Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
According to the photographer's notes, "Raft in river showing boats on grade. Raft in foreground showing how the logs were held together. Saplings called tie poles were laid crosswise and holes were bored through them into the log--then an oak...
A steersman guides a raft into the treacherous "Narrows" near Patty's Rock on the South Fork of the Kentucky River near Oneida. A johnboat sits on the raft. Timber was rafted down river every spring.
A steersman guides a log raft into the treacherous "Narrows" near Patty's Rock on the South Fork of the Kentucky River near Oneida. A johnboat sits on the raft. Timber was rafted down river every spring.
A steersman guides a log raft into the "Narrows" on the South Fork of the Kentucky River near Oneida. A johnboat sits on the raft. Timber was rafted down river every spring.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Gunboats; Vehicles
Drawing labeled, "U.S. steamer Tyler and mortar boat." The Tyler has vertical sides and a domed section. The mortar boat, on the nearby shore, has a slanted pentagon shape and square windows and floats atop a square raft, only slightly...
Barges; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Five men ride a dump scow barge down the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The shipyard's raft of logs for future boats and the sidewheel packet KATE ADAMS (Way #3217) are just down river...
Professor James Anderson Burns sits on a stump along the bank of the South Fork of the Kentucky River with his foot resting on a log raft. He wears a suit and a straw hat. Other log rafts are in water behind him. This photograph was attributed to...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: illustrated title page for "The Child's Grammar," by E.M. Murch (with picture of outdoor scene of girl reading aloud to other children, most of them seated and holding books); chemistry...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the caterpillars on leaves, the fossil, the conch shell, the deer by the body of water, the man leaning toward the dog, and the horses running past trees, the images...
Flooded street lined by houses and apartment buildings with a Standard Oil gas station and University Pharmacy to the right. Two men stand on a raft made of barrels and a flat piece of wood. Labeled time is 10:35. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood...
Two men row a raft through flooded street in front of Churchill Downs racetrack during 1937 Flood. Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "R.G. Potter, Collection / University [crossed out] of Louisville Trustees [crossed out] / During the...
Movie theater with a marquee advertising a movie with George Raft called "Johnny Angel" and a second movie called "Behind City Lights." Address: Rialto, 616 South 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
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"[…] the German painter Gerhard Richter […] looked back mournfully on painting's loss of public function in his October 18, 1977 (1988), a cycle of 15 paintings which mimicked the appearances of blurred black-and-white photographs. Richter...
