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Northeast corner of S. 4th and West Chestnut Streets, May 1959
Northeast corner of South 4th (Fourth) and West Chestnut Streets including the Louisville Gas and Electric Company building. -
Demolition of 924 S. 4th Street, May 1959
Demolition view of the stone house, door, 924 South 4th (Fourth) Street. [Cousins notes that this is a Henry Whitestone home]. -
Beargrass Creek. June 1959
View of Beargrass Creek north of East Broadway. Ballard Mills is in the distance. -
West Broadway and Armory Place, June 11, 1959
View of the street at West Broadway and Armory Place. Liberty National Bank and Trust Company building and The Courier-Journal, The Louisville Times, and WHAS building are in the frame. -
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. -
Home on Billy Goat Strut, June 16, 1959
View of an old home at Billy Goat Strut Alley and 110 South Preston Street. -
South 1st Street and East Gray Street, 1959
View of the southeastern corner of the street at South 1st (First) Street and East Gray Street. The image depicts several buildings being demolished for the construction of I-65. -
Demolition of house on East Gray Street, 1959
View of a partially torn down house on East Gray Street. The house was torn down as part of the I-65 construction project. -
Drug Store at 2000 Portland Ave, July 1959
View of a Drug Store at 2000 Portland Ave in 1959. The original log book from I.W. Cousins reads "E.G. Switzer Drug Store 2000 Portland Ave." A sign on the window says "Katzmann's" and is listed in the city directory in 1959. -
View of the bridge arch and the Ohio River at North 2nd (Second) Street and River Road, 1959.
View of the bridge arch and the Ohio River at North 2nd (Second) Street and River Road. A number of cars a waiting at a stoplight. -
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. -
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. -
Enid and friends, ca, 1890
Enid Bland Yandell (on right) poses with three unidentified women. -
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 -
Kentucky Title & Trust Co. Building Architectural Drawings, 1935
Drawings of the Kentucky Title and Trust Company building on Speed Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky.Tags architecture -
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 -
Norman Lewellyn Residence Architectural Drawings, 1936
Drawings of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lewellyn in Mockingbird Hills, Louisville, Kentucky.Tags architecture -
Watson McFerran Residence Architectural Drawings, 1936
Drawings of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Watson McFerran in Mockingbird Hills, Louisville, Kentucky.Tags architecture -
Rash residence, 1933-1947
Front elevation and plot plan for Mr. and Mrs. Dillman Rash's residence on Cherokee Gardens lots 66 and 67 in Louisville, Kentucky. -
Residence for Paul. M. Kendall Co., 1935
Front elevation drawing for Paul M. Kendall Co. residence on Transylvania Avenue.