This thesis is a historical examination of the relationship between the railroad industry and state government in Kentucky during the nineteenth century. The thesis begins with an examination of the legal culture of the early nineteenth century and...
Medical education; Medical students; Kentucky School of Medicine
Catalog for the Kentucky School of Medicine for 1900. Includes list of board of regents and faculty, hospital staff, pictures of the campus, program information, and students enrolled. Printed on cover: 1850-1900 The Golden Anniversary. Kentucky...
Old U. S. Custom House lobby, Louisville, Kentucky, 1900. The lobby is festooned with large, gathered, striped ribbons and a United States flag, similarly gathered and curved. Seating visible below. Photograph on cardboard backing. On back of...
Barges; Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Men riding wooden barge named "Maud" down the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana in 1900. Stern wheel packet ALMA is under construction at the bank of the river. ALMA (Way #0189),...
University of Louisville. Medical Dept.; Medical students; Teachers
University of Louisville medical department 1900 - Composite photograph for the University of Louisville school of medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students for the medical school class of 1900. Individual oval-shaped...
Medical education; Medical students; Kentucky University. Medical Department
Catalog for Kentucky University medical department, 1900. Includes list of board of curators and faculty, program information, including curriculum and admission requirements, and a list of enrolled students for 1899. Printed on cover: Kentucky...
Louisville College of Dentistry; Dental students; Teachers
Louisville College of Dentistry 1900 - Composite photographs of graduating students in school of dentistry at the Louisville College of Dentristy, the Central University of Kentucky. Oval individual portraits of males in the dental school in...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Clergy; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Reverend Henry Sweets of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a sack suit. He was Secretary of Education and Ministerial Relief of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. The photograph is badly creased down the center and marked with...
Portrait of Louis Stewart of Louisville, Kentucky. He has a full walrus mustache and is wearing a sack suit. The photograph is damaged with discolorations from age. Handwritten on back of image: Board of Trade; 1900. Stickers on back: Louisville.
Clubs; Organizations; Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Ky.)
Knights Templar in parade on Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Photo taken from a height on the left side of the street shows the Knights Templar and their horses in two rows, as well as the buildings on the right side of the street. The crowd...
Statue of William Goebel, former governor of Kentucky, unveiled March 11, 1914, in Frankfort, Kentucky. A dark statue of Governor Goebel stands with his arms crossed, wearing a robe. The statue is on a white, square pedestal which reads,...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
COL. A. MACKENZIE, a side-wheel snag-boat (160 ft. x 33 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1900. Owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, she initially operated on the upper Mississippi River. When Captain David Tipton died at her wheel in Lake...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ROSE HITE, a sternwheel packet with wood hull (155 ft. x 28 ft. x 4 ft.), was built in 1895 at Howard Ship Yard and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Owned by Louisville & Evansville Packet Co., ROSE HITE operated on the Ohio River...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
INDIANA, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (285 ft. x 45 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1900. Owned by Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co., INDIANA operated on the Ohio River between Louisville and Cincinnati, replacing the City of...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
M.W. KELLY, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (140 ft. x 32 ft. x 4 ft.), was built at Howard in 1900. M.W. KELLY operated on the Chattahoochee River. She was dismantled in 1906.
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
E.T. SLIDER, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (110 ft. x 24 ft. x 3.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1900. Owned by Slider Sand & Gravel Co., she operated in the Louisville area until she was dismantled in 1914.
Full-length character portrait of stage and screen star Melbourne MacDowell wearing a tunic, leggings, boots with spurs, and carrying a sword. MacDowell was born in 1857 in South River, New Jersey. He married fellow performer Fanny Davenport...
Portrait of right profile of performer and producer Tim Murphy, wearing a bowl haircut and a tweed jacket and tie with stickpin. Murphy starred in seventeen productions at Macauley's Theatre from 1891 to 1908, including "A Bachelor's...
Three-quarter length portrait of performer William C. Masson wearing a three-piece striped suit, pocket watch on fob, tie with stickpin in shape of horn, and fedora. Inscription on mount, lower center: Yours Always W.C. Masson 1900. Location of...
