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....
A flooded house and street in Port Fulton or Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1913. According to the photographer's notes, this is "Ed Hoover's (?) house" on "Apr. 2, 1913 at 3:10."
Buildings; Industrial facilities; Household soap; Cleaning; Laundry; Colgate-Palmolive Company
A man directs a large rectangular-shaped item being lowed by a piece of machinery in a factory or warehouse with a high ceiling and rows of windows. Stacks of pallets are in the background.
A man in a rowboat paddles among damaged houses and shantyboats during the 1907 Ohio River flood. According to the photographer's notes, this picture was taken on January 7, 1907 at 2 P.M.
Snow; Ice; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
A man sits on the snow covered deck of a boat that is under construction on the ways at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana in January 1910. According to the photographer's notes, the boat is "Gil's."
Floods--Ohio River; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company; Boat & ship industry
A man, perhaps Edmonds J. Howard, stands on an unfinished hull in Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana during the 1913 Ohio River flood. The sternwheel of the steamboat BOAZ is visible in the background.
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...
A tall, ornamental pillar marks the Louisville, Kentucky, approach to the Municipal Bridge. Now known as the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge or the Second Street Bridge, it spans the Ohio River between Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville,...
A two-story brick building damaged by a tornado in Jeffersonville, Indiana in March, 1890. Three unidentified men are on the sidewalk outside the fence and others are examining the damage more closely. The roof and parts of the upper level...
Ferries; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
A. BALDWIN, a center wheel ferry with steel catamaran hulls (127 ft. x 58.9 ft. x 7.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1905. Owned by Union Ferry Co., A. BALDWIN operated in the New Orleans area carrying up to thirty-five automobiles and 231...
