Buildings -- Kentucky -- Louisville

Content Description Architectural drawings of University of Louisville buildings designed by Bickel-Gibson Associates, Architects. Buildings include the Life Sciences Building, the School of Music (on the Shelby Campus as well as the Belknap Campus), the Speed School CAD/CAM Research Facility, the Stoddard-Johnston Building, a football training facility, and numerous buildings on the Health Sciences Campus, including C and K Buildings, the MDR Lab, the Research Resource Center, the Medical-Dental Research...

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The material includes an autobiography of Frederick; information on old homes in Jefferson County; cemeteries, marriages; land sales; family histories; historical topics including Old Louisville, floods and markets. Frederick's notes concern local history from 1780 to the 1950s. An additional scrapbook, covering Louisville churches, was received separately.

Content Description The thirty-six page "Barbax" report and approximately 150 accompanying slides, mostly of businesses from 800 Baxter Avenue to 1600 Bardstown Road in Louisville's Highlands neighborhood. A selection of slides (some organized) are grouped by block number. Also includes a DVD copy of "The Bardstown Road Show," written by Nathalie Andrews and Robert Wilkins for a 1979 thirty-minute Channel 15 (WKPC Public Television) series titled "Metro Mirror." The program is based on the recommendations of...

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These are the working drawings of the zoo staff from the construction of the zoo. History: The zoo opened in 1968 on a ninety-eight acre site on Trevilian Way between Newburg and Poplar Level roads. The zoo was made possible by a $1.5 million gift from lumber and hotel tycoon J. Graham Brown. Microfilm created by University of Louisville, University Archives and Records Center, 1980.

Content Description Three scrapbooks containing newspaper and magazine clippings along with reproductions of photographs, envelopes, and other material relating to the history of buildings and businesses on Main and Market Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. Original materials date primarily to the early twentieth century, but the scrapbooks include reproductions of 19th century materials as well, including a series of envelopes. These materials were collected in the course of the Main Street Association's oral...