Location The steamboat landing on the Louisville Wharf, from Fourth to Seventh Streets.
Caption From the time of the city's founding until World War II, the Wharf was a hub of activity, with cargo being loaded and unloaded, passengers boarding and horse-drawn carts (later motor trucks) carrying freight to and from the docks.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville....Accession No CS_075118
Location 901 - 905 East Main Street
Caption Jacob Edinger, wagon manufacturer, opened his shop on East Main Street at Campbell in 1870. By 1920 the company was manufacturing automobile bodies as well as wagons and had moved to 1012 Story Avenue. The company is still in business at that location manufacturing specialty truck bodies.
Photographer Unknown....Accession No P_5239
Location Reported to be in the 1200 block of West Main Street.
Caption Blacksmith and carriage shop.
Photographer Unknown....Accession No 93_29_01
Location 910 West Main Street.
Caption The Louisville Tobacco Company, with hogsheads of tobacco in the street. West Main street from 8th to 12th Streets was lined with tobacco warehouses. The 1905 city directory lists 14 tobacco warehouses on West Main, from the Kentucky Tobacco Warehouse at 800 w. Main to the United Dark Warehouse at 1116, and a 15th on Ninth at the corner of Main. Many of these warehouses were destroyed by the tornado of 1890 but were quickly rebuilt.
Photographer Detroit Publishing Co.....Accession No 99_75_07
Location West Main Street "Tobacco District."
Caption Workers in one of the many tobacco warehouses on West Main Street. Tobacco arrived at the warehouses packed in hogsheads (the large casks seen at left.) At the warehouse, the tobacco was opened, inspected, auctioned and then repacked in the hogsheads. In 1906, this process began to be replaced when warehouses in Lexington held sales of "loose-leaf" tobacco which was tied into "hands" and then shipped and sold in open baskets. The last hogshead auctions in Louisville were for the 1939 crop.
Photographer Detroit Publishing Co....Accession No 99_75_10
Location Dumesnil Street between Eleventh and Twelfth.
Caption Making wooden parts for automobile bodies at the Mengel Body Company. The parent Mengel Company made boxes, furniture, toys and other wood items. Its box making plant was the largest in the word.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville....Accession No CS_032688
Location South Western Parkway south of Greenwood Avenue.
Caption Workers at the new Ford Motors plane on on South Western Parkway assembling Model "T" cars. 1,608,710 vehicles were manufactured at this factory before its closing in 1955. Ford opened its first Louisville plant at 931 South Third street in 1910. The company now operates the Kentucky Truck Plant at 11200 Westport Road and Louisville Assembly plant, where the best-selling Ford Ranger is built, on Fern Valley Road at Grade Lane.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville....Accession No CS_068174
Location 615 West Shipp Street.
Caption Workers and supervisors at the Louisville Car Wheel and Railroad Supply Company, supplier of wheels and car parts to the Louisville & Nashville, Kentucky & Indiana Terminal and other railroads.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville....Accession No CS_126686
Location Fischer Packing Company,
Caption Production workers packing bacon. The Fischer Packing Company was founded by Henry Fischer in about 1900 in his backyard shed on Mellwood Avenue. By the 1930's the company was operating from a block-long building, still on Mellwood, wholesaling pork, beef, veal, lamb and sausage. Although no longer owned by the Fischer family, the company is still in business.
Photographer Walter Fischer....Accession No P_3720.3
Location Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad Bridge. The Bridge spans the Ohio River between Louisville's Portland neighborhood and New Albany, Indiana.
Caption Workers shown at the completion of the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge (popularly known as the K&I Bridge.) The K&I was the second bridge across the Ohio at Louisville and the first to have vehicular lanes.
Photographer Unknown....Accession No 89_57_01
Location 3418 Tyler Avenue.
Caption Women working on a bottling and inspection line at Park & Tilford Distillers of Kentucky. The distilling and bottling of Bourbon whiskey is one of Louisville's major industries.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville....Accession No CS_247650
Location South side of Dumesnil between 11th and 12th streets.
Caption Office workers at the Mengel Company, manufacturers of wooden boxes, automobile bodies, furniture, toys and other wooden items. Its box making plant was the biggest in the world.
Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville....Accession No CS_033150
Location Unknown.
Caption Newsboys who delivered the Herald Post newspaper. The Herald Post was formed in 1925 through the merger of Louisville Herald and Post newspapers. It lasted for 11 years, declaring bankruptcy in 1936.
Photographer Attributed to the Walter Fischer Studio....Accession No P_3551