Plato, Samuel, Photograph Collection, ca. 1885-1950s
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Plato, Samuel
Title: Photograph Collection, ca. 1885-1950s.
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Special Collections.
Size of Collection: 684 photographs
Location Number: 999PC35
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains photographs of Samuel Plato, his first wife, Nettie Lusby Plato (1879-1924), his second wife, Elnora Davis Plato (1891-1975) and other family members and friends, most of who are not identified. It also has construction photos of post offices in Coatesville, PA, East Rochester, NY, New Philadelphia, OH, Homer, NY, Horseheads, NY, Angola, NY, Phillipsburg, NJ, Medina, NY, Morgantown, WVA, Cooperstown, NY, Greensburg, PA and Decatur, AL. Defense housing projects represented in the collection include Langston Stadium in Washington, DC, Fincastle Heights in Louisville, KY, and Sparrows Point in Dundalk, MD. Residences designed or built by Plato in the collection are the J.M. Hammon house in Louisville, the J.Woodrow Wilson house which is now known as the “Hathaway House” and the Platonian Apartments, both in Marion, IN. Other projects in Louisville include Simmons University Boys Dormitory, Broadway Temple A.M.E. Church, Virginia Avenue Colored School, the Chestnut St. Y.M.C.A., St. Augustine Catholic Church, the Westover subdivision and the Grand Theater. Indiana projects represented include Odd Fellows Hall – Mississinewa Lodge, 1st Friends Church, 1st U.B. Church and the Pure Milk Company. There is a finding aid for this collection.
Biographical Note
Samuel Plato (1882-1957) was a prominent African-American architect and builder. He designed and/ or built a wide variety of buildings including Greek Revival and Craftsman style houses, elaborate mansions, post offices, banks, churches, theaters, office buildings and government housing projects. Plato was the first African-American architect to receive a government contract to build a U.S. post office in Decatur, AL and one of the few who received government defense housing projects during World War II. He has eight buildings on the National Register of Historic Places including his Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office and Louisville’s Broadway Temple A.M.E. Zion Church.
Photograph List
PHOTO NUMBER | DESCRIPTION | DATE |
999PC35.1-.2 | Langston Stadium Defense Housing Project, Washington, DC – Samuel and Elnora Plato with a group inside one of the completed buildings. | 1943 |
999PC35.3 | J.M. Hammon’s house at 2418 West Madison St., Louisville, interior view | |
999PC35.4 | J.M. Hammon’s house at 2418 West Madison St., Louisville, interior view | |
999PC35.5 | J.M. Hammon’s house at 2418 West Madison St., Louisville, interior view | |
999PC35.6 | young man and dog | ca. 1900 |
999PC35.7 | older man | |
999PC35.8 | young man, Caufield and Shook photo, after 1904 since that is when Caufield and Shook first appears in city directories | after 1904 |
999PC35.9 | Older man sitting with a dog. | ca. 1923 |
999PC35.10-.12 | man with dog
Photos by J. Pichler Photo, Louisville, KY 836 Cawthon St. John Pichler was at this address in 1922, 1923 and 1924 |
ca. 1923 |
999PC35.13 | Older woman, Evans Studio photo
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999PC35.14 | older woman, Evans Studio | |
999PC35.15 | older woman | |
999PC35.16 | young, female, YMCA worker, ca. 1918 | ca. 1918 |
999PC35.17 | man in suit. Photo by Coox Studio of Rochester, NY. Photo is identified as Samuel Plato but it is not him. | ca. 1930s |
999PC35.18 | Tuskegee Airmen and civilians at Tuskegee Army Airfield, Alabama, standing in front of a T-6 trainer. | ca. 1942
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999PC35.19 | young woman | |
999PC35.20 | Elnora Plato as a younger woman | |
999PC35.21-.22 | Elnora Plato as an older woman. Photo “By Varden” | |
999PC35.23-.25 | young boy, confirmation photo? (.23)
young man (.24) baby (.25) |
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999PC35.26-.27 | two men in a car (.26)
three boys – Bobby Erway, Junior Patterson and Jackie Patterson (.27) |
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999PC35.28 | Coatesville, PA. Post Office, 1933, construction | 1933 |
999PC35.29 | Coatesville, PA Post Office, lobby construction | 1933 |
999PC35.30 | Coatesville, PA Post Office, Sept. 3, 1932., construction | 1932 |
999PC35.31-.32 | East Rochester, NY, June 1, 1937. It shows the sidewalk on West Commercial St. in front of the Post Office. | 1937 |
999PC35.33 | Langston Stadium Defense Housing Project, Washington, DC, construction photo of Wake and Midway Halls | 1943 |
