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Women with dog, circa 1930
Real photograph postcard of two women posed on a chair by photographer John Pichler (1877-1961). The woman on the left, Fronie Juanita Shawler, is holding her dog. Shawler was born in 1914 in Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and eventually moved to Louisville. She joined the Stoner Memorial Church, where she was a member for 83 years and served as the first female trustee. Juanita worked as a healthcare provider at the Baxter Community Center Clinic in Beecher Terrace and retired as a nurse assistant for the Louisville-Jefferson County Health Department. She was married to her husband Clark for 56 years and the couple had no children. In addition to being active in church, Juanita was an avid bowler in a church league and the Senior Citizens Bowling League. She continued bowling—and driving her car—until she was 103 years old. Juanita died in May 2022 at the age of 108.
John Pichler was an Austrian immigrant who came to America in 1898. He took this photograph from his home studio in the rear of 1753 St. Louis Avenue in the Park Hill Neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. His son John O. Pichler learned from his father and was an engraver for The Louisville-Courier Journal and Standard Gravure for over 50 years. -
West Main and South 3rd Streets
View of West Main Street at the southeast corner of South 3rd (Third) Street, building no longer standing. [The LG&E Center now stands there at 220 West Main Street]. -
West Louisville Evangelical Church register, 1916-1945, 1964-1968, 1992
Members of a Sunday school operated by the German St. Peter's Evangelical Church formed the West Louisville Evangelical Church in 1915. The congregation built a church in the Shawnee neighborhood at 245 South 41st Street in 1916. A new sanctuary was constructed circa 1926-1927. In 1957, the church changed its name to the West Louisville United Church of Christ. In 1986, the West Louisville United Church of Christ closed due to declining membership, in part because of white flight from West Louisville, and problems maintaining the property. The remaining congregation became members of the historically Black Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ.
This register contains entries for marriages, baptisms, confirmations, attendance at communion services, and deaths from 1916-1945. Members' attendance at communion services is also recorded for 1964-1966. Loose inserts in the ledger include a 1935 license to solemnize marriages for Rev. C. T. Rausch, a 1968 request for a baptism record, undated genealogy notes, and a 1992 Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ bulletin. -
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. -
Watson McFerran Residence Architectural Drawings, 1936
Drawings of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Watson McFerran in Mockingbird Hills, Louisville, Kentucky.Tags architecture -
View of Wick's Pharmacy at South 4th and Hill Streets
East side of South 4th (Fourth) Street at the intersection of South 4th (Fourth) and Hill Streets. Wick's Pharmacy on the corner. -
View of the Ohio River, May 1959
North northeast view of Louisville from the top floor of the Columbia Building at the northwest corner of North 4th (Fourth) Street and West Main Street. The Ohio River and George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge [Second Street Bridge] right frame. -
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. -
Studio portrait with a cat, circa 1960
Portrait of Elen (Fran) Levey posing with her Siamese cat for the Jewish Community of Louisville. -
Storefront of Noah's Ark
Storefront of Noah's Ark at 204 East Market Street. -
South 3rd and Kentucky Streets
East side view of South 3rd (Third) Street at Kentucky 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. -
Shorty
A scrapbook page on Shorty, the Irish terrier mascot of No. 1 Hook and Ladder Company and No. 2 Engine Company in Louisville, Kentucky. A photograph on the top left corner of the page captures Shorty standing on a brick road. A large photograph on the right hand side of the page shows Shorty seated in the passenger seat of a firetruck with firefighters and a woman posing around him. A veteran of 1,000 fires, Shorty died from falling from his accustomed place on the driver’s seat of the fire engine pumper. The remaining two photographs are on the bottom left of the page and labeled "Shorty Nov 26 1931." They depict Shorty's burial in the lawn plot between the No. 1 Hook and Ladder Company and the water tower at Sixth Street and Jefferson Street. -
Residence for Paul. M. Kendall Co., 1935
Front elevation drawing for Paul M. Kendall Co. residence on Transylvania Avenue. -
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. -
Plan of the town of Louisville, 1779 April 20
This original plan of the city of Louisville was found in George Rogers Clark's surveyors book in 1881 and traced by R.C. Ballard Thruston in 1910. -
Old Medical School Building
East side of the Old Medical School building at 1st (First) and Chestnut Streets, now 550 South 1st (First) Street. -
Northeast view of downtown Louisville
Northeast view of downtown Louisville from the top floor of the Columbia Building at the northwest corner of North 4th (Fourth) Street and West Main Street. -
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. -
Norman Lewellyn Residence Architectural Drawings, 1936
Drawings of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lewellyn in Mockingbird Hills, Louisville, Kentucky.Tags architecture