Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
SUNRISE, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (180 ft. x 36 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1897. Owned by Red River Line, she operated on the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Vicksburg. SUNRISE burned at New Orleans, Louisiana on...
A dark-colored horse is stuck in the high branches of a tree, possibly as a result of a tornado. Men in heavy clothing stand in front of the copse of trees.
Stone building with pediment, faux columns, and two large bell towers reads "California" above its arched door; it is a replica of the old Franciscan Mission of La Rabida, at Santa Barbara, recreated for the World's Fair in St. Louis,...
Indoor exhibit with low, sectioned border walls reading "Washington." The centerpiece of the exhibit is a towering, thatched structure with a flag reading "State of Washington" emerging from its pointed top. Behind it, a sign...
James E. "Captain Jim" Howard (standing, center without hat) with employees of the Howard Ship Yard and Dock Company at a picnic, circa 1930. Most of the image is missing due to paper stuck on the negative.
Floods--Ohio River; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company; Boat & ship industry
According to the photographer's notes, this is Section 4 of the flooded Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana, as seen from the "roof of the mould loft, Apl. 2 at 10:15," but much of the image is...
Floods--Ohio River; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company; Boat & ship industry; Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats
Looking up river at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana, during the 1913 Ohio River flood. Much of the image is missing because of paper stuck to the negative, but an unfinished hull is on the ways in the foreground and...
Floods--Ohio River; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company; Boat & ship industry; Cities & towns
Looking west over the lower section of Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana during the 1907 Ohio River flood. Paper is stuck to the edges of the negative.
A woman wearing a long white Victorian dress with white boots, a straw hat, and a bouquet of flowers stuck in the waistband, poses outside a brick building. Title supplied by cataloger.
Covered wagons; Carts & wagons; Mules; Dirt roads; Men
A mule-drawn wagon full of merchandise is stuck in the mud on the road to Oneida. The drivers and observers appear to be sharing a laugh. Professor James Anderson Burns, in a derby hat, is on the right.
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Joseph Hooker (1814-1879), a career soldier and Union major general in the United States Civil War. His nickname, "Fighting Joe" Hooker, came from a clerical error that stuck. Hooker is best remembered for his stunning defeat...
Oil and acrylic on canvas. “Salle has cultivated a very urbane way of representing stereotypes, taken from the mass media and the world of art, which has affinities with Jasper Johns’ early classicism, such as the Target with Boxes. Parts of...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Symbols; Lust; Erotica; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Human body; Body parts; Women; Men; Portraits; Self-portraits; Nudes; Clothing & dress; Footwear; Shoes; Keys (Hardware); Fireworks; Firecrackers; Explosives;...
"The dedication reads 'Painted for Paul Éluard by his friend Salvador Dalí'. Éluard, who enjoyed his erotica as much as Dali, must have been impressed by this tour de force." (Caption); "One of his earliest ventures was Board of...
"Gala-Leda rendered 'in accordance with the modern "nothing touches" theory of intra-atomic physica' (Dali)." (Caption); Dali himself was only too happy to admit his debt to Gala. In the early 1930s he had begun to sign his...