999PC35.34 | Grand Theater, Domestic Life Bldg., 601 West Walnut St. Louisville, KY, drawing of the proposed entrance. It is the theater entrance from the Walnut St. side. The theater was completed in 1924. | 1923 |
999PC35.35-.36 | Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium, Cooperstown, NY | |
999PC35.37 | New Philadelphia, OH Post Office, 1929, excavation | 1929 |
999PC35.38 | New Philadelphia, OH Post Office, construction | 1929 |
999PC35.39 | Simmons University boys Dorm, 1923, later stages of construction | 1923 |
999PC35.40 | First Friends Church, Marion, IN, interior | |
999PC35.41 &.41A | Homer, NY Post Office, 1938, two men standing a construction site (.41)
Homer, NY Post Office, 1938, invitation to the opening (.41A) |
1938 |
999PC35.42 | Ridley Building, 812 West Walnut Street [now Muhammad Ali Blvd.,] Louisville, KY. Samuel Plato built a new front for the building which housed J.J. Miller’s Tonsorial Parlor and apartments. | |
999PC35.43 | Pure Milk Co. in Marion, IN, Samuel Plato was the contractor | |
999PC35.44 | Horseheads, NY Post Office, 1939, rear view of building. | 1939 |
999PC35.45 | Angola, NY Post Office; Samuel Plato, contractor; 1939, rear view of building. Design is similar to the Horseheads, NY Post Office | 1939 |
999PC35.46 | J. Woodrow Wilson House in Marion, IN. Now known as the Wilson-Vaughan House and Hostess House. | 1912 |
999PC35.46A | J. Woodrow Wilson house in Marion, in. Now known as the Wilson-Vaughan House and Hostess House. | 1912 |
999PC35.47 | YMCA, Chestnut St. Branch, Louisville, KY, proposed architect’s drawing | |
999PC35.48 | St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, 1303 West Broadway, Louisville, interior | |
999PC35.49 | Young woman | |
999PC35.50 | Wheatley house, 1946, interior | 1946 |
999PC35.51 | baby on a toy | |
999PC35.52-.56 | Elnora Plato
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999PC35.57, .57A | Samuel Plato with three men at the Walihaja Apt. Hotel in Atlanta, GA. Two of the men are wearing Adlai Stevenson 1952 campaign buttons (Plato was too ill to travel in 1956) | 1952 |
999PC35.58-.59 | Elnora Plato, photographer Arthur P. Evans, Jr. with his daughter Joanne Evans | |
999PC35.60 | Elnora Plato seated at home with a group of women | |
999PC35.61 | Elnora Plato seated with a group of women. The photo is by Godbey. William T. Godbey had a studio at 922 West Walnut in the 1950s | 1950s |
999PC35.62 | Elnora Plato seated in office | |
999PC35.63 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, excavation | 1933 |
999PC35.64 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, construction | 1933 |
999PC35.65 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, construction | 1933 |
999PC35.66
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Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, construction | 1933 |
999PC35.67 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, construction | 1933 |
999PC35.68 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, construction | 1933 |
999PC35.69 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, construction | 1933 |
999PC35.70 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, construction | 1933 |
999PC35.71 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, construction | 1933 |
999PC35.72-.75 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, interior construction | 1933 |
999PC35.76 | Medina, NY Post Office, future site | 1932 |
999PC35.77 | Medina, NY Post Office, future site | 1932 |
999PC35.78
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Medina, NY Post Office, excavation | 1932 |
999PC35.79 | Medina, NY Post Office, excavation | 1932 |
999PC35.80 | Medina, NY Post Office, construction | 1932 |
999PC35.81 | Medina, NY Post Office, construction | 1932 |
999PC35.82 | Medina, NY Post Office, construction | 1932 |
999PC35.83 | Medina, NY Post Office, construction | 1932 |
999PC35.84 | Medina, NY Post Office, postcard photo | ca. 1932 |
999PC35.85 | Medina, NY Post Office, completed building | ca. 1932 |
999PC35.86-.87 | Fincastle Heights Defense Housing Project, off of Poplar Level Road, Louisville, KY, completed building | 1941 |
999PC35.88-.89 | Fincastle Heights Defense Housing Project, off of Poplar Level Road, Louisville, KY, completed building | 1941 |
999PC35.90 | Sparrows Point Defense Housing Project, Dundalk, MD, excavation and construction | 1941 |
999PC35.91
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Sparrows Point Defense Housing Project, Dundalk, MD, construction | 1941 |
999PC35.92 | Sparrows Point Defense Housing Project, Dundalk, MD, construction | 1941 |
