Tornado damage -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Photographs

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135 black and white, 8 x 10 inch gelatin silver print photographs of the destruction from the April 4, 1974 tornado. Most photographs were taken in the Crescent Hill neighborhood of Louisville but there are also about fifteen of Cherokee Park and five of the Exposition Fairgrounds. Photographs were taken by John Clements (aka Industrial Photographic Service).

Scope and Contents Composite collection of 37 Kentucky-related stereograph photographs acquired from multiple sources grouped together for ease of use and access. Includes views of Mammoth Cave, the Southern Exposition, and destruction from the Louisville tornado of 1890.An early form of 3D photograph, stereographs, also called stereoviews, were produced from the mid-1850s to after the first World War. Stereographs are made of two nearly identical images shot with a camera with two lenses...