Facing west overlooking the waterfront of Louisville, Kentucky, this scene shows riverboats docked on the Ohio River. The Fourteenth Street Bridge crosses the river to Indiana. Railroad cars and tracks can be seen along the Louisville side of the...
Portland riverfront at Water Street between 33rd & 35th Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. A photograph of when Water Street was first built. Telephone poles have already been installed left of a road shaped dirt clearing (still containing weeds)...
Wide expanse of railroad tracks at the riverfront to the Ohio River with the Big Four Bridge in the distance. At the tracks are platforms and a train station.
View of 4th Street from the riverfront at the Ohio River looking south. A large tunnel has been dug for pipes from the waterfront south along 4th Street towards elevated railroad tracks racks labeled Illinois Central Railroad.
View of 4th Street from the riverfront at the Ohio River looking south. A large tunnel has been dug for pipes from the waterfront south along 4th Street towards elevated railroad tracks. Men work in the open hole.
A man in a diving suit stands at the edge of a wall at a construction site on the Ohio River at the riverfront and 4th Street. More men, not in diving suits, are on a barge or platform next to the diver.
Rivers; Waterfronts; Construction; Maintenance & repair; Sewerage; Men; Construction workers
4th Street at the riverfront looking south. A construction site where 4th Street meets the Ohio River. A rectangular-shaped hole supported by wood and concrete is at the end of a pathway down 4th Street that has been dug out. Men and construction...
Rivers; Waterfronts; Construction; Maintenance & repair; Sewerage; Men; Construction workers
A large pipe is carried by a crane at the Ohio River where 4th Street meets the riverfront. Men stand on the edges of a wall that has been built in the water.
Snow and ice covered bank of the Ohio River with buildings and men in the background. Caption: New Albany, Ind. Riverfront, Bank St. to Glassworks, Winter 1879. On back: C. Heimberger, Photographer. 103 Pearl Street. New Albany, Ind. Handwritten on...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
“Johnson is a practitioner of a style sometimes labeled ‘abstract illusionism’, making paintings where apparently solid but abstract forms float in illusionary space. Riverfront Break may have been suggested by the industrial forms of the...
Industry; Sand; Bridges; Transportation; Rivers; Waterfronts; Big Four Bridge
Address: 129-133 River Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Sand is heaped in piles at the Ohio River Sand Company along the Ohio River, next to the buildings for Pittsburgh Fuel Company. Rows of railroad cars are parked next to the businesses. Three boats...
Barges; Hoisting machinery; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Looking down the ways toward the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard at Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. A crane, barges and other boats line the river bank.
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Looking down the ways toward the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard at Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. Barges and other boats line the river bank.
View of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, with buildings submerged by floodwater. Neon sign on top of building reads: "The Gateway to the South Louisville Gas & Electric Co." Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "Louisville river...