999PC35.93-.94 | Sparrows Point Defense Housing Project, Dundalk, MD, completed buildings | 1942 |
999PC35.95 | Sparrows Point Defense Housing Project, Dundalk, MD, completed building | 1942 |
999PC35.96-.117 | Sparrows Point Defense Housing Project, Dundalk, MD, early and late construction | 1941-1942 |
999PC35.118 | Morgantown, WV Post Office, construction | 1931 |
999PC35.119 | Morgantown, WV Post Office, early construction | 1931 |
999PC35.120 | Wayne, PA Post Office (?), scaffolding and building under construction, 1940 | 1940 |
999PC35.121 | Wayne, PA Post Office (?), scaffolding of building under construction. | 1940 |
999PC35.122 | workmen of scaffolding | |
999PC35.123 | Langston Stadium Defense Housing Project, Washington, DC (?). Possibly Wake or Midway Hall. | ca. 1942 |
999PC35.124 | Langston Stadium Defense Housing Project, Washington, DC (?). Possibly Wake or Midway Hall. | ca. 1942 |
999PC35.125 | Ft. Thomas, KY Post Office (?), front view | |
999PC35.126 | Ft. Thomas, KY Post Office (?), front view | |
999PC35.127 | Ft. Thomas, KY Post Office (?), interior view | |
999PC35.128-.129 | Ft. Thomas, KY Post Office (?), rear view | |
999PC35.130 | Ft. Thomas, KY Post Office (?), front view | |
999PC35.131 | unknown Louisville church (photo by Evans Studio, Louisville), interior | |
999PC35.132 | roof garden and a lower floor of an unknown building, drawing | |
999PC35.133 | Atlanta University, Administration building, drawing | |
999PC35.134-.141 | administration building, 1931 – stonework, arches | 1931 |
999PC35.142 | Plato residence in Marion, IN, side view. [2308 Boots Street] *Plato’s WWI draft card lists him living at 2308 Boots Street in 1917-1918. Home no longer stands. | ca. 1917-1918 |
999PC35.143 | Plato residence in Marion, IN, front view of 2nd Plato residence. [2308 Boots Street] | ca. 1917-1918 |
999PC35.144 | Plato residence in Marion, IN, side view. [2308 Boots Street] | ca. 1917-1918 |
999PC35.144A | Cooperstown, NY Post Office, Sept. 1, 1936, lobby | 1936 |
999PC35.145 | Lowville, NY Post Office, lobby interior
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999PC35.146 | Langston Stadium Defense Housing Project, Washington, DC, construction of Wake and Midway Halls | 1943 |
999PC35.147 | Langston Stadium Defense Housing Project, Washington, DC, construction of dining room and recreation buildings for Wake and Midway Halls
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1943 |
999PC35.148-.150
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Medina, NY Post Office, plumbing fixtures | 1932 |
999PC35.151 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, rear view | 1934 |
999PC35.152 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, completed workroom | 1934 |
999PC35.153-.155 | newspaper clipping – photo of a woman (.153)
Samuel and Elnora Plato with group of men and women at a project (.154) Elnora Plato and young woman (.155) |
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999PC35.156-.157 | Elnora Plato and young woman (.156)
Young couple (.157) the Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office is in the background in both of the pictures |
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999PC35.158-.172 | Langston Stadium Defense Housing Project, Washington, DC, construction photos | 1943 |
999PC35.173-.174
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high school under construction, rear view (.173)
high school under construction, front view (.174) |
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999PC35.175-.179 | girls basketball team (.175)
group of men standing outside (.176) room at Christmas (.177) room at Christmas (.178) dining room table (.179) |
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999PC35.180-.182 | Florian Meeks family Christmas cards | |
999PC35.183-.186 | woman (.183)
baby, Shalonda Yvette Crawford (.184) J.E. Smith Christmas card (.185) little girl,Vanessa Barnett (.186) |
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999PC35.187-.190 | Laura Wheatley, 1958 (.187)
woman and little boy by car (.188) older woman on bench (.189) woman (in frame) (.190)
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1958 |
999PC35.191-.194 | man driving grader (.191)
family at home (.192) man and woman (.193) group of men and women outside (.194)
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999PC35.195-.200 | couple sitting on bench (.195)
mother and two children on lawn (.196) couple sitting on lawn (.197) woman on porch (.198) group of women (.199) large group outside (.200) |
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999PC35.201-.205
