An African-American man holds a shovel while standing in front of a pipe in a narrow trench filled with water. The trench is part of a larger one supported by walls as part of a sewer construction and installation project. Other men stand nearby....
Address: 319 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. A wrecking ball swings from a crane at the construction site of the Brown Theatre. Two men sit in the box of the crane which has the words "Erie Steam Shovel Co. / Erie, PA." written on it....
Rites & ceremonies; Building construction; Blueprints; Shovels
Address: 829 Logan Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Four men pose for a group portrait commemorating the breaking of ground for a new building on the lot at Logan and Breckenridge Streets. All four wear suits, overcoats, and hats. One is holding...
A group of men with mule-drawn wagons stand on a road with a table in the middle of it. The table has a stack of cans arranged on it and there is a shovel, axe and sledge hammer arranged leaning on one another in the road in front of the table.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Furnaces; Huts
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, in a yard inside a stockade fence, a man holds a shovel to an opening in a large oven under a roof. Two men, one in a sombrero, stand by two long troughs; one trough is resting on the other. The men are...
Iron ore (15 feet thick) in a mountainside in Bath County, Kentucky. A shovel, two pickaxes, and a spading fork lie on the ground around the mining site.
Zorn Avenue, looking north, Louisville, Kentucky. At the right of the photograph is a head on view of a road. Left of the road is an overgrown railroad track. Left of the track is a wide band of rocks in which two men are standing, one in shirt...
Woman in classical dress kneels with a shovel planting a small tree. The image is framed by a circular scroll with text inside a rectangular border. At the top of the design is the phrase "Ex Libris." Inside the circular scroll is the...
World War, 1914-1918; Trench warfare; Soldiers; Digging; Shovels
French soldier stands and tosses dirt from his shovel as he digs a trench, probably in northeastern France, during World War I. He has a cigarette in his mouth and his jacket is lying on the ground to his left.
Buildings; Building construction; Kosair Temple (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 224 E. Broadway. This scene captures the beginning work of constructing Kosair Temple. The lot had been cleared and flattened. A man works a steam shovel as others work around a cart with the wording "Highland Motor Transfer Co."...
Estates; Stone buildings; Vines; Yard ornaments; Gardening equipment & supplies
Ivy-covered entrance to a stone tool house on the grounds of Clovercroft, family home of photographer Kate Matthews. An anvil, a stone rooster, shovel and rake sit on the ledge of the stairwell leading to the door of the tool house. Photographer...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: cows drinking from stream by mill; man on horse talking to man standing by fence with shovel; men on horseback passing through jungle populated by snakes, monkeys, birds, and leopards; number 10; child...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: woman seated in chair, reading; boy in sailor suit standing on shore, pointing to approaching ship; children riding in horse-drawn sleigh; dog and sheep; man on horseback approaching...
A collapsed house at the corner of Kentucky U.S. 42 and another street. A man is on the sidewalk with a shovel in front of a damaged house. Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky....
Intersection of two tunnels underground illuminated by three large lights. There are holes in the two sides, rubble on the ground, and a shovel leaning against a stone wall. Title supplied by cataloger.
Construction; Maintenance & repair; Sewerage; Construction equipment; Men; Construction workers; Buildings; Houses
Three men stand on a piece of construction machinery with a shovel or scoop at the front of it in a yard. To the left are a house and small outbuildings. Near Raymond Avenue, now South Ewing Avenue.
600 block of south 4th Street looking north. A dump truck filled with bags in front of Hubbuch Brothers and Wellendorff store. An African American man stands with a shovel behind a pile of gravel. Next to the store is a wood fence with painted...
