plays were a popular activity for the youth at The Cabbage Patch; the girls created elaborate costumes for this production of Cinderella in 1918