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man on steps (.201)
man standing with hat (.202) couple standing near lake (.203) woman in office (.204) man in office, ca. 1941 (.205) |
ca. 1941 |
999PC35.206-.209
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woman standing in yard (.206)
group of children (.207) man with two young women (.208) two children in field (.209) |
1934 |
999PC35.210-.217 | two men in front of car (.210)
woman sitting (.211) women on porch (.212) couple sitting in lawn at Mt. Vernon (.213) four children (.214) man standing in front of black soldiers (.215) woman by car (.216) woman in garden (.217) |
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999PC35.218-.224 | woman sitting by a car (.218)
woman sitting in yard (.219) woman and two children on steps (.220) three women sitting on steps (.221) boy sitting in yard (.222) woman by boat (.223) man and two boys (.224) |
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999PC35.225-.232 | young man by cars (.225)
woman standing holding a hat (.226) young man in a suite and hat (.227) young woman and little girl (.228) three young women (.229) child in a snowsuit (.230) woman standing beside a tree (.231) young man (.232) |
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999PC35.233-.236
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young woman (.233)
young woman (.234) sick woman in bed (.235) two young women (.236)
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999PC35.237-.244 | older woman in white dress standing in yard (.237)
couple seated in living room (.238) group shot of women and men posing in a yard (.239) older woman seated on patio (.240) older woman in dark dress standing in yard (.241) older woman in white dress standing in yard (.242) group of children (.243) young woman (.244) |
1961 |
999PC35.245-.248 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, full detail of an arch (.245)
Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, detail of an arch (.246) Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, detail of medallions (.247) Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, Samuel Plato and a group of construction workers (.248) |
1934 |
999PC35.249-.250 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, stonework | 1933 |
999PC35.251-.252
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Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, stonework | 1933 |
999PC35.253-.254 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, stonework | 1933 |
999PC35.255-.267 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, construction workers and architectural details | 1933 |
999PC35.268
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Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, detail of light | 1933 |
999PC35.269-.275
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Plato residence, garage (.269)
Plato residence, house and yard (.270) Plato residence, snow-covered trees (.271) Plato residence, bungalow with buggy in front (.272) Plato residence, porch (.273) Plato residence, house and car (.274) Plato residence, house (.275) |
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999PC35.276-..277 | unknown public building, front view (.277)
unknown public building, rear view (.278) |
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999Pc35.278 | young woman sitting on lawn | 1934 |
999PC35.279-.282 | Elnora Plato and a woman with a third woman standing in front of a house (.279)
unknown man and woman in garden. (.282) “Edith Dobson’s husband” with unknown woman (dated Sept. 1958) (.281) Elnora Plato with unknown man; back “Yours Truly with Edith Dobson’s husband.” (.282) |
1958 |
999PC35.283-.285 | Plato home, 2509 West Walnut [now Muhammad Ali Blvd., home still standing as of 2017] | ca. 1929 |
999PC35.286-.287
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unknown man and woman in yard (.286)
two unknown women on boardwalk/ dock (.287)
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999PC35.288-.295 | Samuel and Elnora Plato by Japanese style gazebo (.288)
Elnora Plato and young woman in Japanese style garden (.289) Samuel Plato and young woman in Japanese style garden (.290) Samuel Plato and young woman by statue (.291) Samuel Plato and young woman by statue (dupl.) (.292) Samuel Plato on steps of building (.293) Samuel and Elnora Plato by statue (.294) young woman at gazebo (.295) |
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999PC35.296-.299 | Unidentified construction site | |
999PC35.300-.303A | Construction site at Frankfort, NY, 1941 | 1941 |
999PC35.304-.306
