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  • A portrait of Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston (1858-1946), son of Frances ("Fanny") Ann Thruston Ballard (1826-1896).

  • Photograph of the front of the Rialto Theater.

  • Potato planter Oscar Heintz at Camp Zachary Taylor.

  • Portrait of a young Paul Gunter, likely around the time he was married. Color was likely added to the photo after using the hand coloring technique.

  • Photographs of Samuel Plato (1882-1957), Elnora Plato (1891-1975), and other family members outside of the couple's Tudor Revival style home at 2509 West Walnut Street in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Photographs of the exterior of Samuel Plato's (1882-1957) and Elnora Plato's (1891-1975) Tudor Revival style home at 2509 West Walnut Street in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Pigeon Coop with Percy Craig, caretaker at Camp Zachary Taylor.

  • Louisville Ballet dancers Helen Starr and Dale Brennan performing for press photographs. The pair portrayed a couple in Domy Reiter-Soffer's Holocaust remembrance ballet entitled A Time to Remember. The performance premiered at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 25, 1995.

  • Photograph of the exterior of Cabbage Patch Settlement House.
    The first Cabbage Patch Settlement House built for the purpose was constructed in late 1910 or early 1911, at 1461 Ninth Street (the second house from Burnett). In an interview, founder Louise Marshall remembered, “There was just one room and a closet on the first floor, and then at the back of the house you went upstairs to the second floor. We had a side yard that we played in and we had the first floor as a playroom and the upstairs we fixed for living quarters…. Upstairs we had, in addition to the living quarters, a children’s library and an adult library that was a branch of the public library.”

  • An undated tin type photograph of an unidentified Black woman, possibly enslaved, holding an unidentified white child. The fabric label has a faded caption that may say: "Batsy/Patsy/Becky - Mammy with one of Tom Bullitt's." It is unknown which of Thomas Bullitt's children is pictured, nor the exact name of the woman holding him. Due to the short-lived popularity of tin type photographs, this photograph may be dated around the mid-1860s to mid-1870s.
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  • Photo of Hogan's Fountain in Cherokee Park, Louisville, KY

  • Photo of Paul Gunter painting at an easel outside

  • Photo of an African American man standing in the doorway of a small wooden cabin.

  • Pauline Pearson being honored for JCC and Community work, ca. 1963, Norbert Friedman, Alex Berman, Lewis Cole, Pauline Pearson, Samuel Steinfeld, Joseph Kaplan, Morris Kling.

  • Patty Thum was known for her paintings of flowers, especially roses but she was also a talented landscape and portrait artist. She is one of the city’s earliest professional woman artists. She also was an author, inventor and a major advocate for the arts in the City of Louisville. Thum dedicated her life to art starting at the age of 16, when she left home and traveled north to study art at Vassar College. Established in 1861, Vassar College set out to “accomplish for young women what our colleges are accomplishing for young men”.

  • Photograph of a St. Patrick's Day Dance held at the Knights of Columbus Hall.

  • Statue of Pallas Athena outside the Parthenon, displayed at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville, Tennessee. The statue was twenty-five feet tall (forty feet with the base) and became the symbol of the Exposition. It was an exact copy of the "Pallas de Velletrie" in the Louvre and was produced in staff, a combination of plaster, hemp, and cement. It eventually fell apart due to outdoor exposure. Today limited images exist of the full statue, including this one housed at the Filson.

  • An image from the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company Album. The album is made up of photographs, ca. 1910, of the Belknap furniture show rooms; the front office; the print, shipping, packing and billing and statistical departments, the engine and boiler rooms; the power plant; the harness, saddle and collar factories; a drawing of the exterior of the company and an exterior photo of warehouses and the drayage department.

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