Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Starboard side of NEW SOUTH at the bank of the Ohio River. NEW SOUTH, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (257 ft. x 42.6 ft. x 7 ft.), was built in 1887 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Owned by Shelby & Perkins...
Wagon trains; Westward movement; Discovery & exploration; Spinning; Women; Men; Waterwheels; Children; Animals; Shipwrecks; Lifeboats; Military personnel; Uniforms; Play (Recreation); Toys; Indians of North America; Ships; Tickets
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: cover of "Morton & Griswold's Western Farmer's Almanac," signed "Hartwell" and featuring images of settlers heading west in covered wagon train and at work on...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the fox hiding from dog behind a log, the boy carving a Jack o'lantern, the blackbird, the turkey and snake, and the laborers on the riverfront, the images duplicate the...