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  Participants at a dance at Camp Zachary Taylor photograph, 17 March 1919

  St. Patrick's Day Dance held at the Knights of Columbus Hall.
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  Ben M. Kaelin's Property photograph, 1917

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  Frank Krebs's House, Outbuilding, and Field photograph, 1917

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  Louis Kamber's Property photograph, 1917

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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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  4211 Poplar Level Road, 1917

  Purchased by the US Government from Katherine Dahl, this home housed Camp Commander Major General Harry Hale. Today it is for sale.
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  3001 Greenup Road, 1917

  Dr. James C. Mitchell leased and then sold his home and property for the Camp, but its distinctive frame remains in the neighborhood behind George Rogers Clark Park.
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  3823 Glenside Place and 1700 Marwood Drive, 1917

  Brothers William and Joseph Crawford owned adjoining farms off Poplar Level Road before World War I, and both had to make way for the camp. Today their farmhouses sit streets apart in a residential area between Poplar Level and Illinois Avenue.
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  3760 Illinois Avenue, 1917

  Supposedly the home of early Jefferson County settler Elizabeth Prather, the Ben Boerste house is across Illinois Avenue from the Louisville Nature Center’s parking lot.
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  940 French Avenue, 1917

  W. S. Bodley sold this home and property for the Camp; in 1921, some of the property was repurchased by Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston and given to the city of Louisville as George Rogers Clark Park. This house remained in the residential area.
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  Flag Raising at Camp Zachary Taylor photograph, ca. 1917-1920

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  Portrait of Patty Smith Hill, 1905

  Patty Smith Hill, together with fellow educator Anna Bryan (1858-1901), worked in Louisville to modernize the traditionalist kindergarten system and bring Friedrich Froebel's vision to American kindergarteners. Between 1890 and 1905, over 3,000 visitors across the nation came to Louisville to learn about their methods and subjects of teching. In 1893, Hill was named the Director of the LFKA, a role in which she further developed the Teachers College and successfully advocated for the incorporation of kindergartens into the Louisville Public School System. In 1905, Hill was appointed to the faculty of Columbia University Teachers College, where she taught for over 30 years. Hill published dozens of articles, wrote children's books, and invented "Patty Hill blocks" that are still used in kindergarten classrooms today.
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  734 Dixie Hwy View out front window, 1951

  View from the front window of 734 Dixie Highway (formerly South 18th Street) south of Broadway looking east, 1951. As late as the early 1950s the area was a viable neighborhood of residences, businesses, and organizations. Within a few years the entire area was razed to make way for the Philip Morris industrial complex. Since closed and itself razed, the area today is a vacant lot awaiting new development.
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  734 Dixie Highway, 1951

  View from the rear window of 734 Dixie Highway, site of former LFC.
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  13th and Madison, 1946

  13th and Madison Streets, 1946. Light industry, apartments, and a small city park now occupy that intersection.
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  106-108 W Walnut, 1951

  106-108 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), 1951. The J. Graham Brown School now occupies those lots.
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  8th and liberty looking southeast, 1946

  8th and Liberty Streets looking southeast, 1946. The Metropolitan Sewer District building is there today.
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  Alley Between 6th & 7th, 1951

  View from the alley running north between 6th and 7th Streets between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, 1951. The church steeple in the distance is the Cathedral of the Assumption on 5th north of Muhammad Ali (previously Walnut). The Republic Building and Kentucky Towers can also be seen to its right. Everything in the foreground is now occupied by the AT&T building, a River City Bank building, and surface parking.
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  Mansion at 7th and Chestnut, 1951

  Old mansion at 7th and Chestnut Streets, 1951. The sign over the door reads Huston and a smaller sign to the right of the door reads “COL HOTEL” which by that time, the area being in the African American business district, likely indicates it was a hotel for African Americans. Research identified the mansion as The Huston apartments, at 620 W. Chestnut (the southeast corner of 7th and Chestnut) only listed in the mid-1950s, so the 1951 date is in error. No listing of a hotel by that name appears in the 1950 through 1953 directories. Like so many of these fine old houses, it originally was a single family dwelling. By 1898 it had been converted to a boarding house.
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  East Side of 7th between Broadway & Magazine, 1950

  Building once home to the pre-Civil War Louisville Female College, east side of 7th Street between Broadway and Magazine, 1950.