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Louisville (Ky.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Bonds For Progress campaign film

 Collection — Box Single item DVDs, CDs and audiocassettes
Identifier: 1999_022-UA
Content Description The one minute and 48 second 16mm film was presumably produced for use on television to advocate the bond issue promoted by the Bonds For Progress committee. Jesse Hopewell, a Louisville cinematographer, created the film, which includes a panoramic shot of expressway construction on the city's waterfront. The film highlighted the projects to be funded and included a group shot of University of Louisville and city leaders. Among the latter were mayoral candidates Kenneth A. Schmied and Marlin...
Dates: 1965
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Bonds For Progress campaign film

Floyd Smith Carpenter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1980_050-UA
Scope and Contents The personal papers of Floyd Smith Carpenter contain approximately 600 letters to him from his family concerning events going on in the neighborhood, high school, and Rose Polytechnic Institute, predominately in the period 1912-1922. Additional correspondence relates to birds and birding. The collection also includes published material, news clippings, broadsides, photographs, and artifacts which belonged to Carpenter. One set of portrait photographs appears to be of Carpenter in his military...
Dates: 1905-1961; Majority of material found in 1913-1940s
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Floyd Smith Carpenter papers

Moritz and Esther Flexner portraits

 Collection
Identifier: KORN1045
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two framed oil portraits, one each of Esther Abram Flexner and Moritz Flexner, and a charcoal rendering of the former, all circa 19th century.
Dates: circa 1880
Found in: Kornhauser Health Sciences Library / Moritz and Esther Flexner portraits

Interim Charter Commission for Louisville and Jefferson County records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1998_063-UA
Scope and Contents The Interim Charter Commission for Louisville and Jefferson County was appointed in April 1982 to do research on the issue of city-county merger in response to Senate Bill 13 which was passed by the Kentucky Legislature in 1982.

Two three-ring binders contain background information, reports, and minutes of the Interim Charter Commission for Louisville and Jefferson County, 1982.
Dates: April-July 1982
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Interim Charter Commission for Louisville and Jefferson County records

Johnson family collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1979_040-UA
Content Description Consists of 2 photocopies of a letter from Thomas Edison to the (Louisville) Citizens Public Utilities Club, a copy of My Louisville by Orval Henry Austin; Louisville trade directory and merchants buyer's guide (1922 and 1923); Louisville, Kentucky: "The open door to the South"; and the June 20, 1953 issue of Louisville magazine (a periodical published by the Louisville Chamber of Commerce).
Dates: 1922-1979
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Johnson family collection

Louisville area medical building photo collection

 Collection
Identifier: KORN246B
Scope and Contents Photos in this collection include hospitals, street scenes, medical schools and other buildings in and around Louisville, Kentucky which are related to medicine. They depict: 1937 flood at 3rd and Chestnut Streets; Board's Sanatorium; Brook and Chestnut to east (later site of Jewish Hospital); Children's Free Hospital; Clark County Memorial Hospital; Deaconess Hospital; Dr. Leon Solomon's Clinic; George D. Prentice School; Gray Street Presbyterian Infirmary; Homestead Apartment Building (later...
Dates: 1880-1950
Found in: Kornhauser Health Sciences Library / Louisville area medical building photo collection

Legislative records of the city of Louisville (Ky.) (microfilm)

 Collection
Identifier: 1973_473-UA
Content Description This microform publication continues the publication of formal minutes of the Board of Aldermen for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, for the years 1986 through 1991. Microfilmed in Frankfort, Ky., Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, 1991.
Dates: 1986-1991
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Legislative records of the city of Louisville (Ky.) (microfilm)

Louisville municipal reports

 Accession — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1973_447-UA
Dates: 1868-1916
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Louisville newsclipping scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1997_123-UA
Content Description This scrapbook contains newsclippings on local topics such as education, annexation, growth of suburbs, economic development, public policy, and neighborhoods in the Louisville metropolitan area.
Dates: 1950-1952
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Louisville newsclipping scrapbook

Louisville past and present: its industrial history as exhibited in the life-labors of its leading men (microfilm)

 Collection
Identifier: 1973_493-UA
Content Description "Photographically illustrated by E. Klauber." Original book: 357 pages. Microfilmed by University of Louisville University Archives and Records Center. The work is also available in the Internet Archives.
Dates: 1875
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections / Louisville past and present: its industrial history as exhibited in the life-labors of its leading men (microfilm)

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