Plato, Samuel, Photograph Collection, ca. 1885-1950s

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Samuel Plato

Title: The Samuel Plato 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

 

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

 

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)

999PC35.26-.27 two men in a car  (.26)

three boys –  Bobby Erway, Junior Patterson and Jackie Patterson  (.27)

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

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

1943
999PC35.148-.150

 

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)

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

999PC35.158-.172 Langston Stadium Defense Housing Project, Washington, DC, construction photos 1943
999PC35.173-.174

 

high school under construction, rear view   (.173)

high school under construction, front view   (.174)

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)

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)

999PC35.187-.190 Laura Wheatley, 1958  (.187)

woman and little boy by car  (.188)

older woman on bench  (.189)

woman (in frame)  (.190)

 

 

1958
999PC35.191-.194 man driving grader  (.191)

family at home  (.192)

man and woman  (.193)

group of men and women outside   (.194)

 

 

 

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)

999PC35.201-.205

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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)

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)

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)

999PC35.233-.236

 

 

 

young woman  (.233)

young woman  (.234)

sick woman in bed  (.235)

two young women  (.236)

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Phillipsburg, NJ Post Office, detail of light 1933
999PC35.269-.275

 

 

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)

999PC35.276-..277 unknown public building, front view   (.277)

unknown public building, rear view  (.278)

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

unknown man and woman in yard   (.286)

two unknown women on boardwalk/ dock  (.287)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)

999PC35.296-.299 Unidentified construction site
999PC35.300-.303A Construction site at Frankfort, NY, 1941 1941
999PC35.304-.306

 

 

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)

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)

999PC35.317-.319 group of women.  (.317)

Elnora Plato and younger woman on steps of house  (.318)

Elnora Plato in yard  (.319)

999PC35.320-.321 Elnora Plato and man on porch.  (.320)

two men on porch  (.321)

999PC35.322-.326

 

 

 

 

Elnora Plato pushing a lawn mower  (.322)

four photos of a large house with “for sale” sign in yard.

999PC35.327-.335

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)

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)

999PC35.360-.362 Elnora Plato and child.  (.360)

three children.  (.361)

Young woman standing by Dr. Biggs’.  (.362)

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)

999PC35.369-.373

 

 

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)

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)

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)

999PC35.399-.403

 

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

 

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)

999PC35.413-.414 parents and child by log building  (.413)

parents and child in yard   (.414)

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)

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)

999PC35.428-.429

 

woman and dog by two cars  (.428)

man and dog by a car  (.429)

1924-1925
999PC35.430-.435

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

 

999PC35.436-.442 Niagara Falls  (.436-.441)

Clifton Hotel, Niagara Falls, Ontario  (.442)

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)

999PC35.452-.453 older woman on porch  (.452)

two older women on porch  (.453)

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)

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)

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)

999PC35.501-.503 Samuel, Elnora and boy on porch   (.501)

boy on porch   (.502-.503)

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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
999PC35.596

 

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
999PC35.637-.639

 

 

 

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)

999PC35.646-.648 Woman at amusement park (.646)

Women and children on car running board (.647)

Women and children (.648)

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)

999PC35.653-.656

 

 

 

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)

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