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Pentagon (.304)
view from top of Washington Monument (.305) Washington Monument (.306) |
ca. 1943 |
999PC35.307-.310 | Elnora Plato (center) and two women in yard (.307)
Elnora Plato standing in yard. (.308) Three women sitting in yard. (.309) Three women standing in yard. (.310) |
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999PC35.311-.316 | Elnora Plato as a very young woman in yard. (.311)
Elnora Plato (center) and two unknown young women and son. (.312) Father, mother and son. (.313) Two unknown young women (.314) Father and son (.315) Father, mother, son, two unknown young women and unknown man. (.316) |
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999PC35.317-.319 | group of women. (.317)
Elnora Plato and younger woman on steps of house (.318) Elnora Plato in yard (.319) |
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999PC35.320-.321 | Elnora Plato and man on porch. (.320)
two men on porch (.321) |
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999PC35.322-.326
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Elnora Plato pushing a lawn mower (.322)
four photos of a large house with “for sale” sign in yard. |
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999PC35.327-.335
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Marcelina (.327)
Norma’s mother (.328) Norma’s mother (.329) Elnora Plato, left, Norma’s mother and Norma (.330) Elnora Plato, left, and Norma at the Lake Front, Wednesday morning (.331) Lillian with a cat (.332) Marcelina and Norma (.333) Marcelina. (.334) Elnora Plato, right, and Norma (.335) |
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999PC35.336-.348 | young woman and two older women (.336)
five older women (.337) Young woman by house (.338) Elnora Plato, man and woman (.339) Elnora Plato, man and three women (.340) Elnora Plato and young woman (.341) Elnora Plato by house (.342) Elnora Plato, sitting down (.343) Elnora Plato, younger woman and older woman (.344) Elnora Plato, and two women (.345) Elnora Plato, young woman, older woman and child. (346) eight men and women (.347) five children (.348) |
1950s |
999PC35.349-.353 | Elnora Plato and friends standing at the Sunday School Institute, 1917 (.349-.351)
Elnora Plato and friends sitting on grass in library yard. (.352-.353) |
1917 |
999PC35.354 | Elnora Plato and three women in yard. | |
999PC35.355-.359 | Elnora Plato holding a hat in a garden. (.355)
Elnora Plato with tall young woman in a garden. (.356) tall young woman with older woman in a garden. (.357) unknown woman in a garden. (.358) another unknown woman in a garden. (.359) |
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999PC35.360-.362 | Elnora Plato and child. (.360)
three children. (.361) Young woman standing by Dr. Biggs’. (.362) |
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999PC35.363 | Elnora Plato as a young woman, standing by a fence | |
999PC35.364-.368 | Elnora Plato standing in a garden. (.364-.367)
Elnora Plato by a porch. (.368) |
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999PC35.369-.373
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Elnora Plato (.369-.371)
Elnora Plato as an order woman in a garden (.372) Elnora Plato as a younger woman standing by a house (373) |
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999PC35.374-.375 | Elnora Plato and two women on steps, Bryn Mawr, Pa., July 1940 (.374)
Elnora Plato and a woman on a porch (.375) |
1940 |
999PC35.376 | Elnora Plato and two young women by cannon at the Soldier’s Home in Marion, IN | |
999PC35.377-.382 | Elnora Plato by cannon. (.377-.378)
woman with older man standing by building (.379) man leaning on a car (.380) man by a car (.381) conservatory (.382) |
1924 |
999PC35.383-.391 | Elnora Plato in a suit (.383)
Elnora Plato and a young woman by a porch (.384) Elnora Plato and a woman holding a small dog. (.385) Elnora Plato standing in a yard (.386) Elnora Plato sitting in a yard (.387) Elnora Plato leaning against shrubbery (.388) Elnora Plato in a garden (.389) Elnora Plato and a young woman standing in a yard (.390) small dog (.391) |
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999PC35.392 | Elnora Plato, a woman and a boy by a car) | 1950s |
999PC35.393-.398 | elderly woman by a car (.393)
young woman and elderly woman (.394) Elnora sitting on running board (.395) young woman sitting on a running board (.396) Elnora Plato and elderly woman (.397) Elnora Plato by a car (.398) |
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999PC35.399-.403
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young woman by car (.399)
