View from the yard of 4404 Winnrose Way. The apparent bend in the road is flooded. Telephone poles and lawn landscaping can be seen rising from the water. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
Two sets of railroad tracks curving to the right around a tree-covered mountain. The curve is known as Horseshoe Curve. A man stands to the right of the tracks in front of a drop-off. Text on left: American Scenery, Penn'a. Railroad. Text on right:...
Aerial view of town showing buildings, trees, and the river in the distance in the far right. DePauw's American Plate Glass Works is identified at the river bend. Similar view to 1989.14.44.
Bend in the Tennessee River, around a hill. A mountain scene, with forested mountainsides; some of the leaves are orange. Number 418 in a series. Postage requirements date this card to before 1952. Published by Asheville Post Card Co.
Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge across the Ohio River from Louisville's 14th Street to Clarksville, Indiana, photographed in Louisville, Kentucky. Photograph shows three bridges connecting the City of Louisville with Indiana at the outer river bend....
Laborers; Quarrying; Rocks; United States. Works Progress Administration
Loading rock at Wolfe County, Kentucky. Seven young men in overalls or jeans and white shirts surround a wheelbarrow and bend to hit rocks with mallets. The rocks are fist sized and light in color. The men are surrounded by a wall of dark boulders.
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
TENNESSEE (Way #5339), a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (170 ft. x 32 ft. x 5.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1897. Owned by St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., TENNESSEE) operated on the Tennessee and Ohio Rivers between Nashville,...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF SAVANNAH (Way #1136), a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (200 ft. x 36 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1902. Owned by St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., she operated on the Mississippi River and sank at Dog Tooth Bend about...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Bow and port side of stern-wheeler C.E. SATTERLEE, with steam up at Howard Shipyard on the Ohio River. C.E. SATTERLEE, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (162 ft. x 30 ft. x 4.5 ft.), was built by Howard in 1889. Owned by Texas & Pacific...
Sam "Danger" Davidson (right) and others sit on the porch of Henry Davidson's cabin, which was located near the bend of the Danger Branch of Bullskin Creek. Handwritten on bottom border: 457. See ULPA 1982.01.432.p for a different image...
A railroad track bends around a hillside. Steam appears to be coming from a train, or something, just around the bend. Probably in Kentucky between Louisville and London. Title supplied by cataloger.
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); African American college students; College students; Women; Education; African Americans--Education (Higher); African American universities and colleges; Sewing; Sewing machines; Classrooms; Home economics;...
Young women in sewing class at Simmons University with instructors. The chalkboard has instructions for proper sewing techniques, some of which are "No kind of needle work requires a cramp or stoop position. Have your chair square to a table...
Aerial view of town showing buildings, trees, and the river in the distance in the far right. DePauw's American Plate Glass Works is identified at the river bend. Similar view to 1989.14.43. Title supplied by cataloger.
Bend in the Kentucky River, with a high rocky cliff rising above a low-lying bank in the background on the left and a forested, sloping bank in the background on the right. Several farms, including fields and buildings, are visible on the low-lying...
University of Louisville--Students; University of Louisville--Football; University of Louisville--Sports; Football players;
University of Louisville students dressed for an informal football game in 1907. Organized football teams were officially established at U of L in 1912. Most of U of L's football players at the time were medical students. Players wear turtlenecks,...
Film stills; Motion pictures; Processes & techniques; Time; Falling; Metals; Hands; Fingers; Body parts; Locomotion; Human locomotion
"This 3-minute 30-second film, like others produced by Serra in the same year, related to a famous 'verb list' which he compiled in 1967-8. The verb involved in this instance is 'to grasp' but the list also included 'to roll, to crease, to...
