Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Starboard side of CITY OF PROVIDENCE on the Ohio River. CITY OF PROVIDENCE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (273.7 ft. x 44.5 ft. x 7.8 ft.), was built in 1880 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Owned by Anchor...
Historic buildings; Churches; Baptist churches; African Americans; Men
Old Providence Church, a simple stone building with small, shuttered windows, located off of New Boonesboro Road in Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky. William Bush, a member of Daniel Boone's second Kentucky expedition, built the stone structure...
Long room with high ceilings and a decorative carpet. Upholstered chairs line the wall on the right with a banister and chandeliers visible in the background. Title: New York and Vicinity. Text on left: American Scenery. Text on right: American...
Railroad station in the Boston area. Building with arched windows and a triangular pattern along the roof. The platform and a boardwalk are in front. A corner of a building is visible in the background. Text on left: Vicinity of Boston. Text on...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team)
Ira Thomas or Ira Felix Thomas (1881-1958). Color portrait of Ira Thomas with the Philadelphia Athletics. An elephant is in the top left corner and 'Athletics' is in the top right. Verso: Ira Thomas. Ira Thomas, one of the Philadelphia Athletics'...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
STANDARD, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (130.2 ft. x 30.8 ft. x 5.8 ft.), was built at Howard in 1914. Owned by Standard Oil Company, STANDARD operated on the Mississippi River between Alton, Illinois and Memphis, Tennessee. This was...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Stern and starboard side of KATIE, tied to the bank of a river. KATIE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (284 ft. x 43 ft. x 8.7 ft.), was built in 1871 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. KATIE operated on the lower...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
PETERS LEE in the Ohio River after launch at Howard Shipyard. A tugboat is ready to catch her. PETERS LEE, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (220 ft. x 42 ft. x 7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1899. Owned by Lee Line in Memphis, Tennessee, PETERS...
Portrait of performer Etienne Girardot leaning his cheek on his left index finger, wearing a three-piece checked suit with bow tie. Born in London, England, on February 22, 1856, Girardot starred in productions of "Miss Francis of Yale"...
Theatre Magazine page featuring actress and director Ethel Barrymore, who was born August 15, 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents (Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew), siblings (John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore), and other...
Retouched portrait of George M. Cohan in suit jacket and tie. Performer/producer/composer/lyricist/writer Cohan's life story was immortalized in the 1943 film "Yankee Doodle Dandy," starring James Cagney as Cohan. Cohan was born July 4,...
Three-quarter length portrait of left profile of Julia Marlowe, wearing a fur-trimmed coat and muff with a black hat. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born Sarah Frances Frost on August 17, 1865 in England. She spent her late childhood in the...
Three-quarter length portrait of unidentified man standing with hand in left pocket, wearing a tuxedo with white bow tie. Location of photo studio: Providence (R.I.). Title supplied by cataloger.
A railroad crossing sign stands on a small patch of grass. The white sign is framed by the foliage of trees in the background. Printed on the crossbars are "Railroad" and "Crossing". Print on the vertical post: "Look Both...
Large, two-story piece of equipment identified as an engine with at least three sets of ladders attached. Across a beam near the base of the machine are the words 'Geo. H. Corliss Providence R.I.' Title: 496- Corliss Engine. Text on left:...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Language; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Advertisements; Advertising; Slogans; Commercialism; Communication; Communication devices
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Advertising; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Communication; Communication devices; Language; Slogans; Cities & towns; Night; Night photographs; Architecture; Buildings; Walls; Streets; Roads;...
Excerpt from the Survival series. "Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island...
Prints; Broadsides; Broadsides; Advertisements; Advertising; Language; Communication; Communication devices; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Punctuation; Question marks
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