another young woman in garden (.400) another young woman in garden (.401) young woman in garden (.402) young woman in garden (.403)
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999PC35.403A-.412 | two women posing by a car (.403A)
Elnora Plato standing by a house (.404) Elnora Plato and large group of young women by house (.405) Elnora Plato and large group of young women by house (.406) Elnora Plato and large group of women on steps of a house (.407) two women in a car (.408) large group of women in and around a car (.409) women getting into a car (.410) two women standing by a car (.411) young woman sitting on a running board (.412) |
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999PC35.413-.414 | parents and child by log building (.413)
parents and child in yard (.414) |
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999PC35.415-.422 | Elnora Plato and three young sitting and a group of older persons standing behind. (.415)
Elnora Plato and older woman standing in a yard (.416) Elnora Plato and young woman standing in a yard (.417) large group in a yard (.418) young woman on a fence (.419) two young women standing in yard (.420) woman, older woman, man in a yard (.421) man and woman in a yard (.422) |
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999PC35.423 | Helen Barnett Lever and her husband, B.F. Lever, in Helena, AR. Helen was Samuel Plato’s niece. | |
999PC35.424-.427 | children playing in a tent (.424-.425)
young couple standing by same porch (.426) man standing by porch (.427) |
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999PC35.428-.429
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woman and dog by two cars (.428)
man and dog by a car (.429) |
1924-1925 |
999PC35.430-.435
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Nettie Plato in yard (.430)
Nettie Plato in yard (.431) Nettie Plato on porch (.432) Nettie Plato in yard (.433) woman on porch (.434) another woman on porch(.435)
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999PC35.436-.442 | Niagara Falls (.436-.441)
Clifton Hotel, Niagara Falls, Ontario (.442) |
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999PC35.443 | Samuel Plato at celebration honoring the Westover Subdivision in Louisville | 1951 |
999PC35.444-.451 | woman sitting on running board (.444)
three women sitting on running board (.445) woman standing by car (.446) two women standing by car (.447) woman standing by running board (.448) three women sitting on running board (.449) woman sitting on running board (.450) two women standing by car (.451) |
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999PC35.452-.453 | older woman on porch (.452)
two older women on porch (.453) |
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999PC35.454-.457 | two young boys (.454-.455)
Elnora Plato on steps of house (.456) woman on front steps of house (Mrs. Patterson, East Rochester, NY) (.457) |
ca. 1937 |
999PC35.458-.462 | young woman (.458)
young woman and child (.459) field (.460) young woman (.461) child (.462) |
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999PC35.463-464 | house identified as Plato residence, house identified as Plato home (.463)
house identified as Plato residence, house identified as Plato home (.464) |
1938 |
999PC35.465 | Platonian Apartments in Marion, IN, 1935. The Platonian Apartments were designed and built by Samuel Plato before 1922. | 1935 |
999PC35.466-483 | man on horseback (.466)
man on horseback (.467) men leading horses (.468) chickens in barnyard (.469) Samuel Plato entering a car with NY plates (.470) Samuel Plato and others on lawn in front of institution (.471-.472) Samuel and Elnora Plato in front of Institution, with others (.473) Elnora Plato and women in yard (.474) Elnora Plato and group of young men and women on steps (.475) Elnora Plato and man in yard (.476) man and woman in yard (.477) large, old house (.478) cows on farm (.479) Elnora and group of young women (.480) group of young men and women in yard (.481) group of men on steps (.482) large buildings by water (.483) |
Before 1942 |
999PC35.484 | Samuel and Elnora Plato by car. | |
999PC35.485-.490 | Samuel Plato and man by house (.485)
Samuel Plato and man by house (.486) Samuel Plato standing by house (.487) Samuel Plato standing by house (.488) Samuel Plato standing by house (.489) Elnora Plato standing by house, Marion, IN 3-9-46 (.490) |
1946 |
999PC35.491-.495
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Samuel Plato, two women and man on lawn (.491)
Samuel Plato and woman by car (.492) photo of a house taken from a hill (.493) woman by fence (.494) woman in rocker on porch (.495) |
