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    Historic Photos of Louisville
    Historic Photos of Louisville
    Historic Photos of Louisville
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    Historic Photos of Louisville

    By James C. Anderson

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    Founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark at the falls of the Ohio River, the city of Louisville emerged quickly as a center for river commerce. Through the Civil War, the early twentieth century, two world wars, and into the modern era, Louisville has continued to shine as a great American city steeped in history.

    Historic Photos of Louisville captures the journey of Kentucky’s largest city through hundreds of historic photographs culled from the finest archives in local, national, and private collections. Handsomely bound in one volume and showcased in vivid black-and-white are images of the best-known and many lesser-known landmarks and key moments from the city’s past.

    Join writer James Anderson in this nostalgic look back at penny farthings and the Dixie Flyer automobile, mule-drawn trolleys and the L&N Railroad, bourbon whiskey, the Louisville Slugger, the Flood of 1937, the Sennings European Hotel, the grand Rialto Theater, and of course Churchill Downs, among a potpourri of other fascinating subjects.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateSep 1, 2006
    ISBN9781618586506
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      Historic Photos of Louisville - James C. Anderson

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      LOUISVILLE

      TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY JAMES C. ANDERSON

      View of the Louisville skyline northwest from atop the Cumberland Apartments at Second and York Streets, 1930

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      LOUISVILLE

      Turner Publishing Company

      200 4th Avenue North • Suite 950

      Nashville, Tennessee 37219

      (615) 255-2665

      www.turnerpublishing.com

      Historic Photos of Louisville

      Copyright © 2006 Turner Publishing Company

      All rights reserved.

      This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2006905292

      ISBN: 1-59652-277-1

      ISBN 13: 978-1-59652-2770

      Printed in China

      09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16—0 9 8 7 6 5 4

      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      FROM CIVIL WAR TO THE CENTENNIAL (1860–1899)

      BEGINNING A NEW CENTURY (1900–1919)

      BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS (1920–1939)

      FROM BOOM TO FEAR OF BUST (1940–1970)

      NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS

      Louisville Gas & Electric Company generating station and the intersection of Second and Main streets in 1930, as seen from the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This volume, Historic Photos of Louisville, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of many individuals and organizations. It is with great thanks that we acknowledge the valuable contributions of the following for their generous support.

      Stockyards Bank & Trust

      U.S. Bank

      Norton Healthcare

      Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs

      The majority of the photographs in this volume were selected from the 1.5 million items housed at the Special Collections Department at the Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville. We would like to recognize the assistance and support of the Archives staff: Delinda Buie, Bill Carner, Ann Collins, James Manasco, George McWhorter, Suzy Palmer, and Amy Purcell. Student assistant Chrissie Leake also provided valuable help with the scanning of the photographs.

      Finally, we would like to offer thanks to Donna Neary for her advice and for proofreading the manuscript.

      PREFACE

      Since the beginning of American photography in the 1840s, billions of images have been produced. The survival of these images, however, has largely been left to chance, with little official recognition given to the rich visual history represented in this prodigious, though for the most part haphazard, production. Until the last quarter of the twentieth century, archivists, including many in Kentucky, did not consider photographs to be items worth collecting. In addition, the natural enemies of photographs—floods, fires, dirt, insects, and neglect—took a tremendous toll.

      Louisville narrowly escaped the total destruction of the first one hundred years of its photographic history during the great Ohio River flood of 1937. Remaining at or above flood stage for several days, the river put floodwater into the basements and first floors of 60 percent of the city. Unfortunately, all of the city’s photographic studios, many with collections going back to the middle of the nineteenth century, were located within a few blocks of the riverfront. The Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville’s largest, lost nearly thirty thousand negatives stored in the basement of its building at 638 S. Fourth Street. Of the 36 photographic studios active in Louisville in 1938, 23 were nearer the river than Caufield & Shook.

      Many studio collections were a complete loss, but 1937 made clear the threat posed by a river which had flooded the downtown at least once a decade for more than a century. It caused two of the studios, Caufield & Shook and the Royal Photo Company, to exercise great diligence in protecting what remained of their negatives. Those negatives today constitute two of the biggest segments of the holdings of the University of Louisville’s Photographic Archives.

      Founded in 1968 to collect and preserve the visual history of the city, the Photographic Archives’

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