Mary Johnston as Elaine and a boatman in a reenactment of Tennyson's poem, "Lily Maid of Astolat." A handwritten inscription by someone other than the photographer says that the boatman is Kate Matthews, but an article in "The...
Ship with the name 'Maid of the Mist' painted on the side docked at a pier. People are on the second level of the ship. A rowboat is at the front of the dock. A wood ramp leads up to shore, with a boy standing at the front end of the walkway. In...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Fires; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ISLAND MAID, a stern-wheel excursion boat with wood hull (190 ft. x 36 ft. x 5 ft.), was originally built by Howard as G.W. HILL in 1909. In 1923, she was sold to Coney Island Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio and renamed ISLAND MAID. After a fire in spring...
A cabinet card of the exterior of a stately brick house with an overgrown lawn, apparently belonging to Henry Bell, Jean Thomas' uncle. A little girl wearing a dress with pinafore standing outside one door of the house is Henry's daughter, Nellie...
Although not identified, this young girl probably represents the milkmaid in the nursery rhyme, "Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid?" In the rhyme, she responds," I'm going a-milking sir." Title supplied by cataloger.
Ship docked at a wooden pier with waterfall in the background. Men stand on different levels of the ship. On the interior side of the dock are rocks and a rowboat. Title: 4203. The Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls, U.S.A. Text on right: Entered...
Address: 2400 block of Bardstown Road. Vehicles park along the muddy edge of Bardstown Road. Utility lines trace along either side of the street. A row of businesses is separated from the paved street by a dirt expanse of several feet. The business...
A man stands near a table with a Hoover vacuum cleaner on it. To the right is a cut-out advertisement of a woman in a maid's uniform. In front of the cut-out is a vacuum. The table in the left foreground holds a Westinghouse sewing machine. The...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
G.W. HILL, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (190 ft. x 36 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1909. Owned by G. W. Hill, the boat operated in the St. Louis -Calhoun County area initially and, after being converted to an excursion boat, on the...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
DUFFY, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (125 ft. x 25 ft. x 4.6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1921. Owned by Ohio River Sand Company in Louisville, Kentucky, DUFFY operated in the Louisville area. The Duffy became a familiar sight in...
Curtain call on stage following a performance (presumably the one depicted in Image Number ULPA 1980.20.1142). The set is inside a stone building with bars on the windows and a single cot, and the cast includes seven men (five wearing long jackets,...
Full-length portrait of actress Annie Leslie in what appears to be a maid's costume. She is standing in front of a tree, with a country scene on the backdrop. She wears a short-sleeve dress with a tight black bodice and a lighter-colored,...
Three-quarter length character portrait of Christie McDonald Jefferson seated, wearing an oversize hat and elaborate off-the-shoulder dress. An equally elaborate cape is draped behind her on the chair. Canadian actress Christie McDonald was born...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Full-length character portrait of Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink in costume as a maid (wearing a long dress with apron and scullery hat). Born Ernestine (Tini) Rössler in Lieben (near Prague), Austria on June 15, 1861, the contralto and...
Portrait of actor, director, and lyricist Richard F. Carroll (also known as R. F. Carroll) wearing a tuxedo jacket with white bow tie. Carroll, born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1865, starred in three productions at Macauley's Theatre:...
Full-length portrait of four little people (two men and two women) in wedding attire. This may be a portrait of the actual "General Tom Thumb" (Charles Sterwood Stratton, 1838-1883), a dwarf who became famous traveling in P.T. Barnum's...
Full-length character portrait of Mitzi Hajos seated on an upholstered bench, wearing a sleeveless velvet dress with patterned stockings and high heels, with a feather boa behind her. Hungarian-born actress Magdalena Hajos performed as Mitzi Hajos...
Full-length character portrait of Fanny Rice in the role of Lucy (maid to Lydia Languish) in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play "The Rivals," which toured in 1896. Rice wears a hat with flowers and gown with bustle. She was born in Lowell,...
Children; Men; Women; Animals; Toys; School children; Reading; Sewing
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: Baby playing with doll in pillow-filled basket, with dog on pillow outside basket; seated girl wearing dress with crinolines holds something up to standing woman wearing dress with bustle;...
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...