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999PC35.496-500 | Samuel Plato and group of men outside store (.496)
Samuel Plato and older woman by car (.497) older woman and man in barnyard (.498) older woman and child on porch (.499) two older women on porch (.500) |
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999PC35.501-.503 | Samuel, Elnora and boy on porch (.501)
boy on porch (.502-.503) |
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999PC35.504-.506 | four young women (.504-.506) | |
999PC35.507-540 | various: Disneyland, Huntington Library, Yosemite, Chicago, U.S. Capitol, etc. | |
999PC35.541-.542 | Cameos of Eliza Scott Davis, ca. 1890s (on exhibit) (.541)
Eliza Scott Davis (lnora Plato’s mother), ca. 1890 (.542) |
ca. 1890s |
999PC35.543 | Alva Davis (left), Elnora Davis Plato (center), Ruby Davis (right) taken by Robbins of Alexandria, IN | ca. 1900 |
999PC35.544 | Normal School Class Of 1902, Samuel Plato Is On The Back Row, 2nd From Left | 1902 |
999PC35.545 | Young man, photo by G.E. &E.M. Crosby at 921 and 923 West Market St. Firm was only at this address in 1885 | ca. 1885 |
999PC35.546 | Elnora Plato as an older woman. Photo by “Varden Studio, 314 W. Chestnut St.” | |
999PC35.547 | Coatesville,PA Post Office, photo of lobby, Samuel Plato, contractor, June 1, 1933 | 1933 |
999PC35.548-.549 | New Philadelphia, OH Post Office , Samuel Plato and man at construction site
New Philadelphia, OH Post Office, 1929, laying the cornerstone |
1929 |
999PC35.550-.551 | Elnora Plato seated at the head of a table | |
999PC35.552-.557 | Samuel Plato’s birthplace, a cabin in Waugh, AL
Grape arbor at Samuel Plato’s birthplace |
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999PC35.558 | Nettie M. Plato sitting on second floor of Mammoth Life building at 422-424 s. 6th St. | ca. 1923 |
999PC35.559-.561 | Jail parking. Taken from Mammoth Life bldg., 422-424 s. 6th St; on S. 6th St. Looking towards Armory. Taken from Mammtoh Life bldg. | 1924 |
999PC35.562 | Young man in an army uniform, possibly WWI | ca. 1918 |
999PC35.563 | Virginia Avenue Colored School, 3628 Virginia Ave. Louisville | 1924 |
999PC35.564 | Simmons University Boys Dorm, 1923, construction | 1923 |
999PC35.565-.566
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Plato residence in Marion, IN, front view of 2nd Plato residence | |
999PC35.567 | Elnora Plato and a young man standing next to Eliza Davis. Photo by Hull’s Studio, ca. 1915. Hull’s Studio was located in logansport, IN | 1915 |
999PC35.568-.571 | Elnora Plato and dr. Walton’s wife in Denver, CO
Elnora Plato and two women in a yard by a tree Elnora Plato and a woman by a tree Dr. Walton’s wife |
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999PC35.572-.573 | Elnora Plato by a car with Ohio plates, 1925 | 1925 |
999PC35.574 | Elnora Plato and men and women at family gathering. | |
999PC35.575 | Nettie M. Plato
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999PC35.576 | National Guard Armory, Xenia, OH. The building was built in the 1930s but the photograph is from the 1950s | 1959s |
999PC35.577-.581 | Samuel Plato, woman, man and two children
Two children Samuel Plato and two men by car House at 230 n. Main St., Angola, NY House at 230 n. Main St., Angola, NY |
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999PC35.582 | Greensburg, PA Post Office, 1934, construction | 1934 |
999PC35.583-.584 | Elnora Plato at her desk at a construction site in Washington, DC., 1943 | 1943 |
999PC35.585 | Homer, NY Post Office, 1937. Excavation photo with Samuel Plato standing on the right | 1937 |
999PC35.586 | Elnora Plato standing with a group of women | |
999PC35.587-.588 | Fincastle Heights Defense Housing Project, off of Poplar Level Road, Louisville, completed building | 1941 |
999PC35.589 | J.M. Hammon’s house at 2418 West Madison St., Louisville, front view [now Gray Street where the hospital stands as of 2017] | |
999PC35.590-.591 | Morgantown, WVA Post Office, front view of completed building | 1931 |
999PC35..592 | Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, front view of completed building | 1934 |
999PC35..593 | Westover Subdivision, Southwestern Parkway, Louisville, completed house | late 1940s |
999PC35..594 | Westover Subdivision on Southwestern Parkway, Louisville, Samuel and Elnora Plato greeting new homeowners during “Appreciation Hour” | ca. 1950 |
999PC35.595 | Westover Subdivision on Southwestern Parkway, Louisville, prospective homeowners | ca. 1950 |
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Westover Subdivision on Southwestern Parkway, Louisville, first houses being built | ca. 1946 |
