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"Help! Save these buildings" article, Sept. 1980
This is an article from a local preservation publication, Preservation Press -
"The Levy Building: A Bright Spot in Downtown Revitalization" article, 1984
This is an article from a local preservation publication, Preservation Press -
Briney Family Scrapbook page
Melville Otter Briney preserved memorabilia from her parents' wedding. Mellie Carter's gown was created by Madame Glover in 1894. Madame Glover designed many dresses for Louisville's young women of marriageable age. According to a newspaper article, "All of the debutantes of the early 1900s were gowned in Madame Glover's exclusive shop." -
Frank Russell on top of stave mill, circa1911
Frank Russell atop a heading at a stave mill-- possibly Clay City. -
Julia M. Jackson Woods scrapbook, 1942-1947
This scrapbook was created by Julia M. Jackson Woods (1911-2000), an African American woman from Louisville, Kentucky, who enlisted in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in November 1942. The scrapbook contains greeting cards, newspaper clippings, and ephemera from Woods' service, as well as more than 20 insignia and patches collected from various units, including her own sergeant stripes. The scrapbook documents the social side of military base life - cards from USO groups and friends, marriages, dances, and other interracial interactions between otherwise segregated regiments stationed at the same bases. A few items at the end of the volume relate to Woods' postwar life in Louisville.
Woods served in the all-Black 32nd Post Headquarters Company of the WAAC. She did much of her training at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, near the Mexican border; she also served stints in Des Moines, Iowa and Midland, Texas. A clipping on one of the initial pages of the scrapbook notes that Jackson was one of Louisville's first volunteers to join the WAAC. She was discharged on August 14, 1943. After the United States Congress authorized the creation of the Women's Army Corps (WAC), she enlisted in the WAC on May 1, 1944. She ultimately reached the rank of sergeant and served in the military police force. The Army discharged her on December 24, 1945. After her service, she married Thomas Harry Woods (1914-1961) and was hired as the head of the all-Black Western Kentucky Vocational Training School Department of Cosmetology in Paducah, Kentucky, by 1946.
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Newspaper Article: Patty Semple's Statement on Woman's Club work regarding Board of Education Elections, 1912
Newspaper article circa November 1912 by Woman's Club of Louisville President Patty Semple regarding group effort toward Board of Education work. -
Scrapbook page with memorailia from 1923 Derby
Scrapbook page featuring souvenirs and memorabilia from the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Items on the page include the Derby Dinner menu at the Brown Hotel; a Club House return check from 1925; a ticket to the Ladies Clubhouse, and two photographs of the horse race. -
Shorty
A scrapbook page on Shorty, the Irish terrier mascot of No. 1 Hook and Ladder Company and No. 2 Engine Company in Louisville, Kentucky. A photograph on the top left corner of the page captures Shorty standing on a brick road. A large photograph on the right hand side of the page shows Shorty seated in the passenger seat of a firetruck with firefighters and a woman posing around him. A veteran of 1,000 fires, Shorty died from falling from his accustomed place on the driver’s seat of the fire engine pumper. The remaining two photographs are on the bottom left of the page and labeled "Shorty Nov 26 1931." They depict Shorty's burial in the lawn plot between the No. 1 Hook and Ladder Company and the water tower at Sixth Street and Jefferson Street. -
Toska Russell and "Sis," 1902
"Sis" and Toska play outside at the family's first home in Clay City. "Sis" is assumed to be the daughter of the hired help.