A brick building with a high smokestack blowing smoke. The building is in stair step segments of one to five stories; the smokestack rises above the lowest section, at left. The building has a dirt yard and is located on a wide dirt road. There are...
Mantel Rock is a 30-foot high natural sandstone bridge, spanning 188 feet. It is wooded above and with a faint road in front. The formation is like a rock terrace, but the center is hollowed out until it reaches a deeper wall.
Four steamboats docked at a wharf on the Mississippi River at Paducah, Kentucky. The wharf consists of a row of buildings along the river; in the foreground is a wide dirt road with some stacked lumber; pedestrians; and a horse-drawn cart.
Paducah, Kentucky's Broadway, a wide street with streetcar tracks, along which a streetcar approaches in the distance; large brick or stone buildings; and utility poles. There are some pedestrians on the street and sidewalk; one holds an umbrella....
About two dozen men pose with a dry docked boat, which has a small cabin. The boat is high above the dock, and ladders run up to the boat. One man sits on the boat with his leg hanging over the edge. The dock is covered in small pieces of wood and...
Domed, one-story building with domed windows and high ceilings, built in 1904 with funding from Andrew Carnegie to establish a public library in Paducah. Stairs with two wreaths carved on either railing rise over the above-ground basement to a...
A steamboat with two large tiers and a small third tier that is inscribed with "Stellawilds" is parked at Paducah Drydock on the Mississippi River. The dry dock is a platform in the river shallows at river height, and has segments of...
Seven cows of various size and a small calf stand in a row (one cow faces backwards) on a field enclosed by a split rail fence topped with barbed wire. G. N. McGrew was a farmer and stock raiser and served nine years on the State Board of...
Lengthwise view of a man sitting beneath Mantel Rock, a bridge like rock formation with a partially connected vertical rock wall blocking its right side.
A two-story brick building with white-clad girls and women sitting in or leaning from a few of its open windows. The building, at which hosiery is produced, emits dark smoke from its chimney. Two white ducks stand at the edge of the dirt sidewalk...
Side view of a Hereford bull standing in front of a building of unpainted wood boards with open sections on its lower level. The bull is dark with a light, curly-haired face and a light chest, belly, feet, horns and tail. A cord is attached to a...
A man stands on a corn shredder in a field of dirt and cropped corn, operating a wheel; another man stands with his arm on the shredder. In front of the shredder a dark horse and a white horse are attached to a cart bearing three barrels. Across...
A steamboat inscribed (although several letters are blocked) "City of Chattanooga," with two large tiers and a small third tier, is parked at Paducah Drydock on the Mississippi River. The dry dock is a platform in the river shallows at...
A two-story white brick house with semicircular Corinthian portico. A buggy and a cart are parked near the house, which is set back from a large lawn spotted with large trees. Built in the 1860s by Edward Anderson, banker Edward Atkins bought the...
Shore; wharf with two wide one-story buildings; and two steamboats on the far side of the wharf in Paducah, Kentucky. A handful of people stand near the water and crowds stand on the wharf and nearest boat.
Dry mill on the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky. Several buildings are visible, as is a wooden structure, possibly a chute; a smokestack; a wagon turned on its side; and a man and a woman. The Sea Coast Mineral Co., Inc., operated dry mill at...
Electric automobiles; Men; Women; Boys; Dwellings; Houses
The McCracken County, Kentucky postmaster's house is a two-story dormered brick house with a corner porch that curves around a turret. A man sits on the porch; a boy sits on a smaller second floor porch; a woman holding a broom stands in the yard,...
Green River furnace, a low building with a central higher section from which two smokestacks emerge, as seen from a distance, with a field and a brick house in the foreground. Several railroad cars are on the tracks leading to the furnace. Kentucky...
Interior of Whitehaven: wide hall with dark floors and walls and lighter woodwork and pillars; the hall leads to a light painted staircase. A delicate potted plant sits on the top step in front of a window on the landing. Along the walls of the...
The central part of the Green River furnace is a small brick building with white arches on its front wall, bordered by two smokestacks. The furnace extends to the sides in low sections and projects forward at both ends. The sections pointing...
