Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson and were managed by Richard M. Hooley (pictured here). Hooley was born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland in 1822 and died in Chicago in 1893. The...
Beds; Brasswork; Mansions; Howard Steamboat Museum
Brass bed in James E. "Captain Jim" Howard's bedroom in the Howard Mansion, now the Howard Steamboat Museum. The bed, which is out of focus in the picture, was purchased at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The image is out of...
Big Four Bridge; Bridges; Railroad bridges; Men; People; Transportation
A man stands at the Louisville side of the Big Four Bridge as a train crosses the Ohio River. The train is Interstate Public Service Co #208, bound for Indianapolis. Along the left section of the bridge is a pedestrian walkway while the center of...
Looking toward Louisville, Kentucky, at the Big Four Railroad Bridge the day after two large spans collapsed during construction. Fifty men were dropped into the icy Ohio River on December 15, 1893, forty of them died.
Looking toward Louisville, Kentucky, at the Big Four Railroad Bridge the day after two large spans collapsed during construction. Fifty men were dropped into the icy Ohio River on December 15, 1893, forty of them died.
Teachers and students, Thirteenth Street School (later Whittier School), 13th and Maple Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1893. A young woman stands at the right as four rows of children sit in front of a light brick wall. The girls wear dresses and...
Buildings; Restaurants; Bars; Vienna Model Bakery & Restaurant (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 133-135 S. Fourth Street (Building no longer exists.) The Vienna Bakery and Restaurant was founded by German immigrant Frank L. Erpeldinger in 1893 and operated as one of downtown Louisville's premiere dining establishments until 1927....
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. Medical Dept.
Address: 101 W. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. At the corner of First and Chestnut Streets stands the Old Medical School Building . Built in 1893 as part of the Louisville Medical College, the white stone building became part of the...
Flowers draped near an inscription: "A very happy Christmas. May Christmas fill they heart with love, they life with holy gladness: and in departing may it leave no afterthought of sadness! -- Edith H. Coghlan" Dated 1893 on verso.
View of the town Mauch Chunk in Pennsylvania, now named Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Town at the base of a hill with a railroad trestle crossing the river that runs along the other edge of town. Title: 7793. Mauch Chunk, American Switzerland, U.S.A....
Curved portion of an elevated railroad with a train approaching the curve on the outside set of tracks. Ships are visible in the water in the background. Title: Elevated Railroad, Coenties Slip, New York, U.S.A. Text on bottom: Copyright, 1893, by...
Exhibition buildings; Buildings; World's Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill.); People
Large crowd of people, mostly men, outside at the World's Fair in Chicago (1893). Some people appear to be climbing or sitting on a pole in front of an arch over the crowd. Title: Entering Midway Plaisance to the World's Fair Grounds, Chicago, U.S....
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actors; Actresses; Men; Women; Boys; Pianos
Group portrait of the Reed and Collier Company acting troupe, which performed "Hoss and Hoss" at Macauley's Theatre twice: on September 14-19, 1891, and April 20-22, 1893. The troupe's co-director, Willie Collier, is also listed as...
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actors; Men; Costumes; Posing
Group portrait of three men from the Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard comedy troupe (presumably John Gilbert, Henry V. Donnelly, and Edward Girard, although not necessarily in that order from left to right), which performed at Macauley's Theatre in...
Kentucky School of Medicine; Medical students; Teachers
Kentucky School of Medicine 1893 - Composite photograph for the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students for the medical school class of 1893. Horseshoe-shaped grouping of individual oval-shaped...
William Lindsay was born 1835 in Virginia. He settled in Clinton in Hickman County, Kentucky, in 1854, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Clinton in 1858. Served as judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals 1870-1878 and as chief...
Lucius P. Little was born in Daviess County, Kentucky, in 1838 and served as district court judge in Owensboro from 1880 to 1893. He was the author of "Ben Hardin, His Times and Contemporaries" (1887). He died in 1918.
Josiah T. Noe was born in Washington County, Kentucky, in 1850. After reading law in the office of his brother, William B. Noe, he was admitted to the bar in 1872 and joined his brothers Calhoun, Kentucky, practice. In 1874 he was elected county...
George Mosby Davison was born in Stanford, Kentucky in 1855. He attended the Stanford Academy and the Meyers Academy, read law and was admitted to the bar in 1879. He established a practice in Stanford, Kentucky. He served as collector of internal...