999PC35.597 | Broadway Temple A.M.E. Zion church, 662 S. 13th St., Louisville, KY (at 13th and West Broadway), interior view | 1915 |
999PC35.598 | Decatur, AL Post Office, 1920 | 1920 |
999PC35.599 | Grand Theater, Domestic Life bldg., 601 West Walnut St., Louisville, KY. Drawing for proposed entrance. The theater was completed in 1924 | 1923 |
999PC35.600 | Domestic Life bldg., 601 West Walnut St., Louisville, KY. Drawing of proposed front elevation bldg. Completed in 1924. | 1923 |
999PC35.601 | Elisabeth Smith, Red Cross nurse taken by E.B. Smith, 1550 Prentice St. Louisville, KY. Elisabeth Smith married Samuel Murrell in 1919 (she is not wearing a wedding ring in this photo) and was a Louisville school teacher and principal. | ca. 1919 |
999PC35.602 | First U.B. Church, Wabash, IN., First floor drawing | |
999PC35.603 | New Philadelphia, OH Post Office, construction photo | 1929 |
999PC35.604 | Odd fellows Hall, Mississinewa Lodge, Marion, IN. The architectural drawing is by Samuel Plato | 1924 |
999PC35.605 | Langston stadium defense housing project, Washington, DC, construction photo of Wake and Midway halls | 1943 |
999PC35.606-.627 | Westover subdivision no. 2, Southwestern Parkway and Plato terrace, Louisville, photos of “appreciation hour” for Samuel and Elnora Plato | ca. 1950 |
999PC35.628-.632 | Office (.628)
Samuel and Elnora Plato with a group of men and women at work site (.629) Samuel Plato and man at work site (.630) Woman sitting at desk in office (.631) H. Campbell, construction engineer (.632) |
1942 |
999PC35.633-.636 | Samuel Plato and four men in an office (.633)
Samuel Plato and four men in an office (.634) Elnora Plato and young woman in office (.635) Elnora Plato and middle-aged woman in office (.636) |
c.1941-1945 |
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Samuel Plato sitting down (.637)
Samuel and Elnora Plato by a cake (.638) Samuel and Elnora Plato by a cake (.639) |
early 1950s |
999PC35.640-.645 | Samuel Plato and man at booker t. Washington statue (.640)
Tuskegee institute (.641) Two men and woman on steps (.642) Monument on hill (.643) Samuel Plato and young woman on chapel (?) Steps (.644) River view from mountain (.645) |
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999PC35.646-.648 | Woman at amusement park (.646)
Women and children on car running board (.647) Women and children (.648) |
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999PC35.649-.652 | Construction workers in front of Plato house, 2509 W. Walnut St. (.649)
Plato house, 2509 W. Walnut St. construction (.650) Plato house, 2509 W. Walnut St. construction (.651) Plato house, 2509 W. Walnut St. construction (.652) |
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Samuel and Elnora Plato standing outside car (.653)
Samuel Plato standing at roadside (.654) Samuel Plato standing by mercury car with VA plates (.655) Samuel Plato in hat (.656) |
ca. 1942 |
999PC35.657-.677 | 2509 W. Walnut St. house, Samuel Plato and two men on steps (.657)
2509 W. Walnut St. house, Samuel and Elnora Plato and man on steps (.658) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, man and child on steps (.659) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, woman on sidewalk (.660) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, construction (.661) 2509 W. Walnut St. house (.662) 2509 W. Walnut St. house (.663) 2509 W. Walnut St. house (.664)——ca. 1940-1950 2509 W. Walnut St. house (.665) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, doorway (.666) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, woman with baby in carriage (.667) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, Elnora Plato on front steps with baby (.668) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, Samuel Plato in doorway (.669) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, woman and child on the front lawn (.670) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, child on front lawn (.671) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, group of woman and child on front lawn (.672) 2509 W. Walnut St. house, signed by Elnora Plato (.673) 2509 W. Walnut St. house (.674) 2509 W. Walnut St. house (.675) 2509 W. Walnut St. house (.676) 2509 W. Walnut St. house (.677) |
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999PC35.678 | postcard of 1st Baptist Church, -, IN | |
999PC35.679 | postcard of Homer, NY Post Office | |
999PC35.680 | postcard of Greensburg, PA Post Office | |
999PC35.681 | Samuel Plato in profile standing by car | |
999PC35.682 | Elnora Plato, Boy Scout, man and woman | |
999PC35.683 | Elnora Plato | |
999PC35.684 | tintype of unidentified boy |