Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
WASH GRAY, a steam propelled tugboat with wood hull (90 ft. x 19 ft. x 8 ft.), was built at Howard in 1895. Owned by John Huffman, WASH GRAY operated in the Louisville area. She was sold to the Combine in 1900 and then to Mexico in 1920. She sank...
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...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; New York Giants (Baseball team)
Chief Meyers or John Tortes Meyers (1880-1971). Color portrait of Chief Meyers with the New York Giants. Verso: An 'NY' is in the top left corner and 'Giants' is in the top right. Verso: John T. Meyers. 'Chief' Meyers, who did the larger part of...
Boy on a porch of a log cabin in Letcher County, Kentucky "gritting" corn by scraping an ear of corn along a rough board and catching the grits in a large bowl.
Portraits; Men; Baseball players; Uniforms; People associated with entertainment & sports
Archie McKain of Louisville, Kentucky wearing his Louisville Colonels uniform, catching a ball. The photograph is slightly warping on the sides. Handwritten on back of image: Louisville Colonel pitcher. Stamped on back: November 11, 1935.
Four 1942 Louisville Colonel players during practice at Parkway Field, Louisville, Kentucky. The players practice throwing and catching. A farm team for the Boston Red Sox at this time, the Colonels played in the American Association. Built in...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: illustrated title page for "Introductory Lessons in English Grammar," by Noble Butler (with picture of three children seated at table reading a book); man bent, holding hat...
Animals; Street railroads; Children; Play (Recreation); Toys; Writing; Reading; Sleeping; Men; Lathes; Shepherds; Barrels; Women; Flowers; Plants; Trees; Urns; Inkstands
Woodblock prints of, from top left and starting with larger images: fox ready to pounce on rabbit, hidden under tree root; 5-cent stamp, bearing image of horse-drawn trolley; mother cat leaping with arched back toward dog to protect her litter of...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the caged lion, the saddle, and the man wearing vest resting on log, holding axe, while boy carries sheaves of wheat, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this...
