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  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.
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  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.
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  Building being demolished for Interstate 65

  Photograph of the 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.
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  Burned hay shed at Camp Zachary Taylor photograph, ca. 1917-1920

  Burned hay shed (struck by lightning) at Camp Zachary Taylor.
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  Bust of Emma Willard, 1898

  Bust of Emma Willard. The notation reads Public Library, Albany, New York.
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  Caleb Bates and granddaughter Florence Montgomery Durrett (1863-1869)

  Miniature portrait of Caleb Bates. On the reverse is a photograph of his granddaughter, Florence Montgomery Durrett (1863-1869), who died at the age of 6.
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  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
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  Camp Zachary Taylor barracks construction photograph, ca. 1917

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  Camp Zachary Taylor Fire Department photograph, ca. 1917-1919

  Fire department (Durrett Lane) at Camp Zachary Taylor
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  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.
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  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.”
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  Central Colored School Building

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  Chief Ninigret statue, circa 1911

  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.
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  Children in a production of Cinderella, 1918

  Photograph of the cast of Cinderella at Cabbage Patch Settlement House. Plays were a popular activity for the youth at The Cabbage Patch; the girls created elaborate costumes for this production of Cinderella in 1918.
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  Clara Gibson and A. C. "Cliff" Carbery sweethearting at Camp Zachary Taylor photograph, 1918

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  Clara Gibson photograph, ca. 1918

  Clara Gibson of Louisville, a student at Louisville Girls High School and a Red Cross volunteer at Camp Zachary Taylor.
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  Collar Factory of the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturer Co., circa 1910

  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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  Dinnie Thompson, circa 1900-1925

  Dinnie Thompson (1857-1939) was a member of the Sisters of Mysterious Ten (SMT), a Black women's benevolent society in Louisville, affiliated with the United Brothers of Friendship. As a young child, she was enslaved by the Speed family, along with her mother, Diana, and grandmother, Phyllis Thurston. From 1889 through the 1920s, she worked as a laundress or domestic in private households, eventually earning enough money to purchase her own home. In the SMT, Thompson found a social support network and opportunities to do charitable work. In the Knights of Friendship, a degree of the order of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, she participated in patriotic demonstrations and competitive drills and was given a sword engraved with her name.
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  Dwight D. Eisenhower in Louisville, 1952

  Eisenhower, accompanied by his wife Mamie (seated lower right), visits Louisville during a campaign tour in 1952.
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  Enid and dogs, circa 1890

  Enid Bland Yandell poses with her dogs in front of a house.