Location Broadway at Fourth Street
Description This candid photograph is unusual, offering a unique glimpse of Louisvillians going about their business on a summer day. The picture was snapped at the corner of Fourth and Broadway at the turn-of-the century. The buildings in the background were located on the southeast corner. The large crowd in the street may be members of the congregation of Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church, just out of the photograph on the right.
Photographer Unknown......Accession No. 85_22_01
Location Churchill Downs race track, Louisville, KY.
Description Kentucky Governor Beckham and his party at the 1902 Kentucky Derby. It is a tradition that the governor presents the Kentucky Derby winners trophy. John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham was governor from 1900-1907.
Photographer Detroit Publishing Co., probably made by the Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville..... Accession No. 99_75_16
Location Emmet Field (elementary) school, south side of Frankfort Avenue, east of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Description Children tending a school garden. School gardens and canning taught thrift, hard work and cooperation and also supplied produce for school lunches.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville......Accession No. CS_032611
Location Portland Elementary School
Caption Fingernail inspection as part of hygiene unit in a science class.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville....Accession No.. CS_033229
Location Corner of Floyd and Oak Streets.
Caption Democratic Party campaign workers at Fourth and Fifth Ward party headquarters.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio.....Accession No. CS_038369
Location Not identified.
Caption Syrian-Lebanese immigrant couple mourn the death of their child. Photographs were frequently taken of funerals, weddings and other rites to sent to relatives unable to attend because they were still in the home country.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville.....Accession No. CS_068089
Location Corner of Sixth and Walnut Street (Muhammad Ali Boulevard.)
Caption African Americans and women were politically active in Louisville in the 1920s. This campaign rally for the Republican Party candidate for Mayor was held October 9, 1925 at the Armory at the corner of Sixth and Walnut (Muhammad Ali Boulevard). The candidate, Arthur Will, speaking on the truck in the background, was elected. However, he was removed from office by the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1927.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville......Accession No. CS_067708
Location 208 East Madison Street, Louisville.
Caption Family and friends gather in the apartment of the Avgerinos family for the baptism of daughter (seated, left, in her father's lap.) Although Greek families began arriving in Louisville in 1910, there was no priest, and the first Greek Orthodox church was not established until 1927. Baptisms, weddings and other rites were performed in the home by traveling priests.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville.....Accession No. CS_072507
Location
232 East Jacob Street, south west corner at Floyd.
Caption Crowd at dedication of the new building housing congregation Kenseth Israel. This sanctuary was the first built by this new congregation formed from the merger of two earlier ones. The building, designed by Louisville architects Joseph & Joseph, still stands and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville.....Accession No. CS_104907
Location Fontaine Ferry Park, 230 South Western Parkway, at west end of Market Street.
Caption Crowd at showing of new Chevrolets. This amusement park operated in west Louisville from 1905 until 1969. The crowd is inside the entrance pavilion at the park.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville.....Accession No. CS_132994
Location 2500 block of Floyd Street, at Southern Railroad Tracks.
Caption Workers at the Kentucky Macaroni Company, a manufacturer of pasta products.
Photographer Walter C. Fischer.....Accession No. P_3738.10
Location 425 West Market Street (appears in later city directories as 431 West Market.)
Caption The American Restaurant opened before 1894 and was operated by the Mivalez family.
Photographer Unknown.....Accession No. P_0754
Location 524 Lampton Street.
Caption Wedding at St. Peter Claver (RC) Church, in the Smoketown neighborhood.
Photographer Stern Bramson, Royal Photo Studio.....Accession No. R_50190
Location Photographer's studio, 810 Baxter Avenue.
Caption Portrait of a wedding party taken in the studio of John C. Rieger. In formal wedding portraits of this era, the bride is always standing so that the full length of the dress, train and veil are presented to the camera.
Photographer John C. Rieger.....Accession No. riegerwedding2
Location Market Street, north east corner at Third Street, in front of Levy Brothers.
Caption Pinckney Reeves Allen, Richard G. Potter and E. J. Lucas, setting out on a sixty-four city, 3,000 mile motor trip as Louisville "boosters," promoters of the city and its business opportunities. The travelers were aided by the Louisville Automobile Club and affiliates in the major cities.
Photographer Unknown.....Accession No. P_2888
Location Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium, off Dixie Highway in southwest Jefferson County.
Caption Sun room in the women's ward. Waverly Hills was built in 1911 and greatly expanded in 1926, to house an ever-growing number of tuberculosis sufferers. Until the 1950's tuberculosis was incurable, but great institutions and a great amount of effort went into managing the course of the disease. Waverly Hills housed over 400 patients, from infants to adults. With the development of the antibiotic streptomycin, sufferers could be treated as outpatients so that there was no longer a need for large hospitals. Waverly Hills closed in 1961.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville.....Accession No. CS_076031