Browse Items (265 total)

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  Mule Wagon on East Market Street, 1959

  View of sidewalk goods and a mule wagon at 118 East Market Street. The wagon has junk and car tires.
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  MIlitary survey around Louisville

  Plot of original military survey around Louisville.

  Tags military survey; militia; plot; survey
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  Mary Churchill Bacon with cat

  Photograph of Mary Churchill Bacon (1904-1941) in the garden posing with her cat. Mary was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Ernest J. Bacon, attorney and son of prominent 19th-century attorney Byron Bacon, and Lucy Henry. In 1924, Mary was enrolled at Gulf Park College in Gulfport, Mississippi. By the spring of 1932, she was married to Gerald C. Hayes of Los Angeles. The couple later moved to Los Angeles, California, followed by Mary’s family, who relocated in the mid-1930s. By 1940, Mary was divorced and living in Oklahoma City. The next year, Mary died in Midland, Texas, while visiting friends.
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  Male High School, June 1959

  View of Male High School at South Brook Street and East Breckinridge Street. Properties across the street were raised for Interstate 65.
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  Louisville Service Club, June 1959

  View of the Louisville Service Club at 824 South 4th (Fourth) Street [now part of Spalding University)
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  Louisville Public Bath House, 1959

  Louisville Public Bath House at 219 South Preston Street.
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  Louisville Mendelssohn Lodge membership register, 1860-1921

  An indexed membership register for the Louisville, Kentucky, B’nai B’rith Mendelssohn Lodge, a Jewish fraternal organization. The register documents members from 1860 to at least 1921. Recorded member information includes their name, place of residence, occupation, marital status, number of children, and date they were inducted.
  
  The Har-Moriah Lodge No. 14 (“Mt. Moriah”) opened in Louisville in October 1852 and a second B’nai B’rith lodge, the Mendelssohn Lodge No. 40, opened in Louisville in May 1860. Many of the early lodge members were recent Jewish immigrants from parts of now modern Germany who had strong bonds through neighborhood proximity, marriage, and business ventures. The Har Moriah and Mendelssohn lodges officially merged in February 1904 and became Louisville Lodge No. 14.
  
  Note: The PDF is 523 pages long, so please be patient while it loads.
  
  For the full collection finding aid, see https://filsonhistorical.org/research-doc/bnai-brith-louisville-lodge-no-14-louisville-ky-records-1860-1921/
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  Louisville Apothecary , May 1959

  Louisville Apothecary window display including drug jars and a painting of a model store at 337 West Broadway.
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  Louie's Place at 132 West Main

  Louie's Place at 132 West Main and 2nd (Second) Streets.
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  Lithograph of the Louisville Legion, ca. 1840s

  Lithograph of the Louisville Legion, Capt. H.C. Grinstead with the Legion marching.
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  Lew Family, circa 1972

  Color photograph of Helen Fay Lew (1926-2017) relaxing with her four children and their family dog Holly, a border collie. Helen and her husband Calvin (1925-2008) were married in 1949 in Seattle, Washington. The couple moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1958, when Calvin joined the faculty of the University of Louisville’s School of Medicine, where he founded the Biomedical Aging Research Program. Once their four children were grown, Helen founded the Crane House in 1987 to celebrate and share Chinese culture throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana.
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  Letter from John May to Samuel Beall, 30 August 1779

  Letter to Samuel Beall in which May writes of having his brother search out British subjects' land in Kentucky in order to purchase below market value. May writes of trying to get the Charlton and Southall tracts at the Falls of the Ohio.

  Tags falls of the ohio; land; Letters; survey; surveying
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  Lapdog, 1959-1964

  Polaroid of Lucy C. Mickens (1895-1970) holding her pet dachshund on her lap. Lucy was born in Eastwood, Jefferson County, Kentucky, and resided in the same neighborhood her entire life. She was married to Robert Thomas, Sr., and the couple had three children, Miles, Robert, and Estella. Lucy and Robert, Sr., separated in the 1920s, and Lucy remarried twice: first to Filmore Colemand and later to John Clark. In 1927, she bought property on Gilliland Road and worked as a laundress.
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  Kentucky Title & Trust Co. Building Architectural Drawings, 1935

  Drawings of the Kentucky Title and Trust Company building on Speed Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky.

  Tags architecture
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  Julia M. Jackson Woods scrapbook, 1942-1947

  This scrapbook was created by Julia M. Jackson Woods (1911-2000), an African American woman from Louisville, Kentucky, who enlisted in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in November 1942. The scrapbook contains greeting cards, newspaper clippings, and ephemera from Woods' service, as well as more than 20 insignia and patches collected from various units, including her own sergeant stripes. The scrapbook documents the social side of military base life - cards from USO groups and friends, marriages, dances, and other interracial interactions between otherwise segregated regiments stationed at the same bases. A few items at the end of the volume relate to Woods' postwar life in Louisville.
  
  Woods served in the all-Black 32nd Post Headquarters Company of the WAAC. She did much of her training at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, near the Mexican border; she also served stints in Des Moines, Iowa and Midland, Texas. A clipping on one of the initial pages of the scrapbook notes that Jackson was one of Louisville's first volunteers to join the WAAC. She was discharged on August 14, 1943. After the United States Congress authorized the creation of the Women's Army Corps (WAC), she enlisted in the WAC on May 1, 1944. She ultimately reached the rank of sergeant and served in the military police force. The Army discharged her on December 24, 1945. After her service, she married Thomas Harry Woods (1914-1961) and was hired as the head of the all-Black Western Kentucky Vocational Training School Department of Cosmetology in Paducah, Kentucky, by 1946.
  
  Want to help transcribe this scrapbook? Check out our volunteer transcription webpage: https://fromthepage.com/filson/african-american-history/jacksonjulia

  Tags African American soldiers; African Americans; Fort Huachuca (Ariz.); Greeting cards; Louisville (Ky.); Military personnel; Soldiers - United States - Social life and customs - 20th century; United States. Army. Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps; United States. Army. Women’s Army Corps; Women
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  Joshua B. Adams Residence Architectural Drawings, 1956

  Drawings of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua B. Adams on Upper River Road, Louisville, Kentucky.

  Tags architecture
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  JCC teen club dance, 1959

  Group photograph of attendees of a Jewish Community Center Teen Club dance. The photograph shows young men and women in formal attire, with the women sitting in a row of chairs and the men standing behind the women.
  
  This item is included in the Bricks and Mortar, Soul and Heart: The Evolution of Louisville's Young Men's Hebrew Association and Jewish Community Center 1890-2022 digital exhibit at: https://filsonhistorical.omeka.net/exhibits/show/ymha-jcc-louisville/dutchmans-lane-1955-present
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  Interview with Zollman Kommer, 2015

  Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Zollman Kommer (1926-2018) on December 9, 2015. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.
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  Interview with Zera Lipetz, 2001

  Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Zera Lipetz (1921-) on November 26, 2001. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.
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  Interview with Toni Goldman, 2001

  Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Toni Goldman (1932-) on September 10, 2001. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.