Sketch of champion harness racer Prince Wilkes, with the horse racing and pulling a jockey in a sulky, or two-wheeled cart. "D. W. Smith, 1887" is written in the left corner, and "2.14 3/4" and "Prince Wilkes" in the...
Full-length character portrait of young actress Adele Belgarde wearing a knee-length dress and hat with white feathers, and standing on a rocky slope (in front of a backdrop of the outdoors), holding onto a long spear. Belgarde starred in two...
Portrait of right profile of performer Alice Oates wearing a hat, earrings, dramatic eye makeup, and a fringed shawl. Born Alice Merritt in Nashville, Tennessee in 1849, she married fellow actor James A. Oates and produced burlesque and comic opera...
Full-length character portrait of comedic actress and producer Annie Pixley. She stands in front of a tree, wearing a bonnet, dress, and striped apron. Pixley starred in three productions at Macauley's Theatre, in February 1884, March 1886, and...
Medical education; Medical students; Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville (Ky.)
Catalog for Hospital College of Medicine 1887. Includes faculty, program information, enrolled students for 1886, graduates 1874-1886, and university information. Printed on cover: Announcement of the Regular Session of 1887 of the Hospital College...
Medical education; Medical students; Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville (Ky.)
Catalog for Hospital College of Medicine 1888. Includes faculty, program information, enrolled students 1887, graduates 1884-1887, and university information. Printed on cover: Announcement of the Regular Session of 1888 of the Hospital College of...
Portrait of actor Barney Reynolds looking straight ahead. He is balding, and wears a tuxedo with white bow tie. "Evangeline," starring George Fortesque and Alice Butler, was staged at Macauley's Theatre on September 29, 1887, the date of...
Portrait of Bessie Sanson. She wears her hair atop her head, a cross around her neck, and a shirred white dress. Sanson appeared at Macauley's Theatre in "A Rag Baby" in February 1887 and "Little Puck" in September 1890 and...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
BIG KANAWHA, on the Ohio River near Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. A stern wheel packet with a wood hull (152 ft. x 30 ft. x 4.5 ft.), BIG KANAWHA was built at Madison, Indiana in 1887. Owned by Captain Marlin Brown,...
Three-quarter length portrait of stage and screen actor Charles B. Wells, who was born ca. 1851 and died October 14, 1924 in Bayside, New York. Here he wears a suit jacket, vest with watch fob, tie, and striped trousers. He has a mustache, and...
Portrait of left profile of performer Charles Couldock, an older man wearing a disagreeable expression and a three-piece suit with bow tie. Couldock appeared at Macauley's Theatre in "Hazel Kirke" (December 1881 and March 1882) and...
Charles Griffith Richie was born in Louisville in 1868. He attended Male High School, graduating in 1887. He was admitted to the law department of the University of Louisville, where he graduated with honors in 1889. In 1894, he was the Republican...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Starboard side of CITY OF MONROE, probably on the Mississippi River in Louisiana. CITY OF MONROE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (275 ft. x 45 ft. x 8 ft.), was built in 1887 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana....
Portrait of writer, producer, and performer Clay Clement, Sr., wearing a suit jacket and dark necktie. Clay Clement starred in seven productions at Macauley's Theatre between 1887 and 1909. There is no record of a performance on March 28, 1898, the...
Three-quarter length portrait of right profile of man wearing tuxedo with tails and holding eyeglasses in his right hand, with a startled expression on his face. He is a member of Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard, a comedy troupe which performed at...
Full-length character portrait of a man in blackface wearing a top hat, overcoat, and boots. He is a member of Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard, a comedy troupe which performed at Macauley's Theatre in "Natural Gas" in January 1887, April...
Three-quarter length portrait of man with mustache and hair parted in the middle, wearing a pin-striped suit, ascot, and overcoat, and standing with right hand in jacket pocket and left hand holding a bowler hat and leather gloves. He is a member...
Full-length portrait of balding man with long sideburns seated on ivy-covered stone wall (with house visible on backdrop), wearing a police uniform (belted jacket with star-shaped badge; cuffed pants; and spats), holding a billy club. He is a...
Full-length portrait of balding man with long sideburns sauntering on outdoor set (with house visible on backdrop), wearing a police uniform (cap; belted jacket with star-shaped badge; cuffed pants; and spats), holding a billy club. He is a member...
Full-length character portrait of stout man standing in front of backdrop of framed landscape, wearing checked three-piece suit with hat. He is a member of Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard, a comedy troupe which performed at Macauley's Theatre in...
