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  The Home for Friendless Women on a rare excursion, circa 1889-92.

  Photograph of a group of women, many holding their small children, on a rare outing from the Home for Friendless Women in Louisville, KY.
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  Library, Reuben T. Durrett House

  Image of Reuben Durrett's library, the initial meeting place of the Filson Club. Many of the portraits and items seen in this picture are on display at the Filson today!
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  Suffrage meeting, c. 1920

  Unidentified group of women outside either a suffrage meeting outside a voting place in 1920.
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  Art Gallery at the Southern Exposition, 1883

  Art Gallery at the Southern Exposition, 1883. The gallery exhibited paintings provided by the Smithsonian Institute, as well as art from the private collections of J. P. Morgan, August Belmont, Jay Gould, Victor Newcomb, and John Jacob Astor. Former President Ulysses S. Grant loaned his collection of curios acquired during his world travels.
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  Swiss Cottage

  This cottage was erected for the Southern Exposition by the Swiss colonists in Kentucky, under the direct of the Kentucky Geological Survey and the Bureau of Immigration. Photographed by E. Klauber in 1883.
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  Streetcar in front of Southern Exposition building

  Mule-drawn streetcar in front of Southern Exposition building, 1883. Mule-drawn streetcars were eventually replaced by the faster and more comfortable electric streetcars. Louisville's first electric streetcar line began operation in 1889.
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  Electric Generator at the Southern Exposition

  The first electric generator in Louisville used at the Southern Exposition, 1883.