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"Scrapco" advertising sign, Louisville Scrap Material Company
View of the iron man advertising sign at Louisville Scrap Material Company [the junk yard] at East River Road and North Preston Street. The sign underneath the iron man reads "I 'am' Scapco the Scrapman" -
629 S. 4th Street, May 1959
View to the north of the street at 629 South 4th (Fourth) Street with the Loew's and United Artists theatre. [Loew's is now the Louisville Palace.] -
Beargrass Creek. June 1959
View of Beargrass Creek north of East Broadway. Ballard Mills is in the distance. -
Boat Landing on the Ohio River
East view of the boat landing and the Coast Guard station at West River Road and North 6th (Sixth) Street. -
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. -
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]. -
Demolition of homes on S. Brook Street
Homes being demolished on Brook Street across from the former Louisville Male High School, now the Salvation Army, at 911 South Brook Street. These homes were torn down for Interstate 65 (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. -
Dottie
Two photographs of Dr. Jeffrey Fowler, a Blind cardiologist at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, walking with his service dog Dottie and reading scans while Dottie sits beside him. Dr. Fowler had average vision as a child, but his eyes gradually deteriorated from a genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa. He stopped driving around 1964, during his second year of medical school. At the suggestion of a nurse who bred Akitas, Fowler acquired Dottie in 1991. Dottie went through obedience and behavior training in California and Ohio and was put into service in mid-1992. In 1994, Dottie won an annual service-dog award from the Delta Society (now called Pet Partners). -
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. -
Elmer Hammonds outside with dog, February 1966
Photograph of Elmer Hammonds, Sr., posing outside with his dog. Elmer Johnson Hammonds, Sr. (1903-1987) grew up in Bardstown, Kentucky, and moved to Louisville in the early 1930s. In 1931, he married Ophelia Doyle Guinn (1899-1964). The couple raised three children on West Chestnut Street. Elmer worked as a Pullman Porter for over 39 years, from 1929 to 1968. During the heyday of railroad travel, the Pullman Porters attended to the needs of train passengers. In the beginning, the Pullman Company hired only Black men for the job of porter. -
Enid and friends, ca, 1890
Enid Bland Yandell (on right) poses with three unidentified women. -
Enid Yandell's Studio Card, ca. 1891
Page of Enid Bland Yandell's early career scrapbook. Enid actively documented her career by clipping articles that related to her and other sculptors works. This page shows a business card Enid created for a private viewing at her studio at 315 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY. -
Falls of the Ohio survey, 1773
Original survey around the Falls of the Ohio, now Louisville, Kentucky. -
Front Elevations designed for Good Housekeeping, 1931
Residential drawings for Good Housekeeping Magazine by Louisville, Kentucky architect Stratton O. Hammon. -
George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge
View of the entrance to the 2nd (Second) Street Bridge [George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge] from 2nd (Second) Street and Main Street. Early Times Bourbon advertisement billboard far left. -
Going to the Dogs
Poster for the Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation featuring a poodle in sunglasses. Photography by Albert Leggett and Design by Julius Friedman. Julius Friedman (1943-2017) was an artist and graphic designer. He was considered Louisville’s beloved and renowned image maker and cultural advocate. Throughout his 50-year career, Friedman embraced a vast range of media and methods to delight viewers with his visual artistry. Friedman also had a rescue dog named Mr. Brown. Albert Leggett is a Louisville native who began his career under the commercial photographer Lyn Caufield before opening his own company in 1984. He worked with Friedman on various projects. -
Greyhound Bus Station on Broadway
View of square dancers in front of the Greyhound Bus Station on Broadway and South 4th (Fourth) Street, probably part of the Pegasus Parade. -
Hogan's Fountain, 1903-1904
Detail of Pan and the terrapins on Hogan's Fountain in Cherokee Park. -
Home of James T. Taylor
Photograph of real estate developer James Taylor in front of his Tudor Revival home at 6600 Shirley Avenue in the James T. Taylor Subdivision of Louisville, Kentucky.