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  • An unidentified group of African American men, women, and children near, or inside, a parade float promoting Mammoth Life insurance policies for children.

    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.
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  • The second president of Mammoth Life Arthur Douglass Doss—known as A. D. Doss—sitting in a chair in an office. The inscription on the back of the photograph reads, "Mr. Arthur D. Doss 2nd President Co."

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  • Photograph of an interracial group of men and women attending a stockholders meeting in 1965.

    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.
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  • Photograph of the facade of the Mammoth Life & Accident Insurance Company Louisville district office on 38th and Broadway.

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  • A photograph of Agnes H. Glover, who served as director of Mammoth Life & Accident Insurance Company.

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  • An unidentified group of African American men and women in an office in Detroit, Michigan.

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  • A group of unidentified African-American men posing in front of two signs, one of which reads the "Sales Commission Success Formula."

    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.
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  • Three unidentified African-American women sitting on a couch for "Secretaries Week."

    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.
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  • An unidentified African American woman operating a switchboard.

    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.
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  • Enid Bland Yandell poses in her Red Cross uniform holding one of her Birthday Beasts (also known as Wind in the Willows, 1926). Her small plaster titled The Pioneer (also known as Daniel Boone, 1924) plus one more beast sits on the table. Small, table sculptures were popular during the late 19th and early 20th century due to the rise of middle class incomes.

  • Enid Bland Yandell (on right) poses with three unidentified women.

  • Enid Bland Yandell in ball gown (costume) standing before an ornate throne. Possibly when she was crowned the Queen of the carnival as part of pagenants and entertainments of the Satellies of Mercury.

  • Two pages from a photograph album created by Enid Yandell. Photograph album pages. Side One: works of Enid Bland Yandell including: a caryatid (1891-1892) created for the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair of 1893), a bust of Alfred Victor DuPont (1894), a bust of Landon Cabell Garland (1897), and two views of Enid's Daniel Boone statue in studio (1893). Side Two: The top left and bottom left sculptures are not identified. The right is Enid Yandell in a studio with two of her sculptures (a model of The Fisher Boy on the table and Allah-il-Allah to the right)

  • A group gathers to lay the cornerstone of the original Jewish Hospital.

  • Photograph of the original board of directors and rabbis who oversaw the dedication and creation of Jewish Hospital.

  • Aerial view of flooded Portland, the West End of Louisville, and eastern New Albany, Indiana with the K&I Bridge in the distance, 1937 Flood.

  • Flood damage across the Ohio River in Indiana, 1937. Groups of people are entering boats from a large building on the far side of the street to travel on the flooded roadway. Boats range in size from rowboats to schooners. There is a flooded, abandoned trailer on the opposite side of the street. Multiple trees are submerged.

  • Damaged houses at The "Point," Louisville, KY, 1937 Flood. Housing materials are mostly wood and roofing tiles. A detached roof with gable is on the ground.

  • City Hall at 6th and Jefferson Street, Louisville, KY, 1937 Flood. There are multiple flooded, abandoned vehicles on the street. There are multiple people walking on a dry portion of the street in the foreground.

  • Flood victims and pets on the roof of the Blackburn's home located at 3816 River Park Dr. Pictured are: H. J. Blackburn, man at rear with glasses and cigarette; Mrs. H. J. Blackburn, woman next to him holding a box and cans. Other couples include: Mr. and Mrs. Gast and Jr.; Charmane Gast and Tom Neal, Jr., Louisville, KY, 1937.
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