Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Shipping; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Packet ALBERTA No.3 unloading bales of cotton. ALBERTA No.3, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (145 ft. x 28 ft. x 3.6 ft.), was built in 1884 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Owned by A. B. Smith, ALBERTA No.3 on...
Architecture; Buildings; Religious facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Cults; Sculpture; Portraits; Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Clothing & dress; Architectural elements; Walls; Pilasters;...
Shows "the end wall (frescoed) and the side wall (on the south side) with the reconstruction of the architectural order." (Caption, p. 145); "The Hall of the Colossus was deliberately set in the northeast corner of the Forum, at the...
Santa Claus; Wreaths; Girls; New Year cards; Clocks & watches
Santa Claus pokes his head through a wreath of holly and ivy toward a little girl in a short dress. Santa is standing behind a large clock face that reads 12:00. Postmarked 1908 on verso. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, "New Year Post...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ISSAQUENA, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (145.5 ft. x 30 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1912. Owned by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Vicksburg District, ISSAQUENA operated on the lower Mississippi River. ISSAQUENA was renamed...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
JULIEN POYDRAS, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (145 ft. x 28 ft. x 4 ft.), was built at Howard in 1898. Owned by Baton Rouge & Bayou Sara Packet Co., JULIEN POYDRAS operated on the lower Mississippi River. JULIEN POYDRAS was bought by...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
LORETTA HOWARD, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (145 ft. x 30 ft. x 4.9 ft.), was built at Howard in 1929. Owned by Captain Jim Howard, LORETTA HOWARD operated on the Ohio River. She was launched by President Herbert Hoover on October 23,...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Heads (Anatomy); Portraits; Men; Philosophers; People associated with education & communication; Beards; Mustaches
“The same courtyard in which the Doryphoros herm was found also housed other herms and busts, including a collection of portraits of Greek philosophers, displayed between columns. One of the finest portraits is a bronze bust of a bearded man...
