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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Home on Billy Goat Strut, June 16, 1959
View of an old home at Billy Goat Strut Alley and 110 South Preston Street. -
Intersection of South 4th Street and Ormsby Avenue, 1959
East side of South 4th (Fourth) Street at Ormsby Avenue. The Colgate Palmolive Building is center frame. -
Louie's Place at 132 West Main
Louie's Place at 132 West Main and 2nd (Second) Streets. -
Louisville Apothecary , May 1959
Louisville Apothecary window display including drug jars and a painting of a model store at 337 West Broadway. -
Louisville Public Bath House, 1959
Louisville Public Bath House at 219 South Preston Street. -
Louisville Service Club, June 1959
View of the Louisville Service Club at 824 South 4th (Fourth) Street [now part of Spalding University) -
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. -
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. -
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.