Side wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
SPREAD EAGLE in the Ohio River, after being launched at Howard Shipyard. Tugboat FULTON is en route to catch her. SPREAD EAGLE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (225 ft. x 35 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1892. Owned by Eagle Packet...
Vertical pair of signs for Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. The top sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Save Money - More Heat - Less Ash" with a picture of an eagle. The bottom sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Sterns Coal Co.-...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Stern and port side of GREY EAGLE, almost complete, sitting with steam up, at the bank of Ohio River at Howard Shipyard. GREY EAGLE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (250 ft. x 40 ft. x 5.5 ft.), was built by Howard in 1892. Owned by Eagle Packet...
Owned by Baton Rouge & Bayou Sara Packet Co., GOLDEN EAGLE, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (175 ft. x 35 ft. x 5.2 ft.), operated on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Originally built in 1904 by Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville,...
Ferries; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Bow and port side of MADISON at the bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard. Bow of GREY EAGLE can be seen behind MADISON. MADISON, a center wheel ferry with wood hull (157.4 ft. x 45.4 x 6.1 ft.), was built in 1892 at Howard Ship Yards and...
"In the year before Pollock's premature death, Krasner made powerful collages, possibly drawing on the huge semi-abstract 'paper-cuts' that the veteran French Modernist Henri Matisse was producing around this time. In one of these collages she...
