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. Industrial equipment, buildings and utility lines mark the property. A fuel company boat is docked along the river and...
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...
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...
Aerial photographs; Industry; Clocks & watches; Colgate Company
This aerial view of southern Indiana catches the very edge of the Ohio River and the area around the Colgate & Co. plant in Clarksville. Even from the air the company's signs and large clock are visible. Besides the name of the company the...
A man stands fishing at the mouth of Fourteen Mile Creek, a creek in Clark County, Indiana, with the Ohio River in the background. It is so named because it is fourteen miles away from the Falls of the Ohio. The area was known as Fern Grove in the...
Swimming pools; Swimmers; Bathing suits; Amusement parks; People
This scene shows the new swimming pool installed at Rose Island in Indiana. In this photo, several young men are in the pool playing with two buoys and balancing on a circular object. The men's swimming suits come up over their chests. Young women...
Several ponies including a foal are in a small pasture with a wood fence. A merry-go-round turns at the right of the picture and crowds of people wander the Rose Island attractions.
Streets; City & town life; Automobiles; Stores & shops; Horses; Carriages & coaches; Buildings; Transportation
A median separates two brick streets in a business district of Jeffersonville, Indiana. At the end of the median is a long low building with a rounded roof where a number of horse-and-carriage rigs are parked. More carriages and cars are parked...
Bridges; Construction; Smokestacks; Electric signs
This view captures a portion of the Municipal Bridge from Jeffersonville, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky. Two concrete columns act as the base for large lights on the Indiana side of the bridge. The columns each have a tableau and the word Indiana...
Children and some adults play in the water of a swimming pool at Rose Island in Indiana. A few wear swimming caps. Two men in white suits stand at the edge of the pool next to a child. Some swimmers sit on bleachers as does a man in a suit without...
A crowd of people lines the sidewalk in Jeffersonville, Indiana during the opening of the Municipal Bridge which spans the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. A police officer stands in the middle of the street at the beginning of the bridge....
James E. "Captain Jim" Howard (center) with his son, Ed (second from left) and three other men at the Howard Shipyard annual company picnic at Rose Island. There appears to be a baseball or softball game being played in the background.
A man is standing on Devil's Backbone, a rock formation and peninsula formed by the flow of Fourteen Mile Creek into the Ohio River. A group of people are further up on the rock formation. Devil's Backbone is currently situated outside Charlestown...
Seven men in a canoe on a body of water with trees on the shore to the left. Three of the men stand in the boat with the other four sitting, one of whom holds the oars.
Exterior of corner Kroger/Piggly Wiggly grocery store at the time of the 55th birthday sale (likely the 55th anniversary of the founding of Kroger, in 1883). 100 pound bags (possibly of potatoes) are displayed outside the store, with produce...
